Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XXI NO. 14 CITY NEWS Mr. and Mrs. John Wright of Buxton spent Tuesday in our city. Mrs. J. H. McClain is visiting relatives and friends in Missouri. Rev. T. W. Lewis; Presiding Elder of the St. Paul's district, passed through our city Wednesday. During his lay-over he visited the Bystander office. Miss Pay Bell of Bevier, Mo. is in the city for a few days visit with her aunt Mrs. Emma Pyree. She will leave the last of this week for Macon College, Macon, Mo. Miss Bertha Perkins is visiting in our city, the guest of Mrs. Esther Morton. For Rent—4 rooms for general housekeeping. Phone 6468 Wal. REMOVAL—J. Alvin Jefferson, M.D., announces the remoual of his office from 774 9th street across to the new Thompson hotel, over the Model Drug Co. Telephone Walnut 1145. The R. C. Embroidery club will meet Saturday, Sept. 26th, for their fall and winter business at Mrs. Fred Stewarts, 914 14th street. Miss Martha, Loeffler a graduate of Drake University has accepted a position as a member of the faculty of Sam Houston College at Austin Texas and will enter upon her duties as Preceptress Oct. 1st. The Des Moines friends of Miss Loeffler wish her success and feel confident of her ability to make good. For Rent—6 room house partly modern. Phone 64638 Wal. Mrs. W. L. Lee returned home Monday at noon, after three weeks' visit in Topeka and Lawrense, Kansas, Kansas City and Richmond, Mo. In the latter place she spent a week visiting her father, whom she had not seen for five years. She reports a delightful trip. Mrs. Lee was accompanied by Mrs. Robert Taylor, her sister, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. sister. The Wednesday Evening Bridge club met at Mrs. James Woods. The next meeting of the Mary Church Terrell club will be with Mrs. Hannah Pohn. Mrs. John Wilkinson entertained the members of the Intellectual Improvement club and their husbands in honor of Mrs Clara Smith of Chicago, who is the guest of Mrs. F. P. Johnson. Remarks were made by Atty. S. Joe Brown. F. P. Johnson. J. B. Rush. Mrs. J. B. Rush, Miss Mollie Watkins and Mrs. Clara Smith. The subject generally discussed was the European war; many new ideas were brought out, after which the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Chas. Cousin, Miss Georgia Williams. Miss Mildred Griffin, Miss Eva Jones served dainty refreshments. The Triple "H" club met last Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Anderson White. After the regular order of business Mrs. White rendered an instrumental solo. The war situation was generally discussed, led by Mrs. McDowell. Mrs. McGruder reported on home improvement by our city people. Next meeting with Mrs. McDowell NOTICE The members and friends of St. Paul's A. M. E. church are cordially inited to attend a reception given in honor of the retiring pastor, Rev. B. U. Taylor, his wife and the incoming pastor, Rev. E. G. Jackson, at the residence of Capt. and Mrs. E. T. Banks, 1046 Enos avenue, Wednesday evening, September 30th. CORINTHIAN BAPSTIST CHURCH. Morning services begin at 10:30 and evening services at 7:30. Sunday school at 12:30 and B. Y. P. U. at 6:30. A cordial invitation is extended to all. T. L. Griffith, Minister. 11 a. m.—Preaching. Subject, "God's Promise To Those Who Trust Him." Prov. 30:5. 1p m.—Class meeting. 7 p. m.—Epworth League. Subject, "Industrial Slavery in the Light of Two Standards." Deut. 15:1-11; Luke 4:18. 8 p. m.—Preaching. Subject, "The Benefits Derived From Knowing Christ." John 8:55. Sunday is trustee day. All members are expected to be present. The choir will furnish good music. W. L. Lee, Pastor. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. "I advised the 'boys' when they enlisted for the Spanish war to take Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with them, and have received many thanks for the advice given," writes J. H. Hough- State Capitol Bldg Historical Koom WAS land, Eldon, Iowa. "No person, whether traveling or at home, should be without this great remedy." For sale by all dealers. OUR CITY BAILWAY To read the newspapers one would think our public corporations are regular pirates. One would think that the heads of institutions think all day long and dream all night long how they can skin both city and people. Now the writer has always paid gas bills, water bills, electric bills, telephone bills and all the rest of them and sometimes they have seemed a little steep to be sure. In several instances there have come up differences, but instead of howling about it we just went to the head of the department or corporation and in every case the treatment received was most courteous and there has not been a single instance where the difference was not adjusted in a way entirely satisfactory. The writer of these lines believes that if one does the right thing there is not a public corporation in the city of Des Moines but what will treat him right. It takes big men to head big institutions and we believe that Des Moines has only that kind almost without exception. A STEADY SUBSCRIBER. How dear to our heart is the steady subscriber Who pays in advance at this time of each year; Who lays down the money and does it quite gladly. And casts 'round the office a halo of sheer. He never says—"Stop it, I cannot afford it— I'm getting more papers now than I can read"; Lut always says—"Send it; our people all like it— In fact we all think it a help and a need." How welcome this when it reaches our sanctum, How it makes our pulse throb—how it makes our heart dance; We outwardly thank him; we inwardly bless him— The steady subscriber who pays in advance. The above is a clipping from the Central Afro-American, St. Louis, Mo. We hope that all of our subscribers will heed this and pay up. Next week we will begin the city collection, so all please be ready to pay on the first call. CLARINDA, IOWA. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Davis returned to Council Blufs on Tuesday, after a few days' visit with Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Lane. Mr. Ernie Brown of Blanchard was a Cyrinda caller Sunday. Mr. E. B. Cook is on the sick list. Mr. Jim McDugal is again in our list. Mrs. Etta Gipson returned from Des Moines and reports a pleasant visit with the Iowa-Nebraska Association, where she was sent as a delegate. The following officers were installed at the Keystone lodge, No. 33. Wm. Headley, W. M.; George Montgomery, S. W.; Robert Laned, J. W.; David K. Black, treasurer; James Banks, secretary. Mr. J. L. Thompson, W. G. M., did the installing. The K. P. lodge gave an entertainment at their hall on Ninth street on Saturday. The Ladies' Home and Foreign Mission was delightfully entertained at Mrs. E. B. Cook's. Grandma Campbell is much improved in health. Others on the sick list are Aunt Lucy Brown, who is very aged, and Mrs. Otto Baker is very ill. Mr. Elmer Douglas came in from Sioux City to see his mother, who is very ill. Mr. Wm. Rice left for St. Joe on Sunday, after visiting Mr. Joe Howe a few days. ST. PAUL. BUDGETARIAN. Mrs. Harrison Gould and Miss Susie Lee of Des Moines' were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Quitman Hicks the past week, stopping over from Chicago, where they attended conference. They were the recipients of many social courtesies during their short stay. Arriving in the city Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Adams took them sightseeing in their tour car, going as far as Excelslor, Lake Minnetonka, and returning, a drive of sixty miles. Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Johnson gave a theater party complimented to them, winding up with a midnight supper. Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lindsey entertained at a progressive whist party in their honor. Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Hicks entertained at a house party for them. Thursday morning the ladies left for their home in Des Moines with a lasting impression of St. Paul and the people they met. We just heard that Rev. Jones has been returned to St. Paul for another year, which is good news to his many friends. A meeting was held at Zion Presbyterian church Tuesday afternoon, under the auspices of the City Federation, to hear the report of the delegates to the national, Mesdames Mattle Wade Hicks and W. T. Francis. A large number were present and enjoyed the reports as given. Mrs. Etta Grant. accompanied by her daughter, Geraldine, left Monhay night for their home in Sioux City, after a visit in our city with their DES MOINES IOWA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1914. Fashions of Nowadays sister and aunt, Miss Josephine Protean. Mrs. Mattie Wade Hicks was calling in Minneapolis last week in the interest of the Bystander. Those she failed to see she will call on later. Please be ready at any time from now on. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS Mrs. McAllister returned from St. Joe Thursday night and was the guest of Mrs. Brown for a day. Mrs. Warn will entertain the Dunbar Progressive club Thursday. Mrs. Geo. L. Suter is greatly improved at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Roman will move to Oklahoma about October 1st. Mrs. Charles Gilmore and children returned home from a two weeks' visit in Grinnell. The Marshall county fair was a great success, ending Saturday. They had a number of colored visitors from the surrounding counties. Mr. W. A. Crawford returned from the Baptist association and reported a good time. There are now thirty colored children in the public schools. The colored taxpayers will pay on about $50,000 worth of property this fall. Mr. Robinson is the state organizer and is thinking of organizing a club like that here. Here is hoping that the A. M. E. conference will send a good live minister to this point. BUXTON REVIEW Mr. E. F. Butler from Albia was in our city a few days. Mrs. Annie B. Price is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Ada Childs of Centerville is in our city visiting Mrs. W. F. Cook, 78 Seventh street. Mr. Daniel's boy, who was run over by an automobile, is improving. Mrs. S. Joe Brown of Des Moines was in our city visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Earl Bowman of Albia was in our city spending the 4th. Mr. J. M. Goings is very ill at this writing. Miss Ora Spears, who has been visiting relatives and friends for the past month, will return to Omaha, where she will begin to study music. We wish her much success. Mrs. Jennie Lewis is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Lucy Ewing is very ill at this writing. Mrs. J. E. Mills, who went through an operation, is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Lorna Carter are back to our city again from South Dakota. Mr. Cecil Jeffries of Knoxville, Ia., spent Sunday in our city. Mr. A. Jeffries is on the sick list this week. Mr. L. M. Strother is in our city visiting his family this week. Mrs. William Shackelford of Des Moines is in our city this week visiting her parents. Mrs. Mamie Oliver went to Colafx, Iowa, last week to accompany Mr. and Mrs. Geo. O. Terrell and daughter, Mrs. Adalaie Brooks. Mr. S. C. Bolden was a caller at the residence of Mr. R. H. Stewart on Sunday afternoon. We had a tremendous rain Last Monday night in our city and many bridges were washed out. St. John's A. M. E. Do we go to church to worship the preacher or to worship God? We note that because the pastor went to conference some of the said to be loyal Christians stayed away from church all day Sunday. The churches will never be successful until each Christian feels it his or her duty to do their part, whether the pastor is present or absent. A true Christian will always be found at his post doing his duty. A hypocrite is always dodging here and there and cannot be trusted. By their fruits ye shall know them. Rev. J. B. Lucas filled the pulpit Sunday morning at St. John's A. M. E. church with an excellent sermon. Rev. Richard Anderson of Mt. Zion Baptist church at night. Subject, "Be Not Afraid, It Is I." Brother Anderson is a young minister and needs your support and prayers. The Sunday School Union was held at the Tarnacle Baptist church Sunday afternoon. Mt. Zion Baptist. Church had service in the morning and evening, with a large attendance. We hope to get more news from the different churches. BURLINGTON NEWS Rev. B. A. R. Penn, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church of this city, delivered his farewell sermon Sunday evening and left Tuesday for Chicago, where he will attend the annual conference. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Yeizer and Mr. James Yeizer of Canyon City, Colo., were called to this city on account of the illness of their mother, Mrs. H. Yeizer. While here they were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson. Mrs. W. H. Dixon of Keokuk was theguest of her sister, Mrs. I. B. Washington, last week. Mrs. R. Bromley, who has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. Ed Johnson, and other relatives of this city, has returned to her home in St. Louis. A grand picnic was given at Madison park Labor day, under the auspices of Messrs. Clarbourne and Dewitt. A number of out of town people were present in spite of the inclemency of the weather. All report a jolly good time. Mr. and Mrs. John Trent, formerly of this city, have moved to Hannibal, Mo., to make their future home. Mrs. A. Pleasant entertained the whist club at her home last week. whist club at her home last week. Mrs. Mary Hickey of St. Paul, Minn., is visiting relatives in this city. Mrs. Laws of Hannibal, Mo., is the guest of her son, Mr. Geo, Laws, of this city. Mr. John Lewis and sister, Miss Mildred Lewis, of Albia were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stevens on Sunday. Mrs. Anna Motts of this city visited relatives in Keokuk last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brooks have returned to their home in Davenport, after visiting with relatives of this city. Mrs. Peter King, who has been absent from the city for a few weeks, has returned home. Little Jack Boyd still remains on the sick list. All hope for his speedy recovery. Mr. S. Mitchell is still quite ill. Mrs. Julia Folks is attending the annual conference in Chicago this week. Mrs. Clyde Washington visited relatives in Cedar Rapids last week. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown of Keokuk were looking after business matters in this city Thursday. While here they called at the homes of Mrs. E. Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stevens. Mr. Fred Vaughn, the noted piano player of San Francisco, Cal., was a guest at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson last week. Mrs. Jas. Brooks, who has been somewhat indisposed, is able to be out again. Mrs. Elsie Williams and daughter visited in Mf. Pleasant last week. Rev. G. W. Jackson of Mt. Pleasant was a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs.Wm. Stevens on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ross entertained Rev. B. R. Penn at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Laura Williams and daughter, Mrs. Mary Molten, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Ray and son, James, Miss Laven Martin, Mr. H. Irvin and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson at their home last Thursday evening, whist being the pleasure of the evening. Mrs. H. Yeizer still remains suite ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. I. B. Washington. Rev. W. A. Searcy of Monmouth, Ill., filled the pulpit at St. John's A. M. E. church last Sunday and delivered an able sermon. Mrs. Mary Molten entertained Miss Lavern Martin at dinner last week. Mrs. Fannie Parker and daughter, Jessie, Miss Grace Pleasant, and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stevens and Little Jack Boyd made a flying trip on the s of Nowadays Through the falling leaves we get a glimpse of Indian summer, and with it a vision of— Elegant Millinery New Frocks Smart Suits Jaunty Coats and the hundred-odd things that women will soon make everyday use of. We're prepared with a bountiful showing of these things, for grown folks and little ones. See them while the varieties are complete HARRIS-EMERY steamer Black Hawk to Keokuk on Sunday, being guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown. Mrs. Grace Weaver of this city died at the home of her mother, Mrs. B. Johnson, S. Fifteenth street. She leaves to mourn her loss one son, Edward, aged 10 years, a mother and three brothers of this city and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held from the home, conducted by Rev. Williams of Mt. Pleasant. Mrs. Clara Young of Davenport, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Woods, of this city died Friday evening at Burlington hospital. The deceased is survived by two sons, a mother and father, five sisters and four brothers and a host of other relatives. Funeral services were held from the family home Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. W. A. Searcy of Monmouth, Ill. The bereaved family has the sympathy of this community in their hour of bereavement, but our loss is heaven's gain. Mrs. Rose Chavois is very ill at her home on Valley street. Mrs. A. Wells, who has been visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sallie Dixon, left for her home in Louisiana, Mo., Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dixon entertained Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stevens at dinner last Sunday in honor of their mother. ALBIA NEWS Rev. and Mrs. Jackson of Mt. Pleasant passed through Albia en route from Des Moines to Mt. Pleasant. Musical and social at the A. M. E. church on Monday evening, in which an address was given to the people on the south by the bishop of the United Brethren church. Mr. and Mrs. Richards and family spent Sunday in Hocking. Mr. Roy Grayson and family were in town from Hocking over Sunday. A street carnival visited our town the past week. A number from Hocking were present to the carnival. MACON MO NEWS Quite a bunch of Macon knights are contemplating spending Tuesday in Clarence to attend the circus. Darlington Austin, Keely Donnelly, Charles Jackson, Leslie Nichols and Preston Wright spent Saturday night and Sunday in Moberly. Rev. B. P. Gales is still spending his vacation in Evanston, Ill. Rev. Henderson is filling the pulpit in his place. Mr. Thomas Bailey an ex-Western college knight, has accepted a position as teacher in Callo, Mo. We are glad to see Mrs. Sarah Sherwood up again, after a very serious spell of illness. Miss Nellie Lewis is on the sick list. Miss Aleata Pleasant leaves today for a three weeks' stay in St. Louis, Mo. James Garnett, Jr., has returned from Kansas City, after a short visit. Miss Ruth Perkins has left for Jefferson City to resume her junior year studies. The bazaar which was given by the ladies of the A. M. E. church was quite a success. Rev. G. W. Cross preached an excellent sermon Sunday night. Mrs. G. W. Cross is reported some better at this writing. The Mission Circle met at the home of Mrs. C. Harris on Friday. A large number attended and a glorious meeting. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Sam Lammkins. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Harris, a boy. Mother and baby are doing nicely. Mr. Captain Austin has purchased a kind milk cow. Hurrah for Cap. Mr. Ralph Ridge left Saturday for his home in Cameron, Mo. Ralph will return to resume his senior year at Western. Prof. G. T. Stocks was an out of town visitor Saturday and Friday. Raymond Houston is expected home from the tri-cities soon. Miss Annie Williams entertained the following at dinner Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Tidiny and Mr. Price of Bevier, Mo. Mr. Nepp entertained at a dinner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Garnett have returned from a visit in Mexico, Mo. Mr. John Kenrich has returned to his home in Chicago, Ill., after a visit with relatives. Mr. James Davis is reported some letter. Mrs. Evelyn Wright of Nebraska is visiting her mother, Mrs. Sarah Sherwood. Why don't you pay your subscription? WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. Mr. George W. Black, a resident of Washington since 1856, died very suddenly Thursday a. m. September 17th, at 11:45 a'clock at ris home on S. Avenue B. He had started to mow the lawn during the early morning and came into the house complaining of a very severe headache. He had gone into the bedroom, thinking that a little rest would help him, but before he could reach the bed he was suddenly stricken with what seemed to be paralysis and sank to the floor, unconscious, and remained so until death claimed him. Grandpa Black, as we knew him, for years had been a familiar person about Washington, enjoyed an excellent reputation and an unspotted character. He followed the barber trade during his residence here and his steady, industrious attention to his work always kept him a good line of regular trade. He was born in Uniontown, Pa., in 1834, May 21. Came to Iowa in 1855 and to Washington in 1856, and resided here since, with the exception of a few years' residence in Des Moines and Oskaloosa. He was twice married, first to Miss Sarah Flowers, before coming to Iowa, who died in this city in 1888; second, to Miss Emma Buckner of Oskaloosa, January 8, 1891, who, with the daughter, Ruth L., and Mrs. Miles Shelton of Chicago of the first union, survive. N. L. Black of this city is a grandson of the deceased, and Mrs. Lewis Wallace of Allegheny, Pa., is a sister. Deceased had a distinctive war record. He enlisted here first with the 25th Iowa infantry and was with them for about a year, when sickness compelled him to return home. He later helped to organize a colored regiment and he held the rank of orderly sergeant with this regiment till the close of the war. He was a member of the I. G. White post, G. A. R., and was well versed in Masonry. He was also one of the charter members of the A. M. E. church of this city and was that institution, being a steward, local preached, class leader and secretary of the board at his inestimable demise. His friends were legion, bespeaks for his inestimable character. The funeral was held Sabbath afternoon from the A. M. E. church at 2 o'clock. The service was conducted by the Revs. W. G. Thorne, D. L. Coon and W. R. Sawhill. Music furnished by the choir. Interment in city cemetery. The pall bearers were Messrs. G. W. Turner, Henry Campbell, A. L. Hall, T. L. Burnett, Frank Walker and Jas. Redd. Floral tributes were bountiful. The following came to show their last respects to the deceased: Mrs. Lewis Wallace of Allegheny, Pa., and Mr. and Mrs. Shelton and son, Walter, of Chicago, Mr. and 'Mrs. Thos. Jackson and son, Arthur, of Cedar Rapids, Mr. Chas. Buckner of Des Moines, Mrs. Wesley Jones, Mrs. Henry Hockedy, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Jeffers and daughters, Faye and Grace, of Oskaloosa, Mrs. J. H. Weeks of Ottumwa, Mr. and Mrs. John Buckner of Keoasqua. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Willis Turner on Thursday, September 17. Mother and child doing nicely. Mrs. Ralph Motta, who has been visiting at the F. D. Motta home, has returned to her home in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Robt Armstrong have gone to New York, where they expect to spend the winter. Robt, Greaver, who has been ill, is getting along nicely. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN Miss M. E. Prewitt of 2743 Eleventh avenue South is seriously ill at the city hospital. There was a joint meeting of the officers of the following Sunday schools: St. James A. M. E. Sunday school, St. Paul, Minn., and St. James, Minneapolis, at St. Peter's A. M. E. church last Sunday to discuss and exchange ideas and plans for the betterment of the Sunday schools in general. The meetings are to be once a month and an invitation is to be extended to all Sunday schools of the twin cities to join with them, regardless of denomination. Mr. O. C. Hall of St. Paul is president. We regret very much that Mr. J. L. Thompson will not pay us his annual visit in the interest of the Iowa State Bystander this year. Mrs. Mattie Hicks of St. Paul, Minn., was in our city Friday collecting for the Iowa State Bystander. Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Smith entertained at 6 o'clock dinner Monday evening, the honor guest being Mrs. Patty Eaton of St. Louis, Mo., cousin of Mr. R. B. Moulden. Mrs. Frank Peoples of 3732 Portland avenue is visiting in Chicago. The Willing Workers club will meet with Mrs. Celestine on Thursday afternoon. As we are going to press we learn with much regret that the good Bishop Lee at the annual A. M. E. conference has seen fit to remove Rev. E. G. Jackson, former pastor of St. Peter's A. M. E. church, to Des Moines, Iowa. Rev. Jackson did a creditable year's work in Minneapolis. His friends here congratulate him in getting a broader field in which to work. We learn Rev. T. B. Stovall has been assigned to St. Peter's, Minneapolis. Best Treatment for a Burn Best Treatment for a Burn. If for no other reason Chamberlain's Salve should be kept in every household on account of its great value in the treatment of burns. It allays the pain almost instantly, and unless the injury is a severe one, heals the parts without leaving a scar. This salve is also unequaled for chapped hands, sore nipples and diseases of the skin. Prire, 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. DAVENPORT, IOWA, NEWS. Mrs. Mattie Baker and Mrs. Lizzie Andrews of Monmouth, Ill., and Mrs. Cora Carter of St. Louis were visitors with Mrs. John Harris over Sunday. Mrs. Wm. S. Brooks arrived home Sunday from a visit with her parents at Mendota, Ill., and brothers at Aurore and Chicago. The ladies of Naomi chapter gave a surprise party on Mrs. T. B. Stovall --- Price Five Cents on the 18th and presented her with a silver mesh bag. Refreshments were served and a general good time bed served and a general good time had. The ladies of the Third Baptist church organized a Church Aid club with the following officers: Sadie Washington, president; Laura Burns, secretary; Mrs. Nicholson, assistant secretary; Beth Harris, treasurer. Mrs. Eugene Perkins was called to Quincy to attend the funeral of her aunt Sunday. Mr. Eugene Green and Mr. Perry Hopkins attended conference Sunday and Monday at St. Stephens' church, Chicago. Sunday was Stewardess day at Bethel A. M. E. church. A fine program was rendered, after which Mrs. Stovall made a farewell address, in which she urged the sisters to continue faithful to their duty. Quite a few of the members called on Mr. Cass Lambert Sunday before he underwent an operation on Monday. Rev. T. B. Stovall, our former pastor, has been sent to Minneapolis, Minn., as the pastor of St. Peter's A. M. E. church. Rev. J. P. Sims of Keokuk, Iowa, will succeed Rev. T. B. Stovall as pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church here. We hope for him a prosperous year. We also wish our former pastor success in his new field of labor. Miss Della Watkins is visiting with friends in Cedar Rapids. The agent will call on the delinquent subscribers in a few days. COUNCIL: BLUEFES ITEMS Mrs. S. C. Ward entertained in honour of Mrs. Ross and father at a fourcourse dinner. Those present were Rev. and Mrs. Morton. Rev. Morton delivered a most excellent soul-stirring sermon Sunday night to a crowded house. Also the collection was good. For morning and night the neat sum of $18 was raised. Mr. and Mrs. Kennard of Seventeenth and Avenue B entertained for dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Brown and little Freda. Mrs. Georgia Thompson has as her house guest Mrs. Woods, her sister. Mr. Charlie Davis has returned home and is shaking hands with his old friends again. Hurrah for Burks Giants! Why? Because they beat the Treynor team, 1 to 0. Rev. Morton was called to Omaha on Wednesday to preach the funeral of Mrs. Lulu Jones. Mrs. Emaline Walker celebrated her 61st birthday last week. Among those present were Rev. and Mrs. Morton. Mr. John Easton is on the sick list this week. The members of Bethel A. M. E. choir are making preparations for a musical on October 2 at Bethel A. M. E. church. Mr. and Mrs. Besse departed for their home last Thursday in Trenton, Mo., after a very pleasant stay with their son and daughter. Mrs. Gracie Ross of Des Moines spent a few days with her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ward, at 712 Twelfth avenue. Mr. Ingram of Oak Mills, Kansas, spent a few days with his son, Mr. Ward, at 712 Twelfth avenue. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. J, Charles S. Shirk, of Des Moines, Iowa, husband of Carrie Page Shirk, hereby give notice that I withdraw all authority which my said wife may have acquired, either expressly or by implication, to contract in my name or as my agent to in any way pledge my credit, and that she is living separate and apart from me without cause and of her own motion, and that she is in position to provide herself with suitable necessaries, and that I will not under any circumstances be responsible for debts, however incurred by her. Dated this 25th day of Se., t., 1914. Charles S. Shirk. MOBERLY, NO., NOTES. Mobery lodge, N.O. 171 met Monday evening in its regular monthly meeting, with the W. M. in the chair. Quite a number of members we a present. W. M., A. Ornell; W. secretary, Rev. W. B. Coleman. The concert given Friday evening by Miss Sofa Althouse at the A. M. E. church was a grand success. Proceeds for the evening were $11.00. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hannah visited relatives in Columbia on Friday and Saturday. They report a nice time. Mrs. Etta Avant attended the fair in Fayette on Tuesday and Wednesday. While there she was the guest of Prof. and Mrs. Andrew Craven. Little Miss Carrie Palner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanly Palmer, is attending school in Fulton, Mo., this year. Mr. Walter got accidentally hurt Saturday night while at work. We hope to see him out soon again. Good for Billiousness Good for Billiousness. "I took two of Champlain's Tablets last night, and I feel fifty per cent better than I have for weeks, says J. J. Firestone of Allegan, Mich. "They are certainly a fine artitle for billiousness." For sale by all dealers. Regulations to Be Observed In Operation of Electrical Utilities. National Bureau of Standards Gives Out Data en Electrical Accidente {In Effort to Demonstrate Thelr Preventability. ‘eration, Cletrivution, Aad use OF eee trical energy includes the considera ton of both construction methods ant operating practice. Analysis of th available data on electrical uecidents demonstrates thelr preventability. t very large: proportion by use of def nite operating precautions. This 1 especially true with those accident occurring to workmen engaged in elec trleal work. Rules for construction, installation, and maintenance of electrical eaulp ment to safegtard employes and the public are now under preparation by the bureau of standards, department of commerce, The rules for safety in the operation and handling of electrical lines and equipment, just published proceed from a painstaking study by the engineers of the bureau of exiat ing rules and practices, ‘These are found to vary widely and to offer a very unsatisfactory basis for the for mulation of mandatory codes by any state commission, unless a very ex tended study is made and the com: ‘bined experience of many companies ‘and, workmen utilized. Many oxisting ets of rules have been developed from insufficlent data and experience, ‘while the vast majority of compantes have no rujes whatever in effect. This lack of rules in force is partly due to inaction on che part of state authori tles and partly to the aimiculty and ex- pense each company encounters in preparing its own rules in any ade- quate form. The assistance of state commissions, operating companies, and electrical warkmen has been tree ly siven to the bureau in this work, ‘and the rules in thelr present form are offered to the publle for criticism, dts- cussion, and, so far as may be found destrabie, for general adoption. ‘The scope of the safety rules In- ‘cludes all operation of and work on oF ‘about power and signal lines, and the clectrical equipment of central sta- tons, substations, mines and testing departments, The rules are divided {nto three parts. . The first two parts consist of general rules which apply to the employer and to the employes respectively, and the third part com- prises, under separate headings, those special rules which apply particular. ly to the employes engaged in spectal clastes of electrical work. It 4s intended that employes should thoroughly famillarize themselves ‘with all the general rules as well as those which relate solely to thelr own particular work. ‘While all the rules find application in the larger industrial or private plants oF to utilities of moderate size, ‘tome do not apply or apply less fully to the smaller organizations. It bas seemed unwise to attempt to reatrict the rules to those which are entirely applicable to the amallest organize- tions or to the simplest classes of elec- trical work, since the number of work. ers so employed ts small compared with the total number to whose work Uniform rules should apply. ‘Tho individual rules suggested by ‘conferees and resulting from careful ‘comparisons and selections bave been subjected to careful general scrutiny to determine the necessity for each and ita general applicability under varying conditions of operation. The aifferent classes of workers to which ‘the rules apply have been freely con- sulted, Concreteness, simplicity and @irectness have been sought in the formulation of the rules. After carefully considering each rule and retaining only those essen- tial to the safety of operation, the grouping was made such as to faclt- tate refernce. The section for employers calls for the provision of employes with rules, @iagrams and emergency instructions, thelr assignment to work according to thetr demonstrated ability among them fn a definite manner so that danger may not arise through confiet on points of authority, The employer is alto required to supply portable sate. guards, to enforce general operating precautions and to supply employes with forms for the adequate reporting fof accidents, ‘The final requirement is that the rules for employes be strict: ly enforced. Rules for employes in general are subdivided into aix groups, The sirat enumerates those general precautions, the necessity for which seems obvious, but the non-compliance with which 1s nevertheless responsible for many in- Juries. The second presents general operating rules, defning the duties ‘and relations of those employes. who Airect others and the operating meth. ‘oda by which aafety is required. ‘The ‘third group prescribes the precautions for handling live parts under varying conditions of voltage and location. ‘The fourth and Afth deal with the procedures for assuring the continued safety of work about normally live or moving parts, respectively, by avold- {ng all possible sources of misunder. standing 1m killing parts. The sixth ‘group covers in some detall the pro- cedure for making protective grounds end short ctreuite. ; Special rules for employes comprise nine separate headings, covering the nen Famous Quicksliver Mine. ‘The sooet Important producer’ of quicksliver i the United States ia the The, most Important producer ‘ot ‘quicksllver to the United Btatos ia the famous New Almaden mine of Santa Clara county, California, which coo- tains over ope hundred ‘miles of un derground workings and’ which bas produced steadily since. 1860, Call forais ‘productd quickaliver to the vyalne! of 987438. last. your, lesding covery other stéte, but at the same time showing « decrease from the output of 1933 of nearly = quarter of » million dollars, The quicksilver industry of ‘special hazards of work about eleetrt ‘cal equipment in stations, at switch cards, about overhead Vinee, no lamp attendance, on underground lines meter setting, testing, and in tine for mine work. Bach class of worke Je directed to familiarise himself ale with the preceding general rule ‘which apply to all classes of electri cal employment. By this arrangement, 8 more adequate and convenient treat ment haa been realized without unneo essary repetition, In a carefully prepared append the value of organized accident pre vention work through safety commit tees, Is emphasized as a means for re enforcing the effectiveness of safety rules, ‘The report on this subject by the accident prevention committee of the ational electrical light associa- tion {a briefly abstracted, and citations ‘are made from the reported organiza tlona and’ methods of several large ‘and small electrical utilities. ‘The comment of those commissions, ‘companies, and workmen whose study of the subject has been closest, has been very favorable to the arrange: ‘ment and substance of the rules given in this edition, and many have ex- pressed a desire to adopt them or to utlilzo them in preparing similar codes. ‘The requirements of different states and communities should be closely harmonized to secure the best restite In reducing the accident toll of electri ‘eal service, and the results presented Jn this code should be advantageous In securing uniformity among the state codes of safety rules Great edvantage will result to com panies and workmen alike by the gen- eral adoption by the several states of fa single standard set of safety rules, which can be reyised in accordance with the progress of the art and the combined experience of all the com panies and commissions of the country. ‘Thus will every state and every com- pany secure the advantage of the ex- perience of all. Where particular rules do not ap- ply thelr omission will of course cause no conflict in practice. If it 1s nec- essary for’any state commission to adopt additional rules, that could be done at any time by special orders. This would be easter and less con- fusing than to have a different set of rules for each separate state.” ‘Acknowledgment Is made of the co- operation by national associations, state commissions, company officials and individuals. ' The conclusions reached by the bureau of standards from the combirted experience of many of the most experienced compantes and individual engineers, and a thorough study of a large amount of lterature and statistics are now of- fered with the hope that they will constitute @ substantial contribution to the widely evidenced public need for a standard set of safety rules. It ts belleved that a-material reduction in present life hazards to electrical workers may be realized by the gen- eral adoption and use of these rules. METHODS.OF GAS TESTING. ‘The bureau of standards, depart: ment of commerce, has just published ‘a ciroular containing suggestions as to location and equipment of gas test- ing laboratories, a description of sme of the accepted forms of apparatus, lrections for the making of the var! ‘ous tests, and recommendations as to the interpretation of experimental results, It does not discuss the test: ing work necessary for good works control; it deals rather with methods which are intended for use In city or state official testing or in works labor. tories which are checked by city or state inspectors. No attempt is made to fix on a single method to be used in every case, for It is not believed that uniformity of method {g always necessary in order that the results of tests be considered standard, In each case as much free dom in cholce of method 18 allowed as seems permissible; but the simplest procedure or apparatus with whlch satisfactory results can be had is given preference, ‘The discussion is 50 arranged that an inexperienced man ‘may utilize the information, but exact: ness of description has not been sacr! ficed in the effort to simplify the dt rections. ‘The five principal subjects discussed are: 1. Measurement of heating value. 2. Candlepower determination. 3. Determination of impurities (hy. drogen sulphide, tolal sulphur and ammonia). 4. Taking of gas pressure records, 5. Gas meter testing. Full operating directions, including a description of apparatus and precau: tions which must be observed, are in ‘cluded under each heading. BAD FOR HIS NERVES. Congressman Underwood, who .{s tho calmest man in the world, is timid about syst one thing, and that ts rid- fng rapidly in an, autornotile. The other evening a friend of his per. suaded bim to take a little whirl through the parks in a new machine the friend had Just bought. “phe doctor told me I needed some- thing to take me out into God's fresh air,” explained tho friend, as he pat ‘on speed. “I can see already that it fa going to be a fine thing for my nerves to get out this way.” ‘After they had ridden along at about thirty-five miles an hour for some ttle tle, Underwood remarked. in fais quiet way: “Your doctor may be exactly right about ft. This may be a fine thing for your nerves. But’—with a aish— “you've nearly ruined mine.” ann the antire country, however, fel off to ‘such an extent that with the exception ‘of 1908 the production last year was tthe lowest since 1860. Mumpe May Se Serious, ‘That mumps 1s a disease far too serious to be laughed at of Joked about fs proved by the tact that it) causes ‘an average of one hundred. deaths fe yeartn.Mngiand. It is niore serious in adults than in children, as tt often ‘attects other glands than those that produce the saliva. _ ay ASOUITH WAR SPEECH WON BRITISH-CHEERS DELCASSE, THE STORMY -PETREL OF FRANCE THE OFFICIAL HOSTESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE KING’S ONLY DAUGHTER NOW A “GROWN-UP” When Great Britain declares” war on Germany and Premier Asquith ex- Dlained Huslanc's Dosltion the press page | cables dtumissed (iekeammeibe | the specch tn the hg | house of commons ae =A | driety. Only one oe > | London publica: A ree | tion. save. it in | fl, and that/part Seem | of it decalling GY P| wot Eogiand ts Me |‘ fehting for. 1 Ep | tere reproduced, | > | including the i “cheers” Interjec: LUons of the report: ors: D ie 1 am asked ‘what wo are fght- Ae 2s a ‘In two sentences. position. Se Drees [eemmagesis, | cables dtamiased [catamiamiye | the apeech tn the a FA _| house of commons es SA | driegy. only one oe London publics é. meg | tion gave it tn we BR | on, and that part _ ot It detailing ae P| wnat Engiand ts WME AB) |\fehting for . is ! Figy | here reproduced > | including the ij Cheers interie } tions of tue report ors: H f] "ir 1 am asked IN ‘what wo are ght NAB) BWI 28 for Lean reply PSS in two sentences Ia the first place, to fulfil « solemn International obligation which, if tt had boon entered into between pr vate persons In the ordinary concerns of life, would have been regarded a8 fan obligation, not only of 4€w. but of honor, which no seltrespecting, man could” possibly have repudiated. (Cheers) “L aay, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle which in these days when material force sometimes seems to be the dominant influence ‘and factor in the development of mankind that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiace of inter- Theophile Delcasse, who has be- come minister of foreign affairs in the reorganized French cabinet, altting beside his - arch- enemy, Seem | Georges Clemen- NY cece the socattes a “Wrecker of Cab- Sg | sncts," might de i Ey By | called the Neme- erg | is ot Sermany. A He might also be ead called the most apes remarkable man — In French pollties ins today, Certainly h no other French- ‘man ‘has played | va greater part in | ‘the molding of BM France's destiny See ee re re ae sitting beside bis areh- enemy eee Georges Clemen | coms, tho socalte BBR “Wrecker of cab Seg | iets,” might be Fee Y called the Neme ae ead | vis of Germany i An He might also be [Pre called the mont ‘ides remarkable men _—" in French polities — today. Certainly no other French ‘man ‘has played a greater part 1 | ‘the molding 0 PRR) France's | destiny inthe last 28 years. To hm te largely due the es tablishment of the entente with Eng: land and the riveting of the tien thet unite France with Rursia; to bim ts attributed the regeneration. of the French navy; it was Re Who reorgan: fred the French colonial system and Pushed France's interests in. Africa {n face of Germany's opposition. It was Deleasse who. Kept awake. the French hatred of Germany, and by treaties and. alliances strengthened the republle’s position in Europe. ‘ie bas ‘kuison baveiiistion to, bis Gi oa | ree ae OM i. Seem . m 1843, and for a Far, J brief period his on eldest daughter, ‘Mrs, Letitia Sem- ~ \ | Preaident Harri: “2 ODN con's wite aed In Et soe ees » | through sad be Feavement must ow be filed. by i Mins Magaret Wit ie ME) son. Presizent P BME] Trier tot hs wite *» Gy Po Be BB) 1903, ana tor a Pas J brief period his ae 7 | eldest » daughter, “es ‘Mrs, Letitia Sem- wat ple, filled her a eiher'a. place AA | President Harri. © ON on’s wite aled in =| November, 1892, c BUG | aeushter, Mrs. Robert McKee, who had always made her home with her parents, Became acting mistress of the white house, President Wilson makes the third chief executive be Teaved during bis term of office, bat hough ho has "married daughters, {hey will not act as offclal hostesses by reason of the fact that they had lett thelr home for their own nests and Can ony booked om ge Vntore when thay return to tHe presfieatal mansion Miss Harriet Lane makes. the only crocohent tar Mise ‘Sargaret "Wika: ‘There is no longer a “little princess” a Buckingham palace. No, for the only daughter of the King and dueen of England has “grown up,” ‘o-to speak. ‘The [ERED | cherie comers Eo | picture repro: Wee ah | cvces noe ee yee picts the latest LL <~. portrait of Prin- | | cea Mary, which / hasan increased & fnterest from the ot fect that {t-is the S| seat, posed photo: Nf | wav ot the Fe | princess showing | her with her hair oe 2 | ‘uwr although ot 22] coun, for, some course, for some ody a aa Sc rs queen of England has “grown up,” to-to speak. The q _ charming camera EC picture repro: Wade aY | eet bor’ ce fe siete to tater me |_| portrait ot Prin- Eo | conn Mary, whic ae hhas’an increased {nterest from the meet | fact that t-te the Se... | frat, poved photo: Mf | uot the iF | princess showing | her with her-balr a | “une although, ot 2) counne, for, ome months. the prio cess has worn this outward: sign of, ‘wgmanbood. Prinbens: Mary att her seventeenth birth oH April’ last, It Sarthe custom for: prin nO Man's Firet Wings. { ‘The first’ effort to equip. man with wings that he might fy through the air seems to have been made by Wat- ‘son EB. Quinby, a Delaware inventor who patented a flying machine over forty. years ago. The inventor used ‘the bat a bix'model in designing the ‘wings. Previous flying machines had ‘been constructed on the balloon prin ciple, but Quinty's apparatus consiated ‘of wings 12 fest in diameter and semi ‘elreular in form. ‘The wings were at tached to the limbs of the person fly- OWA STATE BYSTANDER ational good faith by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering power, (Cheers). "I do not Delleve any nation ever ‘entered into a great controversy—ané this will be one of the greatest history will ever know-—with a clearer. cob- ‘tclenco and stronger conviction. that it fa fighting, not for aggression, not for the maintenance even of its own felfish interest, but in defense of prin- ‘ciples the maintenance of which ts ‘itdl to the civilization, of the world ‘and with the full conviction not only of the wisdom and justice but of the ‘obligations which Iay upon us to chal lenge this great fasue. (Loud cheers.) “It we are entering into the struggle let'us now'make sure that all the re- sources not only of this United King- dom but of the vast empire of which it {8 the center shall bo thrown into the scale, andiit-{s that that object may be adequately secured that I am now about to make the very unuanal demand upon the committee to give the government a vote of credit of 100,000,000 pounds. (Loud cheers.) “1 am, not going—and I am sure the committee does not wish st—into the technical distinction between votes of eredit and supplementary estimates. There ts » mutch higher paint of view than that, Itit were necessary I could justify upon purely technical grounds the course we propose to adopt, but I am not going'to do so because I think it would be foreign to the temper and disposition of the committee.” time, as bitter humiliation as men can meet. It was Delcasse who bore the brunt of England's wrath over the Fashoda incident; {t was Delcasse’s political head that was lopped off py 'Premfer Rouvier at the demand ‘of Germany in 1905 because of the for- eign secretary's peralstent hostility to- ward Germany's Morocean ambitions; ‘and again In 1912, Delcasse was com- pelied to resign as minister of marine at the bidding of the kaiser. In both of these crises France was unpre- pared, and the cabinets in office were mot composed of men who dared to take up tho gage of battle. But after twice submitting to Germany's inter- ference in her internal affairs, the strong men of the republic made up their minds that they would never bow the knee again. And who‘ shall say that Deledsse is not largely re- sponsible for having convinced his tel- low-leaders of all parties that in some instances it is better to fight than to yield? Delcasse was born at Pamiers, in the southern Ariege, 34 miles from Toulouse, in the shadow of the Pyrenees, it 1862. His parents were peasants, but,in sufficiently comforta- ble circumstances to allow them to give thelr son a good education. He was graduated at the Sorbonne, with a Iiterary degree, and was registered as a licentiate of letters. ‘He was once a newspaper man. She was the niece of James Bucha- nan and during his entire four yeara ‘at the white house she acted as the hostess of the nation. And this with such uncomparable grace that “she ranke among the great ladies of the mansion, and her regime was eclipsed in soctal brililaney only by two who have followed, Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Mra, Theodore Roosevelt. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was mis tress of the white house for fourteen months before her distinguished brother's marriage to Mise Frances Folsom. ‘Times have changed most radically since President Buchanan's niece dis- ented the hospitality of the nation and what was accepted as good form then may be questioned by the social augurs, For Instance, some of the Dest-informed authorities on official etiquette doubt whether Atiss Wilson ‘may stand boside her father when the ‘oMclal Jevees are in progress, That place in case of the death or absence of the president's wife belongs to the wite of the vice-president, and after her to the wife of the secretary of ‘state, and so on down the line, accord- Ing to the accepted order of prece- dence. In the home and at the various banquets or other amenities, Mise Wilson becomes the presiding lady ‘and @ figure of international impor- ease to remain “little” until they reach the seventeenth year; then they are per- mitted to “put up” thelr hair and be Fecogaized as a “grown-up.” Then, of course, there comes the series of court social affairs in which the “grown-up” princess will set the world govalping by martying some eligible from the list of ‘kings’ sons of some ‘section of the world, aud perhaps she may-even be the means of securing for Great Britain © powertul alliance ‘with the nation into whose royal fam- fly she marries. Such an alliance may bbe rather propitious in the near fu- ture, if England does not attain the point tor which she is now arguing ‘with her allles against the German na- tou. So Princess Mary's hair was “put up”. at m quite opportune time. ‘The Woman of it Grabehaw—You told me if 1 took you to, Burope last year, you'd never case to, go. again, P Niea Chan Babthbyive. got ‘bigger ship out since'then—Puck, Oe ents ee od the motions weed were very lar to: those "used fa awimming, KS rings rotund to work, however Ro one sugceeded in flying with ‘thelr ald—The Amerioan Boy. Drawing the Line, | “There's no disetpline in our party organization.” 0” “bat in something I bave to he ‘careful about,” replied Seuator Sor. ‘shium, “If T get too inuch discipline 1 ‘tay cease (0-bo a great leader and be- Soe a Roan’ FOR OINNER AND DESSERT Good Method of Preparing Flank Steak ‘Strawberry Cup Pudding to Finish the Meal. Btufted Flank Steak en Casserole— Lay the steak upon a board, spread over It m thin layer of bread dressing, roll up very compactly; fasten the side ‘and ends to Inclose the dressing se cure, Cut a slice of fat salt pork or ‘bacon in bits and let cook until the fat is drawn ‘out. Dredge the roll of ‘meat with flour and rub it {n thorough: ly; then brown it in. the fat, turning the roll a it browns until the whole surface Is nicely colored. Set the meat {na casserole or an agate dish that can be tightly closed; put In also an onion, sliced very thin, half carrot cat in thin slices and a cupful of toma. to puree. Rinse the frying pan with a cupful of boiling water, turn this into the dish, cover and let’ cook three hours or longer, In the oven. Let the heat be very moderate. Have ready two tablespoonfula flour, halt a tes- spoonful salt and one-fourth teaspoon- ful pepper, mixed to a smootly paste with cold water. Stir this into the Mquid in the casserole, "Let the sauce doll two or three rhinutes, then strain {t over the meat. Set bolled onions around the dish. Strawberry Cup Pudding.—Butter and dust with sugar five cups; fill three-quarters full with the following mixture: One cupful bread crumbs, one cupful hot milk, four tablespoon- tals sugar, two eggs beaten very well end a half pint of strawberry pre serves. Mix all together, set the cups In a pan of water and bake about thir- \y or forty minutes. Serve hot with thin créam, MENU. FOR HOT WEATHER Ideas That Will Save Time When ‘One Is Not In Particular Mood for Working. ‘On warm days, when one’s enthusi- ‘asm for cooking or baking is on the wane, the following suggestions may bbe of help: ‘Buy a plain cake from the baker's. Cut it through the long way twice, making three layers. Then mash two or three ripe tomatoes or other fresh fruit and spread on layers. For a frosting use confectioner’s sugar, mixed with a little water and flayor- ing. ‘Then sprinkle with cocoanut. Or make frosting of sweetened con- densed milk mixed with melted, un- sweetened chotolate. This makes a fair imitation of a good homemade cake. For soup purchase a can‘of tomato soup. Cook half a cup of rice or bar- ley, mash through a sleve and add to soup. This adds a little “home taste” to the concoction. ‘Then with a salad made of crisp ettuce and cucumbers, olive oil, lemon fulce, served with a few salted pea- buts or other nuts, one will have an attractive, satisfying supper that has required little labor. Filling fer Ploer Cracks, Tear up some newspapers Into strips. Cover them with boiling wa ter. If alter a little while the news. paper has not absorbed all the water, add a few more strips. Mix together a ‘quarter of a pound each of alum and flour for each three pints of water, add to the newspaper pulp when it in quite soft, stir, place over a gentle heat and cook until the mixture Is as thick as putty. Use while warm, pressing it well into the cracks with a pliable Knife, It must dry thoroughly before the floor Is stained —Miss A. L., B. C. For Flower Pots. To prevent water from seeping through pottery bowls or vases intend. fed to hold flowers, and thus marring polished wood, coat the inside with white shellac. After it drles, the Jar will no longer ‘be porous. ‘This has been tried with some of the ornamental ginger jars, Softening New Rope. ‘To soften new -ropes that are ex tremely troublesome because of: thelr stiffness, the following Is excellent: Cover the ropes with water and heat the water until it almost bolls, straighten and dry them. Ropes treat ‘ed in this manner work satisfactorily ‘ag soon as dry. CNET Gm LS ‘One and one-balf cupfuls of sugar, ‘one-quarter cupful ‘of butter, two and onehalf cupfuls of flour, two ‘eggs, one cupful of water, two tea: spoontuls of baking powder sifted with the flour. Flavor to taste and frost It ‘you like. This 1s @ good recipe for a layer cake. Rye Drop Fritters, ‘Two tablespoontuls sugar, one-halt ‘cup molasses, pinch of salt, two well ‘eaten eggs, one cupful elther se of graham, flour, one teaspoonful soda, white flour to make a drop batter. Drop by small tablespoonft!: into denp hot fat. Serve with molasses of sfrup. Raspberry Tarte. Incorporate one pound of self-raising flour and a pinch of salt with one: ‘quarter of a pound of butter; add a pint of milk and twa beaten oggs: Mix thoroughly, roll out thin, cut in circles and line buttered patiy pans with them. Fil with raspberry jam or stewed raspberries. Bake fit a bot ‘oven for about fifteen minutes. Serve sold; with, wBtpped. creqm, ‘ To Clean: Geld Lace. Make one ounce of stale bread crumbs, one-fourth ounce of magnesia ‘and onehalf an ounce of cream of tar tar into s paste with spirits of wine, ‘and apply to’the lace with a. small brush, When dry, dust off the crumba and rub lightly with a chamois skin. fa Mix thorougtly two tablespoonfuls butter, two tablespoonfuls. sugar, oné ‘saltspoontul salt, one tablespoontal drs ‘mustard; add two eggs, well beaton; heat onebalt cupful milk. . Cook untl ‘it thickens in double boiler, Many Superstitious People As- soolate the Two. @ellet Has No Basie tn Fact, But UFtom Anelent Times the Star Riri Hae Boon Blamed ree Galaielioes ‘The great world war comes in do days and hosts of people the world ‘over will charge the monster calam ty, the incalculable catastrophe against the dog atar, + When the sun, is ardent and the al {ts aultry, as must often be the cond! tlon of the weather in our temperate zone during. mid, and late, summer many persons, are prone to speak o! the period of ‘excessive wermth and moisture as the season of ‘dos days.” ‘They aro giving voice to an ancien! superstition. The. same thing has Doon, sald igce the, human race. wa young, and tha phrase or its equiva Tent has. come trippingly: from men's tongues ever since recorded history began. Yet St 4s a superstition.’ Tt has nc Dasls, in fact. It is a figment of the i Dog days have no relation to-dogs nor have dogs any relat{un ‘to dog days. ‘There fs the same fala. ton between excessively hot weatbor and dogs that there is between ‘the samé kind of weather and men. There is\ great . danger of ‘heat prostration, there is a thirst for more water and suffering if tt cannot be had and there {ean In- creased demand for shade and rest. From the thme that the eastern shepherds watched the skies at night ‘and drew a more or less fancifui ike: ness between groups of stars and ob- Jects known on the earth there was a constellation called Canis Major, or the “Greater Dog.” The brightest star of the heavens was in the mouth of that constellation, which to some imaginations possessed resemblance to the outline of a dog. That star in the constellation of the dog came to be called the dog star. It has another name, which is Sirfus. It has been eatimated that this star has more than thirteen times the magnitude of our sun. It was a superatition with the early Awellers in the hot portions of the world, and there civilisation devel- oped firet, that the rising of the’ dog star with the sun produced pestilen- tial heat. “As this event occurred in the summer, there was often pest!- Tential heat, Dut the dog star could not logically be charged with that mis- fortune, There was great heat_be- cause it was the'tlme when great heat might be expected, and with exces: ive heat often came pestilence be- case of the Ignorance of the people in matters. of, sanitation, hygiene and medicine. ‘The dog star had ro more to do with Intense heat of mid or late summer or with’ the sizards of July and August than comets have to do vith, war, In the time of the Romans, or in those ages when the Romans were suMiclently advanced to think of as- tronomical concerns, they called thé bright star in the constellation of the gteater dog “Cantcular,” which was thelr way of saying that It was the dog star In the dog constellation The ays or the nights when that star yas conspicuous in the sky they dies canfovlar or canicular days—or dog star days, x ‘Then, because it had received the namo of dog star, the popular mind concelved that it was related to the @og, and as the stars aud the moon had influence over men, why, the #pe star had influence over dogs: In the hot season, when this star was in the sky, and a.dog went wild with thirst, ft was the dog star that did it. The dog star got the blame for the hot weather and the madden: ing thirst of the. dog. Men died an agonizing death sometimes after hay- {ng been bitten by a dog. This ter- rible diseasd came finally to have the name of hydrophobia or rabies. When a'man was bitten during the brilliant ‘ascendancy of the dog star the mat- ter caused wide comment and the blame was lafd on the star. If the death oceurred at any other time, peo- ple were very sorry for the victim, but they did mot connect the occurrence withthe star. ‘And s0 tho superstition has come down: through. theicenturies. Modern statisticians who have dealt with such things can prove that rables is commoner, or more frequent, at other times than during “dog days,” and fust what days are dog days Is not easy to define. An astronomer could answer. The canicular days of the Romans were 40. There were 20 canlcular days before and 20 after the rising of the dog star, and the ris- ing was described as. “the hellacal rising,” meaning the time when the star, after being practically in’ con- function with the sun and invisible, emerges trom the light so as to be visible tii the morning béforé caries: Elastic Cellulold Varnish, Elastle cellulold varnish may be made as follows: Cut one ounce of cellulold into fine shreds. Add to solution of ten ounces of acetone and Yen ounces of amy! acetate, ang attr ft well. Do not walt for it to dissolve. Cork tightly and set in @ warm place. ‘To make a thicker varnish add more cellulold, but. a.thin, varajah. Ja, moat ‘elastic, To: secute:tolprs,)ada,auilihie dyed dissolved in, little alcohol .to tho agetone solution, ‘pies malo tage ane aa “I was so disappointed that [ was out: the other day when you called, ‘Miss Percival.” “So was I. I felt sure I'd find you, Decause as T turned the corner I saw you g0 in."—Boston Transcript, He Didn't Go. “1 didn't wee you at church yester- day?” “No; my wite considers it untashion- able to be xen at church during the ‘immer months, We're supposed to fee out of the city.then,, you know.” LEARNED FROM WAR Sanitation and Surgery Have Been Wonderfully Improved. ‘Thare le Lees Fear of Disease Now— Bullete Are Jacketed and) Modern Military Riffes Leave No ‘Gaping Wounds. ee ore Ia the American Civil war eight sol Alere: dled sot disease to one from wounds, writes a United States army surgeon, Experts expect that tn the present general Buropean struggle not more than three will fall victim to sickness to one killed on the field of Dattle, Such ig the advance of army sanitation and army surgery in 60 yours, The Americans and the Jape- eso have bean. the leaders, Tho Vnited States army hospitals bare in- stalled many retiarkable Innovations since the Spanish-American war, with {ts dreadful Jesson in the danger of ‘typhold, and these new Ideas. have een adopted by the army surgeons of old world powers. So it is expected that the present war, the greatest yet in history, also will bo the most humane, There will bbe no disproportionate mortality list from disease and no army of cripples an an aftermath, ‘The modern high-power, quick-fring military rifle and the development in artillery will bave much to do with the shange. i "Toose who dle will dle more. quickly: Gangrene and infection will be-prac- tically “unknown quantities, it is thought, Before the Russo-Japanese confict th armies the world over used a high caliber bullet, made of unsheathed lead and greased to overcome friction in the barrel. ‘The muzzle velocity was less, than half that of the missiles now employed. ‘Then, too, bayonet and saber charges were more common. These resulted in hideous wounds, very difficult for sur- eons to handle, ‘Tho bullete of the 1oodern rifle are ot loss diameter than the ordinary lead Ponetl. They are jacketed with nickel, lead or steel and have tremendous ve- Toctty. "The soft, mushrooming bullets’ of the old day resulted in the shattering of bones and the crosbing, rather than cutting, of tissues. Infection was al- most inevitable, the grease being spe- clally unsanftary. A wound in the ab- domen was considered necessarily fatal. Tho death rate’ among the ‘wounded was enormous, In recent-campaigns there are in- stances where soldiers shot in: what ‘were once considered vital spots have ‘walked unsupported to the field hos- pltals. Germany uses « Mauser rife, with & bullet of & mm. caliber, steel and cop- per coated. Great Britain's miaaile is the LeoEnfild, caliber 7.7 mm, the coating. being cupro-nickel. ‘The French weapon is the Lebet rife, of 8 mm. caliber, .with bullet coated with nickel, Rusola uses Mos- ainNagant rifles, 7.62 mm, with bul- lets cupronickel coated.” Austria's chlet small arm te the Mannlicher, caliber 8 mm, with a steel shest over the tip. Hitting © man beyond 350 yards, the wounds inflcted by all these bul- lets are clean cut. ‘They frequently pags through bone tlesue without splin- tering. ‘When meeting an artery the bullet unually pushes ft to one side and goes around without cutting the blood chan- nel. ‘Amputations are yery rare compared with wars of more than fitty years ago. ‘A bullet woubd through a Joint, ‘such as the knee or the elbow, then Recessitated the amputation of the limb. Now such a wound ts easily opened and dressed. Even Russia, which mado a sad aant- tary showing in the war with Japan, now has learned her lesson and bas eMctent eurgical arrangements. Al the nations use vaccine to com- bat typhold, the scourge which once decmated camps, and-killed 1,600 in our Spanish war. Every army division (18,000 to 15, (00 mien) 1s supplied with tour fleld hospltals, each capable of caring for 108 pattents. There are also two evacu- ation hospitals, with a capaclty of 700 each, for each division. ‘The evacua- tion hospitals send the more eerlously wounded. back to the hospitals. at home. ‘Then every offcer fs tostructed in first afd treatment, This alleviates a great deal of suffering on the feld. of battle. Next to typhold, dysentery is the great army scourge. ‘This is attacked by sterilizing the drinking water. History shows sanitation has often determined the fate of nations, In 1192, when the fine Prussian troope marched to the rellet of Louls XVI. the ‘raw levies of the: young republic met and ropulsed them. General»Du Mourieb, commander of the French troops, shows clearly tn his report that the Prussians. had been unftted for service by dysentery. Ordinary sant: tary precautions would have prevent- “You" Instead of “He.” Have your verbs of social inter ‘course—at least as far as the spirit of them goes—in the second person {n- ‘atead of the third. There is a good deal, of human. nature. in most. people, jandjiothing te more; soothing. to:even the wisest of us than to be considered tndtvidually. ; ee a Tae aa “I'm going to make a speech that will make my friends ait up.” “You're on the wrong track,” re piled the experienced campaigner. “Bee it you can’t make one that, will cause ‘tha other fellows to lle down.” eee Now Provers. “ook how ‘that ebllé is all atuck ‘up with candy. Don't you know what the old saying ls about that?” Syyhat te tt, aunty?” “Ghildren abould be clean, not eg AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS --- Building operations in connection with the construction of a Masonic temple at Washington for the colored Masonic Temple association, at an approximate cost of $125,000, will be begun as soon as the contract has been awarded. The plans and specifications for the edifice, which is to be of the Italian renaissance style, are being completed by Claughton West, architect, of Washington. The building, which will be an architectural and artistic ornament to the part of the city where it will be placed, will be five stories high with basement. It will be fireproof throughout, steel construction being employed with reinforced concrete floors and slag roof. The structure will measure 93 feet on U street and 134 on Tenth street, and the main entrance will be on U street. Brown tapestry brick, with Indiana limestone and granite trim, will be used in its exterior construction, and the roof will be bordered with highly ornamental galvanized iron cornses. Wrought iron grills will be used in guarding many of the windows. Both facades of the building will be treated with a central pavilion feature. The front on the U street side is to be divided into three bays, separated by Italian pilasters surmounted by ornamental capitals of Indiana limestone and embracing three stories. There will be seven bays on U street, all of which will be surmounted by a tablature with a wall lion. The fifth story is to be treated in the form of an enclosure with openings in windows and wrought iron grills. There will be a roof garden laid in red tile. The rooming facilities of the structure are as follows: The basement will contain a large drill hall, office rooms, toilet rooms and heating apparatus. On the first or ground floor will be located a banquet hall, measuring 50 by 75 feet, with kitchen and serving room adjoining. There will be two stores on the U street side and five stores on the Tenth street side. A wide stairway leads from the main entrance on the U street. An auditorium with a seating capacity of 1,200 clear-spanned and with no column support, will be the feature of the second floor. The auditorium is to be about 90 by 100 feet in dimensions, and around it will be office rooms and in the rear a promenade separated from the auditorium by a panel partition with brass railing. The auditorium is to have high arched windows, guarded by wrought iron grills. The third floor will be the balcony floor and will also have offices. The floor room will contain lodge and guarded room, and on the fifth floor will be located lodge rooms and a spacious banquet hall. The corridors will be of marble, bordered in mosaic design. The British colonies have enacted laws holding masters of vessels responsible for passengers landed in the colonies, excepting those passengers under contract to engage in service either for the government or for some business firm or company considered financially responsible by the government, or those convincing the government authorities that they have sufficient money within their possession to pay their return passage from the colony. The Kamerun government requires each person not a native of Africa and not engaged by the govern- A pertinent suggestion for the church life has reference to the financial support of the church. Most negro churches are constantly overaxed. The collection table is used more frequently than any other instrument in the church. The people are generous, but the desire is stronger than the ability. Often the largest influence of the church and especially of the minister, is broken on the back of constant and necessary exhortation to money for the support of the church. I am told that the minister shoulders the responsibility of getting the money practically alone. This is un-Baptistic. I am told that the trustees are a body who spend the money thus secured. This is un-Baptistic and unfair. They are at present merely the channels through which the church expends. They ought to be co-operating agents in securing support. Practitioners have taught us that no great results are obtained with the widest distribution of responsibility for securing adequate support for the current expenses of the church as well as for its benevo- Ties made of a species of native hardwood have been used on the Pana-na railroad without renewal for more than 50 years. Brass farthings were authorized by English law in the year 1613. They were suppressed as worthless about 40 years later. Field experiments in Ireland have shown that liquid manure produces better crops of hay than any other fertilizers. The most attractive shops in the Chinese cities are those devoted to the sale of coffin. As a matter of fact, doctors are not as wise as they think their patients think they are. It is estimated that there are 300,000 more women than men in Germany. Protestants of the United States gave $16,398,000 to foreign missions in 1913. ment or by responsible business people in the colony upon entering the colony to have in his possession 2,000 marks ($476), the Woermann and other steamship companies require such passengers to deposit 500 marks ($119) each against return passage to port of embarkation. While I am not certain, I think the rule holds true for French West African possessions. Thus it will be seen that Liberia is the only place American negroes can well attempt to colonize. The impression gained by conversations with vaxient government officials of the different colony that the American negro is not desired. This consulate is informed that "Chief Sam" of the Gold Coast, with the assistance of some American negroes, claims to be at the head of a scheme to colonize the Gold Coast colony, or some part of the colony. My advice is to select some well-informed person to make a thorough investigation, visiting the particular section in which they intend settling, before they pay any part of their passage to West Africa. It is quite evident that some of these schemes are in every sense fraudulent. Those who have come to West Africa suffer untold misery, are for the most part filler farmers who have, through a long struggle, managed to save enough to pay passage for themselves and family, with barely enough to live on through their first certain attack of African malaria. Many have expressed the choice of prison life in order to free themselves. In addition to the above now and then a misguided independent missionary comes, suffers and dies—Consul W. T. Yerby of Sierra Leone in Daily Consular Reports. The Frenchwoman who complained that it was difficult to grow old gracefully had evidently not begun early enough. "The child is father of the man," and hence of the patriarch, and whoever would easily grow old gracefully must, take care and, regulate wisely the earlier stages. A little artificial tinkering later on will never compensate for radical defects permitted to persist through a lifetime. In one of his letters Huxley remarks: "Somebody started a charming theory years ago—that as you get old and lose volition you will tendencies, mastered, come out and show themselves." Huxley treated this theory too lightly; there is more truth in it than he seemed aware of. Botanists tell of defects existing in plants as "sleeping eyes," diseases remaining in a lethargic state for several years, and then, with favorable conditions, revealing themselves; while physiologists similarly allow that morbid growths in the human body may remain lethargic for years and then become disastrous active. There can be no doubt but that it is much the same with the moral life. During the years when criticism and stance hold, behavior, and in which the will is most masterful, selfishness are checked and disguised, while they become painfully obstructive when the volitional power declines, and the consideration paid to old age gives them unrestrained play.—Exchange. The man who would reach success hasn't much time to sit under shade trees by the wayside. ences. Increasing responsibility in securing financial support should be placed upon the trustees and strong-elected members of the church. Another suggestion is also along the same line. There is a tremendous need of trained leadership in the fields of evangelism, education and church management. Some pastors have expressed their great desire to secure such training for the members of their church. They have expressed their appreciation of the help given by the Home Mission society in their former fields in the South, where the actual direct assistance given them in training their workers in specialized fields seems much larger than in this apparently more favored section. -Standard. What a poor opinion the good lord would have of himself if he answered all of the fool prayers that are sent up to headquarters! Shears with their handles extended to one side have been invented to enable a person to follow a pattern more closely. And the man who publicly boasts of his honesty may secretly pride himself on his ability to escape detection. An African frog sounds a call under water that can be heard for long distances. No man can be really happy unless he is on good terms with his stomach. For every 1,000 males employed in New Jersey there are 276 females. Cotton goods constitute about one-third of England's manufactured exports. In 1910 Americans contributed $118, 000,000 to charities. SAVING ON LAUNDRY BILLS Frequent Pressing Will Do Much Toward Preserving Appearance of the Thin Garments. The woman whose ambition it is to always look well dressed will pay special attention to the pressing of her garments. A linen shirt waist or suit should be pressed. All thin waings and dresses can be worn twice as long before being laundered if they are pressed often. They are usually more mussed than soiled when put in the wash. Garments which must be pressed on the wrong side, but which need a touch on the right side, may be pressed very nicely provided a piece of smooth tissue paper is to protect the goods from the hot steam. Garments with ribbons the use of tissue paper will prevent them from becoming abby. A white frock or blouse that is soiled in places, but not enough to require laundering, may be much improved by the following method: Dissolve some gloss starch in warm water, molten the solids portion with this mixture and press carefully. The garment will look almost as good as new and may be worn several times without laundering. Lingerie walters will not get mussed nearly as soon and are much easier to iron when subjected to the following method: Wash as usual but do not starch. When dry, dip in borax water, using one tablespoonful of borax to one quart of warm water. Wring out and fold in a towel for a few hours, then iron dry. VARIOUS USES FOR HERBS All That Are Grown in the Garden Have Their Peculiar Qualities That Should Be Understood. Save: Mint, for meat sauces. Angelica, for flavoring cakes. Lavender, for oil and distilled water. Sage, for sausage and meat dressings. Sweet fennel, leaves used in fish sauces. Dill, the seeds are used to flavor pickles. Borage, leaves boiled as dandelion or spinach. Rhyme, in gravies and dressings of stuffing meats. Chives, leaves used for flavoring soups and salads. Borage, balm and catnip are useful where one has bees. Tarragon, leaves useful in giving flavor to vinegar and pickles. Coriander, fennel and caraway seeds are used for flavoring fruit srips and cakes. Among those having medicinal value, hops, catnip, benge, penny royal, belladonna, sage, rue, horehound, marshmallow, wormwood, hyssop and peppermint. Flo and Nut Jelly. Wash a cupful of pulled figs in cold water. Put over a slow fire with two cupfuls of cold water and stew figs until tender. Skim out figs and to the juice add one-half cupful of sugar and boil until it like thin simp (there should be one cupful of liquid). Chop figs and one-quarter cupful of shelled pecans not very fine. Soak one-half box of gelatine in one cupful of cold water for half an hour. To the gelatine add one-half teapoonful of lemon juice and to the figs cup add one-half cupful of boiling water. Strain through fine sieve or piece of cheesecloth. When nearly set, add nuts and figs. Turn into moulds and in cool place for three hours. Serve with whipped cream. To Prel a Tomato The tomato season is with us, and many a housekeeper would be glad to know how to slip the skin off without the use of boiling water. Press the back or blunt part of knife against the tomato, keep pressing around from center to core, two or three times, without breaking the skin, then strip off, with the same result as using hot water. This is easy to do and is especially nice in summer, when you prefer tomatoes cold for salad. Creamed Celery. Remove the leaves and small stalks from two heads of celery, wash and cut in half-finch lengths. Boll in salted water until tender. When the celery is boiling make a sauce of one cupful of cream or thick milk and one tablespoonful of butter mixed with salt. Heat until the milk is smooth and thick. When the celery is ready, drain and place it in a dish, pour over the sauce and serve. Keeping Lemons Lemons may be kept soft and fresh for some time either by keeping them in a jar of water or by coating each lemon with white of egg. Two or three whites will be sufficient for a great lemonade. The lemons should be kept and let them dry. When they are required for use rub the coating off with your hands. To Clean Paints and Varnishes. Here is a good way to clean painted and varnished surfaces: To half a bucketful of warm water add a tablespoonful of salts of tartar; wash the paints with a ragged dip in this, and it will remove every speck of dirt. Rinse in clear warm water and dry with a chamois. To Cook an Egg. Have the water boiling rapidly, then break the egg into it and set it on top of the stove, or where it will keep warm for three minutes. Then fill the pot with milk and all the way through. This is the best way to cook it for a little child. Timely Tip. A purée of apples or tomatoes, sweetened or seasoned, makes a delicious filling. It is filled with tomatoes, and should also accompany roast pork or sausages. Jam and Marmalade Hint: Jam and marmalade hint. When making jam or marmalade add a piece of butter about the size of an egg before removing it from the fire. This makes the fruit look clear without skimming it. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER BASEBALL The Boston Herald says: "Hugh Bradley, the oldest Red Sox first baseman, who tried to live on his reputation for being the first man to lift the ball over the left field fence at Fenway park, is hitting for .343 for Pittsburgh, in the Federal league." The New York World rises to reark: "The Federal league certainly some great pickling when it chose this year to start, a new enterprise which depended largely upon settled times and easy financial conditions for its success." Instead of lumbago, two displaced vertebrae have been keeping Rollie Zeider, the Chicago Federal's third baseman, out of a number of games this season. This was announced after an examination by a physician. oy u p Manager Stovall of Kansas City is a wonder in some respects. He just can't help fighting on the ball field, but off it he is not so savage. He likes spirit and pep and he has his players battling for every inch of ground. Marsans' injunction case will not be tried until late in September. In case victory, then Marsans will be able to St. Kelius Fede during the months of October, November and December. --- Double-headers are the bane of the Pittsburgh club. Five times this season the Pirates have dropped two games on one day and they have yet to win both parts of a double-header. Frank Chance's prospects are rather peculiar. He has three Rays on his pitching staff—Caldwell, Keating and Fisher—but whether they are rays of hope or raise of salary isn't certain. Unless he shows a decided improvement, Marty O'Toole not likely to mingle too long in polite circles. It is rumored that Clarke has asked for wavers on this spitball pitcher. The New York American, remarks that "headwork plays an important part in baseball, but when Buck Weaver tries to stop balls with his eyebrow he carries it too far." Without a 300 hitter, a leading rungetter or a prominent base-runner in the line-up, the Boston Bears climbed from the cellar to the first division in the National league race. Pitcher Vean Gregg didn't lose any time in taking up the dugels in behalf of the Red Sox. It appears from his brief stay on the platform that others also took up the dugels. The Senators say Harry Harper is certain to make a great pitcher in time. The youngster has had but a few chances to get experience and hence is handicapped. Scout John McCloskey of the Reds has reported back from the road with an armful of dope on promising young athletes whom he has discovered in his wanderings. Cleveland is safe in one respect. It never can be said that after being traded to the Red Sox Vean Gregg turned in and beat the Naps out of the pennant. Two years ago Johnny Enzmann was pitching vacant lot ball in Brooklyn. Now he's assured a three-year job with the Brooklyn National league . . . Fred Claus, a brother of Bert Claus, the southpaw pitcher with Detroit last season, has been added to the New Haven club's roster. Says, he Philadelphia North American: "Ask walwers on Nap Lajoie seems as pathetic as ballfits putting an old man out of his home." A tour of South America this winter by the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants is being considered by Charles A. Comiskey. The acquisition of Twombly and Daniels has strengthened the Red outfield so that it is in the best shape it has been this season. Bert Daniels made an auspicious entry into the ranks of Herzog's Reds, he making nine put-outs in his first game and three hits. Heinie Wagner thinks he will soon be able to join the Red Sox. His elbow is still bandaged, but he engages in light practice daily. Pitcher Ed Walsh has come back with great ecat, but not to such an extent that he can drive in runs with his pitching arm. The Detroit club has purchased Pitcher McCreary and Outfielder Marshall from the Butee club of the Union association. Rumor has it that Doc Johnston of the Cleveland Naps is to be traded to the St. Louis Browns within a short time. Connie Mack is trying to get Walter Johnson to go with his team to the Pacific coast this fall after the season. In trying to explain the Braves' feat of winning a game on one hit, a fan suggests that perhaps they bunched it. Rube Bressler, the youngster uncovered by Connie Mack, is working like a top-notch pitcher with the Athletics. Mollwitz, the Reds' first baseman, has a considerable reach for thrown balls either high or low. CLEVELAND HONOR OF THE YEAR TAMM ROBINSON Some of the Cleveland papers are making a strenuous campaign against the retention of Manager Birmingham, but Owner Somers is quoted as saying that he proposes to keep Birmingham in charge of his team. Somers says he is tired of changing managers and that he wants to leave Birmingham thru time and he had a far chance to show what sort of a manager he really is. SPORTING WORLD Coach Jack Mokley of Cornell university, when asked if he would accept the position of trainer of the American Olympic team to the Berlin games in 1916, said: "Of course, I would accept such a position, providing, of course, it was offered to me. What trainer wouldn't." Foreign golf authorities have started an agitation to have all the matches in the championship match play at 36 holes instead of 18, the latter distance being considered too short for championship contests. Over fifteen hundred tracks in the United States and Canada are devoted to the racing of harness horses, and more than ten thousand horses compete annually for $3,000,000 in pursues. George Bonhag, the former long-distance runner, has been selected to coach and train the track team of the Irish-American A. C., of New York. He will succeed Lawson Roberts. The Walkers' club of America, with headquarters in New York, wants the Amateur Athletic union to add a 25-mile walking race to the national championship events. Harvard university's freshman football schedule has been reduced from seven to four games for next fall, as a result of the new plans for interdormitory competition. The big crop of English and French pugilists will find that dodging bullets at about fifteen cents a day and side-stepping fists at $500 a minute are far different pastimes. Southern California sportsmen plan to raise money by popular subscription to build a 12-meter yacht to compete in the international races in San Francisco next year. Alfredo de Oro has been challenged for the trophy emblematic of the three-cushion carom billiards championship by George W. Moore. Pearcia, Ill., plans to lay out golf links for the free use of the public. The municipal course will be located in Madison park. Rocksand, the famous race horse of a decade ago which died recently in Paris, was insured with Lloyd's for the sum of $150,000. Willie Kolehmainen, the professional long distance runner, is reported to have opened a cigar store in Edinburgh, Scotland. Chelsea, England, proposes to put a winning soccer football team in the field next fall if money can accomplish that purpose. In one of the bloodiest battles seen in Boston in years, Al Delmont defeated "Tiger" Young of New York in ten rounds. Mike Gibbons has turned down a contract for threeights offered him in Australia by Promoter "Snowy" Baker. One direct result of the war is the calling off of the international chess tournament. This is a hard blow to sport. The New York Yacht club has 580 yachts enrolled. Of these 110 are motor yachts under sixty feet in length. Murphy says if Peter Voicol is not the stallion champion before snow files, he will be greatly surprised. Wouldn't it be nice if all the German, Polish and Turkish wrestlers were drafted to go to war? Miss Dorothy Becker of San Francisco, a youthful swimmer, can dive in 83 different styles. One rogue player declares it requires 35 years to learn the game. Well, that's 35 years saved. Gratton Boy has lowered the trotting record of the Canadian northwest to 2.11%. DIDN'T WORK WELL Experiment in Altruism Might Have Been All Right But for the Circumstances. When Danvers and his friend Barlow came into the car Danvers was talking. "I have come to the conclusion," he said, "that the only Christian way for people to get about in these crowded cars is to stand in relays. It looks hogish for one set of passengers to occupy all the seats the time. There ought to be a general shaking up every five minutes and give the straplovers a chance to rest." "It wouldn't work," said Barlow. "It would turn out like every other altairture scheme. Some generous souls would be giving up their seats all the time and others would be sitting all the time, waiting for somebody else to do his duty. And besides, nobody would have nerve enough to quality his offer with the five minutes" conditional clause. "I would," said Danvers, "and the first chance I get I am going to test the scheme and see how it works." He found a chance before he got home. Somewhere in the shopping district two women came into the car. One of them sat down beside Danvers; the other, finding no vacant seat, stood in front of him. Barlow nudged him maliciously. "Now is your opportunity," he whispered. Danvers sat still for a few minutes, watching the woman's waving, lurching figure. Presently he said: "Nadam, I will give you this seat and while you will promise to give it back to me at the end of five minutes." The woman lunged helplessly into Danvers' lap. "I beg your pardon," she said. "That eudden turn—oh, yes; I'm all right now, thanks. What was it you said about five minutes?" Danvers repeated his offer. "That is very kind of you, I am sure," she said, "but I feel that I ought not take the seat. If you are ill and think you won't feel like standing more than five minutes at a time, perhaps you had better sit still." Danvers blushed. "I feel well enough," he said, "but it is a conviction of mine that no one rides in street cars ought to be obliged to stand longer than five minutes at a stretch. Are you willing to accept this seat, under those conditions?" "Certainly," said the woman, "You are very thoughtful to offer it at all. What time is it now, please." I haven't got my watch, Danvers replied, as he clutched the tangle strap, "but you must. It will just five minutes to get from here to the city hall. I'll keep an eye open for that. When we get there I will let you know and you can give me a show again." "Very well," said the woman, and she resumed the interrupted conversation with her friend. At Thirteenth street there was a blockade. By the public clocks in the neighborhood it lasted just 20 minutes. At the end of five minutes Danvers began to fidget. At the end of ten minutes his impatience became audible. He said, "Confoundedly long wait, this." The woman checked her flow of speech. "Have we got to the city hall yet?" she asked, innocently. "To the city hall?" said Danvers. "Great heavens, we haven't budged an inch for inches. How on earth did you expect us to get to the city hall." "Dear me," said the woman, "how provoking. These blockades do delay one so. When we get there let me know, please, if I don't happen to notice it myself. I promised, you remember, to let you sit down again when we got to the city hall." Barlow snuckered. "Yes, I remember Danvers. Thirteenth minutes later they reached the city hall." "Madan," said Danvers. "Ah, here we are," said the woman. She arose and Danvers sat down. "Madam," he said, "you seemed to forget that there were two strings to our agreement, one relating to time, the other to money. You've provided that you. You kept me standing something like twenty-five minutes. I shall be equally inconsiderate. I shall not relinquish this seat at the end of five minutes." "Oh, that's all right," said the woman. "I get off at Fifteenth street, anyway." "What did I tell you?" said Barlow. "I told you you would get the worst of the bargain." Counted on blockades, said Danvers wearily. "The next time I'll take cars not to mention particular corners, also not to make a bargain of any kind with a woman." Curious School Custom. A curious feature of the "Fourth of June" celebration at Eton, the famous English school, is the presence-there of six boys from Westminster school. They are there every year on the of June, and they are back at their testime at six o'clock. Every year the head master of Eton telegraphs to the head master of Westminster to say that the boys cannot return in time, and may they stay for the strewworks, and every year the boys return to the head master of Eton that they may. It would be interesting to know the origin of the visit. Their Proper Sphere. An old lady was gazing at illusions on the fashion page. "Sug gestions for the summer girl's wardrobe! Humph! They are all right for the wardrobe, but they ain't fit for the street." -Detroit Free Press. Ocean Cable Figures It takes three seconds for a cable message to cross the Atlantic from England. Cable costs about one thousand dollars a mile to lay and the total amount laid at the bottom of the sea represents a value of $250,000,000. MEDICINE IN 1848 Science at That Time Very Much in Its Infancy. Noted Physician Tells of His Experiences When Anesthesia Was Something Just Discovered and Not in General Use. Did you ever hear the phrase "the shotgun prescription?" This is the way the phrase originated, says Dr. Stephen Smith, one of the most distinguished and oldest physicians of Manhattan: "When I began the study of medicine, in 1848," said Doctor Smith recently, "its principles and practice were primitive compared with their present. Diagnosis was based on observation, and medical treatment on empiricism. As the perceptive faculty was powerful, and there was no laboratory with instruments of precision to determine doubtful questions, diagnosis was uncertain. In medicine, drugs were given in bulk, as organic chemistry had not analyzed and separated their constituent parts. 'Shovel in the bark,' was the adVICE of a drug, referring to the use of cannula bark. The ordinary doctors, particularly in the out-of-town districts, carried about saddle-bags distended with bulgy drugs in their crude state, the aroma of which scented the air so that his coming was known before he was visible. It was the day of the famous 'shotgun prescription,' consisting of ten or more different medicines in one dose, which was known, was 'sure to kill all things.' "We occasionally hear of the doctor of that day who, when he began practice, had ten remedies for one disease. The fact is that he had so much trouble making the patient take different medicines that he combined them in one dose, and hence the remedy for ten diseases, or the 'shotgun prescription.'" The practice of surgery at that time soon must have been in its infancy. Anesthetics had just been discovered, but were not in general use, and antiseptics were unknown. I saw patients operated upon without anesthesia, being held in position by strong men, and the struggles and screams of the victim and his pathetic appeals to the operator still linger in memory like a nightmare. In the light of that experience the great operations of former days read like miracles. It seems incognito under such an understory. Mott could have successfully placed a ligature on an artery close to the heart, or Roger could have tied the left subclavian near its origin. "The modern surgeon who operates upon his unconscious patient, and, perhaps, upon a bloodless limb, is exercising little more skill than does the patient. It is in that pre-aseptic period the vass suppurations which followed prevented the healing of the wound of the most skillful operation and often destroyed the life of the patient. Such a complication is not unknown. The surgery is now so precise in its details as to be ranked as an exact science." Gathered to Defend Country. One hundred years ago the State Fencibles, a volunteer corps raised in Philadelphia, marched from that city to the rendezvous at Kenneyt's square. When it was learned that the British had descended on Washington, great alarm was felt in every city along the Atlantic seaboard, and everywhere hasty measures were being taken 'on defense. The sending out of the State Fencibles was one of the steps taken by Philadelphia in preparation to resist an attack by the enemy. The corps was organized by Capt. C. B. Ciddle, a soldier in Colonel Biddle in history as "the Quaker soldier." In his youth Capt. Biddle served for a time in the navy. As captain of the State Fencibles he took part in several engagements in the war of 1812, and was later appointed colonel of a Pennsylvania infantry regiment. Do You Know the Feeling? There are times when I grow tired of socialism and industrialism and syndicalism and Bergsonism and Nietzscheism and feminism; times when I do not want to be a reformer or an uplifter or even a public-spirited citizen; when "I do not hunger for a well-stored mind" and am tired of books and of talking about them and of urging others to read them. With much bandyling about these become unreal; one is filled with doubt about them, about their very existence, at least about their importance. It is in such moods that one longs for the kitten or puppy, the iliac leaf-buds, the bean seedling, the chrysalis, the frog—Robert M. Gay in the Atlantic. Tragedy of Parnell's Life The tragedy in the life of Charles Stewart Parnell lay in the unhappy ending of all hopes for Ireland centered in him, and of all the promise of a well-endowed mind, owing to the public discovery of his illicit love for the wife of another, when Captain O'Shea initiated legal proceedings for a judicial degree of separation on the grounds of adultery. The public sense of decency felt itself affronted, and Parnell was immediately doomed to lose all his popularity, and former usefulness. Birth of Great Ideas. Whether the story of Newton discovering the law of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple is true or not, it might have been. That is the way great discoveries must be ready for them. But then the idea usually dawns as a sort of inspiration. False Silences Remember there is a false silence which would be as shameful as any falseness of speech—William R. Rich arda. RULES FOR SAFETY Regulations to Be Observed in Operation of Electrical Utilities. Regulations to Be Observed in Operation of Electrical Utilities. National Bureau of Standards Gives Out Data on Electrical Accidents In Effort to Demonstrate Their Preventability. Washington.—The study of life and property hazards incident to the generation, distribution, and use of electrical energy includes the consideration of both construction methods and operating practice. Analysis of the available data on electrical accidents demonstrates their preventability in very large proportion by use of definite operating precautions. This is especially true with those accidents occurring to workmen engaged in electrical work. Rules for construction, installation, and maintenance of electrical equipment to safeguard employees and the public are now under preparation by the bureau of standards, department of commerce. The rules for safety in the operation and handling of electrical lines and equipment, just published, proceed from a painstaking study by the engineers of the bureau of existing rules and practices. These are found to vary widely and to offer a very unsatisfactory basis for the formulation of mandatory codes by any state commission, unless a very extended study is made and the combined experience of many companies and workmen utilized. Many existing sets of rules have been developed from insufficient data and experience, while the vast majority of companies have no rules whatever in effect. This lack of rules in force is partly due to the lack of technical characteristics and partly to the difficulty and expense each company encounters in preparing its own rules in any adequate form. The assistance of state commissions, operating companies, and electrical workmen has been freely given to the bureau in this work, and the rules in their present form are offered to the public for criticism, discussion, and, so far as may be found desirable, for general adoption. The scope of the safety rules includes all operation of and work on or about power and signal lines, and the electrical equipment of central stations, substations, mines and testing departments. The rules are divided into three parts. The first two parts consist of general rules which apply to the employer and to the employees respectively, and the third part comprises, under separate headings, those particularly to the employees engaged in special classes of electrical work. It is intended that employees should thoroughly familiarize themselves with all the general rules as well as those which relate solely to their own particular work. While all the rules find application in the larger industrial or private plants or to utilities of moderate size, some do not apply or apply less fully to the smaller organizations. It has seemed unwise to attempt to restrict the rules to those which are entirely applicable to the smallest organizations or to the simplest classes of electrical work, since the number of workers so employed is small compared with the total number to whose work uniform rules should apply. The individual rules suggested by conferees and resulting from careful comparisons and selections have been subjected to careful general scrutiny to determine the necessity for each of its general applications under varying conditions of operation. The different classes of workers to which the rules apply have been freely consulted. Concreteness, simplicity and directness have been sought in the formulation of the rules. After carefully considering each rule and retaining only those essential to the safety of operation, the grouping was made such as to facilitate reference. The section for employers calls for the provision of employees with rules, diagrams and emergency instructions, their assignment to work according to their demonstrated ability among them in a definite manner so that danger may not arise through conflict on points of authority. The employer is also required to supply portable safeguards, to enforce general operating precautions and to supply employees with forms for the adequate reporting of accidents. The final requirement is that the rules for employees be strictly enforced. Rules for employees in general are subdivided into six groups. The first enumerates those general precautions, the necessity for which seems obvious, but the non-compliance with which is nevertheless responsible for many injuries. The second presents general operating rules, defining the duties and relations of those employees who direct others and the operating methods by which safety is required. The third group prescribes the precautions for handling live parts under varying conditions and location. The fourth and fifth groups with the procedures for assuring the correct safety of work about normally live or moving parts, respectively, by avoiding all possible sources of misunderstanding in killing parts. The sixth group covers in some detail the procedure for making protective grounds and short circuits. Special rules for employee comprises nine separate headings, covering the Famous Quicksilver Mine. The most important producer of quicksilver in the United States is the famous New Almaden mine of Santa Clara county, California, which contains over one hundred miles of underground workings and which has produced steadily since 1850. California produced quicksilver to the value of $627,238 last year, leading every other state, but at the same time showing a decrease from the output of 1912 of nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The quicksilver industry of special hazards of work about electrical equipment in stations, at switchboards, about overhead lines, in are lamp attendance, on underground lines, meter setting, testing, and in tunnel or mine work. Each class of worker is directed to familiarise himself also with the preceding general rules which apply to all classes of electrical employment. By this arrangement, a more adequate and convenient treatment has been realized without unnecessary repetition. In a carefully prepared appendix the value of organized accident prevention work through safety committees, is emphasised as a means for reinforcing the effectiveness of safety of the subject in this subject by the accident prevention committee of the national electrical light association is briefly abstracted, and citations are made from the reported organizations and methods of several large and small electrical utilities. The comment of those commissiones, companies, and workmen whose study of the subject has been closed, has been very favorable to the arrangement and substance of the rules given in this edition, and many have expressed a desire to adopt them or to utilize them in preparing similar codes. The requirements of different states and communities should be closely harmonized to secure the best results in reducing the accident toll of electrical service, and the results presented in this code should be advantageous in securing uniformity among the state codes of safety rules. Great advantage will result to companies and workmen alike by the genius of the several states of a single standard set of safety rules, which can be revised in accordance with the progress of the art and the combined experience of all the companies and commissions of the country. Thus will every state and every company secure the advantage of the experience of all. Where particular rules do not apply their omission will of course cause no conflict in practice. If it is necessary for any state commission to adopt additional rules, that could be done at any time by special orders. This would be easier and less confusing than to have a different set of rules for each separate state. 77 Acknowledgment is made of the cooperation by national associations, state commissions, company officials and individuals. The conclusions reached by the bureau stand from the combined experience of many experienced companies and individual engineers, and a thorough study of a large amount of literature and statistics are now offered with the hope that they will constitute a substantial contribution to the widely evidenced public need for a standard set of safety rules. It is believed that a material reduction in present life hazards to electrical workers may be realized by the general adoption and use of these rules. METHODS: OF GAS TESTING The bureau of standards, department of commerce, has just published a circular containing suggestions as to location and equipment of gas testing laboratories, a description of some of the accepted forms of apparatus, directions for the making of the various tests, and recommendations as to the interpretation of experimental results. It does not discuss the testing work necessary for good works control; it deals rather with methods which are intended for use in city or state official testing or in works laboratories which are checked by city or state insectors. No attempt is made to fix on a single method to be used in every case, for it is not believed that uniformity of method is always necessary in order that the results of tests be considered standard. In each case as much freedom in choice of method is allowed as seems permissible; but the simplest procedure or apparatus with which satisfactory results can be had is given preference. The discussion is so arranged that an inexperienced man may utilize the information, but exactness of description has not been sacrificed in the effort to simplify the directions. The five principal subjects discussed are: 1. Measurement of heating value. 2. Candlepower determination. 3. Determination of impurities (hydrogen sulphide, total sulphur and ammonia). 4. Taking of gas pressure records. 5. Gas meter testing. Full operating directions, including a description of apparatus and precautions which must be observed, are included under each heading. BAD FOR H1S NERVES. Congressman Underwood, who is the calmest man in the world, is timid about just one thing, and that is riding rapidly in an automobile. The other evening a friend of his persuaded him to take a little whirl through the parks in a new machine the friend had just bought. "The doctor told me I needed something to take me out into God's fresh air," explained the friend, as he put on speed. "I can see already that is going to be a thing thing for my mother to get out this way." After they had ridden along at about thirty-five an hour for some little time, Underwood remarked in his quiet way: "Your doctor may be exactly right about it. This may be a fine thing for your nerves. But"—with a sigh—"you've nearly ruined mine." the entire country, however, fell off to such an extent that with the exception of 1008 the production last year was the lowest since 1860. Mumma May Be Serious. That mumps is a disease far too serious to be laughed at or joked about is proved by the fact that it causes an average of one hundred deaths a year in England. It is more serious in adults than in children, as it often affects other glands than those that produce the saliva. ASQUITH WAR SPEECH WON BRITISH CHEERS DELCASSE. THE STORMY PETREL OF FRANCE DELCASSE. THE STORMY PETREL OF FRANCE THE OFFICIAL HOSTESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE THE OFFICIAL HOSTESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE KING'S ONLY DAUGHTER NOW A "GROWN-UP" When Great Britain declared war on Germany and Premier Anguish explained England's position the press cables dismissed the speech in the house of common briefy. Only one London publication gave it in fall, and that part of what England is fighting for is here reproduced, including the "cheers" interjections of the reporters: PETER HARRIS "If I am asked what we are fighting for I can reply in two sentences. in the first place, to fulfill a solemn international obligation which, if it had been entered into between private persons in the ordinary concerns of life, would have been regarded as an obligation, not only of law, but of honor, which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. (Cheers.) "I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle which in these days when material force sometimes seems to be the dominant influence and factor in the development of mankind that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of inter- Theophile Delacasse, who has become minister of foreign affairs in foreign affairs in the reorganized French cabinetry behind the arch-hem. Georges Clemeneau, the so-called "Wrecker of Cabinets," might be called the Nemea of Germany. He might also be called the most remarkable man in French politics today. Certainly, Clemeneau has played a greater part in the molding of France's destiny in the last 25 P. A. years. To him is largely due the establishment of the entente with England and the riveting of the ties that unite France with Russia; to him is attributed the regeneration of the French navy; it was he who reorganized the French army and pushed France's interests in Africa, in face of Germany's opposition. It was Delacasse who kept awake the French hatred of Germany, and by treaties and alliances strengthened the republic's position in Europe. He has known humiliation in his Only twice before in the history of the nation has an unmarried woman unmarried who occupied the woo- hood with a rich through sad be- reavement must now be filled by Miss Magaret Wilson. President Tyler lost his wife in September, 1843, and for a brief period his eldest daughter, Mrs. Lettia Seme- pil, filled her mother's place. Mother's wife died in November, 1892, and his only daughter, Mrs. Robert M Kee, C HARRIS & EWING who had always made her home with her parents, became acting mistress of the white house. President Wilson makes the third chief executive beaved during his term of office, but though he has married daughters, they will not act as official hostesses to the president. He left their home for their own nests and can only be looked on as visitors when they return to the presidential mansion. Miss Harriet Lane makes the only precedent for Miss Margaret Wilson. There is no longer a "little princess" in Buckingham palace. No, for the only daughter of the king and queen of England has "grown up," so to speak. The charming camera picture reproduced here depicts the latest portrait of Princess Mary, which has an increased interest from the fact that it is the first posed photograph of the princess showing her with her hair "up," although, of course, for some months the prin the king and queen of England has "grown up," so to speak. The charming camera picture reproduced here depicts the latest portrait of Princess Mary, which has an increased interest from the fact that it is the first posed photograph of the princess showing her with her hair "up," although, of course, for some months the princess has worn this outward sign of womabood. Princess Mary attained her seventeenth birthday on April 20 last. It is the custom for princesses Man's First Wings. The first effort to equip man with wings that he might fly through the air seems to have been made by Watson E. Quinby, a Delaware inventor, who patented a flying machine over forty years ago. The inventor used the bat as his model in designing the wings. Previous flying machines had been constructed on the balloon principle, but Quinby's apparatus consisted of wings 12 feet in diameter and semicircular in form. The wings were attached to the limbs of the person fly. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER national good faith by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering power. (Cheers.) "I do not believe any nation ever entered into a great controversy—and this will be one of the greatest history will ever know—with a clearer conscience and stronger conviction that it is fighting, not for aggression for the maintenance of its own rights, but for the defense and defense of principles the maintenance of which is vital to the civilization of the world and with the full conviction not only of the wisdom and justice but of the obligations which lay upon us to challenge this great issue. (Loud cheers.) "If we are entering into the struggle let us now make sure that all the resources not only of this United Kingdom but of the vast empire of which it is the center shall be thrown the scale, and it is the object that may be adequately ensured that I am demand upon the committee to give the government a vote of credit of 100,000,000 pounds. (Loud cheers.) "I am not going—and I am sure the committee does not wish it—in the technical distinction between votes of credit and supplementary estimates. There is a much higher point of view than that. If it were new, I would justify it with the technical grounds I have proposed to adopt, but I am not going to do so because I think it would be foreign to the temper and disposition of the committee." time, as bitter humiliation as men can meet. It was Delacelse who bore the brunt of England's wrath over the Fashoda incident; it was Delacelse's political head that was lopped off by Premier Rouvier at the demand of Germany in 1905 because of the eligent secretary's persistent beauty toward German ambition; in 1912, Delacelse was compelled to resign as minister of marine at the bidding of the kaiser. In both of these crises France was unprepared, and the cabinets in office were not composed of men who dared to take up the gage of battle. But after twice submitting to Germany's interference in her internal affairs, the strong men of the republic made up their minds that they would never bow the knee again; it was not largely responsible for having convinced his fellow-leaders of all parties that in some instances it is better to fight than to yield. Delcasse was born at Pamiers, in the southern Ariege, 34 miles from Toulouse, in the shadow of the Pyrenees, in 1852. His parents were peasants, but, in sufficiently comfortable circumstances to allow them to give their son a good life, he gave their son the Sorbonne, with a literary degree, and was registered as a licentiate of letters. He was once a newspaper man. She was the niece of James Buchanan and during his entire four years at the white house she acted as the hostess of the nation. And this with such uncomparable grace that she ranks among the great ladies of the mansion, and her regime was eclipsed in social brilliance only by two who have followed Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Miss Theodore Roosevelt was mistress of the white house for fourteen months before her distinguished brother's marriage to Miss Frances Polson. Times have changed most radically since President Buchanan's niece dispensed the hospitality of the nation and what was accepted as good form then may be questioned by the social augurs. For instance, some of the best-informed authorities on official etiquette doubt whether Miss Wilson may stand beside her father when the official levees are in progress. That place in case of the death or absence of the president's wife belongs to the wife of the vice-president, the wife of the secretary of state, and so on down the line, according to the accepted order of precedence. In the home and at the various banquets or other amenities, Miss Wilson becomes the presiding lady and a figure of international importance. to remain "little" until they reach the seventeenth year; then they are permitted to "put up" their hair and be recognized as a "grown-up". Then, of course, there comes the series of court social affairs in which the "grown-up" princess will set the world gossip by marrying some eligible from the list of kings' sons of some section of the world, and perhaps she may even be the means of securing for Great Britain a powerful alliance with the nation into whose royal family she marries. Such an alliance may be rather propitious in the near future, if England does not attain the point for which she is now arguing with her allies against the German na- The Woman of It. Crabshaw—You told me if I took you to Europe last year, you'd never ask to go again. Mrs. Crabshaw—But they've got a bigger ship out since then—Puck. ing, and the motions used were very similar to those used in swimming. The wings refused to work, however, and no one succeeded in flying with their aid. The American Boy. "There's no discipline in our party organization." "That is something I have to be careful about," replied Senator Sorghum. "If I get too much discipline I may come to be a great leader and be a leader." FOR DINNER AND DESSERT Good Method of Preparing Flank Steak —Strawberry Cup Pudding to Finish the Meal. Stuffed Flank Steak on Casserole—Lay the steak upon a board, spread over it a thin layer of dressing, roll up very compactly; fasten the side and ends to inclose the dressing secure. Cut a slice of fat salt pork or bacon in bits and let cook until the fat is drawn out. Dredge the roll of meat with flour and rub it in thoroughly; then brown it in the fat, turning the roll as it brown until the whole surface is nicely colored. Set the meat in a casserole or an agate dish that can be tightly closed; put in also an onion, sliced very thin, half a carrot cut in thin slices and a cupul of tomato to purse. Rinse the frying pan with a cupul of boiling water, turn this the dish, cover and let cook three hours or longer, in the oven. Let heat be very modern. Have ready two tablespoons of flour, half a teaspoon or one-fourth one-fourth teaspoonful pepper, mixed to a smooth paste with cold water. Stir this into the liquid in the casserole. Let the sauce boil two or three minutes, then strain it over the meat. Set bolled onions around the dish. Strawberry Cup Pudding—Butter and dust with sugar five cups; fill three-quarterst full with the following mixture: One cupful bread crumbs, one cupful hot milk, four tablespoonfuls sugar, two eggs beaten very well and a half pint of flour and the rest of the sugar, set the cups in a pan of water and bake about thirty or forty minutes. Serve hot with thin cream. MENU FOR HOT WEATHER Ideas That Will Save Time When One Is Not in Particular Mood for Working. On warm days, when one's enthusiasm for cooking or baking is on the wane, the following suggestions may be of help: Buy a plain cake from the baker's. Cut it through the long way twice, making three layers. Then mash two or three ripe tomatoes or other fresh fruit and spread on a layer. For a mixing use, a contactor's sugar, mixed with a little water and flavoring. Then sprinkle with cacaoan. Or make frosting of sweetened condensed milk mixed with melted, unsweetened chocolate. This makes a fair imitation of a good home-made cake. For soup purchase a can of tomato soup. Cook half a cup of rice or barley, mash through a sieve and to add to soup. This adds a little "home taste" to the concoction. A salad made of crisp lettuce and cucumbers, olive oil, lemon juice, served with a few salted peanuts or other nuts, one will have an attractive, satisfying supper that has required little labor. Filling for Floor Cracks Tear up some newspapers into strips. Cover them with boiling water. If after a little while the newspaper has not absorbed all the water, add a few more strips. Mix together a quarter of a pound each of alum and flour for each three pints of water, add to the newspaper pulp when it is quite soft, stir, place over a gentle heat and cook until the mixture is as thick as putty. Use while warm, pressing it well into the cracks with a pliable knife. It must dry thoroughly before the floor is stained. -Miss A. L., B. C. For Flower Pots To prevent water from seeping through pottery bowls or vases intended to hold flowers, and thus marring polished wood, coat the inside with white shellac. Dries, the jar will no longer be porous. This has been tried with some of the ornamental ginger jars. Softening New Bone To soften new ropes that are extremely troublesome because of their stiffness, the following is excellent: Cover the ropes with water and heat the water until it almost boils, straighten and dry them. Ropes treated in this manner work satisfactorily as soon as dry. Cold Water Cake. One and one-half cupuits of sugar, one-quarter cupful of butter, two and one-half cupuits of flour, two eggs, one cupuit of water, two teaapoulles of baking powder sifted with the flour. Flavor to taste and frost if you like. This is a good recipe for a laver cake. Rye Drop Fritters. Two tablespoonfuls sugar, one-half cup molasses, pinch of salt, two well-beaten eggs, one cupful either rye or graham flour, one teaspoonful soda, white flour to make a drop batter. Drop by small tablespoonful: into deep hot fat. Serve with molasses or shrup. Raspberry Tarts. Incorporate one pound of self-raising flour and a pinch of salt with one-quarter of a pound of butter; add a pint of milk and two beaten eggs. Mix thoroughly, roll out thin, cut in circles and line buttered patty pans with them. Fill with raspberry jam or stewed raspberries. Bake in a hot oven for about fifteen minutes. Serve cold with whipped cream. To Clean Gold Lace. Make one ounce of stale bread crumbs, one-fourth ounce of magnolia and one-half an ounce of cream of tartar into a pane with spirits of wine, salt, and lemon juice. Brush. When dry, dust off the crumbs and rub lightly with a chamois skin. Best Salad Dressing. Mix thoroughly two tablespoonfuls butter, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one saltspoonful salt, one tablespoonful dry mustard; add two eggs, well beaten; heat one-balf cupful milk. Cook until it thickens in double boiler. DOG DAYS AND WAR LEARNED FROM WAR Many Superstitious People Assoicate the Two. Selfie Has No Basis In Fact, But From Ancient Times the Star Sirius Has Been Blamed for Calamities. The great world war comes in dog days and hosts of people the world over will charge the monster calamity, the incalculable catastrophe, against the dog star. When the sun is ardent and the air is sultry, as must often be the condition of the weather in our temperate zone during mid and late summer, many persons are prone to speak of the period of excessive warmth and moisture as the season of "dog days." They are giving voice to an ancient superstition. The same thing has been said since the human race was young, and the phrase or its equivalent has come trippingly from men's tongues ever since recorded history began. Yet it is a superstition. It has no basis, in fact. It is a figment of the fancy. Dog days have no relation to dogs nor have dogs any relation to dog days. There is the same relation between excessively hot weather and dogs that there is between the same kind of weather and men. There is great danger heat prostration, and there is a thirst if it cannot be had and there is an increased demand for shade and rest. From the time that the eastern shepherds watched the skies at night and drew a more or less fanciful likeness between groups of stars and objects known on the earth there was a constellation called Canis Major, or the "Greater Dog." The brightest star of the heavens was in the mouth of that constellation, which to some imaginations possessed resemblance to the outline of a dog. That star in the constellation of the dog it was be called the Dog. It has another name the Sirius. It has been estimated that this star has more than thirteen times the magnitude of our sun. It was a superstition with the early dwellers in the hot portions of the world, and there civilization developed first, that the rising of the dog star with the sun produced pestilential heat. As this event occurred in the summer, there was often pestilential heat, but the dog star could not logically be charged with that misfortune. There was great heat because it was the time when great heat might be expected, and with excessive heat often came pestilence because of the ignorance of the people in matters of sanitation, hygiene and medicine. The dog star had no more to do with intense heat of mid or late summer or with the sizzards of July and August than comets have to do with war. In the time of the Romans, or in those ages when the Romans were sufficiently advanced to think of astronomical concerns, they called the bright star in the constellation of the greater dog "Canicular," which was their way of saying that it was the dog star in the dog constellation. The days or the nights when that star was conspicuous in the sky they carried dincular or canicular days—or dog star days. Then, because it had received the name of dog star, the popular mind conceived that it was related to the dog, and as the stars and the moon had influence over men, why, the dog star had influence over dogs. In the hot season, when this star was in the sky, and a dog went wild with thirst, it was the dog star that did it. The dog star got the blame for the hot weather and the maddening thirst of the dog. Did an animal dead easily suffer after been bitten by a dog. This terrible disease came finally to have the name of hydrophobia or rabies. When a man was bitten during the brilliant ascendancy of the dog star the matter caused wide comment and the blame was laid on the star. If the death occurred at any other time, people would be furious, but they did not connect the occurrence with the star. And so the superstition has come down through the centuries. Modern statisticians who have dealt with such things can prove that rabies is commoner, or more frequent, at other times than during "dog days," and just what days are dog days is easy to define. An astronomer could answer. The canicular days of the Romans were 40. There were 20 canicular days before and 20 after the rising of the dog star, and the rising was described as "the heliacal rising," meaning the time when the star, after being practically in conjunction with the sun and invisible, emerges from the light so as to be visible in the morning before sunrise. Elastic Celluloid Varnish. Elastic cellulol varnish may be made as follows: Cut one ounce of cellulol into fine shreds. Add to a solution of ten ounces of acetone and ten ounces of amyl acetate, and stir it well. Do not wait for it to dissolve. Cork tightly and set in a warm place. To make a thicker varnish add more cellulol, but a thin varnish is most elastic. To secure colors, add aniline dye dissolved in a little alcohol to the acetone solution. Why She Was Disappointed. "I was so disappointed that I was out the other day when you called, Miss Perival." "So was I. I felt sure I'd find you, because as I turned the corner I saw you go in."—Boston Transcript. He Didn't Go. "I didn't see you at church yesterday." "No, my wife considers it unfashionable to be seen at church during the summer months. We're supposed to be out of the city then, you know." Sanitation and Surgery Have Been Wonderfully Improved. In the American Civil war eight soldiers died of disease to one from wounds, writes a United States army surgeon. Experts expect that in the present general European struggle not more than three will fall victim to sickness to one killed on the field of battle. Such is the advance of army sanitation and army surgery in 50 years. The Americans and the nuns have been the leaders. The militia of the Appalachian have instilled many remarkable innovations since the Spanish-American war, with its dreadful lesson in the danger of typhoid, and these new ideas have been adopted by the army surgeons of old world powers. So it is expected that the present war, the greatest yet in history, also will be the most humane. There will be no disproportionate mortality list from disease and no army of cripples as an aftermath. The modern high-power, quick-firing military rifle and the development in artillery will have much to do with the change. Those who die will die more quickly. Gangrene and infection will be practically unknown quantities, it is thought. Before the Russo-Japanese conflict the armies the world over used a high caliber bullet, made of unsheathed lead and greased to overcome friction in the barrel. The muzzle velocity was less than half that of the milesies now employed. Then, too, bayonet and saber charges were more common. These resulted in hideous wounds, very difficult for surgeons to handle. The bullets of the modern rifle are of less diameter than the ordinary lead pencil. They are jacketed with nickel, lead or steel and have tremendous velocity. In soft, mushrooming bullets of the old day resulted in the shattering of bones and the crushing, rather than cutting, of tissues. Infection was almost inevitable, the greece being specially unsanitary. A wound in the adomen was considered necessarily fatal. The death rate among the wounded was enormous. In recent campaigns there are instances where soldiers shot in what were once considered vital spots have walked unsupported to the field hospitals. Germany uses a Mauser rifle, with a bullet of 8 mm, caliber, steel and copper coated. Great Britain's missile is the Lee-Enfield, caliber 7.7 mm, the coating being cupronickel. The French weapon is the Lebel rifle, of 8 mm, caliber, with bullet coated with nickel. Russia uses Mossin-Nagant rifles, 7.62 mm, with bullets cupronickel coated. Austria's chief small arm is the Mannlicher, caliber 8 mm, with a steel sheet over the tip. Hitting a man beyond 350 yards, the rounds inflicted by all these bullets are clean cut. They frequently pass through bone tissue without splintering. When meeting an artery the bullet usually pushes it to one side and goes around without cutting the blood channel. Amputations are very rare compared with wars of more than fifty years ago. A bullet wound through a joint, such as the knee or the elbow, then necessitated the amputation of the limb. Now such a wound is easily opened and dressed. Even Russia, which made a sad sanitary showing in the war with Japan, now has learned her lesson and has effaced the use of amputations. The nations use vaccine to combat typhoid, the scourge which once decimated camps, and-killed 1,600 in our Spanish war. Every army division (13,000 to 15,000 men) is supplied with four field hospitals, each capable of caring for 108 patients. There are also two evacuation hospitals, with a capacity of 700 each, for each division. The evacuation hospitals send the more seriously wounded back to the hospitals at home. Even every officer is instructed in first aid treatment. This alleviates a great deal of suffering on the field of battle. Next to typhoid, dysentery is the great army scourge. This is attacked by sterilizing the drinking water. History shows sanitation has often determined the fate of nations. In 1792, when the fine Prussian troops marched to the relief of Louis XVI, the raw levies of the young republic met and repulsed them. General Du Mouris, commander of the French troops, commended in his report that prisoners had been unfit for service by dysentery. Ordinary sanitary precautions would have prevented this. "You" instead of "He." Have your verbs of social inter- course—at least as far as the spirit of them goes—in the second person in- stead of the third. There is a good deal of human nature in most people, and nothing is more soothing to even the wiser of us than to be considered individually. Preparing for the Fray. "I'm going to make a speech that will make my friends sit up." "I'm going to make a speeck that will make my friends laugh," "You're my friend track," replied experienced campaigner. "See if you can't make one that, will cause the other fellows to lie down." **New Proverb.** "Look how that child is all stuck with candy. Don't you know what the old saying is that?" "What it, sunny." "Children should be clean, not smeared." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS --- Building operations in connection with the construction of a Masonic temple at Washington for the colored Masonic Temple association, at an ap proximate cost of $125,000, will be be gun as soon as the contract has been awarded. The plans and specifications for the edifice, which is to be of the Italian renaissance style, are being completed by Claughton West, architect, of Washington. The building, which will be an architecture and artistic ornament to the building of the city where it will be located, will be five stories high. It will be fireproof throughout steel construction being employed with reinforced concrete floors and slag roof. The structure will measure 93 feet on U street and 134 on Tenth street, and the main entrance will be on U street. Brown tapestry brick, with Indiana limestone and granite trim, will be used in its exterior construction, and the roof will be bordered with highly ornamental galvanized iron cornees. Wrought iron grills will be used in guarding many of the windows. Both facades of the building will be treated with a central pavilion feature. The front on the U street side is to be divided into three bays, separated by Italian pilasters surmounted by ornamental capitals of Indiana limestone and embracing three bays, where there will be seven bays on Tenth street, all of which will be surmounted by a tableture with a medallion. The fifth story is to be treated in the form of an atty with openings in window and wrought iron grills. There will be a roof garden laid in red tile. The rooming facilities of the structure are as follows: The basement will contain a large drill hall, office rooms, toilet rooms and heating apparatus. On the first or ground floor will be located a banquet hall, measuring 50 by 75 feet, with kitchen and serving room adjoining. There will be two stores on the U street side and five stores on the Tenth street side. A wide entryway leads from the main entrance on the U street side. An auditorium with a seating capacity of 1,200 clear-spanned and with no column support, will be the feature of the second floor. The auditorium is to be about 90 by 100 feet in dimensions, and around it will be office rooms and in the rear a promenade separated from the auditorium by a panel partition with brass rolling. The auditorium is to have high arched windows, guarded by wrought iron grills. The third floor will be the balcony floor and will also have offices. The fourth floor will contain lodge and office rooms, guarded by wrought iron grills. And on the fifth floor will be located lodge rooms and a spacious banquet hall. The corridors will be of marble, bordered in mosaic design. The British colonies have enacted laws holding masters of vessels responsible for passengers landed in the colonies, excepting those passengers under contract to engage in service either for the government or for some business firm or company considered financially responsible by the government, or those convincing the government authorities that they have sufficient money within their possession to pay their return passage from the colony. The Kamerun government requires each person not a native of Africa and not engaged by the govern- A pertinent suggestion for the church life has reference to the financial support of the church. Most negro churches are constantly overaxed. The collection table is used more frequently than any other instrument in the church. The people are generous, but the desire is stronger than the ability. Often the largest influence of the church and especially of the minister, is broken on the rock of content and necessary exhortation to give money for the support of the church. I am told that the minister shoulders the responsibility of getting the money practically alone. This is un-Baptistic. I am told that the trustees are a body who spend the money thus secured. This is un-Baptistic and unfair. They are at present merely the channels through which the church expends. They ought to be co-operating agents in securing church support. Practical experience taught us that the church must distribute responsibility for securing adequate support for the current expenses of the church as well as for its benevo- Ties made of a species of native hardwood have been used on the Pana-ana railroad without renewal for more than 50 years. Brass farthings were authorized by English law in the year 1613. They were suppressed as worthless about 40 years later. Field experiments in Ireland have shown that liquid manure produces better crops of hay than any other fertilizers. The most attractive shops in the Chinese cities are those devoted to the sale of coffins. As a matter of fact, doctors are not as wine as they think their patients think they are. It is estimated that there are 300,600 more women than men in Germany. Protestants of the United States gave $16,388,000 to foreign missions in 1913. ment or by responsible business people in the colony upon entering the colony to have in his possession 2,000 marks ($476), and the Woermann and other steamship companies require such passengers to deposit 500 marks ($119) each against return passage to port of embarkation. While I am not certain, I think the rule holds true for French West African possessions. Thus it will be seen that Liberia is the only place American negroes can well attempt to colonize. The impression gained by conversations with various government officials of the different colonies is that the American negoes is not desired. The conspire is informed that "Chief consul of the Gold Coast, with the assistance of some American negroes, claims to be at the head of a scheme to colonize the Gold Coast colony or some part of the colony My advice is to select some well-informed person to make a thorough investigation, visiting the particular section in which they intend settling, before they pay any part of their passage to West Africa. It is quite evident that some of these schemes are in every sense fraudulent. Those who have come to West Africa suffer untold misery, are for the most part illiterate farmers who have, through a long struggle, managed to save enough to pay passage for themselves and family, with barely enough to live on through their first marriage. Many have expressed the choice of prison life in America to freedom here. In addition to the above, now and then a misguided independent missionary comes, suffers and dies—Consul W. T. Yerby of Sierra Leone in Daily Consular Reports. The Frenchwoman who complained that it was difficult to grow old gracefully had evidently not begun early enough. "The child is father of the man," and hence of the patriarch, and whoever would easily grow old gracefully must, take care and, regulate wisely the earlier stages. A little artificial tinkering later on will never compensate for radical defects permitted to persist through a lifetime. In one of his letters Huxley remarks: "Somebody started a charming illness—that as you get older, lose volition, primitivism tendencies, heretofore matured, come out and become too lighty." Huxley treated this theory too lightly; there is more truth in it than he seemed aware of. Botanists tell of defects existing in plants in a lethargic state for several years, and then, with favorable conditions, revealing themselves; while physiologists similarly allow that morbid growths in the human body may lethargic in the years and then become disastrous active. There can be no doubt but that it is much the same with the moral life. During the years when criticism and perseverance stand up to the environment in which they is most masterful, selflessness to temper, avarice and selflessness are checked and disguised, when they become painfully obtrusive when the volitional power declines, and the consideration paid to old age gives them unrestrained play—Exchange. The man who would reach success hasn't much time to sit under shade trees by the wayside. lences. Increasing responsibility in securing financial support should be placed at the trustees and strong-seed members of the church. Another suggestion is also along the same line. There is a tremendous need of trained leadership in the fields of evangelism, education and church management. Some pastors have expressed their great desire to secure such training for the members of their church. They have expressed their appreciation of the help given by the Home Mission society in their former fields in the South, where the actual direct assistance given them in training their workers in specialized fields seems much larger than in this apparently more favored section. —Standard. What a poor opinion the good lord would have of himself if he answered all of the fool prayers that are sent up to headquarters! Shears with their handles extended to one side have been invented to enable a person to follow a pattern more closely. And the man who publicly boasts of his honesty may secretly pride himself on his ability to escape detection. An African frog sounds a call under water that can be heard for long distances! No man can be really happy unless he is on good terms. with his stomach: For every 1,000 males employed in New Jersey there are 276 females. Cotton goods constitute about one-third of England's manufactured exports. Sweden in 1912 imported laundry machinery valued at $63,702. The world's output of cocoanuts is figured at 7,000,000,000. Italy imports more than 10,000,000 tons of coal each year. In 1910 Americans contributed $118,000,000 to charities. SAVING ON LAUNDRY BILLS Frequent Pressing Will Do Much Toward Preserving Appearance of the Thin Garments. The woman whose ambition it is to always look well dressed will pay special attention to the pressing of her shirt waist or suit should be pressed in the garment. All thin waigs and dresses can be worn twice as long before being laundered if they are pressed often. They are usually more mussed than soiled when put in the wash. Garments which must be pressed on the wrong side, but which may be pressed a touch on the right side, may be pressed very nicely provided a piece of smooth tissue paper is used to protect the goods from the hot iron. When in use, the use of tissue paper will prevent them from becoming shiny. A white frock or blouse that is soiled in places, but not enough to require laundering, may be much improved by the following method: Dissolve some gloss starch in warm water, moisten the solids portion with this mixture and press carefully. The garment will look almost as good as new and may be worn several times without laundering. Lingerie walstis will not get mussed nearly as soon and are much easier to iron when subjected to the following method: Wet an ingot as well, but do not starch. When dry, dip in borax water, using one tablespoonful of borax to one quart of warm water. Wring out and fold in a towel for a few hours, then iron dry. VARIOUS USES FOR HERBS All That Are Grown in the Garden Have Their Peculiar Qualities That Should Be Understood. Save: Mint, for meat sauces. Angelica, for flavoring cakes. Lavender, for oil and distilled water. Sage, for sausage and meat dressings. Sweet fennel, leaves used in fish sauces. Dill, the seeds are used to flavor pickles. Borage, leaves boiled as dandelion or spinach. Thyme, in gravies and dressings of shallots. Chives, leaves used for flavoring soups and salads. Borage, balm and catnip are useful where one has bees. Tarragon, leaves useful in giving flavor to vinegar and pickles. Coriander, fennel and caraway seeds are used for flavoring fruit sups and cakes. Making those having medicinal value are arnica, hops, catnip, bene, pennyhull, belladonna, sage, rue, horehound, marshmallow, wormwood, hyssop and peppermint. Fig and Nut Jelly. Wash a cupful of pulled figs in cold water. Put over a slow fire with two cupfuls of cold water and stew figs until tender. Skim out figs and to the juice add one-half cupful of sugar and boil until it is like thin stirup (there should be one cupful of liquid). Chop figs and one-quarter cupful of shelled pecans not very fine. Soak one-half box of gelatine in one cupful of cold water for half an hour. To the gelatine add one-half teaspoonful of lemon juice, and to the fig syrup one-half hour before boiling water. Strain through fine sieve or piece of cheesecloth. When nearly set, add nuts and figs. Turn into molds and in cool place for three hours. Serve with whipped cream. To Peel a Tomato The tomato season is with us, and many a housekeeper would be glad to know how to slip the skin off without the use of boiling water. Press the back or blunt part of knife against the tomato, keep pressing around from center to core, two or three times, without breaking the skin, then strip off, with the same result as using hot water. This is easy to do and is especially nice in summer, when you prefer tomatoes cold for salad. Creamed Celery. Remove the leaves and small stalks from two heads of celery, wash and cut in half-inch lengths. Boll in salted water until tender. While the celery is boiling make a sauce of one cupupl of cream or thick milk and one tablespoon of sugar, combined with four cups of the sauce until it is smooth and thick. When the celery is ready, drain and place it in a dish, pour over the sauce and serve. Keaping Lemons. Lemons may be kept soft and fresh for some time either by keeping them in a jar of water or by coating each lemon with white of egg. Two or three whites will be sufficient for a great amount of lemon juice in the dish and let them dry. When they are required for use rub the coating off with your hands. To Clean Paints and Varnishes Here is a good way to clean painted and varnished surfaces: To half a bucketful of warm water add a table-spoofful of salts of tartar; wash the paints with a rag dipped in this, and it will remove every speck of dirt. Rinse in clear warm water and dry with a chamois. To Cook an Egg. Have the water boiling rapidly, then break the egg into it and set it on top of the stove, or where it will keep warm for three minutes; then serve, the egg, the milk, all the way up. This is the best way to cook it for a little child. Timely Tip. A purée of apples or tomatoes, sweetened or seasoned, makes a delicious filling for savory rice or fried bread croustades, and should also accompany roast pork or sausages. Jam and Marmalade Hint. When making jam or marmalade add a piece of butter about the size of an egg before removing it from the fire. This makes the fruit look clear withoutaking it. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER BASEBALL The Boston Herald says: "Hugh Bradley, the oldest Red Sox first baseman, who tried to live on his reputation for being the first man to lift the ball over the left field fence at Fenway park, is hitting for .343 for Pittsburgh, in the Federal league." The New York World rises to remark: "The Federal league certainly did some great pickling when it chose this year to start a new enterprise which depended largely upon settled times and easy financial conditions for its success." . . . Instead of lumbago, two displaced vertebrae have been keeping Rollie Zeider, the Chicago Federal's third baseman, out of a number of games this season. This was announced after an examination by a physician. Manager Stovall of Kansas City is a wonder in some respects. He just can't help fighting on the ball field, but off it he is not so savage. He likes spirit and pep and he has his players battling for every inch of ground. ... Marsans'in junction case will not be tried until late in September. In case of victory, then Marsans will be available to play for the St. Louis Fede during the months of October, November and December. . . . Double-headers are the bane of the Pittsburgh club. Five times this season the Pirates have dropped two games on one day and they have yet to win both parts of a double-header. Frank Chance's prospects are rather peculiar. He has three Rays on his pitching staff—Caldwell, Keating and Fisher—but whether they are rays of hope or raise of salary isn't certain. Unless he shows a decided improvement, Marty O'Toole is not likely to mingle much longer in polite circles. It is rumored that Clarke has asked for waivers on this spitball pitcher. The New York American remarks that "headwork plays an important part in baseball, but when Buck Weaver tries to stop balls with his eyebrow he carries it too far." . . . Without a 300 hitter, a leading rungetter or a prominent base-runner in the line-up, the Boston Braves climbed from the cellar to the first division in the National league race. Pitcher Vean Gregg didn't lose any time in taking the cudgels in behalf of the Red Sox. It appears from his brief stay on the platform that others also took up the cudgels. The Senators say Harry Harper is certain to make a great pitcher in time. The youngster has had but a few chances to get experience and hence is handicapped. Scout John McCloskey of the Reds has reported back from the road with an armful of dope on promising young athletes whom he has discovered in his wanderings. Cleveland is safe in one respect. It never can be said that after being traded to the Red Sox Vean Gregg turned in and beat the Naps out of the pennant. Two years ago Johnny Enzmann was pitching vacant lot ball in Brooklyn. Now he's assured a three-year job with the Brooklyn National league club. . . . Fred Claus, a brother of Bert Claus, the southpaw pitcher with Detroit last season, has been added to the New Haven club's roster. Say, he Philadelphia North American: "Asking wavers on Nap Lajoje seems as pathetic as ballfits putting an old man out of his home." A tour of South America this winter by the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants is being considered by Charles A. Comiskey. The acquisition of Twombly and Daniels has strengthened the Red outfield so that it is in the best shape it has been this season. Bert Daniels made an auspicious entry into the ranks of Herzog's Reds, he making nine put-outs in his first game and three hits. Helinie Wagner thinks he will soon be able to join the Red Sox. His elbow is still bandaged, but he engages in light practice daily. Pitcher Ed Walsh has come back with great ect, but not to such an extent that he can drive in runs with his pitching arm. The Detroit club has purchased Pitcher McCreary and Outfielder Marshall from the Butee club of the Union association. Rumor has it that Doc Johnston of the Cleveland Naps is to be traded to the St. Louis Browns within a short time. Connie Mack is trying to get Walter Johnson to go with his team to the Pacific coast this fall after the season. In trying to explain the Braves' feat of winning a game on one hit, a fan suggests that perhaps they bunched it. Rube Bressler, the youngster uncovered by Connie Mack, is working like a top-notch pitcher with the Athletics. Mollwitz, the Reds' first baseman, has a considerable reach for thrown balls either high or low. CLEVELAND HONOR BY JAMES TURNER Some of the Cleveland papers are making a tenuous campaign against the retention of Manager Birmingham, but Owner Somers is quoted as saying that he proposes to keep Birmingham in charge of his team. Somers says he is tired of changing managers and that he proposes to let Birmingham continue until he has had a fair chance to show what sort of a manager he really is. SPORTING WORLD Coach Jack Moakley of Cornell university, when asked if he would accept the position of trainer of the American Olympic team to the Berlin games in 1916, said: "Of course, I would accept such a position, providing, of course, it was offered to me. What trainer wouldn't." --- Foreign golf authorities have started an agitation to have all the matches in the championship match play at 36 holes instead of 18, the latter distance being considered too short for championship contests. Over fifteen hundred tracks in the United States and Canada are devoted to the racing of harness horses, and more than ten thousand horses compete annually for $3,000,000 in purses. George Bonhay, the former long-distance runner, has been selected to coach and train the track team of the Irish-American A. C., of New York. He will succeed Lawson Robertson. The Walkers' club of America, with headquarters in New York, wants the Amateur Athletic union to add a 25-mile walking race to the national championship event. The university's freshman football schedule has been reduced from seven to four games for next fall, as a result of the new plans for interdormitory competition. The big crop of English and French pugilists will find that dodging bullets at about fifteen cents a day and side-stepping 200 a minute are far less fast pastings. . . . Southern California sportmen plan to raise money by popular subscription to build a 12-meter yacht to compete in the international races in San Francisco next year. Alfredo de Oro has been challenged for the trophy emblematic of the three-cushion carom billiards championship by George W. Moore. Pecoria, Ill., plans to lay out golf links for the free use of the public. The municipal course will be located in Madison park. Rockside, the famous race horse of a decade ago which died recently in Paris, was insured with Lloyd's for the sum of $150,000. Willie Kolehlmainen, the professional long distance runner, is reported to have opened a cigar store in Edinburgh, Scotland. Chelsea, England, proposes to put a winning soccer football team in the field next fall if money can accomplish that purpose. In one of the bloodiest battles seen in Boston in years, Al Delmont defeated "Tiger" Young of New York in ten rounds. Mike Gibbons has turned down a contract for three flights offered him in Australia by Promoter "Snowy" Baker. One direct result of the war is the calling off of the international chess tournament. This is a hard blow to The New York Yacht club has 580 yachts enrolled. Of these 110 are motor yachts under sixty feet in length. Murphy says if Peter Volo is not the stallion champion before snow flies, he will be greatly surprised. Wouldn't it be nice if all the German, Polish and Turkish wrestlers were drafted to go to war? Miss Dorothy Becker of San Francisco, a youthful swimmer, can dive in 83 different styles. One rope player declares it requires 35 years to learn the game. Wall, that's 35 years saved. Grantton Boy has lowered the trotting record of the Canadian northwest to 2.111%. DIDN'T WORK WELL Experiment in Altruism Might Have Been All Right But for the Circumstances. When Danvers and his friend Barlow came into the car Danvers was talking. "I have come to the conclusion," he said, "that the only Christian way for people to get about in these crowded cars is to stand in relays. It looks hogsish for one set of passengers to occupy all the seats all the time. There ought to be a general shaking up every five minutes and give the straplenders a chance to rest." "It wouldn't work," said Barlow. "It would turn out like every other altruistic scheme. Some generous souls would be giving up their seats all the time, waiting for somebody else to do his duty. And besides, nobody would have nerve enough to qualify his offer with the five minutes' conditional clause. "I would," said Danvers, "and the first chance I get I am going to test the scheme and see how it works." He found a chance before he got home. Somewhere in the shopping district two women came into the car. One of them sat down beside Danvers; the other, finding no vacant seat, stood in front of him. Barlow nudged him maliciously. "Now is your opportunity," he whispered. Danvers sat still for a few minutes, watching the woman's swaying, lurching figure. Presently he said: "Madam, I will give you this seat and I will give you if you will promise to give it back to me at the end of five minutes." The woman lunged helplessly into Danvers' lap. "I beg your pardon," she said. "That sudden turn—oh, yes; I'm all right now, thanks. What was it you said about five minutes?" Danvers repeated his offer. "That is very kind of you, I am sure," she said, "but I feel that I ought not take the seat. If you are ill and think you won't feel like standing more than five minutes at a time, perhaps you had better sit still." Danvers blushed. "I feel well enough," he said, "but it is a conviction of mine that no one rides in street cars ought to be obliged to stand longer than five minutes at a stretch. Are you willing to accept this seat, under those conditions?" "Certainly," said the woman, "You are very thoughtful to offer it at all. What time is it now, please." I haven't got my watch," Danvers replied, as he chuckled the dangling strap, "and that's not matter. It will be just five minutes to get from here to the city hall. I'll keep an eye open for that. When we get there I will let you know and you can give me a show again." "Very well," said the woman, and she resumed the interrupted conversation with her companion. At Thirteenth street there was a blockade. By the public clocks in the neighborhood it lasted just 20 minutes. At the end of five minutes Danvers began to fidget. At the end of ten minutes his impatience became audible. "Ah-m-m-m," said Danvers. "Confoundedly by this." The woman checked her flow of speech. "Have we got to the city hall yet?" she asked, innocently. "To the city hall?" said Danvers. "Great heavens, we haven't budged an inch for minutes. How on earth did you expect us to get to the city hall?" "Dear me," said the woman, "how provoking. These blockades do delay one so. When we get there let me know, please, if I don't happen to notice it myself. I promised, you remember, to let you sit down again when we got to the city hall." Barlow snuckered. "Yes, I remember," said Danvers. "I spent minutes later they reached the city hall." "Madam," said Danvers. "Ah, here we are," said the woman. She arose and Danvers sat down. "Madam," he said, "you seemed to forget that there were two strings to our agreement, one relating to time, the other to place. You disregarded the time. You knew something like twenty-five minutes. I shall be equally inconsiderate. I shall not relinquish this seat at the end of five minutes." "Oh, that's all right," said the woman. "I get off at Fifteenth street, anyway." "What did I tell you?" said Barlow. "I told you you would get the worst of the bargain." "Dadnuts" counted on blockades." said Danvers wearily. "The next time I can't please to mention particular corners, also not to make a bargain of any kind with a woman." Curious School Custom. A curious feature of the "Fourth of June" celebration at Eton, the famous English school, is the presence-there of six boys from Westminster school. They are there every year on the official understanding that they will be back at their teatime at six o'clock. Every year the head master of Eton telegraphs to the head master of Westminster to say that the boys cannot return in time, and may they stay for the fireworks, and every year the head master of Westminster telegraphs to the head master of Eton that they may. It would be interesting to know the origin of the visit. Their Proper Sphere. An old lady was gazing at illustrations on the fashion page. "Suggestions for the summer girl's wardrobe! Humph! They are all right for the wardrobe, but they ain't fit for the street."—Detroit Free Press. Ocean Cable Figures It takes three seconds for a cable message to cross the Atlantic from England. Cable costs about one thousand dollars a mile to lay and the total amount laid at the bottom of the sea represents a value of $250,000,000. MEDICINE IN 1848 Science at That Time Very Much in Its Infancy. Noted Physician Tells of His Experiences When Anesthesia Was Something Just Discovered and Not in General Use. Did you ever hear the phrase "the shotgun prescription?" This is the way the phrase originated, says Dr. Stephen Smith, one of the most distinguished and oldest physicians of Manhattan: "When began the study of medicine, in 1848," said Doctor Smith recently, "its principles and practices were primitive compared with the present. Diagnosis was based on observation, and medical treatment on the basis of the principles of no two persons have the same power, and there was no laboratory with instruments of precision to determine doubtful questions, diagnosis was uncertain. In medicine, drugs were given in bulk, as organic chemistry had not analyzed and separated their constituent parts. Shovel in the bark,' was the advice given to a patient referring to the use of clinchona bark. The ordinary doctors, particularly in the out-of-town districts, carried about saddle bags distended with bulgy drugs in their crude state, the aroma of which scented the air so that his coming was known before he was visible. It was the day of the famous 'shotgun prescription,' consisting of ten or more different medicines in one dose, which, despite being sure, was 'sure to kill some alleged.' "We occasionally hear of the doctor of that day who, when he began practice, had ten remedies for one disease. The fact is that he had so much trouble making the patient take different medicines that he combined them in one dose, and hence the remedy for ten diseases, or the 'shotgun prescription'." The course of surgery at that time seems now to have been in its infancy. Anesthetics had just been discovered, but were not in general use, and antiseptics were unknown. I saw patients operated upon without anesthesia, being held in position by strong men, and the struggles and screams of the victim and his pathetic appeals to the operator still linger in memory like a nightmare. In the light of that experience the great operations of former days read like miracles, and seems credible. The same Mott could have successfully placed a ligature around an artery close to the heart, or Roger could have tied the left subclavian near its origin. "The modern surgeon who operates upon his unconscious patient, and, perhaps, upon a bloodless limb, is exercising little more skill than does the surgeon in that pre-asleep period the vass suppurations which followed prevented the healing of the wound of the most skillful operation and often destroyed the life of the patient. Such a complication is not uncommon. Our surgery is now so precise in its details as to be ranked as an exact science." Gathered to Defend Country. One hundred years ago the State Fencibles, a volunteer corps raised in Philadelphia, marched from that city to the rendezvous at Kennett's square. When it was learned that the British had descended on Washington, great alarm was felt in every city along the Atlantic seaboard, and everywhere hasty measures were being taken for defense. The sending out of the State Fencibles was one of the steps taken by Philadelphia in preparation to resist an attack by the enemy. the corps was organized by Capt. C. B. Cible, a seaman of the Biddle Battalion in history as "the Quak or soldier." In his youth Capt. Biddle served for a time in the navy. As captain of the State Fencibles he took part in several engagements in the war of 1812, and was later appointed colonel of a Pennsylvania infantry regiment. Do You Know the Feeling? There are times when I grow tired of socialism and industrialism and syndicalism and Bergsonism and Nietzscheism and feminism; times when I do not want to be a reformer or an uplifier or even a public-spirited citizen, but I want to be a well-stored mind' and am tired of books and of talking about them and of urging others to read them. With much bandying about these become unreal; one is filled with doubt about them, about their very existence, at least about their importance, as in such a case as to be or puppy, the iliac leaf-buds, the bean seedling, the chrysalis, the frog—Robert M. Gay in the Atlantic. Tragedy of Parnell's Life. The tragedy in the life of Charles Stewart Parnell lay in the unhappy ending of all hopes for Ireland centered in him, and of all the promise of a well-ended mind, owing to the public discovery of his illicit love for the wife of another, when Captain O'Shea initiated legal proceedings for a judicial degree of separation on the grounds of adultery. The public sense of decency felt itself affronted, and Parnell was immediately doomed to lose all his popularity, and former usefulness. Birth of Great Ideas. Whether the story of Newton discovering the law of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple is true or not, it might have been. That is the way great discoveries come. The time and the man must be ready for them. But that the idea usually dawns as a sort of inspiration. False Silence. Remember there is a false silence which would be as shameful as any falseness of speech—William R. Rich arda. SPECIAL TO BYSTANDER. John H. Brown of Oskaloosa, died at his home on the second floor of his apartment at 218 First avenue, west, at 11:30 a. m., Thursday, Sept. 10, 1914, at the age of forty-one years. Deceased was a native of Virginia, a son of James Brown and Eliza Davis Brown. He has been in Iowa thirty years, twenty of which have been spent in Mahaska county. Relatives of the deceased are a widow and two small children, aged four and two years, a brother, Paul Brown, a sister, Rose Porterfield, and a niece, Miss William Porterfield, all of Oskaloosa. A Wish. To lie at rest on yon white cloud, A drift along the blue; Forget all care in that cloudland fair And think of heaven--and you. To lose myself in veiling mist Of cloudland's white and blue; Be lulled to sleep in a slumber deep And awake in Heaven—with you. —John R. Brown. FT. MADISON NOTES Rev. L. H. Owen, pastor of the A. M. E. church, left Tuesday for Chicago where he will attend the annual conference. Miss Anna C. Harper left Thursday for Carbondale Ill., where she will resume her duties at teacher in the public schools of that place. Rev. M. Payton expects to leave Thursday for Chicago to attend the annual conference. Mr. J. L. Johnson and son of Burlington were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Arnold last Sunday. Miss Jennie Harper is taking a business course at Johnson's Business college. MT PLEASANT NOTES. (Last Week.) A newwell social was given by the stewards Monday evening for Rev. W. W. Williams and wife. Rev. Williams left Tuesday afternoon for Chicago, where conference convenes. We hope our beloved pastor will return to us for another year. The Missionary society met at the A. M. E. church Thursday afternoon. After regular business light refreshments were served. The King's Daughters society met at the home of Mrs. Charles McCracken on Friday afternoon. After regular business refreshments were served by the hostess. All report a pleasant time. The building committee of the Second Baptist church gave a social at the home of Mrs. Vollie Thompson. Mr. Douglas Miller has returned to his home in Des Moines, after spending a week visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elias McNeal. Mr. Raymond Davner of Fairfield spent Sunday in the city visiting friends. Mrs. Rena Smith and daughter, Augusta, of Monmouth, Ill., spent Sunday in the city visiting Mrs. Horace Poster and Mrs. Jenett McCane. Mrs. Harriet Smith, Mrs. Belt Robinson and Rev. and Mrs. Eaves have returned from Des Moines, where they attended the Iowa and Nebraska association. They report a pleasant session. Mr. Harold Gooch of Ottumwa is in our city attending Iowa Wesleyan college. Mr. Harley Palmer has returned to the city again, after spending a few months in Sioux City. Mr. Johnnie Wicks has returned from Minneapolis, where he spent the summer. Mrs. Tilla Williams has returned home from the lakes. She was accompanied home by Mrs. Hartley Mitchell of Sioux Falls, So. Dak. Mr. Wilber Burnaugh has returned from a visit in Washington, Fairaeld and Ottumwa. (This Week.) Rev. Lesley filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church Sunday. The Missionary Circle of the Second Baptist church met at the home of Mrs. Harriet Smith Monday afternoon. 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People want to be amused, they want to get away from themselves; some of them want to get so far that they use liquor and drugs in such large quantities that they do not know where they are; and whether it is they or some other fellow that is going home. The churches want their pews filled, and a great many of us would be better off if we helped to fill them. The mystery to some ministers is whether it is they or some other fellow that is going home. The churches want their pews filled, and a great many of us would be better off if we helped to fill them. The mystery to some ministers is why the people do not come to hear about the terrible wrath to come. It makes most people nervous to hear about a wrath to come—especially married men; that is the reason married men go to church less than single ones. Boys stand on the streets and make remarks or get into mischief because they do not want to sit still; they do not even want to go to the movies. Youth calls for action, for movement, for exercise. No man will go out and ask boys, indiscriminately, to go to prayer meeting. They are infinitely more interested in prize fights than in prayers; they do not think so much of wrestling with the spirit as they do the fellow in the next block. If you get a fellow into the habit of going to prayer meeting it is only a matter of time until he will lead in prayer, at least that was my experience. If you get a boy into the habit of going to church six nights a week you need not worry about where his feet will take him on the other night of the week. But the churches are closed all the week and the boys stand around. Get a few sets of boxing gloves, a wrestling pad and a shower bath, with some man to keep order, and turn the young fellows loose. Make them come to Sunday school if they are to use the gymnasium and the collection will pay for the stuff you have bought. There is nothing cheap about a boy if he is getting some real action for his money. Open the meeting with a real short prayer and let them get some of the animal spirits tamed down. The Mormons open all their dances and concerts and young folk gatherings with prayer and have a few of the whiskered elders around to keep order; the result is that they have no problem about questionable amusements. The churches stay locked up too long and a fellow has to sit still too much for the average youth. If you cannot meet a man on his platform and gradually shift him on to yours his must be the better. The young fellows in this town want a place mighty bad. I started one once, but they put the skids under me and I haven't yet recovered. The good men who were worried about my church connection and consequently slipped the movement an overdose of sleeping potion should show their ability to construct as well as disrupt. The boys need some place to go to romp and have healthy amusement. 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How to promote better oral hygiene among the masses and how to create more unity of interest among colored dentists of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia were some of the important problems that were thoroughly and interestingly discussed at the second annual convention of the Tri-State Dental association, which recently held a three day session at Bay Shore hotel, Buckroe, Va. "The best ever" describes the 1914 convention, and Buckroe Beach has been selected for the next meeting place. Dr. D. A. Ferguson, Richmond, Va., called the convention to order. The invocation was offered by Dr. Dudley of Roanoke. Frank D. Banks, head bookkeeper in the treasurer's office of Hampton institute, delivered an address of welcome, which was responded to by Dr. T. W. Edwards of Washington. Dr. Park Tancil of Washington read a paper on "Progressive Dentistry." The discussion was opened by Dr. D. A. Ferguson and was carried on by Dr. A. O. Reid of Baltimore, Dr. Dudley of Roanoke, Dr. E. L. H. Rance of Suffolk and Dr. R. C. Brown of Richmond. "The Lone Practitioner" was discussed in detail by Dr. T. A. Stevens of Virginia and also by Dr. O. R. Johnson, Dr. C. C. Fry, Dr. Dudley, Dr. J. M. G. Ramsev and Dr. O. A. Reid. Among the visitors to the dental convention were Lawyer J L. Pollard of Richmond; Rev. A. A. Graham, pastor of Zion church, Phoebus; Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, president St. Luke's bank, Richmond; Lawyer Thomas Newsome of Newport News, Dr. Dunstan of Raleigh, N. C. Dr. E. L. Hance read a paper on "Ethics in Dentistry," the discussion of which was opened by Dr. R. C. Brown, Dr. C. C. Fry spoke on "The Business Side of Dentistry." His paper was discussed by Dr. Reid, Dr. Barrier, Dr. Edwards, Dr. Dudley, Dr. Ramsey and Dr. Stevens. The nomination committee, consisting of Drs. C. A. Gray, A. O. Reid and R. C. Brown, reported the following officers for the ensuing term: Dr. D. A. Ferguson, Richmond, president; Dr. C. S. Wormley, Washington, vice president; Dr. J. M. G. Ramsey, Richmond, secretary, and Dr. A. O. Reid, Baltimore, treasurer. The following members were elected to the executive board; Dr. C. C. Fry, Dr. R. C. Brown, Dr. A. O. Reid, Dr. G. H. Butcher, Dr. J. M. Wilkins and Dr. E. R. Dudley. The names of new members submitted and reported upon favorably were Dr. S. F. Coppage, Dr. E. D. Downling, Dr. E. R. Dudley, Dr. W. T. Lovette, Dr. J. L. McGriff, Dr. S. A. Thomas, Dr. A. E. Gaskins and Dr. R. J. Brown. The convention indorsed Dr. R. C. Brown as a delegate to the international hygiene congress, including the oral and dental hygiene congress, which will meet in Lyons, France, Sept. 24 to 28. Delegates elected to attend the National Medical association meeting, which will be held in Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 25 to 27, were Dr. R. A. Ferguson, Dr. J. M. G. Hamsie and Dr. J. M. Wilkins. Resolutions on the death of Dr. Peter B. Ramsey of Richmond, who was an honorary member of the Tristate Dental Association, were adopted. BIG EVENTS OF THE MONTH AMONG OUR INSTITUTIONS Organized Business and Professional Men and Women to Compare Notes. August is the month of big annual meetings among our business and professional men and women and some of the large secret societies. The Knights Templars and Nobles of the Mystic Shrine have already held their conventions in Pittsburgh, likewise the National Association of Colored Women's clubs, which met at Wilberforce university the first week in the month. Simultaneously from Aug. 17 to 22 there will be held at Muskogee, Okla., the annual meeting of the National Negro Press association, the National Negro Business league, the National Bar association, the National Funeral Directors' association and the National Bankers' association. The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses will hold its seventh annual convention at Norfolk, Va., in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion church from Aug. 18 to 20, inclusive. The National Medical association will meet in Raleigh, N. C., on Tuesday, Aug. 25. The sessions will be held in the chapel of Shaw university. At Norfolk, Va., beginning on Tuesday, Aug. 25, the grand lodge of Elks will hold its fifteenth annual convention. ST. PAUL BUDGETARIAN. The State Federation, under the management of Mrs. Mattie Wade Hicks president, a most unique entertainment, entitled "Negro Women in History" at Pilgrim Baptist church about Oct. 15. Rev. H. P. Jones has gone to Conference at Chicago. Rev E. H. McDonald has been attending the National-Baptist Convention at Philadelphia, and is expected home soon. Mr. G. o. B. Love and lawyer W. I IOWA STATE BYSTANDER Francis are attending the Odd Fellows Council at Boston, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. J. Dodd spent a few days in our city last week enroute from Duluth to their home in Kansas City, as guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith of Thomas street. Mr. Oscar Claiborne, one of our boys of Spokane, is in the city, being called here by the illness of his son Carl. Mr. and Mrs. J. 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