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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XXI NO. 31 CITY NEWS. Mr. L. P. Blagburn is still very sick with no change for the better. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfskill of 11th and Chestnut streets are the proud parents of a 10% pound baby girl. Mother and baby doing nicely. Mrs. Leona Hillman who is at the Methodist hospital for an operation is no better. There is not much hope for her recovery. Miss Florence Russ acted as hostess to the Wednesday Night Bridge club. After the regular game of bridge a night luncheon was served Mr. Cola Davis of Ottumwa is in our city this week attending the Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers which convened here this week. The local branch of the Negro Business will hold their annual meeting Monday Feb 8th at Union Congregational church. Mr. Peter Bell who has been very sick is no better at this writing. He is growing worse and his friends are alarmed. FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms, 830 W. 12th street, Phone Wal. 7377. Mrs. Lela Barber of Oskaloosa, Ia., was the guest of her sisters, Mrs. Harry Allen. Mrs. J. E. Ousley and Mrs. Hickman Saturday and Sunday. Miss Bettie Berkley of Ames, Iowa stopped over in Des Meines Sunday envoiced to her home in Hiteman. While in the city she was the guest of Mrs. Blanch Allen-Goodrich. Mrs. Geo. C. Young left Wednesday evening for Marshalltown to visit a day with Mr. and Miss Walker, from there she will go to Sterling, Ill., to visit her husband, and then she will make a short business trip to Chicago before returning here. The Mary Church Terrell club met last week with Miss Tabitha Mash. A very enjoyable evening was spent. After a dainty luncheon the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Pearl Thompson. Misses Rosa, Letta and Jethro J. Carter of Minneapolis, Minn., were called home to attend the funeral of their beloved sister, Mrs. Julia Carter-Hardy of Hannibal, Mo. Miss Helen E. Hagen of New Haven, IA., one of our greatest pianist in America, will give a recital in our city today evering, March 8th, at Union Congregational church, Watch for further notice in the papers. I am compelled to tell our correspondents and writers for the Bystander as we have in the past, that unless your names are signed to the articles sent here it will not be printed. This week we have correspondence without any name signed at all from Mason City, Waterleo, Marshaltown, Quincy, Ill., Ottumwa and Des Moines. The Iowa State Bystander office force acknowledge a fine box of yams from Prof. Lawrence C. Jones' Industrial School farm in Braxton, Miss. They were good and delicious, the first yea editor ever saw or ate. Come again Prof. Jones. Please don't forget us this year. The W. W. club of the Ashbury M. E. church met at the residence of Mrs. Fred Berry Monday evening on account of the illness of Mrs. Victoria Redix. The usual routine of business was transacted after which the newly elected officers for the enquiring year were installed by the pastor, Rev. W. L. Lee. Several visitors were present. Refreshments were served by the hostess. Mrs. Redix will entertain the club Feb. 1st. Dr. A. G Robinson of Buxton, Ia., W. E. Jefferies Buxton, Ia., Miss Minor Kane Ft. Dodge, Ia., members of the Creole Band at Empress Theater, W. M. Johnson, Morwood, Williams, Geo. Baquet, James Palico, Eddie Vincent. DES MOINES NEGRO LYCEUM. At the meeting of the Des Moines Negro Lyceum Association at the residence of the president, Miss Mamie James Tuesday evening, Atty. S. Joe Brown opened the discussion of the Spingarn lecture and was followed by all the other members present, all of whom spoke in highest praise of Dr. Spingarn and the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which he so ably represents. The meeting next week will be with Rev E. G. Jackson at the A. M. E. parsonage at which Mrs. Mattie Warricks will lead the discussion of Senator Thomas' bill providing for a State Capitol Bldg Hist loc Koop minimum wage for women and girls, which is now pending before our state Legislature. N. A. A. C. P. At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Monday evening following were named as standing committees for the ensuing year: On Membership—Jesse A. Graves, J. C. Williams and Mrs Mattie Brooks. On Finance—The President, Treasurer and B. N. Hyde On Meetings—Mrs. S. Joe Brown, A. A. Alexander and C. B. Woods. On Press—Hon. Harvey Ingham. E. R. Hall and Mrs. J H. McDowell. On Legal Redress and Legislation—Atty. Gen. Geo. Cosson, Atty. Casper Schenck and Atty. Geo H. Woodson. On Grievances—Mrs. J. L. Thompson Atty, H. H. Griffith and Arthur Williams. Or Education and Amusements—Dr. A. J. Booker, Mrs. J. B. Rush and V. L. Jones. It was also decided to hold a triple anniversary celebration at St. Paul's A. M. E. church on Friday evening, Feb. 12th, in honor of the birthday of Lincoln, Douglass and the National Association. A Beautiful Character Gone Mrs. Sophia Hunter-Edmonds was born in Renville, Ohio in 1889. In her infancy she, with her parents moved to Enterprise, Ia., where the greater portion of her life was spent. She was married to Mr. G. H. Edmonds to which union one child, a boy, was born. They had recently moved to Des Moines and had bought them a home at 1410 E 18th street and there lived happily until her death, Saturday Jan. 23rd. She leaves to mourn her death a mother and father, a married sister, uncle, husband, son and neice, and a host of friends. She was an ideal wife and mother, a lovely character and a member of Corinthian Baptist church, from where the funeral was preached. Her many friends extend to the bereaved family their heart felt sympathy. Interment at Glendale. BIRTHDAY PARTY. Master Nelson Thompson, the little son of Editor and Mrs. John L. Thompson, was 7 years old last Wednesday. A pretty little dinner party was given to a few of his friends at 6 o'clock. He was the recipient of many presents. A TERRIBLE DEED. On last Saturday Mr. Chas. F. 14 vis, a prominent and well liked citizen of Council Bluffs, Iowa, shot and killed his wife. He then shot his only 12 year old son and then shot the roomer, Mr. J. Brown, and then killed himself. The little son and the roomer are not yet dead and may live. He was insane at the time. He had been sent to the asylum last spring at Clarinda and was pronounced cured and left the hospital last September. Since that time he was a porter on the railroad. Mr. Davis at one time was a well-to-do man, a life member of the National Business Men's League and a Mason of high standing. THOMPSON FARM HOME BURNED. Last Thursday; January 21, a telephone message came to John L. Thompson from Decatur City, Iowa, stating that his house on the old homestead was burned that morning. On going down I found our old home completely burned; nothing left to tell of this nice farm home except the cave, the well and the cedars. Even some of them were burned. The origin is not known. The renter had just got up about 5 o'clock and started the fires in two rooms. In a few minutes he was attracted by a light in the kitchen. On going in he found the ceiling all afire. He just had time to wake his family up and get them out. He lost his household goods. We had insurance covering about two--thirds of the loss. We will rebuild again right away. The home is one of the pioneer colored homes in Iowa. Andy Thompson moved on this home in 1866 and they have owned it ever since. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN Last Sunday was quarterly meeting in St. Paul. Quite a few were over from Minneapolis. Rev. E. R. Edwards of St. James' A. M. E. church, Minneapolis, was the speaker of the afternoon. His sermon, as usual, was full of interest. The Allen Christian Endeavor League of St. Peter's A. M. E. church was well attended. Much interest is shown at meetings. Rev. T. B. Stovall preached two excellent sermons Sunday. His subject for the evening was "Courage," after which three persons came forward seeking the way to Christ. The Woman's Mite society will be entertained by Mrs. Clara Ducan, 3920 Fourth avenue So., Friday afternoon. The Willing Workers club will be entertained by Mrs. Frank Peoples, 3920 Portland avenue, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Edward Hammond of Clinton avenue is much improved, after having been confined to her bed for YOUNKER BROTHERS Have You Ever Shopped in the Economy Basement Do you know what the Economy Basement is--what its policies are? —It is a large store within-a-store, harboring more than a score of individual departments, each a specialty store in itself. —Its merchandise is of the good, every-day, dependable, lesser-priced kind. —Absolute satisfaction must accompany every purchase here, the same as in any other part of the store, and not a single sale is considered complete until the purchaser is thoroughly satisfied. These are the fundamental reasons why the Younker Basement is known as Iowa's Greatest Economy Center. That's why people with whom ECONOMY is a matter of first importance, should trade here. Friday Will Be "Courtesy Day" Saturday the Selling Begins----It's Davidson's Annual February Sale Teeming With Thousands of Wonderful Saving Opportunities That Appeal to the Thrifty Housewife Appreciating that many of our friends who have been looking forward to this announcement with the intention of benefiting by the UNUSUAL BARGAINS offered, would find it difficult to attend the opening on other than a Saturday, we have anticipated February by one business day and have arranged our ANNUAL FEBRUARY SALE to begin Saturday, January 30th. In addition one day—Friday—will be known as "Courtesy Day" and its hosts of shoppers are tendered an invitation to come and make a previous inspection of such Home-Furnishings as they may be interested in purchasing. By Saturday—the "Opening Day" of the sale—everything will be in readiness for the greatest bargain event we've ever planned. Every DEPARTMENT will offer this season's new goods as well as odd lots, samples, ends of lines and makers' discontinued numbers at price inducements that will absolutely clear them from our floors. months. She is able to go up and down stairs unassisted. Mrs. R. B. Moulden has been confined to her bed for about ten days, but is able to sit up at this writing. Mr. William Monroe Trotter, editor of the Guardian and speaker of the National Equal Rights League, delivered an address at St. Peter's A. M. E. church January 10th. His detailed recital of the interview with President Wilson was heard with the closest attention. A very generous voluntary collection was taken. Fifty dollars was the amount collected. IOWA CITY, IOWA. The Kappa Alpha Nu put all freshmen applicants for membership on probation at its last meeting until the end of the semester. M. F. Fields, chairman of the program committee, lead the Christian Endeavor on Sunday night. Mr. Brown of Cedar Rapids sang a couple of times. Mr. Robinson gave a violin solo, accompanied by Miss Ruth Southall. M. F. Fields was made president of the fraternity at its recent election of officers. Mrs. Hubbard, the minister's wife, recently returned from the bedside of her mother. KEOSAUQUA, IOWA. Mrs. L. Wicks and two daughters, Dorothy and Margaret, of Eldon and Mr. and Mrs. Clay. Reed of Mt. Pleasant visited their sister and daughter, Mrs. Josh Johnson, of this city during the holidays. Mr. Chas. Buckner of Des Moines spent the holidays in this city with his brother, Mr. John H. Buckner. He was the guest of honor at the following: Mr. and Mrs. John H. Buckner; supper; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Green, dinner; Mrs. Mary Garret, dinner, and Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson, supper. Rev. J. F. Augustus was here last week rehearsing the young folks for a play to be given at the opera house about the 15th of February for the benefit of the church. Luther Edwards of Ottumwa visited a week with his uncle, Mr. John Johnson, of this city. YOUNKER Have You Eat in the Economy? Do you know what its policy — It is a large store within than a score of individual specialty store in itself. — Its merchandise is of the able, lesser-priced kind. — Absolute satisfaction is chase here, the same as in and not a single sale is co purchaser is thoroughly sa These are the fundiment Basement is known as Iowa That's why people with wh first importance, should trade Friday W Saturday Davids Feb Teeming With Thous App Appreciating that many of it difficult to attend the open by one business day and had urday, January 30th. In addition one day—Friday—with invitation to come and make a purchase. By Saturday—the "Opening Day" event we've ever planned. Every DEPARTMENT will offer makers' discontinued numbers at It's Our 30th Your Credit Is Good At Davidson's Mr. Milton Thompson of Iowa City spent several days in this city calling on old friends. Mrs. Willa Dickison entertained the young people at her home Monday evening. A two-course luncheon was served and an enjoyable time was spent by all. COUNCIL BLUEFES IOWA Rev. R. B. Manley, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church, preached from the text "For To Me To Live Is Christ." Theme, "Unconditional Surrender." In the evening Rev. W. A. Moore, ex-pastor, delivered an excellent sermon to an appreciative audience. The Young People's Literary society is booming and will render a program the third Sunday in each month to take the place of the church services. To miss the teachers' meeting means to miss something good. Mrs. D. J. Brown entertained the teachers of Bethel A. M. E. Sunday school at her home last Wednesday night. After studying the lesson a most delicious repast was served by the hostess. Two entertainments that were to be given last week at Tabernacle Baptist church were postponed because of the weather, but will be given this week instead. There will be an entertainment given at Tabernacle church Monday evening and a contest between Iowa and Nebraska. The funeral services of Mrs. V. Cook, who died from a hemorrhage last week, was held at Woodring's undertaking parlorrs Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Morton officiated. Rev. Buxton delivered the sacramental sermon at Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday. Come and hear the message of truth and love. Mr. Earl Davis and Mr. Brown were seriously wounded Saturday when Mr. Chas. Davis shot and killed his wife and then himself. Mr. Earl Davis and Brown are doing nicely at this writing. The funeral services of Mr. Chas. Davis and wife have not been arranged as yet. Mr. Davis was W. M. of the Masonic lodge and an old citizen of this city. CENTERVILLE, IOWA, NOTES. Mrs. James Ewing is on the sick list. The services were largely attended at the Second Baptist church on Sunday morning and evening. Rev. V. S. Cooper delivered two most excellent sermons. Miss Zetella Brown departed Saturday for Kansas City to visit friends and relatives. Little Edna Robinson is on the sick list. Mr. Harry Grant was called to Macon, Mo., to attend the funeral of his uncle. Mr. Matt Watts and Mr. Harley Palmer of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, were in our city last Friday on business. While here they were the guests of the latter's brother-in-law, Mr. Cutler Robinson. Mrs. Earl Lacy returned Sunday night from Lexington, Mo., after a two weeks' visit with her father, Mr. W. H. Webb. The Baptist Young Peoples' Literary society will meet Monday, February 1st at the Second Baptist church and a nice program will be rendered. Rev. V. S. Copper was called to Chicago on account of the serious illness of a dear friend. He departed Sunday night after service at 11:35. Our four weeks' revival meeting came to a close Sunday night. Rev. Phelps of Omaha, Neb., assisted Rev. V. S. Copper in the meeting. Seventeen candidates were baptized Sunday afternoon, making a total of thirty-one members added to the church during Rev. Copper's administration here. The Church Aid society will give an entertainment at the church January 30th. Cough Medicine For Children Cough medicine for children Never give a child a cough medicine that contains opium in any form. When opium is given other and more serious diseases may follow. Long experience has demonstrated that there is no better or safer medicine for coughs, colds and croup in children than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It is equally valuable for adults. Try it. It contains no opium or other harmful drug. For sale by all dealers. ROCK ISLAND, ILL. (Special to the Bystander) Mr. and Mrs. John Bradley have opened up a nice first class restaurant on Ninth street. They deserve the patronage of all the colored citizens. Mrs. Carrie McCarmel is slowly recovering from a serious spell of pneumonia. Mrs. Anna Harding entertained the Progressive Art club last Wednesday. A program was rendered, after which a dainty lunch was served by the hostess. Mrs. Chas. Windsor left last Friday morning for Kansas City to spend a few days with friends and relatives. Mrs. Lizzie Golden and Mrs. Strauthers have been suffering with severe colds the last past week. The Twentieth Century Paster's Aid club of Wayman Mission will give an entertainment February 2nd for the benefit of the pastor. Professor Bailey, formerly of Tuskegee Institute, will leave Tuesday morning for St. Louis to join his wife. They will return Wednesday evening to Rock Island to make their future home for the time being at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lambert. Dr. J. E. Smith, a prominent physician of Macon, Mo., spent a few THIS FLAG FREE A Flag for Every Home The Flag of Washington and of Lincoln; the Flag of Our Country— The Flag of Peace To every person opening a savings account with $25.00 or more we will give FREE an AMERICAN FLAG, size four feet by six feet, sewed stripes, fast colors, and an eight-foot flag pole with rope halyard and iron holder complete as illustrated. The pole can be taken apart—has a metal joint—and the flag, pole, rope, ball and holder are neatly packed in a strong metal edge box which can be carried under the arm. On savings accounts this bank pays interest at the rate of 4 per cent and compounds the interest twice a year—May 1 and Nov. 1. There is nothing quite so fine as an American Flag. We have one waiting for YOU. "Tis the star-spangled banner: Oh, long may it wave O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave." The Des Moines Savings Bank A Strong Bank with the Advice, Counsel and Financial Backing of Strong Men SECOND FLOOR, FLEMING BLDG. days in our city, being the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Hoskins. Dr. Smith has quite a good many Macon friends in Rock Island and Moline that were glad to see him and were sorry that he could not stay longer. ENTERPRISE. IOWA. The Progressive club was entertained by Mrs. Ed Brown last week. Next meeting at Mrs. Divers'. Mrs. Joe Wellington is still on the sick list. Rev. Toomey of Omaha, Neb., is assisting Rev. F. C. Bolden in revival services. We are very proud of the B. Y. P. U. attendance Sunday. The women are having prayer meetings in each other's homes and would like for more to attend. All knowing themselves indebted to the Bystander will please call on agent and settle. Mr. Lloyd Brown of Des Moines was visiting his mother. Mrs. Frank Brown is still on the sick list. We had a good revival all day Sunday. Mr. McKee met with a very serious accident. One of his legs was broken while at work in the mine. We had quite a severe snow storm Friday. Miss Marjorie Reeves of Des Moines was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown on Friday. We are very sorry to note that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hunter were called to Des Moines on account of the death of her daughter, Mrs. G. H. Edmund. Mrs. Griffith is somewhat better at this writing. Miss Ada Brown was in Des Moines on Monday. Mrs. Griffith Brown entertained Rev. Toomey and Rev. F. C. Bolden at dinner last week. Mrs. W. H. Spivie read a very interesting paper at the Progressive club. Mrs. Divie made some good remarks at the Progressive club. Mrs. Penderton is still on the sick list. Miss Dillie Hornburg is still on the sick list. Mrs. Barber is on the sick list this week. Mr. William Lewis is still remaining in our city. CARD OF THANKS. I wish to thank the many friends who so kindly assisted during the illness and death of my beloved wife; also for the beautiful floral offering. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Hunter. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilson. Mr. Ben Edmonds. ALBIA NEWS The Sewing Circle club met at the home of Mrs. E. H. Butler on Monday afternoon. After business lunch was served by the hostess. Mrs. Nellie Estes was elected superintendent or the A. M. E. Sunday school; Mr. Chas. S. Washington, assistant superintendent, and Miss Vivian Anderson, secretary; Miss Jewett Lewis, pianist. Mr. Chas, Carthon of Hiteman attended services in Albia on Sunday. Mrs. Chas. Washington entertained at dinner Sunny Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Benning, Mrs. G. A. Davis and Misses Davis. The choir of the A. M. E. Price Five Cents church also met at Mrs. Washington's on Sunday afternoon. Miss Viola ioung and Mrs. Joe Robinson of Hocking attended services in Albia. Mr. Andrew Stovall of Hiteman was in town this week. Mrs. Pearl Thomas entertained a company at 2 o'clock dinner on Sunday, January 24. Mrs. Wm. Black returned to her home in Washington, Iowa, on Mon. day. Quite a number of strangers in town this week. Rev. and Mrs. C. Thomas entertained at noon lunch on Sunday, January 24, 1915, in honor of their son, Mr. John Thomas, of Chicago, and Mrs. Lillian Leaf of New York. Greetings to the Women's Clubs Greetings to the Women's Clubs To the State officers, presidents and members of the various Federated clubs, State of Iowa, greetings: Another year finds us working for humanity, surely, there is no grander life than a life of service to humanity and to God. Let us continue to keep our guiding principle before us; Sowing Seeds of Kindness. May no selfishness, jealousy envy of strife mar this year's course of our club work. I am proud of the tangible work the clubs are doing under the head of 'Social Service' and 'Child Welfare.' These visible traces of our work are bringing us greater recognition from anti-club sympathizers, and are making us more indispensible to society. Wishing you a successful club year, I am yours, in Sowing Seeds of Kindness. Gertrude E. Durden-Rush Pres. I. S. F. C. W. C. CLARINDA. JOWA. Mr. A. J. Baker received the news that his son-in-law, Mr. C. Cookrel, had passed away Sunday at Omaha. Mr. Baker and daughter, Miss Anna, and Mrs. E. Campbell left immediately to attend the funeral. Mrs. K. D. Black is on the sick list. Mr. Elmer Carter left for Oskaloosa for an indefinite time. Mr. George Jones returned from Kirksville, where he had been called by sickness. Mrs. Lillie Lee accompanied him. Little Virginia Pemberton has been somewhat indisposed this week. Mr. M. Cooke gave a party at her residence on S. Sixteenth street in honor of Mrs. M. Renfro, her niece. Quite a number responded to the invitations. The evening was well spent. Mrs. Renfro departed for her home in Greenfield, Mo., Tuesday a.m. The series of meetings closed at the A. M. E. church and the church was spiritually revived. Rev. W. M. Mitchell, Sr., preached two very soul-stirring sermons on Sunday. The Court of Calantha will give a public installation Saturday at their hall. All are cordially welcome to attend. Mrs. Jane Montgomery returned from Omaha, after a few weeks' visit. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS One hundred years ago the first colored troops who ever served in the army of the United States won the commendation of General Jackson in the battles in and around New Orleans. It was there that a small part of the regular army, the militia of several of the southwestern states, and two detachments of colored troops won the final engagement which drove the invaders from the shores of that portion of the country. January 21 General Jackson read an address to each of the commands which had taken part in the battles, viewing the campaign, and saying of the engagement of January 8 that 3,000 while the American loss was but 18—"a wonderful interposition of heaven! An unexamined event in the history of war!" General Jackson characterizes the event. In his general orders of January 21, prior to breaking camp, General Jackson complimented the various regiments and commands, saying of the two bodies of colored volunteers: "They have not disappointed the hopes that were formed of their courage and perseverance in the performance of their duty. Majors Lacate and Dawson who commanded them, have deserved their medal. Yet, although these colored troops were commended for their coolness and bravery under fire, especially in the memorable engagement of December 23 when they were attached to Coffee's brigade, which opened the series of battles, recognition for their services, by way of pension and bonanza, was withheld for several years after their discharge from the service and then was granted only after the coronation had been given by William Wirt, at that time, and the States at that time, that they might legally be so recompensed. When the colored troops enlisted the act of congress of December 24, 1811, provided a bounty of $16, with three months' pay, and a grant of 160 acres of land to those who had served five years, the same amount of land to the heirs of those killed in battle, and the same amount of land to the heirs of those who had died in the service after having served five years. The act of January 11, 1812, carried like provisions, and the act of December 10, 1814, again carried the provisions, except that the amount of land granted was doubled. After the colored troops were mistered out, application was made in their behalf for recognition under these acts, especially for the bounty of 200 acres of land, but it was not until 1823 that their claims were recognized. James Crogdon in the Washington Star. It is reported in the newspapers of Transbakal that new, exceedingly rich gold fields were discovered on lands belonging to the czar in the region of Station Zilvoo, of the Transbakal railroad on the Bolshoi Urum river system. Upton, near Peterboro, one of the smallest parishes in England, possesses a mysterious tombstone of black marble which emits a damp powder when wherever palm is about to fall. The stone is regarded in the village as an infallible barometer. It is estimated that there are 4,250,000 tons of iron ore unmined in the United States. "Few people realize to what an extent the nation is indebted to the educated colored man for the maintenance of peace between the races. While many race wars have been predicted, no serious and prolonged racial conflict has taken place in recent years in the South. It has been the degree of negro influence of the educated Nazi who seized patience, forbearance and sympathetic co-operation between the two races that has prevented disgrease outbreaks and has resulted in securing and maintaining a large degree of peace and harmony between the races. The people of this nation should remember that the Negro is not a beggar so far as his personal needs are met. He supports himself in clothes and shelter, and has done so for 45 years. The only call that he has made upon the public has been for aid in the direction of education, moral and religious training"—B. T. Washington. Of about 1,400,000 pounds of caviar obtained each year by the Astrakhan fisheries, approximately 75 per cent is exported. The classification of the stellar spectra as being carried on by Harvard university, is a vast one, entailing the investigation and recording of 200, 600 stars. New factory laws in Switzerland have established the 59-hour-week—that is, ten hours daily for five days and nine hours on Saturday, as the maximum working time. The American Bible society last year circulated 5,251,176 Bibles, breaking all records. According to a German scientist, women can talk more than men with fatigue because their throats are smaller and they tax their lungs and vocal cords less. The fishes of America north of the lathrus of Panama embrace three classes: 20 orders, 123 families, 1,113 genera, 235 subgenera, 3,263 species and 123 subspecies. Railroads of the United States usually consume more than 1,760,000 tons of coal per year. Spelman seminary has trained many competent women for domestic service, the majority of them going back to the country from which they came, and marrying, while those who go into service in Atlanta are satisfied factory. The Fort Valley school for the industrial uplift of the Negro has had little monetary assistance in Georgia. The domestic science school, built by that state, Nagle of Athens, Samuel Harris through various agencies, has most of its support from outsiders, and Linton Ingraham, that faithful ex-selave, who was born on Alexander Stephens' plantation, in struggling to raise $1,500 to build, as a memorial to Mr. Stephens, an industrial school at Sparta, Ga., where domestic science is one of the purposes. He has the highest indorsement from the white men of that vicinity, the governor of the state indorsees his work, and the men of thought who have seen it, have seen it, but Ingraham is begging enough money now to go North and get the necessary $1,500 for the completion of the building. Individually, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Heard of Rose Hill farm, have established a school for domestic science for the Negro employees on their plantation, but in no city or town in the state where the cry for domestic service is loudest, is any step being taken to train for domestic science. To meet this condition, an ideal system has been devised in the work being done for the Negro at Hampton Institute, Virginia, where Negro boys and girls are being trained to meet and work out the conditions now threatening the progress of the race. --- Hampton institute is an undenominational school for the training of teachers and leaders in agriculture, the trades and community work. Its aim, as expressed in 1859 by General Armstrong, has not changed: "To train selected youth who shall go out and teach and teach their people, first by example by getting land and homes; to give them not a dollar they can earn for themselves; to teach respect for labor; to replace stupid drudgery with skilled hands; and to these ends to build up an industrial system, for the sake not only of self-support and intelligent labor, but also for the sake of character." He published a pamphlet, "Education for Life," which contains General Armstrong's leading ideas on education—a working philosophy of Christian living. "Education for Life" contains sections on education of hand, education of the mind, education of the character. Those who are interested in education which spells service and progress will wish to "education for life" and then compare their impressions with these words of endorsement issued by the United States Bureau of education: "It is felt that General Armstrong's theory and demonstration of practical education has never be sight not our means for races for women and men immediately intended, but for here immediately everywhere where they represent a successful attempt to work out one of the most momentous tasks of our time—that of creating an education that shall be an effective force for training productive efficient members of society." In December work began on the bridge over the Juan Díaz river about nine miles from Panama. It is a remarkable arch of something over one hundred-foot span which will be the longest span arch on a musa. A number of re-enforced concrete culverts with spans ranging from six to thirty feet have also been constructed throughout the country. One of the few funds, if not the only one, left for charity by a president of the United States, is used in Lancaster, Pa. for buying coal for the poor at Christmas and for other good users. The fund was left by President Buchanan, who was a resident of Lancaster, and the income now amounts to about $1,000 a year. The wealth of the United Kingdom in 1814 was computed at about $12,500,000,000, while a conservative estimate would place it now at about $85,000,000,000, an increase of 850 per cent, while population has grown 190 per cent. The income of the British people in this period has increased 700 per cent—form $1,500,000,000 to $12,000,000,000. There are in the 21 university towns of Germany 2,456 enrolled women students and 1,027 not enrolled. The faculty of medicine attracts most women. In 1855 it took 274 minutes of labor to care for and raise a bushel of corn. In the year 1894 the average time required had been brought down to about 41 minutes. Georgia has 2,224 Baptist churches, with a total membership of 287,079 and property valued at $6,127,167. PROPER COOKING OF MEATS Various Treatments Necessary for Their Effective Preparation for the Table. Fresh meats which are to be served cold should be put to cook in a pot of boiling water and boiled hard for 15 minutes, covered, then boiled gently until tender throughout. Boiled broths may be any combination of herbs and pepper should be added when meat is half done. Salt meats take different treatment. First soak over night in plenty of cold water. Then scrape and clean the next day, and put them on to cook in a pot of cold water. Cook tongue very gently until the small bones in the root can be easily pulled out. This is a matter of four hours. Leave in water until cold. Then lift out, trim, skin and serve. It may be put away cold in the toe box wrapped in a clean crescent cloth, or may be returned to some of the water in which it was boiled. This will help it retain its succulence. Ham, if very dry, may be soaked 48 hours, changing water once or twice. Put to cook in plenty of cold water. It should simmer five to eight hours. It is done when the small bone in the back can be pulled out easily. When nearly cold draw off the skin; do not cut. Cover the top with a mixture of egg, bread crumbs, pepper, salt, sugar and a little made mustard, and set in a slow oven to brown. Baste frequently with two tinctures of vinegar and a little boiling water. Bake from one to two hours. Save ham fat from the pan. It is fine for frying potatoes, hominy or rice. Save the ham skin and use it to cover the ham under a coarse cloth. KEEPC DRAIN PIPES CLEAN Arrangement That May Be of Home Construction Been Recommended A device for the kitchen sink that has proved successful in keeping the drain pipes clean is made of a wooden frame and ordinary window screen. Make a wooden frame, about two inches high, just wide enough to fit nicely into the sink, and not quite as long as the inside of the sink. On one end of this nail a board, covering about half the length of the frame, on the other end, on the opposite side, nail a piece of wire window screen. This device may be kept in the sink always, the dishpan set on the wooden part and anything poured on the other part. The sink is covered by the pipes. This may be easily cleaned, and the wire screening reserved at small expense, when worn through. It is better than the ordinary sink strainer, as it covers the bottom of the sink, and catches everything thrown into it—Halland's Magazine. German Potato Salad Boll in their jinkens two dozen small potatoes until sender. Peel and while hot, cut in thin slices and mix carefully with two white onions, a cucumber a green pepper and half a frozen radishes, all sliced thin. Season with salt and pepper and while hot, mix with the following dressing: One-quarter pound bacon cut into small pieces, one-quarter cup each of the bacon, one-quarter cup each of mustard, one-quarter teaspoon of salt, and a dash of mayonnaise pepper. Pour the bacon slowly until brown; then pour over both the bacon and the fat that has been fried out, the vinegar to which has been added the water. Mix the sugar, mustard, salt and pepper and add this mixture to the other. Cook until the sugar is dissolved and while hot pour it over the potatoes. Heap on a plate and pour the vinegar over the garnish the top and sides of the mound of salad with radishes cut like roses. Hartequin Ribbon Cake Two cupfuls sugar, one-half cupful butter, four eggs, scant cupful milk three cupfuls flour, two teaspoonful baking powder, flavor. Cream sugar, butter and eggs, then add one cupful flour, then milk and remainder of flour, little salt and baking powder and last the heaten whites of the eggs. Divide into three parts, add one square of chocolate or one table spoonful of cocoa to one portion, a little pink coloring to another and leave the third piece. Press together with white of the egg or a little jelly and froze with moths or chocolate frosting. Macedoine Vegetables There is a way to use cold potatoes which may be new: Melt three tablespoons of butter, add three tablespoons of flour and add, gradually 1/4 cups of milk. When thickened add one cupful each cooked string beans, beans and cold soiled potatoes, cut in cubes. Season with salt and paprika and let stand 15 minutes over hot water before serving. As this calls for other vegetables it may help to use up the leftovers. Liver Hash One pint of liver, chopped coarse and measured after chopping. In frying pan melt one tablespoonful of butter, add one teaspoonful of flour and blend well. Now add one cupful of water gradually, while stirring, and season with salt and pepper. Stir in the liver and simmer for 20 minutes. Just before serving add one teaspoonful of lemon juice. **Honeycomb Pudding.** Beat together one-half cupful of sugar, one cupful of molasses and 1½ cupful of flour. Heat one-half cupful of milk and one-half cupful of butter, then add one teaspoonful of soda. Combine the mixtures and beat thoroughly. Add four well-beaten eggs and beat again. Steam in a buttered pudding mold three hours, or bake 1½ hours. Serve with creamy sauce. **To Keep Silver, Bright.** To keep silver bright that is not in one lay a piece of gum camphor in the drawer or box in which the silver will not corrode, you will find that the silver will not corrode much polished. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER The more we investigate the causes which have made each individual what he is today the more we become convinced that every being has affiliations which link him with the whole past; that there is a continuity of germ plasm and also of protoplasm which goes back to the very beginning of life on this globe; and that if we could only know all the factors which are concerned in producing any single organism, however simple it might be in all its relations and proportions, we could explain the universe from top to bottom and evolve an infallible remedy for all ourills. Consequently the study of the beginning of life in any organism is immeasurably interesting and illuminating to such of us as are not egotist and do not insist on learning in the most expensive of all schools—that of personal experience. Hence, the open minded the study of the manufacture of malt should be most suggestive and instructive. Any live seed or grain can be malted; and barley, oats, rice, wheat, rye and maize are used, but because of its flavor and other important qualities barley is the prime favorite for this purpose. The average time required to malt barley is 12 days. The operation is started by "sleeping" or cooking the barley corn in tanks of water for about forty-eight to sequester hours. Steeping the grain does not consist merely in the taking in of a certain amount of water, but is necessary in order to bring about germination, and to do this the water must remain within the corns for a certain length of time. It is quite possible to force the necessary amount of water into the grain in less time than the forty-eight to seventy hours given to the steeping process; but the grain is not "steepie" until certain changes initiated by the water have taken place, and it requires a definite amount of time to these changes to completion. When the corns contain about sixty per cent of the same time about 1.5 per cent of malt has been removed from the grain in the water drawn off, and the total volume of the seeds has been increased about twenty per cent as the result of the water absorbed. After the barley is removed from the steeping tanks it is made up into rectangular heaps sixteen to twenty inches deep known as position No. 1, or the "couch," the object of this being to enable it to gather heat and start germinating. It usually remains in couch twelve to twenty-four hours, or until the interior of the heap registers a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. At this point the barley is moved to position No. 2, or "young floor," and there thinly and evenly spread in order that it may be enzymes are spread and these act on the reserve material, attaching the teins of the endosperm, converting them into simpler compounds, capable of diffusing to various parts of the growing germ. But the limited germination which constitutes the malting process retains all the soluble compounds in the finished malt. Starch and the proteins are reformed, the former being deposited in the tissues of the germ and the cells of the sacculum which previously were almost free from starch; the protein matter deposited in the latter disappears to a considerable extent and the protoplasmic content of the cells constituting the root which protracts from the base of the grain. After the first rootlet has broken through the ends of the sheath it is followed by others until there are perhaps five or more. The cotyledon sheath, or seed leaf, begins to elongate on the third or fourth day of germination and ruptures the true covering of the grain; it then grows upward between this and the husk and forms the acropile or "spire" of the master. The temperature during six or seven days is kept down to about fifty-five degrees by turning or plowing the grain about every six hours. About the eighth day the grain is moved to position No. 3, known as "old floor," where it is spread thinly and slowly allowed to dry for the purpose of withering its roots. At this stage the acrespire should be about three-fourths the distance up the corn. The treatment now requires thickening the piece up to about ten inches. The nootlets now having withered and the temperature increase resulting from the grain pile is accompanied by little any increase in the growth of the acrespire, the action being confined chiefly to the mellowing of the grain by the enzymes. Under normal conditions the temperature in "old piece" is allowed to rise as high as about seventy degrees during the six hours previous to loading it into the kiln. At this stage the moisture content is about forty per cent and it is easily between the thumb and down the corn between the thumb and finger; the grain is soft, mealy and the tissue is mostly digested. The next stage consists in loading the milk into the kiln and there thoroughly drying it to stop all further digestion, then roasting it for the desired flavor. Just why water produces these profound metabolic changes in raw grain, releasing the energy stored in the skin, and causing it to follow in order manner step by step the many stages necessary to repeat the evolution of the age in another plant life. we do not know. That is as much an mystery to us as is the development of life in an egg by the heat from a kerosene lamp, or the birth of a human individual. But we do know that the same principles are involved in all three forms of life, the only difference being one of degree. We do not know why or how the phenom of the light we do know that the slightest interference with the normal process prevents the completion of the evolution. Animal life is but a continuation of plant life, a part of a cycle, but a cycle in which the animal is dependent on the plant, not the plant on the animal. Animal life cannot exist without plants. Therefore, in consuming deficient plant food, we are cutting our life chain. In this fact will be found the reason for the effective use of malt tones in the manufacture of vitality. Coating practically all these vital elements, malt supplies in part what our food has been deficient in and is exceedingly valuable, as an emergency food. HORMONES Taken from the Greek language and meaning to arouse or excite, the word "hormones" is intended to designate a series of chemical bodies manufactured within the cells of one organ and entering the circulation to excite or stimulate distant organs into activity. It has generally been supposed that the digestive functions were carried on solely under reflex nerve control. But Edkins in 1966 carried out a series of experiments to determine whether a chemical mechanism may not also account for the secretion of gastric juice, which is excited by the introduction of substances into the stomach. In a series of carefully controlled observations it was proved the mere introduction of a neutral solution into the stomach caused no secretion of gastric juice and that there was no absorption of the solution, the fluid removed at the end of an hour having the same bulk and the same neutral reaction as the solution originally introduced. The injection of peptone, of acid, of broth, or of dextrin into the blood stream produced no secretion of gastric juice, but if in the course of the hour during which the fluid was allowed to remain in the stomach a solution made by boiling mucous membrane from the pyloric end of a stomach with water, or with acid, or with peptone, was injected into the blood stream at intervals of about ten minutes from the stomach at the end of the hour was found to be distinctly acid and to have protein digestive powers—that is to say, it now contained hydrochloric acid and pepsin. Similar solutions made from the cardiac end of the stomach will not produce any secretion of acid and pepsin, and this is held to prove that the pyloric end of the stomach produces a substance which is absorbed into the blood stream and carried to all the glands of the stomach, where it acts as a specific excitant of their secretory activity. This substance has been called the gastric "secrett"—it is what Starling named a "hormone." This substance is produced in that portion of the stomach where the process of absorption is most pronounced, and it stimulates into activity that portion of the stomach which is under direct nerve control. Normal gastric secretion appears to be due to two co-operating factors. The first and most important is the secretion arising from nerve impulses produced through the pneumogastric nerve and originating in the idea of food in the higher parts of the brain from the sight of food and by the stimulating of the mucous membranes of the mouth. The second factor provides for the continued secretion of gastric juice long after the mental effects have disappeared. This is chemical and depends on the production in the cells at the pyloric end of the stomach of a specific stimulant or hormone, which being absorbed into the blood is carried to all parts of the blood it acts by exciting all the various glands concerned in the digestive act. The researches of Pawlow and others seem to indicate that the quantity and the properties of the secretions vary with the character of the food eaten. The quantity of the secretion varies also, other conditions being the same, with the amount of food to be digested. On a given diet the secretion assumes certain characteristics and Pawlow is convinced that further work will disclose that the secretion of the stomach is not caused normally by general stimuli affecting it all alike but by specific stimuli contained either in the food or produced during digestion from the food contents the nature of which in of such a kind as to arouse reflexly to the food adapted to the particular food ingested. Undoubtedly this is due to the hormones in the general circulation. Another significant hint of this action is furnished by the experiments of Starling and Lane-Claypon on the mammary glands. These investigators found that the extracts made from the body of the fetus when injected repeatedly into the blood stream of a virgin rabbit caused a genuine development of the mammary glands, closely simulating the growth that normally occurs during pregnancy. Similar extracts made from ovaries, placental and uterine tissues had no such effect; hence, they conclude that a specific chemical substance, a hormone, is produced in the fetus itself which being absorbed into the maternal blood acts upon the mammary gland, stimulating it to growth. There is indisputable evidence of the existence of similar bodies which determine the secretory activity both of the liver as well as of the intestinal glands. Obviously these substances must be derived from the genesis of the liver, but it is easy to grasp the significance. Funk's statement that the vitamins, those complex nitrogenous molecules contained in the germ and the bran coats of seeds and grains, are the mother substance of the hormones. WORSE THAN DEATH DIED FOR AN IDEA Epilepsy Follows Certain Injuries to Head. Blow That Causes Unconsciousness for Long Intervals Practically Defies the Best of Surgical Skill, Says Famous Doctor. "I have often said that I had rather die than receive a blow sufficiently severe to render me unconscious for a considerable period of time," said Dr. John. B. Murphy during an operation on the head of a young man who had been suffering from epileptic fits, which came on three years after he had been struck on the head by a base. Diagrammatic section of the coverings of the brain to show the dura that is injured by a blow. ball and knocked unconscious for about half an hour. A lawmaker barely fractures the skull without producing unconsciousness, such as that from a sharp instrument," continued Doctor Murphy, "not nearly so serious a condition, from the point of view of future possibilities, as that following the blow of a blunt instrument which renders the patient unconscious." Doctor Murphy went on to city several cases, one of a man who had been thrown from a sleigh against a telegraph pole and remained unconscious for three weeks. He had no further symptoms for about three years, when he began having convulsions. Another was that of a young man who had fallen from a window to a stone pane, and did not begin until twenty years later, and he had been a precocious boy at school and a successful business man. Doctor Murphy believes that such blows cause an injury to that coating of the brain which is called the dura. The brain itself is uninjured. Then something arises—worry or extra hard work or something of that sort—which brings on irritation where the dura was injured. The precise cause is uncertain. Some of these cases can be 'cured by an operation in which the skull is opened and the dura at the place of injury removed, but only about one case is well and stays well. That is why Doctor Murphy would rather be killed outright than suffer such an injury. For the victim is almost certainly destined to become an epileptic. Mouse's Nest In Skull. The mystery of the cheeping noises in the valley chamber of commerce has been solved. In the display room is a graphic exhibit. There is a skull of an unknown man found on the Colorado desert. Beside it is a stalk of cotton raised in green Imperial valley. The cotton was raised where the skull was found. For several days queer noises were heard in the room but the gaze baffled Secretary Place and other officers. Finally, W. H. Compton, a director and lecturer for the exposition at San Francisco, decided upon a minute search, and in the skull he found a mouse. It had taken some of the cotton and started a nest. "That man probably did not have rats in the garret, but he certainly has now," commented a man just from Iowa, who was in the room. -El Centro (Cal). Dispatch to the San Francisco Bulletin. Wanted Football Results The New York Evening Post relates a story told in England of Captain von Muller, late of the Emden. One night while the British cruiser Yarmouth was escorting a merchant ship out of Singapore, the wireless operator received calls from a ship some distance away. He answered them, and to his surprise found that he was in communication with the German cruiser Emden. The transmitted message was as follows: "Captain von Muller and the wardroom mess send their compliments and would be obliged if the Yarmouth would let them have the wardroom regimental rugby football match". The result was duly given, together with a letter it would not be very long before the captain of the Emden and the wardroom mess would have the opportunity of a personal attendance at all field and track events in England. International Credits The credit system is a part of international as of national trade. Germany won much business in South America by giving long credits. The retailer in South America usually does not receive cash. This credit plan is by no means best, but if our goods are sold to responsible buyers, better that we sell on credit than not to sell at all. Long credits seriously diminish the profits of much American business. Establishment of American banks in South America will help our Pan-American trade.-Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Survivor of Old Times. One survivor of time gone by was discovered latey at Wooddawn cemetery, the resting place of this city's once wealthy dead. There is an old woman resident at the lodge gate who can be engaged to toll the bell for the parade. As the funeral cortege passes into the grounds the chapel bell begins solemnly to toll, one stroke for each year of the life of the deceased. -New York Times. Extracting Benzine From Coal. M. Vidstrand, a Stockholm engineer, has invented a process of extracting bansine from coal by electricity at a much lower cost than that of present methods. Remarkable Act of Misguided Hindu Fanatic. Intended to Show Loyalty to British Rulers by Hanging Head Downward, and Actually Lived Thus for Twelve Days. This man hanging head downward, when his photograph was taken, was in the best of humors and doing the unusual stunt because he liked it, and because he wished thus to honor the royal visitors from England. He was an East Indian fakir, and gave this remarkable performance in Lahore. The fealty of the Hindu princes, who are eager to help England in the great struggle with money and men, has caused some surprise among those who have been reading from time to time about the "menacing unrest in India." That this man who cheerfully sacrificed his life in honoring, in his own peculiar fashion, a royal visit may be typical of a great number of faithful subjects of the British empire is indicated by a recent writer. Other things done for the prince and the princess of Wales—now the king and queen of England—on their visit to India may have been more impressive from a spectacular point of view, but none could have been more sincere than that of this unnamed farik. "In an ecstasy of loyalty," writes a correspondent, "he hung himself up by his feet directly he heard that the prince and the princess of Wales were to visit India, the act being designed to prove his gratitude for the A From a Photograph Taken While the Fanatic Was Hanging. honor paid to his country. He intended to remain suspended until the arrival of the royal pair, but succumbed under the self-imposed ordeal at the end of 12 days." Plural Titles. All peers above the rank of baron are pluralists in the matter of titles, but the Duke of Buccleuch, who has just died, was a pluralist even in duke doms. His forbears married the daughters and sisters of kings, and he himself was a lineal descendant of Charles II, to whom the family owned the highest title. Charles' son, the Duke of Monmouth, married Anne Countess of Buccleuch, and on their wedding day Anne—the duchess in "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"—persuaded Charles to make them Lord and Lady Scott of Kew, King and countess of Dalketh, and Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. To the third duke came in 1706 another dukedom, of Queenberry, and the late, the sixth, duke held them both, together with a marquise, four darmoms, three viscocounties and four or five baronies—London Chronicle. Restricting Growth of Cotton. A law has been passed in South Carolina that provides that no planner shall have more than one-third of his cultivated area in cotton, and placing a fax of $25 for each per acre evasion of the law. All sheirs, district attorneys, and other state and municipal officials are made responsible for the carrying out of this statute. As a result South Carolina is already beginning to diversify her crops, and it is now sowing wheat and oats in greater quantities than ever before in the state. In some cases the people are not waiting for the cotton crop to be harvested, but have sown their grain between the rows of cotton plants. Dummy Rows a Boat. R. E. C. Weir of 287 Baldwin avenue, South Ozone Park, Woodaven, Long island, has invented a mechanical row boat. In this boat a dummy, in the representation of a person, is plovtally supported and adapted to be oscillated by a connection with a spring or other motor, mounted on the hull near the stern, or otherwise, while the dummy consists of an arrangement to permit a natural movement as in the set of rowing, where being attached to the arms of the dummy to cause propulsion of the boat.—Scientific American. Just Getting Wise Senator Borah of Idaho recently bought a motor car. Borah ha, never before undertaken to operate any mechanical device more complicated than a monkey wrench or a wheelbarrow. After he had succeeded in driving it without getting maimed he took a monkey and remarked solemnly to his wife, "When I became a United States senator I thought I had taken on grave responsibilities. Why, I didn't know what grave responsibilities were!" LauraJeanLibbey's Talks on Heart Topics THEY WOULD BE MOVIE STARS The world is filled with folly, and sin, And love must cling where it can, I say. For beauty is easy enough to win, But one isn't loved every day. It is wonderful what a hold moving pictures have taken upon the hearts of girls. They pick out their favorite actresses and silently worship at their shrine evening after evening. As they watch their favorite with bathe breath and intense gaze, many a girl conceives the daring wish that she, too, might become a movie artist. A It all looks so easy. They have no lines to mea- porize, no terror lest they might forget their part. Nothing to do but simply to walk through their acts and look pretty. There is not one girl in a hundred but is sure she could so do it quite as well. If her friends have praised her, calling her good looking, she lets the idea gain ascendancy over her. Work in factory or shop looks hateful to her when once she is possessed of this craze. Managers are besieged with just such stagecraft applicants. They deny the girl's appeal with courtesy. But once in a while there is one courageous enough to tell these girls the honest truth. He explains to the fair aspirant that the movie picture stars, with scarcely an exception, are recruits from the high-class dramatic stage; that they are born and bred to the stage; drilled to its exacting requirements from the time they are able to walk. Looking pretty, he adds, is the least of its requirements. Once in a while a manager is tempted to give an overpersistent girl a taste of it to cure her of the idea that she can act. A fortnight in the harness is usually quite enough to dispel her brilliant delusions. The soul of the amateur is filled with terror at the thought of climbing out of the window of a room apparently on fire and dropping into a net below; of fording streams on the back of a mettlesome horse, the waves breast high about her; of facing ferocious beasts or lonely mountain roads and almost every other town. The amateur learns with dismay that the actress must actually go through all these hardships in order for the camera to reproduce them, and frequently they must be repeated several times. It's hustle, bustle, hustle from early morning till late at night. Rehearsals are long and tedious. The star must make her known meaning by action. There can be no awkwardness. She must dress her parts as carefully as though she were to appear in the flesh before her audience. Her facial expressions must be letter perfect to insure the success of the play. One awkward move on her part and the entire production is ruined. She must be punctual at rehearsals rain or shine, slick or well. She must keep her form lithe and thin, at the expense of her appetite and comfort. She must forego company and all home pleasure for her exacting business. It's no fun to be a movie actress. Many clamor to be called, but few are chosen who even gain a foothold on the ladder of success. MEN WHO SHOULDNT BE IN VITED TO CALL. Cupid from his favorite nation Care and envy will remove; Jolousy that poisoned passion, And despair that dies for love. It is a pleasure for young women to make new acquaintances, especially when they are of the opposite sex and agreeable. It does not follow that they should be invited to her home on a five minutes' acquaintance. A man may stop a few moments to chat with a young woman who is waiting for a car and a man he has met happens along. He does not know him particularly well, but he present him to the girl. Nor does he think the casual meeting will go any further. He is not expected to the inner life of every man he comes in contact with. He is pleasant, jolly, good fellow, that's all he knows of him. He does not know, nor is he expected to know, what his faults or habits may be; whether he has one sweetheart or a score of the item; if he's a man to be trusted or is one who had best be let alone. Under such circumstances, a man with a glib tongue can ingratiate himself into the good graces of many a thoughtless girl. As he has been properly presented to her through an introduction, she imagines that it is quite the correct thing to invite him to call upon her. Her mother does not like the new acquaintance. The daughter thinks it cruel and unjust to take a dislike to a stranger without a justifiable reason. He's a good talker, full of fun, with any amount of jokes at his tongue's end, dressed nattily and was plenty of money to spend. He could come any or every afternoon for a visit and stay to dinner, her mother notice, drawing her conclusion that he must not have much, if any, business to attend to. He's not much on church going, but he's an enthusiastic attendant at the races. He's interested in finding out all he can of her family, but is noncommunicative regarding his own. He complements her on her choice of girl friends and contrives to get her to introduce him to them. The first she 'knows he has selected the richest girl and transfers his interests to her. She soon hears that the other girl is engaged to him. His new name likes him immensely but she will not give her heart and hand to him until she finds out something about him. If she hasn't a father or brother she enlists the services of some trusty male friend of the family. It doesn't take a man long to read another man aright. The affable young stranger is found to be a profligate and fortune hunter, with all the evil offices attending a life. A girl takes a risk in inviting a stranger to her home, she knows nothing of him. If girls chance it, they only themselves to blame if it turns out a flasco. There are plenty of good men whose lives and habits are well known who would only be too pleased to call if they but had an invitation WINTRY NIGHT'S WOOING. We cannot fight for love as men may do. We should be woo'd and we'd not made to woo. To win thy love, ly be bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask her hand doth teach to be deny'd. The most-to-belitted young man is he who has no sweetheart when the dear old wintertime rolls round. His most intimate chum plays him false, when 'depends upon him as a companion to accompany him hither and thither. "You will have to excuse me, my dear fellow," he exclaims, without a tremor of regret in his voice. "It's the night I go to see my girl. That's a special treat I wouldn't miss." All of his friends have the same reason to offer. They all would a-wooling on a whirry evening. The young man who sits down in his hut bed, where to pass the time away, begins to envy his friends for the first time. Each one of his chums has some sweet girl looking out of the parlor window for him, when the clock chimes 7:30. They are in the warm, cozy paris, fragrant with the odor of pine knots in the fireplace. A cushioned seat is drawn for him, though he generally prefers the sofa, or tete-a-tete—just room enough for two. No matter how the hall patters on the window pane, or the storm rages outside, he is so happy amid such delightful surroundings and a congenial companion near him. They can even find amusement in talking of the free lance, who was satisfied with the comradeship of his own sex, until he found himself deserted when the snow commences to fall. In despair, he rushes to the telephone and calls up every girl he has the slightest acquaintance with Each and every maiden has some excuse to offer as to why she cannot be home to receive him. There are few who are frank enough to inform him they are expecting company, and to suggest that he come around some other evening. It does not take him long to understand that if he would a-wooing go on wintry nights he should have prepared the way beforehand. The average girl does not take kindly to lie comers. They are inclined to be wary, suspecting that his heart is not involved, but that he may be coming for a good, comfortable place to sit down. As to the girl—how happy could he be with any girl who was a lively conversationalist, were other fair charms are any? But for the benefit of the young men who find themselves out in the cold I would suggest that it's better late than never. They have no time to lose in making the acquaintance of some nice young girl who is not already spoken for. Friendship soon ripens into love with seeing each other frequently. By the time that the bells are ringing the old year out and the new year in their woolling will have come to a happy climax. Instead of being in a dreary hall room the bells are heard in the hat and are arranging to bring their bride thereto. They can court continuously by their own fireside. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS Canada's cultivated area in 1911 was $2,404,110 acres. Japan's 1913 foreign trade was valued at $678,221,146. Imports $363,256,960. One hundred and ninety-seven nurseries, embracing 619 acres of nursery stock, are licensed in Wisconsin. The main anchor of the German liner Imperator is the largest in the world. It weighs 26,445 pounds. Experiments in cotton growing have been successfully made recently in southwestern Spain. Ten girls have been graduated from a seven years housekeeping course in St. Louis and have received diplomas fitted for domestic science applied. Four French dreadnaught, to be constructed at Brest, will have a displacement of 29,500 tons, with a length of 620 feet. The vessel will carry 16 large guns, and will be provided with four revolving turrets. The black tulip, hitherto creation of the fancy, may at length be realized in nature. A florist in Europe has a tulip of so deep a blue that it may be mistaken for black, and it is said that this variety may be really black next year. It is claimed for Thomas Blades of Yarwell, a northamptonshire village, England, that he is the oldest Odd Fellow in the world. Blades, who is within two years of being a centenarian, has just completed 74 years' membership of the Manchester Unity "Old King Gole" Really Lived. "Old King Cole," who was so fond of "his pipe, bowl and daddies three," is believed to have really existed in the flesh in the third century A. D., according to a British legend. His daughter, Helena, a very beautiful creature, married Constantinus Chlorus, a Roman general, and the "merry old soul" of "Mother Goose" annals thus became the grandfather of Constantine the Great. Look for Agreeable Things. Don't look too hard except for some thing agreeable; we can find all the disagreeable things we want between our own hats and boots—Leigh Hunt BY ORIGIN SWETT MARDEN. Copyright by McClure Newspaper Syndicate PREACH THE DOCTRINE OF CHEERFULNESS. Smile gone in a white. It will make your heart seem lighter. Life's a mirror—if we smile, Smiles come back to greet us; If we're frowning all the while, Powers forever meet us. Mr. Paul Poiret, the well-known Frenchman who visited our shores last fall, carried away some not very fattering impressions of our people and country—says we do not know how to laugh, or at least must be "made to laugh. With the French humor, you can see a gay hug, while with the American humor is appealed to through the intelligence. Even in our sports we are serious, says M. Pouiret. "Those who take part in them do it as soberly and as intensely as if it were an act of business. And the spectators! They might be watching a man being tried for his life. They could hardly look more concerned if they were." Many people give us the impression that the famed Danocletian sword of pain, suspended by a thread, hangs over them constantly, ready to fall and pierce them at any moment, even in their joys and pleasures. They never seem to enjoy anything without alloy. They give you the impression that they are conscious of the skeleton's presence at every feast. The American people as a rule take life much too seriously. They do not have half enough fun. Europeans look on our care-worn, solemn-faced people as on pieces of machinery run at forced speed and which squeak for lack of oil. "I question if care and doubt ever wrote their names so legibly on the faces of any other population," says Emersen. "Old age begins in the nursery." Why take life so seriously, anyway? A lot of play will not only improve your health, but increase your efficiency wonderfully. If a man is living in a perfectly normal way he ought not to have, as so many have, a haunted, hounded look, as though he suspected either a policeman or a detective were on his track. He ought not to be worried and anxious every minute. He ought not to take his vocation so very seriously, and should not give the impression that the whole universe is hanging upon the result of his task. A great many men fall because they are too serious; because they develop unsocial, morose, cold qualities, which repel and make them poor mixers. It is the sunshiny, happy nature which attracts friends and trade. The too serious people seem to say, "Keep away from me, life is too serious a matter to be spent on trivial things." They are dry and rutty because there is not enough play in their lives to furnish the necessary lubrication, variety, or change. Not long ago I heard a young clergyman preach a sermon which was so very serious, and so very gloomy, that it made everybody in the congregation feel melancholy and depressed. There was no uplift, no encouragement, nothing to stimulate one to greatest endeavor. People did not go out of the church, as they should have gone, resolved to try a little harder than ever before, to do something worth while; but the whole congregation went away with a gloomy look on their faces. There had been nothing inspiring in the clergyman's appearance. His face was so serious and his whole manner so depressing that it was really painful to listen to him. People have burdens enough of their own to be bear, and do not want anybody to inject dark, doleful pictures in their minds. They go to church for uplift, encouragement. They want to rid the themselves of the enemies of their happiness and prosperity. Thousands of people who now remain away from church would gladly go if they could come away feeling uplifted, encouraged, and with increased hopefulness. "He that cannot laugh and be gay should look to himself," wrote Hepry Ward Beecher. "He should fast and pray until his face breaks forth into light." TRAGEDIES CAUSED BY THE TONGUE. They had "heard rumors and became frightened." This was the only reason the panic-striken depositors would give for their mad rush on the bank for savings in New York a few days ago. The silly gossip of a servant, it was thought, started the rumor that the bank was in difficulties. Although its president stated that the deposits were ninety-seven million dollars, nearly eleven millions of a surplus, and that the largest banks in New York had offered to come to the rescue with fifty million dollars if necessary, yet thousands of men and women crowded one another in their frantic haste to get their money out of one of the soundest institutions in the country. Whole fabric of the business world hangs upon confidence. Our vast credit system depends absolutely upon it. Anything which throws the slightest suspicion upon it causes disaster. Nothing else is so sensitive as confidence. And there is noth- One of the most beautiful phases of moonlight is that it not only shines upon us with the light of the sun, but also, with its crescent shape when it is "new," reflects back to us the light of earth, a falcon, wonderful illumination of the otherwise dark part, which has been called "the old moon in the arms of the sun," and comparatively few who witness the advent of a "new moon" understand the source of the phenomenon, a very dreamlight ema- IOWA STATE BYSTANDEH ing quite so malignant in its power to ingrete it, to blast everything it touches, as rumor, the baseless gossip of idle or malicious people. Sometimes the least breath of suspicion will seriously injure a man's credit which it has taken a lifetime to build up. It has often made havoc of a woman's reputation. One of the cruelest things that a human being can do is to peddle gossip, to pass along slander, or even a true story which tends to injure another, or to put him in an unfavorable light. It is fatally easy to say things which will cause lifelong wounds, and many people are so careless with their tongues! Only a short time ago a woman in Brooklyn was driven to suicide by the gossip of her neighbors. They told her that her husband was payable for her death, and although he assured her that he was doing nothing of the kind the gossips succeeded in making her so jealous that she poisoned herself. I know people who would never forgive themselves for striking another with their hands, but who do not hesitate to stab an absent person in the back with an unkind, uncharitable, cruel remark, or to spread a bit of slander which may have disastrous effects on the victim. Some years ago this headline appeared in a New York daily: "Georgia Cayan Dies on a Sanatorium Cot! Falsehood Ended Her Career." Miss Cayan was an actress. She began her career by reading selections from Shakespeare to customers in Bath, Me. Later she graduated from the School of Oratory in the Boston university and attracted the attention of Daniel Prohm, who brought her to New York. In a short time she became a star, and one of the most popular actresses in New York city. Her beauty, brilliancy, vvacility and remarkable talent made her such a favorite that those envious of her began to reflect upon her character. A scandal was started which so preyed upon Miss Cayan's sensitive mind that she fell into melancholy and never returned to the stage. Although it was proved that the actress was in Europe at the time of the scandal in this country with which her name was falsely connected, and notwithstanding the fact that her characterization was a long waiting vindication, the wagging tongues continued to paddle the scandalous gossip until her melancholy developed into parisis, and finally put her beyond medical aid. There are thousands of people in the great failure army today who might have been a success but for the gossips. The unkind criticisms of companions or neighbors, the scandals calculated by the thoughtless or evil-minded unnerved them. They lost heart when even those they thought were friends stabbed them in the back and they gave up the struggle. We probably have all of us come to points in our careers when it would not have taken very much to have discouraged us and turned us the other way. Who can ever estimate the number of failures, the lifewrecks, that have been caused by gossipers? How many people have been driven to suicide by cruel slander? How many people have become disheartened and have laid down their burdens and given up the struggle because their 'sensitive natures could not stand the strain of misrepresentation? There is no meaner, more cowardly or contemptible thing than to take advantage of another's absence to discuss his shortcomings, and to peddle idle gossip and slander about him. I believe the time will come when the person who says unkind, cruel things about another in his absence will be ostracized as an enemy of the race, will be despaired as a trator to everything that constitutes real friendship and true manliness or womanliness. There is no more despicable habit than the gossip, which will be lodged in it. It little realize that they are exhibiting their own defects; that they are showing themselves up in the most unfavorable light possible. Everybody who knows them knows that he may be the next victim. The Fresh Air Cure Plenty of fresh, pure air is an essential part of a patient's treatment. Pure air is just as important and necessary for good health as are pure food and pure water. Fresh air and sunlight are the cheapest and best agents for the recovery of an ill person. Let fresh air and sunlight enter your sick rooms, through open windows as much as possible. Expose the bed clothing to the open air and sunshine for some time each day. Sleep with the bedroom windows open, says nurse. The old superstition that night air is unhealthy even for an invalid is entirely false. On the contrary, night air, especially in large cities, is safer, better than day air, because it contains less dust and fewer microbes. Te get the best ventilation have the window open at both top and bottom. Why He Preferred the Moon. Two negroes got into a discussion concerning the relative values of the moon and the sun to the world. After listening to the advocate of the sun the other proceeded to demolish his argument with the following logic: "De sun am all right, but de moon am wuft two ob it; de moon shine in de night when we needs it, but de sun done shine only in de day when we got light enough without it." nating from our globe, and suggesting how grand might be that earthshine to lovers and others, on the moon if there were such. Annoyed at "Joke." In England it is quite common, instead of saying "Hello" when using the telephone, to ask, "Are you there?" An American who heard it for the first time, thinking someone was endeavoring to have some fun at his expense, replied "No," and bung up the receiver MAKING THE MOST OF LAMB housekeeper Will Find This Arrangement a Help to Cutting of a Floor Every housekeeper is on the lookout to save in these days of high cost of living, especially in meats. Here is one way to save mutton or lamb. If, on Saturday, a forequarter of mutton or lamb is purchased, weighing from seven to ten pounds, it should be divided as follows: Shoulder, neck, breast, French chops, bones and trimmings. The shoulder is boned, pocket cut for filling, that makes the roast; stuffed shoulder of lamb or mutton for Sunday dinner and cut cold for Monday luncheon or supper. Then the neck is boiled with the shoulder bone and trimmings, making two quartes of lamb chopped to be cooked in a cup for Monday's dinner. The meat is trimmed from the neck bones for lamb croquettes, meat salad or loaf. The breast is stewed, or curried with rice. The choiceest part is left, that is, one dozen frenched lamb chops. Of course, you must be able to tell your butcher just how you want it cut and trimmed. The chops are frenched, chine removed, but the chops are not cut apart. That is left for the housekeeper to do, cutting just as needed. The trimmings from the chops are bolted with the neck and bones, strained, and when cold all fat is removed and clarified for drippings. From this forequarter you have the following dishes, always for four persons: Roast stuffed shoulder, hot for Sunday dinner. Roast stuffed shoulder, cold for Monday, with soup (two quarts for soup stock). Lamb croquettes or meat loaf for Tuesday. Stewed or curried lamb for Wednesday. Lamb chops which can be kept for Thursday. POLISH FOR COFFEE BOILER By the Use of Oxalic Acid the Utensil May Be Keen to the Best of Condition. A shining copper hot-water bolder adds much to the appearance of a kitchen, as all housekeepers know. The bolder may be kept in a state of brilliance by the use of a solution of oralic acid and water. Five cents worth of the acid dissolved in a quart of warm water will last through many cleaning days. Best results are obtained by applying the solution to a warm bolder. After one application of the solution the bolder should be gone over with a cloth wrung out in warm water and then polished with a dry cloth. The best part of the process is that no "elbow grease" is required. In a few minutes a dull, dingy bolder becomes bright and shining with but little effort. All copper articles not having a lacquered surface may be cleaned with this solution, and it also serves as a brass polish. Keep in a safe place, as oralic acid is poison. Cocoanut Candy. Remove the shell from a half a coconut and shred or shave it with a silver knife. Spread it on dishes in the open door of an oven until it is soft and elastic. Dissolved coconut can be used instead, but the fresh sort is better. Then boil a cupful of molasses and a cupful of sugar, brown or white, a teaspoonful of vinegar and a tablespoonful of butter. When this is cooked enough to coat the coconut, add cold water add the warmed coconut and pour into butter dishes. Mark into squares when it is thick but before it is cold. Reas Normandy Style Cut one piece of pork or bacon (large slice will do) into small dicee pieces. Put into pan with three or four onions and fry very gently. When sufficiently brown, add liquor from can of peas to cover onions and cook until tender. Then add peas with salt and pepper, and heat through and through. Thicken by stirring in well-beaten yolk of egg and serve in a covered dish. This is simply delicious. Soft Ginger Cookies. Cheap and good. One cupful of molasses, two-thirds cupful of lard, two-thirds cupful sugar, two-thirds cupful hot water, one teaspoonful ginger, two dessert spoonfuls of soda and one dessert spoonful of cream of tartar. Put the molasses in mixing bowl and soda. Add also a pinch of salt and flour to roll. Cut out and bake. Do not roll too thin. Crust for Chicken Pie The ingredients are three cupfuls of sifted bread flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-half cupful of lard and butter, one cupful of milk. Sift all dry ingredients together. Rub in the shortening with finger tipe, then stir in the milk, using a fork and handling it lightly. As soon as combined place on floured board and with a rolling pin pat into the required size. Adam's Pudding Butter a pudding dish; pour in one and one half pints of milk. Set on back of the range and add one cupful bread crumbs, one tablespoonful butter, one saltspoonful salt, yolks of three eggs, two cupfuls chopped apple, one teaspoonful vanilla and sugar and one teaspoonful cream. Put on top, brown, etc. and serve with liquid sauce or cream. Beet Reliah. Cook beets the same as for the table, one quart of beets chopped fine, one quart of raw cabbage chopped fine, one cupful grated horseradish as prepared for the table, one cupful gran- lated sugar, one tablespoonful of salt, one teaspoonful black pepper. Vinegar sought to mix well. The KITCHEN CABINET Talk not of temples, there is one Built without hands, to mankind It is not a lucky word, this same impossible; no good comes of those them. given; Its lamps are the meridian sun All the stars of heaven. Its walls are the cerulean sky Its floor the earth so green and fair, The dome its vast immensely; All nature worships there. THINGS TO REMEMBER. When lettuce has been seemingly horsely wilted, it may be resuscit as been seemingly it may be resuscitated by giving it a cold bath, shake off the water and put it into a tight dish or pail. Put it into a cold place for an hour or two when it will tated by giving it a cold bath, shake off the water and put it into a tight dish or pail. Put on the cover and put into a cold place for an hour or two when it will be crisp and fresh again. Parsley may be treated as satisfactorily in the same way. A coffee can with a tight cover is a good receptacle to use for this purpose. Keep newspapers handy to wipe and rub the kitchen range; they may then be burned and out of the way. Don't forget to throw out crumbs these snowy days for the birds, because all their food is covered with snow. Cover work tables with zinc, and save much labor of scouring. To keep a piano in good condition, rub with the following polish: A cupful of water, a half cupful of turpentine, and a half teaspoonful of alcohol. Follow this with a brisk rubbing with a dry cloth or chamois. When cutting celery for salads, lay a half dozen stalks on a board and cut with a sharp knife in half the time it takes to cut each stalk separately. When dicing potatoes, mark of the top in squares, then slice and each piece drops the right size with one cut knife. When packing delicate china or cut glass, wrap each piece in bright paper or tie with a red or green string so that none may be overlooked or broken in the unpacking. In putting away the linen place the freshly laundered under the pile so that it may get even wear as the linen is taken from the top when needed. Other ways may be used, but care should be taken that each gets its turn of wear. Use a grape baskets, keep them clean and fresh and have a neat little receptacle which way be made very festive with colored paper for various uses. SALADS AND DRESSINGS. The following salad will be one which will take the place of a meat dish. It is a salad and meat combined. Chop a pint of cold roast mutton and young cabbage. Soak a half-cupful of gelatin with a half-cupful of cold water, add a half-cupful of tomatoes, a half-tailee spoonful of salt, a dash paprika and a drop or mush. It is a salad and meat combined. Chop a pint of cold roast mutton and young cabbage. Soak a half-curple of gelatin with half-curple of cold water, add a slice of onion to a pint of tomatoes, a half-tea-spoonful of salt, a dash paprika and a drop or two of tabasco. Boil two or three minutes and strain. Garnish a mold with olives, put in a layer of cabbage, then seasonings and a layer of chopped nuts. Form the meat into a roll and place on top, surround and cover the meat with cabbage, then pour over the tomato, which has been mixed with the gelatin and is cold but not yet stiff. Stand over night and serve with lettuce and French dressing. Honolulu Salad—Place a slice of canned pineapple on a lettuce leaf, mash a cream cheese with one or two chopped red peppers, add a dash of salt and cayenne and form in balls, placing each in the center of each slice of pineapple. Prepare a mayonnaise dressing and add to it two tablespoonfuls of softened gelatin to a cup of mayonnaise. When it is getting stiff pipe the pineapple with roses of the mayonnaise. Potato Dressing—Press hot mashed potato through a sleeve, add four tablespoonfuls of cream and the yolks of two eggs, hard-cooked. Rub until smooth and press through the sleeve. Add a teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of prepared mustard and two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, mix and cool. Use with fish. Celery, chopped onion and green or red peppers are a great addition to any salad, dressing, and is especially good if the salad is simply lettuce or almond tomatoes. An unusual and surprising salad is this: Hollow out small tomatoes and fill with sardines, well seasoned with lemon juice, turn upside down on lettuce and cover with boiled or mayonnaise dressing. The Aftermath. Inkblot—The war is bad enough, but what comes afterward is even worse. Smudgely—Yes, indeed; just think of the trouble we'll have dodging agents with books about the battles. And Food at War Brides He—Be mine, I cannot live without you. She—Oh, go 'long; you've said that to many girls before. He—Yes, but not when eggs were 50 cents a dozen. Driven to it. "Poor old Slathersby! He's taking the gold cure again." "Why, can't he stop drinking?" "He married a woman whose sole accomplishment is her ability to mix cocktails." No Doubt. "Football is a game of endless possibilities." "So it is, and I dare it it offers more diversified hospital experience than any other game that is played today." It is not a lucky word, this same impossible, no goal comes of those that are often in their mouths. Few things are impossible to dillige and skill. UNUSUAL DISHES Try a small piece of cheese about the size of a hickory nut, added to each quart of oysters; stew a few minutes before it is served. It adds a delicious flavor as if cream had been added to the stew. # The long process of mayonnaise dressing making may be shortened to ten minutes by mixing all the dry ingredients with the yolk, then add one or two teaspoonfuls of oil and stir until thick. Repeat until all the oil is used, though after a half-cupful the last half-cupful may be added at once. Add the lemon juice after all it loisten the half-teaspoonful of mustard to a paste with a few drops of cold water and add the egg. This is the secret, together with adding the lemon juice last. **Oriental Dish**—Cook a half-teaspoonful of sliced onion in three tablespoonfuls of olive oil, add a cupful of tomato, a chopped green pepper, a teaspoonful of salt and a can of green beans. Cook until the onions are tender, about a half hour. Sardine Balls With Cucumbers—Remove the skins from a box of sardines, rub to a paste, add a teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce, a dash of salt, a drop of tabasco, and form the paste into balls the size of a walnut. Peel cucumbers, remove the seeds after slicing and let stand in cold water to crisp them. Arrange a ball of the sardines in each slice and serve on lettuce with French dressing. Add a pinch of cinnamon to chocolate filling for cake or for chocolate or cocoa as a beverage. Take the heads from cloves and fruit will not have the dark-stained look which is usual. Rice may be pressed into a plate and covered with fruit and a meringue and served as one does pie, making a most delicious and digestible pie for the children. A delicious salad dressing for a potato salad is made by putting a cupful of celery, a green pepper and a small onion through the meat chopper, then adding this to the salad dressing, thoroughly mixed before putting over the potato. Men must be taught as if you taught them not. And things unknown propos'd to things forgot.-Pope. An open foe may prove a curse. But a pretended friend is worse. WHAT TO DO WITH COLD BOILED RICE. Rice that has been well cooked and eac grain stands up separate and distinct may be reheated by adding a little water or milk to it and let it get hot in a double boiler and serve with peaches and cream. distinct may be reheated by adding a little water or milk to it and let it get hot in a double roller and serve with peaches and cream. Rice Giddle Cakes.—Reheat rice with boiling water and press through a rice. To this liquid rice add half a teaspoonful of salt to a cupful and a half of rice, the beaten yolks of two eggs, one cupful of four, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and when well mixed in stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Bake on a hot griddle. Savory Rice.—For a cupful of cold boiled rice make a hot sauce of a cupful and a half of tomato sauce, two or three tablepoonfuls of grated cheese, four or five drops of onion juice, half a teaspoonful of chopped chili pepper, and salt and pepper as needed. Rice may be added to almost any mixture used for breakfast gems, and will add to the palatability. Curried Rice.—A most appetizing dish of rice and finely chopped lamb or mutton, with curry powder, onion juice and the broth of the meat to moisten, baked in the ordinary escaloped method. Add butter for richness when putting in the seasonings. When the meat is cooked, accompany to many dishes. Make them in the form of a small nest and fill the hollow with bright jelly. The croquettes made in the ordinary way and mixed with chopped meat and rice will make a small amount of chicken or lamb go much farther. Nellie Maxwell. Return Voyage. Peggle—Oh, we are getting up a tug o' wart team between the married and the single men. You are married, aren't you? Reggle—No. I've teen seasick; that's why I look that way—Judge. It Never Stops. "Isn't it extravagant to have all these gas lights burning?" incurred his wife. "No," said her husband hopelessly. "We might as well have the light; the meter works anyhow." A Stab in the Back. Good Little Sister—I pray every night for the war in Europe to stop! Practical Little Sister—You mean thing, how dare you? You know perfectly well that papa has bought wheat!—Puck. Investigate. "Did you investigate this report of grafting by the men of the force?" asked the chief of police. "Sure," said the captain. "I asked them, and they said there's nothing to it." A. J. Booker, M. D. The greatest organization that has been perfected in these parts was launched a few nights ago. It is great because it does not deal with money, nor property, nor with any tangible commodity, but with the greatest of all things in the world, and that is social and civic rights. Some of us imagine that money is all there is to get in this world, and that with it all things are possible. Some imagine that position and the so-called honors of certain institutions are the next best things, but when ye look matters squately in the face, sift them to the elements, all we are living for is the right to do the things that other men do in the pursuit of happiness. It is the view that the world has of us that makes us more or less happy. When some of our leaders tell us to never mind and to get money and get right with God they are taking our manhood. The Lord loves a good scraper and is always on the side of the best army. The Lord loves a good kicker and if you kick in the right manner he will see that you get what you want. George Woodson has gone around here for years saying that we must have everything that any other man has and many of us would not believe him until a man cange from New York and said that we did not kick enough. Harvey Ingham says that if we accept places of inferiority and think that the policy of meekness will cause the other fellow to call us to our deserts we are sadly mistaken. All these things I have heard Uncle George say for years. Whether they learned it from him or all of them have discovered it from study and contact with the world I do not know but it is a basic principle. The proper way to be a man is to act one and to be satisfied with nothing less than a man's right treatment. It takes a lot of weak kneed so-called leaders to apologize for faults and ask for half a loaf. That many of us are yet children is a fact; the same may be said of other people, but that is no reason that all of us are to be treated as children and weaklings because some of us are weak. The man most to be feared among us as a leader is the one that is ready to apologize and take what the other fellow wants to give. Let a man admit he is inferior, but do not let him talk for you; be he minister, doctor, lawyer or politician. Too much of this has gone on. It is time for us to see that either we must fight as one man or be put to flight in many bunches. This movement must go. There are a few weak-kneed sissies who are sure to the harm it can do. Watch those guys; they are the ones that have been pussy-footing off with the change at election time. We elected Joe Brown president, because he is a friend of ours; we both honor and trust him. He may have faults; I know some of them, but there is one thing that he is not lame on and that is trying to see that they do not put it over on a black man. That is virtue enough to hide any fault. Of course he is unpopular with white men; it makes them sore to see that he has sense enough to see through the skin game. We have lost ground here in Des Moines because we have not had men to stand squarely by the colors in season and out. Some of these fellows would walk to Valley Junction in a blizzard to curry favor with a white man and would not go across the street to tell a black man where to find a job. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To Geo. Wright, 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 4th, A. D. 1911, the following described real estate, towit: Lot No. four (4), block No. ten (10), Fairview addition, which is now in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, was sold to C. D. Be Voice Royal 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 F. Green. 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. Aged this 20th day of January 1915. W. J. Beauch Argent W. L. Baugh, Agent. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To Geo. Wright, 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 4th, A. D. 1911, the following described real estate, towit: Lot No. five (5), block No. ten (10), Fairview addition, which is now in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, was sold to F. H. Noble 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 F. Green. 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. cribed below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 4th, A. D. 1911, the following described real estate, towit: Lot 25, block 11, Larson Place, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, Polk county, was sold to the Des Moines Trust Co. 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 F. Green. 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. NOTICE 10 REDEEM FROM TAX SALE To Nancy J. Smith, 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 4th, A. D. 1911, the following described real estate, towit: Lot 26, block 11, Larson Place, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, Polk county, was sold to the Des Moines Trust Co. 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 F. Green. 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. Billiousness and Constipation Cured. If you are ever troubled with billiousness or constipation you will be interested in the statement of R. F. Erwin, Peru, Ind. "A year ago 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. KEQKUK ITEMS. Mr. Ginger Fields returned to his home in Chicago, after spending the holidays with his brother, Mr. Orange Fields. Mrs. E. L. Goins spent a few weeks in Chicago attending the E. Burnham Beauty Culture school. Mrs. E. L. Goins was entertained by the following: Mr. and Mrs. Lucius S. Lee, at a 6 o'clock dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Vinies entertained in honor of Mrs. Goins on New Year's day. Mr. and Mrs. S. Stewart entertained at a 6 o'clock dinner. The amusements of the evennig were dancing and cards. Leatha Johnson, Georgia Holly, Evelyn Frye and Thelma Smith graduated from the grammar grade to the high school January 22nd. Mrs. A. J. Fields received the sad news of the death of her brother, Bren Bland. The body of Wm. Vaugh arrived Sunday from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mr. Vaughn is survived by his wife, sister, Mrs. F. D. Bland, and a brother of Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Bland was with her brother several days before his death. Mr. George Bannister of Peoria and son, Arnold, of St. Louis spent Monday in the city. Mrs. W. W. Gross has returned home from the hospital. Mrs. G. L. Coleman has been on the sick list for several days. Everybody attend the mission at St. Mary the Virgin on February 2-12. George Kelles, the colored undertaker, conducted a nice funeral at the "grim Baptist church on 14 Exchange street of Mrs. Speaks. Everything was satisfactory to the family and friends and he appreciates the patronage of his people to the greatest, and it also shows the appreciation of avenues open to the colored man. OTTUMWA. IOWA. The third and last of three sermons on amusements was delivered by Rev. Searcy on Sundav evening to a crowded house. The Faithful Few met at the home of Mrs. M. Taylor, all the members being present. Mrs. B. Washington, Mr. and Mrs. J. Black, Mr. and Mrs. C. Andrews and Mr. H. Milton were visitors. The hostess served a three-course lunch. Misses Leora and Edith Williams gave a party at their home, the occasion being the fortiest milestone reached by their loving mother. The guests had a very delightful time. The mother was the recipient of many useful presents. A six-course supper was served. The Benevolent club met with Mrs. E. Marshall on the South Side Thursday afternoon. The Sewing Circle of the Second Baptist church met at the home of Mrs. H. Green on Grant street. The Young Girl's Embroidery club meet with Miss Aline Johnson on Grant street. Mr. J. Cheshire is on the sick list. The A. M. E. Sewing Circle will meet at the church Friday afternoon. Mrs. H. Owens solicited a few friends, who gladly responded and purchased their pastor, Rev. W. A. Searcy, a beautiful pair of shoes. Mrs. Anne Robinson, a girl with Mrs. Anna Robinson is quite sick with a severe cold; not able to be out. Mrs. Kitty Wagnor and son, Earl, have returned from Chicago, where they were called by her son, Bert, who met with a very painful accident, but is getting along nicely. The young man had a rousing meeting Sunday afternoon. They discussed Chase & West NOW, DURING OUR MIDWINTER FURNITURE SALE, MUCH OF OUR GOOD FURNITURE IS 1/4 LESS----SOME OF IT 1/3 LESS, AND MANY PIECES ARE REDUCED 1/2! Representative Values in Bedroom Furniture You Will See Sale Tags on Many Livingroom Pieces Davenport—As pictured, opens to double bed with separate set of springs; solid oak frame, golden finish; black morroccoline upholstering, regularly $35.00, mid-winter clearance $26.00 Oak Living Room Suite—Chair, rocker and settee; upholstered in genuine Spanish leather, with best of springwork; regularly $44.00, reduced for clearance to $32.00 Morocco Leather Rocker—Mahogany frame; soft and very restful; regularly $31.00, reduced to $22.00 Divan—Mahogany frame, black leather seat; regularly $20.00, reduced now to one-half $10.00 Karpen Wing Back Rocker—In imported tapestry, $20.00 value $22.00 English Living Room Suite—Of the wing back type, with Spanish leather upholstering; chair, rocker and settee; regularly $100, now $75.00 Morris Rocker - Stickley Bros. solid mahogany frame, dull finish, green mohair cushions, felt filled, seat deep and, comfortable; regularly $64, reduced for clearance ..... $35.00 $21 Velvets, 3 patterns, reduced in this Mid-Winter Clearance to $25 Wilton Velvets, seamless, reduced for Mid-Winter Clearance $25 Axminster rugs, forlays, etc., this Mid-Winter Clearance Sale $14.25 $11.75 $17.75 $18.50 the Negro and 15th amendment. All seemed greatly interested and a large attendance. The A. M. E. church has elected officers in their various auxiliaries and are ready for a year's good work. Mrs. Addie Elliott entertained at dinner in honor of Mrs. B. Green. The table was laid for ten and a four-course dinner was served. Mrs. B. Green has returned to her home in Keokuk, Iowa, after spending two weeks with her sister, Mrs. J. Harris, on Mechanic street. Mrs. Emma Smith has been sick, but is able to be out. Mrs. Bennett is very sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. Clark, on Division street. Reginald Clark and wife of Omaha are visiting at the home of his mother, Mrs. M. Clark, on Division street. Mrs. Bessie M. Pertum and daughter, Marguerite Pertum, of Caldwell A. Woman's Crownning Glorius Her Hair Why not grow your hair by using Mme. M. Beard Hair Grower In removes dandruff, stops itching of the scalp and makes in grow long, soft and beautiful. Price 50e a box. Send stamp for pamphlet. MME. M. BEARD AGENTS WANTED 519 So. 16th St. St. Joseph, Mo. Stomach Trouble Cured. 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. NOW, DURING MUCH OF OUR OF IT ½ LESS, Come Representative Value Dresser, as pictured on the Crotch Circassian walnut; min Dresser, birch mahogany, at Dresser, of imitation mahogany regularly $29, Mid-Winter Clearance Chiffonier, genuine mahogany regularly $29.50, Mid-Winter Clearance Dresser, genuine mahogany value, reduced in this Mid-Winter Chiffonier of quarter-saw Mid-Winter Clearance price Chiffonier, quartered oak, larly $20, reduced for Mid-Winter Napoleon Bed, golden oak, Dresser, quarter-sawed oak Chiffonier, to match; regular Bed, fumed oak, slat head You Will See S Divan—Mahogany frame, b Karpen Wing Back Rocker— English Living Room Suite— rocker and settee; regularly Morris Rocker—Stickley Brow- filled, seat deep and, comfortab Save on One o ```markdown ``` $21 Velvets, 3 patterns, reduced $25 Wilton Velvets, seamless, $25 Axminster rugs, foralts, etc. Park were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Anderson at Chillicothe, Mo. last Saturday between train time, en route to Monroe City, Mo., to see the remains of the former's mother laid to rest, who passed away very suddenly Friday a. m., and much Green's Cafe HAVE YOU BEAUTIFUL HAIR? 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Kansas City, Mo West ER FURNITURE SALE, RE IS ¼ LESS---SOME CES ARE REDUCED ½! the Savings V Davenport—As pictured, opens to double bed with separate set of springs; solid oak frame, golden finish; black morroccoline upholstering, regularly $35.00, mid-winter clearance $26.00 Oak Living Room Suite—Chair, rocker and settee; upholstered in genuine Spanish leather, with best of springwork; regularly $44.00, reduced for clearance to $32.00 Morocco Leather Rocker—Mahogany frame; soft and very restful, regularly $31.00, reduced to $22.00 ly $20.00, reduced now to one-half ..... $10.00 00 value ..... $22.00 with Spanish leather upholstering; chair ..... $75.00 dull finish, green mohair cushions, felt for clearance ..... $35.00 I Room-Sized Rugs Worcester, 9x12 ft. ..... $45.00 ..... $36.00 dandis, 9x12 ft. ..... $50.00 ..... $40.00 erslans, 9x12 ft. ..... $60.00 ..... $47.25 dandis, 11.3x12 ft. ..... $68.75 ..... $55.00 dandis, 9x9 ft. ..... $41.25 ..... $33.00 erslans, 11.3x12 ft. ..... $81.25 ..... $65.00 ft. ..... $65.00 ..... $50.00 t. ..... $55.00 ..... $39.00 t. ..... $20.00 ..... $14.25 ft. ..... $62.00 ..... $49.50 ft. ..... $54.00 ..... $43.00 t. ..... $45.00 ..... $36.75 ft. ..... $45.00 ..... $28.75 # $14 Tapestry seamless rugs, reduced in this Mid-Winter Clearance $8.75 $20 Wilton Velvets, good colors, in this Mid-Winter Clearance Sale $14.75 $20 Axminister rugs, many designs, reduced in this Clearance Sale IOWA STATE BYSTANDER The Old and Reliable Place to get good meals or lunches Ice Cream and Cigars 114 E. 5th Street Phone 4908 y E. 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District court of Polk county, Iowa. Dr. R. A. Schwaner vs. P. A. Miller and Mrs. P. A. Miller. P. A. Miller and Mrs. P. A. Miller. By virtue of a special execution to me directed, issued by the clerk of the district court of Polk county, Iowa, in favor of Dr. R. A. Schwauer, and against P. A. Miller and Mrs. P. A. Miller, on a judgment rendered by said court on the 12th day of January, A. D. 1915, wherein it was ordered, adjudged and decreed that the following described property be sold to satisfy said judgment, towit: Lot twenty (20) in Glenwood Place, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa. Now, therefore, public notice is hereby given that unless the said defendants appear at my office in Des Moines on or before the 26th day of February, A. D. 1915, at ten o'clock a.m. of said day, at which time said above described property is hereby advertised to be sold, and pay off the amount of said execution, with interest and costs, I will sell said property, or sufficient thereof to satisfy said execution, with interest and costs, at public outery, to the highest bidder, at the east front door of the court house, in Des Moines, Iowa, for cash in hand to pay off said execution. J. F Griffin, Sheriff of Polk County, Iowa. By J. H. Kelley, Deputy. Sheriff's Office, Des Moines, Iowa. Date of first publication, January 22, 1915. Published and printed by the Iowa State Bystander. NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE ON SPECIAL EXECUTION. State of Iowa, Polk county, ss. District court of Polk county, Iowa New System Dentists vs. D. M. Bowmer. By virtue of a special execution to me directed, issued by the clerk of the district court of Polk county, Iowa, in favor of New System Dentists, and against D. M. Bowmer, on a judgment rendered by said court on the 12th day of January, A. D. 1915, wherein it was ordered, adjudged and decreed that the following described property be sold to satisfy said judgment, to-wit: The south two-thirds (2-3) of lot thirteen (13) of W. W. Jones' subdivision of block T, and the west half (1-2) of block S, in Holcomb's addition to Des Maines, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Maines, Iowa. Now, therefore, public notice is hereby given that unless the said defendant appear at my office in Des Moines on or before the 26th day of February, A. D. 1915, at ten o'clock a.m. of said day, at which time said above described property is hereby advertised to be sold, and pay off the amount of said execution, with interest and costs, I will sell said property, or sufficient thereof to satisfy said execution, with interest and costs, at public outcry, to the highest bidder, at the east front door of the court house, in Des Moines, Iowa, for cash in hand to pay off said execution. Sheriff's Office, Des Moines, Iowa. Date of first publication, January 22, 1915. Published and printed by the Iowa State Bystander. L. E. Hanger Wm. Aiken NEW Elite Restaurant New Reliable Place to Eat Des Moines New Restaurant Just opened. Everything modern and up-to-date at Miami, Ia., or old No. 10 Junction. Johnson & Johnson Props BUXTON, IOWA FREE F R R E E E COLOREO PEOPLES HAIR We are the largest importers and manufacturers of colored peoples hair and the most reliable firm in this line. We make wigs, switches, braids, transformations and all styles of hair that can comb and wash the same as your own. We also sell straightening combs, hair nets and cut hair by the pound. We guarantee all goods, and if not anti-fold money will be refunded. Our prices are lower than those quoted elsewhere. Send 2c stamp for illustration. Virginia Hair Company upt 11 23 Dumne St. New York FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1915. OHLSTON, THOMPSON, ADJORN Send money by postmaster or money orer, express or draft, to the Iowa State Bystander Compan, Des Moines, Iowa. OSKALOOSA, IOWA. (Special.) Hon. John L. Thompson, of Des Moines, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. & A. M., paid his official visit to Maple Grove lodge, No. 16 Monday evening. Nearly the entire resident membership was present to receive him with the customary honors of the order. In response to an invitation, Golden Star lodge, No. 4, of Ottumwa was represented by the following members: Hon. H. E. Williams, deputy grand master; Wells E. Fowler, W. M.; Luther Williams, J. D., and Bros. Geo. Gabrale and Raymond Clark. Other visiting brethren present were B. J. Hack, P. M. North Star No. 2, Des Moines; John A. Spencer of Grinnell, M. Eureka No. 20; and C. F. Topson, P. M., of Doric No. 30, Des Moines. Grand Master Thompson, upon taking the chair, proceeded to speak briefly of the condition of the craft in his jurisdiction, which he pronounced as harmonious and satisfactory in every way. He then received and inspected the reports of the officers of the local lodge and expressed himself as well pleased with conditions here. Bro. James Lloyd, W. M., then extended an invitation to the grand degree to preside and confer the third degree upon a candidate who was in waiting, which he accepted, and after filling the stations with the visiting brethren, proceeded with the work to its completion. It was a fine exhibition of Masonic work, the brethren being all well informed and able to fill their stations with credit to themselves and the lodges to which they belong. At the completion of the work a short session was devoted to speech making that brought out some splendid sentiments on the Masonic fraternity and some flattering compliments to the local lodge by the visiting brethren, which were responded to by Brothers Barquet, Jones and Clark on behalf of the lodge. The work done, the lodge closed, a substantial lunch was served in the hall and for an hour the social and fraternal spirit was manifested by all, and with the words of "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" lingering upon their lips, they parted as all true Masons ought to part. One of the unique as well as interesting and instructive features in connection with the "work" occurred when the grand master, thinking perhaps to catch the lodge lax in its discipline, asked to have the candidate brought into open lodge and examined before he advanced him. This was done and the candidate examined by the grand custodian on the second rank, and he not only answered every question, but then took up the questions and examined the grand custodian. MARSHALLTOWN NEWS. Rev. and Mrs. R. J. Roman have returned from a trip south, and Rev. Roman has taken up his work again as pastor of the Baptist church. All welcome them back. The A. M. E. church has a thriving literary organization. Five candidates were initiated into the mysteries of Masonry last Tuesday evening. Tuesday afternoon Mrs. G. R. Warn entertained about twenty ladies in honor of the fifty-fifth wedding anniversary of her mother, Mrs. Carrie Suter, and also to announce the engagement of her daughter, Miss Elwilda Geneva Warn, to Mr. Luther D. Lowery of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the wedding to take place in the early summer. The Lawrence Clifton Jones club will meet at the home of Mrs. G. R. Warn next Thursday. Mrs. Spencer Simmons has returned to Des Moines, after a short visit with her mother Mrs. Roman. ORIGINAL NOTICE. Iowa, in and for Polk county. Iowa, in and for Polk county. March term, A. D. 1915. Decimer Price, Plaintiff, vs. Wm. Price, Defendant. To Wm. Price: You are hereby notified that on or before the 18th day of February, A. D. 1915, the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the state of Iow, in and for Polk county, Iowa, claiming of you a divorce from the bonds of matrimony on the ground of adultery and desertion. And unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term, being the March term of said court, which will commence at Des Moines on the 1st day of March, 1915, default will be entered against you and judgment and decree rendered thereon. Dated this 22nd day of January, 1915. The very best service guaranteed Prices the lowest Calls answered promptly day or night No extra charges for distance—Reverse all phone charges PHONE:} Maple 2548 Residence Wal. 6824 Office 519 East Court Ave Des Moines