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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. State Capitol Blvd Hist loco VOL. XXI NO. 27 CITY NEWS Mrs. H. W. Hughes has been ill with rheumatism for the past week. We wish all of our subscribers a Happy New Year. Rev. F. C. Bolding of Enterprise was in our city Tuesday on business. Mrs. Robt. Owens of Ottumwa is spending Christmas holidays at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jackson, 717 West Eleventh street. Mrs. Bernice Wilkerson and children spent Xmas at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jefferies, of Knoxville, Iowa. The Bystander for one year for $1.00 until January 15, if paid up in advance. Mr. and Mrs. John Griffin of S. E. Fourteenth street royally entertained at their home Christmas day. Those beside the family who shared the hospitality of a turkey dinner were Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Wilson and little Gwen dolyn and Miss May Mayes. Mrs. Louis Holmes and daughter Maxine of Lincoln, Nebr. is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. Wm., Wilkinson and Mrs. Wm. Howard. During her trip she spent the Christmas holidays with her parents in Knoxville, Iowa. She will return to her home in Lincoln the latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs Herm Stone and daughter of Marshalton were in the city the past week visiting Mr. Stone's mother and other relatives and friends. The memoirs of Dorie Masonic lodge gave a house warring in their hall, which had been remodeled and overhailed. A fair sized crowd was present and an enjoyable time reported. Mr. Arthur Williams of East Walnut street died last Sunday of pneumonia in the Methodist hospital. He was born in North Carolina twenty-two years ago. He came and lived with his brother and sisters. Jonex congregated there to charm of solves the serious lead to. annual St. John's obsolete be Sunday was largely atpossible. A. M. E. church, which you will full. The sermon was Remed. Rev. S. Bates in his usual ensa a Master Thompson made pictures. Mr. Bairy is in our city, as he was holiday in deliverer the annual address 817 Montgomery Commandery, No. 6, was be abrivation of the birth of enson. their asylum in the North and Montic Temple hall. He delivmany his address. The day was a great day spiral day attentive Union. Congregational mitt. They took in twelve new made as baptizing seven of that next Tuesday was indeed a great and finish the right to see the young 6 Study council standing up by the 60 national person, each denouncing and taking up the cross of Under was a glorious morning Maude church. This was the Moriah on the W. A. Sunday revival Tabor, on Next Sunday will be diversion and communion Sunday was decoration of the new year. All was likely expected to be out and the form invited. The Joe Brown was attending businesses in Marshalltown natural history. Joe Brown desires to meet who have consented to serve was set on observing committee to have ten. He is the residence, 1058 Fifth follows: day evening, January 4th, Hydie; week evening, January 4th, Strawley. Robinson Harry S. della C. Wednesday The 'M Magnolia young girl Mrs. Gau party in the room with Ch and dance of town Kansas of Buxt Hubert NEW RESOLUTIONS. ill subscribe for 1915. us do right. us be honest. us pay all our just debts. us be a man and not a kid girl. us read more good litera- party in us get more knowledge and us pay what we owe The or without delay. us be more prompt in at- our churches and secret so- Kane of shalkown Fairbury at us not talk about any one their backs. let us practice economy and me. Mendan Wright at us stop going to the sa- sambling dives and pool halls. at us support our worthy purposes. at us support our worthy pro- men in business. at us quit borrowing miracle to find overcome across to the Dr. Boeker was HEALTH HINTS. We attempted at the Iowa Federation of Colored Women to show by means of charts that pneumonia, especially among children, was house disease. The children show more of this in the spring than in the real cold weather. Which fact is due to their being fastened up in the houses during the cold weather and getting run down so they are a prey to germs. One of the essentials for a germ spread disease is the necessary run-down condition. This holds true for every infectious disease, and for some that are not infectious. If every mother would get this idea firmly fixed in her mind there would be little pneumonia and fewer colds. It is seldom too cold for a baby to be taken out for an airing at least twice a day. Children must be hard and not made hot house plants of. Little children who are just creeping or walking should be kept on the floors; there is nearly a draft coming under the door. Pad a large box and let the child play in it. Larger children should not be allowed to abuse the privilege of playing out of doors until they get chilled. Eternal vigilance is the price of physical freedom from ailments as well as the price of political freedom. A little more time is worth the money. Properly nursed and not overdosed with medicine, most of the little tots get along nicely, but the fever and strain on the nerves, the irritation to kidneys and the congestion of blood, incident to these diseases, all leave some effect on the child. It is not necessary, and positively dangerous to have these diseases of childhood. They confer no immunity; the child can and often does have them over and over. To have one disease on the contrary often makes the child more susceptible to others. Conserve the health of the children. We need strong men and women. Upon their shoulders will fall many of the burdens that we now have, incident to race prejudice. It is no game for cripples; a man or woman that must spend most of his or her time keeping well has little time to help the community or contribute anything to society at large. It is more than a question of family worry and doctor's bills; it is a world problem. Once in a while some saphead asks what我 what I do if I succeed in getting all the people well. If we, doctors, would ask me the reasonable way of making every one well and educating disease we would hunt jobs and go to work like other men. It is no disgrace to work and no particular honor to be a physician unless one does his work in an honorable way. The man who does not attempt to teach his patients to keep well is less than a man and a disgrace to the great profession of medicine. MACON, MO., NEWS. Macon is having plenty of snow nowadays. Several Macon knights attended the Xmas dance Friday night in Moberly and report a scrumptious time. James Davis remains the same. Mrs. Joanna P. Moore, the white missionary for this state, is in Macon, the guest of Mrs. Ida L. Garnett. Mrs. Moore has sacrificed life for the Negro race and we are glad to have her in our midst, for she is as a ray of sunshine. All the time Mrs. Moore has done and is doing much for the benefit of the colored race. Prof. T. B. Bruge of Paris is in the city, the guest of Prof. E. W. Perkins, Joe T. Ancel, Jr., spent Xmas in Huntsville, Mo. Preston Wright spent Xmas in Louisiana. Mo. Raymond Houston and Keely Donley attended the dance in Moberly. ley attended the dance in Mc. Miss Alberta Young has returned to Chillicothe, Mo., after a visit with relatives. Miss Bertina Young is on the sick list. Miss Blanche Brooks has returned to her home to spend Xmas. Hon. Lawyer G. W. Woodson of Burton, Iowa, was in the city on business. Mr. Nathaniel Houston is in the friendships and relatives. citp visiting Thea and Mrs. Victoria well spent Xmas Motherly. holiday Miss Nellie Goins of Jacksonville makes a few days in our city. The old folks' concert which was given December 31 was quite a success. Miss Tennie Brooks remains ill at her home. Lida Pitts of Moberly is the guest of Elinora Jackson. Qrville Garth is working in Buxton, Iowa. Misses Ruth and Mabel Reece spent Xmas night in Moberly. Several Macon knights are contemplating attending the bells in Moberly and Brookfield on New Year's night. The death of Earnest Smith occurred at his home on Broadway street Sunday December 20. Funeral services were conducted at Vina and Broadway church. He leaves a host of relatives and friends to mourn his death. Mr. Chas McAvey remains ill at the home of his parents. Mary Wallace and Alane Thompson passed away through Macon Ave route 57. DES MOINES IOWA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1915, IOW STATE uary 1st. The wedding bells are soon to ring in Macon. We are very sorry to hear of the serious accident which happened to Mrs. A. Hoskins of Rock Island, iii. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bell spent Xmas day in Macon. Several Bevier boys spent Saturday in Macon. Miss Ella Carter has returned to her home, after a two days' visit in Kirksville, Mo. Lawrence Carter spent Xmas day in Kirksville, Mo. Mrs. Mattie Carter and daughter are visiting relatives in Booneville, Mo. While in our city, tired and hungry, see Sam's cafe. Mrs. H. C. McGill the hairdresser of our city, is away on business. This being the first of the year, I wish you Macon knights would turn over a new leaf and pay your subscription. How do you expect the news when you don't put out the money. BUXTON REVIEW Mr. Charlie Ross, who went to Omaha last week, has returned. Mr. J. H. McGrew, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., was called home in Tennessee last week on account of the illness of his mother. Mrs. Robert Glens of Knoxville, Iowa, has been a visitor this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Southall. Mr. Samuel Steele of Minneapolis, Minn., was in our city during the holidays visiting his mother, Mrs. Ruth Steele. Mr. W. A. Brown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, spent the holidays in our city. Miss Louise Mardis is back to our city again. Miss Susie Roberts: spent Xmas in Des Moines. Miss Ruth Southall returned to Iowa City school Saturday. Miss Rosa B. Carter from Lexington, Mo. is in our city again. She brings a smile to the professor. There was a wedding last week. Mr. Young was quietly married to Miss Meal Morris at the home of the bride. J. H. Ferribee, master of ceremonies. (Watch the Bystander and see who will be next. It's getting very cold. While we are in joy and pleasure death is knocking at somebody's door in the still watch of the night, saying, Come. Mrs. Abbot Lee, who has been sick a short while, passed away last Monday morning at her home. She was the widow of Mr. W. W. Lee, who died fourteen months ago. The Hotel Buxton has changed hands. Mr. John Wright and Reuben Gains, Jr., are now running it. We wish them much success in their new venture. The reporter wishes you all a Merry Xmas and a Prosperous, Happy New Year. ROCK ISLAND, ILL. (Special to the Bystander.) (Special to the Bystander.) Mrs. Wm. Morrison, Sr., entertained the Golden and Houston families at dinner Xmas day. Mr. Bailer field secretary of Tuskegee Institute, was also present, the guest of Mrs. Chas. Golden. Rev. Saunders of Clinton, Iowa, preached two soul-stirring sermons at the McKinley Baptist church both morning and evening. The Ladies' Progressive Art club is preparing for its annual Xmas tree and benefit entertainment January 5, 1915. The date of the entertainment was set for December 29, but owing to the death of a member of the club the entertainment was postponed until January 5th. Mr. Cass Lambert is able to be out of doors and he is improving rapidly, after his serious operation. The members of the Whist club, including Mr. and Mrs. B. Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Critz and several others spent Xmas day in Muscatine, Iowa, the guest of Mrs. F. Grooms. Uncle Billy Morrison was quite sick Xmas day, but is better at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Windsor were callers in Davenport on Sunday. The McKinl y Baptist church held their annual election of church at the Baptist church Wednesday night for the ensuing year. Deacon, Sandy Terry, Ramsay, Coleman, Brown and Powers. Trustees, Houston, Taylor, Terry, Bassett and Brown. Church clerk, Chas, Brown, and financial secretary, Coleman. Mrs. Agnes Buries died Saturday evening at 9:30 o'clock, after a lingering illness with tuberculosis. She leaves to mourn her loss two daughters and three sons. The father died five years ago. She was a member of the Court, S. M. T. and Progressive Art club. Mrs. Manie Patterson of Chicago is visiting relatives in Rock Island. Mrs. Essie Lewis of Prophestown, Ill. is the guest of her mother, Mrs. H. Moore. FORT MADISON GLEANINGS. (Last Week.) The remains of Mrs. Bessie Brown who died in Rock Island, Ill., were brought to this city for burial. Mrs. Brown was born in this city and has many islands who mourn her loss. She was a dear young woman and loved all who knew her. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. D. YOUNKER BROTHERS The January Clearings All Thru the Store Including the Economy Basement Begin Monday Morning Every section will have an abundance of extraordinay bargains, in things to wear and use. It's a once-a-year opportunity to save and save much. (This Week.) Mrs. Chas. Eubanks is spending the holidays in Marshalltown visiting her sister, Mrs. E. Robinson. Miss Anna Harper, who teaches school in Carbondale, Ill., is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harper. Miss Louise Harper, who has been attending school in Chicago, is home for the holidays. Mr. John Buford of Keokuk, Iowa, was a Fort Madison visitor Christmas. Messrs. Chester and Floyd White of Hamilton, Ill., were Fort Madison visitors Christmas. Mrs. Betty Banister, who attended the funeral of Mrs. Bessie Brown, left for Rock Island, Ill., last Wednesday morning. The entertainment given at the A. M. E. church Christmas eve was a success both socially and financially. Mr. and Mrs. Elizie Marshall spent Christmas in Monmouth, IL, visiting relatives. Mr. Curtis Herdron spent Xmas in Marceline, Mo., visiting his parents. One of the prettiest events of the holiday season was the party given Thursday evening by Harper in honor of their masters and Louise, who are hosting the holidays. The house was prettily decorated in the holiday colors, red and green. The evening was spent in dancing and games. At midnight a three-course luncheon was served. All departed at a late hour, voting their hostesses royal entertainers. Stomach Trouble Cured. STOMACH I. If you have any trouble with your stomach you should take Chamberlain's tablets. Mr. J. P. Klote of Edina, Mo., says: "I have used a great many different medicines for stomach trouble, but find Chamberlain's tablets more beneficial than any other remedy I ever used." For sale by all dealers. MOLINE, ILL Rev. J. W, Whitfield, who was pastor of the McKinley Baptist chapel of Rock Island for more than two years, has been called to the Tabernacle Baptist church of Moline, Ill. Rev. Whitfield has been giving the Moline church one service each Sunday afternoon. He began his pastorate in full the first Sunday in December. Mrs. Isabella Ford is very ill with this writing, though she is improving some. Mrs. Hannah Brown of East Moline is stopping in Moline with Mrs. Ford, who is her daughter. Mr. Lee Hubbard is out again, after suffering a very bad knee for about three weeks. He was kicked by his horse on the knee. Mrs. Earl Bradley was on the sick list again, but she is out again. The ladies of Moline gave a shower on little Mary Catherine Whitfield, the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Whitfield. The little one received quite a number of very valuable presents. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bradley were the guests of Mrs. Hurts Walkup on Sunday morning for breakfast. The Christmas dinner which was given by the sisterhood of Tabernacle Baptist church was quite a success. They made clear of all expenses, $25. Rev. J. W. Whitfield, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, has planned to begin his revivals on watch meeting night. Rev. J. D. Herben of Atlantic City, N. J., who has just closed a successful series of revival meetings at the Mt. Zlon Baptist church, departed Monday for Omaha to begin meetings there. Seven persons who were converted during the revival services at the Mt. Zlon Baptist church were baptized last Sunday by Rev. J. D. Herben at the Swedish Baptist church at Ninth and Court streets. The A. M. E. and Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday schools observed Christmas and rendered their exercises Thursday evening, December 24. The latter school presented a very clever playlet, entitled "A Home Made Santa Claus." Mrs. A. M. Askew and Miss Arabelle Dowdy left Tuesday evening for Chicago, having received word of the illness of Miss Birdie Dowdy. Mrs. Eugene Grant has returned from Minneapolis to visit indefinitely with his parents. Mrs. J. Clubbert was hostess to A. P. Club last Friday evening. At the close of an interesting business session a dainty luncheon was served. (This Week.) Mrs. M. H., Spencer will entertain the members and friends of the P. I. E. club of the A. M. E. church at the church parlorors Monday evening. Announcements have been received in the city bearing intelligence of the marriage of Mrs. Myrtle Aaron Morgan of this city and Mr. Fred Metcalfe of Omaha. The friends here extend congratulations. They will reside in Omaha. The Art and Culture club will hold open house at the J. W. Hudson home, 616 Sioux street, during the hours of 12 m. until 12 m. Mrs. Stokes and little granddaughter of Yankton, S. D., are spending the holidays in the city visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Mack, and sister, Mrs. A. Lee. KEOKUK SOCIAL NOTES The Union lodge celebrated St. John's day at their hall on Monday evening, December 28. After the lodge services the friends of the members danced. Music was furnished by Robbins orchestra. Alpha chapter, No. 2, O. E. S, held their annual election December 15. The following were elected: Mrs. Inez Kelles, W. M.; Mr. F. S. Johnson, W. P.; Mrs. Susie Holmes, A.; M.; Mrs. Emma Teebau, secretary; Mrs. Margaret Bucknell, treasurer; Mrs. Anna Alden, conductress; Mrs. Ellen Dixon, A. Con.; Mrs. Maria Jones, Ads; Mrs. Agnes Johnson, Ruth; Mrs. C. Woodward, Esther; Mrs. Henrietta Bucknor, Martha; Mrs. Mary Bland, Electa; Mr. Geo Kelles, warder; Mr. Wm. Dixon, sentinel. The installation was held December 22 at the home of W. M. Mrs. Inez Kelles. After installation a four-course super was served. A very enjoyable time was had. The girls of the sewing class of the A. M. E. church will hold open house New Year's day at the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Chas. Goins left last week for Chicago. The Self-Culture club will meet at the home of Mrs. Leon Bland on December 30th. Both churches had their Xmas trees and exercises Xmas eve. Both programs were good. The members of the Second Baptist church served turkey dinner and also supper Xmas eve. Master Robert Sheppard is on the sick list. He has an attack of typhoid pneumonia. Rev W. W. Williams is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Clay returned home Saturday, after spending Xmas in Eldon and Keaosaua visiting the daughters, Mrs. Morris Wicks and Mrs. Josh Johnson. They report a pleasant visit. Mr. Edwin Gater and daughter, Martha of Ames are visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. McCracken. Miss Grace Harris of Buxton is spending the holidays visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Harris. Miss Georgia Williams of Des Moises spent Xmas in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. Tillie Williams, and grandpa, Mr. Elmer Richmond. Mr. Raymond Daviner of Fairfield spent Xmas here visiting friends. Mrs. Ben Wilder of Galesburg is visiting at the hime of Fev. and Mrs. W. W. Williams. Mr. Tom Tomps of Missouri is visiting his mother, Mrs. W. M. Keith. The Mission Circle met at the home of Mrs. Vollie Thompson Monday afternoon. (Last Week) Bishop B. F. Lee paid his annual visit here on Sunday, December 18. In the evening he preached a good sermon to a good audience. Sunday, December 20th was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church. Presiding Elder S. B. Moore was with us in the afternoon and evening. He preached two soul-stirring sermons. The Mission Circle of the Second Baptist church met at the home of Ms. Harriet Smith on Monday afternoon. A very interesting meeting was held. Lena Palmer Robinson was born in Callaway county, Missouri, April 1, 1890. She departed this life December 14, 1914, aged 24 years. Those left to mourn her death are her husband, Mr. Arthur Robinson; two daughters, Edna and Glen; a mother, Nellie Webb; Mrs. Leo Reeder of Keokuk, Eva and Beulah Palmer; two brothers, Harley and Dewey. The funeral was held Friday afternoon at the Second Baptist church at 2:30 o'clock. She was a member of the said church. Rev. Eaves preached the funeral sermon, assisted by Rev. W. W. Williams. For One Year Until January 15th, 1915 if sent into the office. Now is your chance to take advantage of our Holiday Rates. THE NEW YEAR The old year is past. The new year has come, with her greetings, happiness and woes and trouble. Let us face the new year with a full realization that we as individuals must meet feastfully and honestly whatever this week. We all should be prepared spiritually, intellectually and financially to stand the test. With wars around us and rumors of war near us we should all strive to bring peace and tranquility. Then we as a race just struggle to raise our civilization should work more and strive to make a good, useful and valuable citizen, neighbor and man, that our enemies as well as our friends will command us. We must all seek to do right. Then go forth this new year with God as our helper, fully determined to succeed this year of 1915. THE LYCEUM. The newly elected officers of the Des Moines Negro, Lyceum association were installed at the meeting at the residence of Miss Beatrice Turner last Tuesday evening. Mrs. R. A. White of Chicago, Messrs. Rufus B. Jackson of the Iowa State college and Douglas Miller, Jr., of the State University were among the out of town members who were present and addressed the meeting. The next meeting will be with Mrs. J. B. Rush, 1547 W. Twentieth street, at which time Rev. E. G. Jackson will review the January Crisis. Below we clip an article from last Friday's Register and Leader, which is a good article on the city franchise question: THE STREET RAILWAY PROBLEM To the Editor: The street car franchise question would be quickly settled if some of us did not carry special eye glasses to be used in looking at public utility questions. We hear talk about the street car company occupying "our streets" and therefore should pay for it. This argument is out of date. The car company paves all the streets it occupies and pays a liberal tax besides. The coal companies, newspapers, department stores, etc., use "our streets" and pay nothing, yet pay as large dividends as their conscience allows. If you think the owner of the ground abutting upon the street is imposed upon by the street cars, try to move the car tracks from Walnut to Locust. If you want Harris-Emery company to forget to build their proposed new building move the car tracks from Seventh and Walnut. Make a motion that the University car line be changed to center street and the University armored by Brother Evans to stop the city highway. The man will have wobbled around on the question and so far as his official acts have come to my notice he has never offered to guarantee a fixed profit to the company. He seems now to have abandoned all proposals except the one suggested to you: That is, to fix capitalization at what Mr. Harris paid for the property. He is now unofficially offering to guarantee 6 per cent on this value. Well, he is safe enough. Who ever heard of the mayor or anyone else making a purchase at a hardware store and immediately selling Price Five Cents it at cost, unless he found he got a "gold brick" Mr. Harris purchased at bankrupt sale. There was no other bldder. Mr. Harris would not have purchased had he not financed the company while thinking he had a longer term franchise. In arriving at a reasonable fare to be charged, the courts allow a replacement value to be put on the property. This being true, why is the price paid by Mr. Harris of any importance? Clear the streets of tracks, cars, etc, and start new. What proposal will the city make to induce capital to put in a street car system? It will offer at least 6 or 8 per cent on the cost of putting in a plant. This rate of interest will bring to takers and you will have no street cars. We have a new deal in everything except the company has already invested its money under the impression that this franchise was for a longer term. The company has been caught in a trap. Some of you probably know that the new could not be driven if the street car company had no money invested. We hear much of Kansas City and Cleveland. These are merely instances of other companies being caught and agreeing to do things they would not do if free to act. How many who oppose the proposal of the street car company will invest their money under the proposal of the mayor? The company proposes to give good service, extend its service as ordered by the city, pay the taxes, pave part of the streets occupied by its tracks and fixes a fare of six for 25 cents, and half rate to school children. If there is anything left after fulfilling its agreement, it is for dividends. Milhousens and Consumers If you are ever troubled with jousiness or constipation you may interested in the statement of Erwin, Peru, Peru. "A year we last winter I had an attack of indigestion followed by billiousness and constipation. Seeing Chamberlain's Tablets so highly recommended, I bought a bottle of them and they helped me right away." For sale by all dealers Fever Sore. Fever sores and old chronic sores should not be healed entirely, but should be kept in healthy condition. This can be done by applying Chamberlain's Salve. This salve is superior for this purpose. It is also most excellent for chapped hands, pear nipples, burns and diseases of the skin. For sale by all dealers. BY CLEVELAND G. ALLEN New York—One of the most notable achievements undertaken by the colored people in this city which reflect creditably upon the genius, ability and civic pride of the race is the completion of a beautiful new parish house, valued at $75,000, of the St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal church, on West Fifty-third street, of which the Rev. Dr. William H. Brooks has been the pastor for eighteen years. The contractor was R. E. Simons, formerly of Charleston, C. S., and the only member of the race in the city doing contracting on a large scale. Mr Simons from the start had the work well in hand and completed the structure on schedule time and without a delay of a single day. He employed only colored men, and the new parish house is the result of careful entries by members of the race in this city. The architects, Tandy & Foster, were also colored and two of the most prominent men of the race engaged in this line of endeavor. With the opening of this parish building the historic church of Methodism starts out on a new arc of its church life. The event has been a notable occasion in the civic life of the race in the city, which has been celebrated in special dedicatory service in connection with the forty-third anniversary of the church, which was recently celebrated for three weeks. The new building was dedicated in Bishop Luther B. Wilson of the city and other prominent clergymen in laymen participating in the murders were the Rev. Dr. William A. Chelsid of Philadelphia, Dr. A. Clayton Powell of this city, Dr. William M. Monroe Brooklyn, Mr. George P. Schmitz, Professor of the Christian Admonition, Dr. B. Do Bok, M. H. Summers, Jones and Mrs. M. H. Lawson. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Benny Mock, a Negro of Mingo Junction, O., has invented what he calls a "mine destroyer," which will not only prevent a ship from being blown up by a submarine mine, but will set off the mine without harm to the vessel which is equipped with his device. He also claims that his invention will locate icebergs and prevent vessels from running into goats "terrors of the sea," and that it is a mate device for rescue passengers from sliding or burning in icebergs and patients on his invention, but has applied for them in this and other countries. He also gave his correspondence with governments regarding his invention, with gratifying encouragement of their adopting it as an equipment of their navies. "I have made a number of experiments with my invention," said Mock the other day, "and everyone of them has been an unqualified success. I have experimented on an Ohio River steamer several times with dynamite bombs, and the steamer was as safe from harm when equipped with my invention as though there was no dynamite within a mile of it. The locating of other dangerous substances in the river in the path of the steamer also was tried a number of times with great success. "I hope soon to secure patents on steamer. When I do I will be able to have the secret of it made public. It can be on any sort of steamer or sailing vessel, and I am sure it will be the means of saving thousands of lives at sea every year, as well as locating and destroying submarine mines and finding icebergs in time to prevent the destruction of ocean-going ships." The ambitions Negro and Indian students, the following courses are offered: Academic-normal, covering four years of work for those who are preparing to become teachers; an agricultural course of four years, and a trade course of four years in any one of 18 trades, including the building industries, as well as such indoor trades as tailoring and printing. "In 1914 and thereafter," according to the latest announcement, "a diploma from the Hampton school will indicate that the recipient has done at least four years of work beyond the grammar grades. It will be the policy of the school to grant a diploma to no one who has not received sufficient vocational training to make self-support possible at some skilled occupation. "To all the industrial courses leading to a diploma, a fixed minimum of academic work is required; indeed, it is regarded as an essential part of all industrial courses." In the agricultural course the Hampton student has the opportunity of learning the best modern practice in Geld, garden, orchard, greenhouse, horse barn, dairy and poultry houses. Hampton sends out "agricultural missionaries." More bigness has never been a goal at Hampton. Every department has a bigness, and every department prepares needs of the process receiving training. Today, between twelve and thirteen hundred students, including some forty Indians, are enrolled. These figures include some four hundred children in the Whittier school, which is a neighborhood elementary school, and is used by Hampton institute as a training school for teachers. The student life at Hampton institute tends to develop character. In the dormitories, on the parade ground, on the football field, in the cabins of the old and lowly, indeed, at every turn, fortunate Negro and Indian youths who reach Hampton are receiving valuable training in self-control in obedience, in courtesy, in team work. From the rising bell, which sounds at 5:30 in the morning, until "taps" at 9:30 at night, the training academy are both trained in the value of promptness, alertness, discipline, endurance, respect for authority, and applied Christianity. Hampton institute stands for all that aids in training Negroes and Indians to become earnest, industrious, Christian citizens. It teaches the dignity of labor, the happiness of service, and the value of moral and physical cleanliness. Hampton institute is neither a state nor a government school. It must depend largely voluntary contributions for its support, and is supported annually, above the school's generous income, for scholarships and expenses. The school is striving to raise an endowment fund of $4,000,000. Argentina in January shipped 900, 900 bushels of corn to the United States. _____ Mackenziewan university, Baska County, will this year spend $300,000 for new buildings. The music of the Negro, like the music of the Indian, has caused much ink to be spilled. Some enthusiastic souls have looked to the rhythms of the red man for the melody that is to create American music; in fact, some have gone so far as to declare that the only possible American music can be Indian music. Which is all very interesting and absolutely inconclusive. The fact remains that Indian composers, in any fair sense of the term, do not exist; while we have among us many talented and well-trained Negro creative musicians. It was with one of these that a New York Tribune representative talked last week, with a man who has written a very large proportion of the modern dances. We were, too, the composer of all the Castle dances, and the director of Europe's orchestra, an organization which has all but secured complete control of the cabaret and dance field in the city. Mr. Europe is a well-trained musician and a man who has thought deeply on the musical possibilities of his race, and of these possibilities he has firm and well defined opinions. "I am striving at present to form an orchestra of Negroes which will be able to take its place among the serious musical organizations of the country," said Mr. Europe. "The Tempo club now contains about two hundred members, all musician, who play at present a majority of the orchestras which play in the various caes of the city and also at the private dances. Our Negro musicians have nearly cleared the field of the so-called gypsy orchestras. The Negro, while not generally equal to the demands of the more sophisticated forms of music, is peculiarly fitted for: the modern dances. I don't think it too much to say that he plays this music better than any other. All this music is indigenous with him. Rhythm is something that is born, in the Negro, and the modern dances require rhythm above all else. "I myself do not consider the modern dances a step backward. The one-step is more beautiful than the old two-step, and the fox-trot than the schottische, of which it is a development. As to the so-called dance crase, it does not appear to be a 'crase'. I have had probably so good an opportunity to observe the various dances as anyone in the city, and I have found that dancing keeps husbands and wives together and eliminates much drinking, as no one can dance and drink to excess. However, these are questions for a philosopher and not for a musician." The Negro farmer reads no bulletins, few agricultural journals, and seldom sees the daily or semi-weekly market reports published in our papers. He has not taken any interest in the subject of transportation. Freight, express and parcel post rates and their relative value and the importance of this service do not interest him, as he has nothing to ship. Demand and supply appeal to him only to the amount of food required or demanded to supply his appetite. He has never been taught anything about farm accounts, and so his receipts and expenditures have no safe check, and often, more often than otherwise, these expenditures are injudicious. Kangaroo farming is a very important industry in Australia. But we sit not down and complain of our lot. We know that we have women in our race today who stand shoulder to shoulder with any women. We need and must make all the friends we can with white people. They need us and we need them. If centuries were needed to bring the Anglo-Saxon from the morasses of central Europe to the height of today's civilization they cannot expect us to be perfect—yet. We are like the wrecked ship which to the call, "Shall we lower the boats and take you in?" gave answer thus: "No. Lay by us till morning." Sympathetic and true white friends record for this half-mile stone from human slavery is unequaled. Let us go on with the team work which embodies the grand old motto of the Swiss republic, "All for each and each for all."—From An Address at the Biennial Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. In an electric gun invented in England, which seems to be successful, a profectile is hurled through a tube by the action of electric magnets on the outside. An American visitor in Montreal recently saw a squad of boys whose ages ranged from six to nine, being drilled by two little girls of corresponding age. Upon inquiry one of the drill sergeants explained that her father said the war might last twenty years, and then these boys might fight for the union jack while their fathers came home to rest. Slammes capital, employing Danish engineers and machinery, is constructing a large cement plant near Bangkok. Sonneberg, Germany, has had an annual toy output valued at more than $29,000,000. Robert Ohnemeiss of Trenton, N. J., demands a divorce because of his wife's passion for dancing. Electric fans have made it possible for churches and theaters in southern India to remain open all summer. Japan's government forests last year yielded 35,400,000 acres of woodland and conserved 35,377,000 acres. SWEET TOOTH DAINTIES CONFECTIONS OF FINE FLAVOR THAT ARE REMINISCENT. Old, but Very Good, Are These Little Tit-Bits Which Most of Us Find a Pleasure in Between Real Meals. Date cakes are novel and good. Take one pound of dates, one-half pound of English walnuts, the same quantity figs and the white of one egg to make these. Seed the dates and chop them fine with the figs and nuts. Mix all together with the stiffest besten white of the egg and bake in small drop-cakes. Pine Cream Crisps. Pine crispes are a fine substitute for the usual tea cakes. Shell a quart of peanuts and chop them fine. Add one cupful of powdered sugar, a tablespoonful of flour and the whites of two eggs. Beat up lightly and drop in spoonfuls on a buttered pan and brown in a moderate oven. Lemon Wafers—Lemon wafers and orange wafers are made in the same manner. Cream a cupful of butter with two cupfuls of sugar; work in two beaten eggs. Squeeze the juice from a large lemon and grate the rind. Add this to a small cupful of cold water and mix with the other ingredients. Then put in enough flour to make a dough stiff enough to roll. Roll very thin, cut in rounds or other shapes, and bake. Honey Candy—To make honey candy, put half a pound of honey into a saucepan, add half a pound of sugar, one tablespoonful of cream and a dessertspoonful of cold water, then mix well. Allow to stand for one hour. Put over a moderate fire and cook, stirring gently until it is stiff enough to pull. Pour into buttered tins. When cool enough to handle pull and cut into small pieces. Caramels—This recipe is very old and very good. Mix two cupfuls of chocolate, two cupfuls of milk, two cupfuls of molasses, two cupfuls of brown sugar and two-thirds of a cupful of butter together. Boll until it hardens in water; but just before it hardens flavor it with vanilla. Roast Rabbit. Empty, skin and thoroughly wash the rabbit; wipe it dry, line the inside with sausage meat and forcemeat (the latter of bread crumbs, well seasoned and worked up). Sew the stuffing inside, skewer back the head inside the shoulders, cut off the fore joints of the shoulders and legs, bring them close to the back of a skewer. Wrap the rabbit in buttered paper, keep it well basted, and a few minutes before it is done remove the paper, flour and froth it and let it acquire a nice brown color. It should be done in three-quarters of an hour. Take out the skewers and serve with brown gravy and red currant jelly. Toake the rabbit proceed in the same manner as above; in a good oven it will take about the same time as roasting. Most cooks garnish the rabbit with a sauce of chopped onion up with currant jelly. Sometimes the head is cut off before sending to the table, but this is a matter of individual taste. Lemon and Orange Tart. Grated rind and juice of one lemon, one half-cupful of cupule, scant cupful of sugar, two eggs. Cook in double boiler till thickened, bake in puff paste shells without boiling over. Orange Tartlets.-Grate the peel of one, add the juice of two oranges, one half to three-quarters cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, one cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of cornstarch wet with one tablespoonful of lemon or raspberry juice, one egg. Beat well and bake in puff paste. Flg Cookies. Five pounds sugar, three and three-fourths pounds butter and lard, one and one-half pounds figs (chopped), one and one-half pounds raisins, one quart of eggs, nine pounds flour, four ounces scream of tartar, two ounces soda, one ounce cinnamon, one quart of sugar, one quart of fat and sugar, add the eggs gradually, then the figs and raisins, milk and lastly flour and baking powder. Drop out with the hand on greased pans and dust with granulated sugar. German Potato Kloessze One plint mashed potatoes, one pint flour, two eggs, one even tablespoonful salt. Blend all together, form into balsis the size of a plum, cook in boiling water about two minutes. When first put in kettle keep stirring so the water is boiling bottom. These are fine with roast veal or beef, but you must have a first-class brown gravy and plenty of it, and have a dish of German sauerkraut. Kloesse must be eaten at once; when cold cut up and warm in gravy or butter. The Cranberry Tart. We are all more or less familiar with cranberry tarts. Sometimes the tart shells are filled with plain sauce, while pie crust is latticed across the top. A cupful of seeded and chopped raisins may be added by way of variation. Whole berries cooked in sirup and a meringue top. If the uncooked berries are mashed be mashed and well sweetened before being placed in the crust. It requires from forty-five minutes to an hour to thoroughly make the tarts in this case. Mushroom Stuffing Add a small cupful of chopped mushrooms to a similar quantity of fine breadcrumbs, one tablespoonful of finely chopped ham, a teaspoonful of finely chopped parsley, a dust of powdered thyme, a pinch of lemon rind and a small portion of onion. Mix all thoroughly, then fry in boiling oil, and use as a stuffing for marrow, tomatoes or large onions. New Silver Polish. Common lamp starch, powdered, makes a very good silver polish. Rub it on with a wet cloth, leaving it undried, then polish with a channa. --- Fundamental Principles of Health By ALBERT S. GRAY, M.D. MORE ABOUT CANCER. It is coming to be quite generally believed that cancer is essentially a problem of growth. If this be true, then the search for the "cure" or for the prevention of cancer leads us inevitably into the broad field of biological study of reproduction, because, as Haseck says, "reproduction is nothing more than a growth of the organism beyond its individual mass, which erects a part into a whole." Unfortunately, because of this fact, there is little hope of any immediate and material check being put on the scourge. The prevention of cancer is clearly a matter of individual initiative, just as is the prevention of fire. I firmly believe that any consistent evolutionian can, after a comparatively superficial examination of the biological facts pertaining to the most logical theory as to the cause of cancer, maintain himself immune not only to that disease, but also to many other unwholesome and distressing conditions apparently closely allied thereto. The word "consistent" is used adviSEDly because few of us are consistent evolutionists. We are hyphenated evolutionists, evolutionists by profession, but not by conviction. It is the fashionable doctrine now and we must always be in fashion and do think exactly as everybody else; but down in our secret souls we cheer a lot of superstitious nonsense that makes disciplined knowledge impossible and that is a menace to the whole world of orderly thought. Besides it requires a considerable effort to understand the comprehensive understanding of any given subject, and we really haven't the time to do that. If this were not the real situation it is very obvious that most of our physical and social ills would speedily be corrected. It is among the poor and the underfed in our city slums or in the inferior producing sections of the country that you will find the least indications of "race suicide." By keeping this idea in mind we shall not be surprised to discover that among the highly nourished rich families in the better parts of our cities and on the highly productive soil of the country in general we find but few children in the family. This is a universal biologic law well worth the consideration of some of our eminent "statement." The phenomenon of a decreasing birth rate confronts every nation progressing in well distributed wealth, and it is not a matter to be reached by legislation. Only starvation will correct it, and nature will provide the logical way to exterminate the slums. Large cities would be to feed the inhabitants. The slums would not then "swarm with ill nourished children," because nature, recognizing life to be secure from danger of starvation, automatically would reduce the number reproduced, just as she does in the corn field, the flower bed, the apple orchard or among the wild weeds of the field or the forest. Obviously it is easy now to apply this same universal law of propagation to the billions of individual lives that constitute our bodies, provided we have trained ourselves to think straight. From the instant of impregnation an intense cell proliferation (multiplication by division) begins and continues along definite biologic lines, and thus that state wherein the individual cells reach the limit of their nutrition absorbing ability, the normal reproductive functions come into play and a biological balance of the entire organism is maintained for the normal life period of the organism, all parts of which are composed of stable "adult" cells. But if the organism persistently deprived of some essential element, those starved cells, acting unlawfully like the hunger, rebel, and, following the which compels all plants and animals to proliferate reproduction in the face of extermination, they begin to proliferate again in a frantic effort to perpetuate the species. Nature is prodigal of life; on every hand we see evidence of the sacrifice of many millions in order to perpetuate one type. This intense proliferation, the exact counterpart of natural evolution, is the very hand in every department of life. We call "juvenile" tissues, better known as cancer. And it is for this Letter Writing and Fine Art of Conversation Gone—is Book Reading Also to Go? In my younger days, and up to a time which may be roughly estimated at twenty or thirty years ago, we had three main resources for the spending of idle hours, and these in their order of importance were reading, the art of conversation, and letter writing. Most people who remember the letters of this earlier period will remember them as giving, with charm and style, descriptions of the life and the news of the day. The necessity for such letter writing, removed by an overzealous and much too evident daily and hourly press, has passed away, and ours, one of the chief resources of our culture, is the art of conversation, a constant resource and delight of older generations, and of which Americans say, "Wife cultivated, gentle conversation is the last flower of civilization, and suit which life has condition the world is being searched for a remedy. Prevention by the immediate care of every enlargement, knowledge, courage, faith and a sane life in general without doubt will be found to be the solution of the cancer problem, as we shall later learn. PREVENTION OF CANCER. Study of the cause and cure of cancer has led to a vast amount of research work being done among the lower organisms, including fish, rats, mice, dogs, rabbits and the like, and these investigations have many high illuminating facts of interest, both aesthetic and significance (to the human family). Bonnet in 1883 was probably the first to note and describe a species of cancerous disease of the thyroid gland among trout. Following this suggestion, investigators have found that trout and other fish quite generally all over the world are afflicted with what appears to be a carcinoma beginning in the thyroid gland and from there spreading to the adjoining bones and muscles. The disease attacks chiefly fish over two years old and the general trend of opinion appears to be that its origin is in some way connected with the food supply. Gaylord found the disease to be constantly present or endemic in not less than 75 per cent of the hatcheries containing salmonoids throughout the United States, and that it became epidemic and attacked all classes of fish in general from time to time. In one hatchery more than 50 per cent of the tumors showed the structure of carcinoma, while in an epidemic encountered in another locality the growth was in general more like a simple goiter. Marine and Lenhart endeavored, by a comprehensive series of experiments, to discover any possible connection between the ordinary gouter of fish and animals and the so-called cancerous affections of the thyroid gland. They discovered that young fish were more affected than the old, that the glandular enlargements were checked by the addition of iodine to the water of the pool and that the removal of the fish to an open brook affected the tumors to be directly related to the water supply, but do not accept the prevailing opinion that the disease is true cancer. They consider that there are three factors which, in some way still obscure, influence thyroid enlargement, namely, limited water supply, overcrowding, and overfeeding with a highly artificial and incomplete food. They found the water of the hatchery was not intrinsically goiter-producing, because fish did not develop the disease unless one of these other factors was also in operation. That is to say, the fish must be either fed with an incomplete food, or the pool must be overcrowded with fish, which in the end ammonia was added to the order to produce the disease. And if the incomplete food was replaced by a complete food or the overcrowding was corrected, then recovery took place even though the fish remained in the same pool. The significance of the above tophumian lies in the fact that so far as fish are concerned the water of the stream is synonymous with food, because normally fish derive their oxygen and all other food matter directly from the water in which they live; hence, if too many individuals are present in the water normally does not carry sufficient material to maintain the group the weaker and less alert must inevitably suffer a deficiency of necessary elements. Whether these glandular enlargements resulting from food deficiencies are or are not true cancer is not material at this time, because we do not yet know whether cancer begins as a malignant growth or whether a simple hypertrophy or enlargement is, in some way not yet understood, converted into a malignant disease. But, granting that they begin as simple benign enlargements, as they undoubtedly do, we do not know and are generally quite unable to determine at what stage an enlargement changes from the benign into the malignant type. Every enlargement should be viewed with suspicion and concern and should receive prompt attention at the hands of some competent person. This can should also extend to all hypothyroidism, to say, to all and any enlargements in tissues of tissues anywhere in the body, whether it be a gland or only the tissues of the nose, because these hypertrophies or thickenings indicate a tendency to overgrowth or hyperplasia from a disturbance in metabolism, a lack of nutritive balance usually due to some deficiency and quite certain in time to have grave consequences in the development of some one of the deficiency diseases if not of cancer. A reasonable regulation of one's habits and indulgences will easily permit of the maintenance of the spirit of youth to the ends of one's days, and go far toward insuring one against cancer and many other undesirable diseases. also passed away, or at any rate, is no longer understood as it formerly was, and there are certainly no adepts in its practice now to be found. Can it be true that reading is also to go out of fashion, that books will no longer be bought or read, and that their place be taken by other means of passing the time? -George P. Brett, in the Atlantic. Indian Child's Grave House in Museum A little grave house—the little wooden shelter the red men used to put over the graves of their dead—has been secured recently by the historical museum at Madison. This little weatherbeaten house came from a child's grave and was found in the northwestern part of Witsburg. The front is a small opening through the wall, an ornament, and sweetmeats were passed over the entrance and pleasure of the denarion. LauraJeanLibbey's Talks on Heart Topics (Copied by), 1914, by the McKinney Newspaper Syndicate) SINKING WITH A SPENDTHRIFT. Tomorrow can bring nothing. But he will bear us through. Who gives us the courage? Will clothe his children, too. Beneath the spreading heavens No creature but is fed. And he who feeds the ravens Will give his children bread. There are girls who boast that their sweethearts are too fond of them to be stingy with them They are constantly showing, by costly gifts, that they are never out of their mind. ```markdown ``` Prudent people know that this might do for a man who has wealth, but for the lover depending on a modest salary there is a note of warmness for the girl in the case. She may appreciate his fondness and anxiety to please her, but she should also realize there is a very essential quality lacking in his make-up-ability to save money. After they wed, trouble soon begins. They commence married life on a scale more extravagant than they should and live up to every penny of his income. They often run behind. One may borrow from a friend a few times. Eventually, however, the borrower is met when asking for another loan with the response, "I'm sorry, my dear friend, to refuse, but I was just about to ask you to pay back the last amount I let you have." As if by one accord he finds the same state of affairs wherever he turns. He has gotten into the rut of spending money. He loses his position, and he falls into a little boma. The wife comes vavilantly to the fore, takes a position to eke out the support of the little family. When a man accepts this situation philosophically, sits down resignedly, then trouble is sure to begin to brew, trouble that time will not be apt to remedy. When the wife is the breadwinner and she knows her husband's spendthrift inclinations she does not make him her banker. She carries the pocketbook or secretes it so securely that though he searches every nook and cranny he is unable to find it. If there are no babies to tend at home time hangs heavy on his hands. Of course he starts out to look for a position each day, but he is one of the kind who are glad to be turned down at the few places where he applies. He feels injured at his wife not allowing him at least a certain amount each week for his spending money. He has been used to smoking cigars—one at that. Where he finds he can get credit he up a little bill, here and there, intending, of course, to pay it as soon as he gets work. His clothes must not show shabbiness, and he spends some of the money which he hopes to get at the tailor's. He must put his best foot forward in his endeavor to secure a position; therefore he cannot have shoes with holes in them. Bills sometimes have a residuality of coming due. He sits solidly through his wife's tears and reproaches. She parts with all her treasures at the insistence of the clamoring tradesmen. This goes on year after year despite her pleadings, until she awakens to the realization that she must pass a camel through a needle's vein than to reform a spendthrift. When a sample is courting a girl should study a habits and not accept gifts which he cannot afford. The lover inclined to be too liberal can be checked in time if taken at the outset. IF THE HEART IS YOUNG. The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow Parents who are so eager for their daughters to marry that they consent to their taking on the matrimonial role at the age of sixteen years may have a year to regret having given their marriage. Where the bridegroom is also young, a mere youth, the blame cannot be put upon his shoulders. Youthlike sees a pretty face and, without thirst, reason, the thought of marriage pops into his head. There's always some one ready to tie the knot. The youthful couple launches into the sea of wedlock like children who step into a toy boat and, without rudder or compass, push out on the broad ocean to sink or swim, as the case may be. It usually takes a decade of years for such a pair to wake up to the fact that each might have made a different choice had they not entered it when the heart was too young to realize the step. The husband has been beset by business cares and accepts this situation. Not so, she has neither the cares of a family nor housework to divert her thought, she gives herself up to discontented rejections and to looking about seeing the kinds of husbands other girls won. She is sure to think her own husband suffers by comparison. If she listens to unwise advice that she could do better now if she were single, her next step is to seek an annulment of marriage on the grounds of her extreme youth. There are some women who listen with pity to such a wife, but there has been one found in New York who will not tolerate playing fast and loose with the marriage tie. Such a woman recently scored a dozen points in this favor when he decided: "As媳妇, a good woman in pretty." own climate. I am not inclined to give any young lady under such circumstances a free interpretation of the law that she can bend, with my assistance, the marriage chain until it breaks. It is shrewdly suspected that the would be divorced her eyes on some other woman and would wrestle her hair from one marriage halter stillly slip into another marriage pillow. A wife's heart should keep pace with her husband's. His heart cannot grow old and worn while hers keeps the early fire of sweet sixteen. Those who would give the wife the right kind of advice should tell her to search for new, lovable qualities in her husband and not magnify trifles to his discredit. Whatever is to be beheld. The man who lives in the charm no fault of his own must go to to his wife and be married. They were married when both were young, and she has never lost her charm for him. They should not part. NOT A HOME LEFT TO VISIT So Love returned, when twilight felt, And found his flower dead—died. The queenly rose he love, when she dropped head, Ah, Love! she cried, they kicks burn: If Love once files, he may return—no more. Many a well-meaning young man wears out his welcome with the girls by falling to keep his appointments on the evenings they are expecting him to call. He thinks any old excuse will satisfy the young ladies, but he soon wakes up to the fact that girls might be fooled once or twice, but after that they sum up him for just what he is—a free lance, to whom one girl is quite as attractive as another. He soon finds that these girls to whom he comes with a patched-up apology are not home. Of course this state of affairs brings him to a realization of his fault but it is too late to mend matters. Most men hold the key of their own popularity. It is for them to use it wisely or to abuse the privilege. When he knows he is at fault, instead of saying, "What is the use?" he should write a note, frankly acknowledging his error and humbly uing for pardon. Where he would find one girl resentful and unwilling to be friends with him, he would come across many others who would be willing to meet the situation half way and give him another chance. The young man may not be so much at fault after all. One or two visits may have suffered to show him that the girl has taken too much of a fancy to him; a fact seems wiser and that he discourage. But he may be led on merely to pique some lover who is off the track and to show him that there are plenty of other beauty she can get. In a case of this kind a man is certainly justified in absenting himself on reasonable grounds. Even the most nockle of men do not relish playing second fiddle. He may be too honest to lead a girl on to hope when he knows every chance against to support a wife, e girl is hinting about friends marrying onance. No man likes force the situation in it is not to be wonder is sometimes frighten he has just begun to est in life young lady been no time for him to grow into a warmer a knows that on one or could not have develop deep liking for him. Then, again, there are do not hold a man's inter They talk upon frivolous get up learn discours too much brain work man who has listened it these kinds which do not in the least takes his departure as soon as hull in the conversation tows a man soon man the list of places to visit. in love with any girl, situation in good part, ar stars that there is not a he is obliged to visit. Awful Thought Frances has been taught the choicest English, and all other departures guisitic straight and narring with serious disappropFrances desired to play workmen, but was refuse on the ground that the used bad language. "What pose they say, mamma?" diminutive daughter of E interest, "Oh, I couldn't the mother's natural rejoil bad words." "Mother," Frances after a period of ing, "do you suppose they Girls have always believe is a mistake to lay bare hearts even when they feel best lost to a man; they that a man's serious interest firmly held in mind endures when he is kept ignoring truly he is cared for teaches girls to play at even when they are in I have been taught to belt man values most that of it not quite sure. To the man I love, a complete aband self possesses a charm far other charms that a girl Could Follow The It was a small western to language more pictural whom this good told. The child adored schoolchildren, young, predian bluntly blowered high—which latter proved inconceivable in connection with and ready prairie roads. and So around today" the admirer was asked upon or Yes, he! came the *Leastman*, she's beaten her, but WASHINGTON, IOWA, Aaron Howard, who has relatives in Kentucky, home this week. NOTES. see visit- expected affined to asthma. Wallsace that could be the hospital six T. L. Burnett has been on the house with an attack of Word received from Lewit at Pittburg, Pa., to the one he is getting along as well expected since coming out of pital. He was in the weeks. Mrs. G. W. Black visited loos at the homes of Hockey and Jeffers Christ Miss Helen Motta spent vacation in Chicago with and visiting her brothers, and Leon Motta. The Misses Luba Gwinn Whale are visiting at Mit relatives at Memphis, Mo. Robert Grever is getting better. The special Christmas edition of the Bastander was a hummer both the display of ads. and read matter. The writeups accompanying the cuts were splendid and were in initiative of the energy and thrift included in by some of the more energies. Many bouquets were handed the sheet in these haunts. The A. M. E. Sunday school held Christmas exercises and a tree on Christmas eve at the church and a big and interesting program was carried out under the supervision of Mrs. Rev. Boyd, who deserves much credit for the success of the evening. On December 16th Rev. S. B. Moore, P. E., held the first quarterly meeting of this conference year. The auxiliaries all presented good reports and a successful meeting was had. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Walker and son of Knoxville, Iowa, are guests of relatives during the holiday. It is said that Howard Motts is getting to be "some cook." Mrs. L. F. Phillips, who was partially paralyzed, is getting better slowly, now being able to talk fluently and has feeling in her left side and can use the left hand a little. Watch meeting was held at the A. M. E. church on Thursday night, and preceding the meeting an entertaining social feature was held in the lecture room. Mrs. Wallace and Mr. Howard, both of Kansas City, were married recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs Harry Sims. The happy couple have the best wishes of all. They will reside here for the present. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams entertained at dinner New Year's. Dangers of a Cold. 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We guarantee all goods, and if not satisfied money will be refunded. Our prices are lower than those quoted elsewhere. Send 2c stamp for illustrated book. Humania Hair Company Dept 61 23 Duane St., New York NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. You are hereby notified that on the 4th day of December, 1911, the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, towit: Lot thirty-two (32), in block eight (8), in Larison Place, being in and a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for the ten delinquent and unpaid tax for the year 1910 to E. J. Boynton; that the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of the above mentioned sale is now owned and held by the undersigned, Geo. angel, 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 TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To Anna Beebe, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 4, A. D. 1911, the following described real estate, towit: West 1-2 of east 2-3 of south 148 feet of lots 6, 7 and 8, block three, of Allen's 2nd addition to the city of Des Moines, was sold to J. D. Wallingford for the payment of the taxes for the year. 1910, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by W. H. Meredith. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. W. H. Meredith. By J. C. Meredith, His Agent and Attorney. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To E. H. Rich, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 11, A. D. 1911, the following described real estate, towit: Lot No. four (4), Miller's addition, which is now in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold to J. D. Wallingford for the payment of the taxes for the year 1910, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by W. H. Meredith. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated this 6th day of December. Dated this rth day of December, 1914. W. H. Meredith. By J. C. Meredith. His Agent and A* ALRIA NEWS Mr. Earl Bowman of Des Moines is visiting at the parental home of his parents, Mrs. Henry Bowman. Mr. Bowman is still quite sick. On Monday evening the ladies of the A. M. E. church gave a bassar at the church and sold many pretty and useful articles. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Toy and Ted Gravely are visiting this week in Danville, ill. On Wednesday afternoon Christmas exercises and tree was had at the church. Miss Jewett Lewis in charge of tree and exercises. Mrs. E. Jeffers of Des Moines is visiting in Albia. Mrs. Jeffers has been entertained by the following friends: Mrs. Nellie Estes on Xmas day, Mrs. Hattie Bennings on Saturday at 6 o'clock dinner, Mrs. Geo. Hollingsworth on Sunday and Mrs. Wm. Bennings on Monday. Mr. Burt Jones has been shot, but how serious we have not learned. Miss Viola Young of Hocking was in Albia on Wednesday. Miss Delia Davis of Denver and Wiggins, Colo., is visiting at the parental Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Davis home. Quite a number of strangers in town this past week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grayson and children spent a part of the Christmas week in Albia. BUXTON REVIEW Mr. Charlie Ross went to Omaha thi sweek. Mrs. Rosa Brown is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Lucy Ewings remains the same. Atty. James A. Spears, who has been away on business, has returned. Mrs. R. H. Stewart has been on the sick list this week. The revival meetings at St. John's A. M. E. church closed last Friday night with four souls saved and many held up their hands for prayer. The meetings only went on two weeks. The weather was so cold that it hindered many from coming out. Rev. Scott is one of the best evangelists in the field. Rev. F. B. Woodard was in Des Moines last week attending the Baptist association board. There were union services held at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon. Christian Endeavor, B. Y. P. U. and Y. M. C. A. Miss Gertrude Lucas reported the Endeavor, Mr. J. E. Mills reported the Y. M. C. A. and the B. Y. P. U. didn't have any report. Miss Lucas and Mr. Mills both had excellent papers. Excellent For Stomach Trouble. "Chamberlain's Tablets are just for stomach trouble," writes Mrs. G. C. Dunn, Arnold, Pa. "I was bothered with this complaint for some time and frequently had bilious attacks. Chamberlain's Tablets afforded me great relief from the first, and since take one bottle of them I feel like aent person." For sale by all DAVENPORT NOTES The Third Baptist church held their regular Sunday school election of officers last Sunday. All officers were re-elected. They reported several additions to the church. Mr. Ward Howard is still quite low at his home at 936 Gaines street. Mrs. Thomas Mitchell is still under the care of the doctor. Mr. Garrett of Farnum street is quite ill. The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Allen of Western avenue was held at the Third; Baptist church last Thursday at 2 o'clock. The services were conducted by Rev. F. K. Nichoison. There were many beautiful floral offerings. Interment was in. Oakdale cemetery. Revival services at Bethel A. M. E. Church were a grand success. Twelve were added to the church. Rev. Simms is very much encouraged by the success of the meeting. Sunday was stewardess day at Bethel A. M. E. church. The weather was very bad, yet the day was a success financially. The Rev. Simms preached a very able sermon. Mr. Allen C. Bean is home from Wilberforce university visiting relatives and friends during the Xmas holidays. CLARINDA, IOWA. Rev. D. W. Brown preached in Bedford on Sunday. He had an additional number to his church. The church in Bedford is spiritually alive. Mr. Everett Howe made a business trip to Red Oak. Mrs. Henry Johnson and daughter, Mabel, attended the O. E. S. Rev. Mitchell preached two soul-stirring sermons Sunday. Aunt Jane Jackson has been very ill at her home. Mrs. Rev. D. W. Brown has been enjoying a visit from her son. Mrs. Maude Jones is in Kirksville to see her sister, Mrs. Eva Johnson, who underwent a surgical operation. Her sister, Mrs. Tillie Lee from Des Moines also went. Miss Sallie Able has been on the sick list. A surprise party was given on Mr. Givens Nowling on Tuesday evening. About twenty of his friends gathered in and an enjoyable time was had by all. Mr. Wilbert Gipson has returned to our city. Mr. Virgil Lewis made a trip out of our city. Rev. D. W. Brown and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Headley, Mr. and Mrs. H. Furrier, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Rob Franklin, Mr. Joe Howe, Mrs. Florence Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jones and Mrs. Jane Moss, besides Mr. and Mrs. John Howe and Mr. and Mrs. Robertson of Bedford and a host of other friends partook of a sumptuous five-course dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson in Gravity. Too much cannot be said of the way in which we all were tended at EMANCIPATION DAY FOR DES MOINES Saturday, January 16, 1915 Vote Then For The Street Car Franchise Here is the opportunity to emancipate the operation of the Public Utilities of Des Moines from the manipulation of politics. It offers an opportunity for the people of Des Moines to declare for Good Quality Service and to divorce the question from the hands of politicians. Get a copy of the franchise and read it. The Company, by the acceptance of this ordinance, agrees with the City and obligates itself to comply with all of the terms and conditions of this ordinance for the period of time covered therein, and hereby and so long as the Company continues to operate any street railways in the said City under or by virtue of the authority hereof. Upon default, the City may repeal this ordinance. (Sec. 30, p. 25.) OVER-CAPITALIZATION IS PREVENTED ATION OF DIFFER- S IS COMPULSORY. No bonds of the Company shall be sold for less than their reasonable market value and no stock shall be issued and sold for less than par. All of the proceeds derived from the sale of stocks and bonds must be invested in additions, improvements and betterments to the Company's property. (Sec. 5, p. 7.) Stock watering is prevented under the statutes of Iowa. CITY RESERVES RIGHT TO MAKE ALL REGU LATIONS. Service I pany H trol o Social requirements and can or held to imply the power to make other pons, and the said City make all regulations, the most ample manner of the public. (Sec. Immediately upon shall be elected by the Company, shall, upon select a person to be Two Supervisors shall orders made affecting schedules, routes, ca- and equipment of car- stopped for passengers (Sec. 14, p. 16-17.) Company Must Sweep and Keep Up Portions of Street Used by System. The enumeration herein of special requirements and specific regulations shall not be taken or held to imply the relinquishment by the said City of its power to make other reasonable requirements or regulations, and the said City hereby expressly reserves the right to make all regulations, which may be necessary to secure in the most ample manner the safety, welfare and accommodation of the public. (Sec. 24, p. 25.) The Company shall grade, pave, gravel or macadamize that portion of sald street between the rails of its tracks and one (1) foot outside thereof, and shall at all times keep all such * * * in good repair, and in every case where the Company is, by the terms of this ordinance or the provisions of any statute required to repair, fill grade, sweep, clean, sprinkle or keep clean and free from snow the portion of any street, bridge or public way above described, and the Company is ordered so to do by the City Council, and the Company will fail to make said repairs within five (5) days after the giving of sald order so to do, or shall fail to do the sweeping, cleaning, sprinkling or removal of snow within forty-eight (48) days after the giving of sald order so to do, the City Council may do sald work or cause the same to be done, and may recover the cost thereof from the Company. (Sec. 8, p. 13-14.) Remember This Is Not The PEOPLE this Is Not The Street Car Company's Fran OPLLE'S FRAN The company must provide and place in service within nine (9) months from and after the passage of this ordinance by the qualified electors of the City, at least twenty-five (25) new double truck cars of modern and up-to-date design, sold cars to be equipped with four motors and with both hand and power brakes. (Sec. 5, p. 8-9.) ARBITRATION OF DIFFERENCES IS COMPULSORY. Whenever any difference shall arise between the Company and the City in regard to any of the provisions of this ordinance or the rights and reserves received upon the Company or the City, or any difference or difference shall arise between the Company and its employees or any division of its employees then the Company or its employees or any division or organization of its employees or the City may regulate such question or questions or matter or matters to be submitted to arbitration. (Sec. 15, p. 18.) CITY RESERVES R TO MAKE ALL RE LATIONS. UNIVERSAL TRANS-FERS ARE GIVEN. Every passenger may demand and upon such demand shall receive a transfer from the conductor of the car upon which he first takes passage. Said transfer shall entitle such passenger to ride upon any line of said street railway system owned, leased or operated by the Company, which connects with, crosses, intersects or comes within a reasonable distance of the line. (Sec. 19, p. 19.) Remember The PH Immediately upon the taking effect of this ordinance, there shall be elected by the City Council a City Supervisor. The Company, shall, upon the taking effect of this ordinance select a person to be known as the Company Supervisor. The Two Supervisors shall determine what acts shall be done and orders made affecting the quantity and quality of service, fixing schedules, routes and terminals, determining the character and equipment of cars, the places at which they shall be stopped, for passengers to leave or enter the same. (Sec. 14, p. 16-17.) Keep Up Por- y System. The Buil- ter Inten- A