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```markdown ``` M. H. H. ```markdown ``` IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. --- State Capitol Blvd Historical Room IOWA STA VOL. XXI NO. 25 DES MOINES OUR SURPRISED CHRISTMAS GREETING The Boston Market Co. to see such a large assortment of Loose Leaf Ledgers, Blank Books and Office Supplies at WHERE QUALITY COUNTS Meats, Poultry, Fish and Delicatessen Goods CREMO BUTTERINE Cuts your butter bill in half PHONE Walnut 763 320 Sixth Avenue ZAISER'S You are Welcome at 309 4th Street Des Moines, Iowa. WHERE QUALITY COUNTS Meats, Poultry, Fish and Delicates CREMO BUTTERINE Cuts your butter bill in half PHONE Walnut 763 320 5 You are Welcome at 309 4th Street Des Moines, Iowa. You can save 35 per cent by bringing your laundry to our office SUIT OR OVERCOAT TO-ORDER 15 NO MORE NO LESS THE GLASGOW 319-622 AVEDES MONESIA 203 Walnut Street 211 Fourth Street 704 Mulberry Street 306 Ninth Street 547 Sixth Avenue 1207 Sixth Avenue 772 Ninth Street 584 Seventh Street E. Fifth and Locust Streets Main Office 407 W. Grand Ave. North Western Laundry Unclaimed Diamonds Bayless I have on hand a lot of unclaimed diamond ear drops, brooches, stick pins and cuff buttons, also a nice line of watches, (ladies' and gents'), a line of rings for all persons. Anything that any person might desire in the line of jewelry for an Xmas gift. Before buying elsewhere come in and examine my stock. The above can be bought at about one-fourth the regular price. The Live Druggist S. W. TENTH AND CENTER Fancy Holiday Goods Candies, Soda and Hot Bullion Phone Walnut 4746 Mose Levich Pawn Broker 220 WEST WALNUT STREET Capital City State Bank MAPLE 1447 S. P. Johnson and J. M. Larson Good Work Guaranteed Bank Building, Cast Fifth & Locust Des Moines, Iowa—Established 1878 Capital, fully paid.....$150,000.00 Surplus and Profits.....45,000.00 Shareholders Liability.....150,000.00 HENRY WAGNER 'President J. A. ROGINNEY. Vice President D. J. VAN LIEW, Cashier GEO. W. RICHTER. Asst. Cashier Fike & Fike DES MOINES NEW and OLD BOOK DEALERS My EXPERIENCE YOUR GU'DE My GUARANTEE YOUR SAFETY W. H. LEHMAN "Iowa's Oldest Piano Dealer" Established 50 Years. BOOK DEALERS Books bought sold and Exchanged 307 4th St. Phone Red 1434 LEHMAN "Iowa's Oldest Piano Dealer" Established 50 Years. No prizes, puzzles or premiums of ony nature. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION ```markdown ``` Northern Artificial Trusses, Artificial Arms, Apparatus for Elevated Feet and Shortened Limbs, All Kinds of Brace Work for Deformities, Crutches and Elastic Goods. Phone Walnut 5347 312-314 W. Seventh St. Des Moines, Iowa THE VALLEY NATIONAL BANK Corner Walnut and Fourth Streets Combined Capital Surplus $650,000.00 What better Christmas present to yourself or your family than a savings account in this bank. R. A. Crawford, Pres. C. T. Cole, Jr. V. Pres D. S. Chamberlain, V. Pres. W. E. Barrett, Cashier 4 Per Cent Interest Paid What better Christmas present to yourself or your family than a savings account in this bank. Home Dressed Meat Market AT THE CITY MARKET First booth on second Floor, East entrance Home Killed Meats and Home Dressed Poultry Just from the Country Home Rendered Lard...15c Home Made Sausage...15c Pork Chops...15c Fresh Hams...15c OUR HOLIDAY NUMBER Hay, Feed and Coal Des Moines Iowa Twining's Drugs are Dependable OLDRELIABLESTORE Down Town Prices Eleventh and Center Streets Phone 294 Walnut Give Us a Chance to Please You HEADQUARTERS For Gifts that Men and Boys Like--Look Us Over. Willner's 413-415 Walnut St. PHOTO BY FRANK POURNIEF Willcox-Howell-Hopkins Company Hawkeye & Des Meones Fire Ins. Dept. of Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. Fire, Lightening, High Winds, Tornados, and Cyclones Surety Bonds and Accident Insurance Phone Walnut 1082 202 Central Life Bldg. We have had this car of holly selected and packed specially for our own trade. Get your order in early and we will deliver it when wanted. Price is only 25c per lb., 5 lbs. $1.00 Out of town orders securely and lightly packed for express. Price list of Christ mas Greens, Trees, Mistletoe and decorations sent on request. IOWA SEED CO. 209-21 St. Des Moines, Iowa EAST DES MOINES BRANCH, 416 E. Locust. Phone Maple 1252 PLACE YOUR ORDERS AT OUR MOST CONVENIENT STORE Guthrie-Lorenz Co. W. 7th and Grand Ave. Wal. 4300 Des Moines, Ia. Steak and Game Sets worth $1.50 Manicure and Sewing Sets worth $1.50 Special for Xmas at 98c G. G. Thomas Co. 509 Locust Street. CHRIS 819 LOCUST INDESTRUCK Trunks, Leather CENTRAL ST DES MOIN CHRISTY'S INDESTRUCTO STORE Trunks, Bags and Leather Goods CENTRAL STATE BANK DES MOINES IOWA RESOURCES Loans..... $2,531,778.89 Safe Deposit Vaults 20,000.00 Cash and Exchange.. 894,431.66 $3,446,219.55 Simon Casady, Pres. H. B. Hedge, Vice Pres. Simon Casady, Pres. J. D. Whisand, Vice Pres. H. B. Hedge, Vice Pres. Grant McPerrin, Cashier. THE NEW BARGAIN CENTER Oranskys Department Store 313-315 Walnut Street KODAK Prices from $6.00 to $60.00 Des Moines Photo Material Co. EASTMAN KODAK CO 517 W. Locust St. Des Moines Miss Detroit The Cigar that makes your nickel worth a dime C. C. Taft Co., Distributors For the best m and servicable Des Moines 412-416 West For the best most economical and servicable light see Des Moines Gas Company 412-416 West Seventh Street BLOUNT-B 1005 CENT All grades of dori at the yards ALL PHONE WA BLOUNT-EVANS CO All grades of domestic coal on hand at the yards ALL THE TIME Make it a TEL. WALNUT 202 Price Five Cents Hair Goods Such as I have never shown in my 35 years in city. Switches, Bangs, Wigs and Transformations F. W. Franz 705 Locust Street SUIT ON OVERCOAT TO-ORDER NO MODEL 15 THE GLASGOW 319-6TH AVEDES MONEXAL STY'S N STREET CTO STORE Bags and Goods STATE BANK NES 10WA LIABILITIES Capital Stock ..... $200,000.00 Undivided Profits..... 178,909.05 Deposits..... 3,067,301.50 $3,446,210.55 XMAS PRESENTS For Everybody Your Choice Free Fancy Salad Dishes, Hand Decorated Plates, Big Story Books, Dolls, Celery Trays Any one given with one pound of Baking Powder. Come in for your Coffees, Teas and Baking Powder and get your Xmas Gifts. 200 Stores, 4,000 Wagons Grand Union Tea Co. Phone Wal. 1091 504 W. Walnut Young & Wright Ladies' Furnishings Dressmaking 758 W. 9th Street "FOR 21 YEARS IOWA'S LEADING PIANO HOUSE." USED PIANOS BARGAIN PRICES Pease ..... $69 Ebony ..... 75 Erbe ..... 57 Everett ..... 90 Gable ..... 125 Buttell ..... 150 Garland ..... 175 $5.00 Brings the Piano $5.00 Month Pays For It. JONES PIANO CO. 807 Walnut. The Shops Bldg. is opposite us. most economical light see Gas Company Seventh Street SANTA end of your r and o. Valnut ht 'S ." ```markdown ``` AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Richard Holmes Allen, ninety-nine years old, who was born in Baltimore October 17, 1815, the son of Richard Allen and Jane Wilson, is thought to be the oldest colored man in Boston. He lives at 1 Hope place off North Russell sereet. West end. "It was only the other day I made up my mind to tell my life story, for I wanted to wait until I was 100 years old, but everybody that comes to see me said I ought to tell it now," said Mr. Allen, who in spite of his age looks well, sleeps well and is without a pain or ache, except once in a great while when he has a slight attack of rheumatism. Mr. Allen told the Globe reporter all about his record, as well as his life when he was very cruel treated on a farm five miles out from the city of Baltimore. His story is as follows: "My grandfather, grandmother and mother's two sisters were stolen from Africa and brought to Baltimore and sold in the Woodfork jail. "A sea captain by the name of George Thompson bought them and set my grandfather and grandmother free. My mother's two sisters were in the service of the captain's wife for 28 years. "After my mother was set free I was born. My mother bound me to her mistress until I was twenty-one years old. Her mistress' name was Elizabeth Southcomb, and her husband's name was John Plummer Southcomb. "In 1824 Captain Southcomb was lost at sea. I was put out with another man named Johnson—a white man, of course—in 1827. "I endured great hardship while with him, for he treated me very creatively. I stayed with him until 1835. He often came home drunk and abused me. "Once he came home from the city, and being engaged at something that happened to him, he took revenge out of me. This time he locked me up in a smokehouse for an hour. It was in the month of August, and it was the hottest day that summer." "He made a fire in the smokehouse. He called an old lame man named Stephen and told him I was baking to death in the smokehouse. Then he opened the door and called for me to come out, but I didn't come out fast enough to please him. "He had an idea that Mr. Stephen wished for him of his cruel action of me, but he didn't. Instead, Mr. Stephen and Johnson got into an argument, Stephen telling him he had no right to treat me in such a cruel manner. Mr. Stephen, as a result of the argument, struck old man Johnson several blows, knocking him down. "I was a small boy when I became free, and started out to make my own living. I have been with all kinds of people. I have been with sailors, gamblers, thieves, and have been with the very best people in the world." "In 1863 I came to Boston and enlisted to fill up the quota of Ward six under John S. Damrell. At that time I served in the Fifth cavalry. I am a member of Grand Army Post Robert Bell, whose headquarters are on Joy street. "During the Civil war I served in the Bucktail regiment of Pennsylvania under Captain Taylor. I was with my regiment at the battle of Bull Run, I During the National Negro Business league convention at Muskogee, Okla. it was stated that 2,000,000 Negroes living in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas now have under their control, as owners and renters, about $300,000,000) worth of farm property and own 60,000 farms, containing 6,000,000 acres of land, with farm property, land, live stock and farming implements worth $200,000,000. Eight million of the colored people of the South still live in the country districts, sometimes in the ratio of six or seven to one white man. Steel water mains which have been in constant use at New Bedford, Mass., during the last 17 years, have recently been inspected and show evidence of a life of more than forty-five years before corrosion destroys them. An apple tree owned by S. W. Alexander of Los Angeles, Cal., is exciting interest in the fact that, in the last year, it has had two crops, giving each time a different variety of apple. J. B. Reed of Ithaca asserts he has trained rabbits to dig up and eat all the weeds in his garden without damaging valuable plants. Two girls in Budapest who had decided to fight a duel over a young man with whom both were in love, have settled the matter by becoming engaged to the two men who volunteered to act as their seconds. The Jordan is the world's most crooked river, wandering 213 miles to cover 60. Henry III of France disliked cats so intensely that he was known to faint at the sight of one. Two other great generals, Marshal Saxe, the French soldier, and the duke of Schomberg, also held them in horror. A student board of health has been organized in Columbia university to improve eating houses and restaurants near the university. Champagne was discovered or invented 250 years ago) is France, in a monastery. also at another time served with the Fifth Wisconsin regiment." Mr. Allen pointed with pride to his uniform, musket and other war utensils, and said that when he died he will be buried in his full Grand Army uniform. Mr. Allen does no work, living on the pension he receives, and he says it is quite enough, even if these hard times, life has a value and daughter living, Mira Rachel Allen and Jacob Allen. --- Almost 8,000 young men and women, including 1,200 Indians, have already gone from Hampton institute into the South and West, equipped in body, mind, and heart to help their race get land; build better homes, schools and churches; and improve social and economic conditions. Many of the Hampton students have literally reconstructed, in many places, the existing community life and have brought prosperity to men and women by helping them increase their earning power, and showing them how to use to the best advantage the resources at their doors. Hampton institute aims to train Negroes and Indians to earn an honest living and serve unselfishly their respective races. The best white people throughout the South and West testify that Hampton has realized its aims and that they are firm believers in the value of the so-called Hampton idea of education. Hampton institute has set the pace for that form of vocational education which fits young people to work with skill and persistence, and also gives them a broad and sympathetic outlook on life. For 45 years under the efficient leadership of Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong and of Gen. Samuel C. Hampton institute has been training boys and girls for safe and sane leadership in business, in home-building, in improving church, home and social life throughout the South and West. Oklahonia institute has been called J. which is one of several prosperous Negro settlements, represents the idea of big business among Negroes. Thompson control 5,000 acres of farm land; furnishes employment throughout the year for many members of his race; grows crops that are worth selling; and employs the methods of scientific farming, and preaches the doctrine of keen a-pushing. The son of a slave woman, be began at the age of thirteen to farm. Today, at the age of fifty-five, Thompson actually owns 1,800 acres. He raises mules, horses, hogs and cattle. This is in contrast to his condition in 1871, when he stood on the porch of a renter's hovel and, looking longingly at the grass, he asked for mustard, sighed: "If we only had some meat, we could cook it in plenty of mustard." Logan Morgan, who lives within four miles of Muskogee, Okla., finds that no color line is drawn in the market against his 12 and 14-ounce Alberta peaches, which bring $2 a bushel in the orchard. His 21 years of experience in the Southwest have taught him the value of remaining quiet at work and of producing among other crops "peaches that are not cherished" by the man who married 20 years ago when he had only six bits and an $18 pony. Now they own 1,400 acres of land. A large, rich deposit of phosphate has been discovered in the valley of the Hauso river, about three hundred miles north of Valparaíso. Government engineers are preparing a report thereon, and it is believed to be of much importance, since the use of phosphate on the farm of Chile is increasing rapidly with good results. A New York homeopath, speaking at the recent convention in Atlantic City, said that conserving the eyesight was a phase of health conservation often overlooked. He said that 50 per cent of the blindness in this country was due to conditions that might have been avoided. According to figures published by the Monetary Times of Toronto, the sum total of American investments in Canada was $636,940,000 in 1913, as compared with $417,143,000 in 1911, and $279,075,000 in 1909. Eleven surveying parties will be sent out this year by the United States Geological Survey to investigate the mineral resources of Alaska. The "safety first" idea which has recently come into general practice on most American roads is an old one in Germany and other European countries where the practice extends to every form of industry as well as the railroads. There are 692 pawnbrokers' shops within a radius of ten miles from the Royal Exchange, London. Egypt is adopting modern agricultural machinery after using the most primitive kinds for thousands of years. The Canadian Northern railway recently petitioned the Provincial government to guarantee an additional loan of $10,000 a mile on its lines in British Columbia, making an aggregate obligation of $25,000,000. Bartenders in San Francisco are conducting a campaign for one day's rest in seven, and in many instances their request has been granted. There are many indications that the ancient American Indians were good farmers. LauraJeanLibbeu's Talks on Heart Topics [Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate] FASCINATING STRANGERS WHO DUPE VAIN WOMEN. Where lives the man who has not tried How mirth can into folly glide And folly into sin? If all men were honorable and wom- en wise, there would be no folly to bitter- ly repent of. The majority of women are good, home-loving creat- ures. This goes without saying. But now and then we find a woman who does not lay aside her habits of coquetry as she dons her wedding clothes. Even havi- ng a husband all her own to admire and idolize her does not satis- fy her craving for the devotion of other men. MUCK Wherever she goes she casts an eager eye about see if there are other women who look as well and attract as much attention as she. Usually she finds more than one pair of eyes focused upon the picture of feminine loveliness she presents. Very few women enter deliberately into folly. They are most always drawn into it by slow degrees. It isn't every woman who feels bitter resentment she finds the eyes of a handsome stranger bent upon her with admiration. If she turns quickly away, that's the end of it. If she casts a peep again, and yet again, to note if the fascinating stranger is regarding her intently, the mischief has begun to brew. Should she see a woman she knows but slightly brow to him or stop to chat a moment with him, she jumps at the conclusion he is finding out who she is. The man who has marked out a valain woman as a victim manages by hook or crook to secure an introduction. He permits the affair to remain thus for awhile, bowing profoundly if they chance to meet. The woman's opinion of him changes. She is quite sure now that he is not the flirt she had imagined him to be. She does not consider it out of the way to chat with him, having had an introduction. True, her home folks have never liked the woman an acquaintance who presented them. So she does not think it worth while to mention the matter. She loves her dear plodding husband. But, dear me! John never knows whether she has on a silk or a cotton gown, a new and beating him or an old one. The vain woman lives on fattery. It is to her what dew is to the rose. The fascinating stranger pays her compliments. He admires her jewels, but tells her he is alarmed to see her with such costly gems on the street. He begs to take a cab, to see her safely home. Many a foolish woman has accustomed to take the cab. He keeps up such a lively conversation that she does not know or notice the street into which the cab threads its way. She chances to glance out. To her horror, she beholds that she is in a strange and dangerous part of the city. Before she can cry out, the gallantry of the stranger has suddenly changed. In a trice he tears the jewelry from her, stifles her screams with loud imprecations, snatches her purse and takes it from her, appearing like a flash around the first corner. She does well if she escapes a graver experience. The woman who goes through such an ordeal finds little pity from friends. She is roundly blamed by every one for her folly in being duped by the fascinating stranger and getting into such a trap. If, perchance, the fellow is caught, it is with difficulty that he can be punished, for he coolly throws all the blame on her. He declares, manlike, he was simply enjoying a flirtation with a pretty, indiscreet woman; that she had voluntarily given him the jewels to help him out of a business strait, etc. Wives who sigh for other men's admiration and foolish maledicts out looking for it should beware of handsome, fascinating strangers bent on duping them. SCANDALMONGERS AND A GIRL'S FAIR NAME. Alas! They had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth; and constancy lives in restraints above; you may be a fool, but you are not. And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. The most circumstance maiden needs to be careful of appearance when she gits a beau. If she lives where neighbors are inquisitive—in short, keep taps on her—it behoves her not to permit him to remain in her parlor gitter 10:30 of an evening. If she should remain out with him until the wee sma' hours, the scandal-mongers would be sure to put their heads together, surmising every other reason which kept her out except the right one. She may not have thought it needful to explain to her dear neighbors that she had been detained at the bedside of a relative who was ill, and that her solicitor looved waited patiently to escort her safety home. If the neighbors copy a shadow on the curtain revealing a devoted pair kissing each other good night, she does not feel called upon to explain that it was that same dear old auntie who had put her arms around him and kissed him, she thanked him for his devotion to her at the time she so needed it. It does not take the scandalmongers long to pick the best of reputations to shreds. There's nothing, unless it be the down of a tittle, that is let loose at the slightest far, which files about as IOWA STATE RYSTANDER quickly as gossip concerning a pretty girl. If one of the women has casually remarked to the young man, "She is a very nice, merry young woman, don't you think?" and he has answered, "No nicer than an ought to be," the most illmeaning of the movie to pick at. The lover soon finds that he has a duel before him. The girl's uncle calls him on the telephone; asks him what he meant by clouding the character of an innocent young girl by giving out such a villainous falsehood that she was no nicer than she ought to be. Of course, the amazed lover was able to explain with alacrity to the infuriated uncle that he had declared the young lady was no nicer than she ought to be, for all sweet, more young girls were nice. That was what is expected of them, and as it should be. He was dumfounded that scandal-mongers had been able to twist his laudatory remark into a scandalous meaning. It is unfortunate for a girl to have such interested people about her. If she does as near right as she knows how, that's the best that she can do. She shouldn't worry her brains over others' opinions. As for the women who pick other women's reputation to shred, it can be traced to the one source—envy. A woman of culture may be known by the fact that she always refuses to listen to a scandal. She may have a daughter of her own and cannot help thinking what if it were her child's reputation that was heartless being put down. She would be better world if the women addicted to gossiping would turn their attention to the faults in their own four walls; minding their own business, as it were, and letting others do the same. Girls, on their part, cannot be too careful to win golden opinions, and carefully avoid the appearance of bold frivolity. They should not flutter like a moth around a dangerous flame. A girl's reputation is more precious to her than the costliest jewel. HER NEAREST, DEAREST FOE. My very chains and I grow friends, My very chains and I grow friends, To make us what we are; give I Regained my freedom with a sigh. It is natural for a girl to be fond of a chum, but the trouble is some maidens do not choose their bosom-friends wisely. There is a class of girls who have a deep-seated influence over a chum. Even though they show now and then that they might, if occasion demanded, sacrifice a chum for their own interest, they have woven the ties of their relationships so tightly around the other that there is no breaking away from it. A girl meets a nice young man, who becomes interested in her and asks permission to call. When he pays his visit he finds two pretty young girls to entertain him instead of one. He is introduced to the chum, who is not averse to bringing herself forward, completely overshadowing his hostess. When this occurs repeatedly, the young man may be pardoned for the belief that the girl whom he has come to call on is not smitten with him and is really interested in making a match between her chum and himself. In fact, the chum leads him to believe this as he sees her home. Gradually he breaks off calling upon the girl who first attracted him, transferring his calls to the home of the chum. In vain for his coming confides to her false friend the misgivings which cause her heartaches. Her nearest and dearest foe drives in the wedge which severs them widely apart. Pride runs in, and the maiden who has looked and been pleased passes the young man with a cool bow when they meet on the street. It is pleasant for a girl to have a chum, but when the knowledge comes upon her that the chum is false to her, she should not tolerate her private affairs being dominated by her. Having an admirer may be the turning point of a girl's life. Friendship between man and maid is far too sacred for a chum to intertwine with. Many marriage has been shattered in this way. The blow deed by the hand of a friend hits a girlish heart the hardest, inflicting a wound which always leaves a scar in the shape of bitter memories. Girls are not to exchange confidence with one another in regard to heart affairs. While this confidence is usually respected, and is supposed to draw them nearer together, yet, if they have a falling out, the false chum will be able to end four hundred friends without compunction. There is no foe like the foe who was once a friend. If such a contretemps occurs in a girl's youth, her confidence in women and their motives is forever shaken. She will not even believe one who is for her good. She will lose faith in a lover, no matter how earnest he may be, if he casually makes the remark that a woman friend of hers is attractive. The chum who takes a lover away from another girl seldom ever finds that she has driven a good bargain with fate. Cupid is exacting, and usually pays her back in her own coin soon or late. Friendship is sacred; it keeps the warm and, next to love, is tender and sweet. In the lives of young girls, it has its dividing line, over which the one or the other should be too faithful and true of heart to cross. There are men enough to choose from without a girl deliberately planning, to take her chum's lower from her. It's a game that never plays out well. Pastor's Busy Life The epitaph on the tombstone of the late Dr. Rees Bronant, in Cardiganshire, sets out the following facts in Welsh: He christened 1,496 children, he had 1,792 persons, he held 8,000 people, 271 times on total abstinence, he paid hundreds of pounds of chapel debts by lectures. Natural Gas In Louisiana The geological survey says there is good reason to believe that Louisiana is underlain by one of the greatest of the natural gas fields in the United METHOD OF USING LINENS Heus-wives Have Different Ideas, But Both of These Are Leid- edly Good. What is your plan for using your lines? They are two are ways. One is to select a certain proportion of the articles and give them constant use, leaving the others untouched until the first lot wears out, thus rendering it sure that you will always have your articles. When the first supply begins to show signs of hard usage new ones can be taken into service. The other plan is to use your lines evenly, keeping them all in service, and employing them in rotation. In order to do this with the least trouble you may either put the fresh linen which comes from the wash at the bottom of the pile or you may each week take the articles you need from the loosest layer, placing the clean pieces on the top. This insures even wear for the whole stock. If you take your towels, for instance, from the bottom of the heap, you are sure to get those which were not last used, and each towel has its share of service.—Christian Science Monitor. THREE EXTRA GOOD SALADS Considered by Chefs of the Respective Countries to Be Among the Best Possible. Mexican Salad—Cut one alligator pear in half, remove the pit and pare it. Fill it with heavy mayonnaise, to which plenty of chopped walnuts have been added t. make it thick. Lay on white lettuce leaves and garnish with segments of grape fruit and heap some myrtanise in the center. German Salad—Boll and dice potatoes for salad in the usual way, add two tablespoonfuls of minced onion and a tablespoonful of chopped parsley. Make a boiled salad dressing and, when cool, add the juice of an onion small cucumber seeded and chopped. Mix in six eggs. Mix the salad, line the bowl with lettuce leaves, put in salad and garnish the edge with the eggs that have been dipped in some of the dressing. Put an olive ring on each. **French Salad**—Stuff stalks of enriched with roquefort cheese, let marinate in French dressing 20 minutes, slip a red pepper ring around each leaf, and green lettuce leaves. Add a little of the French dressing be fore serving. USES OF SALT Salt is a splendid cleanser. Freely used in the kitchen, it keeps sinks and vessels clear from grease and smell. The best place in the pantry for an egg is in the salt jar. Salt cleanses and brightens carpets. Sprinkle salt on an ostrich feather before recurring it before the fire with a knife. When a fruit or wine stain is made on the white tablecloth, cover it immediately with salt. Wash wickerwork in salt and water. Stand the stalks of flowers in warm and salted water to revive the blossoms. Put salt on the stove when grease has been spilled and raises a disagreeable smell; on the sink if vegetable water has been poured down. Baked Apple and Rice Pudding Sweet Apple and Rice Pudding. Mix a pint of milk lemon, a small piece of milk butter, brown sugar and three or four apples will be needed. Boil the rice in the milk with the cinnamon and when it is quite soft stir in a small piece of butter and enough sugar to sweeten and remove the cinnamon. Have ready some stewed apples, sweetened and flavored with the lemon rind, butter a pie dish, scatter some sugar over it, and then fill with alternate layers of rice and apple, beginning and ending with the rice. Put a few pieces of butter in the pudding and in fairly quick oven until it is browned. Serv hot or cold. If cold, turn out the pudding and put one-half pint of thick custard around it. Rice With Tomatoes One coffeecutt of rice, tablespoonful bacon grease, one large onion, four large tomatoes, four green peppers, half a teaspoonful black pepper, salt to taste; soak the rice until it swells. Put the bacon grease in a frying pan. Chop the tomatoes, onions, peppers and put all with the rice in a pan. Put it nearly brown. Add one pint of water and cook for about thirty minutes. To Cook a Meringue. Remember that what makes a meringue fall is a sudden draft of cold air. Brown a meringue slowly and do not let it cook until it begins to blacken at the tips and points. Then pull it to the edge of the oven and let it cool in the oven door, for a minute or two. Then remove it to a warm spot in the kitchen and let it cool slowly and thoroughly. It can be chilled in the refrigerator. Baked Bean Soup Put in saucepan three cupuels cold baked beans, three pints of water, two slices of onion, and two stalks of celery; bring this to 'the boiling point and simmer 30 minutes. Rub through a sieve, add one and a half cupuels of stewed and strained tomatoes, a tallow mixture, and a teaspoon of sauce, season to taste with salt and pepper, and bind up with two table-spoons frowned together. German Hamburg Steak Take one pound of hamburg steak, half a loaf of stale bread which has been soaked in hot water and the water pressed out, two cold boiled potatoes which have been run through the meat chopper, one small minced onion, salt and pepper and two eggs. Mix all together, shake into small round cakes and fry in hot fat—Mother's Magazine. To Prevent Milk Searching Before heating milk in saucepan always rinse the pan with water. It prevents the milk from scorching afterwards. The KITCHEN CABINET There is so much good in the worst of us. And so much bad in the best of us. That it hardly behooves any of us. To talk about the rest of us. cloth dampened with the alcohol, then follow with a dry cloth. An emergency funnel may be made with a piece of letter paper rolled in THE COOK'S FIRST AID. If in making fruit pudding the fruit does not hold out, add some stewed it pudding the fruit, it add some stewed rhubarb; it brings out the flavor of other fruits and adds the needed bulk. ```markdown ``` When making gravy from a roast of pork, add a beaten egg to the blinned flour and stir this into the bot fat. When frying potatoes break up any pieces of stale bread and fry with them. It is a good way to use up bits of pieces of bread which would otherwise be dried and perhaps swapped. When cream refuses to whip add a benten white of egg to it and let it stand until cold, then beat again and it will usually thicken. When croquettes refuse to stiffen add a little gelatin and let them harden. When fried the gelatin softens and they are as creamy as ever. 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Boynton; that the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of the above mentioned sale is now owned and held by the undersigned, Geo. Harnagel, and that the right of redemption will expire and a deed for said lot will be made unless redemption is made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. Dated this 3d day of December, 1914. Geo. Harnagel. NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE ON SPECIAL EXECUTION. State of Iowa, Polk county, ss. District court of Polk county, Iowa. L. M. Grimes vs. J. R. Muir, Jessie Muir, Home Loan & Investment Company (a partnership), Davidson Bros. Company, L. M. Hammans, Hugh D. Stewart and Mrs. Hugh D. Stewart, his wife, Polk county, Iowa. and Polk county, Iowa. By virtue of a special execution to me directed, issued by the clerk of the district court of Polk county, Iowa, in favor of L. M. Grimes, and against above named defendants, on a judgment rendered by said court on the 27th day of November, A. 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McCree, a registered pharmacist No. 8950, doing business under the firm name of the Model Drug Co., will present his written application to said court praying that he be granted a permit to buy, keep and sell intoxicating liquors for lawful purposes on the ground floor of a certain treestory brick building situated at the southeast corner of West Ninth and Park streets, in the city of Des Moines, Des Moines township, Polk county, Iowa, locally known as No. 757 West Ninth street, Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That said application will be on file in the office of the clerk of the district court in and for said county, on or before the 24th day of December, A. D. 1914, and said cause and application will come on for hearing at the January, 1915, term of said court, to be begun and held at the court house in the city of Des Moines in said county and state on the 4th day of January, A. D. 1915. Wade H. McCree, Applicant. S. Joe Brown, Attorney for Applicant. 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Presiding Elder S. B. Moore held his first quarterly meeting of this conference year at Mt. Zion A. M. E. church Sunday. He delivered three extraordinary, good sermons. The Mite Missionary society met Thursday afternoon at the church. They had a very interesting session. A very good paper by Mrs. O. Williams, "Power of Example." Many good and instructive points were brought out. They had a good attendance and interest is growing. Mrs. J. Cheshire received a package of pecans from her daughter in Oklahoma, Mrs. Tina Abner. The Benevolent club met with Mrs. Catherine Strawthers on the South Side. Eastern Star, No. 4, held their installation of officers in their new hall The Second Baptist church held communion services Sunday evening. They were well attended. Rev. T. J. Carr delivered a good sermon and all were lifted up. L. E. Hanger Wm. Aiken NEW Elite Restaurant New Reliable Place to Eat Meals 15c and up Lunches or Short Orders Served 304 W. 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Send 2c stamp for illustrated book. Humania Hair Company Dept 61 23 Duane St., New York CHRISTMAS SPIRIT A. J. Booker, M. D. The spirit of Christmas is contagious. There is happiness and good feeling in the air; one cannot help being affected by it; the spirit of the occasion is free without money and without price. Rich, poor, black, white, sick and well are affected and effected. In this is a great lesson, if we stop and think; it is the lesson of the finer and better things of life depending on our attitude of mind rather than on material possessions. Of the finer aid better things of life there can be no stint—things joyous, helpful and inspiring are free to every one who will put themselves in the attitude to receive them. Nearly all of us are better off than we think we all have greater cause for thanksfulness than we admit. Peace on earth and good will toward men brings more joy than any two factors on earth. These qualities are from the heart; if the heart is right and the ideals correct there can be nothing but happiness as a result. Ideals are everything. Some folks imagine that money will bring happiness; some folks have minds so set on the material benefits of Christmas that they lose sight of the spirit of the celebration entirely. If money were all or an essential to happiness then the whole of Europe would not be outdoing the barbarians of the early centuries. Power and supremacy have been the ideal and that is wrong. So with the man or race that puts money ahead of the only worthy ideal, which is love and peace and good will, which means good deeds and unselfishness. The person who puts the gift above the spirit in which it was given is not worth the thought prompting the gift. It is the spirit that makes one happy or sad or grateful. Tidings of great joy are brought to us with each awakening. He came to us ever laying emphasis on the spirit, on the ideal. Whoseover has been fortunate enough to grasp a part of the great truth he taught and exemplified has indeed found a pearl of great price. It is less a matter of loud profession than it is a quiet realization of harmony. This is the secret of drawing men unto one, not for power, nor for money, nor for any unworthy purpose, but for helpfulness. Therefore let us keep the feast. Let us have our hearts ready to hear the quiring of angels, by laying aside the gain and material side of the birthday of the King. He shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Everlasting God, the Prince of Peace, not for a day, but for eternity; so may we realize these purely spiritual attributes if we open our doors to the east. Nor money, nor presents, nor influence can bring to us the most potent factors for happiness. We wait for a season of the year to open our purses and memories of forgotten service, when we can make it Christmas all the year and bring nearer to earth the kingdom of Heaven. If you are happy and kind the contagion of good will toward men will be as effective in June as in December. This is the ideal of all our prayers and churches and spiritual striving. Let the Christmas spirit abide in your heart; let every day be the birthday of the King; bring forth the myrch of sincerity, the frank incense of truth and the gold of love as a gift and surely joy and peace and plenty will be yours through the length of days and you will dwell in the house of the Lord forever and the Christmas will be kept. VALUABLE HISTORY FOR THE NEGRO. Below we are publishing excerpts from General Andrew Jackson, given by Mr. Wm. Flemming, who was private secretary to Governor Drake, Governor Jackson, Governor Shaw, and who is recognized as Iowa's greatest statistician. On Sunday, December 18, 1814, Major General Jackson reviewed the troops at Mobile, and in an address read to them, the men of color among them were thus spoken to: Soldiers: From the shores of Mobile I collected you to arms. I invited you to share in the porls and the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you, for I was not uninformed of those qualities which must render you so formidable to an invading foe. I knew that you could endure hunger and thirst, and all the hardships of war. I knew that you loved the lank of your nativity, and that, like ourselves, you had to defend all that is most dear to man. But you surpass my hopes. I have found in you, united to those qualities, that noble enthusiasm which impels to great deeds. Proclamation to the free colored inhabitants of Louisiana: Through a mistaken policy you have heretofore been deprived of a participation in the glorious struggle for national rights in which our country is engaged. This shall no longer exist. 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To every noble-hearted, generous freeman of color, volunteering to serve during the present contest with Great Britain, and no longer there will be naid the same bounty in money and lands now received by the white soldiers of the United States, viz. $124 in money and 160 acres of land. The non-commissioned officers HARRIS-EMERY'S BARGAIN BASEMENT PERFECT VENTILATION SPECIAL VALUES EVERY DAY Warm Coats at $9.95 THESE coats are fashioned of warm serviceable fabrics, such as plushes, boucles, zibelines, novelty cloths, etc. and formerly sold at $12.50 and $14.95. All the newest styles, a good selection of colors—your choice at..... $9.95 Smart Street and Dress Skirts at Only $3.95 SERGE, or serge-and-silk skirts in plain tailored, yoke or Russian tunic models: the latter with plain or knife-plaited tunics and plain, or knife plaited under-skirts. 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Due regard will be paid to the feelings of freemen and soldiers. You will not, by being associated with white men in the same corps, be exposed to improper comparisons or unjust sarcasm. As a distinct, independent battalion, or regiment, pursuing the path of glory, you will, undivided, receive the applause and gratitude of your countrymen. To assure you of the sincerity of my intentions and my anxiety to engage your invaluable services to our country, I have communicated my wishes to the governor of Louisiana, who is fully informed as to the matter of enrollment, and will give you every necessary information on the subject of this address. Andrew Jackson, Major General Commanding, Headquarters, 7th Military District, Mobile, Sept. 21, 1814. BANJO SOUNDS. Dar's a time in human nature When de wor' seefs upside down; And you wander down creation With your face jess full of frowns Den you go to git you' banjo, Play a tune bo' sweet and soun', And you' frowns turn into gladness As you heah dat banjo soun'. How you' chillen gathah roun' you As you' fingers hit de string, Sendin' out dat blessed music, Clear grd sweet with somethin' strange. Den you heah some feet a movin' Guess you bettah look around, Dar, de chillen jes' a dancin', As you' blessed banjo soun's. And you takes you' banjo down, Cross you' knees and pick it softly Den de blessed angel soun's. But you see you' heat is risin' To do read Land in de skies And you 'min' jes goes to heaben And de ground where Mothah lies; Praise de good Lawd in His kingdom As you 'blessed banjo sighs. Melvin Tolson, Oskaloss, Ia. KEOKUK, JOWA. Mrs. Anna Holmes and Mrs. Ethea Goins spent two weeks in Chicago. While there they met quite a number of Keokuk people who reside there. Their stay was a very pleasant one. The funeral of Noah Scott, who died in Peoria, Ill., was held from the First African Baptist church last Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Scott was at one time clerk of this church, uniting when he was quite a young man. He is survived by one sisted, whose whereabouts we did not learn; two brothers, James Scott of this city and Charles Scott of Ottumwa. The wind-up of the big rally at Bethel A. M. E. church will terminate the 15th inst. with a game supper given by the Intellectual Improvement club. Indications point toward the Sunshine club as leading the race, with the Intellectual Improvement as a close second. Mr. Howard Burrell was baptized at Pilgrim Rest Baptist church last Sunday evening. Miss Lucile Morgan spent a few days last week at the home of her brother and sister-in-lay, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, of Carthage, Ill. Mrs. Julia Outlaw has returned from Missouri, where she went on business. Rev. W. W. Steward of Lawrence, Kans., is in our city for a visit with his brother, Moses Mann, whom he had not seen for twenty years. Rev. Steward is a venerable warrior in the ministry, being a former pastor of the First African Baptist church, familiarly known as the Seventh Street Baptist. Since being in our city he has delivered able sermons at both the Baptist and Methodist churches. Mr. Silas Kelles of Upton, Wyoming, is at home for a brief stay with his parents. His sister, Miss Nelle, is expected soon, also his wife, Mrs. Kelles, nee Miss Georgia Norwood, of Monmouth, Ill. This was quite a surprise Silas sprung on his many friends at home. Nevertheless if we were a little late in getting the news, we extend congratulations just the same. Mr. Greene Dandridge has returned from Davenport, Iowa, where he nee spent a few days visiting his daughter, Mrs. Lulu Lamb. A prominent marriage of recent date is that of Miss Cecil Johnson to Mr. Ora Bates. Mrs. Mary Brown entertained a company of young people in honor of the 15th birthday of her son, Wilbur, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Lucy Daly. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Battle have purchased a home on Nineteenth and Das Meines streets. Mr. Rufus Dandridge of near Summitville recently suffered a slight stroke of paralysis. Mr. Geo. Brainard is serving as juror during this term of court. Mrs. Eudora Ware and daughter, Dora, returned last week from Chicago, where they have been for the last two months. The Hannibal band will give a dance December 30th at Gibbons opera house. The Sunday school of St. Mary the Virgin will give a candy pulling at the People's Institute December 17. Bethel A. M. E. Sunday school will have their Xmas tree on December 24. have then Xmas tree December 28th. Union Lodge, No. 1, will give an entertainment on December 29. For Eczema, Tetter and Salt Rheum. The intense itching characteristi- of these niliments is almost instantly allayed by Chamberlain's Salve. Many severe cases have been cured by it. For sale by all dealers. ENTERPRISE. IOWA. NOTES. The Progressive club was entertained by Mrs. Frank Johnson last Wednesday. The Sunday school is preparing to have a program for Xmas. The older Christian people should realize that their future church will be just what they make it and should support the young people in every Christian effort. The Progressive club is doing good work for the church Mrs. Hazel Wim森, who was called to Buxton on business last Saturday, has returned home again. Mrs. W. D. Miller was in the Capital City on business Monday. Miss Ada Brown, who has been residing in our city for the last two months, expects to leave for the Capital City to resume her work. Mrs. F. B. Brown has returned from the Methodist hospital and is at the home of her son, Mr. Edward Brown. The merry wedding bells are soon to be ringing. Wait and see. Mrs. Wellington has been on the sick list for several weeks and is still ill. Sunday will be ejection of Sunday school officers. Mrs. James Toney is sugering from rheumatic troubles. We had a fire at mine No. 2, which caused the men to lose two days' work At this writing Mother Nature is spreading a beautiful sheet of snow. The young people are trying to do something in Enterprise. Sick Headache Sick headache is nearly always caused by disorders of the stomach. Correct them and the periodic attacks of sick headache will disappear. Mrs. John Bishop of Roseville, Ohio, writes: "bout a year ago I was troubled with indigestion and had sick headache that lasted for two or three days at a time. I doctored and tried a number of remedies, but nothing helped me until during one of those sick spells a friend advised me to take Chamberlain's Tablets. This medicine relieved me in a short time." For sale by all dealers. Let us all subscribe and pay for The Iowa State Bystander and stop borrowing your neighbor's paper. Braxton Hall—Showing boarding students in their uniform, the Piney Woods brass band and some guests from Iowa. 14 First Graduating Class—In the rear are some Iowa friends, the next row shows Mr. E. N. Taylor, the ex-slave who gave the first 40 acres of land (the school now has 427 acres) and $50 in cash (present value of the school plant is $25,000). Taylor stands in the second row from the rear on the left. THE SYRUP MILL. Feeding the crusher is Alfred Le altad, son of Father Lealtad of St. Paul, Minn., Principal Jones standing near, Farm Manager Mc-Gilberry at the pan. Over a thousand gallons of "ribbon cane syrup" was made up this year, a part of which was for white and colored neighbors. THE FARM General View—At the extreme left "Old Cabin"—the first building; next to it stands "Taylor Hall" academic building; just in front is large cedar tree, under which the school started and first classes were taught. The two small buildings in the center are the carpenter shop and blacksmith shop; then comes the bell tower and the large building is "Braxton Hall," the girl's dormitory. General View—At the extreme left "Old Cabin"—the first building; next to it stands "Taylor Hall" academic building; just in front is large cedar tree, under which the school started and first classes were taught. The two small buildings in the center are the carpenter shop and blacksmith shop; then comes the bell tower and the large building is "Braxton Hall," the girl's dormitory. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER Braxton Hall—Showing by Piney Woods brass band and a First Graduating Class, next row shows Mr. E. N. acres of land (the school no value of the school plant row from the rear on the le TH Feeding the crusher is at St. Paul, Minn., Principal J. Gilberry at the pan. Over a was made up this year, a p neighbors. General View—At the front is large cedar tree, u carpenter shop and blacksmith LAURENCE JONES AND HIS PIN- EY WOODS SCHOOL Iowa Man Making Good in Southland. An industrial or vocational school down in the pine woods of Mississippi is doing some good work for the colored people of that section. It is the "Piney Woods Country Life School," and is supported largely by the charitable people of Iowa and other northern states. The work is so different and so practical that it has won the admiration of everyone who is familiar with its method. Its founder and organizer is Laurence C. Jones, an intelligent Negro. He left Iowa for that district, and started the school without any financial backing. The people of that district are poor, and could give but little assistance; but Mr. Jones had the ambition, and he said to himself that "where there is a will there a way." The first classes were started under a cedar tree with its branches the only protection from sun or storm. Logs had to serve as chairs, and boxes as tables. When the weather became cold, bonfires were built to keep the pupils warm. But it was not always to be so. The buildings shown in the pictures on this page illustrate how the institution has grown, and it is still progressing. While nothing is fancy, everything is practical and of service in the good cause. The work of this school is different from that of most vocational schools. It is situated where the citizens must depend upon the farms for a living. Instructors have tried to give the colored pupils an education that would make them better farmers, more useful citizens, and intelligent voters. Attendants at this school had no money with which to pay tuition or buy supplies. The founder planned a way which helped them to help themselves and a method which enabled them to pay their way by working on the farm. In the morning, pupils study books; in the afternoon they are in the fields the shops, or the house, combining the practical with the theoretical—doing work that will pay their expenses. Girls learn to sew, to cook, to wash and iron, to make butter and do other household duties that will come to them later in life. The boys are taught how to plow, to cultivate, to handle carpenter tools, to repair machinery, THE SYRUP MILL. is Alfred Le altad, s. cal Jones standing no. over a thousand gallons a part of which wa the extreme left the rear, under which the backsmith shop; then c IN- and. noolippi colo the colo,"ari- thenthe nil- aucro. and ran-dis-lit the what day." under only logs as same the ways the now it is is of ent extreme left "Old Cabin"—the first over which the school started and first shop; then comes the bell tower and Why So Many Esper First---This store's im­satisfaction in the store. Second---Varieties are so whether the pr­ Third---It is a store of well as all those. Fourth---It is a store of five. Fifth---It is easy to bu­very floor. helpful, intelligent selecting gifts. This store feels gift which will appreciated by ing satisfaction. Why So Many People Prefer to Buy at Younkers' Especially in the Matter of Gifts to mend shoes and harness, to make brooms, and to farm. When supper is over, they study until 9:30 o'clock. Then the chapel bell rings, and a short prayer service is held before retiring. In the morning they are called at 5 o'clock, to begin another day of study and work. A summer program was planned, while two teachers conducted the farm and garden with the help of a few pupils. Rural school improvement associations, cooking classes, corn clubs and poultry clubs were organized. Mr. Jones worked in the north, spoke at churches, and met people in the summer, a horse, wagon, farm tools, winter clothing for the teachers, and also provisions were bought. When school opened for the third term, teachers and pupils told of their summer's work. One boy had built a tool shed for his father, another had raised ten more bushels of corn to the First---This store's impress stands for Quality. And there's a great degree of satisfaction in knowing that what you give or receive comes from such a store. Second---Varieties are so extensive that any name on the list can be provided for whether the price, one intends to pay, be much or little. Third---It is a store of world-wide resourcefulness. It is a store of useful gifts as well as all those high art novelties which are essentially for gifts. Fourth---It is a store of wonderful variety in gifts for Men, Women and Children. Fifth---It is easy to buy gifts here. The displays are full of gift suggestions on every floor. The hundreds of salespeople are ready with willing hands, helpful, intelligent suggestions and courteous treatment in the matter of selecting gifts. This store feels an equal responsibility with patrons, in the selection of a gift which will convey that degree of regard intended by the donor, and appreciated by the recipient---that expression of esteem which means lasting satisfaction in the deepest sense. YOUNKER BROTHERS Taylor Hall—Showing Boarding Students, Community Students and a Few of Their Parents. A Principal and Mrs. Laurence C. Jones and Baby Jones. Mrs. Jones was formerly Grace M. Allen of the Grace Allen Industrial School of-Burlington, Iowa. acre than his father or neighbors, one girl had conducted a summer school, and it seemed that all had done some good as a result of training gained in the country life school. Teachers are selected with regard to their ability to teach and to carry on industrial work in the shops, field or kitchen and laundry. Pupils and teachers are busy from the ringing of the rising bell until the retiring bell. At night some of the teachers conduct the night classes, while others keep up the office work. An effort is made to give a good common school education which will enable the boys and girls to read farm journals, newspapers and bulletins intelligently. Boys and girls are not given an education for city life, but for farm life, and the work is carried to the kitchen and fields, where the graduates will spend their future. At present there are ten industries in op- eration—cooking, sewing, housekeeping, gardening, agriculture, carpentry, shoe mending, broom making, printing and laundering. The attendance has grown to 169, and many have to be refused because of lack of accommodations. From the cedar tree and the lone cabin, the buildings have been increased to three large ones, a boarding hall which accommodates forty girls, a hall for school purposes, and a large barn for the stock. There are several smaller buildings for poultry, shops, laundry and other uses. These improvements have been made possible because of generous help. The entire plant is valued at $15,000. Students come from Alabama and seven counties of the home state. Some have to walk six or seven miles night and morning. Each year a conference of farmers is held at the school. CITY NEWS. We have had zero weather this week. John Spencer of Grinnell was in our city on business Monday. Remember The Bystander can now be had one year for $1.00. Mr. E. Shaw has bought the Dade Henderson barber shop at Eleventh and Center streets and he solicits your trade. Mr. Marion L. Gregory, who was called to Indianapolis, Ind., last week to the sick bedside of his wife, returned Wednesday, reporting his wife better. See the big musical program at St. Paul's A. M. E. church Monday evening, December 21st, under the auspices of the city convention of literary clubs. Mr. Fred Townsend, the physical director of the Y. M. C. A. of Buxton, has resigned and has come to our city, where he will soon open up a first class cafe under the Thompson hotel. Mr. Tolson, a chef, has taken charge of the Palace Sweet Cafe at Eleventh and Center streets, where he invites the public. See his adv. and menu elsewhere. Mr. D. S. Bailey of Tuskegee, Ala., the northern representative of the Tuskegee Institute, came to our city from Rock Island last week and is working in the interest of this great college. The twenty-fourth annual session of the Interstate Literary association of Kansas and the west will convene in Lawrense, Kansas, December 28, 29 and 30. Mrs. Edith Comely Strawthers and H. Gould are Iowa's representatives. The Rebecca Household of Ruth No. 339, will not have their regular meeting on December 24th, but will hold their meeting the evening of December 31st. All members are re- quested to be present on account of election of officers. The W. W. club of Ashbury M. E. church held their monthly reception at the home of Mrs. C. H. Wilson, 1323 Day street. Mrs. Roma Banks, hostess. Arr excellent program was rendered. Mesdames Thornton and Amos Adams were visitors and addressed the club. A dainty three- course luncheon was served, after which all returned to their homes feeling that the evening had been well spent. Rev. D. Phelps of Omaha, Neb., is in our city this week. He preached last Sunday for Rev. T. L. Griffith at Corinthian Baptist church. Rev. Phelps is a good man, well known in Iowa, as he has pastored at the Seventh Street Baptist church at Keokuk and at Colfax, Iowa. Prof. Laurence C. Jones left Thursday for his home in Braxton, Miss., after spending a few weeks in the north. Mrs. A. B. Brooks of Moberly, Mo., matron of Bartlett Industrial School at Dalton, Mo., is in our city in the interest of said school. She is also visiting with her only son, Mr. A. Brooks, on the corner of Fourteenth and Day streets. Mrs. Brooks is a representative race woman. Her husband was the oldest Mason in Missouri and organized the first Masonic lodge in Missouri, also assisted in organizing the Missouri Grand Lodge. She is a member of the H. of J. and O. E. S. Mrs. M. Wright of St. Paul, Minn., arrived in our city last week to enter into business with Mrs. Geo. C. Young, who has just opened up a first class ladies' tailor made and dress making shop at 954 W. Ninth street, where they will be glad to have all who need dresses made or ready made goods to give them a call. They are fine ladies. See their adv. elsewhere. A Me-ry, Merry Christmas to all of our readers. The churches of our city have joined togather as usual and will give a big Emancipation celebration on January 1st. A splendid program will be given. Everybody should prepare to attend. It will be held at the A. M. E. church. A special invitation is extended all the colored soldiers of the civil war, as reserved seats will be given them on the platform. Rev. T. L. Griffith and Rev. M. W. Alexander and Editor Harvey Ingham will be the principal speakers. The High School Girls' club will sing, assisted by fifty children from all the Sunday schools. MYSTIC THEATRE 5C 1th & Center Sts. 5C The Best Pictures will be shown each night. On Sunday afternoon and night we will present an especially strong Vaudeville Act. Ladies and children invited to attend. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS GLEE CLUB. On Sunday afternoon, December 6, at the residence of the founder, Mrs. S. Joe Brown, the life, and especially the lecture recently delivered by Mrs. wooker T. Washington in the city on November 30 was interestingly discussed by Miss Beatrice Turner, followed by the members. Mrs. Washington, who is president of the N. A. C. W., made a lasting impression upon the young ladies. Mrs. G. G. Nichols of this city, T. W. Wilson of Kansas City and Prof. L. C. Jones, founder and principal of Piney Woods Industrial School at Bruxton, Miss, were present and addressed the meeting On Sunday afternoon, December 13, the life and activities of Mrs. Mary Church Terrel, first president of the N. A. C. W., was discussed by Miss Mildred Griffin, Atty. S. Joe Brown was present and after complimentary remarks invited the glee club to furnish a number of musical selections for the Emancipation program on January 1st. Other visitors present were Clyde Rhoades and Arthur Wilson, each making interesting talks and asking that a club be formed for boys in order that they may have a place to spend Sunday afternoons and study the lives of our great men. These girls in addition to continuing their chorus work will make a study of the noted women of the race. Next Sunday afternoon they will discuss the life of the second president of the N. A. C. W., Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates, with Miss Harriet Alexander as leader. At this meeting at 4:30 at the Brown residence or the girls' social center the school boys have been invited to attend in the hope of being able to arrange for their entertainment and instruction on Sunday afternoon. EDITORIALS CHRISTMAS Again the scythe of time has brought us to the Yuletide season when the Christian world will commemorate the birth of our lowly Savior who triumphed over death and the grave and is the living Savior pleading the cause of fallen humanity at the bar of eternal justice. When we take a retrospective view of the past 365 days and are soon to celebrate the natal day of our Savior, we wonder if the human family has made any progress, if human souls and human lives are being reached and touched by our associations and if our woes and troubles have been enlightened and has the world been better. Me thinks, if I am permitted to judge, at the present time there seems to be little done by the advanced agents of Christian civilization to teach the great truth of the brotherhood of men and fatherhood of God. Fully one-half of the Christian nations are in deadly conflict in a great struggle and we have every reason to feel that there certainly cannot be any peace and happiness to those who are sad and we sit around the fireplace this Christmas and relate the sufferings that the warring nations are enduring and the hardships, trials and heartaches that must burn in the bosom of every civilized being for so great a destruction of human lives. Something must be done to put a stop to this great destruction of life and then in the future we should firmly establish the principles of peace and love on earth and good will to all men. As that can only be when we say, "Thy will be done" and not ours. A STEP FORWARD. The great race with which I am identified and whose ancestral freedom has only been about fifty years have indeed made a wonderful and marvelous progress and are endeavoring each day to become a great united race and a civilizing factor in the development of this world. In this quarter of century of progress I feel elated to note the evidence of the social uplift and the efforts in common that we may accomplish something. I have seen many of the individual members of our race develop their business from a small beginning until it is in fact a safe business. I have seen our people begin buying property, saving their earnings until they have paid for their homes and are remodeling and improving them, and within the next quarter of a century, at the rapid rate they are now going, I do not believe we shall feel ashamed of our history in America. SEGREGATION IN WASHINGTON D. C. As we have called your attention from time to time to the unfair methods that are being employed in Washington to segregating the government employees is still more ridiculous to our high ideal of civilization. If it were a separation of people on account of education or physical disabilities, we might well overlook that, but when it comes purely on account of the color it is indeed shocking that the chief executive and his cabin would tolerate such a thing in the employment of the United States government. A few days ago a representative of democratic Negroes called upon the president of the United States and their argument was so strong that he could not refute their arguments with reason and logic, hence he dismissed the meeting and stated that the representatives were too hot-headed. While that may be true, yet the conservatives of the race would not humiliate themselves to ask of him an audience, for they know would be useless to petition him to stop segregation while the present democratic administration is in power. The only way to stop it is to keep the democratic party out of power. So, my democratic Negro friend, takes notice of this. And when the opportunity comes, help to defeat democracy. Never in the history of our government has such a course ever been undertaken, such a ridiculous step. The Negro and the white man have fought on every battlefield together, they have worked side by side to build this nation from a desert to a great commercial and industrial field. They have prayed together and been educated together, and certainly in the name of justice they can work together. NEW BOOKS. This year will rank with former years in the production of new books. In fact I think that there has been published this year more new books with greater merit by Negro authors than any previous year. While I cannot nor do I know of any one person who can do a complete list of new books printed by Negroes this year, but I will give a few. First is "Prince Frankels Say YOU WILL have to go some if you beat "Frankels" Suits and Overcoats THEY have more "pep" than you've ever seen—and not so expensive either. $15 or $20 will take home a Cracker Jack, and they are guaranteed to give Lasting Satisfaction. "The Store for Boys" BOYS all wool Knickerbocker Suits, made Norfolk Style, with two pairs of roomy cut, full build Knickers special value ... $500 A Merry Christmas Frankels A Happy New Year Hall and His Followers," by George W. Crawford, 32d degree Mason. Mr. Crawford is a well informed Mason, a graduate of Tuskegee, Talladega and Yale law school and was clerk of the probate court of New Haven. Price of his book is only $1.00. "Battles and Victories of Allen Allenworth," 1: Charles Alexander, is one of the very latest out. Lieutenant Allenworth, A. M. Ph. D., was lieutenant colonel retired of the U. S. army. He founded the town in California that bears his name. It is indeed a beautiful story told of his long, eventful and remarkable life from a slave pen to a colonel in the U. S. army. Mrs. Alice Moore Dunbar, the wife of Paul Dunbar, has a very fine book out, entitled "Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence," which contains fifty-one of the greatest speeches of the ablest Negro men and the globe. There are 512 pages. "A Pullman Porter's Memoirs," by Jack Thorne, is an attractive little book covering ten years: the Pullman service. This is another book entitled "The Curse of Race Prejudice," by James F. Morton, Jr., A. M., which I am told, is a beautiful little book championing equal rights of all people. The Major John R. Lynch, recently retired from the U. S. army service, who o was the first colored U. S. paymaster in this country and the only Negro who was temporary chairman of the national republican convention, was speaker of the house of representatives of Mississippi and served in congress from Mississippi has just published a new book, which is perhaps the best of all the new books this year. "The Negro Culture in West Africa" is the name of a new book just published by George W. Ellis, K. C. F. R. S. S. 3000 State street, Chicago, Ill. Hon. G. W. Ellis was for eight years secretary of U. S. legation in Liberia, and author of other publications of note. A GREAT BOOK ON THE NEGRO QUESTION. By Prof. Charles Alexander. Every reader of this journal should have a copy of "Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth," the great book just published by Sherman, French & Company of Boston, Mass., written by Prof. Charles Alexander of Los Angeles, California. This wonderful book contains the narrative of the life of Colonial Allen Allensworth, who rose from the lowest levels of degradation in slavery to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the regular army of the United States, the highest rank yet attained by a colored man; and it also contains the history of the Negra race from the beginning of the slave trade in the United States up to the present time. This book is written in the most fascinating style, with bits of moral philosophy and sound wisdom, altogether admirable. It is intensely interesting to readers of every class. It is one of the really great books on the Negro question—a most valuable contribution to our historical literature. Orders sent to Prof. Charles Alexander, 502 Thorne Building, Los Angeles, California, will be given prompt attention. The book contains over 400 pages and sells for $1.70 postage prepaid. Books of this kind usually sell for $3.00. Agents wanted. BUSINESS LEAGUE. The local Negro Business League held one of the best monthly meetings that they have ever held at Union Congregational church. While the weather was below zero yet there was the largest crowd of representative men that ever met. Rev. T. L. Griffith read a paper upon the subject "What Effect Has the Evangelist Billy Sunday Been Upon the Business Enterprises of Our City?" It IOWA STATE BYSTANDER was discussed at great length. The visitors present and who made short speeches were Rev. D. Phelps of Omaha, Neb., D. Baily of Tuskegee, Ala., the northern representative of Tuskegee Institute; Prof. L. C. Jones, president of the Piney Woods Normal and Industrial School; Atty. Geo. H. Woodson of Buxton, John A. Spencer of Grinnell and Mr. Shaw of this city. A resolution was passed denying the statement alleged to have been made by Chief of Police Ed Crawford that 25 per cent of the colored race were doe users, also one protesting against the suspension of Mr. C. R. Riley from the police force. A WORD TO OUR READERS A WORD TO OUR READERS. After wishing you all a Merry, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year I want to call your attention to some of the special and interesting features of The Bystander Holiday Number. First, read closely the write-ups of the colleges and schools. Second, read the special articles contributed especially by Rev. Timothy Reeves, formerly pastor of the A. M. E. church here. Third, read our many ads, in this issue and patronize them and tell them that you saw their ad. in The Bystander. Fourth, subscribe for The Bystander now while it is only $1.00 for one year, and those of you who owe for this year please send or call in and pay us. Thes we can more fully say Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to you. THE PRESENT ASPECT OF THE DARKER RACES SHOWS AN AWAKENING OF SPIRIT AND MIND. This means that the races are beginning in earnest to settle down and fill their missions and take their places among the other races, and do more and better service in the world's work. While visiting among my members a few days ago I came across an educated Hindu, who called me and asked me if I was a minister. I informed him that I was. We soon entered into a conversation, and it was not long before that I discovered that my Oriental friend was of a trained mind and therefore interesting to talk with. We finally drifted into the subject of religion and I soon found a great difference in our faith. His being in himself and material things; and mine was in the Supreme Creator of man and the things of God. My Hindo friend held that the totality of hindo and force were God and that when he died this would send him up in the scale of until he reached that for which he had a liking and with which he could balance. I held that God was omnipotent, omnipresent, personality, and held the destiny of the spirit of man, by grace through faith in hessum. However, I was pleased with the measure of his mind and he seemed to be pleased at meeting me, and would have me go home with him and meet his wife, who was an Oriental and very pleasing in manner. The refinement and depth of these people's find predicted the above theme. His black brown face and straight black hair told the story of our race kinship. While his mental culture told of his cogent powers and possibilities of our race. This enlarged my hope and made my heart burn and stirred my race pride and widened my vision. As my mind sweeps that vast coast of my race habitation from the far off Abyssinia and back to America and saw the former building a nation and the latter crouching beneath their tremendous load and adjusting themselves to their environment, I said to myself that it is soul that matters after all. The American Negro has in the last twenty years been forced to earn an honest living at a greater disadvantage than any other class of American citizen. But how well they are doing this one needs to consult the government census. This means race endurance and a knowledge of environmental adjustment. The people of better opportunities to earn a living nad who know the few afforded the Negro are astonished at him existing, much less accumulating anything. But the God who led the ancient Jews through the wilderness is with the Negro and is paving the way for him to earn an honest living by the sweat, of his brow. The race must not forsake the Lord God of Heaven, for He careth for it. The fewness of the opportunities afforded him to make a living is an element in the Negro environment the adjustment of which is causing him more exertion than ever before. The condition came upon him almost unaware and caught him almost unprepared to meet it. It was a part of the whole American economic system which has changed its attitude toward the Negro. This change puts the Negro out of many employment he had followed and he found it a difficult matter for him to find anything to work and to hold it. Many of the members of Wayman Chapel are juniors in large apartment buildings, which are heated with the most modern improved plants, equipped with high pressure boilers and immense reservoirs for hot and cold water. To handle these it requires a deal of mechanical skill. And it is a pleasure to me to see men of my race running this is race progress, that kind by which the race is sustaining itself and is preparing to make employment for itself and kind. The bootblack is making an honest living with his brush and street cleaner with his broom, the hodcarrier with his hod, the ditch digger with his spade, the carpenter with his tools, the blacksmith with his tools, the janitor with his tools, the grocer with his, the dry goods merchant, the tailor, the plumber, the electrician, the railroad brakeman, the lawyer, the doctor, the farmer, the minister and the washwoman by their honest and intelligent service under God is working the problems of their race; are demonstrating the race's ability to care for itself, and to drive away the fear that this nation has that the Negro is to become a ward of this nation. The American Negro is beginning to save his earnings and to accumulate property; is making business and is giving employment to his youths. The race is beginning to learn to patronize its own people's business. But he needs much improvement in this particular. OBITUARY OF MRS. MARY JANE WHITE. (Mother of Rev. E. S. Jackson.) Mrs. Mary Jane White was born somewhere near Edwardsville, Ill., about the year 1840. She moved early to Fox River Valley with her parents in the early fifties. On March 5, 1855, she was married to the Rev. Wesley Jackson and moved to Racine, Wis. Three children were the issue of this marriage, Robert, Edward and Josephine. Her husband died in September, 1861. She then moved to Chicago with her children and lived there until about 1870. In the year 1870 she was married to Mr. Chas. C. White of Chicago, Ill., and they lived happily together until his decease about five years ago. After which she moved to the home of her son, Rev. E. G. Jackson, with whom she came to Des Moines on October 4th, being sick at the time, which sickness continued with but slight improvement until she passed away last Sunday morning, December 13, about 9:45. She had been a member and worker in the church from her maidenhood. Her membership in Quinn Chapel, Chicago, Ill., covers a period of more than fifty years. She followed the dressmaking business during her widowhood and only gave it up after the decease of her second husband, Mr. White, when she went to make her home with her son, Rev. Jackson. She leaves a sister, brother, one son and granddaughter, three nieces, one nephew and a sister-in-law, who mourn her departure, together with many friends in Chicago, Batavia, Aurora, Elgin, Waukegan and Evanston, Ill., also of Minneapolis and Moines. She was fully prepared for her passing, having said to her son and granddaughter that all had been done for her that could be done by human power and she was ready and willing and waiting for her Savior to take her away. Her trials are over, her pains have ceased, she has gone to meet loved ones who went before and awaits the coming of those whom she leaves behind. Peace be to her ashes and rest unto her soul. A brief service was held at the home where she passed away, after which the remains were taken by her son to Batavia, Ill., and interred in the same lot with the other members of her family who have preceded her. Prescriptions carefully Compounded, Founded under a cedar tree in the black belt of Mississippi without rainy, land or friends in 1909 by Laurence C. Jones, graduate of the Marshaltown high school and State University of Iowa, 1907. Through constant prayer, hardships often to Likly Luggage Co. 721 Locust Street Host of Unusual Values in Beautiful Gifts in Leather Goods From 25c to $100 Hand Bags, Manicure Sets Toilet Cases, Collar Bags Game Sets, Traveling Bags Trunks, Suit Cases, Etc. the extent of physical suffering and with the helping hand of many good people the little school in the piney woods now has 427 acres of land, 3 buildings, 200 students and teaches in extension work over 5,000 struggling freedmen. Needs—Money in any sums; one dollar is helpful. Every ten dollars buys an acre of land, which enables more boys and girls to work for their education, which they, because of poverty, could not obtain otherwise. Can you not give an acre and still live? We need 253 acres more. Old clothing is also helpful. Ship by freight to Braxton, Mississippi Industrial School. To those who contribute something we send our little monthly paper, "The Pine Torch," which records our progress. Address all communications to Laurence C. Jones, Principal, Braxton, Miss. COLFAX IOWA. Mrs. Oliver of Buxton is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. G. O. Terrell, and family. Mrs. B. Cranks returned home from Buxton one day the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson from Buxton are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Robinson. Mrs. J. T. Johnson from Buxton is in ou reity doing tonsorial work for her lady customers. Mrs. White arrived in our city from St. Joe and is visiting at the home of Wheelock's E. L. DAUGHERTY, Manager Christmas is only a few days away and never before have we had such a beautiful display of China and Glassware, German China plates in Floral and Gold decorations, just the thing for the dining room rail at 25c, 39c, 50c, 75c and $1.00. Sugars and Creamers in color and gold ranging from 25c to $1.00 a pair. Fancy Salad Bowls at 50c to $1.00 and $1.25. Fancy Japanese Baskets and Cut Glass. A CHRISTMAS PRESENT OF A VICTROLA IS ONE THAT CHEERS ALL THE YEAR ROUND. It takes the rough edges off your feelings when you go home after a disappointing day—it gives good cheer, a refreshing, quieting influence. GET ONE FOR YOUR HOME. Everybody enjoys a Victrola. $15.00 $25.00 $35.00 $45.00 Visit our Basement. Everything for the Kitchen, Laundry and Bath Room. Easy payments arranged any time. 316 Seventh St. PHONE, 4273 WALNUT. INTRODUCTORY OPENING TOLSON'S CAFE 1012 Center St. Des Moines, Ia. EXTRAORDINARY BANQUET Monday Evening Dec. 21, '14 Be sure to make your reservation not later than December 19th. And in the meantime remember the date. WELL SIT AT TABLE 8:00 p. m. FLAT! Jesse A. Graves, Toastmaster. Menu. Cream of Tomato, Aux Croton Olives, Gerkins, Mixed Pickles, Celery Oyster Patties, Maryland Style Chair Punch Veal Croquettes, Creamed Peas Roast Turkey, English Filling Cranberry Sauce Potato Suffle, Stewed Corn Macedonia Salad in Cases Saltine Wafers, Imported Cream Cheese Ice Cream and Cake Assorted Fruits, Mixed Nuts Black Coffee. Make your reservations at the Cafe, 1012 Center street. Likly Lug 721 Locu Host of Unusual Value Leather her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Broddus and family. One of the children of Mr. and Mrs. E. Banns, who was reported quite sick last week, is much better at this writing. The Baptist executive board meets at this place Tuesday and Wednesday, December 15 and 16. Mr. Creed Taylor entertained at Sunday dinner his friend, Mr. G. O. Terrell, at the Battle House. Mr. Creed Taylor, who has been employed at Hotel Colfax for the past six months, has resigned his position and accepted one with the C. C. C. Co. and started work Monday. ST. PAUL. BUDGETARIAN The Afro-Americans of St. Paul need to be proud of their latest and most worthy achievement in the erection of a magnificent lodge hall near the corner of Aurora and Kent streets. The cornerstone was laid Sunday with appropriate services on the ground, conducted by Mr. H. J. Shelton, state grand master of Masons of Duluth, after which the fraternal organizations of the city marched to St. James A. M. E. church and completed the services with an oration by Lawyer W. R. Morris of Minneapolis. Remarks by Lawyer W. T. Francis of St. Paul. Sermon by Rev. H. P. Jones. Other pastors assisting were Revs. B. N. Muriel, T. B. Stovall and J. S. Strong. The building is being built by Mars lodge, G. U. O. of O. F. and Perfect Asher F. A. A. M at a cost of about $15,000, to be finished in April. Mrs. Mary Archer, aged 74, passed away at her home on St. Anthony avenue Saturday last and was buried from St. James' A. M. E. church Tuesday afternoon. She was laid to rest in Oakland cemetery, and leaves to mourn her denise two sons and three daughters, besides a large number of friends. Members of Pilgrim Baptist church will tender a reception to their new pastor, Rev. B. N. Murrel, and wife Thursday evening in the church parlor. The Mothers' club held a very interesting meeting Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Jackson of Thomas street. Miss Emma Archer is quite sick at her home on St. Anthony avenue. Mrs. Mattie Wade Hicks will entertain the Self-Culture club December 23. The ladies will take a Christmas basket to a worthy old lady. St. James A. M. E. choir is being assisted with their Christmas cantata by members of Pilgrim Baptist church and St. Peter's Claver Catholic choirs. We like to see the union displayed among the churches in this maver. Just as it should be. Madame Addie Crawford Minor, assisted by her children and Miss Alberta Bell, gave a recital at St. James church Monday night. Mrs. Florence Clark is rehearsing the young misses for a playlet to be given at Pilgrim Baptist church on Christmas night. For That Dull Feeling After Eating. I have used Chamberlain's Tablets for some time, and can testify that they have done me more good than any tablets I have ever used. My trouble was a heavy dull feeling after eating—David Freemar, Kempt, Nova Scotia. These tablets strengthen the stomach and improve the digestion. They also regulate the liver and bowels. They are far superior to pills, but cost no more. For sale by all dealers. Davidson's Chocolates A Perfect Confection There's is nothing so acceptable on any occasion—especially as a Christmas gift as a box of Davidson's Their excellence of flavor and uniform goodness has won for them the highest place in Candydom. Put up in beautiful packages—all sizes—single or assorted flavors. For Sale ar All Good Candy, Drug and Cigar Dealers, purchased at any store will be accepted in the News contest. A Full Stocking By Fiteh G. Bryant UCH weather, and Christmas but a few days away. The city was properly dressed for the occasion. Snow covered the streets and the steps leading to the beautiful homes on the boulevard where every hol- "I received $3,000 for that operation." There was a merry twinkle in the doctor's eye that was lost on his little visitor. "Aw, say, doc, wot yer givin' me? You didn't make all that in one day? "Yes, in two hours, Tom." The response was often filled with UCH weather, and Christmas but a few days away. The city was properly dressed for the occasion. Snow covered the streets and the steps leading to the beautiful homes on the boulevard where every holiday wish of the people would be gratified. thinly-clad boy on the steps of one of these beautiful homes was not wasting any time in envying the rich. He had waited there for some minutes for the big automobile he knew was due to arrive from the hospital about that time each day. The big car pulled up beside the curb. A big, kindly-faced man stepped from it and started up the steps. Say, are you the door. Are you the half-way up the steps and glanced at the small bit of humanity balanced on the stone handrail. "Why, yes, my little man, what can I do for you?" he asked tenderly, as he stepped over and put a hand on the lad's knee. He was familiar with the type of boy who had greeted him, the type of boy he felt fearless, independent, little walt of the streets. In the great hospital, of which he was the head, they were his most uncomplaining and appreciative patients, even if they were not the profitable ones. "Ninfer'er for me! me fr bruder." The little fellow spoke earnest, ement surgeon's kindly gray eyes. "Your brother? Oh, I see. Well, what's the matter with your brother?" "Come in the house, and let's talk it over." "Say, doc. I don't believe you want me to come in. I ain't got no money." "Why, that's just the reason I want you to come in," the doctor replied, with a merry twinkle in his eye, and he followed by the small armchair. As the door closed behind them he seized the youngster in a playful bear hug, and landed him in a heavily upholstered leather chair. It was such a chair as that boy had seen in the great shop windows, but had never thought of sitting in, and the warmth of its soft cushions gave a pleasant thrill to his shilting lit up. "What is your name?" "Tom McGuire. You know Pat McGuire that tends bar down in East Downey street?" "No, I don't believe I do." "Well, he's me uncle, and he says you set his leg, time of the big railroad smash-up at Hanover." "Yes, I remember going out to Hanover with a lot of other doctors at the time of the accident; but that was ten years ago." "He don't make any difference to Uncle. He never forgets favors. Guess he ain't had many in his life." "Did your Uncle Pat send you to see me?" asked the surgeon. "Naw, but it's because what he old me 'bout you made me think it might be all right to come and see 'bout Pete's leg." "Where is your brother, Thomas?" "Aw, don't call me that. I ain't Thomas. I'm just Tom. Raggy Tom they call me round the square. I sells papers on the southwest corner of the square. Business ain't so bad this time o' year, and I'm breakin' in." "He can walk, then, can he?" "The physician had seated himself close to his small caller, and was giving his whole attention to the case in hand. 'Tell me more about Pete.'" "Pete was born that way. Doctor said one leg wasn't no good and never was gon' be to, so when Pete got big enough, I saved me pennies and bought him a crutch, and after 'while he got so he' could use it. Then I took him down to the corner and he helped me sell papers in rush hours. He likes to be doin' sonthin', but he gets awful tired holdin' the papers and hangin' on to his crutch. "Doe: he stay there all day?" "Naw, not all the time. Business is hard to do in mornin' and nights, and Pete stays home part of the time. On cold days he givs shirvie cause he can't get 'round very fast so's to keep himself warm." "Is there any news stand on that corner?" the doctor asked, becoming full more interested. "Naw, we dassen't put one up. Billy Hahn, he's the feller what had that corner before me, he tried to get leave to put up a standside of alongside the two feet of the wall, but the aldermen turned him down. He didn't have no pull, and I didn't give noneither. Me and Pete was up on the northeast corner, and when Billy got wet feet and pneumonia and died, we come down to his corner. "Tom, are your father and mother living?" "Maw is. I dunno much about paw. He isn't good. Uncle Pat says he sees him hangin' round once in awhile. Maw's got two younger'n me and Pete. I'm ten and Pete's gin' on mine. Maw works awful hard takin' it. Maw's got a new apartment store. She says to me one time: Tom, you look after Pete and I take care of the young uns.' Maw can't hardly get enough to buy 'em clothes, so I chip in when biz is good. Day, doc, I read in my papers 'bout that bet ten cents Pete's leg' just like that. Thinks I, when I read that, I'm to see Doc Harrison and tell him Pete. Now, doc, on the level, much do you charge for a job like that. 0.10 WIN MVER 3.19 The Physician Had Seated Himself Close to His Small Caller, and Was Giv Ing His Whole Attention to the Case in Hand. "I received $3,000 for that operation." There was a merry twinkle in the doctor's eye that was lost on his little visitor. "Aw, say, doc, wot yer givin' me? You didn't make all that in one day?" "Yes, in two hours, Tom." The youngster's eyes filled with tears, and he bit his lip to hold back the sobs. A good leg meant so much Pete, and he would gladly give $4,000 for him if that were possible, but the doctor might have as well asked for the moon in payment for that leg. His vision of Pete without the hated crutch was fast disappearing, but he would not let it get away entirely. "Don't you never charge no less?" the boy managed to ask, without giving away to the burst of tears ready to flow at his disappointment. "Oh, yes, indeed; but you asked me how much I received for an operation last week's, and I never performed one just like that before. It was a painful thing." Tom slid out of the chair as if to go. "I guess it's all off, doc. I ain't in your class." "Tom, sit down there." The doctor's tone of command was filled with more laughter than severity. "Let's talk business." The youngster obeyed, watching the eminent surgeon with a puzzled look, uncertain whether the great man was really going to make a concession or upbraid him for taking his time. Faint was, a new hope sprang up in the sinister breast. Possibly there might be some terms of payment that he could meet as he grew older and could earn more than the few pennies that meant the day's profits on his paper sales. "Tom," the doctor continued, "I know Pete." "You know Pete?" You know Pete in amazement. "Yes, I have seen him down by the fountain at the square. You know we specialists always keep our eyes open for anything in our line, so I have noticed him several times as I passed the corner. Of course, I can't say position, but I think an operation will give Pete two legs instead of one. Now, how much can you afford to pay for such an operation?" The youngster's eyes shone like two live coals. So the doctor knew Pete, and thought he could cure him! Was it a dream? Tom pinched himself to make sure it was all real. Yes. He could afford it. He could afford could he afford? He felt he could afford anything to give Pete a new leg, but how little that was compared with The Physician Had Seated Himself C ing His Whole Attention what the doctor would expect! Both sat in silence for over a minute. The surgeon knew what was going on in the youngster's mind, but thought best to let him come to his own conclusion. The boy fumbled his cap nervously while he considered the great question, and at length looked up suddenly into the surgeon's face. There was no doubt or uncertainty in his face or tone as he announced his decision. "Doc, the only thing I've got in the world is me corner down by the fountain, where me and Pete sell paper. I can't give you all the money I wouldn't have nuttled to help Pete to live on and to help maw with the kids. I'll tell you what I'll do, doc, I'll let you have half a" that corner. You can hire a kid to sell papers for you and have some dough left, but you won't make no $3,000 in kingdom come." The doctor knit his brows and Tom imagined he could see a quick refusal of his proposition, but the kindly gleam came back into the doctor's eye and Tom began to hope again as the doctor pondered over the proposition for a moment. Then the doctor said: "All right, Tom; I'll accept that proposition, and we'll draw up the agreement right now. Let's see, this is December eighteenth. We'll start the new arrangement beginning with January first." In the course of a quarter of an hour the paper was duly prepared and signed and witnessed, and Tom saw the doctor file it carefully in the strong box in his safe. With a hearty hand shake, the surgeon bade adeu to his ten-year-old man of affairs, and turned to a patient waiting in the outer office. Tom McGuire had known all too little of happiness in his hard ten years, but this was surely the climax of his earthly bliss. A new leg for Pete! What he beaf! he beaf! He ran most of the way back to the square, and nearly knocked the cripple over in his eagerness to tell the good news. "Say, Pete, you're goin' to have a new leg." "What?!" the bewildered Pete was too intent on selling papers to bother about new legs. "Now leg, Ieg. Doc Harrison, what I told you 'bout, is goin' to make one for you." "Aw, gaw. Wot yer grin' me?" grunted the skeptical Pete, ignoring the enthusiasm of the head of the house. "Come on, I'll show you." "You, you don't. You don't get me lost. What leg 'gave' you." The doc says he bets he can fix you up as good as new." "Nixy fer me. 'I'm fer keepin' me bum prop. I reads how a doc saws off a boy's legs just for fun." "Aw, Pete, don't be silly. The doc won't hurt you." "Don't you believe it," Pete replied, and started down the sidewalk to get away from temptation. The town has Pete's stolid strength of ten, and decided on another back. He felt in his pocket and found ten cents. Count- pounds and found paines, he ran across the street, and soon had Dr. Harrison on the wire. "Hello, this吻 you. doc?-Pete won't come-Naw, he's afraid you'll hurt him. He's read how a doc cut off a feller's leg just fer fun-Send up a pape? Sure, but you'll have to hide yer sign, or he won't never come in. All right, I'll send him up. Please don't hurt him, will you, doc?-Goodby." Tom ran back to the corner. "Hey, Pete," he called, as soon as he was within arm's reach the cripple, "gave me to hustle a Star up to 245 West Alden Avenue. Get on a Prince street car, and hurry up. Here's a dime car fer carfe." "There ain't no profit in that," Pete grunted, "go yerself an' save the dime." "Do as yer told. I'm boss o' this corner," the young financier retorted, shoving Pete toward a car that was parked at Walnut street and walk west half a block," he shouted as he helped Pete on the car platform. For the first time in twenty-two years Dr. Harrison's sign was hidden as the cripple struggled up the steps and rang the bell. "Here's yer pape," he said in a matter-of-fact tone, holding out the first edition, when the maid opened the door. "Paper?" asked the girl, pretending ignorance. "Step in a moment and I'll see if it belongs here." Pete stepped inside and took off his cap. The girl disappeared, but returned presently, and pointed to an open door down the hall. Pete hobbled in the direction pointed, and entered the door down the hall. "Sit down a minute," came a pleasant voice from somewhere, and Pete ose to His Small Caller, and Was Giv to the Case in Hand. crawled up into one of the large chairs. The next few minutes were about the busiest the cripple had ever known. Pictures, statuary, books, furniture—never in his short life had he seen such an array. How could he possibly remember all to tell Tom? Before the survey was half finished, however, a tall man with a kindly face stood before him and held out his hand for the paper. Pete handed him the Star and arose to go. "Hold on a minute, how much do I owe you?" "Two cents." "Two cents?" the doctor shouted, so loud that Pete feared he had overcharged him. "Didn't you pay carfare to you?" "Yes, Tom paid that." Pete smiled with relief. "Tom? Who's Tom?" "Likely sort of chap?" "Yes, sir; Tom's all right." The smile was wider than ever. "Do you know who I am?" the doctor asked in his kindliest tone, placing his hand on the boy's shoulder. "No." "I am Dr. Harrison." The smile disappeared and the boy began to tremble at mention of the awful name. "Possibly you have heard of me?" "Ye—es," Pete whispered, too scared to realize whether he was saying "yes" or "no." "Now, Pete, take a good look at me," the doctor continued as he arose COSMOPOLY D. R. BROWN 1890 "Aw, Gwan, Wot Yer Givln' Me?" Grunted the Skeptical Pete. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER from his chair and stood in the middle of the room for the cripple's inspection. "I'm not really such an awful man, am I, Pete?" "N—n—o—o," Pete answered, more because the surgeon's tone needed a negative reply than because he knew what he was saying. "I don't like boys," the doctor went on, ignoring the lad's terrified expression. "And I kind of think some of them like me. Do you think you could?" "Ma—a—aybe," the youngster was doing his best to be brave. The doctor glanced at the open door and nodded to the maid. and nodded to the male and nodded to the male out at the door and wants to see you," she said. "Send him in," the surgeon answered heartily. "Well, I never. Hei Lo, Tom!" "Hello do! Doe! Doe! anything to Petz, leg!" "Why, no, we haven't mentioned legs. Jave we, Pete?" "Not yet," said Pete, with a feeling that something was still to come. "Say, doc, look at it now, will you?" Tom exclaimed energetically and began to take off his brother's shoe. "You're going to examine the place to examine legs, and besides "Aw, Gwan, Wot Yer Givln' Me!" I never make an examination without the owner's consent." "Tell the doc you want to have yer leg looked at," Tom commanded in a tone that bore authority. Before Pete could answer, the doctor had interposed a good natured objection. You keep out of this, Tom. This is Pete's leg, and he shall have the who say about what is done to that leg. This announcement was a revelation to Pete, who had had visions of being bound and gagged while the doctor attacked his leg with a common hand-saw. "Is that straight?" he asked, looking up dubiously into the surgeon's face. "Absolutely!" the doctor exclaimed. "I won't touch a finger to that leg till you give me your consent." Ah, more Pete. I didn't tell you. Tom broke in, but the doctor frowned at him to keep quiet. The eyes of both Tom and the surgeon were on Pete. "What'll it cost?" The cripple seemed about to yield but wanted one more obstacle cleared away. "Never mind the cost, Tom and I have arranged that between us." The look of appreciation and gratitude that the cripple brother gave Tom at that moment would have repaid any sacrifice—yes, even the whole of the corner paper privilege. Pete's eyes glistened with teardrops as he turned to the doctor. "Go ahead, doc. Do anything you want, only don't hurt me too much. Say, ain't Tom all right?" "You bet he is," the doctor replied, and motioned the cripple to the inner office. Tom was busy as he could be on Christmas eve and it was well after midnight when he crawled into his little bed, tired and lonely, for Pete had gone to the hospital three days before. He knew away down deep in his heart that it would do no good to hang his stocking, but hope dries hard in the young and the stocking was pinned to the side of the chair. The sun had shone for an hour or more when Tom awoke and realized that it was Christmas day. He hardly dared to glance at the stocking but summoned up courage and looked at the chair where it hung. The stocking was empty. Tom reached over and felt to make it sure and then crawled back under the bedclothes. For the first time in his life the roughness of the world had overcome him and, in spite of all the strength he could muster, the great hot tears crowded into his eyes and flowed down his cheeks. He buried his face in the pillow and cried a great big soulful cry. "Tom! Tom!" It was his mother calling, but he only pulled the bedclothes over his head and pretended not to hear. He would not for the world let maw know that he would cry, he who was supposed to bear the burden of the family on his shoulders. "Tom! Tom! Tom!" come the call again, "her's a letter for you." A letter for Tom? Such an event had come into his life only twice, once when the fresh air society offered him a week in the country which he could not afford to take, and a letter from the license bureau, with his inebriety badge. The dry side of the pillow served as handkerchief and towel, and, holding his head low to hide his red eyes, he ran into the next room. "John J. Sweeney," he read on the corner of the envelope, "why, he's the alderman from this district." Fingers were all thumbs to get to that letter open and part of it was torn before the envelope would give up its secret. The note was short and typed written but it took Tom nearly five minutes to read it aloud. Each word seemed to have taken a new meaning to the astonished boy. "Mr. Thomas McGulre, 148 Willow St., City. Dear Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the application of McGulre and Harrison for a news stand adjoining the fountain on the southwest corner of the square has been granted and possession may be taken at once. Believe me. You very truly, "JOHN J. SweENEY, "Alderman 17th District." "Great Jewhilkens." Tom shouted, and his mother, too, made some sort of an exclamation that was drowned in the racket of the two smaller McGulre who felt called upon to add to the general din. 'Me and the doc's gain' to have a real news stand right where I wanted it. Don't I wish Pete was home to hear the good news! What do you think o' that, maw? A great big news stand right at the fountain where we can " Grunted the Skeptical Pete. sell ten times more papers! Ain't that a bully Christmas present? Say, maw, the doc's a brick and don't you forget it." Well, hurry up and get dressed or you won't have much Christmas Day left. Tom vaulted chair and cradle on his way back to the bedroom and slammed his tear soaked pillow into a corner of the room as an expression of his feelings toward tears. "A real news stand. A great big stand all to ourselves. I can see just how it's goin' to look. Goe! aln't that great! But greater news was on the way and before he had pulled on the empty stocking he heard a noise in the other room and peeped out. There was a big man in a fur overcowl at the door with another letter and he was not the postman either. "Tom, here! another one for you." Tom, here! another one for Tom was already at his mother's side and had selzed the white envelope. "James B. Harrison, M. D.," he read. "That's about Pete. Jimmy Christmas! Say, maw, you open it. My hands is all shaky." Mrs. McGuire could not make much better headway opening the envelope than Tom, but she managed to pull out the letter and Tom began to read laboriously. "Mr. Thomas McGuire, 148 Willow St. Dear Tom: Merry Christmas from Pete and the doc. Hurrah for Pete! The operation was a great success. Pete will be running around without a crutch long before next Christmas. Come around to the hospital at four o'clock. Sincerely your friend." "JAMES B. HARRISON." "P. S.-By the way, Tom, I don't believe I shall have time to take the care of half of that newspaper privilege at the corner, so I return herewith the agreement cancelled. Leave a paper at my house every night Pete is in the hospital and we will call it square. J. B. H." "Three cheers for Pete," Tom yelled, and gave the table such a kick with his bare toe that it almost made him howl. A little thing like that was not allowed to break up the celebration so he grasped his mother's hands, and swung her around and around in a "ring around a rosy" until the poor woman hardly knew whether it was Christmas or Fourth of July. "Ain't this a grand Christmas?" he shouted. "Ain't the dog builly? Ain't Peter the luckiest feller in the whole world?" "Yes, yes, yes," groaned Mrs. McGure, trying her best to regain her breath and balance. "O, it's—too—good to be true!" "Well, it is true, if I knew the doe wouldn't fool me. Ain't the grand-est ever." "Tom you'll never be ready to go to the hospital by four o'clock if you don't get dressed." Tom rushed into the bedroom and came back with the empty stocking that had hung on the chair. "Say maw, I'll shit my eyes, and you stick them two letters in my stocking and stick them three letters in my stocking. Ain't this a bee-oofful Christmas," Copyright; by: W. G. Chapman. Friendly Advice. "Yes," said the Fairy Prince, "you may have whatever you want for a Christmas present." "I will choose," said the Fortunate Person, "either a wife or an automobile." "How foolish!" exclaimed the Fairy Prince. "What do you not select something that you can manage? The Major's Christmas by Martha Pattie HE major felt a vague sense of personal grievance. It was Christmas morning. Everything was most agreeable at the hotel. As he had distributed his customary gold THE major felt a vague sense of personal grievance. It was Christmas morning. Everything was maddened at the hotel. As he had distributed his customary gold pieces to the "bells," the telephone girls, the check-room boys, his waiter and the head waiter, and the chambermaid on his floor; he felt oddly disturbed. "Carter, my boy," he told the tail, gray-haired image in the mirror, "You're getting sentimental. You're thoroughly disappointed because there isn't a soul in the world who can call out a Merry Christmas you, and send you flowers from the bottom of his heart. You're like a boy with nothing in his stocking. I'm ashamed of you, sir; I am indeed." Yet that didn't help matters. He wandered around the deserted hotel corridors in the morning feeling utterly lost. Nearly every one seemed to be going out to dinner to some place where he was urgently desired. Four times he strolled over to the desk and looked casually up at his box, but there were no mail and no presents for Mj. Robe. He had rather decided to give up and ring up some business associate to take dinner with him at the hotel. But he saw a letter in his box, and the clerk handed him a curiously shaped parcel, rather bulky and aloof. He took it up to his own rooms, and opened it with a funny little thrill of anticipation. By George, he was wrong. There was somebody, he didn't know who it was, but there was somebody who had remembered him. The last wrapper fell off, and he stood in the willow basket, filled with mistletoe. A card on top read, "Love and Merry Christmas from Pam." Pam? He remembered no Pam. He opened the letter for enlightenment, and as he read, his heavy gray eyebrows drew closer together, and every now and then he ejaculated, "God bless my heart and soul!" "You won't remember me at all, but I'm Pamela Grayson, and my mother was your sister's daughter, so I'm your grandniece, see? Mother died about a year ago, just after we came north, and I have been here alone ever since. I didn't even know you were alive until cousin Florrie, of Carter's Landing, down home, wrote and told me to share this message, for you, she has made it in to go when you were a little boy. Here's wishing you a merry, merry Christmas, and I wish I knew you, because it does certainly get fearfully lonesome here in New York holiday time when you haven't any one of your very own." The telephone bell rang sharply just as the major was about to say "God bless my heart and soul" once again. But he lifted the receiver, and smiled at the voice that answered his hall. "Delighted, Ralph, delighted, my boy, but you see, I am going to have a young lady guest here to dinner with me, my grandniece, sir, from Virginia. Now, instead of my joining you in your bachelor apartments, support me, and I will undress and compensate to her for having a surely old chap for a dinner partner. Name's Miss Famela Grayson. Name's Miss Famela Grayson. Then he smiled, and kept on smiling in the oddest, happiest way. And he leaned back in his deep leather chair, and lit a cigar, and watched the smoke rings form overhead, and smiled up at them. He had four sisters. Palm's grandmother had been the youngest. And now somehow, they were all gone, as he thought, "the way of the roses," and he was alone. He had rather lost track of all the nieces and nephews and grand nieces and grandnephews. Sentiment does not thrive in the New York atmosphere, yet as he looked at the letter, he felt an odd glow of pride, and he held the little basket of miscellaneous items, lengthily retrospectively. Many a time he had gone up to the old oak grove to gather it for his mother to decorate the great hall at Christmas. And now this little Palm— The major rose suddenly with quick intention. Five minutes later he was on his way up to the address in the letter. Upstairs two flights he climbed, and tapped at the low top door with its modest card: "Pamela Grayson." She stood at the easel with her back to him, a big blue apron on, and she was singing, "Oh, holy town of Bethlehem, How still we see the lie. Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by." The silent starts go by. The major stood at attention, but when she turned and caught sight of him, she gave a little cry of joy. "Uncle Bob How did you come so soon to me?" Eh, but she was bonnie, thought the major approvingly; very much like her grandmother in her girlhood, soft brown bands of hair around her small head, and wistful, childish gray eyes. It took him about ten minutes to coax her into a "real" dress, as she said, and down into the waiting taxi. And how fast she talked. There were years to catch up, she told him, and as long as there was only the two of them left in New York to uphold the pride of the Carters—"There's one more, child." warned ```markdown ``` the major. "But he is very distantly connected, very. He is about your nineteenth cousin, but he is to dine with us, Ralph Carter." Pam sat very still, and did not speak, looking straight ahead of her. "Ever hear of him?" asked the major. "I just love his shadow," said Pam solemnly. "If it's the same one. I've tried and tried to paint pictures that would sell, and finally I coaxed an old dealer on the avenue to let one of my Virginia gardens stand in his window awhile. You know Aunt Anna-belle's rose garden with the sun dial, and the white coach house in the back? Well, it was snapped up by a Mr. Ralph Carter. And he wanted to know if I had more Virginia scenes. So I sent down the oak grove at sundown along in November, with a big orange and moon garden of the hedge and he bought that. And now I'm painting the old flagged walk under the grape arbor, with it all sunshine, and Mammy Martha Ann coming along from the outdoor kitchen with a big covered platter of fried chicken, and he's going to take that." The major leaned back his head, laughing and shaking with pure enjoyment. Up on the Hudson, at Hastings, stood Ralph Carter's bachelor home, and he made it almost a replica of the old one in Virginia. Successful in every way in New York, he had clung to the old southern traditions almost fiercely, this tall, lean, clear-eyed lawyer. "And so he's been hanging your pictures all over his walls," exclaimed the major. "God bless my heart and soul, child. This is certainly a merry Christmas for us all." Pam was rather grave, though, as they went through the splendid red and gold corridors of the great hotel. The dinner was to be very select and private up in the major's reception room and she wondered what this distant cousin would be like. He was all she had wanted him to be. Even Pam could find no fault as she sat next to him at the round table. And oh, after years of lonely striving among strangers, how it made her cheeks glow and her heart beat to hear these two, the splendid old major and Ralb, vie with each other L. She Stood at the Easel With Her Back to Him. She Stood at the Easel With Her Back to Him. in their delightful courtesy and compliments. "You don't know how good it is to find some one of your very own," she said, when the major had gone out after the dinner was over. "Don't I?!" said Ralph, smiling down at her. "I've put in about fourteen years up here, and only the major to give me a cousinly greeting now and then. I'm mighty glad to find another one, even if she is a nineteenth one. The major tells me he goes to take a house for you and his wife." "Why?" Fam caught her breath quickly. "I didn't know that." "So I will see a great deal of you, I hope." He stepped and looked into her eyes. Someway they wavered under his gaze. The major's voice hailed them. "God bless my heart and soul, boy, can't you see she's under the mistletoe. I hung it on there purpose." Ralph stooped, and pressed a kiss to the girl's pink cinder while the girl drew a smile. "To next Christmas," pledged Ralph. "Will you kiss me then, Pam?" But Pam's eyes only shone with happiness, and very demurely she answered the toast: "To next Christmas!" (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Tides of Memory. Over in Holland there is a sunken village. Through some flaw in the crust the earth sank, until the cotages with their red tiles and the little church with its stele disappeared beneath the sea. Some forty years ago a southeast wind blew a full week and piled the Atlantic up on the shores of Labrador, an island where the shores of Holland was ever lower and lower. One day, when some tidal wave perhaps had moved west, at the ebb, men saw the red tile of the submerged cottages, and the steele of the lost church, for, lo, the sea had given up its dead Most wondrous of all, on the sand a fisherman picked up a colden cup set with gems. Memory, too, is a sea that gives up her dead. The past is gone but not lost. All noble deeds shall have their resurrection, and ever kindly service shall return, and mankind treasure. He will return his best treasure unto it back again multiplied tenfold—Christen Herald. ee Fundamental: Principles of |: Healthz2~5 paella i —- It is exceedingly difeult for most of as to grasp offhand a clear understand: ng of anything we cannot see with our own eyes, hold in our hands, touch, taste, smell or hear; but with a very Ile effort we can achieve the seem: Ingly Impossible and secure an. un: derstanding of phenomena beyond the reach of our personal senses, And this is well worth while because a com: prehension of natural forces enables 1s to live sane, wholesome and there: fore happy lives. An emanation {s anything flowing or adiating out from something, For example, we speak of light emanating or radiating from the gun, In the evo lution of our ntodern views of the con: stitution of matter the study of the radiations has furnished some of the ‘ost significant clews in connection with both the undulatory or wave ra. diations of which light 1s the charac teristic example, and also of the cor quscular radiations, which are proved teyond all question to consist of par: cles of matter or electricity. ‘These particles are proved to be traveling at tpeeds varying from one millimeter a iecond to approximately the velocity plight, which {s as we all know, 186, 300 miles a second. When ordinary bodies are heated to about 500 degrees Centigrade (932 de grees Fahrenbelt) they begin to emit visible light, no matter what the sub- stance may be, and the radiations ap- year to be due to this definite temper. {ture and are referred: to as iempera. ture radiations. But in certain cases aght is found to be emitted at a tem- perature far below that at which tem erature radiations set in, and these jhenomena we know as luminescence shosphorescence and the like—lieht ithout heat, we call it, But one and All are due to the interchange of some form of energy and most of it Is be yond the border line of our ability to perceive without external assistance to var limited senses. Light wave radiations are propa pated exactly Ike waves In water or Yound in afr, without the transfer of iny matter along the path of propaga. Yon, but corpuscular radiations con. sist of streams of fine particles pro lected at varlous degrees of high ve ‘oelties and may, perhaps, best be it: strated by imaging a stream of fine ravel, Probably all are familiar with the ‘sand blast and how it will cut sway the hardest surface and not in fre the softest fabric. There Is a tlose relationship between the two types of radiation, Just as there is be tween the air and the sand, and the principals involved are undoubtedly those which will be found to account for the many marvelous effects of both the direct and indirect sunlight on human diseases and on life in gen- eral, We have noted the effects of direct tunlight in a general way and now come to the matter of indirect sun- ght, for we should not for a minute forget that all forms of energy on this tarth are but converted sun energy. But before considering the subject of radiations in general perhaps it would be best to survey very briefly the field of thelr application to our needs 1c order to get the connection and show that the matter is worth considering, Shortly after the X-rays were dis covered St was found that they exert ed a destructive influence on living issues, which became more marked the longer animal structures were ex posed to them, and immediately it was suggested that here we had the long hoped for remedy for the destruction of cancer. But soon it was learned that it was a very dangerous power In Germany a few careful, consclen lous workers have very persistently developed the technique and apparat 1s, as all human experience proves must be done in every department, ant have slowly evolved a method that is showing most encouraging results i eancerous conditions end in some forms of sepals. Kroenig's clinic at Freiburgis is ‘uipped with .modern-apparatus anc With some 1,700 milligrams of meso thorium and radium. Mesothorium § tome 300 times as concentrated as ra dum, but gives similar results it shorter time, At the clinic, where fo cancer only a slight operation is re Gilred, the operation is performed anc then the ray ts‘used; where a sever operation ordinarily would be require Bae gene ace LAST HOURS FREE FROM PAIN Testimony That Tends to Prove Scle7- tific Investigators Right in Their Contentions. ‘An English scientific publication has “recently given much space to a discus \wlon of the old, but very absorbing, Auestion as to whether the process of dying is accompanied by conscious vhysteal pain. ‘The conclusion. arrived at is the ‘jme to which the sclentific invest! ‘Bator has always adhered, viz., that a Merciful Nature so benumbs the Henses as the body is losing its hold Upon physical life that the dying per ‘ton {s entirely unconsclous_ot pain. Among the many incidents which “Apparently shed light upon the matter ne Ja, mentioned which occurred only the other ‘days. It is the case of a ‘Mn tn his eightleth year who was sud: fear vrostratea by a very severe in “Awenza, “ihe:malady progressed until all Habeas life was abandoned by the ‘Wiyalelans. ‘Fla Tay gasping for breath Results had in these cases were con. sidered not due to any bactericidal ac Hon that the ray may possess, but rather to a change In the blood itself, Which makes it untenable to. these bacteria, It 1s considered to bear out the vaccination theory of the X ray, this being that there fs a rapid manu facture of the antibodies. ‘This theory and these results are exceedingly sug Sestive in connection with the results Wo have recently considered from the use of the direct rays of the sun in the matter of surgical tuberculosis cases and of heliotheraphy in general. THE X-RAY. now see that it was the perteetly logi- tsequnee a's ny tee oa coveries, following numberless exper ments by many Individuals with a felealle toy known as the Gelssler . Geissler had demonstrated the Peculiar behavior of electric dis- charges through different gases con- fined in a sealed tube and under var ous degrees of vacuum, whereby tho epark became a more or less steady stream, Following Gelssler, Sir William Crookes became the chief investigator along these lines, and by means of miniature wind-wheels and turbines in his improved tubes, now known as Crookes tubes, demonstrated that the current of electricity flowing from the negative pole and known as the cath- ode stream could be transformed into Kinetic energy. "Radiant matter” was the term used by Crookes to describe the highly rarefied gas, or “ultra gase: ‘ous matter,” whieh he found to pro- duce certain peculiar mechanical and luminous effects when a charge of high Potential electricity was passed through it As with all new thoughts, the idea was flercely attacked by many of the sclentific men of the time, who strenu- ously argued against it and endeavored to prove that both the theory and the demonstrations amounted to nothing But a few choice spirits pressed on. Lenard demonstrated that the cath- ode stream could be detected outside the tube as well as within it and that {it could be deflected or attracted by a magnet. A professor of physics in the University of Wurzburg, in Ba- varla, W. K. Roentgen, noted in 1895 that ‘substances such as potaesium platinocyanide became luminous when brought near to a tube exhausted to a vacuum so that the glass was brightly phosphorescent. About this time also he noticed that a large number of pho- tographic plates placed within range of a Crookes tube with which he was experimenting were fogged, although they were eimply protected from light by the usual lighttight plate holders, and he began to suspect a connection between the two phenomena. A few more experiments and the idea crystal lized—he viewed his own bones through the flesh of his hand and knowledge of the new ray was born November 8, 1896. Because the ray which produced ftuorescence showed bim the bones in the living human body, affected photo- sgraphle plates while inclosed in light- tight boxes and could not be reflect ed, refracted nor deflected by a mag- net, Roentgen knew that he had dis- covered a new and unbroken ray and he therefore called it the: X-ray. Tt may be asked how it is possible to distinguish between such radiations of different wave lengths, This is achleved through demonstrating by means of photography, or a fluorescent sereen, of the electroscope, the “pene- trating power” or “hardness” of the short wave emanations after travers: ing various thicknesses of a medium which absorbs X-rays, such as, for ex- ample, aluminum. ‘The shorter the ‘wave length the “harder” the ray, and the “harder” the ray the greater its penetrating power. Soddy has dem- onstrated the penetration of one-halt inch steel. This discovery of the com- plex character of the X-ray tube ema ations and those from radiant sub- stances in general created the need of a system for designating the differ: ent rays, and they have therefore been pamed alpha, beta, gamma from the Greek alphabet corresponding with our a, b and ¢. ‘The original X-ray tube shot the rays from the cathode directly agetnst the glass at the opposite end; subse quently a metal target known as the Gitreathode was introduced to re feive the rays, but the bombardment from the stream of corpuscles or elec- trons was so intense that the target (ras soon raised to white heat, and Mr would become necessary to stop the Notion, For these and other reasons sehich we will discover later radium With Its gamma rays seerned to offer Certain advantages over the X-ray Gabe, but recently Dessauer of Frank: tone Main has perfected a tube by ‘ehich he ean produce rays practically Tientieal with the gamma ray from eGium or mesothorlum, the ratlo of Tatgness being as 1 to 12, These botalts were obialned by employing & Special and highly effcient water coo! Ie device in the antl-cathode. ‘and apparently in the most intense ‘agony, The long hours of the night were terrible to his family, who sat by his bedside expecting the struggle to end at any moment. ‘As be. was a man of strong constitu: tlon, he became better in the morning, finally returning to entire conscious: fess, and upon being asked how he felt, declared to the amazement of all that he had passed a most comfortable night. fn citing this case, the English ed! tor acknowledges that it Is really not AGeded to strengthen the aclentific ax Reomnee that dying is practically pain fas, although the problem is of such weossing interest to etary humaf eagre nut any incident which serves Pelifiuminate it 18 well worth pub Netty. —_—— Grateful Suburbanites. Towne-—"Do you make your ¢coh pay for what she breaks?” Suburbs Bay qmazement)—"Make her pay?! Ur uid soy not! Why, every month sooigy paying her salary, we Teward besldererally for what she dida break!” INCREASES THE TABLE ROOM scapes Placed Underneath it ta Out of the Way and Extremely Serviceable. No matter what the size of the Kitchen table may be, at busy times there never seems sufficient space up- om its surface for everything that Is required, and, therefore, some of our readers will be glad to avall them: iver of the suggestion illustrated by the accompanying ketch, } It merely consists of fastening a couple of wooden boxes underneath ‘the table by running strong ‘screws through upper sides of the boxes and Ito the underside of the top of the table. The best way to do this {s to turn ‘the table upside down and In this po- ‘sition the boxes may be easily se- ured In thelr places, Packing eases =] ‘that have contained a dozen bottles of wines or spirits will be found very ‘sultable for this purpose but, of ‘course, larger boxes can be used if ‘preferred, and when the cloth is upon ‘the table they will be hidden from Se This Idea could be carried out with ‘elmost any table and a box so fixed would form a useful and handy re- ceptacle for a limited amount of ‘neodiework, and all that would have to be done to gain access to it would be to lift up the table cloth. “PEPPER POT” WITH TRIPE For Those Fond of a Hot Dish on Cold Days This May Well Be ‘Recommended: A rete Ane bepben ot with tripe i made with the following ingredients: ‘Three pounds of tripe, two quarts of water, small knuckle of veal and wa ter to cover it; two large potatoes, one chopped onion, half bunch of parsley and thyme, half tablespoonful sweet ‘marjoram, salt and pepper and dump lings. Boll the tripe for six hours the day previous to using, and save the liquor Boil the knuckle of veal in a separate vessel in sufficient water to cover It; ‘when the meat separates from the bones, strain and add the Iquor to the tripe liquor, with the seasoning, pota toes and onion. Cut the tripe Inte pleces half an inch square, and the potatoes Itkewise. Boll all together for 15 or 20 minutes, adding the dumplings ten minutes before serving time. 2 SSA ea This is very light and nourishing, and {t can often be taken by @ person who would refuse a boiled egg or a custard, One quarter ounce of gela- tine, the juice of two oranges, one tnd’ onehait ounces of ump. suser, one new-laid egg, one-quarter pint of fold water, Rub the sugar on to the orange rind till it becomes quite yellow, then put it into a saucepan with the water and gelatine. Cut the oranges open, strain their juice and put {t in with the gela- tine and water, Let the whole hea til the gelatine is. melted, then re move the pan from the fire,” Beat the egg up very well, Allow the gelatine mixture to cool and then pour it on to the egg, stirring briskly all the time. Nave ready a mold which bas been Apped’ in cold water, pour the Jelly into this and put it aside tl tls eet Little Savory Potato Cakes, ‘Twelve tablespoontuls of foury po tatocs, ight tablespoonfuls of grated heese, ‘one tablespoonful of cream, the yaiks of two exes, one teaspoonful Sr aldng powder, salt and cayenne to Castes Holl the potatoes and run tiibugh ane sieve. Add the but ten four, cheese, baking powder and Seeaoning and blend thoroughly. Mx into a light dough with the cream tind the sotks of the eggs. Roll out tidat half an ine thick, eut into Ie ‘tle rounds and brush over with the rretentila nice brown, Splt in two Guuter and sprint with a very ito ‘finely chopped parsley. Old-Fashioned Baked Ham. Have a slice of ham cut an inch or even a little more thick, one with quite fa little fat on {s preferable, trim off the extreme edge of the fat and wash the slice thoroughly, lay fat In drip ping pan and cover to the depth of Bbout one-quarter of an inch with brown sugar. Stick into the sugar about ten or twelve whole cloves, put one-half cupful of water In the pan ‘and bake slowly about threequarters of an hour; do not baste, but add a Hittle more water from time to time ff {t seems too dry; spinach garnished with hard boiled eggs cut in slices Js nice to serve with this, and the ham is good cold as well as hot. Pork Stew. Cut up three pounds of fresh lean pork, cover with water and boll slow fy a couple of hours. Then add three or four large onions sliced and balf a Goren sliced tomatoes. When the Gnions and potatoes are almost done Grop in a pint of cream of tartar dump Hinge and cook for ten minutes. Sea son with salt and pepper ust. before ‘Rdding the potatoes and onlons tc took. After:removing the dumplings ‘p ilttle thickening may be added. Ye mneaiine: aid elite A little green parsley or green” Dt of celery are often needed in winter. Sha in order to preserve them take f good-sized fruit can and in the bot fom put a haltineh layer of salt, and wlager of parsley or celery and re peat, using alternately haltinch layer Pemgait and twoinch layers of the green follage. Press down and fll th Sih as full as possible before screwing canine cover. Parsley and celery pre oo ted thus will keep all winter. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER janie CANDLE SHADE TABLE DECORATION EASILY MADE AT HOME Simple Materials, With a Little Work tnd the Exercise of One's. In enuity, About ‘All That elWesdig: Nothing adds more to the homelike air of a house than prettily shaded, Hghted candles, whether upon the din: ing room table, in the living rooms or the boudoir, ‘Some of the very prettiest are home: made, as the illustration proves. This 1s made from four circular doilles of sheer handkerchlef linen edged with eluny lace one Inch wide, each doily measuring six Inches in diameter, for a small shade when finished, larger sizes up to lamp shades to be in pro- portion, of course. It only one shade ts to be made, the best and cheapest way Is to cut the four squares from @ handkerchief, be- cause then there will be no waste. Linen is so wide that-even when the smallest quantity {s bought more than halt will be wasted. A woman's hand: kerchief is ample for a small shade, A man's will make the larger. Also dol- Hes all ready stamped for working can be bought at ten cents each, However, one may be more individual {f she can trace her own design, and as they are so simple this should not be difficult to do. For instance, if she traced the de- sign of her dinner ware upon the linen and worked it ont in the same color: ing the light shining through the linen would give the shade all the Impres- sion of being porcelain, too. Another effective design that would shed a soft glow over the white cloth would be a sprinkling of autumn FQ fe 2h PS % 3a, eR es. a aN a GF p i \\ \ N nN WOOO MON TON TI leaves, using silk in the natural tints of the leaves, After embroidering the linen the edges are turned neatly un- der and machine stitched. Half a yard of lace will edge one dolly, the linen measuring four inches in diameter. A very ‘good Imitation cluny can be FURS AND FUR SUBSTITUTES Graceful, Becoming Models in Both— Winter Has Made a Change in the Styten. Winter sees a decided change in the style of the newest wraps and /stoles made in furs or fur substitutes. Last year the majority of the stoles were quite straight In shape, the widths varying from eight or nine inches to considerable proportions, ‘but now the old-fashioned pelerine or ae cape promises to be most popu: Tar. Carried out in soft musquash, seal, eoney, ermine or other fur many of these models are very graceful and becoming. Some beautiful examples of shaped shoulder scarfs seen lately were made of broadtail or black ponyskin, as supple and silky as satin, trimmed with effective touches of taffeta or velvet, in some cases with another fur Introduced around the neck or deco- rating the ends. For those, however, who find these real fura too costly the new makes of ponyskin and broadtail cloth an ‘awer most admirably. ‘Those manu factured furs are such faithful coples of tho real article that in many in stances It requires an expert to dis criminate between the two. ‘Those who require an up-todate fur wrap at a moderate cost cannot do better than copy the real furs in fur cloth, This fs by no means a difficult proceeding, as the fur cloth ean be ob: tained in wide widths that can readily be draped in graceful lines. When making up a stole in fur ma- terial it is as well to add an interlin- GIVES PROPER COLOR TOUCH Stray Blossom Tucked in Odd Places ‘Adds Immensely to Charm of ‘Any Costume. ‘A blossom tucked here and there on the evening frock of today Is one of the popular solutions of variety. For example, one of the latest imported models to find its way from Parls was ‘a dancing frock whose charmeuse sirdle of pink, running straight about under the arms in that new way of this fall and depending for its moor- {ngs upon tulle shoulder straps, was surrounded by cunning little pickets or rosebuds. ‘To make the connection between trimming and gown absolutely bind- ing, a leaf-work of gold was picked out on the fabrle and surrounded each rose. Not always is it that the adorning blossom matches the gown, In a hoop frock of pink taffeta the girdle is set off with rosebuds of queer or- ange and blue—dull, faded tints like Rotticelll loved. Sometimes, too, a AFTERNOON GOWN nN - a fe elmer: | en F toe fae ge eC a RE ek fa meaty This charming afternoon gown Is called “La Dame et la Mode.” It Is of white ottoman. The new decollete Is shown in a pretty effect running from shoulder to shoulder in fichu effect. The new waist line is short, coming to a point at the front. The new skirt Is extremely wide, laid in folds and al lows sufficient room for walking, dane- ing, ete. bought for ten cents a yard; that will be 20 cents for the four doilles and probably only 16 cents for the hand: kerchlef. Ten cents for embroldery silk Will bo ample, while the square wire shades come from ten cents upwards. Im putting on tho Ince the outer edge must be perfectly flat and without the slightest bit of fullness. For this rea son It is better to use quite a narrow lace edging. The inner edge must be drawn up, of course. ‘Then it 1s basted neatly to the edge of the dolly, and stitched by machine. A certain erlep. ness In the Iimen 18 necessary to keep the shade firm. This Is obtained by putting through warm water and then through a thin bolled starch. They can be Ironed, needlework downward, on flannel, but there is no better way of pressing embroidered linens than to lay them dripping upon the sides of a porcelain bathtub and leaving them there until bone dry. They will look like new, the em broldery will stand out clearly (em broldery upward this time), and there {g no hot fron to tade the colors, Every scrap of alr must be pressed out, and the edges of the lace be clearly defined when laying on tho tub. ‘This done leave the article absolutely alone. ‘The doliies are attached to the wires with a few stitebes taken tbrough the \ice—Wasbington Star. ing of thin wool wadding, which gives extra warmth and firmness, this again belng covered with soft satin or thick silk, ‘A smart effect fs given one set by the little upstanding frill of black vel vet that edges the inner side of the stole about the shoulders and 48 again repeated as a decorative band across the front of the muff, MOCK EARRINGS FIND FAVOR Change From Old Design of Orna: ‘mentation Has Pleased the Woman ef Fashion. ac Mock earrings are the newest nov: aise, You cam sea thems aay atierante ‘on Broadway. A hairpin, an almost in- ‘Visible chain and a pendant—that's the ‘combination. The hairpin is stuck in the hair fust above and on a line with ‘the back of the ear. ‘The chain hangs from the halrpin and {s mostly bid by ‘the ear. ‘Tho pendant is suspended from the end of the chain on a line ‘with the tip of the earlobe, where tt ‘dangles free, All sorts of colored stones are used for pendants. Women ‘who wear mock earrings, of course, re train from sticking big tortoise shell hairpins In a northeasterly direction under their hats.—New York Letter to the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Many of the evening blouses are of Jace combined with chiffon velvet. Satin and silk waistcoats of striped velvet figure on the front of many blouses, matching a rolling collar of the same, with an organdie collar ‘above contrast 1s worked out by flowers of ‘colored beads or sequins, and occa: ‘sionally you see Burbank out-Rur- banked by a bit of fur cunningly die torted into the guise of a flower. Beaded Evening Gowns. ‘The new evening gowns are liter ally weighted down with beads, Whole costumes are seen of jet embroidered net, made up over alry black tulle, 80 that the effect 18 soft and graceful de- spite the welght of the Jetted tunic. A gown of this sort worn at a re: cent opening rose In its Jetted biack- ness only to the armpits. Above this point it consisted of Jet-bead shoulder straps over a surpliced upper bodice of flesh-tinted tulle. The effect was startling, but exceedingly smart, Severe Dinner Gown, Severe but beautiful {8 @ dinner gown of black ninon, in which three @iferent widths of the old accordion plaiting are revived, but the whole ts finished by a belt of bright magenta and purple striped silk, with one great rimson velvet rose tucked Into it al ‘most under the left arm. Proof That Skil ts by No Means| Manufacturers of Gas Majtles | Modern, Are Hurt. Inveatigation by Archeologist Has| Thorium, Most Essential Part of the Demonstrated Fact That South | Composition, Comes From Ger Americans Long Ago Were many, and the Supply Is Shut Experts In the Work, Off by Conflict. Among the natives of parts of| Thorium, an essential constituent of South America before the advent of| gas mantles, comes principally from the Spantards it was the custom of|Germany. The supply has now been the beaux and belles to decorate their | cut off, and the Scientific American teeth by having gold and precious | foresees serious difficulty in the mak- stones Inserted in them, Ing of mantles as soon as the present Dr. Marshall H. Saville, professor of | stocks of this rare earth aro exhaust: American archeology at Columbia unl-|ed. ‘The condition the manufacturers versity, in his explorations in Central| have to face is shown by the fact that they are now trying to have con: A | | sumers save the ash from broken and ) burned-out mantles, as the thorlum is N f x oar not destroyed by burning and can be Of ra ection Om tis nee Pp a Tn the meantime the manufacturers b 0.0. Tis of weanduareat Ghee’ tants oe Nya a ue is we fs pr 5 OLY Shea fr Soe eee, ae eee Skull, ‘The middle tnetsors are nlald with disks Of Koll, find the left on vt lateral In ise taken from i stranger's jase and implanted to replace one’ that iad been and South America, discovered sey: eral skulls, the teeth of which were 80 decorated, In the Mayan area he found teeth Inland with Jadelte. In Mexico he found teeth with hematite, turquolse, rock crystal and obsidian settings. At Atacames, in the province of Es: meraldas, Ecuador, he obtained an upper jaw containing two extraordl- nary teeth. ‘The middle incisors each bore a disk of gold that had been in- serted In a cavity drilled in the enam- el as perfectly as a modern dentist could have done It. But the right mid- dle tooth fs not a middle incisor at all, but a right lateral Incfsor that had been taken from some one clse’s mouth ‘and implanted here to replace a miss- ing front tooth. It fits perfectly in the socket, though It Is not so long as that cavity, and Professor Saville con- siders this to be proof that it was Im- planted In the Jaw only a short time before death. In describing these extraordinary teeth In an article in the American Anthropologist, Professor Saville asks how the owners could have stood the pain of the slow cutting by stone drills with sand and water, for no metal tools with which the work could have ‘eon done have been discovered in } aa Neteens t Va Bs Ser ane ey <A Decorated Teeth of the La Pledra Skull. ‘The enamel of the alk front teeth ins Beh AS out an pire Robina TA Gen memsarh doula pk aks Hone i? dowel the sitll that of am iWadorian anive whe Hed Reto. the GincSvely oe America Keuador, Ie suggests that these ne: tives had found out. the property of coca In producing local anesthesia ‘The people of the eoast were addicted to chewing coca leaves mixed with Hime and Professor Saville thinks It reasonable to surmise that they may |have used it to deaden the pain of the | filing and sawing, | The gold and jeweled Inlays are as | akilfully done a8 those of a dentist of | today; there is no sign of decay either behind oF around them, which proves with what perfect accuracy they must have been made sanalinauis Panes: Paealee: Napoleon tried to smoke once, and then, with dire results, instituted the French tobacco monopoly, which the German government now proposes to adopt, so far as cigarettes are com cerned. ‘At a court reception held early in 1810 the ,emperor remarked a lady wearing jewels of such magnificence that he inquired how her husband made bis money. “Ile is a tobacco merchant,” was the reply, which led him to seek futher information as to such a profitable business. Lefore the year expired Napoleon issued a decree restricting the sale and manu: facture of tobacco exclusively to the state, It has remained a monopoly ever since, and for many years past has brought In an annual revenue of over 416,009,000. Wife Had to Dig Gri ves. Appearing in the domestic elatlons court at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the wife of the sexton of a suburban cemetery declared in her plea for support that she had been compelled by her hus- and to dig graves In order that she and her five children might be as- sured of something to eat, and that her husband might retain his job. To Judge Wedward the woman ex: hibited a check proving that the most recent burial at the cemetery was in fa graye which she and one of her gons, not yet out of knee breeches, had dug. Her husband, on advice of the court, took the total abstinence ‘wieder, Jack Johnson and Napoleon, Seeing the amount of hero worship lavished upon them, {t is not surprie- ing to find that present day boxing champions hold an exalted opinion of themselves, On the occasion of Jack Johnson's first visit to Paris he was stalked by a number of reporters, one of whom records: “When the emperor of the ring visited the Invalides he re- mained silent for the space of a whole minute. Then, striking the ground with his gold-mounted malacea cane, he exclaimed In tones of deep con- viction, “Ah! He also was a great ‘eant” Manufacturers of Gas Mahtles Are Hurt. ‘Thorlum, Most Essential Part of the Composition, Comes From Ger. many, and the Supply Is Shut Off by Conflict. ‘Thorium, an essential constituent of gas mantles, comes principally from Germany. The supply has now been cut off, and the Selentific American foresees serious difculty in the mak- Ing of mantles as soon as the present stocks of this rare earth are exhaust: ed. The condition the manufacturers have to face Is shown by the fact that they are now trying to have con: sumers save the ash from broken and burned-out mantles, as the thorlum is not destroyed by burning and can be reclaimed from the ashes, Tn the meantime the manufacturers of incandescent electric lights are LL”. —< ee \ a = saving the Ath sania’ targs estate ot tanesten tampa ender Ghat ston she pea atin be obatoabls ne longer Cpr many ecto th ‘opportunity to eubath tata clenrohy (oC eas PITTSBURG WITHIJUT THE “H” Wan 80 Written by General Forbes, ‘Who Christened the Now Fa: sone the Under date of November 26, 1758, the earllest known uso of the name of Pittsburgh occurred in a letter from General Forbes to Governor Denny.of Pennsylvania, in which he told of the triumph of the British in the West, written the day of taking possession of “Fort Duquesne, now called Pitts: burg,” very properly omitting the “h," he having christened the place and feeling that he knew how to In- dite the name of his own Immortal progeny. Iistorian Bancroft says of that redetter day: “The little army moved on in one body, and at evening (November 26) the youthful hero, Washington, could point out to Gen- eral Armstrong, who marched at the front of his Provincials, to the High landers, the Royal Americans, and to Forbes himself, the meeting of the rivers. Armstrong's own hand raised tho British flag on the ruined bastions of the fortress. Ax the banner floated over tho waters the place, at the sug- gestion of Forbes, was with one voice called Pittsburgh. It is the most last- ing monument to William Pitt. Amer- fea raised to his name statues that have been wrongfully broken, and gran- ite piles of which not one stone re- maing upon another, gut so long as the Allegheny and Monongahela shall flow to form the Ohio, so Tong as the English tongue shall be the language of freedom in the boundless valley which thelr waters traverse, his name shall stand inscribed on the ‘Gateway of the West,’ Say He Stole His Own Pigs. It “Pigs is Pigs” can a men be are rested for stealing those which he knows to be his very own? ‘This is the substance of a very une usual legal situation that has devel- oped at San Mateo, Cal., and promises to mark u new development in juris prudence upon Its satisfactory solu tion. Fred Marsh, a rancher at Halfmoon bay answers the question in the nega- tive. Unfortunately, however, the San Mateo authorities have taken the opposite view and as a result Marsh is under arrest on a charge,of petty larceny and his pigs are in the cus- tody of the health authorities. ‘A few days ago the health officials brought several pigs from Marsh's ranch to place them under observa- tion Shortly afterward they dlsap- peared, The authorities began an in- vestigation and as a result Marsh was arrested for the theft of his own pigs. —Washington Post. setivin smmat | Naa Deatind malails.- The New Zealand government has Introduced Into the house of represen tatives of that colony a bill to provide for a referendum vote at the next parliament election to determine whether the Bible shall be read in the public schools under the supervision of teachers, but without sectarian teaching, and whether provision shall be made during school hours for re- ligious instruction by a minister oF his substitute, to be chosen by the parent. If the bill, which has rev celved the endorsement of the governs ment, shall pass, it will be submitted to the voters at the next election and tne result will be laid before parlia- ment at the opening session of 1915.— ‘The Living Chureh. \ Cracks in tron It there 1s an ugly crack that shows on the kitchen range, it can be filled up with a cement made by heating an egg, to which add ashes. Work the paste smooth and then press it into the crack. Smooth off even with the fron surface. This paste will harden almost Ike Iron, and will take @ pol- ish that will render the crack uno ticeable. QUINCY LOCALS. (Last Week's News.) Mrs. Elizabeth McEliroy of Chicago, Ill., was the guest of Mesdames M. E. Young, and M. Fonza during the Thanksgiving holidays, returning to her home Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Boone Toles are the proud parents of a son. Mother and babe are doing fine. Quarterly meeting was well attended at Bethel Sunday and the reports at the quarterly were excellent. Miss Helen Marshall and Mr. Raymond Bryson were married on Wednesday evening, November 25th, at the parsonage of Bethel by Rev. J. J. Evans, May Mr. and Mrs. Bryson live long and happily together is the wish of the Bystander. Bishop B. F. Lee of the Illinois conference will be at Bethel on Friday night, December 4th. Mr. Jesse Pearl and Mrs. Alice Williams were visitors in Louisiana on Thanksgiving day. Mrs. Simon Parrish and baby of St. Paul arrived in the city on Thanksgiving morning and are now at the home of Mrs. F. E. Cook. Quincy welcomes Mr. Parrish and family in their midst. The Thanksgiving rally at Eighth and Elm Street Baptist church, under the leadership of Mr. J. I. Majors and Mrs. Anna Wells, was a successful one. Each participants worked with might and main and resulted in the report of $76.90 for the blue side, under Mr. Majors, and $35 for the pink side, under Mrs. Anna Wells. The Wayman chapel was well patronized on Thanksgiving day, as the committee sold out and the success was remarkable. Mrs. Florence Douglass and little Martha Hall are on the sick list. Mrs. Mamie Harris went to Keukuk, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Anna Wells, to have an operation performed on her foot. We trust that it will be a success. The Thanksgiving rally at Bethel A. M. E. church was a grand success and everyone enjoyed themselves. The Thanksgiving rally at Union Baptist church was a remarkable success. The Mutual Aid met at the home of Mrs. C. A. Summers on Tuesday night, and after the regular routine an appetizing luncheon was served. WATERLOO NEWS Mrs. Mamie Punch has returned to her home in Chicago. Mrs. Punch was accompanied as far as Cedar Rapids by Mrs. Mamie Atkins. Mrs. I. W. Bess left Monday for Tennessee, where she will visit with friends. Miss Addie Lovicks has been sick for the past week. Mr. Alpheus Wood was quietly married last week to a lady from Des Moines. Mrs. Lizzie Bess, the mother of Rev. I. W. Bess, is visiting here again. Mrs. J. D. Hopkins entertained a dinner A. IOWA NEGRO INVENTOR Boston Clay. We are glad to present to our many realers a brief biography of one of the many inventors that have been produced by the Negro race within the past fifty years. The above cut is that of Mr. Boston Clay, who was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and raised in Muscatine, Iowa. He is of Irish, Indian and Negro descent. His grandfather was Judge Henry Clay, who is buried in Iowa. His father died when he was but a small child, leaving his mother with four children to care for. Young Boston was then compelled to rely upon his own resources in early life. He worked at a hotel for many years in Muscatine. At the age of 17 years he served in the Tenth United States regulars during the Spanish-American war and came out with an honorable discharge at Fort Clark, Texas Having been away from home fourteen years, he returned and stayed a short while. While home he wrote a book called "The Coal Miner's Check No. 96," of which he sold quite a number. His next step was to invent a Button cutting machine which would cut three blanks at once in three different sizes by one operation. The record in Washington shows that there is no machine that will cut more than one button of the size. He therefore now holds the controlling interest in the United States in this invention and also has patents pending in five different foreign countries which he has a standing guaranty for a set price as soon as the patents are procured for the rights in this country. The invention will certainly prove to be a valuable and profitable addition to the mechanical science of our country. An eastern syndicate is handling his foreign business. HOCKING NEWS. Mrs. Headspeth, daughter and son Miss Viola and Charley Young, were in Albia on business last Monday. The wedding bells will soon be ringing in Hocking. Mrs. Oscar Roper was a visitor at Mrs. J. T. Robinson's on Monday. Miss Alberta Robinson has been on FREE CONCERT TO-NIGHT Make This A Home Christmas==Give Things of Real Use and Evident Value Long Rows of Davenports are Here and Ready for Christmas Eve Delivery A woman is arranging a blanket on a couch. In the background, there is a bed with a fitted sheet. Our Holiday Hint to the Men Don't let another Christmas come and go without giving wife or mother a McDougall kitchen cabinet. A UNIQUE MAN WITH A UNIQUE BUSINESS. The above cut is that of our well known and successful business man, Mr. George C. Young, a mercantile auctioneer, formerly of Peoria, Ill., but now of this city. George, as he is best known, is indeed a self-made young man, born in Van Wert county, Ohio, on a farm in 1866, attended the common and public schools and became a mercantile auctioneer about thirty years ago, in partnership with some white men. Later he withdrew from the co-partnership and has paddled his own canoe for the past fifteen the sick list for several days with la gripe. Mrs. Alice Robinson, who has been on the sick list, is somewhat better at this writing. The schools are closed for three weeks on account of smallpox. Mrs. Emory Buras was a visitor at Mrs. J. L. Robinson's on Wednesday, where they had a great discussion on Christianity. Mrs. Walter Burns attended the funeral of little Louise Roper last Friday. Mrs. J. L. Robinson attended her Mite Missionary society on Thursday at the home of Mrs. Mary Harris of Albia. Mrs. Locust and friends of Buxton were canvassing in Hocking on Wednesday and Thursday. ALBIA NEWS Mr. Wm. Bennings, with his men, Mr. Ben Harris, Chas. Davis, Walter Bennings and Andrew Smith, returned home on Saturday. They met both good and bad people while working out their contract in Morning, Mo. The S. B. Moore Mite Missionary society held their monthly business meeting at the home of Mrs. Mary Harris on Thursday. The topic chosen for study was "Life of Moses." After business Mrs. Mary Harris and Mrs. Walter Benning served a delightful lunch. Visitor, Mrs. Chas. Carthon of Hiteman. Mrs. Pearl Thomas, who has been Make This Long Rows of D Our Holiday Hint Don't let another Christmas con- giving wife or mother a McDou A woman is working at a coffee shop. She is standing in front of a large coffee machine with several cups on the top. The machine has a large glass window and a metal frame. The woman is wearing a dark dress and has long hair. --- CHASE & WEST 312-314-316 West Eighth Street years. He has bought and sold goods in all the central west states and has owned mercantile stores in more than fifty towns in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. While our newspapers have heretofore said but little about the man, yet he has done more in a practical way to break down race prejudice than any one man by his courtesy, affability and congeniality winning the white race. He has a very fine, affable and commonsense wife, who has recently entered into the ready made ladies' tailored goods business. Mr. Young is a Mason and K. of P. quite sick at her home, is out again. Mrs. Willa Lewis, with her sister, Mrs. Ada, and husband, attended the funeral of Louis Roper Friday and returned to Oskaloosa Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Roper, parents of Mr. Oscar Roper, from Buxton, spent several days of this week in Albia. The Mite Missionary society held their usual monthly program at the A. M. E. church on Sunday evening. Lawyer Geo. H. Woodson and Lawyer James A. Spears are attending Monroe county court in Albia. Miss Viola Young, Mrs. Virgine Burns and Mrs. Nancy Burns attended services at the A. M. E. church Sunday morning. Many strangers in town the past week. Albia, Iowa, Dec. 10, 1914. Whereas it has pleased the Omni-potent Father to send the angel of death to embrace the dear little daughter, Louise Roper, and thereby depriving the devoted parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Roper, of a loving child of six months so early in life unto himself and reminding us of the uncertainty of life. Be it therefore resolved that we express our sympathy in this hour of bereavement to the mathed and father, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Roper. Be it further resolved that the flowers purchased by the two clubs, the Sewing Circle club and S. B. M. M. m. society, in memory of the good work of the parents and the love of the child be placed on record by each society and a copy of these CHASE & 312-314-316 West Is A Home Ch Real Use and Davenports are Here a to the Men me and go without legal kitchen cabinet. The fact that all men are not forgetful of the meal-time problems of the home was splendidly demonstrated by the many McDougalls sold to the men during the last holiday season. Present indications point to a still greater demand of the same kind this year. We've a plan that makes it easy to buy a McDougall, too. Talk it over with any of our salesmen tomorrow. --- M. B. In All the Wanted Coverings' Including Many In Tapestry An Arts and Crafts' design in fumed oak frame and heavy moroccoline covering, with seat and back plain, and with ruffle front is specially priced at..... $27.00 A Bed Davenport with quarter sawed oak framed, finished golden and highly polished is upholstered in brown moroccoline, an excellent substitute for leather at $35.00 Duo-Fold Bed Davenport with heavy oak frame, fumed, and brown moroccoline upholstering--plain seat and plain back Heavy coil springs--as pictured..... $26.00 Fine Table Silverware and Cutlery In Wanted Patterns 1847 Rodgers Bros. Silverware, warranted full weight of silver, is shown in complete lines. Look into our silverware stock before you make a selection. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale image with a blurred or pixelated appearance. Therefore, no text can be accurately extracted from this image. A SUCCESSFUL PHYSICIAN. Through some persuasion we are able to present to our readers the cut and brief biography of Iowa's most successful physician, Dr. Arthur J. Booker of Des Moines, Iowa. He is the oldest practicing physician among the Iowa colored physicians. Dr. Booker is a graduate of the Northwestern University of Chicago, finishing with highest honors after making a general average of over 95 per cent, and there were only three physicians in the class that made such an average. He was interne at Provident hospital, Chicago, for two years and on the city ambulance force in the same city. Later he went to France and took a special course in Paris. Returning to this country he took charge of the hospital in St. Louis. A short while later he came to Des Moines, where he began practice. resolutions sent to the parents and to the Iowa State Bystander and to the Albia, Monroe County, News, for publication. By order of committee, Mrs. Mabel Robinson, Mrs. C. W. Carthon, Mrs. Chas. S. Washington. My God and Father while I stay Far from my home on life's rough way, O teach me from my heart to say, Thy will be done, Thy will be done. Mts. McClain's Experience With Group. "When by boy, Ray, was small he was subject to croup, and I was always alarmed at such times. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy proved far better than any other for this trouble. It always relieved him quickly. I am never without it in the house, for I know it is a positive cure for & WEST at Eighth Street Christmas==Give the Evident Value and Ready for Christ In All the Wanted C Many In T An Arts and Crafts' de frame and heavy morocca seat and back plain, and front is specially priced a A Bed Davenport wit framed, finished golden a upholstered in brown mo an excellent substitute for Duo-Fold Bed Davenpo frame, fumed, and bro holstering--plain seat and Heavy coil springs--as pi Fine Table Cutlery In 1847 Rodgers Br weight of silver, is into our silverware tion. We also have a lower priced line of good reliable silverware under our own trade mark and guarantee. Knives and Forks $2.50 set of 6. Teaspoons— $1.25 a dozen. Oyster Forks, Individual Salad For Orange Spoons Butter Knives Sugar Spoons Cold Meat Forks Berry Spoons He is a member of the Iowa State Medical society, also the Polk County Medical society. Taught for two years in Drake university. He is a contributor to the Iowa State Medical Journal and for the past year has written special articles upon "Health Hints" and "Child Study" through the columns of the Iowa State Bystander and many of our readers are familiar with his ability as a writer. Dr. Booker is a self-made man. He decently took unto himself a very beautiful and efficient wife in the person of Miss Naomi Colston. He has a first class, modern, well equipped office and an automobile. Being a member of the Masonic fraternity, he stands high with both races of people in Des Moines. By his thorough training, wide field of practice he is regarded as one of the leaders in the medical profession in this state, and he is certainly a credit to the race. croup," writes Mrs. W. R. McClain Blairsville, Pa. For sale by all dealers. IOWA CITY, IOWA. Thanksgiving night was spent in a little entertainment by the G. L. U. I. in honor of Miss Mabel Morgan's birthday. Mr. Hilton led the topic, "A Saloonless Nation," at Christian Endeavor very ably Sunday night. Mr. Lowry made some very interesting remarks. Miss Muriel Fields spent Thanksgiving at her home in Cedar Rapids. Blind Boone here under the auspices of the A. M. E. church. Mr. George Herron was taken to the university hospital to have the cataracts over his eyes operated upon. There was election of officers at Things of Christmas Eve Delivery Coverings' Including Tapestry design in fumed oak moroccoline covering, with d with ruffle at...$27.00 with quarter sawed oak and highly polished is moroccoline, for leather at $35.00 port with heavy oak brown moroccoline up- and plain back pictured...$26.00 Silverware and Wanted Patterns Bros. Silverware, warranted full is shown in complete lines. Look are stock before you make a selec- orks Tea Spoons Knives and Forks in sets Table Spoons Dessert Spoons Carving Sets Unusual Holiday Reductions q All Womens and Misses Suits ..... ½ Price q Evening and Afternoon Dresses ..... ½ Off q Womens and Misses Coats Worth to $19.50 ..... $10⁰⁰ Everything new in furs 25 per cent to 33 1/3 per cent cheaper than any one else. ¶ Flowered Embroidered Crepe de Chene $1 95 Worth $3.95, Special --- the g. S. U. I. Saturday night. The program consisted of: Reading, "The Negro Girl in School," Miss Mabel Morgan; "Humorous Sayings of the Club Members," Miss Ruth Southall; newspaper, Miss Graves. There will be installation of officers at the next meeting. Make This Christmas The Merriest One They Ever Had It's possible, and the great gives you a better range, a betunity to do all your shopping a We suggest to show you how easy Christmas Fairy Tricycles Coasters $1 It's possible, and the great added variety we have now gives you a better range, a better stock and a greater opportunity to do all your shopping at one place. We suggest a very few. Light running, ball-bearing, easy riding tricycles and coaster, sold only by us, three sizes; are strong and durable, will last a life time large tires, strong wheels and easy for children to run. 16 inch ..... $10.00 20 inch ..... 12.00 24 inch ..... 15.00 Other Velocipedes $2.00 to $3.50 Meccano An attractive, instructive mechanical device for the development of a constructive mind. You, as well as your boy, will be much interested in this mechanical device. Buy One Now For Your Boy Don't pay high prices for useless stuff, but educate him if he shows mechanical bent. Prices from $36 down as low as $1.00 Toy Games Cards, 10c to 50c. Card Games, 10c up. Skates, 50c to $3.50. Sleds, $1.00 to $4.25. Baseball Goods, 10c to $5.00 Foot Balls, 50c to $5.00. Jerseys, $1.00 to $2.50. Sweaters, $2.00 to $8.00. Caps, 50c to $1.50. Hunting Clothing, all prices. Mechanical Toys Meccano and Structo, $1.00 to $86. Toy Auto and Fire Wagon, 50c to $1.75. Mechanical Row Boats, 75c to $1.50. Iver and American Train, $1.00 $1.49. Cash Register Banks, $1.50. Rapid Fire Boy Scout Machine Guns, $2.50. Small Sewing Machine, $2.00. Mirrorscope, $2.50 to $15.00. Fairy Coaster Tricycle, $10 to $17.50. Buckling Broncho, $8.50 to $10. Hobby Horses, $6 to $8.00. We have hundreds of other gifts for the Boy, the Mother, th will fill in where nothing else co HOPE BROS Phone Wal. 21 We have hundreds of other items suitable for Christmas gifts for the Boy, the Mother, the Sister or even yourself that will fill in where nothing else can. We want to show you. HOPKINS BROS. CO. Phone Wal. 21 618-620 Locust St. FURS Christian Endeavor will be led by Mr. Robinson on Sunday night. Dr. Carter from Buxton is attending clinic. Miss Mary Perkins will give a musical recital in Buxton during the holidays. Miss Southall will assist her. HOPKINS great added variety we have now a better stock and a greater oppor- ing at one place. baggest a very few easy you can make your as Shopping Cicles, Bicycles and $10 to $17.50 es oy fe g l- ```markdown ``` Pennants and Pillows, 25c up School Blankets, $5 to $6. Boxing Gloves, $1.00 to $8.00 Punching Bags, $1.00 to $1.00 Golf and Tennis Outfits. Pocket Cutlery, 25c up. Gun Cases, 50c to $5.00. Refrigerator Baskets, $5 up. Manicure Sets, $1.00 to $8.00 Icy Hot Bottle, $1.00 to $3.50 Bean Bag, $5.50. Fleetwing Sled and Kiddo $1.00 and up. Drawing Sets, $1.00 to $1.75 Modelwood Toys, $1.50 to $2.30 Perchest Ouijf Plauchette, $2.50 00. Educational Games, 20c to 25c. to Poker Sets, fine variety, $1.25 to $15.00. 10. Toy Scale Cornet, $1.00 to $1.75. other items suitable for Christmas, the Sister or even yourself that else can. We want to show you. PKINS S. CO. 618-620 Locust St.