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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. State Capitol Bldg Hist. fecal 1,500m Mr. Nelson Watkins who has been so very sick is a little better at this writing. Mr. Bell of Mason City was an over Sunday guest at the Carr home, 1329 School street. Mrs. M. A. Gatewood, the mother of Mrs. C. S. Stewart is very sick at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Sallie Blackburn of South Des Moines, who has been sick for the past three weeks, is able to be out again. Sure Catch—Best gopher trap on the mad. One dollar gets trap by parcel post, Scott & Scott, box B Decatur, Ia The Corinthian Alarm Guild will meet with Mrs. Bryant Carr, 1329 School street. All members are asked to be present. Mrs J. D. Moore left last Sunday for Indianapolis, Ind., to take up a course in hair dressing under the famous Madame Walker school. The Triple H club met Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Anderson White, who gave a demonstration in dressmaking. The club will meet next week with Mrs. Wilson, 901 16th St. Mrs. Mary Church-Terrell who will lecture here March 31st, is without doubt the finest and most eloquent lady lecturer upon the American platform, ripe with experience, a scholar of high rank. This will be the first opportunity that our Des Moines people will have to hear her and every one should avail themselves of this opportunity. The Callanan club and Allen Aid society meet in joint session at the home Mrs. Henry Taylor. A very interesting meeting was held. Lesson was the 10th chapter of St. Mark. Vitors at the club were Mrs. J. B. Rush and J. P. Hamilton. Will meet with Mrs. J. D. Redimon of 14th street; lesson will be the 11th chapter of St. Mark. THOMPSON HOTEL GUESTS Miss Battie Wright, Omaha, Nebr. Masera, J. Wright, H. Williams, A. C. Smith and J. C. Prasar of Kansas City, Mo. and Mr. Hpolito Ramry of Ames, Iowa. The W. W. club of Asbury M. E. church met last week with Mrs. Sophia Hill at the residence of Mrs. Joe Murry 1156 st street, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Next Monday evening was set apart for a reception to be given by the club members in honor of Mrs. Anna Cannon, one of our most faithful members who will leave the city soon. After all business was transacted a dainty lunch was served by the hostess. The club adjourned to meet at Mrs. Fred Berry, 918 12th street, Monday March 22. Scandia Iowa, March 15.—Rev. J. E. Roberts of 2710 Sth avenue, prescheduled at Mt. Zion Baptist church at Scandia Sunday March 14th, and was extended a permanent call for pastor of the church. The church was recently organized by Burton, State Missionary of Iowa and Nebraska. A delightful affair of Sunday afternoon was the informal reception given by the Y. W. club at the home of the Misses McDowell on Eighth street. The main object of the reception was to give the young men an opportunity to meet at the afternoon meeting. The guests were invited into the library, where the following program was given: Lesson, Book of Ruth, by Miss B. McDowell; reading, Miss Mary Jane Reeves; original poem, Margurite Roberts, and brief addresses were given by the guests. Mrs. Eliza Peterson of Texarkana, Texas, national field worker of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, delivered three impressive lectures upon the subject of intemperance in this city this week, as follows. Wednesday evening at Union Congregational church, Thursday afternoon at the home of Atty S. J. Joe Brown, where she was entertained while in the city, and on Thursday evening at the Corinthian Baptist church. There will be a special conclave of King Solomon commandery, No. 6, at the North Star Masonic temple on Wednesday evening, March 27th, for work in the Red Cross degree. All knights in good standing are invited to attend. By order of At the second meeting of the past matrons and past patrons of the Order of the Eastern Star of this city, held at the residence of Past Grand Master E. T. Banks on Monday evening a permanent organization was perfected, to be known as Deborah Administrative Council, Order of the Eastern Star. Fourteen of the present and past matrons and patrons of the order signed as charter members and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: XXI No. 37 ANNOUNCEMENT. O. E. S. PAST OFFICERS. President, Mrs. Sue M. Brown; vice president, Mrs. C. A. Clegget; secretary, Mrs. Maud O. Thompson; assistant secretary, Mrs. Mary Reynolds; treasurer, Mrs. Alice Bank; counselor, Atty. S. Joe Brown; vice counselor, Editor John L. Thompson; executive committee, Mesdames Jesse E. McClain, Edith Essex and Mattie Woods. At the conclusion of the business session Mrs. Sue M. Brown, grand lecturer of Iowa, delivered an interesting and instructive lecture upon the oesoteric work of the order. THE COLORED WOMAN'S MAGAZINE. A Household Journal—It Should Be in Every Home. Every colored woman should subscribe for the Colored Woman's Magazine. It affords an opportunity for our women to present their thoughts in writing; no family should be without it. Our women deserve the support and encouragement of every thinking colored family. We desire to see this magazine sold by our boys the same as the Saturday Evening Post is sold by white boys—thereby giving employment to hundreds of Our Boys. We also desire to see our girls and women active in the work. Subscribe, $1.00 per year, 50 cents six months, or 10 cents single copy. Address Colored Woman's Magazine, Box 249, Topeka, Kans. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for particulars. The National Watchman. I. S. F. OF C. W. C. TO MEET. The Second district of the I. S. F. of Colored Women's Clubs will hold its regular board meeting at the home of Mrs E. I. Carter, 15 East Second 大厦, Ruxton, Iowa, March 27, at 1:30 p. m. There will be a good program rendered, after which refreshments will be served, the proceeds of which will be for the benefit of the sinking fund. All club members urged to be present. Belle Watkins, Chairman, Addie Clark, Assistant. CITY CONVENTION Delegates from the Negro Lyeum, Intellectual Improvement club, Cosmopolitan Literary, Mary Church Terrell club, Young Women's club, Richard Allen Aid society, High School Girl's club and Dramatic Art club on last Tuesday evening and perfected the organization of the City Literary Convention for 1915 by electing the following officers: Mrs. Joe Brown, president; Prof. W. H.Warricks, vice president; Mrs. Lillian Neal, secretary; Margaret Roberts, assistant secretary; Dr. J. A. Jefferson, treasurer. The regular monthly meetings hereafter will be held on the first Friday of each month. OTTUMWA, IOWA. The presiding elder, S. B. Moore, held his third quarterly meeting Sunday, March 15. Good meetings all day and well attended. Mr. E. Butler and family were Sunday visitors, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. Owens. Mr. J. Lewis, Mr. Smith and Mr. Thomas of Albia were visitors Monday and attended the debate at the M. A. E. church given by the W. C. L. young men. Mrs. M. Jamison of Albia was a Sunday visitor. The young men of the W. C. L. gave an informal reception in honor of our presiding elder, S. B. Moore, on Monday evening at the Mt. Zion A. M. E. church. The boys gave a very interesting debate. Mrs. Mary Taylor entertained at dinner Monday evening in honor of Rev. S. B. Moore. Mrs. J. Cheshire was agreeably surprised by many of her friends on her birthday, March 6th. She received a number of useful presents. The Sewing Circle of the Second Baptist church meet with Mrs. A. Foster this week. The trustees and deacons of the Second Baptist church gave an entertainment Monday evening. All report a good time. The Benevolent club meet with Mrs. J. Cheshire this week. GALESBURG, ILL. Mrs. Louisa Washington, a pioneer citizen of Galesburg, passed away on Sunday, March 14, at 5:20 a. m. at the ripe old age of 88 years at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Raker, on Mulberry street. Mrs. Washington had been an officer, having an invalid for sufferer, having an invalid for funeral services will be held at the A. M. E. church Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. The Autumn Leaf club will hold their annual fair March 17, 18 and 19 at the A. M. E. church. There will be a program rendered each night. The S. M. T. lodge held its regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening, March 16, at the Odd Fellows' hall. The entertainment given by the ladies of the G. A. R. at the hall March 10th proved to be quite a success. Mr. Barney King of Chicago has arrived in our city to make his future home. Rev. S. L. Birt talked on his trip to the southern states on Sunday evening, March 16 at the A. M. E. church. It was enjoyed by a large audience. Look for the collector. Don't dodge DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1915. Mr. Horace Craig will leave Saturday for Ottumwa to spend a few days. Mr. Geo. Mott is ill at her home, 320 N. Fifteenth street. Mrs. Jessie gave a Lenten tea on Thursday, March 18. The mothers' meeting was held at the People's Institute Thursday, March 18. On April 14 and 15 the comedy, "The Spoiled Darling," will be given at the People's Institute, under the auspices of the vestry of St. Mary the Virgin. Miss Irene Bryant is very ill at her home, 1320 Morgan street. A surprise party was given in honor of Mr. Wm. Coleman on Monday evening, March 15th, being his 63rd birthday. Mr. George, one of the guests present, also celebrated his birthday on March 15th. Mrs. Ruth Bright is visiting at the home of Mrs. F. D. Bland. Mrs. Ruth Bright, grand matron of the Order of Eastern Star, visited Alpha and Electa chapters Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Miss Madah Lewis entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Teabeau in honor of Mr. Leroy Grossman of Chicago. Cards and dancing were the amusement of the evening. Mr. Leroy Grossman left Saturday for Chicago, after spending two weeks with the Webb. The First African Baptist church is preserving the charge of Rev. P. Thomas. Rev. Thomas has been in charge five months and fifteen new members have been added. Sunday, March 14, was Rally Day and $89.90 was raised. For two nights of fun and laughter attend the "Spoiled Darling" on April 14th and 15th. Admission 25 cents. Vivian Maxine Johnson, who has been seriously ill, is improving. Sunday was the Missionary Lads' Day. The church was crowded to its capacity. Mrs. Daton of the M. E. church gave a history of the missionary work with the Indians and there were two numbers by the M. E. chorus. But the extemporaneous talk by Mr. Lowry, comparing "What the Negro has done for himself" and "What the Indian has done for himself," was to the point. Mrs. Nora Reesby was elected delegate to the Sunday school convention in June at Waterloo. Her subject was "Our Unique Way of Conducting Sunday School." The G. S. U. I will meet at the home of Miss London Friday night. Mr. Keene has word that his sister is not expected to live and will go to her Thursday. Quarterly exams is the program at the university this week. Christian Endeavor was led by Mrs. Reesby Sunday. Subject, "The Trust Verses of the Bible." ENTERPRISE, IOWA. On Sunday night, March 14, occurred the death of Mr. and Mrs. Griffith's months' old son. The Progressive club was entertained March 9th by Mrs. Robert Brown. After business lunch was served by the hostess. Those on the sick list are: Miss Dillie Hornburger, Mrs. Frank Brown, Mrs. Slenderton, Mrs. Joe Willington, Mrs. Sorrel and Mrs. Cooley. We had a good attendance at church services Sunday. Rev. F. C. Bolder was called to Mt. Pleasant by request and preached the funeral of Mr. Phillip Brown last Monday. Miss Hattie Eaby of Des Moines was in our city Monday. Rev. F. C. Bolder left Monday night for Buxton to attend a meeting of the executive board of the Iowa-Nebraska Baptist association. Mrs. Pearl Holland of Des Moines and Miss Griffith were called here on account of the death of their niece. Mr. and Mrs. Grafin Brown gave a handkerchief shower on Mr. Josh Miller and Miss Magnolia Harris of Buxton on Monday evening, March 15. A delightful evening was spent by all who were present. Mr. H. Thompson is somewhat better at this writing. Mrs. Florence Miller of Newton was visiting her sister, Mrs. W. D. Miller, a few weeks and has now returned home. Rev. Burton was in our city Wednesday and preached an excellent sermon. MONMOUTH, ILL. Mr. Joe Goff of Edmondon, Canada was here of the serious illness of his sister, Mrs. Florence Barnun. About twenty young people enjoyed the nineteenth birthday party Sow Lawn Grass Seeds DO IT NOW! 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Miss Illa Allen of Galesburg, district Sabbath school superintendent of Keokuk district, will be in Monmouth on March 21st and address the school at St. James church. Everyone is invited to come and hear her. Mr. Will Wallace took suddenly ill Monday morning and is in a serious condition. His sisters, Mrs. Anna Brown, and Miss Olive Hale of Springfield, Mrs. Bessie Peterson of Aurora and Mrs. Ella Williams of Cairo are all here on account of his illness. The spelling bee at the A. M. E. church was well attended and enjoyed. Miss Hattie Collin received the prize for spelling the longest and Beauford Maupin received the one for being first to miss. Mr. Robert Catlin spent Sunday in Calgary. The waffle supper given by the ladies of the Calvary Baptist church was well attended and a neat sum realized. Sunday, March 21st, will be stewardess Sunday and all are invited to attend. The ladies will have a program in place of a sermon. The Ladies' Sewing Circle will meet this week at the home of Mrs. Etta Simms on South Third street. Mr. John May of Chicago is home visiting his family. Miss Lorraine Nelson of Galesburg attended the party given in honor of Miss Alberta Merriel. Obituary—Mrs. Elliott Dead. Ontario. Mrs. Matilda Elliott, a resident of Omaha for a number of years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. Denton, February 5, 1915, at the age of 82. Born in West Tennessee on September, 1832. She has lived in Iowa until the last twenty years. She was married to Jason Elliott in Tennessee in 1862, to whom eleven children were born. He died in November, 1911. She left two sons and a daughter, Mrs. W. Denton of Omaha, Mr. Tom Elliott of St. Paul, Mr. H. T. Elliott of Ottumwa, Iowa, and seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. In the early morning when the summons came would 'nat the world could have heard her chant forth praises in her last dying breath Her funeral was conducted by Rev. W. T. Osborne at St John's A. M. E. church, of which she was a member. There was a large crowd present. The deceased had a host of friends among the older people. The flowers were beautiful. Remembered by the Nebraska, No. 42, O. E. S., and Tabernacle and K. of P. She was laid to rest in Forest Lawn cemetery. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. Mrs. Ruth Bright, grand matron of Davenport, Iowa, was in the city last Tuesday on her annual visit to Excelsior chapter, No. 12. The chapter after session served in her honor a two-course banquet. The table was beautifully decorated with carnations and ferns and covers were laid for twenty-five. While here Mrs. Bright was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Brown. She was entertained by Mr. Al Walker and sister. Mrs. S. W. Greene and Miss Lulu Greene of Toledo, Iowa, spent the week-and with Mrs. Greene's sister, Mrs. I. L. Brown. Miss Mabel Spots of Kansas City arrived in the city to remain indefinitely. Miss Spots is a sister of Mrs. Orville Spots of this city. Mrs. Grant Jackson, who has been ill quite a while, is able to be out again. Mrs. Grace Humphrey is planning to give a "Little Tom Thumb Wedding" soon for the benefit of both churches. Watch for the date and be sure and attend. An informal dance will be given at Cummings hall on March 18 by Messrs. I. L. Brown, H. L. Wolder and L. S. Suter. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lowry have moved into their new home on North Twelfth avenue. Mrs. Robinson of Des Moines was in the city over Sunday. While here she was the guest of her son, Mr. Herman Stone. The Baptist church is carrying on a week of prayer, which will be followed by revival meetings. Mrs. Bertha Angle of Des Moines, Iowa, was in the city last week, the guest of her mother, Mrs. Mary Roman. GALESBURG, ILL. Rev. L. H. Owens of Fort Madison, Iowa, is in our city visiting at the home of his uncle, Mr. Edward Bar- OMAHA. 'NEB. GALESBURG, ILL. ber, on East South street. The A. M. E. church held its annual election of officers and teachers Friday evening, March 5. The following were elected: Mr. G. W. Kidd, superintendent; Mrs. Ada Freeze, assistant superintendent; Margaret Allen, secretary Juanna Richardson, assistant secretary; Caroline Wells, treasurer; Raymond Moore, librarian; Arthur Dandridge, assistant librarian; Larada Berry, organist; Beatrice Anderson, assistant organist. The Universal club will give their annual Easter ball Monday evening, April 5th, in enthal, inral. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. James Brown of West Tompkins street, Sunday morning, March 7th, a daughter. The Allens Guard will meet at the home of Mrs. Hattie Anglen on N. Broad street Friday afternoon, March 12th, at the usual hour. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Donaldson of W. Knox street are the proud parents of a baby girl, born March 7th, on at St. Mary's hospital, March 7th, at Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Perkins, a daughter. The Junior Mite Missionary society held its regular monthly meeting on Sunday evening at the A. M. E. church. The Autumn Leaf club will meet at the home of Miss Caroline Wells on S. West street Friday afternoon at the usual hour. The Leisure Club of the Second Baptist church will meet at the home of Mrs. Bernice Allcorn on Holten street Thursday afternoon at the usual hour. DAVENPORT NOTES. (Last Week.) Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Allen are in receipt of a message from Mr. Clyde C. Glass, the talented pianist, who appeared in Davenport last summer. Mr. Glass is now attending the Conservatory of Music at Boston, Mass., and writes he enjoys the work immensely. The P. E. committee of Bethel A. M. E. church gave a very successful entertainment last Wednesday, clearing a very neat sum of money. Presiding Elder Daniels was present. The T. L. O. club was delightfully entertained a Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Lucile Bynum. An interesting program was rendered by the members. Mrs. J. P. Sims, Miss Ada Sims, Mrs. Enzor Green, Mrs. Willa Busey and Mrs. Archy Perkins were guests of the club. Father Henry McGaw, who departed this life Thursday a. m., was buried from Bethel A. M. E. church, of which he was a charter member, Sunday at 2 o'clock. The Odd Fellows lodge and Household of Ruth had charge of the services. Rev. J. P. Sims preached the funeral sermon, assisted by Rev. Nicholson. The Elite club of Rock Island put on a very unique program at the Third Baptist church last Tuesday evening, under the auspices of the Church Aid. Mrs. Alice Thompson, Mrs. Townley and Mrs. Tomlin of Muscatine attended Father McGaw's funeral Sunday. Mr. M. O. Culberson, Mr. A. Bush and Mrs. Sarah Emerson were in attendance from Clinton. CLINTON, IOWA. Sunday, March 21st, will be quarterly meeting, the second for this conference year. Mrs. S. V. Emerson attended the funeral of Mr. Henry McGaw in Davenport. Mrs. Minnie Meadows and Mr. Chas. Anthony were in Chicago last week, called there on account of the serious illness of Mr. J. H. Luckey. Rev. G. W. Slater returned home the past week, after several weeks' absence in the interest of the socialists, lecturing. Mr. M. O. Culberson and A. A. Bush were in Davenport in attendance at the funeral of Mr. Henry McGaw, who passed away a few days ago. Mr. G. W. Luckey was in Chicago the past week, called there on account of the death of his brother, J. H. Luckey. The many friends of Mr. J. H. Luckey were sorry to hear of his death, which took place last week in Chicago, after an illness of two weeks' length. His remains were brought to Clinton on Sunday night. His funeral took place Monday at 2 p. m. from Bethel A. M. e. Church, Rev. G. W. Slater officiating Interment was made in Springdale cemetery. The pal bearers were Chas. Thompson, Holland Williams, A. Weatherall, F. P. Aikens, M. O. Culberson and Wesley Porter. John H. Luckey was born in Atlanta, Ga., June 26, 1867. In 1868 he came to Clinton, where he became identified socially and otherwise. Later he removed to Chicago, where he resided until his death on Thursday, March 11, 1915. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, being identified with all its branches. He leaves to mourn his loss one sister, Mrs. Minnie Meadows of this city, two brothers, G. W., of this city, W. L. of Chicago, other relatives and friends. A. Richardson is reported ill at his home on First avenue. Mr. W. L. Luckey returned this week to his home in Chicago. His wife will remain for a few days to visit. Miss Murda Beason returned home last. week from a several weeks' visit in Waterloo. We want your support as a subscriber to The Bystander. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA The work of the A. M. E. church is progressing, new members are being taken in and its spiritual bearing is on the upward trend. March 10th Professor Chas. Stewart, a member of the Associated Press reporters, will lecture in the church under the auspices of the choir. Proceeds to apply on piano. The young people of the church and their friends will give an entertainment for the trustees. Date to be given later. Rev. Manley was an Omaha visitor this week and spent a social hour at the St. John's A. M. E. mansoon with Rev. W. T. Osborne, 'the thunderbolt of the west.' Mrs. Martha Hernnd is able to be out again. Mrs. Ferdonia Greene, who has been ill for some time, is able to be up and around, but not out yet. Grandma Davis is very ill at this writing at her home on Eighth avenue and Twenty-first street. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Davis are the proud parents of a seven-pound girl. Mother and child are doing nicely. Mrs. Calloway of Denver, Colo., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Flora Walker, on Eighth avenue. Miss Ernna Blackburn is sick in the Mercy hospital. Mr. Frank McRaven, who went to Tuscon, Arizona, for his health some time ago, died March 4th in that city and was buried March 7th. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, two sons and one daughter. HEALTH HINTS. A. J. Booker. M. D. We have mild winters and cool summers; there are years when there is an abundance of fruit, and others when the trees do not bear; we have wet seasons and dry ones; we have periods of great prosperity and financial depressions; as a matter of fact one may expect changes in all nature and conditions; but there are two things which never change, they are constant as the North star, as certain as the as a matter of fact one may expect changes in all nature and conditions; but there are two things which never change, they are constant as the North star, as certain as the sunrise, they may go under different names and change expressions, but they are persistent—the knockers and the grumblers. Some people would have you believe that they are superior to all the conditions you bear so patiently; they are scions of a mighty family, their aspirations were never below the outer gates of glory, they had servants and money, in Podunk; they have been everywhere, and in fact life is a burden to them in this neck of the woods. They are usually fluent liars aside from being of very poor stock. You may take money from a man, you may reduce his station in life, you may heap indignations upon him, you may thwart his efforts, but here is one thing that will shine like the diamond; it will illumine the countenance, it will command even the respect of cruel brute force and cruelty; that is breeding. No superior man makes his position reflect his superiority; the superior man is most tolerant, because he knows that everyone, like himself, is doing the best he can. He knows that in the long run he will come into his own. Nor genius, nor worth, nor superiority, nor power can be kept down. It is the undeserving, the unworth, the undesirable who wish to force the issue and grumble because some imaginary worth is withheld. They fear the element of time, they are impatient lest their true value be found out and the opportunity be lost forever. So they grumble, so they complain, so they feign hurt when they really are unfit for the honor of shouldering arms, much less the glory of the scars of conflict. True worth and fitness will await the hour of discovery; it is patient, for patience and the ability to forbear are the earmarks of superiority. A knocker is the most pititable and helpless creature alive. He is indeed in a most deplorable mental and financial condition. The poor devils can't help it. Nature was unkind to them when they came forth, and as a rule life has been no less relenting. Usually some great sorrow is back of the whirling voice and the caustic tongue. Being unable to do anything else they snarl and bite everything and everybody that seems at more peace than they. They complain of the race; they villify the individual; they complain of the elements; they curse conditions; they rail at fate; they despise themselves and do not believe in God. Anything that is to them is wrong, what is not should be what they have not seen is impossible, and what they did not think of is unbearable. As a rule they, too, are not to be with too much credence; for they are lax with truth and will praise or blame with no other object than to hear themselves vituperate a worthy object or condition to see if you will be fool enough to take up a worthless one. The whole tendency and aim is that of a destructionist, never a constructionist; and to cast gloom. Both these types are deserving of pity and must be tolerated; the grim humor of the situation is the seriousness with which they take themselves. W. on, led R. St. at- as wo the ing l a ive zed in Al- ery nesola er- sed, nt, er- ses- art et- by oha aly ten com as wa tel- ter sek. ell, zen com rch was ur- lives fr- er- on, idie dye her me- sed rch for con- den am-ral, bed sent red lev, bly- tter vin, eri- ohn兰- drs. vived illie of ago par- year old used The loon Rev. was mes day. alive in be- heir quite it 17, the after- ville held Mrs. moun- old- out, her has ear- ries, pent She ago, end- ter al- fter- pist her sek's day ladies ring- ning. a re here and such and an which dis- may mink and Man- Price Five Cents DAVENPORT NOTES Mrs. Peterson of Texas, one of the grand officers of the national temperance movement among our people, lectured afternoon and evening at the Third Baptist church Friday. She was connected with the work of the late Amanda Smith. Mrs. Peterson was connected with the work of the late Buxton, Iowa, Saturday p. m. A number of friends called at the parsonage Tuesday evening and surprised Rev. Sims, the occasion being his birthday. A good time was enjoyed every minute of the evening, and after partaking of dainty refreshments they departed wishing their host many more happy years. Rev. Sims received many tokens in remembrance of the day. Sunday was quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church. Rev. Sam Walkup preached a very fine sermon in the afternoon and Elder Daniels preached another fine sermon in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Brooks entertained Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Strathers of Rik Island. Mrs. Cecil Carter and Mrs. D. S. Johnson at dinner Sunday evening. Mrs. Emma Cain entertained Mendes Williams, Allen, Davis, Snow, Bush and Oliver at luncheon last Thursday. Mrs. Willa Busey has been confined to her home under the care of Dr. Toylar for the past few days. Mrs. Henry Proctor is confined to her home owing to illness. Mrs. Alec Richardson is still quite ill at the home of his mother. Mrs. C, P. Jones was called to Buxby Thursday of death of his cipher. Mr. Ewing For the Stomach and Liver. I. N. Stuart, West Webster, N. Y., writes: "I have used Chamberlain's Tablets for disorders of the stomach and liver off and on for the past five years, and it affords me pleasure to state that I have found them to be just as represented. They are mild in their action and the results have been satisfactory. I value them highly." For sale by all dealers. College Source in Politics So Columbia university belongs the credit of offering the first course designed to give students a practical knowledge of the conduct of political affairs. That institution has asked the bureau of municipal research in New York to give the members of the class the benefit of the experience it has developed in the study of that city, and the invitation has been accepted. The growing demand for the adoption of the scientific methods of city governments lends support to the view that college men will be in demand in this department of the public service, hence the propriety and usefulness of a university course established on the lines indicated by the innovation at Colum Haltlane a Lazy Lot Sydney Brooks, writing to the London Chronicle about Haiti, says the Haitians were the first people in the world to abolish slavery, and Mrs. C. R. Miller, writing in Leslie's Weekly, says of Haiti: "In that little republic, covering about 10,000 square miles, within five years' sail of New York, one may encounter more strange complications and a greater disregard for human life than in the remote countries of the east. Situated in the very heart of the Caribbean in a high degree, Haiti alone has kept her doors closed to progress. She became an independent state more than 100 years ago. Her rich lands were already under cultivation, but the lazies allowed the plantations to go to ruin, and forests have grown up instead." Farm Employment for Criminals. Gov. Harris of Ohio believes that criminals can be employed on a farm with advantage to themselves and the state. He proposes that prisoners in the penitentiary who are not confirmed criminals be transferred to the reformatory and put to work on the state farm. "It is the conditions of our cities that breed crime," says the governor. "Most of it can be traced to idleness and drink, and idleness is frequently the cause of drink. There is little drink in the country and practically no idleness. If the young man who had slipped over the bounds of a law were taught scientific farming he would come to like it and escape the associates who carry him down when he returns to the city." Milk an Intoxicant. New York City alone consumes annually 840,000,000 quarts of milk. We drink 2,300,000 quarts a day. And this does not include mothers' milk for infants; just cows' milk—watered and unwatered, for both infants and adults. "Milk," says Emerson, "is readily made intoxicating in warm climates simply by agitation. This feature was quickly discovered," being placed in a skin and slung from the shoulder or over the back. It was agitated by the motion of the hunter, and fermentation was soon well under way. The skin was undoubtedly none too clean, some milk of the previous fay being left in it, which would be a heaven. A Pleasant Physic. (When you want a pleasant physic give Chamberlain's Tablets a trial. They are mild and gentle in their action and always produce a pleasant cathartic effect. For sale by all dealers. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS If permanent results are to be secured, the Negro who actually cultivated the land must be reached and trained into growing a good producing crop. How can this be done? My answer would be, by putting a Negro farm demonstration agent into every county of the South where there is any considerable number of Negro farmers. This Negro demonstration agent should be a man of good common sense. He should be a man who knows the characteristics of the colored people, who knows how to reach them in and through their societies, their churches and their various organizations of one kind and another. He should be a man required to travel from one farm to another throughout the country training the Negro farmer how to produce a food crop or a domesticated animal, whose agents have already been trained in the South they have done work which has been most helpful and commendable. If this important work is to be done, no time should be lost in selecting these demonstration agents. The cost should not be large. Either through county appropriations or from some part of the state funds appropriated for agricultural purposes, a portion of the money for the salary perhaps could be provided. Appropriations are also being made by the United States government to encourage and promote various kinds of agricultural work. Some part of this money, I feel sure, might I, secured from the Smith Lever and, or from the United States demonstration agency, Bradford Knapp. While I am not in position to suggest just where the money may be secured, I think if an earnest effort is made some portion of it can be secured from some of the funds or agencies here mentioned—Booker T. Washington. Xahotb- docker 2.1.0 On the night of Lincoln's birthday, February 12, at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in Ethical culture hall, New York city, Governor Whitman of New York state made an address and awarded the Spin, medal. This medal, which is of go, valued at $100, is offered annually by Dr. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the National association, to the man or woman who made the American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor, whether that field be intellectual, spiritual, physical, scientific, commercial, educational or any other. The medal is awarded for the first time this year and the committee making the decision consists of Bishop John Hurst, chairman; ex-President Taft, John Hurst, chairman; ex-President Taft, John Hurst, president of Morehouse college; Dr. James H. Billard, director of Morehouse college; Oswald Garrison Villiard, president of the New York Evening post company. In addition to Governor Whitman there were other distinguished speakers at the meeting on February 12: Moorfield Storey, the well-known attorney of Boston and president of the National association; Prof. William Pickens, of Wiley university; Mirza Ali Kull Kahn, representative of Persia to the United States, and Lincoln Bates, Jrs., who told of racial progress in South America. Mr. Villiard presided. In commemoration of the memory of Frederick A. Douglass and John M. Langton, a large number of Negro residents of Washington attended the meeting of the Bethel Literary and Historical association of Metropolitan A. M. E. church. The eulogy of both of these former representatives of the colored race was given by J. C. Napier of Nashville, Tenor in-law of the latter, and an address dealing with the achievements and character of both was given by John C. Danoy, former recorder of deeds, Mrs. Little Langston Napier also talked of her father's life. Others who spoke were Rev. C. H. Stephens, L. C. Gregory, F. D. Lee, James H. Marshall and Messrs. Smith and Marfield. Frank Williams recited an original poem entitled "Fifty Years of Freedom." Music was furnished by the E. Azala Hackley chorus, James A. Wright, director, and Mrs. Martha Ligone, accompanist. "Some to toot" remarked the Man on the Car. "there are times when we ought to stop pouring for more blessings and ask for an extra consignment of gratitude." Toledo Blade. Consul Felix S. S. Johnson of Kingston, Canada, writes that as a result of suggestions contained in a report on American wall papers in Canada new trade openings have been made. The consult reports that an American manufacturer, who sent a salesman to the province in meeting with marked success. British Columbians are making gas from coal mine refuse. Ohio's minimum legal salary for school teachers is $40 a month. Soapstone production in the United States (28,562 tons in 1913), exceeds that of all other countries combined, in the ream, as quarried, soapstone is worth $2 a ton; sawn into slabs its value exceeds $12 a ton, and when made into bricks it is about $30 a ton. Virtually furnishes about 95 per cent of the supply. Currency and copper "cash" were reduced in value as compared with the silver dollar in the large part of Central China during the last year. The oldest Negro publishing house in the country is operated by the African Episcopal church at 361 Pine Street, Philadelphia. Here all the hymn books, church diplines and other church literature are published. Here, since 1832, the Christian Recorder, the oldest Negro newspaper in existence, has been published. Here, since 1832, the oldest Negro magazine in existence, has been published. Here many of the books written by Negroes have been printed. The largest and without doubt best equipped Negro publishing house is also operated by this church. It is the Sunday School Union at Nashville, which supplies nearly 200,000 Negro children with their Sunday school literature, taking nearly 50 persons to do the work. This literature is written, printed and distributed by Negroes. Connected with this work is the journal called The Young Allenite, a young people's journal called the Allen Endeavor and a weekly paper, the Southern Christian Recorder. The church started 100 years ago, with less than 400 members; it now has three-quarters of a million; and raises annually about $4,000,000. Its property is worth $12,000,000. It has over 6,000 churches and 7,500 preachers. Its general financial scheme is based upon a tax of $1 for each member. This goes to pay the salaries of bishops, general officers, pensions of widows, retired bishops, orphans, superannuated preachers, etc. Other departments are church extension, young people, the Western Christian Recorder. To rationalize education throughout the country has been and is the purpose of those making for the nation's progress. As the great majority of men are engaged today in constructive work—that industrial, technical, commercial and institutes of training for that are growing in number everywhere where the note of progress is decided. The rationalization of the educational system for the Negro should find cooperative action now among intelligent people of both races. Just as the Boston School of Technology initiated in the country the practical form of education for which the nation's inventive and constructive forces made demand; just as the tidal wave brought industrial training to the South came to save a social inertia, as well as one educational, Hampton institute, Virginia, has come as the prophet of that spirit of educational light which the Negro race may look to as their star of hope and guide to progress. Hampton institute trains men and women to lead men and women of their race in avenues of usefulness. It inculcates the building up of the racial standards which home the basic principles, and the watchword of the school I would define as racial responsibility—the responsibility not only of individual development, but of the race's development. Ammonia bombs are being used in some of the national forests in America to extinguish forest fires, especially in connection with brush fires, where the fire fighters cannot get near enough to the burning area to heat out the flames. Too many men are expecting to catch a ride on the road to success.—Albany Journal. According to the preliminary report of the census bureau, just published, the colored population of the country has been making a good record of progress, measured by the returns of the decade with which development it deals. They have increased in number, though at a much lower rate than the native whites, and far below the record of the foreign born whites. In the ten year period the total value of the farm property operated by Negroes has more than doubled and now exceeds very considerably $1,000,000,000. But perhaps the most encouraging development has been made in education. In 1910 more than 57 per cent of the blacks were reported as illiterate. That has now been reduced to a little over 20 per cent. If the 1920 census shows as well for them, the white people may find themselves left behind, at least in elementary education—Boston Transcript. The department of agriculture estimates that disease and exposure caused a loss in meat animals in this country amounting to $150,000,000. Charley Why, a wealthy Chinese of Stockton, Cal., enjoyed the most expensive turtle dinner on record when he dined off the only one of eleven turtles which survived a trip from China. He had ordered them specially from the only place where they may be obtained, and had to wait nearly a year before his order was filled. Belgium's national wealth a year ago was estimated to be $3,000,000,000 Bubbling fountains for horses are used in Tampa, Fl. Dr. R. Armstrong-Jones, chief medical officer at Claybury alum, Woodford, England, in a lecture on the refraction of genius to insanity, recently said that he knew a man who could recite the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" from cover to cover, yet his mind continued to be of the nursery type, and he did not understand what he dramatically recited. Sugar exists not only in the cane, beetroot and maple, but also in the sap of about one hundred and ninety other plants and trees. ECONOMY IN BOILED BEEF Many and Variable Beans by 'Which the Meat May Be Used to the Best Advantage. Since soup bones now cost twenty cents, where they used to cost five cents, it is more economical of time and fuel to buy a good boiling piece of beef than the shank. Of the several cuts that nearest the shank—namely, the heel of the round—is a good one to get. Every scrap of the meat is usable either hot or not when warmed, in sauces, a nice curry when perhaps, or one made by boiling a number of vegetables in the same stock. The stock or boilion is not only used for soup but for vegetable dishes nowadays; even boilion potatoes are popular—that is, potatoes boiled in boilion. Buy two pounds and a half of the heef of the round of beef. This will make three quarts of medium strong soup stock or bottillon. The cooked meat itself is what the French call "bouillir." The brisket is a favorite piece for this boiling with them. Wash the meat quickly, and if it is to be sliced when cold die it up compactly. Cover with the amount of cold water necessary. Three quarts may be used for a medium stock, but three pints will make a very strong stock for graves. Brine slowly to keep the meat moist. Scrape the bacon to the surfaces quickly. For three quarts of liquid an even tablespoonful of salt will not be too much. This may be simmered over the simmering burner, or heat one stone of a fireless cooker to the point where the already boiling meat will continue to boil when set on it; put in a cooker, set covered vessel containing the meat on it, and leave on for five or six hours. SERVE APPLES IN THIS WAY What Is Known as Fire Balls May Be New to You. Younger Housewives. Select bright red apples, cut off the tops and with a pennake remove the meat, leaving only sufficient wall to hold apple in shape. Make a filling of the following: To six apples allow about twelve tablespoonfuls of very dry cooked rice, six tablespoonfuls cracker crumbs, six tablespoonfuls chopped apples, six tablespoonfuls sugar, six tablespoonfuls seeded raisins, six tablespoonfuls chopped almonds. Whip one egg thoroughly, place in a cup and fill the cup with milk; stir well and place in a double boiler, adding one-half teaspoonful butter, grated rind and juice of one-half lemon and juice of one-half orange. Cook it until it thickens, cool, then mix it into the filling being careful not to get it too soft. Mold lightly with the fingers and fill the apples, sprinkle with sugar, add a cupful of water and bake in a moderate oven. Serve with whipped cream or custard sauce—Exchange. Metronome Pudding. One pint of milk, two tablespoons of flour, three eggs, one and a half ounces of butter, the grated rind of a lemon, finger biscuits, preserve. Butter a pie dish, put in a layer of sponge biscuits, then a layer of preserve, then another layer of biscuits; mix the flour and butter to a paste, add the milk boiling, and the lemon stir, cover the fire for ten minutes, then add the beaten yolks of the eggs beat well, pour into the dish and bake 45 minutes, then pile the white of eggs, beaten to a strong froth, on top sift sugar over, and return to the oven till of a golden color. Jelly Whip. Dissolve one package of gelatin in a cupful of cold water. Add to that two cupfuls of sugar and one quart of boiling water. Divide the mixture into three cups of one in which place marshmallows and white grapes, in the second one put pineapple and oranges and in the third put nuts. Fill individual glasses with different mixtures and serve them with whipped cream. Decorate with preserved cherries, candied orange peel and nuts. Ironing Hint. When it is necessary to iron a rough-dry garment at once, try this method. Dump it, roll tight, wrap in a cloth and then in paper and put it into the oven while the irons are heating. Evaporation will cause it to be thoroughly dampened in a very few minutes; but care must be taken that the oven is not hot enough to scorch the things. Potatoes a la Golden Rod Peel three or four boiled potatoes and cut them in fine cubes. Take four hard boiled eggs and separate yolks from the white. Chop the white and force the yolks through a strainer. Add chopped white of eggs and potato cubes to one and a half cupful of white sauce and turn into a hot serving dish. Sprinkle with yolks and garnish with parsley. Celery au Gratin. Peel and cut up, place in boiling salted water for five minutes (this is termed blanching), drain and then put in a stewpan with salt, pepper and peppercorns. Just cover with stock or water and simmer until tender. Place in a freeproof dish, and with the water in which the celery was cooked make a white sauce. Pour this over and brown in the oven. Fish Chowder Fish chowder can be made from two cupfuls of halibut (left-over fish), one quart of milk, two tablespoonfuls butter, pinch of salt and pepper. Let come to a boil, slice in three cold boiled potatoes and one chopped onion. Cook five minutes. Makes a delicious soup. Lemon Hard Sauce. Cream two tablespoonfuls of butter until soft, add one tablespoonful of lemon juice and a little nutting, then beat in enough sifted confectioner's sugar to make a light, fatty mass. Let it harden a little before sorting. IOWA STATE BYSTANDEH AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT EXPERTS GIVE RESULTS OF STUDY AND EXPERIMENT. COOKING GREENS AND ONIONS Particularly in the Spring Should Greens Be an Important Part of the Diet—Some Ways of Serving Onions. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Notwithstanding the low fuel value of the leaves and stalks of plants that are commonly served under the name "greens" the thrifty housewife recognizes the necessity of supplying her family with this type of food. Particularly in the early spring will she supply her family bountiful with them, as they are very welcome after the winter diet of canned goods, dried vegetables and root vegetables stored in the cellar. A double purpose may be accomplished in the country home by the use of wild greens, nanny, freeing the ground from weeds and providing food. The common dandelion may be used in this way. The dandelion is cut close to the ground before the flower bud has expanded. When it is desired to root out the plant from a lawn, the entire root must be dug up; if simply the top is cut off, the dandelion grows again and in a larger head. The slightly bitter flavor of the leaves is not disagreeable. The roots furnish a bitter extract often used medicinally, particularly in the domestic medicine of early times. When cultivated, the dandelion is milder and more tender, and may be used as salad, as may the very young wild plants. Asparagus is a long-lived, easily cultivated delicacy, and it is strange that any farm should lack it. Many an asparagus plant is grown to be topped with third generation of owners. It can be cooked in many ways. As is the case with most green vegetables its delicate flavor is spoiled by overcooking. It should be cooked only long enough to make it tender. Spinach is a favorite form of greens and is seen in city markets most of the year. It can be grown easily in any garden. A French proverb calls it the "broom of the stomach," and it appears to be richer in iron than most common foods. The tendend leaves may be served raw as a salad. Lettuce makes an excellent "green" for cooking, although American housewives seldom realize this. In Europe the tougher or outer leaves of the lettuce are used in particular in this way. Care should be taken to see that such lettuce is not overcooked. Rhubarb is another plant in which the leafstalks are the useful portion, though it may from its use be classed as a fruit rather than as a vegetable. The various acids and other flavors it contains are acceptable in the early spring, and its best in the season, when the stalks are tough and fibrous, the juice may be extracted for jelly making. Because it contains some oxalic acid the use of rhubarb is frequently forbidden to persons of gouty tendencies, or with certain other diseases. The Useful Onion Tribe Onions owe their flavor to a volatile, oil-like compound containing sulphur. They are very succulent, but nevertheless supply some nutritive material. Many varieties are grown by American farmers and gardeners, and the crop is a very important one. The tiny pearl and button onions are convenient for salads or pickles or for the hint of flavor wanted where a large onion would be far too much. The white-skinned Egyptian onions are usually a satisfactory variety. There are many onions in the market which are strong in flavor and tough, and justify the prejudice which the undiscriminating have against all onions. In general, the greenish yellow and red types of onions, owing to their texture and flavor, are less salty than those making as a vegetable than those of lighter fruit. Onion tops, like the stalks of wild leeks and chives, can also be used for flavoring, especially the sprouts that start when the bulbs have been kept in a warm room. Preparation of Onions. To prepare onions, peel under water so that the volatile bodies which affect the eyes may remain in the water and be kept from scattering. Where the onions are especially strong or liable to prove indigestible to anyone, they may be put, after peeling, into boiling water, to each quart of which one-fourth teapoonful of bicarbonate of soda has been added. After letting them stand in this water half an hour, drain and boil in plenty of salted water from one half to two hours, according to the nature of the variety in hand, changing the water if desired. Often it is wise to take off one or two of the coarser layers next the outside skin and reserve them for flipping soups, while a part of the tender succulent center may be reserved for a salad. In cutting up an onion for seasoning hold it with a fork so that the onion odor will not get on the hands. Methods of Cooking The water in which onions are boiled will contain much flavor, and some of it may be reserved to flavor soups, either milk or stock. Any strong variety of onion is much improved for the table in spite of loss of nutritive value if the water is changed several times during the cooking process. Milk may be used as the medium for final cooking. Fried Onions. Fried onions may be prepared in either of two ways: (1) Sauce sliced onion in olive oil, butter, or other fat until golden brown and tender; or (2) fry a few pieces at a time in deep fat, let them remain in the hot fat until they are crisp, like Saratoga potatoes. but do not let them become too brown Use to garnish meats or add to soups, or combine with potatoes, stewed beans, or other vegetables. Stuffed Onions. Parbole large onions, remove cem- ters without breaking other layers, and stuff with seasoned crumbs or and bake until tender. Onion Custard. Cook onions until tender; drain thoroughly; pour over each a custard mixture made of one egg, one-half cup milk, salt and pepper to taste, for each half pint of onions. Bake gently and serve as a vegetable. In southern Europe this dish is popular cooked in a crust, like small custard pies. Onion Souffle. Chop cooked onion fine or rub through a coarse strainer; combine with equal quantity soft bread crumbs or half as many dry ones; season with butter, salt, and pepper. For each half pint, beat in one egg white and a little white. Put in small dishes or in onion cases and bake gently until firm. POTTERY WORK IS A PUZZLE Immense Bowls Made by indians of the Amazon, cannot Become Diligent An expert has declared there is no kiln or oven in this country, probably none in the world, large enough to bake the largest of the big pots discovered in the Amazon valley, samples of which are now on exhibition at the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. The clay used also has aroused much curiosity. When piece of the edge was clipped from one of the big bowls the material was shown to be a blaky, finely substance, to be a black clay, but of a kind never seen before by archaeologists. Potters are astonished at its remarkable strength. The large bowls are less than half an inch thick, while some of the smaller ones, a foot or fourteen inches high, are as thin as a sheet of newspaper. An idea of their strength may be gained from the knowledge that they were transported about ten thousand miles before reaching the museum, and only a few of them were broken, though a packed under difficulties in villages knew nothing of packing breakables. The Indians who made these wonderful pots are as mysterious as their work. Doctor Farrabee wrote that they were absolutely devoid of any traditions, and had no idea of where they came from. It is known, however, that they cannot have been in Peru more than about five hundred years. The larger bowls give out a metallic sound when rapped. One not seeing the substance would say at first they were made of painted copper. Each of the two big pots would hold four or five tons. Schools for All Tastes. The folk schools of Finland are particularly fine, with their cooking departments, gymnasiums, manual training and needlework. Every school has excellent bathing facilities, and the poorest children are fed at the schools. There are little zoological museums in most of the schools. There are so many varieties of schools, besides the folk schools, elementary and higher; the schools are also involved in agriculture and of navigation, schools for training teachers, commercial schools, technical, music and art schools, etc., says the Christian Herald. There are three little garden schools in Finland, where boys as well as girls are taught cooking. "They must learn to cook what they grow," said one of the teachers. The dairy schools are particularly interesting dairy comes second among the inns in Finland. The schools have worked for one year at a butter factory before he or she will be admitted to the school. Customs of the Bedouins Such pride has the Bedouin in his weapon that even in his leisure hours he sits fully armed, examining and cleaning each piece in turn, making himself accustomed to carrying their weight. From the time that he is eighteen years of age until he dies of old age he is more or less looking out for new wives. By law Mohammedmans are never allowed to have more than four at the same time, but they easily evade this regulation by divorcing one, which means sending her back to her parents. This is often because she has borne him no souls, and it happens that the old sheikhs almost always have young wives. Just as it is allowable with them to steal camels, so the young men help one another to steal wives from other tribes. War Telephone. Unlike Germany, France does not believe in stewarding the ground in the rear of her armies with a mass of telegraph and cable lines, but prefers to organize a few essential main lines of communication, and trusts to automobiles, and other means for the comparatively unimporant messages. The German army, on the other hand, is obsessed by a "wire" mania, and every little detachment must have a telephone connecting it with every other detachment, force, column or staff officer within the country. Horses and Mules In Demand Separation. Hospital Nurse—This bed you're in was endowed by Mr. Scads, the great philanthropist. Patient—Why. it was his auto that banged me up this way!—Judge --- CAUSES OF INTESTINAL TROUBLE An intimate knowledge of the manner in which profound changes in the mechanism of the gastro-intestinal tract may easily come about at a very early age is of the greatest importance to every person desirous of endowing his offspring with the fundamentals of a happy and successful life. To all such persons an amount of study equivalent at least to that required of the average individual in order to attain the knowledge and technic necessary to fit him to operate a sewing machine or an automobile intelligently, and without risk of ruining the machine because of lack of that required knowledge, is most earnestly recommended. It is argued by many that such knowledge is not necessary because natural instincts are alleged to be a sufficient guide. But this is not true, for humanity's environment has changed more during the last 50 years than during the previous 299,850 years of its probable minimum existence, and "instincts" do not have no difficulty in developing the "required by existing conditions, and must, therefore, try to use reason instead. Particular attention is called to the large intestine comprising the cecum, the colon, the sigmoid flexure and the rectum. The cecum is the blind pouch or sac in which the large intestine begins and into which the illum, or small intestine, opens from one side. The vermiform (wormlike) appendix is attached to the cecum, and it runs up the right side, so much trouble under the name of appenditis. The cecum constitutes a sort of cecosol or catch basin low down in the right abdominal cavity, and from it, running up the right side, rises the ascending colon. Turning at a right angle, the ascending colon becomes the transverse colon, extending straight across the upper abdominal cavity to the left side, where it again turns and becomes the descending colon, following down the left side, where it once more turns, forming a loop known as the sigmoid flexure, which joins the rectum. Every human animal still comes 'into the world a quadruped, a four-footed animal, and a struggle extending over fourteen to twenty months is required of every individual before the physical development required for the general mechanical mastery of gravitation and the idea are attained whereby we are able to assume the vertical and walk in the upright position. but it is a grave error to assume that the attachment of the ability to overcome gravity ends the struggle, because it does not. Gravity is man's implacable enemy; it is persistently in operation tending to drag him down. With this idea firmly fixed in mind investigation makes it very clear that there are at least six points in the large intestine alone where the ordinary mechanical laws may easily produce serious physical changes whenever there is the least tendency toward enervation. The first point is in the cecum, which may relax and sag under gravitational pull in any weakened physical state. The second is at the point where the ascending colon turns and becomes the transverse colon. Functional obstruction similar to that resulting from a sharp bend in a water hose is not uncommon at this point. Sagging of the transverse colon in the middle, forming a festoon, a deep curve instead of a straight line across the colon, constitutes the third point. The downward turn of the transverse colon into the descending colon constitutes the fourth point, which obviously must be more likely to kink the greater degree of sag in the transverse colon. The fifth sixth points are in the turns of the sigmoid flexure, between the descending colon and the rectum. Under the conditions of modern industrialism the trunk of the body is maintained in the erect position, either standing or sitting, practically from the time we rise in the morning until we go to bed at night, and all the time the trunk is erect gravity is at work pulling the intestinal organs down and out of position. This tendency to drop or sag must very obviously be exaggerated by any condition of weakness, and therefore, because any food supply not of maternal origin is universally recognized as being dead. LIVE DEER FOR BREAKFAST Animal Crates Through Dining Room Window and Lands on Table —Given Freedom. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Lefferts of West Pawling had quit the breakfast table when they heard a crashing of glass in the dining room. As they rushed to the door they saw, with its forefeet on the dining room table, a buck deer. A lice cain hung like a vell from the trader's antlers, which had broken off at the tips, when they smashed the window and struck the woodwork. The animal was pawing broken dishes and a tablecloth, which was rapidly becoming a dot of red and white polka dots. "Shall I get a gun and shoot it?" suggested Lefferts. "No. Some dogs must have chased the poor deer. In. See how pleading those big eyes are." "Hed make nice venon steak." "Never. Open the front door and let him go!" client in nutritive qualities and a general source of ill health, it is reasonable to assume that all infants so feel will be peculiarly liable to intestinal atasis, or constipation. Parents should be very alert and watchful for the earliest symptoms of delayed functioning of the gastrointestinal tract to give it immediate and rational treatment. PREVENTION It is easy to live in good health, and to be happy if one gets the right start, because it then becomes simply a matter of continuing a fixed habit, which is the very easiest thing one can do; for we consist essentially of an organism built up around a group of fixed habits, all our fundamental vital functions being fixed habits. But if you fail to secure the right start, never having experienced it, you find the pursuit of happiness, like the pursuit of exceedingly unsatisfactory occupation, because you do not always know when you have either. The desired goal ever appears to be something just a few paces ahead and seems always to dissolve and vanish like the willow that wisp as we would grasp it. It is perfectly obvious that any material change for the worse in one's average state of health implies the necessity for a change of one's habits. But so completely are we subject to natural laws that the first time any new point of view is affirmed there inevitably must be opposition to it. It is the normal inertia of the mind which opposes such resistance just as all matter in nature is opposed to every change in the direction of its forces. But, notwithstanding the psychological phenomena which influence us all, the forces of fact are superior to every inertia and sooner or later must conquer. But always the pressure of material facts is required to drive us forward to change and improvement. No real advance can be made, except such as may be related to some tangible and material evidence from precisely it is removed from the domain of opinion into that of changed from subjective into objective. To array facts, then, in their most comprehensive form is without doubt the most direct road to the attainment of good health. We know that from the instant of impregnation to complete development the human organism responds to definite rhythmic growing impulses, each of which has its specific reason and results both physical and chemical. It should not be deemed at all strange, then, that certain types should evidence definite tendencies all through life. Measurements of a human infant will show that the essential stature—that is, the length of the trunk and head compared with the total length from the heels to the top of the head—exceeds the length of the legs, and the human infant is essentially a feeding animal. The first year tends to a maximum development of the digestive organs with a corresponding increase in body bulk and fat, but where the subsequent development is normal maturity finds that a balance has taken place between these two sections, and they have become relatively equal. However, where this condition of balanced development is not found to exist we find an individual that either is robust or one that has been arrested in morphological development and retains the type and the tendencies of a younger age, with all its penalties, a condition which makes it essential that these unfortunate individuals, to maintain a relative health state of body, are compelled to submit themselves to a severe hygienic regime throughout their entire lives. Unfortunately, our knowledge is not of a character that such to be necessary, and that the ability to be recognized will have become a fact that we are the victims of gout, "chronic rheumatism," hemorrhoids and chronic liver, stomach and bronchial difficulties. All the vast array of difficulties falling under the head of litchia, an excess of uric acid in the system, and supposed to be due to defective elimination, are without doubt to be attributed rather to an excessive formation of these elements in the system because of a constitutional slowing down if the metabolic reactions from defective construction in the beginning, grossly aggravated by an imperfect and improperly balanced diet thereafter, rather than the result of something "caught." The early recognition of these tendencies is the certain prevention of the development of a vast number of distressing conditions later in life and a strong argument for a sane regime in handling those already suffering from the natural results of a prior condition. This would appear to be the reasonable explanation of the numberless bitter disappointments that have followed every alleged cure for these conditions since the very dawn of history, and a strong reason why an earnest effort should be made for a solution of the problem along the lines suggested by the work of our many brilliant scientists. And the startled forest creature, with the lace drapery still floating from his anglers, looped out of the front door and disappeared in the direction of Pawlite mountain—New York Press. Why Women Are Vindictive All My Women Are Vindictive. All history shows that when women are engrossed with public contests and ambitions they become vindictive and implacable. It was women in the amphitheater that raised the end for the death of the gladiator. It was a woman that pressed the reluctant Charles to the massacre of St. Bartholomew. It was women who fired the houses of suspects and slew their inmates during the commune. It was Empress Eugenie who called the terrible war of 1870 "my war."—The Reply. Society's Viewpoint. Reggy Vayel-Velvet—Isn't this war distressing? Mrs. Waupper—Oh, I don't know. The European season was about over, anyway.—Puck Laura Jean Libbey's Talks on Heart Topics MEN WHO EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM MATRIMONY. A lamp alight, a rose abloom, and you make home for me who's God puts us. No bat squall but it would suffice. No battement castle, grim and stunt. No cold to hold my little paradise. Or, holding that, could bar contentment out. The girl who weds a very young man has the matrimonial rights in her own hand usually. The youthful husband knows little or nothing of housekeeping. He depends upon his bride to furnish the knowledge concerning it which he lacks. If he makes her her allowance as she really needs, he is blissfully unconscious of it. Consequently he does not worry over it. THE FIGHTER If he waits ten years longer to se- leet a wife, his wits have become sharpened. He has visited at so many homes of his married chums, hearing their praises or complaints regarding home life, that he cannot help having formed his own line of thought. He is inclined to be lenient in his opinions toward the presiding angel of the home. If he adds another ten years to his bachelor life he hews, he is apt to become less tolerant with a woman's idea of household economy. He wants a wife comely to look upon. He would pass over many another quality in favor of youth. He knows the advantage of molding a wife to a husband's ways, and expects to find the head of a woman of forty on the shoulders of a girl of twenty. If he finds she is not well up in the art of cooking, she sets her at it. He buys her a cook book, and she is plunged forthwill into the household treadmill; not where her husband's mother began as a bride, but where that good lady left off. He expects his wife, no matter how tired she may be from encounters with the maid, to be just as sweet and agreeable to him when he comes home as in their courting days—with not even a cloud in her sky. He expects to look over the household bills, suggesting the cutting down of the gas bill if it appears too high, or the coffee bill, which shows a few pounds more have been used this month than last. He calls his wife to task about a new hat, declaring an extravagant in purchasing them within a year. Immediately there is war in camp. She reminds that one was a straw hat, ironically remarking that she had to have warmer headgear in winter, unless he wanted to see her make a freak of herself by wearing a straw hat when snow was blowing. He expects she will be satisfied without compliments, tenderness and love-making which he gave her before she exchanged her name for her, and not save secret longings for the kiss of affection now and then, nor the thrilling touch of a lingering clasp as she passes him his morning cup of coffee. The man who expects the sole business and happiness should be to cater to the pleasure, herolically putting aside all her own comfort and enjoyment, makes matriarchal treatment to travel. A husband should expect that which will never disappoint him--that the average wife will do the very best she can on each and all occasions--for love's sake only. UNREASONABLE EXPECTATIONS A hundred thousand oaths your fears Perhaps would not remove; And if I gazed a thousand years You could no deeper love. Men tell of the qualities they expect to find in the girl they want for a sweetheart and whom they intend to wed. She must be farly good-looking. This bars the young women who positively homely. She of his choice would be sweet and docile, which would impel the independent girl who thinks for herself and believes in expressing her own views. They want their sweetheart to look sweet and dainty in a six-cent calico frock. They expect her to be perfect in the art of home making, and when she marries she will be pleased to cut loose from all of her relatives, if they prove uncongenial to him. In fact, he would have her human putty, as it were, that he could mold to suit him. The average man will travel from one end of the world to the other without finding all these combined qualities in one woman. His expectations get a sudden jar each time he thinks he has found his ideal mate. It is unreasonable for a man to expect to find a girl who has no will or her own, no temper, no ideas worth having who would feel contented in a calico gown when her fair beauty, like a gem, needs the proper setting. And as a for cutting loose from those whom she has always loved and who have loved her and are bound by the tenderest of ties, it would be the most hard-hearted woman, indeed, who would turn from these, tearing the tie of kinship ruthlessly asunder at the behest of a stranger who has just entered her life. The average woman would very soon tell him that his wishes were unreasonable and that he would have a hard time finding such a swankheart as he was looking for. A man should make up his mind, no matter how long he has been a bachelor, to take women as he finds them. There is not one of them perfect. The one who is an angel does not belong on this mundane sphere. Certainly she is no mate for mortal man with all his faults, follies, abuses notions and unreasonable expectations. A wife is very much of what her husband's love and kindness make her. If there is but one pocketbook between them, and he trusts to her good sense to help him save the dollars, he will find her twice as saving as she laughs she could be. If a man marries into a family he should not be prepared to despise his relatives-in-law on general principles. On the contrary he should honor and respect them because of the tie which binds him to the wife, who is nearest and closest to him all other. If a man needs a cottin girl she has a charm for him, he not book to find how many flowers he discover in her. Instead, he should recieve that she see so many virtues in hot. If he loves her and can win her love in return, he should cast aside unreasonable expectations, woo and wed her, and he satisfied. DOWNHEARTED LOVERS Oh the years we waste, and the tears we waste, waste. An awkward of our heart and hand. Belong to the woman who did not know And did not understand. There are men who have a world of confidence in themselves; there are others who are always fearful lest they make mistakes before the woman they care for. The man who overcomes his abilities laughs when his sweetheart tells him that he would be suitors who write her 'letters or walk home with her from afternoon affairs. The information does not worry him in the least. He imagines himself far superior to any young man she has mentioned. Not for a moment does he imagine his being jilted for any of these less brilliant young fellows. A girl may tell a diffident lover these stories and see the alarm spring at once into his eyes. The thoughts of losing her fills him with fear. His voice grows husky, his hands tremble. In an instant he has lost his vivacity, hope. He is downhearted. His home folks do their best to cheer him. It is useless. Nothing seems capable of doing anything. He position he gives up the thought of winning her entirely. He hasn't the courage to go and see her. He fancies no woman will cling to a sinking ship. He does not believe he can hold a woman's love for long. In company of young men and women he is at his worst. He is sure that the woman he loves is comparing him unfavorably with the rest. This does not make him feel assured by any means. The whole troop is with him, the man is modest by far; does not know his own powers and is, therefore, falter-hearted. Every human being has some good qualities to offset his backwardness. Women are drawn toward men, attracted by their magnetic personality, their deference to the weaker sex, their kindness, truthfulness, their efforts to please the woman they love best. What more mantle could anyone pay than this? They are true as steel to sweetheart or wife. They are not flirting with other girls or trying to arouse the demon of jealousy in the heart that beats for them alone. The over who is wont to be downhearted over trifles is the exact opposite of the self-assured, overcautious lover. There is the dream of a heart between them. The different lover is the one who has it beating in his bosom. The downhearted lover wastes years unmeanedly in repelling over trifles falling out with his sweetheart. A girl who has such a lover should do her best to win him away from this state by doing everything to lift his cares—never to add one. It is a misfortune to give way to the blues. The man who shakes off downheartedness, and smiles, even by superhuman effort, in the face of couragement is sure to lose a long run of admire a courteous hopeful man. There are those who consider a downhearted lover a poor stick to lean upon. Auxuviation Obedience. Much trouble as well as much amusement was caused during the early stages of the canal work by the inability of the Jamaican negroes to take any except a strictly literal view of orders. In unloading a vessel at Colon a rope in a pulley at the head of the mast got jammed and a Jamaican can was ordered to climb up and release it. He did not order. Some minutes later the boss of the gang missed him, and asked with some impatience where he was. He was pointed out sitting calmly at the mast- "What are you doing up there?" roared the boss. "You told me to come up here, sah." the man answered, "but you haven't told me to come down!"—Joseph B. Bishop, secretary of the Isthmian Canal commission, in the Youth's Command. A. Bit Twisted. Paeddy one day became the proud father of twins. The christening ceremony arrangements were made and Pat was instructed by his wife, Moya, that the babar's names were "Kate" and "Sidney". While making his way to the church, repeating the names, "Kate" and "Sidney". Pat was met by several friends, who wished to drink to the bables' health. By the time all had paid for a round Pat was a wee bit mixed. He arrived at the church in good time, but when the clergyman asked for the names of the children Pat replied: "Steak and Kidney."—Young's Magazine. Have a Purpose In Life. Find your purpose and fling your life to it; and the loftier your purpose is, the more sure you will be to make the world richer with every enrichment of yourself. Improved Reflector. 1992 An umbrella-shaped reflector mounted on a easily adjusted stand and containing an electric light or the has been invaded by a London photographer to bring out all details of a face in an portrait photography. OF VEAL AND CHICKEN OF VEAL AND CHICKEN ONE OF THE BEST OF ALL THE ACCEPTED SALADS. Whether Made of Leftovers or the Fresh Material, There Are Certain Rules Which The Housewife Must Observe. Unless the salad is to be made of leftovers, the chicken should be especially boiled, carefully seasoned while cooking and allowed to cool in the water in which it is cooked. A generous piece of veal may be cooked at the same time with the chicken, or cold veal can be warmed over in the chicken broth or in hot salt water, to which a few chicken bones have been added. It also should be allowed to stand in the water in which it has been heated until cold, then cut up into even dice and used the same as chicken. Where a large quantity of salad is to be made one good size carefully cooked in a basis with an addition of veal and as much more canned chicken as is necessary to make up the amount required, will be found an economy of both money and labor. In boiling a chicken for salad, put into a kettle of boiling water, add a chopped onion, a couple of sticks of celery or a half teaspoonful of celery salt, a couple of bay leaves, a table-spoonful of chopped carrot and a dozen peppercorns. Just a tiny bit of fat salt pork may be added if desired. Let the contents of the kettle boil rapidly five minutes, then push back where the water will boil. The water is tender. Cooked in this way the dark meat will be almost as light colored as the white. Now let the chicken cool in the water in which it has been cooked. It is well to cook both chicken and veal the day before the salad is to be used. When ready to make the salad, remove the flesh from the bones, rejecting all the skin and fat, cut the meat into dice and measure. Add as much or half as much as veal, as desired. If the salad is not to be served immediately, sprinkle the meat with a little lemon juice and set away in a cold place. Cut into dice enough crisp white celery to make about two-thirds the quantity of meat, and have ready a good mayonnaise. At serving time, mix with meat and over each quart of the mixture sprinkle a teaspoonful of salt and half a teaspoonful of pepper. Moisten with some of the broth in which the chicken was cooked (for a dry salad is an abmation), and enough mayonnaise to coat every piece. Mix thoroughly but lightly and turn into salad bowl lined with leaves or on a platter where the leaves have been made into little cups, each holding a helping of this sauce. This looks pretty and makes the serving easier. Spread a little more mayonnaise on top of each service and garnish with stuffed olives or the little sweet red canned peppers and celery tips. A quarter pound of almonds blanched and quartered may be added to each pint of chicken and veal, if you desire something especially nice for a wedding or other entertainment. Rice Croquettes Cook one-half cup of rice with one-half cup of boiling water in double boiler until water has been taken up into the rice. Then add one cupful of boiling hot milk and cook until the rice is soft. Add the rice after taking from the fire, one-half teaspoon salt, the yolks of two eggs and a small piece of butter. Set aside in spoonfuls to cool, then shape to the fancy and grate the eggs and dumbs and fry in deep fat. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with orange marshmallel or plain with lamb and curry sauce. Potato Puff. Take one-half pound of mashed potato and enrich it with a dessertspoonful of butter and a beaten egg yolk, and then add enough flour to enable you to roll the potato out on the pastry board. Cut into rounds, fold the potato paste over, wet the edges with egg yolk and pinch together. Coat with beaten egg and crumbs. Let them stand ten minutes and then try; or if licked bake in a floured tin in the oven. Peas and Celery. Make a delightful dish. Cook two cupfuls of raw celery cut in dice in enough boiling water to cover till tender. Drain of the liquid and measure out one cupful, thicken with two tablespoonfuls of four rubbed smooth with one of butter; boll till smooth and add the celery and one can of peas which have been previously soaked in cold water. This is very daly served in ramikins and slightly browned in the oven. Bubble Pudding. Put one pint of milk on to heat in a double boiler. Dissolve two tablespoons of cornstarch in two of cold milk and stir it into milk. Then add the yolks of two eggs well beaten and two tablespoonful of sugar. Whip rapidly for a moment. Remove from fire and pour into a buttered mold or bowl. Cover closely and boll one hour. Serve with lemon sauce. 1 Carameled Apples. Pare, core and cut large apples crosswise in one-third inch slices; cut each slice in half. Put two level table-spoonsful butter, two of water and four of brown sugar into the chafing dish. When hot and melted, add apples, cook slowly and turn, until apples are tender and deep brown on both sides. Serve at once—Woman's World. Squash Muffins. Four tablespoonfuls sifted squash, one cupful sugar, two tablespoonfuls melted butter, two cupfuls sweet milk, three quarter-cupful cupspas pastry flour, sifted sugar, one half-tarter and one and one half-teaspoonfuls of soda. Well in the order given any aryl cake in gem pans, in a hot oven, about twenty minutes. The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation THE WEEKLY PRESS In an old-Fashioned Flower Garden Among Sweet-Smelling Plants. THE FIELD Children Working In a School Garden In the Bronx. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER The HOME Flowers and Their Care and In an Old-Fashioned Flower Garden SOME SATISFACTORY BULBS By JULIE ADAMS POWELL BY JILLIE ADAMS POWELL. In planting a perennial flower garden one must spare a corner, or strip of ground, for the hardy bulbs or of little care, for the easy bulbs with very little care, excepting the general care which flower lovers all give to their gardens such as keeping the weeds down, fertilizing the ground in the fall, and loosening the earth in the springtime. Scilla Silberica is very satisfactory, it being one of the first bright-blue flowers to greet us, for it comes in crocus time. Then there is the Scilla Campanulata, or Spanish bluebell. These bulbs, grown in containers with a feathered hyacinths, are charming in effect. My crocuses are planted in the lawn Children Working In a The utilizing of vincant property to extend nature study facilities for the school children is becoming more of a fact every day. Teachers and parents alike are realizing the added benefits, both mental and physical, to the child student of nature from work in the garden. The elementary classes in the public schools of New York are allowed 90 minutes a week, divided into two periods of 45 minutes each, for nature study. Vacant lots adjacent to the schools are converted into gardens, where practical instruction is given out of doors. Prizes are offered to the children for the achievement in the school garden and added interest is given by a reward for a continuation of the good THE KITCHEN FORCH The nicest porch is enclosed with wire screen, thus shutting out flies and mosquitoes. If the kitchen is also a dining room, the wide porch thus enclosed is doubly available, giving a cool place to eat, secure from rain or unpleasant insect visitors. It is still another great improvement over the lawn for eating because more convenient to the kitchen, saving the trouble of going up and down stairs. A rocking chair and a high stool enable one to work at the table while seated and are essentials to comfort. It is much better to keep the washing in one corner instead of lugging it up and down cellar every wash day. This can be concealed from sight by a cheaply constructed wall. Shade is be needed during a portion of the day. The Virginia, creeper, readily obtained at a florist if not a neighbor, is the most grower and most beautiful of our native vines. Morning glory and wild cucumber furnishes a dainty curtain, which must be renewed from year to year, though the latter renews without work on our part through self-sown seed. The clematis in several varieties, native and exotic are favorites. With vines for shade the housewife may have a more enjoyable spot in which to do the drudgery. KEEPING UP THE LAWN Kill weeds on the lawn by either pulling or cutting off the plant below the crown. Don't mow the lawn too closely during the heated term, but do not allow weeds to go to seed. Deep working, thorough pulverization, effective fertilization and a thorough raking and rolling down to a smooth level are all necessary to a fine, smooth sod. Get your lawn seeds of a reliable and are done blooming before the mowing machine is run over that part of the grass. I find the Roman hyacinth will increase from year to year if left in the ground. While Roman hyacinths are cataloged as not hardy, I have them here in my garden in southern Connecticut, and their sweet, graceful blossoms greet one in May time, if I give them a very light covering of rough mature late in the fall. In my hardy bulb border I have some old-fashioned double white tulips, and these with a few of the Cottage Garden tulips of brilliant colorings make a gay showing all through May. They may be left in the ground from year to year and need no winter protection. School Garden In the Bronx. work in the home garden. By securing the children's aid, permanent improvement in the physical condition of the neighborhood is assured. Deficient, ungraded children have found great delight in the garden and have proved themselves capable of understanding how to plant and care for the crops. To this end, a heighter who by the beneficent healing of the great Mother Nature, have found a little niche they can adequately fill in the scheme of things, and instead of a burden to the community they will become useful members of society. A commercialized farm has been secured, the earnings of which will be apportioned to the young workers as their reward. seedman, and ask for the best and freshest. Don't use old seed left over from last year, but insist on having it fresh. Insist on a good mixture. The best time to seed a new lawn is during the latter part of August or the early September. At that season, the heat is over and showers are almost sure to come, and the young grass will have several months of cool, moist weather in which to grow before winter. PLANTS OF MAILING SIZE Many fine varieties of fruit, as well as shrubberry, are to be had very cheaply by ordering malling-size plants from a reliable firm or nurseryman. Many of these nurserymen make up a collection, containing some excellent fruits, which they offer at a cost that most of us can reach, and the plants are so well packed that, with ordinary care and a small knowledge of their needs, almost anyone will succeed. The case of a garden base of excellent fruits, the plants will be a little longer in reaching the bearing period, but it is better than not to have them at all. Look up the catalogues, be sure you deal with a reliable, responsible firm, and try the malling-size plants. SOME SUMMER FLOWERS A bed of nasturtiums will supply blossoms until frost comes. In planting mixed sweet peas you can tell whether they will be dark or light by the color of the seeds. Msa the different varieties of a single flower and the effect is more pleasing than when made up of a dozen varieties. On the lawn, as in the vase, popular taste has been trained to admire the harmony of unity. Poppies will perpetuate themselves by self-sown seed. The KITCHEN CABINET Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it—Sidney Smith. raspberry, Dessert—Use the raspberry flavor and as it begins to thicken whip the gelatin and add a pinch of whipped cream sweetened. Servi WAYS WITH MEAT. Wipe six 'tenderloin fillets, two inches thick, and brown on each side quickly in a hot frying pan with butter. Six minutes of cooking. If the pan is smoking hot, will be suffused. If the pan is not hot, a hot platter, season well, and sur- quickly in a hot frying pan with butter, mix it with oil, use of cooking, if the pan is smoking hot, will be sufficient. Arrange on a hot platter, season well and surround with sliced bananas, also sautéed in butter. To the fat in the pan add a fourth of a cupful of water, one-half teaspoonful of beef extract, one tablespoonful of butter and a few dabs of salt. Pour the gravure around the fillets and garnish with sprigs of parsley. Hamburg Stake in Casserole.—Prepare and season the steak with a dash of cloves and onion juice, with salt and pepper. Make in small cakes and brown on them in a casserole with butter, onions, carrots and potatoes cut in balls; cover with stock and cook slowly until the vegetables are tender. In broiling steak over coals or under gas or in pan broiling, the steak should be quickly seared on both sides to keep in all the juice, then the cooking may be prolonged more slowly until the degree of rareness is reached to suit the taste. Steak With Clams or Oysters.—Broll a sirloin for five minutes, searing well on both sides, remove to a platter, butter well and cover with clams from the same pan, mince the meat been removed or with fresh oysters. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dot with bits of butter. Place on the top grate of a hot oven and cook until the shellfish are done. Hollandaise sauce is another; to prepare; wash a half cupful of butter, and divide it into thirds. Put one piece in a small saucepan or double boiler, add a tablepoonful of lemon juice and the yolks of two eggs, stir constantly with a wire whisk while the mixture is cooking; when the butter is melted, add another piece and then the third. Remove from the heat and add salt, a dash of cayenne and a tablepoonful of finely-minced parsley. If a minute too long the sauce will separate. Spread this sauce over steak just as it gets to the table. It matters little where I was born. Whether my parents were rich or poor; Whether they alrank from the cold world's scorn. I ten, my friends as plain as I can, That matters much. EASY DESSERTS. When a heavy dinner has been provided, a simple, easily digested des apple, easily digested dessert should follow. Gelatin in some form is most easy of digestion, is simple to prepare and if accompanied with good rich milk or thin cream, makes a most appetizing dessert. As there are several different gelatin flavors so prepared with fruit sort should follow. Gelatin in some form is most easy of digestion, is simple to prepare and if accompanied with good rich milk or thin cream, makes a most appetizing dessert. As there are several different gelatin flavors so prepared with fruit flavoring one simply dissolves with package in a pint of boiling water and it is ready to mold. Serve plain or by the addition of fresh fruits, nuts and whipped cream it will make a more elegant dessert. Paradise Pudding—To a pint of lemon jelly, add a half cupful of blanched and shredded almonds, a dozen marshmallows cut in quarters, a dozen candied cherries, cut in bits, put into a mold and stand until firm. Serve whipped cream heaped around the mold. Banana Cream—Rub five large bananas smooth with five tablespoonfuls of sugar, then add a cupful of cream beaten stiff. Mix with a pint of lemon jelly and pour into a mold to harden. Serve with whipped cream. Orange Bavarian Cream—Prepare a plot of orange jelly and when it begins to harden fold in a pint of whipped cream which has been sweetened with a half cupful of sugar. Mold and serve cold with cream. A Lemon Waldford Dessert—Chop rather fine a cupful of good tart apple add a half cupful of nuts and a cupful of celery finely cut, using only the tender portions. Mix with a lemon jelly, mold and serve with mayonnaise dressing on lettuce leaves. Two Methods "I buy my wife everything she wants. How about you?" "I keep mine wanting a few things, just to be sure that her interest in me is maintained."—Kansas City Journal Imaginary Ills Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Alry ghosts the work no harm do them, and the work no harm do steel with bloody purposes—Aldrich Hla Gulity Secret. After all, human nature is the same—even in Germany. It seems that a certain handweirman had received his hundredth pair of warm woolen stockings. "We had to wear them," a regular Dan Jean," said one of his less fortunate coerades. "No," said another, "it isn't that. The fact is. Frits before the war came was teacher in a girl's school." At one time watches were called Nurburgberg eggs, because they were oval in shape and made in that town. **asberry Dessert**—Use the raspberry flavor and as it begins to thicken en whip the gelatin and add a pint of whipped cream sweetened. Serve in glasses with canned or fresh berries. Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. 110 Graham gems are quickly prepared, and usually well liked. The following is a good THE CITY OF NEW YORK Graham Gems. Take a half cupful each of sour cream and sour milk, add a teaspoonful of soda, a half teapoonful of salt, a beaten egg and white flour and a half cupful of graham flour. Beat well and bake in gem pans. Serve with honey. Chocolate Spice Cake.—Beat two eggs, add a cupful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter, four tablespoonfuls of chocolate, one-fourth of a teaspoonful each of nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice and mace, and a half cupful of water and one and one-half cupfuls of flour, which has been skipped with a teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix the order given, bedding well and bake in greased mugs. Mexican Rice With Bacon—Fry three pieces of bread until crisp, then add a third of a cupful of rice and brown in the bacon fat, add four tomatoes, one large pepper and a medium-sized onion, all cut up, and pour over the rice and bacon. As it cooks add water enough to keep the rice from sticking. Cook slowly for three quarters of an hour, then season and add a small piece of butter when ready to serve. Rye Popovers—Mix and sift together a third of a cupful of rye meal and two-thirds of a cupful of four, one-fourth of a teapoonful of salt, and gradually, beating constantly, one and a third cupful of milk and two well-creamed eggs. Fill hot buttered pans and bake 40 minutes. Add a few raisins to the sweet potatoes when they are being baked in sugar and butter. The flavor is very attractive. Ab, March! we know the art Kindhearted, spite of ugly looks and threats. And, cut a slight, art nursing April's volkswagen. MEN'S FAVORITE DISHES. Here are a few that the men are especially fond of: Corn Oysters.—Take a pint of corn and simmer on the stove for ten minutes. If too dry add a little water. Season with a teaspoonful of salt, a few dashes of pepper and a teaspoonful of butter, with two tablespoonfuls of milk. Allow the mix Corn Oysters.-Take a pint of corn and simmer on the stove for ten minutes. If too dry add a latee or a teaspoonful of milk, a few dashes of pepper and a teaspoonful of butter, with two tablespoonfuls of milk. Allow the mixture to cool, then stir in two well-beaten eggs and a cupful of freesip, crisp cracker crumbs. To be sure they are crisp, dry them in the oven before rolling them. Put a tablespoonful of bacon fat in the frying pan and when smoking hot try the oysters until brown on both side. Serve at once when cooked. Priscilla Cake.-Work a fourth of a cupful of butter with a spatula, add one cupful of sugar two eggs, add one cupful of milk alternately with one and two-thirds cups of pastry flour, sifted, with two and a half teaspoonful of baking powder. Turn into buttered tins and bake in layers. Fill with either caramel or maple filling. Bean Chowder—Wash two cupfuls of red Mexican beans; soak over night in two quarts of water. In the morning add a medium-sized onion and cook until the beans are tender, adding water so that they keep the two quarts. When the beans are tender add two medium-sized potatoes, cut in dice; one pint of strained tomatoes, and a cup of macaroni. Boll for an hour. Season with salt, pepper and add diced, fried bacon, with two tablespoonfuls of the bacon fat. This dish is good reheated. Half of this quantity will be sufficient for the ordinary family. Hot Potato Salad—Cook potatoes in dice, drain and add chopped onion, bits of bacon and enough bacon fat and vinegar to form a dressing. One Kind of a Fool. Daughter—Father, I'm sure Harold isn't after my money. He says he'd marry me if I didn't have a cent. Bath--That's the trouble" with hair--just like a big enough fool to do it. Nature's Justice. Nature is just toward men. It re- penses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, because to the greatest toll it attaches the great- est rewards. —Montesquieu. Passed Along. "You must have liked the servant to whom you gave the letter of re- mendation she showed Mrs. Blinx, said one woman. "I didn't care for her at all," replied the other. "But I don't care for Mrs. Blinx either." Had No Chance. "Honesty pays in the long run, counselled the vision. "Perhaps you re- rmitted, admitted the man in the stripes "but a cop got me before I'd gone 100 words." —Baltimore American MASON CITY, IOWA. The "Noble Outcast" play that was rendered last Thursday evening at Woodman hall was played to a packed house. The official staff: Manager, Mrs. Harvey Spencer; business manager, Mr. Harvey Spencer; stage manager and director, Mr. Fred Mitchell. Mrs. E. Williams and daughter, Miss Artivis, arrived home Saturday from Omaha, where Mrs. Williams was called on account of the death of her mother, who was buried Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Howard have returned to Mason City from Greene, Iowa, where Mr. Howard has been cooking at the hotel. They expect to go to housekeeping as soon as they find a house suitable. Miss Lane Carter, who has been sick in bed for several days, is able to be up and out again. Little Orville Lewis is reported on the sick list this week. The Epworth League program was a very interesting one Sunday evening. Mr. Paul Scott had charge of the program. A temperance lesson, and in connection with the lesson a special program was rendered in memory of Amanda Smith, the great temperance worker, who recently departed this life. A large congregation was present. Mrs. L. Banning entertained the Willing Workers club last Thursday afternoon. On account of the bad weather there wasn't many out. Miss Ethel Caldwell is in the city visiting a few days with her mother. She expects to return to Buxton the last of the week. Mrs. Marie Allen spent Sunday in Fort Dodge. Mr. A. O. Coffin, the advance agent of the Blind Boone Concert Co. of Kansas City, Mo., spent Sunday in Mason City. A fair sized crowd attended the literary society last Friday evening. Some very interesting debates are being discussed. You are welcome. The officers and teachers of the Sunday school held a very interesting meeting Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. M. Brewton entertained Mr. A. O. Coffin and Miss Artivia Williams on Monday evening for supper. The evening was spent in music. Mrs. Bernice Eaton was called out of the city Monday for an indefinite time. Best Treatment for Constipation. "My daughter used Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation with good results and I can recommend them highly," writes Paul B. Babin, Fushly, La. For sale by all dealers. CLARINDA. IOWA. The Baptist church gave an entertainment Saturday night at the Masonic hall. Miss. Mabel Johnson of Gravity, Iowa, is spending a few days visiting friends. Rav. D. W. Brown preached two abie sermons Sunday. He will pastor in Bedford the following Sunday. Miss Susie Lee of Des Moine is visiting her mother for a few days. visiting her mother for a few days. Mrs. F. Looney's children have the measles. Rev. Wm. Mitchell preached two fine sermons Sunday and were well appreciated by the audience. Mr. E. Brooke has returned to our city, after an eight months' travel with Richard and Pringles. He reports a fine time and much improved in health. Mrs. E. Wilkerson visited friends in Council Bluffs and Shenandoah. Mr. George Able made a short visit in Maryville, Mo., Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Clyde Finley went to Maryville, where he is chef at one of the leading hotels. The Missionary society was entertained at the home of Miss Tillie Lee. The Ladies' Federal club met at the home of Mrs. Wm. Headley's last week and this week at Mrs. Laura Jones'. A very pleasant surprise was given on Miss Lida Montgomery and Mrs. Arnett at the home of Mrs. J. Arnett. It was indeed a grand surprise and an enjoyable time also. Mrs. Ella Cockrin and father, Mr. A. J. Baker, came down from Omaha. 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In using Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets, however, this difficulty overcome. The shape, appearance, and candy-like taste at once appeal to any child, with the result that they are taken without objection. The rich chocolate flavor and absence of other taste, make Dr. Miller's Lunative Tablets the ideal remedy for children. If the first box fails to benefit, the series is returned. Ask your drunken. A box of 25 doses costs only 25 cents. Never sold in bulk. SHELFS MEDICAL CO., Rikhark, INC. GREAT PROGRESS IN CALIFORNIA Plenty of Business in the Littie Town of Watts. CHANCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Thrifty Community Near Los Angeles Largely Inhabited by Southern Folk Makes Remarkable Showing Along Many Lines of Industry—Many Own Their Own Homes. Los Angeles.—The town of Watts, in the vicinity of Los Angeles, has an energetic, industrious colored population numbering something like 600. The majority of these people came from the south, purchasing their homes by degrees after having secured employment in Los Angeles. Their preference for a suburban home with its possibility of truck farming, poultry and cattle raising was the underlying motive for their choice of Watts as a place of residence. Consequently there are a goodly number of colored farmers who own thriving ranches that not them a considerable income, says Eloise Bibb Thompson in the Los Angeles Tribune. There are also janitors, carpenters, brickmasons, furniture dealers, grocery dealers and one real estate agent. The latter, R. C. Patton, is said to be doing a thriving business, having offices in Watts, Los Angeles and in Chicago. There is also a foundry owned by John Davis, who molds hinges for bungalow doors. Mr. Davis is also an inventor, having recently got out a patent on plumbing rings. The largest colored dealer in new and secondhand furniture, James Seals, is found on Main street, opposite the city hall. Mr. Seals came to California about ten years ago with little or no capital. His energy and persistence are shown in the fact that he now owns the building in which his store is located and has increased his stock from a few hundred dollars to several thousand dollars and built up his business to such an extent that hired assistance is needed. The local banks are also patronized by the colored people of Watts, most of whom own their own homes, and a few have valuable holdings in Los Angeles in localities where real estate is rapidly growing in value. These people support two churches and are erecting a third, which promises to do credit to their prosperous appearance. The Watts independent league is composed of thirty-five colored men, who organized for the purpose of looking after the municipal, political and social interests of their neighbors. These men, all of whom are property owners, contribute largely to local charities, giving to both individuals and institutions. The colored youth of Watts are found in the Compton high school, where they remain for the most part until they have completed the required course of study. Likewise the people of Boyle Heights are worthy of consideration. Boyle Heights, a part of Los Angeles, was laid out by George Hansen almost a century after the founding of the city of Los Angeles by the Spanials. It was named after an Irishman, Andrew Boyle, who owned a great portion of that locality, which he planted to grapes, building up in time a successful wine business. Twenty years after the formation of Boyle Heights the colored people began to take up residence there, very few at first gradually increasing as time passed until the northeast section was almost wholly inhabited by them, as it is at present. Many took advantage on their arrival of the low cost of land and purchased much valuable property, as, for instance, Moses Stapler, one of the oldest settlers, who twenty-three years ago bought considerable property on Bay street, which he sold recently to great advantage. He also bought the city block extending from Savannah to Evergreen street, which he still owns. The houses on this land bring him in a comfortable revenue. J. W. Coleman, another colored resident of Boyle Heights, also has secured much property, the total valuation of which is estimated at $20,000. This property consists of five houses on New Jersey street, one house on Michigan avenue and a sixteen room flat in process of construction on Savannah street. Clarence B. Coleman, the son of J. W. Coleman, has an auto and wagon delivery business known as the Boyle Heights express, established in 1880, which makes a specialty of moving, packing, shipping and storing. A three ton auto truck is owned and operated by young Coleman. Other colored residents of Royle Heights are engaged as follows: One postal clerk in local postoffice, one postal clerk on the Southern lattice railroad for the past eight years, six janitors in the hall of records, one restaurant keeper, one confectioner, one cigarmaker, three policemen, two expressmen, one plumber, one woman notary public and public stenographer, two rubbilish contractors, two painters, four carpenters and three brickmasons, one of whom, W. H Prieoleau, was foreman on the brick work of the new federal building. A goodly number of the colored residents of Royle Heights not only own their own homes, but are the owners as well of other property, several owning grocery stores. Protective Device. When a telephone line is electrically changed the telephone acts as a condenser. The winding serves as one plate of the condenser, the frame of the receiver as the dielectric and the person who is holding the receiver to his ear as the other plate of the condenser. In order to prevent the condenser from discharge through the person, a Condenser is placed. Mr. Harvey Dandridge of Kansas City, Mo. stopped over in our city last Sunday enroute to New Boston to visit with his father, Mr. Toney Dandridge. While in the city he was the guest of Mrs. Geo Harper. Mr. Henry Tolliver of La Harpe, Ill., was a Ft. Madison visitor one day last week. Mrs. Eliza Jackson who has been very ill is somewhat improved at this writing. Rev. J. W. Bowles pastor of the Second Baptist church, has accepted a call in Waterloo. Rev. Bewles and family expect to leave shortly for that place. Members and friends of the Second church gave a banquet at the parsonage Thursday evening in honor of their returning minister and wife, Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Bowles. Friends will no doubt will be glad to know that Mr. William Harper who is a student at Howard University Medical College, in a recent examination stood highest in a class of 108. Mr. Harper is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harper of this city. Rev. L. H. Owens pastor of the A. M. E. church was in Galesburg last Sunday. We are glad to see Mrs D. Isom out again. Mr. Arthur Ware of Omaha, Neb. was visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harper last Sunday. Mr. Cora Payton has returned from Minneapolis, Minn., where she has been visiting her son. Rev. M. Payton filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church last Sudday during the absence of the pastor, Rev. L. H. Owens. Mrs. Curtis Herndon made a flying trip to Keokuk Saturday night. Mr E. Prentice who has been in Burlington for sometime is hame again. For Disease of the Skin. 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Mrs Nellie Este; entertained at her home on Wednesday evening in horror of Misses Lillian and Vivian Anderson the Sunday School class of twenty in a novelty party of wearing and naming something to note a city. Lunch was served by the hostess and the merry crowd of young people enjoyed themselves. Sunday evening was Missionary day. at the A. M. E. church. The society had a musical program with Mrs. Mary Harris as chairman. Mrs. Bowman was detained at home on account of sickness. Misses Ila Lewis and Mildred are on the sick list. Mr. H. Bowman died Saturday evening at 8:20 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs Andrew Smith entertained at a birthday party at their home on Saturday evening in honor of Teddy Gravely, her 13 year old son, a company of boys and girls of Master Teddy's age All wish Mrs. Smith to remember them again. Recommends Chamberlain Cough Remedy. "I take pleasure in recommending Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to my customers because I have confidence in it. 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Simply tell the news or event in a brief, simple manner and let the readers of The Bystander comment. Write the news of all classes, all societies, all religious de- nominations, irrespective of your personal whims or ideas. The Iowa State Bystander is the oldest Afro-American journal published in Iowa. It was established in 1894, and is read by nearly all the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following towns: Albia ..... Miss May Davies Oskaloosa ..... Luella B. Franklin Washington ..... N. L. Black Burlington ..... Mrs. L. M. Abel Mt. Pleasant ..... M. M. Burnugh Monmouth Ill ..... Georgia Norwood Colfax ..... Miss Stella Pierson Minneapolis ..... Mrs. R. L. Butnere Cedar Rapids, Iowa ..... Mrs. May Terry Moline, Ill ..... Miss Mamie Ritchie Buxton ..... Richard Stewart Sioux City ..... Miss Goldie Hackley Clinton ..... A. A. Bush Council Bluffs ..... Miss Minnie Cave Centerville ..... Mrs. C. Reed Macon, Mo ..... Lucy Harris Mason City ..... Mrs. Maud Brewton Quincy, Ill ..... Mrs. Mattye Lilly Clarinda ..... Mrs. J. R. Lane Keokuk ..... Mrs. Jennie Freeman Ottumwa ..... Mrs. H. Owens Galesburg Ill ..... Mayme Richardson St. Paul, Minn ..... Mrs. Mattie Hicks NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To G. H. Cheek, 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 6, A. D. 1910, the following described real estate, tewit: Lot fourteen (14), in block sixteen (16), Brown's official plat of the northeast one-fourth of section 36, township 79, range 24, was sold to Des Moines Trust Co. for the payment of the taxes for the year 1909, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, thereafter, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by W. H. Meredith. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated this 24th day of February, 1915. W. H. Meredith. By J. C. Meredith, His Agent. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED. To Frank Wilfin and F. O. Evans: Fou, and each of you, are hereby notified that on the 6th day of December, A. D. 1910, the following real estate situated in Polk county, Iowa, toit: Lot eighteen (18, block six (6), plat one (1), Auburn Heights, an addition now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold by the treasurer of said county for the taxes then due, delinquent and unpaid thereon for the year A. D. 1909 to W. L. Baugh, and that certificates 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 undersigned, that the right of redemption from said sale will expire and a tax deed be made by said treasurer to Samuel Gordon for said real estate, pursuant to said sale, unless redemption is made within ninety (90) days from the completed service of this notice. Samuel Gerdan Owner of Certificate of Purchase