Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XXI NO. 11 CITY NEWS Mrs Ed. Morton is on the sick list this week. Miss Mary Perkins has been employed by the Public Grocery Co. as clerk. Mrs. Wilda Coleman of Buxton is in our city visiting her sister, Miss Mary Perkins. Mrs. J. D. Moore and son returned home this week after a four weeks visit in Denver, Colo. Mrs. A. J. Austin of Omaha, Nbr. stopped over Sunday while on her way from Keokuk to Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Geo Henry, 1221 East 10th street are the proud parents of a fine baby boy, born August 26th. Mrs. Hubbard of St. Louis. Mo., arrived in our city Sunday to attend the Iowa State Fair and visit her husband. Mrs. Mary E. Blair of Nashville, Tenn., will arrive in our city this week to visit with her daughter, Mrs. H. R. Graves. FOR SALE—6 room house and large lot on Ft. Des Moines care line, good location, Cash or payments. Phone Drake Park 4399. Mrs. Eliza Harris of Montgomery, Mo. arrived in our city Sunday morning in company with her son, Eugene Harris, who lives here, where she will visit awhile. Mr. Joseph Jamerson of Albia was a Capital City visitor several days this week. He returned home Wednesday. Mrs. Frank Digg of our city who has been visiting in Montgomery, Mo., with her parents, Mrs. Mrs. Eliza Harris returned Sunday reporting a pleasant time. Mrs. W. H. Humburd is the hostess to Mrs. T. Barquet Smith of Chicago, and her mother Mrs. John Barquet of Oskaloosa this week. Mrs. C. W. Bates of Davenport, Ia., will be in our city this week to visit with her sister, Mrs. H. R. Graves and to attend the State Fair. She will take her little age boy back with her, who has been visiting with Mrs. Graves Mr. and Mrs. Baker Dixon are the proud parents of a baby boy last week. Both the mother and boy are doing nicely. Here's congratulations Baker. Mrs. Marion Gregory and little son will arrive from Indianapolis, Ind., next week to make her home here, as her husband has been here about one year. REMOVAL-J. Alvin Jefferson, M. D., announces the removal of his office from 774 9th street across to the new Thompson hotel, over the Model Drug Co. Telephone Walnut 1145. The meeting of the Mary Church Terrell club next Monday evening will be with Mrs. V. L. Jones, 500 Grand View street. The lesson will be the life of Thomas Heywood and Wm. Browne. Lesson led by Mrs. Andrey Alexander. The Hudson and Thurber Co. Southland Orchestra and Jubilee Singers of Minneapolis, Minn., is stopping at the Thompson hotel. This company is headed by Billy D. Black, the famous singed comedian, those others composing the company are Joseph B. Black, Emanuel Tyler, Rufus Wilson. The Wednesday Evening Bridge club met last Wednesday with Mrs. Rilla Seymour. After the regular game of bridge the hostess served a dainty luncheon. Mrs. L. B. Burton of Omaha, Nebr. spent Sunday in the Capital City enroute from the annual convention of the U. B. F. at Keokuk. She is the Worthy Princess Aksarben Temple of Omaha and was elected the District Deputy for Nebraska and Iowa. She ordered the Iowa State Bystander to her home for one year. Mrs. Gertrude Johnson returned this week after an extended visit to Chicago where she was called to the bedside of her husband's mother, who died. After the funeral Mrs. Johnson went East to visit friends and relatives several weeks. She reports pleasant stay and is feeling hopeful for the future of those who are trying to do and be something. Margorie, the little daughter of Mrs. Clara James of 3280 E. 8th street, underwent an operation at Mercy hospital State Capitol Blug Historical Room WA Friday morning, having had her tonsils removed. We have just received a very beautiful wedding invitation announcing the marriage of Miss Lulu Harper of Boston, Mass., to Mr. Wade Hampton McCree of this city, to occur at the home of the brides' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey James Harper, September 9th. They will at home, 9th and Park, after Oct. 1st. The groom is one of our successful business men, the proprietor of the new Model Drug store recently opened on 9th and Park. The bride is a successful teacher in Boston. CORINTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday August 30th The Rev. M. T. Toomey, pastor Mt. Moriah Baptist church, Omaha, Nebr., will preach at one of the services. For the other service, the pastor's subject will be "Where is Thy God." All are invited. Dr. Tomey wilf deliver a lecture one evening the week following. GUESTS AT THE THOMPSON HOTEL Hon. Geo. H. Woodson, attorney-at-law, Buxton, Iowa, District Master of Odd Fellows, Geo. H. Terrell of Colfax, Iowa, District D. G. M. C. R. Jones of Davenport, Iowa, D. G. D. L. F. Sadler of Sioux City; M. Askew a delegate from Sioux City; Geo. Garrett of St. Paul, Minn., S. J. Spencer of Colfax, Iowa; Fields of Keokuk Mesdames, J. H. Broddus of Colfax; Emma March and Mrs. W. H. Humbles of Buxton; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brooks of St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. J. H. Harrison of Clifton Hill, Mo.; M. Baskim, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mr. Boyd of Omaha, Neb. A FINE MUSICAL COMPANY The Hudson & Thurber Co.'s Southland Orchestra and Jubilee singers of Minneapolis, and Omaha, with Billy D. Black musical and entertaining director is making the public happy at the Iowa State Fair this year. People attending the Fair finds a welcome at the Hudson & Thurber Co.'s Exhibit, and enjoy the daily concerts given by these gentlemen. They have the most complete stock of hardware and implements in the northwest and is the only firm in world employing a colored amusement department. The roster is Billy D. Black, Joseph B. Black, Emanuel Tyler, Rufus Wilson, who are using their new celebrated pipe organ. Go and hear them. EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS Just before leaving Ottumwa there is quite a different aspect. It has always had saloons and even in the early prohibition days Stormy Jordan and his ike held full sway and he at one time had it printed in large letters on his saloon this laconic phrase, "The Road To Hell." Now there is not a single saloon in Ottumwa. Surely, slowly the world is getting better. Fairfield was our next stop. Here we found Sam Sykes still, retired from the barber trade, which he had followed over a quarter of a century. He is gardening now. He owns a nice home. T. W. Price is still working at the same place, also is R. M. Baker. They are good citizens. G. W. Coalston has quit the gas company and is working in the malleable iron works. Mr. G. P. Greenup is working at the brick yard. Mr. Quinn is head engineer at the malleable iron works. He Stewart is still working at the same work. He has a home covered with all kinds of fruit trees. He is a race man. Rev. Wm. Lovely has charge of the only church, the A. M. E. He is a man in his denomination and is doing well. M. E. Greenup and Medames Diah Dabner, Marth Bradshaw and D. F. Detwiler are the new subscribers here. Our next place of abode was Mt. Pleasant, not the asylum, but near there. Here we found about 600 college people. Most of them doing well, as they nearly all own their homes, as the most of them have lived here for fully a quarter of a century, and most of the young people are either high school or college graduates. They have graduated more colored boys and girls in proportion to their population than any other town in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Harris have two of their young girls teaching school, one teaching in the high school in Atlantic City, N. J., and another teaching in the public schools of Buxton, Iowa, and another an office girl in a doctor's office. Miss Ida M. Godfrey is a teacher in the public schools of Kansas City. All of these young ladies are college graduates, also are the Misses Mason and the Misses Bartlett. J. H. Weeks is a retired farmer who lives in town. He is an old soldier and delights to see eight acres of fine Iowa farm land. His sons are farming, John Greenup and Jay Reed live in town, but are farming, doing well. The former has his wife the past year. Barnough is a contractor in brick and plastering and is doing well. Mr. E. H. Reezer owns valuable prowery and is making good. J. W. Hedge and I. W. Fidler each is operating a barber shop. John W. Harrison has moved out to the su DES MOINES IOWA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1914. burbs of the city. There are two churches, the A. M. E., pastored by Rev. W. W. Williams, who is well liked and is doing well. Rev. J. M. Eaves is the pastor of the Baptist church. He is also doing well. He is remodeling the church, putting in a basement and enlarging the edifice. From here we went on the Mississippi river, in Burlington, a town of about 30,000 population, with about 600 colored citizens. Mr. Peter King is perhaps the most successful financially. He operates an express wagon and works for one of the millionaires. By thrift and economy of his good wife they have managed to own several houses and lots in a good part of town. Their home is beautiful and an ideal modern, newly built nine room house. The yard is well filled with flowers and fruit. They have a lovely family of three boys. They are dinner to Ye Editor. Wm. Ragland is still at the hotel. He is doing well, a strict business man. John L. Brooks, P. G. M. anh grand worthy patron of the O. E. S., is working at the Elks club as steward and head chef. H. T. Moore is still working at the Tama building. He has bought five lots and built him a house in one of the fashionable new additions of Burlington. Mr. John R. Johnson is the only other colored man that owns property in this and its improvement. There is lots of sickness. He is running a poultry yard and raising pigs. He runs a lunch wagon his 16 year old boy is his helper. His chicken yard and barn are both cemented. A few years ago he was not worth a cent, as he lazily put it, and he is on easy street to a small fortune. There is lots of sickness to this week and was taken to the hospital, and Mrs. B. F. Wheeler is very low at the hospital, and Mrs. Washington is very sick, also Mr. E. Mitchell and Mrs. Elizabeth Green, Aaron Hughes, who was so sick last year, is up and at home. Mr. Roe is modeling his home. He and Mr. A. Drew are contractors in lathing, plastering, cellar and cement work. They have just united together and are doing well. Everybody should encourage them. The Baptist church is not doing so well, and the A. M. E. minister, Rev B. I. Penn was not at his pulpit as he was in Rock Island. Rev Smith of La Grande and Canton, Mo. filled the pulpit. He is an able and experienced minister of thirty-three years' service. Mrs. Gertrude Cooper is still here, doing well as could be expected. She is well known in Des Moines, as she lived most of her life there, known as Gertrude Poindexter. She sends her regards to her old' friends. A. McDowell entertained Ye Editor at dinner Sunday and H. T. Moore at 6 o'clock lunch. There were eleven new subscribers added to the Burlington list. They appreciate a good newspaper. ALBIA NEWS The Sewing Circle club, with their friends, took their baskets and went to Hagen park on Monday afternoon and pincked in the afternoon and evening. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Roper went to Buxton on their motorcycle Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Jackson of Mt. Pleasant was at the home of Mr. John Hayes a few days this week. Little Bertha Hayes, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hayes, died Wednesday afternoon and was buried on Friday at Oak View cemetery. Rev. Brown officiated at the funeral. Rev. R. B. Manly went to Oskaloost on Sunday to help with quarterly services at that place. Presiding Elder S. B. Moore has been sick at the parsonage with Rev. R. B. Manly for the past week, but returned home on Saturday to Galesburg. Mrs. G. A. Davis was at Hocking at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bessie Grayson, this week. Mrs. Grayson was sick. The missionary societies of the various churches gave a union picnic at the city park on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Virginia Thomas, president of the S B. Moore Mite Missionary society, was present and laid her map of Africa and spoke from that country, while Miss Edith Harris, dressed in Oriental costumes, represented the country, after which Misses Pauline Thomas, Illa Lewis, Bernice Jones and Edith Harris sang. Many took their baskets and joined the crowd. MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS Dr. M. C. B. Mason, known as one of the most eloquent colored speakers of the day, appeared for the first time in Monmouth on Friday before a large audience at the Chaucaquita. His subject was "Africa in America and Africa Beyond the Seas." Quite a number of our people attended. Miss Helen Williams of Canton, Ill., is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Richelle Harding, who underwent a serious operation at the hospital, is somewhat improving. The St. James A. M. E. church is now holding their services in the Lowell school building. Harry Robinson of Davenport spent Sunday in Monmouth. Those from here who attended the Federation of Colored Women at Moline were Mrs. Ella Groff, Miss Mary Brown, Mrs. Myrte South, Mrs. IT harbors more than a score of different departments--each one a complete store in itself, and filled to overflowing with things to wear and to use--merchandise that is thoroughly dependable and absolutely correct in style--but of the less expensive kind. It is Des Moines' most logical place to trade for those who practice the art of economy to its fullest extent. Dayse Lash, Mrs. Lottie Barnett and Mrs. Etta Simms, Mrs. Simms was elected chairman of the ways and means committee. Mrs. Amos L. Scruggs, who has been very ill, is somewhat improved. At the convention in Mound City, Ill., last week the Model Temple of Mommouth was represented by Mrs. Emma Peoples and the Silver Spray Temple of S. M. T. was represented by Mrs. George Niel Rev. W. A. Searcy was delegate of the meeting at the grand session at Mound City, Ill. He also visited at St. Louis and presented there Sunday morning at St. Paul's A. M. E. church. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Patton of Galebury were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith on Friday. Ed Skinner, who was so badly cut last week, is rapidly recovering. Charles Wilson, a member of the Georgia Troubadour troupe, died at the hospital, after an illness of a number of weeks. Mrs. Jessie Skinner of Kansas City is visiting relatives and friends in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Crouse of Viola, Wis., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. Birdett of New London, Mo., are the guests of their son, Mr. Charles Birdett. Mr. Edward Birdett of Milwaukee, Wis., is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Etta Simms. Misses Ida Wallace, Florence Brown and Marie Saunders attended teachers' institute. Mrs. Meredith of Milwaukee, Wis. has come to Mommouth to make her future home. On L. Thompson was in the city, op. business Thursday. CLARINDA IOWA. Mrs. L. W. Williams returned from a trip in the east. Miss Pearl Johnson of Sioux City, Iowa, went to St. Joe to visit a sister. Mrs. S. Stewart and granddaughter, little Alice Jones, are visiting relatives in Bedford. Little Margie Cason has been somewhat indisposed this week. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Franklin are visiting relatives in St Joe. Quite a few strangers in town on account of the fair. A party was given on Miss Irene Cockrin and friend as the A. Baker farm east of town. About forty young folks enjoyed themselves at games, after which a nice three-course lunch was spread. All went home wishing Miss Irene and friend a return to the city at any time. Mrs. Marshall and daughter of Sharps and Mrs. Dick Johnson and children of Gravity visited Mrs. R. Lane on Thursday. Mrs. Charlie Davis and son of Council Bluffs visited Mr. Davis. An entertainment was given by Mrs. E. Campbell on Saturday evening. Mrs. J. Beard and children are at present in Omaha, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fields. Mr. L. W. Williams has greatly improved his restaurant by changing the interior. Several of our colored people are running stands during fair, Mr. Henry Farrier, Mr. T. Dunn, Henry Cook, Washington, and A. Walker. Mrs. W. M. Headley, L. Finley and E. Gipson catered at the Chautaqua dining hall during ten days and Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Lane, Mrs. Give Nowling at boys and girls' farm camp, while Mrs. E. Moss and Lorene Franklin were dining girls. Mr. Charles Griffin and Wilbur were assistants. Mrs. Carrie Reedie catered and Gertrude Cason at Rumbaugh & Richardson's. MACON, MO. Mrs. Jane Finney is visiting friends in St. Louis. Miss Ella Carter is spending a two weeks' visit in Kirksville. The Misses Quinn, Martha Isum And Beatrice and sister, Mrs. Lulu Williamah, are the guests of relatives in Des Moines. Also they will visit the Iowa state fair and exposition. Mrs. Brookins and Rev. P. B. E. Gales will leave Wednesday for Moberly as delegates to attend the State Baptist association. The moonlight picnic that was given out to Mrs. Carter's was quite a success. Mrs. Ida Jones left Thursday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. E. Crawes, in Columbin, Mo., and from there to St. Charles to resume her school work. Mrs. Eliza Embree has returned home, after a visit with her sister in Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Eliza Hubbard and Mrs. Ellen Oliver, also Mrs. Susan Mott, have returned from Keokuk, Iowa. Miss Ruth Perkins has returned home, after a pleasant two weeks' visit with friends in Keytesville, Mo. Misses Mary and Alice Wallace and Victoria of Clarence were in Macon on Saturday. Mrs. Gaul, who has been visiting the grand lodge in Keokuk, stopped off in Macon over Sunday, the guest of Mrs. Will Lampkins, en route to her home in Booneville, Mo. Mr. Price of Keota, Mo., was the guest of Miss Ann Ruthford on Sunday. Mr. James Davis, Mrs. Kimbrough, Mrs. Ruthford, Mrs. Garth, Miss Ellen Homan and Mrs. Noel are on the sick list. Quarterly meeting was held at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Miss Mary Colston will leave Saturday for her home in Chicago, Miss Colston has been the guest of her parents for the past three weeks. OTTUMWA, IOWA. Mrs. John Porter, who died Thursday, after a long illness, was taken to Moberly, Mo., Friday afternoon at 1:30. A short service was held at the house by Rev. T. J. Carr. She was a faithful member of the Second Baptist church and highly respected citizen. The Faithful Few met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wells Fowler on Plum street. A large number of visitors attended. A large number of guests visited. Mrs. Barrice Bibbs of Omaha, Neb. Mrs. C. DS Elliott of Omaha, Neb. Mrs. P. W. Steward of Chicago. A very interesting program was rendered. Solo, Mrs. Rebecca Campbell; reading, Mrs. A. Rose; select reading, Mrs. McGill; reading, Mrs. H. Owens; reading, Mrs. Francis Hicks. A very enjoyable hour was spent, after which the hostess served a most delicious lunch. The newly elected officers of Mr. Sharon Court of Calantha, No. 258, on July 31st were installed to their respective offices at the lodge hall, corner of Main and Market streets. Its officers for ensuing six months are as follows: Mrs. Alberta Graham, W. C.; Mrs. Eleanoraver, expectee; Mrs. Ella Bohan, W. expectee; Mrs. Martha Bradshaw, W. expectee; Mrs. Anna Wilson, W. E.; Mrs. Lydia Williams, W. Con.; Mrs. Agnes Hughes, W. R. A. The lodge is in fine working order and has efficient officers to carry on the work. Sunday was the fourth and last quarterly meeting for this conference year. The presiding elder, Rev. S. B. Moore, after a severe attack of sickness in Albia, was able to deliver three good sermons. The services were very poorly attended. Mr. and Mrs. Gabe Williams of Agency attended quarterly, guests of Sunday and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walls Powen. Mrs. Napoleon Morgan and Mrs. Blanford Robinson were united in marriage at the A. M. E. parsonage by Rev. A. N. Webb. Mrs. Moss of Fairfield is in the city visiting her brother, James Robinson. Mrs. Edna Hall and son, Harry, have returned, after a five weeks' MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION visit with relatives in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson have purchased a new modern home in a splendid locality and are at home to their many friends. Phone all news to 1347-X. ODD FELLOWS ANNUAL MEET ING. The thirty-second annual meeting of the district grand lodge, No. 30, G. U. O. of O, F., just closed a very successful session in our city last night. The attendance was above the average and much good work was done pertaining to the order. The Household of Ruth also held an enthusiastic session in the North Star Masonic Temple association hall. The grand lodge opened Tuesday morning with the D. G. M., Geo. Terrell of Colfax, in the chair. After opening the lodge he proceeded to the appointing of his committees. Then the annual address and reports were made. In the evening a public reception of both the ladies' and men's order was held at North Star Masonic Temple hall. It was largely attended by Des Moines' elit. The following program was rendered: Vocal solo by Miss Black. Euphonium solo by Mr. F. G. Goggins. Welcome address on behalf of Beautiful Light Household of Ruth, No. 4837, by Mrs. C. A. Garth. Response by Mrs. W. W. Ballard of Davenport, delicate. District Grand Master Geo. Terrell presided. Wednesday was taken up in work pertaining to the society and in the evening the annual memorial services were held at Corinthian Baptist church, Geo. Terrell, D. G. M., presiding. There were two deaths this last year, Mesdames Jane Robinson and Emma Johnson, both of this city. Mrs. Ritchie spoke upon their life and beautiful character of each. Mrs. Robinson was a charter member of the oldest household in our city and an exemplary character, Hon. Geo. H. Woodson, the district grand attorney for the order, delivered the oration, which was most beautiful, historical and eloquently delivered. Mrs. Elliston sang a solo. On Thursday occurred the election of officers, as follows: D. G. M, Geo. Terrell of Colfax. D. D. G. M, A. G. Rhodes of Buxton. D. G. S., I. M. Jones of Des Moines. D. G. T. F. Miller of Colfax. D. G. L., F. Saffier of Colony. D. G. L., D. F. Sadler of Sioux City. D. G. L., Hon. Geo. H. Woodson of Burbank. The next place of meeting will be in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1915. A fine banquet was held in the afternoon, led by the colored band of our city. A fine banquet was held in the evening at Namur's rink, which closed this interesting session. For Sale at a Bargain A good paying restaurant and up-to-date ice cream parlor, in the business section of this city without competition, and headquarters for all visitors and citizens. Very best reason for selling. A good chance for a young man with small amount of money; will sell cheap for cash or easy terms. If intested write or call. W. E. Green. 1032 West Franklin St. Moberly, Mo. ROCK ISLAND. ,ILL. (Special to Bystander.) Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gresham and Mrs. E. Thomas of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were the guests of Mrs. C. Harrison last week. They attended the Illinois State Federation of Women's Clubs. Mr. and Mrs. H. Burris attended the silver jubilee of the O. E. Stars, which convened in Chicago last week. Mr. and Mrs. Flem Bassett returned home Saturday night from Mound City from the U. B. F. and S. M. T. convention. Mr. John Slaughter received the sad news of the death of his brother-in-law, Mr. Bradford, of Oskaloosa. It was only a few months ago that Mr. Bradford attended the funeral of his sister in Rock Island. Irene Fulton was suffering with a nervous affection of the eyes. Mrs. Lambert, her grandmother, had her eyes treated by a specialist and they are improving very nicely. There are not many grandmothers so thoughtful. Mrs. Margaret Grant, formerly Mrs. Phoenix, spent Sunday among friends in South Rock Island. Mrs. Anna Harding and children have returned, after a month's sojourn in Kansas. The girls of the Eutopia camp enjoyed their second annual camping party on the lawn of Mrs. Wm. Taylor. Mrs. Bertha Edmunds entertained a few friends Thursday evening in honor of Camp Eutopia girls. The Rock Island Ladies' Art club has just completed a very successful year's work. They have raised $112.50 this year and paid out $110 for benevolent purposes. They also succeeded in winning the gold medal the second time from the State Federation for having the largest amount of money for ways and means. Mrs. John Foy of Moline entertained the following ladies at dinner last. Sunday: Mrs. C. Morrison, ```markdown ``` Price Five Cents. Mrs. I. L. Golden, Mrs. R. Houston, Cecelia and Mrs. B. Taylor, all of Rock Island. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Overton are the proud parents of a baby boy. Mrs. Ida Calloway and daughter, Marjory, of Chicago were callers in South Rock Island on Saturday. The Illinois State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs presented to Mrs. Bell Taylor a library table cover, money and a piece of hand-painted china for her excellent service that she has rendered to them as chairman of the ways and means for the past two years. QUINCY. ILL Mrs. Eliza Jackson is on the sick list, Mr. Marshall Howell is very poorly at this writing. Mr. Curtis Freeman of Jacksonville, Ill., is visiting his brother, Mr. W. Freeman. Mr. Lucy Thompson still is very poorly. Miss Adalala Price, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. T. Price, will teach this term in East St. Louis, Ill. Miss Price is making rapid strides in teaching. Ms. Florence Herrington of Hanibal, Mo., was in the city visiting her uncle, Mr. Moses Davis, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jaas. Moore of Pitsfield, ill, are in the city, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Jackson. Rev. G. W. Jones, P. E., of the Quincy district was in the city Sunday at Wayman's chapel. Mrs. Dollie Hurley of Clarksville was in the city a few hours, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Wm. Webb, and other relatives. Mr. J. B. Harris is confined to her home on account of an injury received several years ago to her ankle. The inmates of H. of R., No. 213, pleasantly surprised Mrs. Julia Williams, the guest on last Friday night. The social hour was interspersed with musical numbers and impromptu speeches. Refreshments were served and everyone had a nice time. Mrs. Anna Moore and son, Ed, of Pittsfield, Ill., are guests in the city. The choir of Eighth and Elm Street Baptist church surprised Mrs. and Mrs. Robt. Humphrey at their home last Thursday night. Mrs. Humphrey is the president of the choir and they presented her with two handsome presents. Refreshments were served. ST. JOSEPH. MO. Miss Carrie Watson of Albany was the guest of the Misses Bell for the past week and returned home last Wednesday. She was the honored guest at several parties during her brief visit with relatives in our city. Miss Gertrude Lucas of Bedford, Iowa, and a teacher in the public schools at Buxton, Iowa, was the guest of Mrs. O. Duncan, 708 Sole. Fifteenth street, last week and on Monday afternoon and evening she gave a reception fo rher. Miss Lucas will visit relatives and friends at Savannah before returning home. The officers and members of the Frances Street Baptist church are very jubilant, as last week they had a pipe organ put in their church, and it will be dedicated next month, at which time they expect to have an augmented choir, assisted by an orchestra. See Hie Bystander notes for details. May Moyne Hundly, one of the teachers at the Bartlett school, has returned from her vacation. Attorney W. O. Reynolds has returned from his vacation. A number of the young ladies gave a dancing party at the Masonic hall Monday night. They had the interior of the hall nicely decorated and a large number of the invited guests were present to enjoy the evening. Mr. J. H. Smith has recently purchased an automobile. There are now six Afro-Americans who own autos in this city. Mr. Gus Butler, who attended the forty-first biennial session of the International conference of K. of T. of the United States and Canada, which met at Pittsburg, said "there were more delegates and it was the best meeting that he ever attended." The public schools will open on Monday, September 14, and as usual an increased enrollment is expected. Frank Ward left Tuesday night for Des Moines, Iowa, to work at the Kirkwood hotel during the the Eve. Boy A. Hamlet, editor of the Christian Index, was a visitor here this week, the guest of Rev. J. H. McCullough. He delivered an excellent sermon at the Halsey Chapel M. e church last Tuesday evening. Miss Lillian Colston, who was engaged at Roger Williams university, Nashville, Tenn., last year as commercial teacher, has accepted a position in Washington, D. C., this year as commercial teacher in the National Training School. Miss Colston will leave here September 6th for the National Baptist convention in Philadelphia. En route she will stop in Chicago three days, then Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Atlantic City and on to Philadelphia, where she will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Porter, former pastor of the Union Congregational church, and who is now the secretary of the Collegiate Union. She will return Philadelphia two weeks and from there will go to Washington, where she will resume her work on the 1st of October. MANY PARGELS LOST It Includes Everything From Bibies to Bassoons—All Sent to Wrong Address—Packages Stamped Until Paper Wore Out. Washington—Wonderful beyond belief is the collection of articles which the postoffice department can make within a year from the mail that can't be delivered because of bad addresses. Through the benevolent agency of the parcel post the department has this year exceeded all records, and upon the shelves of the historic dead letter office are a series of packages containing everything from Bibies to bassoons. All of these articles were sent to the wrong address. Their original package were stamped, and restamped, until the paper was worn out, with such announcements as "Not at that address, try so and so," and "Try the next county." In fact, there are more suggestions as to different things to try than you would find in the office of a patent medicine vendor. For the sake of convenience, the officials of the dead letter office have lumped certain articles together in large packages. Thus one passes a package of handkerchiefs and runs into a bright young assortment of brass castings. Or, turning from a particularly melancholy collection of books, he runs smack into a collection of toys that might have come out of the bag of Santa Claus. Think of the joy of King Solomon or good old Brigham Young if they had lived in these days and times and had given to them the contents of the dead letter office. There is a single package that contains 241 women's garments, which the gay young flappers of these parlous times consider obsolete. Then, there are 176 pairs of hose bundled together. Even the most pessimistic sufferer from hay fever cheers up when he goes by the handkerchief department of the dead letter office. There is a single bundle of 1,149 initialed and uninitialed handkerchiefs reposing near him, which is about the number that a hay fever patient uses during a 24 hour day. If the postoffice department decided to give away its toys it could present one—and probably more—to every boy and girl in the city of Washington. They are in abundance. They are everywhere—dolls and elephants, and little carts and dishes, and all the other things that are reminiscent of Christmas time. Sixty-two aviators in the United States are two carpets where those and little carts are that they were told about in a letter, but which they never received. The caps are in the dead letter office with some automobile hoods. It is astonishing how many motorcyclists must have broken down in the road and written for help during the last year. In the dead letter office they repose four speedometers, 17 tires, 20 pairs of goggles and 136 parts of machinery—the kind of furniture which one always finds around the greasy and perspiring man who has stopped his machine 20 miles from anywhere on a hot Sunday afternoon. And the dead letter office must ring at night with the disappointed cries of many fishermen. It has received 1,842 fish hooks and 595 pieces of fishing tackle. The only thing the dead letter office hasn't got is the fisherman's alibut. Yet the office has done some good. It corralled during the past year 573 miscellaneous musical instruments, 6,846 liking instruments, needles. That meant that there are about 600 disappointed musicians in the United States; but think of the several hundred thousand persons who would have had to listen to them if the instruments had arrived safely. From musical instruments to hair switches is nothing for the dead letter office. They have 98 switches of hair and 62 accessories stored away. This is nearly equal, in bulk, to the crop of whiskers raised by the Populist party in Kansas during the Bryan campaign of 1888. On the side lines in the dead letter office are awls, bicycle tires, shot-guns, horse blankets and picture postal cards to the number of about 70,000. There are also brass castings and parts whose aggregate weight is estimated at two and a half tons. UTILIZING WASTE COAL. Experts of the United States bureau of mines are very much interested in private tests which will be made in Salt Lake City of a new method of extracting from waste coal various by-products, such as crude petroleum, paraffin wax and ammonia. This method of utilizing a large part of the coal which is not located though John D. Scoot has done it, and private interests have undertaken to demonstrate its worth in a series of investigations. Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, director of the federal bureau of mines, and his associates have for years called attention to the great loss of natural resources in the wastage of coal slack and coal dust, and if the method of utilizing this mine refuse is discovered, they say, it will result in bene- Russians Feasted on Tallow Candles. Sir Ernest Shackleton could not get up a real appetite for tallow, but Russian soldiers, according to the entertaining author of "Eat, Drink and be Merry," esteem tallow candles a great luxury. He facetiously describes how they came across a huge store of them among the French baggage on the retreat from Moscow, and summarily snuffed them out of existence. "Never were they consumed in such a style before. The enraptured warriors drew them across their mouths." fits both to the coal operators and to the general public. Coal slack and coal dust now cost the owners of mines about fifty cents a ton to remove. The new method of extracting by-products from this material which has been called to the attention of the government's mining engineers will make this a worthwhile investment. By-products of this value will be produced in the form of crude petroleum, paraffin and ammonia. Taken into consideration that approximately 30 per cent of the coal taken from the ground is now wasted in the form of slack and dust, it can be readily seen that the new method, if thoroughly efficient, will result in a great saving. The new system is said to be simple and the principal feature is that it can yield 100 degrees, Fahrenheit, and to reduce the gases which are collected. The Detroit man's method of producing coal by-products may be used in the manufacture of coke from good coal, as well as in the manufacture of paraffin wax, petroleum and ammonia, in the utilization of the coal refuse. The advantages of the new technology in the manufacture, according to the information received by the government experts, is that it saves many of the gases which are now wasted and turns them into valuable by-products. RENDER VALUABLE AID. While there have been no summer squalls on the coasts and lakes patrolled by the vessels of the revenue cutter service, the vessels on the Atlantic coast and in the upper end of the chain of great lakes have found plenty to do, as is shown by seven assistance reports sent in by the coasters of the cutters. Among the vessels given aid were a big steamship, a three-masted schooner, a two-masted schooner and four power boats of varying sizes, whose engines refused to work at times when most needed. The steamer assisted was the American ship Ravenscraig of Providence, R. I. Bound from Providence to Bali, she lost her rudder. Pwikie Island, a remote revenue cutter on Onondaga, Capt. B. M. Chiswell, was sent to her aid. The steamer was found at anchor, on account of having no rudder, and was unable to continue her voyage. Realizing that it would be a difficult task to tow the rudderless steamer, Captain Chiswell hit upon the plan of having the disabled steamer to the Onondaga, which steered the towing steamer in this manner for over a hundred miles. After Cape Henry had been passed, a tugboat came along, and the Ravenscroag was turned over to her to be taken to Newport News for repairs. Captain Chiswell in his report states that his scheme of having the cutter act as rudder worked to perfection, and by it the big rudderless steamer was kept on almost a direct course to the entrance of Chesapeake bay. ON THE JOB Representative Charles G. Edwards of Georgia tells a couple of stories about prominent southerners in Washington which have afforded considerable merriment around the house cloakrooms, and have furnished material for a good deal of chaffing. Representative Abury F. Lever of South Carolina is the butt of one of them. Mr. Lever is the defender of the farmer. He thinks, moves, and has his being with one purpose in view, that of conserving the interests of the farmer. The other day he was on the verge of voting for one battlefield when a colleague came forward with the innocent observation that two battlefields would be a great boon to the farmer. Lever paid immediate attention, according to Mr. Edwards, who had been warned in advance and was sitting expectantly near by. Mr. Lever will two battlefields help the farmer" demanded Mr. Lever instantly. "Why, the farmers will have to supply guncotton for 'em," replied his colleague. "Don't you know the navy department already has a bunch of applications from farmers in your district to supply guncotton for the government's battleships if the department of agriculture will send them some guncotton seed?" They left Mr. Lever wondering whether the reflection was intended for him or his constituents. Being a serious-minded man, he isn't any too happy over either construction. EMPLOYMENT FOR SOLDIERS. The war college division of the army general staff has under consideration a plan for employment of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors furloughed to the army reserve. It is desired, as an inducement to honorable and faithful service in the army, to assist these soldiers to obtain civil employment upon expiration of their service. The army will employ employment agencies throughout the recruiting service, and it is proposed to issue a pamphlet, entitled "Guide to Employment for Forster Soldiers," and, at the same time, to secure co-operation of employers, both in the public service and with private concerns, in employing them in positions they are competent to fill by reason of their experience and training in the army. It is believed that may be achieved without difficulty, so that the government is concerned, and that the civil service commission will do what is possible in that direction. —like a bow across a diddle—and left only the bare wicks as a proof of how easily their coverings, so necessary for lights, can be readily utilized for livers. Tee Vielding. Binks—Why to gloomy? Jinj—My wife let me have the last word in an argument this morning. “What of that?” "That shows that she is going to do as she pleases, anyhow."—New York Weekly. MRS. BELMONT'S GORGEOUS CHINESE FETE DUCHESS LOOKED "JUST GRAND" IN TROUSERS DUCHESS LOOKED "JUST GRAND" IN TROUSERS HERE IS MOST BASHFUL SCION OF ROYALTY E. LEE WORSHAM, THE CRUSADER FOR CROPS Newport has been the scene in recent years of many remarkable en tertainments which have gone into fashionable records as artistic achievements, but persons identified with summer life there who remember such efforts as private productions by complete theatrical companies are at a loss and there are more impressively lient or historically correct evening's amusement than the Chinese fete at Marble House by Mrs. Ol- which have gone into fashionable records as artistic achievements, but persons identified with summer life there who remember such efforts as private productions by complete theatrical companies are at a loss to recall a more impressively brilliant or historically correct evening's amusement than the Chinese House at Marble House by Mr. Qiou Iver H. P. Belmont, for her daughter, the Duchess of Mariborough, and its preceding dinner at Crossways, by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish for the hostess and her chief guest. The fete and the dinner in the neighboring village were as thoroughly Chinese in suggestion as it is possible to simulate amid surroundings of colonial and renaissance architecture. Walls were hung with ancient pottery that came from the looted burial ground and are regarded as museum pieces. The costumes of Mrs. Belmont and the Duchess were royal robes ordered "The duchess of Marlborough looks just grand in trousers" the garment Marlborough looks users—the garment you men often call, "pants," said Miss Kate Gordon, Southern suffragist leader and orator, on her return to New Orleans from the office of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmort at Newport. It was there that the duchess of Marlborough, daughter of Mrs. Belmort, wore 'Belm. I Miss Gordon declined to go into details, but here is her official statement, given out at New Orleans a few days ago; why it was for Newport they were getting ready for a Chinese ball. The duchess has a keen sense of humor and enjoys fun as much as any one, and one day she pattered down the Because' of the breaking out of the European war, the society belles of breaking out of the society belies of America will not have the honor of a nation m o s t a b uhlf sion of royalty in Europe this season. PETER B. This celebrity is none other than Prince Adalbert, the kaiser's third son, who, dispatches from Berlin stated, was to have been sent by his father to participate in the formal opening of the Panama canal. The prince, who is the sailor mem- family, and already thirty, the rank of ber of the kaiser's has, at the age of In all fairness and gratitude, E. Lee Worsham, state entomologist of Georgia, ought to be decent to the boll weevil. It has made him famous. To it more than to anything else is due that wide, which fed recently to his being made president of the National Conservation Congress. PETER B. But is he grateful? Not by considerable! He continues his warfare on the boll weevil with the relentlessness of a fanatic. More than any other man he has contrived to put a crimp in the activities of the boll weevil. Millions of boll weevils in the South rise up and curse him. But for him there would be untold billions of boll weevils alive in the country today, gaining nourishment from the succulent cotton, raising their families of Rooseveltian proportions—each pair of boll weevils breeds 12,500,000 progeny in 12 months—contented and happy. Worsham, the "Crusader for Crops," as he is called, makes war on the race. A modest, slender, red-headed Georgian, with drawing voice and sleepy eyes and an air of abundant leisure, he has conceived about him a most remarkable, "punch." His thyroid and adrenal glands "the "puy" "Is your husband still worried about the way the government is being run?" "Not so much. Keeping an eye on the way the ball teams are being managed keeps him occupied just now." More Evidence of Worth. "Bops, I believe the count will propose." "All right, Bess. You might put a few extra servants about the place to encourage him." IOWA STATE BYSTANDER from China, that of the hostess, it was declared, having been registered 300 years ago in conformity with a law of the Chinese Empire covering such garments. The costume of Mrs. Fish was once worn by a daughter of the Emperor Keen-Lung, who reigned from 1736 to 1795. Mrs. Belmont sent out 502 invitations—fully 450 of her friends personally responded to them, and out of that number Mrs. Fith gathered 93 at dinner at Crossways. Edward J. Farmer of New York was adorned as Emperor Keen-Lung. As each guest was announced the imperial "Son of Heaven" merely glanced in his or her direction, but the bronze standard bearer pounded his standard and shouted in a squawky voice "Ching Chun," meaning "Welcome, most unworthy subjects." All the guests were gorgeous in appearance. Mrs. French Vanderbilt bore a mandarin surplice embroidered with large flowers. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., wore a boating coat and shoes, whereas clothes were her werklift having medallions and a pearl Chinese head dress. The Duches of Marlborough wore a black velvet skirt with tunic and trousers of cloth of gold and black Chinese head dress. The Duke of Manchester wore a mandarin coat, round and hat queue. The grounds were brilliant with myrd of lights in the trees. Some of the women carried lanterns on staffs as they walked about. stairs attired in her ball costume. There was no hampered stepping in that ball costume, the pants—in cloth of gold, by the way—made movements easy. And she looked just grand. She walked around among us having the biggest kind of a time. She would have made a splendid-looking boy. She is the most charming woman I ever saw. If she was the one that she is socially, and quite aside from what wealth has done for her, she would still be a wonderful woman. She would make her mark in the world wherever she happened to find herself. She is a splendid representative of America's best womanhood. "In New York I was being entertained at a dinner given by Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark when we received news of Secretary Bryan's conversion to the suffrage cause. Naturally the next thing to consider was: When will President Wilson come in easy for, as any suffragist on the inside of the problem knows, the president will get into trouble within his own family circle whichever way he jumps." leutenant commander, had made no secret of his desire to go on one of the big battleships of the German squadron that would have followed the American flag through the canal. However, he also had let it be known that he felt averse to being deluged with social attention. Adalbert, in fact, while a great admirer of American girls, many of whom he has met in Europe, prefers to admire them at a distance. In fact, he is desperately afraid of all young women, and particularly those of this country, because they are so independent and "aggressive." American girls on board ablp and is seen little in Berlin court society. American girls would not have found him hard to look at, however, because he is not at all bad looking, tall and slender, and has a clear-cut face indicative of strong personality. He has resisted every attempt made by the kaiser to marry him off. glands of the human—must be abnormally developed. . . . It is a bug on drugs, but you would never be on drugs" is the manner in which he has been described. Wager Almost Cost Life A foolhardy wager may result in the death of the employee who looks after the lions in the Hagenbeck circus, at present in Zurich. The man boasted that the five lions under his charge were as fame as cats, and he could caress them at his will. A spectator at once defied him to do so. At the first attempt at "caressing" a lion seized the man's arm, and, while trying to disengage himself with his other arm, the four other lions in the cage attacked the foolhardy man, who was planned to the bars of the cage by the infuriated animals. With great difficulty M. Hagenbeck succeeded in driving the beasts, and the man was taken to hospital. Religions of Europe. By the census of 1810—the latest that is within reach—the religious status of the European continent is as follows: Roman Catholic, 161,724, 000; Protestants of all types, 102,166, 000; Greek Orthodox, 104,988,500; Jews, 8,778,000; Mohammedan, 17,609, 000; unclassified, 9,314,000. Particular. Mme. Hibrow—So you don't care for Mme. Warbelow. But her voice is pronounced wonderful. It has such beautiful timbre. Mme. Lobrow—That's just it. I never did like them wooden voices—Springfield (Mass.) Union. A Mean Trick. "Her friends are not at all inclined to approve her action as to her divorce." "Why not?" "She went and got it quietly while they were all away for the summer." Spelled a Nice French Canvas. Artist—The idea of that fellow offering me $5 for that landscape. Why, the canvas alone cost me $4. Model-Ah, but that was before you covered it with paint. MAKES SPLENDID HOT DISH Tomatoes, With the Proper Mixture, a Welcome Change From Ordinary Method of Serving. Celery salt, one ounce of bread crumbs, four ounces of minced chicken, one dessertspoonful of meat stock, one half-pint of tomato juice, two tablespoonfuls of tomato catup, one teaspoonful of chili vinegar, pepper, one ounce of butter, one ounce of ham, white of one-half of hard-bolled egg, a few drops of carmine, onion. Put the butter and bread crumbs into a saucepan and add enough of the fire to moisten the bread. Stir all over the fire until a light paste is formed; then add the chicken, ham, onion, celery salt and pepper. Cut round pieces from the tops of tomatoes and with the handle of a spoon remove the seeds and turn the tomatoes on a sieve to drain. Fill with the mixture, put in a buttered pan and cook in a quick oven. A few minutes before they are done place a teaspoonful of the mixture on each and let it cook till the egg is set. Place the tomatoes on a dish and put around each a row of dice-shaped pieces of toast. Then pour also around the dish a sauce made of tomato juice, tomato catup, carmine and chili vinegar, thickened with browned flour. Last thing before pouring on the dish stir into this a teaspoonful of butter. RECIPE FOR CUSTARD SAUCE Ingredients Must Be Carefully Mixed— Best to Must Be Thing In the Morning. Beat the yolks of the eggs and add one-quarter cupful of sugar. Stir into this gradually two cupfuls of scalded milk. When completely mixed place on the stove in a double boiler and cook until the mixture thickens. Add a teaspoonful of vanilla and chill thoroughly. For a very good plan to make this dessert the first thing in the morning. While the breakfast is cooking it can be made ready for the ice box. It will be ready to whip after the breakfast dishes are washed and little time is required for the custard. An attractive pink pudding can be made if the pink color matter that is found in nearly every box of gelatin is used. This can be served on the second day with crushed fruit. When flavored with pineapple and cocoa powder this is indeed a delicious dessert. It is better to leave the pudding uncolored in that case, as the white and red look very attractive in contrast. White Potato Meringue Pare and grate one large white potato, add the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one cupful of cold water, one cupful of white sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt and the well-beaten white of one egg. Turn into a pie plate lined with puff paste and bake. When done cover with a meringue made of the beaten whites of three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and flavored with a few drops of lemon extract. Brown delicately and, when cool, dot with bits of bright-colored jelly. Cabbage With French Dressing Shake the cabbage in thin shavings, place in dish in layers, sprinkle each layer with pepper and ealt and pour over it the following dressing: Put one-half cupul of milk in double boiler, beat one egg, one-half cupul of sugar, piece of butter the size of a walnut together and stir into the milk, allowing it to boil. Take from stove and add one-half cupul of vinegar; pour over the cabbage and allow it to cool. Hang Up Brush. Fasten a piece of tape or string to the end of your scrubbing brush, so that when finished with it can be hung up and allowed to drain, instead of the water soaking into the back and loosening the bristles on the making brush, for it to remain clean and not leave the brush in the pail of water when the floor is being washed. To Go With Sound When baking pies you quite often have more dough than needed. Roll this very thin, grate plenty of cheese on half of it and sprinkle with paprika. Turn over other half, prick with a fork. Place in a baking dish and sprinkle an inch wide and three inches long. Bake a light brown. Serve with soup or salads.—Housewife. Trips With Tomatoes. Take two pounds of dressed tripe bolled; cut into strips about two inches long and put into a saucepan; drain off the water in which the tripe has been parboiled; chop a small onion and cut into strips; chop a little thickening and then stir in half a can of good tomatoes; season with salt and pepper. Mend the Garden Hose Take two ounces of naphtha, add shellac gradually, working well together to the consistency of fine, thin glue. Spread upon strips of kid, which should be fastened tightly around the perfectly dry hose, over the leak. Allow to remain two days before using. —McCall's Magazine. Original Hamburg One pound bottom of the round. Put through food chopper; also one onion; now add three pints of cold water and a little salt. Boll for one hour, being careful it does not burn. Melt one tablespoonful butter and one of flour together and add to the above. Stir until it thickens. Clam Cocktail. When the clams are in the glass sprinkle them with minced green or red pepper. If they are little neck clams add one teaspoonful of very fine minced cabbage and pour over the same amount of cocktail sauce as for oysters, and made in the same way. Cream Sauce, Plain. Cream sauce, Plain. One pint of cream, three tablespoon fals brown sugar and one-half small mutten grated. SOFT DRINK IS OLD A LAND OF GAMES If One Dialked the Taste of Water It Could Be Flavored With the Essence of Flowers, Barks and Roots. The soft drink is no new diversion, and the inference from this fact might be drawn that not all dwellers in the dim, remote past were hard drinkers of hard stuff, a fact which we seem to unaware much literature descriptive of the habits and thirst of our ancestors. A suggestion, or perhaps a taste, of some of these very old soft drinks and innocuous tipples may be had by reference to the advice given his patients by a venerable physician who lived when our present business forms and social customs, which many are pleased to call civilization, were young, or perhaps unborn. The name of that physician is now of no especial importance, but if the reader insists upon having it, why here it is: His name was Sangrado, and he was a man of great talent, the most chronicles which will give more information than that relating to him. He was a great believer in the efficacy of pure water as a potion or potation, and he wrote this: "Health consists in the suppleness and humentation of the parts. Drink water in great abundance; it is a universal monstrum that dissolves all kinds of salts. But if you feelest in thyself any reluctance to the simple element, there are innocent aids in plenty that will support the stomach against the insipid taste of water. Sage, for example, and balm will give it an admirable flavor, and an infusion of corpoppy, gillyflower and rosemary will render it still more delicious." Before the virtues and the vices of the grape were suspected, before headaches, quarrels and goodfellowship were distilled from the peach or cherry, and long centuries before the intoxicating possibilities of barley, rye and corn were recognized, a home and homely tipple was made of honey and water. It satisfied the same kind of a thirst which many old-fashioned children of a recent age slaked with sugar and water—sweetened water—nothing else. Honey water goes back to the youth of the human family, for honey as a sweet and as a "duclice" long antedated the sugar of cane. Water flavored with the essences of flowers, barks and roots were common family preparations. To them were ascribed medicinal qualities, but it was easy to confer this repute upon things grateful to the taste. It was good for the palate and therefore good for the rest of the body. Today men ascribe curative properties to certain liquids, while other men and women cry them as poison. Perhaps there was a very widespread belief that these palatable preparations were remedial for many of the ills of flesh, but they were copiously drunk because they were wet and agreeable. Sage tea was an old beverage and sassafras tea had a great vogue, vogue with the other aromas among us. It was drunk as a spring fragrant, but it is undeniably fragrant and even to some up-to-date palates has a pleasing flavor. One of the things which impressed the earliest settlers in this part of the country and of which they glowingly wrote as one of the charms and appealing features of the new world was the abundance of sassafras. Mead was a temperance drink in early Europe before it was perverted, or improved, according to the point of view, by fermentation. It was honey and water and spices, and later ground malt with fermentation transformed into a potent liquid. Among early Americans mead was a gentle water and flavoring matter, usually sarsaparilla. When the art or practice of distillation came to be understood by a few select spirits many herbs were changed into ardent waters. A very early recipe for making one of these distillations, cordials or herb tonics gives the following ingredients, with their needful proportions: * "Juniper berries, enula campana roots, calamus armaticus, gallingall wormwod, spirea mint, red" mint, caraway and angelica seeds and saffron." Victim of Insane Patient. A terrible tragedy of madness occurred near Draguignan, France, a few days ago. Doctor Porre was hastily summoned to attend a paved named Ghio, an Italian by birth, who was giving unmistakable signs of insanity. The doctor, who had been talking with his patient, turned his back for a moment, whereupon Ghio, who had concealed a razor up his sleeve, sprang upon him from behind and cut his throat, death being instantaneous. The man was overpowered and taken to the gendarmerie. Here he attempted to strangle a gendarme, whereupon another gendarme, in order to save his companion, drew his revolver and shot the madman dead. Danger. "Why is it that your husband never attends church with you?" asked the good pastor, who was noted for his lengthy sermons. "He is afraid to," replied Mrs. Jones. "He is a sommambullet." "Yes, my son." "I think I'll make a trip to the North Pole when I'm older." "I always said you took after your mother. She always wants to lecture, too." Educated. Freddie—How is it you never read Rabelais and Boccacio? Rabelais and Boccacio kind seem very tame to a kid after he's had a course in sex hygiene—Puck. Bull Fighting Not Only Sport in Spain. "Pelota," the National Pastime of the Peninsula, is Played by All—it is Full of Interest to Players and Spectators. Of the national sport of bull fighting, all that is good and all that is bad has been said before, and we will merely remark that it is practiced not only by the professional toreaders, but also by amateurs at the beacerradas, in which the bulls used are young and almost harmless a writer in the London Times says. But the reasoning of fighting bulls in the ganaderias rise to operations which, while lacking the sanguinary aspect of the corridas, are full of interesting sport. Such are the encerlo, in which the bull is led away hemmed in by cabestros or belled oxen; the acoso y derribo, which consists of driving the bull into a corner and throwing it in order to brand him, a feast performer, in horseback and with the goal, as in backsaddle, or by awaiting the onset of the best seizing him by the horns and twisting his neck, as is done by the peasants of Salamanca, who for this purpose wear a leather curtace round the body; and the tienta, in which the pugnacity of the bull is put to the trial by means of a mock corrida. The Andalusians are adepts at pigsling and the king himself has taken sport on the Donana estate at the mouth of the Guadalquivir, the best district for game in all Europe. The true national sport of Spain is pelota, which originated in the Basque country, but is played in all the principal towns of the peninsula and in some places abroad. The game consists of hitting a ball against the walls of a fronton, which has one or two parallel courts and sometimes a lateral one, and is played between two teams of two players each, one standing in front and one behind. The ball is hit either with the cests, a sort of elongated and curved wickerwork glove, or with the flat pala (bat) or with the hand alone. The scoring is by points, each fault committed by one side—such as a dropped ball or a strike—out of the court—courting for the other side, or for the extraordinary agility and suppleness of the and the sustained excitement of the play make pelota a most interesting game to watch, especially in the Basque country, where it is played in the open air, sometimes against the walls of the village church, and by children of quite a tender age. In the Canary islands favorite sport is wrestling of a kind very similar to that practiced by the montagnes of Switzerland. A curious game in the Baleares is hurling with the sling, a weapon with which the natives, who are said to have invented it, were familiar in ancient times. The women of the Tarragona district run races with cantaros (pitchers) balanced on their heads, and in La Gomera island (Canaries) the inhabitants display wonderful skill in communicating with each other by means of whistling, which they have made a veritable medium of speech. MADE OF SAND AND CEMENT New Process for Manufacturing Brick Is Being Kept a Secret by A process for making building brick of sand and cement only has been developed, and brick of this kind are being placed on the market. Any kind of clean sand may be used. The secret of the process lies in the use of a cement which is mixed with the sand and which is made from glass sand by a process of melting, cooling, pulverizing, and treatment in a digester. About 35 gallons of this cement is sufficient for making 1,000 brick when mixed with ordinary river sand, sea sand or bank sand, and the sand may be either wet or dry. After being mixed, the material is formed into a layer under a temperature of 500 degrees Farenheit. One of the advantages of the process is that the brick may be made complete within a period of 12 hours. Various colors may be obtained by adding oxides and mineral coloring to the material when mixing. Tests on brick made by this process show an average compressive strength of 6,000 pounds to the square inch.-Popular Mechanics. Pine Made of Asphalt Paper Asphalt-paper pipes, which are claimed to have points in their favor, have been introduced in Austria. The tubes are made of an especially prepared asphalt paper of German manufacture, and are exceedingly light in weight as compared with piping other materials. They were originally made for electric-cable conduit, but it has been found that they may be for varied purposes, replacing iron, steel and chalk, replacing as-conveyors hot fluids, strong acids or petroleum products. One of their advantages is that stray currents of electricity do not affect them—Popular. Mechanics. Experience. As soon as a young fellow has spent a night or two in New York he assumes: a bored look and wants you to understand that he is a man of the world. Cool, Secluded Spot. Church—He said he was going to spend the afternoon in some cool, secluded spot. Gotham—Went out into the country, Happy Father of Eileen—Yes, the last of my daughter was married yesterday. Friend—Indeed! Who was the happy man? AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Fifty years of neglect have engendered conditions which the new-born seal of southern whites, armed with all the wisdom which modern social science can furnish, will be hard put to combat. And alas! the south had first to forge her own weapons, nay, even to build the forge. In all the south there was no training school for new students, few social libraries of social science. The single library of Columbia university contains more valuable books than are owned by all the colleges of the south put together. So the first thing was to train leaders, all the way from district nurses to sanitary engineers. The new south is daring. It not only contemplated a school for social workers whose faculty of white experts should teach in a negro department as well as in classes of their own people, but it dreamed of rallying seven religious denominations to the support of the training school. The dream has come true. The teacher (or Religious and Social Work) opens its doors on the 14th of January. The negro department, opened on the fifteenth anniversary of the proclamation of emancipation, has been in operation almost a year. The school has satutely itself down in the shadow of Vanderbilt university and Peabody college (training school for normal teachers) in order to establish a co-operative triad, no one of the colleges duplicating the advantages of the other two, students of one passing freely to lectures in the others. Since the negro department is situated at a little distance (and all so because negro students in the south profess or are a white college), professors and social experts from the north will repeat their addresses at Nashville Institute for Negro Christian Workers. Economy is achieved by this happy arrangement. Each of the seven cooperating denominations will eventually have its own training-school on the campus, building and owning their own halls and giving at their own expense all instruction in denominational doctrine, polity and methods, while the Interchurch college provides a faculty to give all courses which can be taught to the students. This amounts to about 70 percent of the whole curriculum. The social service library, already opened, will be at the command of all, and a chapel, gymnasium and administration building for common use. No such audacious system of church co-operation has yet been launched in America, nor do I know its parallel anywhere. It is estimated that the maintenance of seven distinct denominational schools with seven distinct faculties would require an annual investment, together with the training schools maintained by the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. can be handled co-operatively for $70,000 a year. The saving is actually, for the demand for social workers of every sort is so strong throughout the south that the denominations would be compelled to build independently had it not been for the Merchurch college. The south is of the raw material for social work college men and women who want to make the finest kind of instruments. The south needs not imported northern exports, but home-bred workers who know their ground—Mary Bronson Hart, in Washington (D. C.) Star. In these days of great achievements it is possible to reach heights before unknown by short cuts. The Japanese have assimilated western civilization in about a half century from the time, in 1853, when Commode Perry of the United States navy first entered the harbor of Tokyo, the capital of Japan, and forced the Japanese to give up their policy of isolation and nonintercourse with foreign nations. There is no question that the colored people of assimilated Hawaii lived in 300 years of contact and are today the equals of the other varieties which make up commo- nolitan America. The difference between the literacy of the white and colored peoples is not so great as the census would seem to indicate. The dense mass of ignorance is in the South, and the difference between the literacy of the southern colored man and the southern white man is very small. In Chicago, owing to the large foreign population and the fact that all native citizens have had equal advantages, there is probably less illiteracy among the colored people than among the whites. Russia has 57,612 miles of navigable land waterways; Germany, 11,293; France, 7,863; England, 3,906; Holland, 3,250; Sweden, 3,187, and Belgium, 1,440. The value of gold produced in the Gold Coast and Ashanti during 1812 was $3,045,465, the largest production on record. There are 1,237 British gas companies in England and Wales, 260 in Bootland, 110 in Ireland, 161 in Australia and 72 in other British possessions. One playground in New York city occupies a site valued at $1,800,000. English gas companies recently bought more than one million tons of coal from Germany. Merchant vessels launched by all countries last year had a total tonage estimated at 3,332,000 tons, the greatest on record. "French briar" is produced in Sicily, Calabria, Corsica and of late years Algeria. Some twenty thousand persons are attracted usually to Hampton institute, the pioneer industrial and agricultural training school for negro and Indian youth, founded in 1888 by Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong at Hampton, Va. These visitors from all parts of the world, are attracted by the and effective educational-methods which the Hampton institute has been successfully encouraged for over forty-five years in training students for unselfish and efficient service in the home, on the farm, in the shop, and in the kitchen. Hampton Institute is an industrial village with some 1,200 or 1,300 students, 200 teachers and workers, 140 buildings, and an instruction farm of some 600 acres. Whatever work the Hampton school needs to have done, the students are usually prepared to do. Farming, home-making, teaching and the common industries form vital parts in the training of Hampton Institute boys and girls. Blacksmithing, brick-laying and plastering, carpentry and cabinetmaking, machine work, painting, printing, shoe-making, steamfitting and plumbing, tailoring, insmithing, upholstering and wheelwrighting, are the trades which are offered by the Hampton Institute Trade school. In the busy shops, on the scaffoldings of new structures, in odd nooks and corners of the Hampton grounds, negro and Indian carpenters have forged their own tools for building art and have been prepared themselves for life's emergencies by learning how to make the best possible use of their resources—time, tools, skill and moral qualities. Today the construction of the Hampton institute buildings and the necessary repairs are being satisfactorily done by student tradesmen. When it was necessary to remodel the principal's home, one of the oldest buildings on the Hampton campus, negro and Indian tradesmen did the necessary tearing down and building up. These operations were no easy tasks. The bulk of the work had to be done in hot and trying weather, the building was with a fire. We were happy to have an opportunity of doing well what professional builders considered a difficult piece of work. --- The College of Missions, which is in the charge of the Flanner House settlement, has bought three adjoining vacant lots in Colton street, Indianapolis, which will be converted into a playground. The Flanner house owns four pieces of property and four lots. Plans are being made for an extension of the work. The free cook school, which is being built, provides supervision of Mrs. Marion Colefisher, has met with the heartiest response, especially from the mothers in the neighborhood. The work is in the charge of two young women from the College of Missions, one of whom is neighborhood nurse. The main building has been remodeled and things will be in readiness for a resident worker this fall. Rev. H. G. Derthick who has the responsibility of the social settlement work being carried out, supervises theColle of Missions, is outlining plans to create larger interest in the children's department and to increase the force of volunteer visitors. The play hour, which is conducted each Saturday during the school year, will be developed into a larger feature this year. An illustration of the value of effective training in the industrial arts is furnished in the graduates of Tuskegee, Booker T. Washington's school. There are more than one hundred of these trained young men and women in Chicago, according to Fannie Barrier Williams. A recent investigation shows that none of them is out of employment. The following is a partial list of the occupations in which they are engaged in this city: Two are practicing law, two are veterinary surgeons, at the Union stock yards, three are undertakers, three are plumbers and steamfitters, five are merchant tailors, two are shoemakers, three are dressmakers, two are electricians, one an assistant meat inspector at the stock yards, there are three trained nurses, three carpenters, ten clerks in the post office, one editor and publisher. Wireless telephoning between Paris and a suburb of Brussels recently was accomplished. Out of a total collage of $2,820,000 produced by the Paris mint last year, $47,200,000 was in gold. To encourage boring for oil the government of South Australia has offered a large bonus to the first person or corporation producing 100,000 gallons of crude 90 per cent petroleum from a well. George Santoford of Bath, Me., has an old-fashioned mortar and pestle standing 14 inches in height, which has been in his family for 150 years. The United States mints made 186,631,871 coins, worth $7,496,530, last year. Following an annual custom, a Philadelphia firm is giving away, without any strings attached, 50 planes to families in which there are people of musical ability, but unable to buy an instrument. Angora goats have been used with profit to keep fire zones clear of insifiable vegetation on national forests in California. Slam has resumed the production of cotton, several years ago a leading industry. SPINACH AS IT SHOULD BE Delicious Vegetable Always at Its Best Value The Addition of Water, Spinach is seldom cooked properly, in spite of the fact that it is the vegetable easiest cooked. It should be thoroughly washed in cold water a number of times and allowed to stand in cold water to freshen. Then taken up in large handouts and placed in a porcelain-lined boiler or saucepan. No water need be added, as the washed leaves will hold enough water to be used. You have a large quantity to cook, a large may be added, but this is not necessary. Cover and cook five minutes, then uncover and turn, the spinach over so it will cook evenly. It will not require more than ten minutes, if the spinach is young and tender. It will be a rich vivid green and appetising to behold. As soon as it begins to darken it is overcooked and will become rank and bitter, and as palatable as hay. The spinach may be cooked in plenty of butter and seasoning of salt and pepper. A garnish of hard boiled eggs enhances its appearance. Or the spinach, when steamed tender, and drained, may be chopped fine and reheated in a saucepan with two generous tablespoonfuls of butter to half peck of spinach, and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer five minutes if the spinach is young; not longer than ten minutes if older. If your spinach is overgrown and requires more than ten minutes cooking in its moisture, it is better to first blanch it in plenty of boiled salting water, in order to remove its strong and oftimes acrid taste. TO RESTORE PICTURE FRAMES Two Mixtures Which Will Remove the Tarnish Caused by Smoky Atmosphere—Use Soft Brush. Gilt frames which have become darkened through exposure to smoky atmosphere can usually be improved by the use of an old-fashioned remedy. To make it take a sufficient flour of sulphur to give a golden tint to about two and one-half plats of water, and in this boll four or five brushed onions. Strain off the liquid, it, when cold, wash with a soft brush, any gilding that requires restoring. Another restorer is two ounces of white of egg; chloride of potash or soda, one ounce; mix well; dust on the frames with a soft brush, and go over them with a soft brush dipped in the mixture. It would be well to try a little of this mixture first on a portion of the frame that is not conspicuous, as there are different methods of gliding, and the potash or soda frames. To make the white of egg alone, put on with a camel's hair brush, is sufficient to clean a nice gilt picture frame. Avoid rubbing the frames, as the gliding must be touched very gently. Disguised Raspberries Make a small amount of tapioca cream, say one pint of milk, 14 tablespoonfuls tapioca, cooked together (in double boiler) 15 minutes, add one fourth cupful of sugar, yolk of one egg, pinch of salt. Cook until thick and flavor with vanilla. When cold, put raspberries in serving dish, unsweetened, pour cream over them. Make a merengue of the white egg and barely brown in oven. Serve ice-cold Currant Ple. Wash and stem enough currants to measure three cupfuls and put them in a deep pudding dish. Cover them with enough sugar to sweeten them. If they are very sour they will need a good cupful. Then pour over them half a cupful of boiling water and put the dish in a slow oven to simmer gently for half an hour. Remove from the oven, cool and cover with pie crust. Bake until brown and sarrinkle with powdered sugar. Simple Moth Preventive A very good way to prevent moths from nesting in your clothing is to pack in the trunk or drawer where the same may be stored a bottle containing two ounces of chloroform. Have the cork of the bottle fastened in firmly, but puncture in two or three so as to allow the eggs to escape, or provide a protection from the matured moths, but kills the eggs without injuring the fabric. Muster GingerBread. One cupful of molasses, one cupful sugar. Mix together one cupful of lard, one cupful of sour milk, two even teaspoonful ginger and a little salt, sift flour to knead and roll out a little thicker than a cookie. Cut with a knife into a square layer in a liner. Bake in a rather hot oven and turn upside down to cool. When cold cut into squares and put into a far to moisten. Marmalade Fritters S six rounds thin bread sandwiches filled with Rosebud's fine marmalade, two eggs beaten, one-half cupful milk, one cupful flour, one tablespoonful sugar, one tablespoonful butter or salt, dash salt. Mix all thoroughly. Cover the sandwiches with above mixture and fry in hot fat. Drain, sprinkle with powered sugar and cinnamon and serve. Imitation Mushrooms. Try the following when mushrooms are at a premium: Peel and slice large white radishes, and when you put your steak in the pan turn in the sliced radishes, and allow to cook in the juice of the steak until quite browns. Before taking them out put in a generous piece of butter. Season with salt and pepper. They can hardly be detected from the real article. To Mend Sprinkler When the sprinkler bursts a seam, dip the offending part in hot parma. This has often been sufficient to repel the bacteria so that it stays good for an hour. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER BASEBALL Abe Lezotte is again in charge of the Fort William team as manager-captain. Third Baseman Marhefka of New London is going so well he will get another chance with the Phillies. The St. Paul club has secured Outfielder Jimmy Murray from the Boston National club. The Columbus club has secured Shortstop Milton Reed from the Phil- adelphia National club. Muskegon has signed Guy Hodges, who led the Kitty league in batting last year with an average of .419. Manager Jackson of Wilmington, has signed Bill Harkins, pitcher for the Troy club of the New York State league. --- The Utica club has sold Outfielder Joe Peploski, the Seton Hall star, to the Lawrence club of New England league. Traverse City has released Catcher Siner and Pitcher Buttle, both of whom have given good service to the Residents. --- In the 20-inning game at Seattle on July 19 Nig Perrine, playing second base for Seattle, handled 15 chances without a skip. New Haven has signed Pitcher Fred Claus, a brother of Bert Claus, formerly with Detroit and now with Lincoln, in the Western league. . . . Pitcher Danny Miller, the college youth who recently jumped the Quincy team and was fined $100, has been restrained and sold to Springfield. --- The Michigan State league continues to live up to its reputation of playing more close score games than any other league in the country. Owen Quinn, the first baseman farmed to New London by the New York Americans, broke his wrist in a recent game and is out for the season. Pitcher Flannagan, sold to the Muscatine club of the Central Association by Manager Plass of Dubuque, has refused to report, and has been suspended. . . . The Detroit club is said to have an option on Carleton, the slugging outfielder of the Kalamazoo club. This is his first year in the South Michigan league. Pitcher Fred Rawley, who has been with Syracuse in the New York State league, has been signed by Jesse Burkett for his Worcester New England league team. . . . The Grand Forks Ball club stands to realize a bit of cash by the sale of players this season, with Catcher Peters and Outfielder Altman as likely men for market. The Keokuk club has given Manager Spencer Abbott his release. Economy was given as the reason, but the reports are that Abbott could not get along with his players. Pitcher "Lefty" James, erstwhile Nap, and now with the Cleveland American Association team, has admitted he is flirting with the Federal league. A four-season contract has been offered the southpaw, he said. The Evansville club has signed Southpaw Pitcher Carl Schultz, former left-handed pitcher for Indiana university, who recently was released by the Indianapolis American Association club. "Dolly" Stark's injury gave Jack Clothier a chance to break into the game for Memphis, and he certainly has taken advantage of it and has covered the shortstop position in fine style. --- Jack Kellher, the former Brookline High boy, who was given a trial by the St. Louis Cardinals, is playing shortstop for Indianapolis. His work in the field has been good, but at the bat he is weak. --- First Baseman Steve Brewer has decided to finish the season with an independent team at Mason City, Ja Steve played some very fair ball for Grand Rapids, but his hitting was not strong enough for a first base man. --- President Lennon of St. Paul has taken the bull by the horns and has cut his team to 14 men. But five pitchers are carried on the club, four infielders, three outfielders and two catchers. That's enough for even a major league club. Pitcher Dave Roth, who was drafted from Jack Dunn's Orioles last year by the Chicago American league club and whose salary whip went back on him, is trying to stage a come-back at present with the Birmingham team. The Hartford club has signed Pitcher D. H. Henry, the Brown star, who kept the Providence college on the baseball map the past spring, and the man who twirled such a great game against the crack Yale college team on Yale Field this past season. Jack Pappalau, veteran pitcher of many leagues, has been released by Albany. It is conceded that Pappalau has about finished his baseball reer, having served 16 years. He played under Connie Mack in Milwau- NY Ray Keating, one of Manager Chance's most dependable twirlers, was born at Bridgeport, Conn., on July 21, 1891. His baseball career began with the St. Charles school team, after which he pitched with the Factory league in Bridgeport, his work earning him a trial with the Bridgeport club of the then Connecticut league in 1910. He was not used regularly and he asked for and obtained his release. He then attended Niagara college for a season and pitched for that team. In the middle of 1911 he was taken up by the Lawrence club of the Connecticut league, but he was farmed to the Hamilton club of the Canadian league before the season was far gone. He proved a star for Hamilton and Lawrence took him back for 1912 at a greatly advanced salary. His work earned Lawrence the pennant and President Farrell of the New York club purchased him in September. Eusebia Gonzales, is the name attached to the good-looking Cuban on the Troy team. John Vowinkle, former major league pitcher, is now in the drug business at Oswego, N. Y. Larry Lejeune, who was once with the White Sox and later on the Brooklyn Dodgers, keeps on hitting the ball at a 400 clip. Frank O'Rourke, who was with the Boston Braves a couple of years ago, coming from Bridgeport, is fairly setting the world afire with Wilkesbarre. Bill Bergen, the veteran Scranton catcher, says there isn't a pitcher in the New York State league who compares with Ritter of the Scranton Miners. --- It is said of Umpire Cleary of President Farrell's staff, that he has removed but one player from the game for insubordination in two years. Cleary's games are all smooth affairs. A report that Charley Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox had purchased the controlling interest in the Buffalo international league club, is vigorously denied by, President Jacob J. Stein. SPORTING WORLD Pigeon flying is a popular pastime in Great Britain. Denver hopes to secure the 1916 Far West Amateur Athletic Union meet. Koji Yamada, the Japanese cue expert, is performing in a sensational manner in Berlin. Miss Nell Kenny, an Australian swimmer, is in training at Brighton, Eng, for the swim across the English channel. Jim Corbett says Carpentier is not to be taken lightly, on which dope we deduct 120 pounds from our estimate of the Frenchman. Pat Dwyer, center on the 1906 and 1907 football teams at Penn, has been selected as trainer of the red and blue eleven for next fall. Willie Hoppe has agreed to use 2½-inch balls in the English billiard games he is to play with Melbourne Inman, the British champion. Sapper O'Neill, the English fighter who made a good impression on the fight fans in New York, is now in Australia displaying his wares. Willie Ritchie will be the moving picture champion, if nothing else. He plans to re-establish himself by showing pictures of his fight with Welsh. . . . Eddie McGoory, the American middleweight, who is now in Australia, is reported to have accepted an offer to fight Georges Carpenter in London for a $10,000 purse. Elevens members of a Philadelphia cricket club have gone to England for some matches. Which same thrills us very much and makes us wonder what wed say if England sent a ball team over here. Abel Kiviat, the Irish-American A. C. of New York runner, will try for the one-mile record this year. China recently held its first track and field meet at Socquoy university, and the meet was won by St. John's of Shanghai. At the Olympic games held at Stockholm in 1912 the quick recording of the game was used as an official quiz with great success in determining doubtful finishes in the various track contests. SHADOW OF A MAN Adventurer's Ancient Vigor, In cited by a Glimpse of Heaven, Seeks Its Lost Might. Jonas Flint was coming home from work, and the old, familiar trees cast their familiar shadows far ahead of him, and the birds sang the same songs, and the breeze fanned his forehead in the same comforting way, and there was the same little house at the end of the path, and the same smiling face to meet him. Yet there was something altogether different, and when he came to condition, he said, "he found that, seriously, he was not himself; that he was outside of himself, and regarding himself from a distance, and a very great distance, too. This realization disturbed Jonas very much, and he strove to recover possession of himself, as it were, but could not. The effort caused him confusion and indistinctness of vision, so he desisted, and contented himself with watching this man who was, and yet who was not, himself. Thus resting, he said, "If it not to regain his identity, at least to enter into some of the thoughts and feelings of his double. Jonas was a well setup man, somewhere around thirty. He had clean-cut features and a square jaw, and was dressed in the garb of the better class of American workmen. As he approached the house a pretty face appeared in the window and as quickly disappeared, and his wife, who had been the sweetheart of his schoolmate, "What do you think?" she began, and then her lips were checked by the wifely greeting that made Jonas Flint's heart beat faster. "What do you think? See here." She led him through the house—a short enough passage it was—and out through the back door; and there were a dozen fuffy little chickens presided over by an important, jealous-eyed hen. "They just hatched this afternoon. Are they they?" she answered, but far more attractive to Flint's eyes was the lithe figure of his young wife as she bent over her charges. "But you must be hungry," she said, "and tired. And supper's ready." And supper was ready—the finest supper spread on a tea-table just big enough for two in a pretty little dining-room just big enough for the teatable. Jonas, sitting with his wife across the board, felt that he was the happiest man in all the world. But I couldn't stay tired here. Nelly, this is home. "You like this place better than other places, then?" she inquired naively, knowing his answer beforehand. "Other places! Let me forget them. Here, in this house, with you, it is Heaven. I have wandered for years, Nelly, but I never really knew a happy hour. No, nor a happy moment." She sat on the porch, she waving, he blowing great rings of smoke into the air. He grew drowsy, his head fell forward, his eyes closed, then opened, then closed again. He woke. The sun was shining fiercely in through the hole in the wall that served as a window for the miserable little room in which he had slept. His ears were vexed by the jabbering of the native women. Through the half-open door he could see them pass and repass. They were almost black, their features were those of negroes; they were dressed in horrible deshabille. There was an indescribably dirty odor in the air. So vivid had been his dream that he could not for the moment realize that it had been a dream, and that this was reality. When he did, he rose, curing volubly. He took a long draft from an evil-smelling vessel and made his short toilet. Dressed in white trousers and the thinnest shirt in the room, in company with half the people, people, one negro, one "chil" woman, and the rest natives, one "hate breakfast." Dried fish and pol composed the meal. It was served in half-clean dishes; still, he ate heartily. Years of usage accustom one to anything, and a dream is but a dream. Still, Jonas could not get this out of his mind, though he tried hard. Iell noticed his depression. "What all you?" she asked in the native tongue; he only replied by a grunt. He concluded that he had lost again in gambling, and, having a wholesome regard for his temper, held her peace. After breakfast, he went down-town, as was his usual custom. He had not had the feeling for years, but when he walked through the rows of squalfal shacks that formed the quarter in which he lived, all dirty, dilapidated, and suggestive of nameless things, disgust filled him. He strove to quiet his memories, but he strove. His old home, the States, in the quiet, sweet-smelling lane, the—kiss. A virgin kiss he had known it to be, filled with the matchless splendor of a young girl's first love. The next day he had left her. He had awakened a great love, and then left it to die. And so, wronging her, he had ruined himself. He saw it now quite plainly. He thought of the dream again—or, was it a dream? He had not lived for years in the East for nothing. "So that what I might have been!" He stumbled blindly over a naked child, who had thrilled curSES at him, "Another change!" and that moment, so strange in this world, he saw her. He was just on the margin of the Chinese business district, and the carriage in which she was seated, in company with another and older woman, passed swiftly in front of him, across the street, and was gone. But he recognized her in that glance. True, she, had changed much. When he had seen her last she was a girl of nineteen, now she was a woman of twenty-five. She had developed with the years, grown more beautiful. That was to have been expected, but what surprised him was this, that, though she was not the Nelly of his remembrance, she was so unmistakably the Nelly of his dream. Jonas Flint stopped short and stared as the rear wheels of the carriage disappeared. He had believed the girl thousands of miles away. He had not of course, heard from her in five years; but that she should be here, of all places in the world! Then—it may have been a hallucination—there appeared in front of him the image of the man of whom he had dreamed. The figure—his own—approached rapidly. Its eyes were fixed on Flint's. They searched his soul they questioned, they pleaded. The Thing seemed to make an effort to speak. He was an apporing gesture, and then passed on. When Jonas turned to look at it, it was gone. In broad daylight, on a crowded street, surrounded by hundreds of hurrying figures, Jonas Flint acknowledged the fear that was his by palling cheeks. But he tried to reason it away. "It wasn't a man," he said half aloud. "The shadow of a man—of myself? No, it wasn't even that. I imagined it. That was all." But he could imagine himself being like the dream, the unexpected glimpse of Nelly, and the apparitions seemed all too closely connected for any one to be lightly explained away. He threaded his way through a populate composed of nearly all the nationalities of the globe, but he saw nothing. He was thinking—thinking. An explanation flashed upon him. He had prayed for another chance. Was he to have it? Had the dream been meant to show him, not what might have been but what might still be? He straightened himself, and his guilt tooken. Then he relapsed in to his old, slouched gait. Then the roused white that still remained in him asserted itself. His jaw set firmly, and there came a light into his eyes that had not been there for years. He saw Ah Poo, a wealthy Chinaman who owned a large macaroni factory, approaching. The Oriental was about to pass with a bland nod of recognition; but Flint acting upon the spur of the moment, stopped. "Nice day." "Belly nice." "Ah Poo, I want job. Understand? I want trabajar. Sabe? You give me job." The Chinaman's smile grew more bland, even cheerful. He recalled several friendly little games he had had with Flint in which Chinese duplicity had not availed against white shrewdness. "Wantes work? You bloke? Boosted, eh?" He passed on, every feature expressing his enjoyment of the situation. Flint glared after the aliphod figure, but after a moment turned to go on his way. But a white man, who had overheard the conversation, stopped him. "Hey, there; wait a minute. I heard what you asked of that heathen. What can you do?" "Work." "Well, it's a hard graft, working with these gusgs. But a white man for me every time, if I can get one. My name is Hawkins. I run the Honolulu steel mills. Come down tomorrow morning at seven o'clock, and I'll give you a job, if I have to fire a dozen Kanakas. You know where it is?" "Yes, sir." "Good morning." And he hurried off giving Flint no chance to either accept or reject the offer, or even to thank him. Jonas Flint walked on unseeing. All that day he struggled with himself. Was it worth while? he asked a thousand times. But he slept in a strange bed that night, and at seven reported to the mills for work. Work! It was work. By noon his unacustomed hands were blistered; by night they were bleeding, and every muscle in his body ached with fatigue. When the quitting hour came, he received and received his pay—two dollars for the day's work. He walked out of the mills as though he were escaping from an inferno. Work is the real test of a man. "Why, Flint, where's you been?" And what you've been doing? You sure look done up. Come, let's have a drink." Flint drank once. Then he drank again and again. Then, arm in arm with his friend, he started homeward, toward unwashed Palama. A couple of women were walking ahead. Passing on the outside, Flint brushed against one of them, and leaning over, leered drunkenly at her. She shrank away with a frightened face, and the leer froze upon his features, for it was Nelly. There was a noise behind him, and a vigorous fast knocked him from the sidewalk into the ditch. Lying on his back, he met the irate eyes of his late employer. "You puppy! Hawkins cried. Then he hurried to the two ladies. "He's go on," said he. "This dog isn't worth poisoning." Another and younger man, who had come up with Hawkins, gave Nelly his arm, and the two couples walked off. Jonas. Flint got up his company had vanished—and toothed up the street alone. A crowd that had gathered round seemed him in all languages, but he did not hear it. The shadow of a man—or himself—foceted before him. For the moment it seemed as if I were the real man—he, the shadow the remnant, the ruin and the underestimated He tried to avoid its burning eye but he could not. "Murderer," it whispered; then which might have been disappeared forever. But that night he drank heavily of "ripen." and by morning had forcited. ST. PAUL BUDGETARIAN. The rainy season has put in its appearance. The Memorial Baptist church began its dedication services last Sunday morning, August 23, to continue through the week with appropriate services each evening. Mr. Grant of Sioux City was a Capital City visitor last week at the home of his sister-in-law, Miss Josephine Prostau. Mrs. Etta Grant of Sioux City is visiting in the city, the guest of her sons, Messrs. Harvey, Eugene and Ulysses, of Thomas street. Mrs. Mattie Wade Hicks has returned home from Wilberforce, Ohio, and Chicagc She reports a very pleasant stay. Mrs. Mary Hatcher chaperoned a house party to Anoka on Tuesday in honor of Mrs. C. Pearce of Paris, Texas, and Mrs. Foster of Chicago. Several social functions have been given the past two weeks in honor of the many visitors in the city. Mrs. Harry Johnson, formerly of Duluth, but now of Cleveland, Ohio, is in the city, a guest of Mrs. J. E. Johnson of St. Anthony avenue. Mrs. W. R. Donavan of Minneapolis has issued cards for a reception Thursday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Clement Pearse of Texas. The executive board of the State Federation will hold a meeting Friday, September 11th, at the home of Mrs. J. Billups. The fish fry given by the King's Daughters Charity club last week was a success. Miss Lucile Elliott will entertain her friends at a party Monday evening at her home. Mrs. C. Foster of Chicago arrived in the city Sunday evening to visit with Mrs. Samuel Hatcher. The boat excursion which was to have been given Tuesday by Pioneer lodge, F. A. M., was postponed until Friday, August 28th FORT MADISON NOTES Mrs. C. A. Ray of Carbondale, IL, who has been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harper, returned to her home Friday morning. Fort Madisonians attending the U. B. F. and S. M. T. in Keokuk on Friday were Mesdames Arnold, Eubanks, Harper, Payton and Payne, Misses Anna, Jennie, Louise, Noami Harper and Lizzie Ewing, Rev. L. H. Owens and Mr. W. Arnold. Mr. Grant Moore, instructor of manual training in the schools of Kansas City, Mo., spent a few hours in the city Tuesday en route to his home, after having spent his vacation attending the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Ben Mills of Marion, Ohio, is visiting friends in the city. The A. M. E. church will give a literary and musical entertainment Monday evening, September 1. Misses Lena and Mamie Lewis of Des Moines and Deborah Barber of Evans are visiting the Misses Harper. Mr. Calvin Anderson of Chicago is visiting friends and relatives for a few days. Mr. Geo. Dandridge of Clarksville, Mo., is expected in the city Wednesday to spend a few days with relatives. Rev. Saunders of Clinton was in the city last week. Mr. Owens, father of Rev. L. H. Owens, is ill at the home of the latter. It is hoped that he will soon recover. KEOKUK IOWA (Special to Bystander.) The Violet Choral club met and held their meeting. After roll call the club listened to some beautiful remarks by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson of Des Moines and Mrs. Chas. Profitt of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Jenkins of Denver, Colo., Mrs. John Nailor and Miss Adah Jenkins of this city, after which a duet was beautifully rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wilson. Miss Frazier of Chicago was also a visitor at the club. On July 21, 1913, there were ten persons met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mills and formed themselves into a choral club. They held their meetings in their homes until the membership grew larger. They now hold their meetings in the Masonic hall, corner of Twelfth and Johnson streets. The membership now is 46. The club has only made its third appearance in public. DAVENPORT NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bradley of Moline, Ill., Mrs. L. C. Carter of Galesburg, Mrs. Blair of Tennessee and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bates were entertained Sunday evening by Mr. and Mrs. John Harris of 617 Eastern avenue from 7 to 10 p. m. Mrs. Fannie Munson of Monmouth, Ill., returned to her home, after spending three weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Jo'. Harris. Mrs. Mayme Ballard and Mrs. Katie Green left Tuesday morning for Des Moines to attend the district grand Household of Ruth, No. 21. Mrs. Brown of Canton, Mo., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. M. Ballard, of West Tenth street. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bates entertained Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bradley of Moline and Mrs. Carter of Galesburg at dinner Sunday. Master Chariel Smith of 1023 Ripley street has been quite ill, but is now convalescent. Rev. T. B. Stovall, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church, was presented with a fine gold watch on his 50th birthday anniversary by the presiding elder committee. Mrs. Mary Burdley of Washington, Iowa, is in the city having been called by the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Lillian Phillips. We hope for her a speedy recovery. Sunday was the fourth quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church. Seventy-nine commun. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett of Monmouth, Ill., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Esza Green. Mrs. M. Dixon, Miss Edna Strother and Miss Mabel Horton of Beloit, Wis., are the guests of Rev. and Mrs. T. B. Stovall of 323 West Eleventh street. Mrs. Rowell of Chicago is theguest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. O'Neil. Mrs. R. B. Montgomery of Milwaukee, Wis., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Johnson of Laurel street. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brooks of West Eighth street entertained Friday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Cordella West and Mrs. Sandy Trice of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Nathan Boyd and Miss Minnie Buckner of Aurora, Ill., and Mrs. John M. Morton and little daughter, Martha, of Aurora, Ill. Mrs. Emma Cain entertained Sunday at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Brown Gilbert in honor of Mrs. J. E. Dixon and Miss Edna Strothers and Mabel Horton of Beloit, Wis. Mrs. Minnie Samuels entertained Mrs. S. V. Bean, Mrs. Benj. Hopkins and YE Editor at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Francis Baker of Iowa street entertained twenty ladies at dinner Sunday in honor of Miss Hatch of St. Louis, Mrs. Bond and Mrs. Hoskins of East Moline, Ill. Rev. I. N. Daniels held the fourth quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church. He preached the two soul-stirring sermons. Rev. J. W. Boyd of Moline, Ill., and Rev. Dr. Saunders of Rock Island were also present. HEALTH HINTS. A young woman died in our community the other day. She passed away in the very bloom of youth. It was the common and easily cured malady of tuberculosis which took her away. She was young—youth is hopeful and aggressive. Life appeals to young people; this life, the life of our sunshine and flowers. The person who lives this life properly is prepared for any form of life; whether it be gressive. Life appeals to young people; this life, the life of our sunshine and flowers. The person who lives this life properly is prepared for any form of life; whether it be this one or the one we know not of. But our good friends often think that a soul without guile, one of patience, and hope, needs special preparation, by being made morbid by much talk of their inability to continue the physical life. This young woman told me of how weary life was made for herby the acute mental anguish occasioned by her friends, added to the physical suffering. But this is not the subject of the story. Sick people need cheer and confidence, not fear and fatigue. A year ago a young man saw these gentle eyes, made more bright and beautiful by the fever and consequent excitation, and his heart beat with pity and love. He married her, full well knowing her condition. Love shows itself in service. The same day she went home. Never did he know the joy of he rhappy smile at the door when he came home. She went among a class of people who never knew of a tubercular person getting well; so with weary soul and weakened body she came back to spend her last days with the man who loved her. His was not the joy to sit at the table and recite the day's happenings; nor to plan for the days to come; nor to walk arm in arm and look at stars and flowers. His was to attempt to offset the discouragements of the day, to inspire home and to work. This is no high brow of whom we write, merely a humble, common every day working boy—he is still a boy, no matter if his burden was heavy. He picked out for himself a job that ninety men out of a hundred with money would have dodged; he is a boy in age and in stature; the only gigantic thing about him was his soul. You would not notice him on the street; his eyes are gentle, his voice soft, he does not even have to shave; but an atom of his soul would make a god of the majority of the people who are looking at clothes and kangaroo grins. Love increases with service. He was never weary; he was not sorry that he married; he was happy to serve. He is a hero. His soul is one that realizes its kinship with God; few can tell him how to live; none ought have the audacity to tell him how to die. Of such is the kingdom of heaven. A high ideal must precede every noble accomplishment; great souls only, faint not, nirsh at great tasks. My soul is humbled in the presence of such as William Hanna. To some the age of chivalry is past; but it will never pass so long as his like exist. He may be uncrowned, but he is a kingly king and one of the earth's heroes. Sunday before last was stewarded day at the A. M. E. church. A short program was rendered in the evening, which was quite interesting. A social was given last Thursday evening by t' stewards of the A. M. E. church at the home of Mr. J. W. Williams. The Missionary Circle of the Second Baptist church met last Monday at the home of Mrs. James Wicka. A talk on mother was the subject, after which light refreshments were served by the hostess. The missionary ladies gave an entertainment last week for the benefit of the circle. A neat sum was cleared. Mrs. Jackson was called to Albia by the death of her little granddaughter. Miss Bertha Halse. Mr. Joseph Pickett while in company with his brother, Edward, to Keokuk, was so unfortunate as to have his left arm mashed up so badly. While passing a freight train in the vards at Fort Madison he had his arm in the window and it was struck by the cars. He was taken to the hospital and his arm was taken off. His brother received a bad cut on his arm. Mr. Pickett has the sympathy of his many friends and hope for his speedy recovery. Miss Nettie Brown is visiting relatives and friends in Des Moines. Mrs. Ralph Crowley of Des Moines is in the city visiting at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Phoeba Page. Miss Susan Granderson left Saturday for Chicago to attend the wedding of her sister, Miss Hattie Moseley, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, but now of Chicago. She was united in marriage to Mr. Anderson Hoyt Richey of Chicago. They will be at home after September 1st at 4616 Evana avenue. J. L. Thompson of Des Moines was is our city last week on business. Mrs. Clara Helms of Galesburg, Ill., is visiting at the home of her cousin, W. M. Harrison. Mrs. Hattie Hedge of Aurora, Ill., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Matilda Atkins. Mrs. Ida Hockely and Mrs. Melvina Harris are visiting relatives and friends in Keokuk. (This Week.) Rev. Bowles of Fort Madison filled the pulpit Sunday at the Baptist church. The Missionary Circle met Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Oscar Green. A talk about the heart was the subject. Light refreshments were served by the hostess. Mrs. Bert Robinson entertained Rv. Bowles at dinner Sunday. Mrs. W. M. Burnaugh entertained at supper Monday Rev. Bowles. Mrs. Ina White of Minnesota is visiting her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. McCracken. Mrs. Alph Hill left Sunday afternoon for her home in Chicago, Ill. Miss Anna Reecer is on the sick list. Rev. W. W. Williams is on the sick list. His many friends hope for his speedy recovery. Mrs. Powers of Chicago and three children are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edd Reecer. Miss Bettie Berkley passed through here Saturday en route to her home in Hiteman. Geneva Pickett, the little four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Pickett, died at her home in Keokuk on Tuesday noon. The remains were brought here for burial Sunday afternoon. Quite a few strangers in town last week attending the fair. Mr. Edward Phintese of Fort Madison spent Thursday and Friday in the city visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Cora Holt, Miss Cora Nelson and Mr. Clifford Logan of Keokuk spent Thursday in the city visiting friends and attending the fair. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Mason of Chicago, who are doisg Chautaquao work in Illinois, came over to spend a few hours with their sisters, Mrs. H. Burnaugh and Miss Louise Mason, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. Mrs. E. C. Thomas and Mrs. Fred Gresham attended the Illinois Federation at Moline last week. They report a good session. 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Mrs. Jessie Fagain of Montgomery, Ala., who is a guest in the T. H. Sturges home, is suffering with tonsillitis. Rev. J. H. Garrison is able to be out and resume his duties, after having undergone a successful operation a fortnight ago. Mrs. Callie Wright of St. Louis is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. Ella Walker. Masters Edwin Morgan and Earl Winters have returned home from a visit in Fremont, Neb. Mrs. T. H. Sturges is indisposed at this writing. A splendid concert was rendered Monday evening at the A. M. E. church, under the auspices of the Sunday school. The A. M. E. choir will give a Japanese tea social Monday, August 31. Mrs. J. Wilkinson will entertain a company of friends at an informal evening Wednesday in honor of her niece, Miss Etta Snell, of Kansas City and Mrs. Mildred Harper, who will depart in the near future to resume her school duties at Nowater, Okla. On Monday evening, September 1, the stewardesses of Malose A. M. E. chapel will give a social. 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