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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. State Captitol Blg. Hist. ceat Room 10 VOL. XXI NO. 34 CITY NEWS Mrs. Geo H. Morton, 1177 12th St., reported quite ill this week. Mrs. Ernest McGuire who has been back the past two weeks is slowly improving. Mrs. R. A. Todd is quite ill at her home this week, suffering from an attack of the la grippe. Mrs. Evelyn Knitchloe was called to her home in Shelbins, Mo., on account of the illness of her mother this week. The Callahan club met with Mrs. Yryes and adjourned to meet with Mrs. A. M. Rivers Wednesday evening. Position Wanted by a lady to clean office rooms, working from 5:30 to 8:30 a.m. Call wal. 899 and ask for letter K A musical entertainment will be given under the auspices of the Capital City Band at the Coliseum Wednesday evening March 10th. The Altar Guild met at the home of Mrs. B. Carr. Next meeting March 8, with Mrs. Wm. Woods 1320 Day street. All members requested to be present. For Rent—4 room house, 1440 Main St. Call at 511 W. 3rd; Phone Red 6589 Mr. and Mrs. Richard White of 1645 Buchan street entertained Rev H. A. Perry Wednesday evening the 17th. Mrs. Frances C. Render and Mrs. Salille Hodges recited some spicy selections of poetry. Rev. H. A. Perry and members of the East Side A. M. E. church wish to express their heartfelt gratitude to Rev. Edward G. Jackson and his congregation for their attendance and assistance at the quarterly meeting at Sunday. The Altar Guild club of the A. M. E. church met Thursday with Mrs. J. H. bett on Park street. Mrs. Pyre read a very interesting paper on the club work. Next meeting with Mrs. Henry Taylor. Mrs. Adam Dixon of 1056 Eno Ave., will be hostess to the High School Girls Glee club, Sunday from 4:30 to 6:30 p. m. Feb. 28th complimentary to Miss Elith M. Jones. Mr. Emmitt Mickle of Kansas City, Mo., arrived in the city Thursday to visit his sisters, Mesdames Harry Allen, J. E. Ously and J. Hickman indefinitely. Miss Jesie Renfro and her sister Miss Hattle of Ottumwa are visiting at the home of home of their aunt, Mrs. E. Yeager of 108 West 13th and their cousin Mrs. Thomas of Grand avenue and Mrs. E. Miller of Carney, Iowa. The Willing Workers and Mite Missionary societies met at Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Coop's home Thursday Feb. 25. Both societies are auxiliaries of the East Side A M. E. church. Rev. H. A. Perry who has been confined to his room for several days is much improved and hopes to be about his regular pastoral duties within a few days. Miss Ida Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Green Jackson, 777 10th St., became the bride of Mr. Wm. Kyser Feb. 12st at the home of her parents on East 16th street, where they will reside in the future. They were showered with a host of presents by their many friends, after which the parents served refreshments. Keep in mind the lecture of Mrs. Mary Church-Terrell of Washington, D. C., Wednesday evening March 31st. Mrs. Terrell is one of America's great lecturers, a brilliant woman, and a great scholar, having received her education in America and Europe. LooK! LooK! Special sale beginning Saturday, February 27th to March 6th, inclusive, for one week only. Come and get your hair cut, shave or shine, and buy 7 Tom Keene Cigars for... 25c 7 Henry George Cigars... 25c 7 Armona Cigars... 25c 7 Black Label Cigars... 25c 7 Press Club Cigars... 25c 7 El Tero Cigars... 25c 7 She Cigars... 25c 7 Sunny Side Cigars... 25c 8 10-cent plug tobacco... 25c 8 Granger Twists... 25c 8 of any 10-cent cans of tobacco... 25c of tobacco.....25c All 10-cert Cigars, 3 for.....25c Other things accordingly LUTHER H. S. BROWN 229 Third Street Barber Shop--Billards--Cigars--Tobacco The Dramatic Art club met Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Bailey on 11th street and studied chapters 6, 7 and 8 of the Book of Esther. Meet next week with Mrs. J. B. Rush, 1542 20th street, finish the book and discuss the topics "Mordecal," "Jewish Calendar," "Ahauserus and his Palace," "Vashti." The Triple H club met Feb. 23rd with Mrs. Richard Jones at Mrs. William McGruder, 1628 Carpenter avenue. Quotations from Dunbar; Life of Dunbar, Mrs. Richard Jones; Reading from Dunbar, Mrs. Wm. McGruder Remarks from members of club; report of Critic Adjourned to meet March 2nd with Mrs. J. A. McDowell, 909 8th street. The Missionary society of Union Congregational church was entertained by Mrs. C. A. Cleggett last Thursday at her home. Mrs. Wade H. Creegave an interesting talk on the history of St. John Congregational church at Springfield, mass. pastored by Rev. W. N DeBerry. After the regular business the hostess served a three course luncheon. The Grand Master, John L. Thompson, is out this week on his official visit in North-eastern and Eastern Iowa; ending up the week at Davenport Friday night Feb. 26. On Monday March 1st he will be in Clarinda; Tuesday March 2nd, Council Bluffs; Wednesday March 3rd, Omaha, Nebr. Thursday March 1th, Sioux City; Thursday March 11th, with Doric and Thursday March 18th with North Star Des Moines, Ia. About thirty friends gathered at the home of Mrs. Yeager, 108 13th street on the 21st inst, and very pleasantly surprised Mr. George Griffin in honor of his birthday. A lovely time was enjoyed by all. The guests were entertained by Mrs. Moore of School street, Mrs. Thomas of West Grand avenue and Mrs. Miller of Carney. The out of town guests present were Miss Ollie Carter of Kansas City, Mo., Misses Hattie and Jessie Rennfo of Ottumwa, Mr. S Griffith of Oralabor and Mr. James Alexander and H. Buttron of Carney. He received many beautiful gifts from his friends. The guests departed about 7.80 for their respective homes wishing Mr. Griffith a lovely birthday. Brown Graduates This week we are pleased to announce that Mr. Lucian Michie Brown, one of our young men who has been pursuing a course in Undertaking at the College of Embalming, has finished his course, taken the State examination and passed the Iowa State Board of Health Embalming Department Feb. 15th with a good general average. He was the only colored man in the class, 9 others of the Anglo race failed. We compliment our young friend and wish for him success in some good town. LYCEUM ASSOCIATION. At the meeting of the Des Moines Negro Lycum association Tuesday evening Miss Beatrice Turner of North High school gave a most interesting biography of George Washington and Atty. S. Joe Brown led the discussion of Washington's farewell address, which was participated in by all the members present. Miss Vivian Warriors of West High school rendered a piano solo and Miss Jessie Scott, also of West High, was elected to membership. The meeting next week will be with Mrs. Chas. Turner at 1001 Washington street, at which time Mrs. J. B. Rush will lead the discussion of the Iowa suffragett amendment passed by the present state legislature. O. E. S. PAST OFFICERS ORGAN- Pursuant to the call of Mrs. S. Joe Brown, grand lecturer of the Order of the Eastern Star for the state of Iowa and jurisdiction, seventeen past matrons and past patrons of that organization met at her home on last Monday evening and perfected the temporary organization of a past officers' council, to which only present and past matrons and patrons of the order will be eligible. Mrs. Brown was elected temporary president and John L. Thompson temporary secretary, and a committee on constitution was appointed, consisting of Past Grand Patron S. Joe Brown, Past Grand Master E. T. Banks, Past Patron J. H. Reynolds and Past Matrons Maule W. Milkinson and Izella Robinson, who are to report at the next meeting, which will be held with Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Banks on the third Monday in March. N. A. A. C. R. The regular monthly meeting of the executive committee of the Des Moines branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will be held at the residence of the chairman, 1058 West Fifth street, Monday evening, March 1st. All officers are members of this committee and are urged to be present, as there are some very important reports from standing committee to be heard and other business to be transacted. By order of S. Joe Brown, chairman. N. A. A. C. R. Rev. Roberts Sometimes we may meet a man for months and even years and do not learn the real aim of his life work. This is true in the case of Rev. J. E. Roberts, a very efficient Baptist minister, who came to our city about three years ago and has been working and occasionally preaching in different churches of our city. He is one of our good honest christian ministers who is deserving. He has a loveable wife and is in the field to fill any charge. He is a race man. OBITUARY Mr. W H. Mason, son of Mr. and Ms. Geo. W. Mason was born in Memphis, Mo., June 16th, 1876 and died in Des Moines Feb. 20th, 1915. Besides a father and mother he leaves a brother, Prof. James L. Dammeron of Madison,四; four sisters, Mrs. Margrett M. Lowry, Institute, West Va., Laura Dammeron, Bessie and Eilea Mason of this city; two anuits, Mrs. Charlotte Nunn of Indianapolis, Ipd., and Mrs. Mary Chestee of Mexico, Mo. The funeral was prescheduled by Rev. T. L. Griffith at Corinthian Baptist church Wednesday morning and the remains were taken to Memphis, Mo., for burial in the family lot. Sympathy is extended to the bereaved family. The death of Mr. S. Blakey of 1331 Crocker street occurred Tuesday morning at the Methodist hospital from blood poisoning. The deceased was 70 years of age and had lived here over 30 years. The funeral will be held today at Corinthian Baptist church, and will be preached by Rev. T. L. Griffith. The Lodge of Odd T. L. Griffith. He leaves to mourn his death a wife and four daughters, Mrs Bethea Long of Des Moines; Mrs Nellie Croft of Buxton and Gertrude Ida of Chicago. Interment in Glendale. Friends extend sympathy in their bereavement. A FORMER IOWA MAN. One Time Slave Wins 41 Out of 61 Appeal Cases—Turner W. Bell, Negro Lawyer, Succeeds as Attorney in High Courts. St. Louis, Mo.—Three judges of the United States circuit court of appeals listened with profound interest to the pleas of a Negro attorney, a one-time slave, who appeared before them in the federal building here. Probably few in the court room realized until he started his argument that a gray haired Negro sitting near the front was a noted lawyer who has appeared before every United States judge in the central district in many famous trials. The attorney, Turner Bell, represented three men who are confined in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kas., serving sentences on convictions of conspiracy in the famous structural iron workers' dynamiting cases two years ago. Crowd Realize Experience. Bell fingered his brief as he sat listening to the arguments of Assistant United States District Attorney L. S. Harvey of the eastern district of Kansas, representing the government. He had spoken but a few words, however, when the crowd knew that such incidents evidently were in the daily life of the Negro lawyer. The men represented by Bell are white and were given sentences of six years at Indianapolis in December, 1912. They were convicted of being implicated in more than one hundred dynaming cases, including the destruction of the Times building in Los Angeles, in half of the states of the United States. They were at one time officers of the organization of which J. J. McNamara was a member and who is now serving a life sentence in California. Bell represented the men in the United States district court in Kansas last July and was defeated. He appealed. Lawyer'a Chief Contention Lawyer's Chief Contention Bell's chief contention is that the men could legally have been convicted on but one charge under the revised statutes of the United States and that the maximum penalty should have been but two years in the penitentiary or a fine of $10,000. They were charged with having transported dynamite throughout the country and with the blowing up of a bridge at Indianapolis. Bell has been a practicing attorney in Leavenworth twenty-eight years. His hobby, he said, is appeal cases. In 1914 he filled sixty-one appeals in the United States courts, and was successful in forty-one of them. In but two cases were his clients Negroes. Bell was born a slave in Tennessee. He was taken with his parents to Oskaloosa, Iowa, when young, and earned enough money to carry him through a course in law. The day he was admitted to the bar at Leavenworth United States Judge Hook was in the court room, and Bell considers Judge Hook one of his best friends. Among famous appeals in which Bell has been successful was the case of Charles A. Stevens, a wealthy Ne- gro boy of Kansas City, who stole a mail sack containing $55,800. Stevens' sentence was reduced from ten to five years. As his fee Bell received $13,000—Chicago Daily Tribune, Sunday, Feb. 7th. WIFE OF A DISTINGUISHED MAN DEAD, Mrs. E. L. Serugra Dies at Her Home, 410 East Euclid Avenue. Mrs. E. L.Scruggs, wife of Dr. E. L. Scruggs, former pastor of the Calvary Baptist church of this city, but now pastor of the Mount Emory Baptist church at Jacksonville, died Saturday evening at 6:10 clock at her home, 401 East Euclid avenue. Mrs. Scruggs had been in falling health for the last nine months, but about one week ago contracted a severe case of pneumonia. In her weakened condition she was unable to withstand the strain. Miss Hannah Ann King was born May 4, 1873, in New Bedford, Miss., and remained there until September 9, 1899, when she united in marriage to Dr. E. L. Scruggs, who was then president of Western college at Macon, Mo. She accompanied Dr. Scruggs to Macon, where she took charge of the music department of the college and remained there until 106, when Dr. Scruggs resigned as president of the institution to come to Monmouth and was engaged as pastor of the Calvary Baptist church. Owing to a nervous breakdown in 1906, when Dr. Scruggs resigned as con until November, 1913. She then came to Monmouth. Deceased was recognized as one of the best pianists of her race. She spent much time on her musical education. She was graduated from music at New Bedford, and had studied under some of the most noted musicians of the east. She assumed charge of the Calvary Baptist choir in this city and took an active part in all church work. She joined the Union church at New Bedford eighteen years ago when Rev E. H. McDonald was pastor. She was united in marriage by Rev McDonald and by her request he will officiate at the funeral. One child, Bernice, thirteen years of age, one brother, Hubert King, of New Bedford, and one sister, Mrs. Estella Denison, of Plymouth, Mass., besides a large circle of friends, are left to mourn the death of Mrs. Strugues. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the family residence, 401 East Euclid avenue, Monmouth. The order of services follows: Duet, "Face to Face", Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Barnett; scripture reading, Rev. Mr. Gardner of the Memorial Baptist church, Monmouth, prayer by the Rev. H. P. Lewis, A. M. e. church, Monmouth; so, "The Will Be Doed", Mrs. Carrie Bennett, Macomb; obituary, Dr. J. Edgar Smith, Macon, Mo.; sermon, Psalms 23-40, Dr. E. H. McDonald, Paul, Minn.; resolutions, President J. H. Garnett of Western college, Macon, Mo.; words of condolence from Mt. Emory Baptist church, Jacksonville, Rev. J. W. Muse; solo, "Just For Today", J. Edgar Smith, Macon, Mo. The floral offerings were very beautiful. Among the designs was a large clock sent by the faculty and students of Western college, an Italian harp from Calvary Baptist church, Monmouth, and a pillow from Mt. Emory Baptist church, this city. Dr. Scruggs will arrive in the city Saturday and will fill his pulpit Sunday at Mt. Emory Baptist church. COUNCIL, BLUFFS, IOWA. Rev. Manly, pastor of the A. M. E. church, preached an excellent sermon Sunday morning. On Sunday night the members of the literary societies rendered an excellent program. The teachers will meet at the home of Mr. Manly on Sixteenth avenue. of Mrs. Mully on her 11th An entertainment was given by the stewardesses celebrating George, Washington's birthday the 22nd of February. In spite of the stormy weather it was quite a success. Mrs. 'A. A. Green of 1108 South Eighth street is improving slowly. Mrs. J. E. Kennard of 1629 Avenue B is on the sick list. Mrs. Walter Herndon had the mis- fortune of falling into the basement of her home at 2032 Eighth avenue Saturday evening while preparing supper for the family. She is suffering with a badly sprained knee. Her many friends hope for a speedy recovery. Miss Hazel Steward, after two weeks' illness, is able to be out again. Rev. Moore is on the sick list at 000. Seworth and weve 2004 Seventh Grade Little Genia, Mrs. W. Herndon's granddaughter, is sick. Mr. X. Brockman is able to be a nurse. out again. Mr. Moore, wife of Rev. Moore, his married home, after spending three weeks in Lawrence, Kans., with her mother, who is sick. Little Rosa Hopkins is better at this writing. Little Antoinette Estratta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Estratta of Seventh avenue, was christened Sunday a. m., February 21, by Rev. Manly, pastor of the A. M. E. church, at Bethel A. M. E. church. Reason Enthroned. Meats are so tasty they are Chase & West Mid-Winter Clearance Ends Saturday If you come at once you may yet have choice of hundreds of pieces of highest grade furniture at the lowest prices of the ye Plan to come here when down consumed in great excess. This leads to stomach troubles, biliessness and constipation. Revise your diet, let reason and not a pampered appetite control, then take a few doses of Chamberlain's Tablets and you will soon be well again. Try it. For sale by all dealers. ALBIA NEWS. Mrs. M. Grant of Keokuk accompanied Miss Marjorie Holbert. They were the guests of Mrs. Ed F. Butler while in Albia. Mrs. Henry Jones, Mrs. G. A. Davis, Miss Bernice Jones and Miss Ada Davis visited at the home of Mrs. Nora Grayson in Hitenan on Saturday evening with a pleasant surprise on Mr. Bert Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Thomas entertained Mrs. Oscar Roper and Miss Bertha Strauthers at lunch on Sunday afternoon. Mr. John Lewis was an Ottumwa visitor over Sunday. Lawyer Geo. H. Woodson and Jas. Spears and Miss Bertha Strauthers, the stenographer, of Buxton, have been in Albia the past week on business. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Morris entertained Mr. and Mrs. Will Richie at 6 o'clock dinner Friday evening. Mrs. Henry Bowman entertained the choir. Friday evening. Constable Tom Romw and Pierce of Buxton were in Albia today. Mr. Chas. Corthon of Hiteman attended services in Albia on Sunday. Rev. Neely of Lovilla preached a very interesting sermon at the A. M. E. church this morning. The home of Mrs. Oscar Roper was the scene of much merriment on Thursday afternoon, February 18th, from 2 o'clock until 6 o'clock, a company of abbot twelve ladies was invited to her home for the afternoon, Miss Bertha Strauthers of Buxton being the honored guest. At 5 o'clock a three-course lunch was served by the hostess. Miss Della Davis and Mrs. G. A. Davis were at dinner at the home of Mr. Brittain Thomas on Sunday. Some sickness in our vicinity the Some sickness in our vicinity the past week. A few strangers geen on our streets. MASON CITY, IOWA. Mr. Arthur Gray, who is confined at the Park hospital, is reported no better at this writing. Mrs. Gray of Mississippi was called here to her city on account of the illness of her son, Mr. Arthur Gray. Mr. and Mrs. Orhpas Cabbell are the proud parents of a fine baby boy. Mrs. Cynthia Fisher, who has been on the sick list for several weeks, is some better at this writing. Mrs. Cabbell of Des Moines was called here on account of the sickness of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. O. Cabbell. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bates beautifully entertained a number of their friends at a house party last Tuesday evening. The evening was spent in games, for which three prizes were offered. Mrs. Carr won first prize for the best drawn picture of George Washington. The prize was a beautiful hand-painted powder box. The second prize was won by Mrs. John Roberts, which was a lace handkerchief for the best folded paper hat. Mr. John Roberts won the third prize. The prize was a gent'eman's handkerchief, for pinning the mule's tail on. Rev. W. H. Wheeler, the district superintendent, arrived last Friday evening to hold the fourth quarterly conference. Rev. Wheeler pre- Mrs. Thomas Allen spent Saturday and Sunday in Fort Dodge visiting with her mother and father, who have been ill. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Reeler entertained Rev. Wheeler for dinner Saturday. An enjoyable time was spent. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and daughter of Hampton, Iowa, spent Sunday in Mason City, Mr. and Mrs. Smith were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Warren. Miss Marie Hall was entertained at the home of Mrs. Williams on E. State street. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Brewton entertained Rev. W. H. Wheeler and Rev. and Mrs. F. D. Woodford for supper Saturday evening. Mr. John Mitchell has resumed his duties again at the 5 and 10 Cent Store. Mrs. L. Banning entertained Rev. Wheeler. Rev. Woodford and wife and Mrs. Cabbell of Des Moines for dinner Monday. A pleasant time was spent. Mrs. Mary Bradford was reported on the sick list Sunday. Mrs. Fred Wright, who has been very sick for several weeks, is able to be up and around in the house. Mr. and Mrs. H. Cabbell entertained Rev. Wheeler and J. D. Reeler and Mrs. M. Brewton for supper Monday evening. A two-course supper was enjoyed. Mrs. Maggie Carter is reported on the sick list at this writing. Love feast was observed Monday evening at Union Memorial church. A large membership participated in the love feast. Rev. Wheeler will preach both Wednesday evening and Thursday evening. All should be present at these services. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Brewton have moved from 1317 Tuttle street to 771 E. State street. IOWA CITY. IOWA. Mrs. Moore gave an after examination whist party for all students Friday evening, February 19. After the very dainty two-course lunchon a flashlight picture was taken by Mr. Cheeks, freshman dent Christian Endeavor was led Sunday evening by Mr. Campbell of Institute, West Virginia. The reason why the seventh-third psalm is the most favorite chapter of the Bible was ably handled and discussed. The modern method of conducting Sunday school lessons enacted by Miss Graves and Mr. Lowry makes the Sunday school hour exceedingly instructive. Mr. W. H. Lowry and wife were called to Des Moines by the sad loss of their brother, Mr. William Masch. The Kappa Alpha Nu will give a dancing party Saturday evening, February 27. Freshmen Cobbs, Miller and Campbell became Kappa Alpha Mu's Saturday night, February 21, by wav of barrel staves. CLARINDA. IOWA. Mrs. L. Williams, Miss Mabel Nash, Mrs. Florence Rice and Mrs. E. Moss were all visitors out of town Tuesday. Mr. Joe Howe made a business trip out of town one day last week. The D. of T. gave an entertainment at the Tarnabercall hall Friday. Mr. L. W. Williams, grand chancellor, has been seriously ill at his home. A surprise party by the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society was given at the home of Mrs. Georgia Walker. A delightful time was had by all. The Ladies' Study club were entertained by Mrs. L. Lane at the home of Mrs. G. Nowlings. Mr. H. Farrier has purchased a residence property on W. Water street. We are glad to hear of any advancement made by our people. Mr. Robt Franklin received a telegram to the effect his nephew had died suddenly in St. Joe. Messrs. Wilber Gibson and Henry Cooke have been working on a vaudeville circuit the past week. Mrs. Florence Rice departed for St. Joe, her future home. Mr. Marshall of Sharps made a business call to our town. Uncle Henry Webb, Mr. John Morgan and Mrs. L. Blythe are all reported better. Rev. Mrs. D. W. Brown has been sick this week. The O. E. S. Rose of Sharon, No. 16, met for the first time in the new quarters of Keystone, No. 33, on E. Main street. with lucid and itot se with look that lich and titer tis of nkave the te of is ery gh mst or ly lsd op of m to khr oer a kalt roy a Price Five Cents OSKALOOSA, IOWA. Rev. H. E. Moorman was summoned to the bedside of his sick wife last Monday, who is at the home of her mother in Marion, Ind, and left for that city over the Rock Island at 4 p.m. Mrs. Moorman's condition is said to be very critical and her recovery doobtful. Wesley chapel will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary this Thursday evening. An appropriate program has been arranged for the occasion, at the conclusion of which refreshments will be served. Mrs. C. F. Kiner of Beacon was in the Abbott hospital last week for a minor operation. Mrs. Robt. Johnson was called to Union Mills on Tuesday by the serious illness of Aunt Lu Hagen Weston. The Ladies' Social club held its weekly meeting at the home of Mr. Ida Henderson on D avenue West. Mrs. Cora Jones spent Sunday I Ottumta at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Wilson. Rev. Dr. Toomey of Omaha, who has been conducting a revival at the Second Baptist church for a week or more, is meeting with encouraging success. The church has been crowded each evening and much interest is manifested. Leonard Ford and Melvin Tolston recently entered high school. We now have about six colored boys and girls attending high school. The Mothers' club held its semi-monthly meeting with Mother Allen at the home of her daughter's, Mrs. Robt. Franklin, on D avenue E. A dainty lunch was served. Mrs. Mary Wright of Buxton was the guest of Mrs. Hannah Poindexter last week, while looking after her trade in the Poro line. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Spicer of Otumwa spent last Sunday at the parental Robt. Franklin home. Mr. Spicer, who has just recovered from an extended period of sickness, is looking fine and says he is feeling quite himself again, which is good news to his many friends. The Ladies Progressive League held its weekly meeting at the home of Mrs. A. G. Clark on Friday afternoon. Mr. Paul Brown was able to be up town this week for the first time since being operated upon for appendicitis at the Abbott hospital recently. Mr. and Mrs. James Henson, who came here from Kansas City some time ago, have moved to Otumwa. We were sorry to have them leave us. Recognized Advantages You will find that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has recognized advantages over most medicines in use for coughs and colds. It does not suppress a cough, but loosens and relieves it. 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Let us all subscribe and pay for The Iowa State Bystander AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS One of the very important phases of the work of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth is a summer school, held for the rural school teachers during July of each year. To this come about a hundred teachers from the rural districts, men and women, who are heart and soul in the work. Some of these teachers are well trained and competent, but the greater number are wholly unfit to teach. Many have had no training above fifth grade, and often can only read and write with great difficulty. During the winter of teaching, they often have to travel many miles to their school houses, which are usually meager laplated frame buildings, neither and nor rain-proof, where they are compelled to teach grades and ages once a month. For this they receive puffily small salaries, and if they want to add any special work over the regular curriculum, the pennies of the children, with a share of their own small income, are forced to meet the added expense. They must find enough inspiration during this one short month at the summer school to carry them through their trying winter. The state of Virginia contributes to the work. Besides this summer school, there is held for these rural teachers of northern Virginia, a teachers' institute during the Christmas holidays, where all questions relating to school life and work are discussed by prominent speakers, as well as general discussions on subjects of school hygiene and teaching methods. There is no doubt that the work accomplished by the school, both in its training of the children and in the broader field of its community work, is of vital importance to the people of northern Virginia—not alone to the colored man, but to the white man as well. That the white man fully realizes this can be judged by the fact that the mayor of Manassas says that the colored community all love and work for the school, and forget to set aside the school. All told a friend of the school, some years ago, that he attributed his empty jail to the influence of the Manassas Industrial school. The great financial stress confronting this country on account of the European war, and the diverting into foreign channels of much of the support which in ordinary years goes to our own philanthropies, has forced Manassas, as well as other schools of this type, into a very difficult position. The vitality of this work is too strong to let it die, but if the struggle for existence becomes too great, the suffering there is danger of the crippling of one of our most valuable institutions, which has only gained power for good through years of untriring effort and sacrifice. White citizens of South Carolina have contributed $10,000 for a hospital for Negroes, to be erected at Columbia. There are 75,000 colored people in the state who are without hospitals where they can go for treatment, as the hospitals for white people do not admit them. In Kansas 17 per cent of the women are married, 14 per cent separated, divorced or widowed, and 69 per cent are unmarried girls. Fifty-four women have received medals and rewards for her erosion from the Carnegie Hero Fund commission during the past ten years. Although the most intelligent leaders of the race are proud of the folklore songs as the rhythmic cry of the slave, there are those who feel ashamed of them because they hark back to the days of ignorance, superstition and childlike trust. Doctor DuBois says of them: "They are the music of unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of the death and sufferings and invoiced longing for the beauty of their wanderings and hidden ways. They are the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side of the sea." Special emphasis is placed on these songs in all the southern colored schools, especially in Tuskegee, Hampton, Spellman and Flake university, to which the Negro folk-lore will always be indebted for its revival. The Flake jubilee singers sang the slave songs so deeply into the hearts of a half-credulous world that it can never wholly forget them again. Fifty St. Louis women have formed a league with the object of cleaning up that city of rats. The Henry S. Denison memorial building for medical research at the University of Colorado has now been made ready for use. It contains laboratories for research in bacteriology, pathology, physiology, chemistry and clinical methods. Spain has just given assurances to the officials of the Panama-Pacific International exposition that her participation in the exposition will proceed according to original plans, and that the war will have no effect on Spanish participation. A Connecticut inventor's farm tractor consists mainly of a huge wheel, within which is the motor that furnishes the power. Experiments in tea growing have been started in San Diego, Cal., by English tea dealers. Tea growing is already carried on at Summerville, S. C., and Southern Pines, N. C. Miss Freeda Boss of Superior, Wis., has called for China, where she will supervising the plays of oriental children. The New Jersey state board of education decided that the Bordentown Industrial School for Colored Youth shall be made an industrial institution in fact and not merely a school for the academic training of Negro residents of the state. Contemporaneously with this decision the board accepted the resignations of James M. Gregory, principal of the New Jersey school; Mrs. Gregory, the matron, or preceptress, and J. Francis Gregory, teacher of English. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory had been associated with the school for 18 years or practically since the institution. Both were through although they had been trained to teach academic branches they did not feel equipped to care for the needs of a purely agricultural and mechanical arts school. Attempts to choose a successor to Principal Gregory precipitated a wrangle in the board and the matter was laid over for a month. The committee on the Bordentown school recommended the selection of William R. Valentine, a Negro educator of Indianapolis, who was graduated from Harvard in 1804. He is now a supervising principal, having charge of a number of schools, and for three years has been vice-president of the National Education Association for Colored Teachers. Former Senator Joseph S. Frellingbysen and John P. Murray thought that more than one name should be presented for consideration. He also advocated making the selection from Tuskegee institute with a view of bringing the Bordentown school into closer touch with Booker T. Washington and his associate educators. The committee was disposed to resent the comment of the objecting members as a reflection upon its judgment. The Bordentown school, as recently brought to public attention, has been an object of serious criticism for its seeming failure to accomplish the aims for which it was established. In short the industrial features, including agriculture and the mechanical arts, were subordinated to the teaching of academic subjects. The situation is to be exactly reversed, according to the plans for the future outlined by the state board. Never to have had instruction in art and yet ability to paint well enough to have a picture hung at the Charcoal club's exhibit in the Peabody institute at Baltimore, is the fortune of Ernest Atkinson, a Negro porter. "It must be natural instinct," said Atkinson, "for I never had any instruction and never saw an artist work. I just studied other paintings, and what I observed in other paintings I applied to my own work." Atkinson is twenty-eight years old and was born in Kingston, Jamica, where he lived until eight years ago. He has a memory and it is to his memory of those who abled him to reproduce his present work. His work is an ocean scene, showing the waves breaking against the shore and two boats in the background, one beating against the wind and the other running before it. His talent was first discovered by Charles H. Webb, an instructor in the Maryland institute, when he was asked to criticize one of Attkinson's paintings. Mr. Webb was astonished at the skill shown, and suggested that it be submitted to the Charcoal club's exhibition. It was submitted without any name on it, and was one of the 82 selected out of the ?10 offered. Talk of cutting down next year's cotton acreage in the South—which may be an economic necessity—comes largely from white planters. What the mass of poor Negro tenant farmers will do is a distressing problem; as Booker T. Washington has said. They have been taught to plant any crop but cotton in the spring which they borrow money in the spring to carry them and their families until the harvest is based on cotton growing exclusively. If many of them cannot plant cotton in the coming year they will be idle and plung'd into the deepest poverty. The North now has its own plied; the South may have a horse of Negroes to look after before the end of 1915—Springfield Republican. Mrs. M. Mary S. Howard of Chester, Pa., just admitted to practice in the supreme court of Pennsylvania, is the first woman in that state to be so honored. Corsets worn by the women on the islands of Malaysia are made of telegraph wires. Bakers in Rotterdam have started to make bread composed of equal parts of flour and potato. They like it. Potatoes there are cheaper than wheat flour. Dr. M. K. Edwards of St. Paul has served 40 years as pastor of Dayton Avenue Freshterian church, his first and only pastorate. More than 46,000,000 bunches of bananas were imported into the United States last year, or about 40 bananas for each man, woman and child. Japanese wood prints are made on lengthwise sections of cherry wood parallel to the grain. Berne, Switzerland, exports a much higher value in Swiss cheese than in Swiss watches. In Melbourne no Sunday papers are permitted and no hotels are allowed to open their bars. Dr. Isabel Bradley will most likely become a member of the Akron (O.) board of health. BREAD DRESSING FOR STEAK Many Prefer Meat Prepared in a Casserole to That Broiled in the Regular Way. If you wish to stuff a flank steak use bread dressing; use it with vegetables and a small quantity of liquid in a casserole. If you do not own one (and you should in these times of high prices) use any tightly covered it is tight so the steak cannot escape. Bread Stuffing—Two cupfuls soft bread crumbs, one-half cupful butter melted in one-third cup hot water or milk, one-quarter teaspoonful powdered sweet herbs or spiced poultry, seasoning, one beaten egg. Mix the ingredients together thoroughly. The bread should be 24 hours old and taken from the center of the loaf. The seasoning is a matter of individual taste, so you can use the above quantities or suit your taste. The egg may be baked in the flank is to be eaten hot, but will sizzle better when cold if egg is used. Cracker crumbs give a drier stuffing. Spread your flank steak with above and roll tightly. Fry out some suet and then brown the flank so as to hold the juices. Put in casserole, add little water and when half done season with salt and pepper, chopped onions and plenty of fine minced vegetables or rice, whichever you may prefer. The flank is quite juicy, you will need but little water. It lacks flavor, so the high spices and vegetables make up what the flank lacks. It is much better this way than broiled as regular steak. DO YOU KNOW THAT— Pickles will never become molly if you put a tiny bag of mustard in the top of the receptacle in which they are kept? If your silk dress looks rusty you can revive it by sponging it with water in which potatoes have been boiled? Mice can be most successfully exterminated if you stuff all their holes with a piece of rag which has been dipped in water and then in cayenne powder. A very quick way to cool a hot liquid is to pass it through a clean cloth saturated with cold water. And if the liquor is soup no trace of grease will remain? If you lay your silver away in common flour it will remain bright for some time? You can warm over meat much more quickly if you wrap it in greased paper? The steam will prevent the meat from becoming hard and dry? Perspiration stains can be removed from clothing by sponging it in cold water, to which you have added a little sodium bicarbonate before it has been washed? There is a new square meshed velling that is much liked? Hot-Water Chocolate Cake. Two tablespoonfuls butter, one cupful sugar, yolk of one egg, two tablespoonfuls cocoa dissolved in one-half cupful boiling water, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in one-half cupful boiling water, one teaspoonful of baking powder, sifted with one and one half cupfuls of flour and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Mix in order given and bake in square tn about thirty minutes. Frost with white of egg beaten stiff. Boll one cupful sugar in little water tit it hairs, then turn on egg and beat till stiff. When Steak Is Tough To make a tough steak tender, put three tablespoonfuls of salad oil and one tablespoonful vinegar on a large flat dish. Lay the steak on the mixture and let it rest in this way for half an hour, then it turn over, and let it rest another half hour in the same quantity of vinegar and oil. The toughest steak will yield to this treatment and be nice and tender when served. Little Cake Decorations Decorate your small cakes with white icing and form a bowknot on each cake with pale green icing. Before laying the knot place a narrow strip of white paper on, slightly raised. When the ends are set in the icing, ice over the knot with the green. Before serving slip a small spray of holly with the bright red berries on through the loop. Flah Puff. This is a delicious dish made from remnants of cold cooked fish. Chop fish and mix it with equal parts of mashed potato. Season with salt and pepper and a tablespoonful of melted butter. Mix with the potato and a roll, brush with a beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs and bake in a quick oven until brown. Wine Jelly. Take a half box of gelatin, soaked in a half pint of cold water for 15 minutes, and add three gills of boiling water and two-thirds of a cupful of sugar. Let this come to the boiling point of the water, and pour it of best sherry wine and two teaspoons of French brandy. Boil up once, strain and cool. Cape May Omelet. Soak one-half cupul stale bread crumbs in milk. Beat one egg well, add salt, pepper and a tablepoonful melted butter. Add one-half cupul crumbs to the milk. Beat one egg and crumbs. The mixture should be thick. Bake in a buttered dish just long enough to set the egg and brown the top. Rendering Leaf Lard A quick way to render leaf lard is to cut it in strips about the size that will fit into a meat grinder, using the largest opening, which will allow it to come through very fine. Put in kettle and place in a hot oven until the lard is extracted, strain through cheesecloth and put in crocks. Golden Buck. Prepare a nice Welsh rarebit, spread on slices of toast and place a poached egg on each slice. Garnish with watercress. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER By ORISON SWETT MARDEN CULTIVATE THE HABIT OF CHEERFULNESS. A woman in California, who, because of crushing sorrow, had fallen a victim to despondency, insomnia and kindred lilies, determined to throw off the gloom which was making life, so heavy a burden to her, and established a rule that she would laugh at least three times a day, whether occasion presented or not. Accordingly, she trained herself to laugh heartily at the least provocation, and would retire to her room and make merry by herself. She was soon in excellent health and buoyant spirit, and her name became a sunshine bodice. To people who have lost the laughing habit I would say: Lock yourself in your room and practice smiling. Smile at your pictures, furniture, looking-glass, anything, just so the stiff muscles are brought into play again. In order to become normal, the natural fun-loving forces within us must be released. Laughter is one form of exercise which sets them free, rescues men from the "blues." Somewhere I have read of a man whose "laughing muscles" were so paralyzed that his laughter sounded like a cry, that he is so serious that many men lose their power to laugh. They can force a little sepulchral chuckle, but the genuine side-shaking laughter is almost a stranger to their experience. They are in such a serious chase after the dollar, their life is so strenuous, so given to scheming and planning, that they do not have much time to laugh. They do not know the medicinal value there is in the habit of laughter, how it clears the cobwebs out of their mind, the pain of worry and anxiety and business pressure, takes the mind off the grind of things, removes friction, and helps to make life worth while. You may not be able to cultivate the optimistic temperament to any great extent, if you lack it, but cheerfulness can be cultivated. We all know that if we brood over our sorrows, and dwell upon our misfortunes, our physical being very quickly sympathizes with our moods. "Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe." A woman who has had bad affliction and dwell upon nothing I could give but myself, and so I made the resolution that I would never sadden anyone with my troubles. I have laughed and told jokes when I could have wept. I have smiled in the face of every misfortune. I have tried to let everyone go away from my presence with a happy word and bright thought to carry with them. Happiness makes happiness, and I myself am happier than I would have been had I sat down and bemoaned my fat. "Encourage your child to be merry and laugh aloud." says a great French surgeon. "A good hearty laugh expands the chest and makes the blood bound merrily along." We realize that it is very necessary to train the mind in business principles; to train certain faculties to do special things, but do not seem to think it necessary to cultivate the habit of cheerfulness. Yet not even an education is as necessary to the child as the formation of the cheerful habit. This ought to be regarded as the first essential of the preparation for life—the training of the mind toward sunshine; the developing of every possibility of the cheerful faculties. Cheerfulness is one of the great miracle-workers of the world. It reinforces the whole man, doubles and trebles his power, and gives new meaning to his life. A SMILING FACE IS A GREAT HER ITAGE. "I jist loke to let her in at the dure," said an Irish servant of a lady caller. "The very face of her does one good, shure." How glad we all are to welcome sunny souls! We are never too busy to see them. There is nothing we welcome so much as sunshine. We someone has said, "A happy human face—it is what may be made by poor or rich, by old or young. It is the gift to which all are entitled, with which all are pleased." Oh, what riches live in a sunny soul; what a heritage is a smiling face—to be able to fling out sunshine everywhere one goes, to scatter the shadows and to lighten sorrowing hearts; to have the power to send cheer into despairing souls through a sunny and radiant disposition! And yet all we about us see we people going through life' pedaling vinegar, my friends, finding fault, and seeing only the ugly; worrying, fretting, cynical and peasant; some people have a genius for seeing the crooked, the evil and disagreeable. Pessimism is always a destroyer, never a producer. We need more joy peddlers, and sunshine makers, more people who refuse to see the ugly, the bitter and the crooked; who see the world of beauty and perfection which God has made, and not the world which sin and discord and disease have made. We need people who see the man and woman Hogs and Bulls as Racing Mounts. The eighteenth century experimented with bulls and cows as racing mounts, instead of horses. The early nineteenth century saw an equally interesting substitute for the harnessed horse. Just a century ago a small farmer of the neighborhood drove into St. Albans on market day in a little car drawn by four hogs. Having toured the market place three or four times amid applause, he put his animals up in a stable, did his marketing and drove off again to the accompan- A cheerful, optimistic mind is a sort of a prism which brings the rainbow colors out of things which are invisible to the nexusmist. The prism does not make the colors in the spectrum. They are everywhere in the light before our eyes. Our light is made up of all the different colors of the rainbow. The prism merely separates them and makes them visible to the eye. The power to radiate sunshine is a greater ability than beauty or wealth. You should do the maximum of which you are capable, keep the mind filled with sunshine, with beauty and truth, with cheerful, uplifting thoughts. Bury everything that makes you unhappy and discordant, everything that cramps your freedom, that worries you, before it buries you. Take joy with you; cling to it, no matter where you go or what you do. It is your lubricating which would shut out the sorrows of life. True religion is full of hope, sunshine, optimism and cheerfulness. It is joyous and glad and beautiful. There is no Christianity in the ugly, the discordant, the sad. The religion which Christ taught was bright, cheerful and beautiful. The sunshine, the "illies of the field," the "birds of the air," the hills, the valleys, the trees, the mountains, the brooks—all things beautiful—were in his teaching. There was no cold, dry in theology it. It was just happy Christianity. Rare! Rare! Rare! Gloomy! Cheer up! Get your mind off your troubles. Do not think about them. Think of the bright things in life. Think gratefully of the good things you have. Wake up and be cheerful. Stops Heat Rays. An interesting chemical paint which has the property of intercepting the heat rays of the sun, has recently been put on the market by a German concern. It may be applied to tin, corrugated iron, slate or glass, indeed, any material used in the roofing of buildings, and by its peculiar quality leaves the room beneath the roof comparatively cool. It is stated that the temperature of workrooms may be reduced from 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the surface which can be covered, and the added efficiency of the workmen thus promoted is a direct and measurable gain. The paint is light blue in color, so that, if applied to glass, it does not appreciably influence the light. Its components are at present a trade secret, but the fact that many large electric and manufacturing companies in Germany are regular users is cited as evidence that it is practical. Ancient Corn Mills. These peculiar rock formations are hand made—the most ancient of grist mills for grinding American corn. They have been used by the Navajo Indians of Arizona from time immemorial up to within a comparatively few years. There are 35 to 40 of them in the group, the lava rock in which they were formed, especially favorable for grinding purposes. The Navajos, unlike their more warlike neighbors, the Apaches, have been for the past 200 years a pastoral and industrial race of Indians, cultivating large acreages of grain and an entire tribe was wont to repair to these mortars near Sulphur Springs, where the squaws would spend several days making meal. Some of the old hangerings and boulderings that years ago there were made, sedimented stones lying around the "mill," but these have all been taken away by travelers as curiosities. Thought and Action We build from within, outward, but the outward growth also sends down its roots within. We act according to the thoughts we cherish, and yet it is true that our actions have their reflex influence upon our thoughts. Do you wish to be brave and unselfish? Compel yourself to act as if you were to perceive your feeling, and your conduct will have a direct in strengthening your spirit. Do you desire to be temperate and kind in your treatment of others? Make your speech of that order and a like habit of thought will gradually become yours. The way to get anywhere is to start with the one step possible. Old Registration System The papyri of the Roman period have conclusively proved that registration of land already existed in a highly elaborate form, and that it was instituted not only in the interests of the state, but also—some think even primarily—in the interests of private individuals. That point comes out clearly in an important edict of a first-century turefect, who ordains that contracts affecting real property were not to be drawn up without due authorization from the keepers of the public archives. These officials had to keep the registers up to date, entering in them all mortgages and other charges, as well as changes of ownership, and they were thus enabled to protect an intending purchaser from oversights and frauds.—New York Press. Regimental Pets. Some of the Canadian regiments took their pets to England with them. In front of one detachment during the march through Plymouth was a young trooper with the neck and shoulders of a wrestler, and on his shoulder, playing with his ear, a tame white rat. Another battalion intends to take to the front a small black bear captured in the Canadian woods. ment of louder cheers, which did not make them shy. It had taken him six months to train them, and he refused an offer of $250 down for the vehicle and team. IS HIGHEST COURT LIKE MAID'S BLUSH Jewish Tribunal Whose Decisions Are Final. English israelites Bow to Rulings Which Have No Recognition Legally—Few Appeals From Its Findings Are Taken. Probably few Londoners are aware of the existence of a Jewish court in their midst which is known as the 'Beth Din,' or the House of Judgement. It is situated just off Aldgate, close to the Great synagogue, in the heart of Hebrew London, and is the highest religious, as well as civil, court of the Jews. A raised bench runs one side of the court; in the center are seats of the judges and the court officials. The head judge, the chief rabbi, has a seat in the exact center, with the assistant judges on either side of him. The latter always include an expert English judge, and the head of the robechim"—the licensed butchers, who may only kill cattle as prescribed by the dietary laws of the It is impossible, owing to the ethics of the Jewish religion, for many cases to be heard in the ordinary police or county court. Cases dealing with Jewish ritual, marriage laws, etc., are adjudicated by the Beth Din, and it rarely occurs that the parties concerned are dissatisfied with the decisions given in this court. No higher tribunal can be approached for final justice, as the decree of the Beth Din is purported to be indisputable. It is very interesting to note that the proceedings of this Jewish court are held "in camera;" no newspaper reports are permitted, neither are the public allowed to be present during the sittings. Though the Beth Din has no official recognition from the state, its judgments have more than once been confirmed in the ordinary courts. Sometimes ago a litigant, dissatisfied with the judgment given against him at the Ghetto court, took his case before Judge Bacon at Whitechapel county court. He was sent to tend and explain the reasons of his decision, but his honor, without requiring his presence, uphold the verdict given by the Beth Din. NOT MEANT FOR THE POCKET First "Watches" May Have Kept Good Time, but Most Incon-venient $vipen $j At first the watch was about the size of a dessert plate. It had weights and was used as a "pocket clock." The earliest known use of the modern names occurs in the record of 1552, which mentions that Edward VI had "one larum or watch of iron, the case being likewise of gilt edge, with plumets of lead." The first watches may readily be supposed to have been of rude execution. The first great improvement, the substitution of springs for weights, was in 1550. The earliest springs were not coiled, but only straight pieces of lead. Early watches had only one hand, and being wound up twice a day, they could be expected to keep time nearer than fifteen or twenty minutes in the twelve hours. The dials were of silver or brass. The case had no crystals, but opened at the back and front and were four or five inches in diameter. A plain watch cost the equivalent of $1,000 in our currency, and after one was ordered, it took a year to make it. Corduroy for Uniform. In line with the information that the foreign governments have found the cloths used in uniforms unfit for long service under conditions of modern warfare, an inquiry has been received in the market for corduroy, the New York Times states. Reports place the number of uniforms required by a soldier in active service at two a month. This is regarded as an exaggeration in many quarters, but even if one new uniform a month was needed to cloth the man at the front, the amount of cloth that would have to be made up for this purpose would be treinendous. Corduroy seems admirably adapted to use in strenuous campaigns, and will probably give much longer wear than the uniform cloths now employed. Auto Races on Tracks of Salt How would those of you who own an automobile and are fond of speeding like to travel over a roadway made of natural salt beds, 65 miles in length and eight miles in width, furnishing a smooth, unbroken surface, level as a table, and from two to twenty feet in depth? Great! You say. Well, there is such a road at Saldure, Utah, and it is considered the most novel automobile racing track in the world. The salt is crystallized, 98 per cent pure, and as snow. Modern Warfare Mounting his gallant 20 horse-power automobile, the colonel led the pneumatic attack on the trenches. And before the sun fell upon the plain, he had four atos shot from under him—Detroit Journal. His Camera Must Be Swallowed. A camera small enough to be swallowed, to photograph the interior of the stomach, has been invested by a Danish surgeon. --- Tree Simulates Color That Comes and Goes on Cheek. To the Uninitiated, One of the Wonders of the Florida Swamps is the Plant That Constantly Changes Its Hues. The blush of a pretty maiden has often extolled in song and story. But do you know that among the many wonders of the vast Florida swamps there is a tree, known as the blushing tree, whose mysterious and beautiful glow of color during a rainstorm is far prettier than that of the prettiest maiden? When the cool rain drenches the blushing tree a change of color is noted. Gradually, yet unmistakably, the green hue gives way to pink. In a few minutes the green fades from sight. Only in a few half-hidden spots beneath the lower branches and on its trunk is there a tinge of green to be seen. After an hour or more, when the shower passes over, the wonderful tree assumes its familiar green once more. As it is changing back to emerald the spectator suddenly realizes the secret of the phenomenon. The guess is correct. We'll tell it. Certainly, tiny insects, not the tree itself, change. These peculiar parasites are possessed of the power of chameleons. Absorption. "Why do we always bring out a lot of fairy tales at Christmas time? I'll tell you why. It's because the fairy tale is irresistibly absorbing." The speaker was Mitchell Kennerly, the popular young New York publisher. He went on: "I gave a little boy a book of fairy tales last Christmas. One evening, after his supper, the little boy began to cry. "What is the matter with you?" asked his nurse. "What are you crying for?" "Boo, hoo! he blubbered. I ate all my supper while you were reading me one of my fairy tales, and here I didn't know I'd eaten it." A New Profession In time one may become familiar with this sort of business card: "Society Knitting Sought—All the latest fancy stitches imparted in six easy lessons. The New Needle Nip, the Double Drop and the Pavlow Lock Stitch, illustrated by diagrams. Half-knitted hose constantly in stock. Work started for beginners. Full supplies of gold and silver needles, lambwool yarn and rainbow worsteds—scented and unscented. Write for our handbook, "Knitting as a Society Art." Every applicant is given a copy of the "Knitkit Gavotte." Start a class now. Address Mme. Click-Click, the Hummer apartments."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. New Chinese Government Journal. The Chinese ministry of agriculture and commerce has decided to issue a magazine, which will be written conversational style, and the adult staff will be composed of technical experts and specialists of the ministry. The principal object of the paper is to arouse the people from their slumber and encourage them to proceed with their commercial business and other enterprises. A Scientific Age "The phonograph has made it possible for a public man to be in one place and deliver a speech at another place." "I can't thought of that. His speech is reproduced on a record." "Yes. The other night a toastmaster rose and said, 'Gentlemen, we have with us this evening the voice of our fellow citizen, Senator Jonesby, who is himself unable to be present." Hongkong. Hongkong is a small island containing 27 square miles, lying to the northeast of the estuary of the Pearl river and 90 miles from Canton. The new territory, the Kowloon extension, contains 376 square miles. The population of Hongkong and the new territory approximates 500,000, and the European population does not exceed 14,000, of whom 3,000 are soldiers. "Cost of Living" In China One dollar to get married, ten cents to go to college, and fifty cents to graduate are some of the items in the new regulation "governing the affixing of stamps on certificates concerning human affairs" which were recently promulgated in China. What It Takes to Kill a Man. One mathematician has calculated that during the first five months of fighting in Europe it required the firing of 168 pounds of metal for every soldier killed. This is less than was required during the Civil war. Affection. "Mrs. Twoble must have an elegant home, we're always talking about her breakfast room." "Fifth! That's the same place where she has luncheon and dinner." Miscast. "What part did your wife play in your amateur theatricals?" "The cook." "Then it was a tragedy and not a comedy." IR lean ii isa” “rg. eT Se Fd cen So eae ‘SEEKING LOST FRIENDS. jpacial to. Bystander.) “‘Mé. John: L. Thompson.--Dear 8i © Mr. John Le: Dear Bir: Ss Yes, these few lines to in- ‘you this: In the last week's paper, dated Saturday, February 13 oot your peper in the Ma- sonle’ notes: I ran across ‘the follow- ing names: Rey, 'W. A. Searcy, Mr. Peter King and G.'W. Cross. would Mike very much to hear from these brothers. ‘The reason I ask this is because I used to belong to the Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Ancient York Mavons for over fifty years. 1 fined in Macon City, Mo,, where I lived for years, I have lived in the following. places since: Ottumwa, ‘Oskaloves and Burlington. I am now Uiving in Peoria and have been con- fined in the house for about two years ‘and I have lost track of the most of my following brothers. I would like to hear from these brothers: Rev. WW, A. Searcy, Mr, Peter King, G. W. Cross, Captain Austin, E, W. Perkins, J. D. Bush, Rev. John Albert Wil- Hiams, Mrs. G. W. Black, Rev. M. W. ‘Alexasider, John Brooks, John Spon- cer, A. L, Hall and T. W. Henderson. Respectively yours, Adam Bragg, 816 Chariton St. Bee DAVENPORT NOTES. The Trustee Aid of Bethel A. ™. E, church gave an entertainment on Friday evening, presenting a “Court ‘Bcene,” all taking part being women, ‘and Davenport since seeing same ‘now what good lawyers, judges and all other officers in court women can ‘make. | ‘Mrs, Ida Smith of Mason City is in our city visiting her sister, Mrs. Della Marshall. ‘Mrs, Frank Brown and Mrs. Jennio ‘Johnson were in East Davenport call- ‘ing last seek. "The Elite Dramatic. club of Rock Island are putting on an entertain- ment in Davenport this evening at thé Third Baptist church. | The many friends of Mr. Ward Howard are enjoyed to know he is able to be out, after several months’ iliness. ‘Miss Irene Shepard is some better at this writing, also Mr. John Dudley. ‘Mr, and Mrs. Plummer, who have been ill at their home on Western avenue, are able to be about again. The E. L. D. club will meet on Friday at the residence of Mrs. Lee Cunningham. s et ess A Distinguished Pianist Coming Towa and Des Moines are particular fortbnate in being able to secure Miss Holen Eugenia Hagan, perbaps the geet concert Pianist in America. fhe will appear in our city Monday ‘evening, March 8th. ‘Miss Hagan was born in New Haven, ‘Conm,, and the only colored person te ‘win the prizs in Yale University whict ‘gave her:a scholarship in the great ‘qausiea! university at Berlin, Germany, where she has spent two years, an ‘would be there this year were it not fo the ‘war, © She is making her firs American tour. KEOKUK ITEMS. ‘Mrs. Minnie Anderson is ill at her home, 1403 Fulton street. Revival services are in progress at ‘the Pilgrim’s Rest Baptist church. ‘Mrs. Wilson is very ill at the home ‘of her daughter, Mrs. Ida Byrd. Dr. Cornelius Wilson of Des Moines ds in the city, called here bv the seri- ‘ous illness of his mother, Miss Marie Lewis gave a Washing: “toni party. on Wednesday evening ‘February 24th, at Masonic hall. ‘Rey. and Mrs. Butler entertained ‘at an informal reception Thursday, ‘February 18th, ‘Masi.0. Fields of Fulton street will have a Lenten tea Thursday, March Ath. Madame N, P. Jones teft Wednes- day morning for Council Bloffs and other western points. "Sad news was received of the death of) Prof, W. H. Harris of Louisiana, "Mo. He is survived by a wife and ‘three children, one brother, Levi, and two sisters, Mrs. Eli Smith and Mrs. J, Lane of Keokuk, Mise Bthel Bland is ill at her home ‘at 1029 High street. Whe little daughters of Mr. and Ms Beer Johnson are very ill with ‘whooping cough. ‘Miss Irene Bryant is ill at her home ‘at 1820 Morgan street. ‘Ms, C.D, Bland and children of ‘Hamilton, Il, are ill at Shei home, Darge crowd attended the public ee as. dance given by the 04a") at the Masonic hall on eday evening, February 22 Nigian ‘Maxine Johnson is improv- ee auch, She has bronchial “Mes, Lens B. Porter has resigned hi Eppeiio oa none inkdnt of the AD "E; Sunday school. © Mrs. H. Woodward will give a tea on horeday at her home, 1601 Mor- aadsy; Feoroery 21, was quarter- iz mentor Sunday at the A. M. E. Ot a DAVENPORT, IOWA, NOTES. ‘The Viblet' Needlework’ club gave a ages reception to their many friends Son Wednesday, February 17, at the ‘hams of Mr) eid Mra: Archey 'Per- Higa. A large number from Clinton lattended. Among the number was Bers, Gertrude: Calberson, past state president tithe, FCW. 0. A Coa rae, luncheon was served to bout sighty Ave guests, after which cae sta departed, having spent a galightful time, ‘The ‘Violet Needie- fork lub, certainly know how to en: 1 cttprl Res: “ihe 3 sie D, clab met in regular oe Fae laiestray ‘at the home: af Mis. Uda Cunningham. Atter ‘» ieineos hour they adjourned to meet, am Mew doll Hosle the drat, Fri: ESSA AI MOSM AS Ends Saturday! Then Down Come .Special Sale Signs and Off Come Price Reductions Just fourteen busy shopping hours remain. Don’t let this most important home furnishing event which has knocked at ; your door every day for a whole month go by without benefit- ing by it Saturday! i Assortments are Good and Values Great Furniture, Rugs, Pianos, Draperies, House and Kit- chen Wares Underpriced Never before have 9 many real opportunities to truly ‘beautify and completely outfit your home been offered as now in this great annual Clearance of worthy Furniture and Home’ Furnishings, All AdvertisedSale Prices are Still Effect: If you are not. quite ready for delivery we will hold. your élections until you-wish them; we have already done this for ‘a large number and we still have accommodations in our ware- house for a few additional out fits, Make YourSelections Saturday! ‘ Time Payments Arranged. . "Soy Now for your {miediate home needs atid those of the” Mest future, for such bargains will not scon be equalled. |. lowa ‘Freight Pald on $5 Purchases Your ae ome gy | Satis- po Credit: _ payip 0) faction Epa claaesntea 5) tata ga 07 entertainment Friday evening | at Bethel A. M. EB, church, presenting Rev. Daly in dramatic readings and Miss Hunter of Moline as singer of the evening and Mr, Hayes Robinson delighted the audience with several numbers on the violin. ‘Gunday was Stewardess day at Bethel A. M. B. church and the stew- ardesses rendered » fitting program in the evening. ‘Mr. John Dudley is able to be about the house, after several weeks’ ill- ness, Pro, Daly has been confined to his bed since last Friday. Mrs, J. P, Sima has been ill the past week with an attack of the la grippe. Rev. Oscar McClellan, after several weeks’ visit with his daughter, Mrs. Hattie Hoskin, returned to his home in Fort Madison, Monday. The Third Baptist church is plan- ning to put on a play March 2, pre- sented by the Elite Dramatic club of Rock Island. PREE F i \< F ar a i 9 Aw R Gao oS ” . E ia E ee es cE am E 1914 Catalogue COLOREV PEOPLES HAIR | We are the largest importers and manufacturers of colored peoples hair and the most reliable firm in this line, We make wigs, awitches, braids, trans- formations and all styles of hair that can comt and wash the same as your own, Wealsosell straightening combs, hair nets and cut hair by the pound, We guarantee all goods, and if not satisfied money will be refunded. Our prices are lower then those quoted elsewhere Send 2c stamp for illustrat- ed book. Humania Hair Company Dept 6) 23 Duane St.. New York MONMOUTH. ILL. Rey. E, L, Scruggs was in town a few days last week. He left Satur. day for his home in Jacksonville. While here he was entertained with a dinner party given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wallace. Miss Lois Skinner was taken to her home from Monmouth hospital, She is getting along nicely, Mrs. Flor- ence Barmun is very aick, also Mrs. Floyd and Mr, Simms. ‘The Agnes Moody club will meet this week at the home of Mrs, Lavin- nie May, ‘Mrs. Belle Jones was taken to the hospital for treatment. Mrs. E, . Peoples, Misses Alberte Merrial, Mary Payne and Mrs. Anns vary pus oduoy, JOpoTy 949 JO sIIF atta Maupin and hire, Dayae: Lack of the S, M. T. were in Galesburg on Thursday to the organization o} the Dorcas Temple, Rev. W. W. Stewart of Lawrence Kansas, will preach at the A. M. E church on (Wednesday evening. Mr. Charlie Groff was called hom on account of the serious illness o his sister, Mrs. Barnum. Rev. Forte of the Calvary Baptis church went to Carlson, Mo. He ex pects to bring Mrs, Forte on his re turn, Mrs, Jerry Wallace entertaine: sevetal young people with a part; Tuesday evening at her home on § Second street. Mra, Sleet and daughter, Romanis, left this week for St. Louis, Mo. Everyone enjoyed themselves at the Washington tea given by the eracines ot anne Peel A, M.E. chore. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To G. H. Cheek, the person in whose name the real estate described be- | low is taxed: You are hereby notified that at » regular tax sale held in and for Polk ‘county, Iowa, on December 6, A. D. 1910, the following described real es- tate, towit: Lot fourteen (14), in ‘block sixteen (16), Brown's official plat of the northeast one-fourth of section 86, township 79, range 24, was sold to Des Moines Trust Co. for the Jpayment of the taxes for the vear 1908, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer ‘of said Polk county, Towa, therefor, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by W. HL Meredith, ‘That the time for redemption from ‘said sale will expire and a deed for ‘said lot will be issued to him by the ‘treasurer of said. Polk: county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be ‘made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated this 24th day of Febreary, 1915, W. H, Meredith, By J, C. Meredith, His Agent. For That Terrible Itching. Eezema, tetter and salt rheum keep their victims in perpetual torment. The application of Chamberlain's Salve will instantly allay this itcHing, and many cases have been cured by its use. For sale by all dealers. [—_MemeeR ess] NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION ad af. Green s Cafe ‘The Old and Reliable Place to get good meals or lunches Tce Cream and Cigars 114 E, sth Street Phone 4908-y E. Green, Prop, Davenport Ia Janes Cafe ‘The Old Reliable Place to get your meals PHONE RED 318 W. 3rd St 3027 2 260918 Rooming House at ara’ st. How To Prevent Bilioug Attacks. “Coming events cast their shadows before.” This is especially true of bilious attacks. 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M, BEARD AGENTS WANTED 519 So. 16th St. St. Joseph, Mo, ‘NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. Notice is hereby given that at o meeting of the board of directors of the Florida Land & Investment Com- pany, held at Des Moines, Iowa, on the 29th day of January, 1915, at which all of the officers and directors, and all persons interested in said cor- poration were present, it was unan- Imously decided and voted to dissotve said corporation and publish notice thereof as required by law. James A. Howe, President. W. F. Howe, Secretary. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX apie. i ae To Geo. Wright, the person in whose name the real estate described be- low 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 es- tate, towit: Lot No. five (6), 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 cer- tifieate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certifi- cate 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. Dated this 26th day of . January, 1915. W. L. Baugh, Agent. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. 0 Nancy J, Smith, the person im whose name the real estate de- seribed 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 es- tate, towit: Lot 25, block 11, Larison Place, now included jn and forming @ part of the city of Des Moines, Towa, Polk ‘county, was sold to. the Des Moines ‘Trust. Co. for the pay- ment of the taxes for the year 1910, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treas- hrer of said Polk county, Iowa, there- for, 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, tnless redemption ‘from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated January 27, 1915. ‘W. L. Baugh, Agent, NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. ‘To Nancy J. Smith, the person in swhone name «ithe ‘real estate de- iribed: below. isi taxed ‘You'are: hereby notified that at a tevular tax sale Keld-in and for Polk rannty’ Towa. on’ December 4th, A..D 1911, the following: described real e Ista) tnwwite’ Tot 26. block 11, Larisor Place.. now inclnded in @nd.forminr 4 vert of the city of Des Moines Toren Polke cobity. was sold to: the ee ant Coy tor. the pay it of the taxes tar the wear 1910 Tan a enehl mada be ‘pnechar. P Ne | A "I La i rT : se fea eaten EE Mia Boao. at aie See pe reek aE ens Peter a | a eg pe Ee ier: ' heyy er aR 2a A reine oT The New Thompson Hotel A First-Class Modern Hotel European Plan Rates Reasonable 10 Blocks from Union Depot The Public is Corner of oth and Park Sts. Invited, Badges Banners Emblems | : Regalia Furniture Books For all Lodge and Church Sagities A Negro Firm The Love Regalia Co. . GEO, W, K. LOVE, Pres, . 2418 Flora Ave. Kansas City, Mo o LU Ave You Beautiror Nair? 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Send eampicg oy shndee ® an ? allorders. eee ee in| 2416 Blonde St, Omaha, Ned, ee, Pheer, Webter 880g was duly issued to him by the tress” wer of said Polk county, Iowa, there- for, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by F. Green. ‘That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and 9 deed for said lot will be issued to, him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated January 27, 1916. W, L. Baugh, Agent. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To Geo. Wright, the person in whose name the real estate described be- low 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 es- tate, 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 ©. D. Be Voico Royal for the pay- ment of the taxes for the year 1910, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treas- urer of said Polk county, Iowa, there- for, 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, [OWS Unless redemption from said sale be wade within ninety days from the completed service of this notice, Dated this 26th day of January, 1918. W. L Baugh, Agent. —_— NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED. To F. 0, Evans: "You are hereby’ notifisd thay on the Sth day of December, A. D, 1910, the following real estate, situated in Polk county, Lowa, towit: Lot ‘two hundred forty-two (242) of University Land Company's First ‘Addition to Des Moines, now includ- ed in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold by the treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, for the taxes then due, delinquent and Un- paid thereon for the year A. D. 1909, to W. L. Baugh, and that cestificates of sale were duly issued by said treasurer to said purchaser, pursuant to said sale; that said certificates of sale are now owned by the under- signed; that the right of redemption from said sale will expire and a tax deed be made by said treasurer to Frank Mains for said real estate, pur suant to said sale, unless redemption is made within ninety (90) days from the completed service of this notice, Frank Mains, Owner of Certificate Purchase. ) Wide Byntande; oreTaxDaR TUB OB fae one meme 8 8 8 tomy —________* FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2%, i915, Eee yout! ly THOMPHUM, KLIN Bend money Wy. posers aro, ane tawa State Bystander Conyans Des Moines, 17s. vupusned 6Y@ry Diwey by the by. tianaer Publinauig “Company, na Momed, Ipwa. Gilles. In Chenicg, building, eorber Seventh and ma) perry afrests, Wa phone, Wa, aut 8ov. Ofitia! paper of the ML. -W. U. Grasg Lodge of laws, A. F. & A. 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Communicatios must be writtes on one side of the paper only an¢ be of interest to the public. “Brev- ity is the soul of wit,” remember. ‘We will not return refected mms nseript, unless accompanied by pus tage stamps. NOTICE 10 CORRESPONDEN’S N. B.—Correspondents: Please mail your letters that contain new: for publication not later than Wed nesday to insure publication for th current. week; and sign your name not for publication, but that we may know who writes the news. ‘chis notice applies to all writers contributors, agents and correspond ents, Sign all articles, write onl upon one side of paper, write a plai hand and spell accurately, Do no send in names of persons at, partie or receptions nor send in program to be published before or after th event. Do not give an eulogy © write your personal comment upo the event. Simply. tell the news 0 event in a brief, simple manper an let the readers of ‘The Byatande comment. Write the news of al classes, all societies, all religious de nominations, irrespective of; you personal whims or ideas, ‘The Towa State Bystander is th oldest Afro-American journal pub Tished in Towa, It was establishe |in 1894, and is read by nearly the colored people. of Iowa, — W have correspondents in the followin; eer Albig i nane~Miss May Davis Washington MN. L, Black Burlington .......Mrs, L, M. Abel Mt, Pleasant......Mre, M. Burnaugh Monmouth. Tii...Georgia Norwood Colfax ............-Miss Stella Pierson Minneapolis.......Mrs, R. L. Buttner Cedar Rapids, lowa....Mrs. May Terr? Moline, IlL........Miss Mamie Ritchie BuxtoMccnnncnnnneRichard Stewart Sioux City........ Miss Goldie Hackley Clinton ncn Ae Bush Council Biufts... “Miss Minnie Cave Centerville ennnmnnnewMra,” C, Reed Macon, Mo. ...........-...Luey Harris. Mason City... Mrs, Maud Brewton Quincy, TL..." Mrs. Mattye Lillye Clarinda.....2 Mrs, J.B. Lane Keokuk............Mrs. Jennie Freeman Ottoman Mra, H, Owens Galesburg, Tl. ..“Mayme Richardson St. Paul, Minn....Mre, Mattie Hicks Colds and Croup in Children. Many people rely upon Chamber- lain’s “Cough Remedy implicitly in cases of colds and croup, and it never disappoints: them. Mrs.'E, H. Thom- as, Loagnsport, Ind, writes: “I have found Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to be the best medicine for colds-and croup T have ever-used, and never tire of recommending it to my neighbora and friends. ‘I have always given it to my children when suffering from croup, and it has never failed to give them prompt relief.” For sale by all dealers, VIVIAN L. JONES 2 Funeral Director Funeral_ Director The very best service guaranteed Prices the lowest - - - s Calis answered promptly. day or night No.extra charges for dis- tance—Reverse all phone charges, § Mi 2648, Pron: $ Hale ‘Wal, 6824: 9 East Gotet Ave DOS Moin & j ORIGINAL, NOTICE, | In the district court of the state of Towa, in and for Polk county. | March term, A.’D, 1916, 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 af Town, in and for Polk county, Iowa, claiming of You a divorce from the bonds of mat- rimony 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 Dei" Moines on'the lab day of March, 1915, default will’ be entered “against you ‘and’ judgnient and decree rendered theteon, ; Dated this 22nd day of January 1018, | S.Joe Brown, — Attomey fer Plaintiff. |