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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. XXI No. 39 Mrs. E. M. Warren is sick at her home, 955 14th Street Place. Mrs. James James is improving nicely from her operation. Don't fail to hear the latest records on McCree's new Victor Sunday night after church. Don't forget to go and see the famous painting of Christ Sunday evening at Union Congregational church. It is worth your time. Everybody should attend Easter services at some church next Sunday, as there are special programs' also the Sunday Schools have all arranged a fine program. A musicale by the High School Girl's Glee club at Lee Mission A. M. E. church, E. 16th and Filmore streets Friday evening April 9th at 8 p.m. Everybody invited. Mrs. G. M. Patton entertained a few friends at a dinner party in honor of Ms. Switzer, after luncheon was served the guest enjoyed beautiful piano vols by Mrs. Patton. The Twentieth Century H. O. A. Art and club craft meet at the residence of Mrs. J. Wells on 5th street east Wednesday. They adjourned to meet with Mrs. Reeves on 5th street ext Wednesday. There will be no meeting of the young Men's Sunday club Easter Sunday. On the following Sunday, April 1, there will be a general discussion the following topic, "Is the Business Man or the Public Responsible or Failure in Negro Enterprises." The Triple H club met Tuesday arch 30, with Mrs H. E. J. Eacons 1238 6th street, quotations of Spring: Paper, "The Beautifying of a Lawn, Mrs. M. White; discussion by members clubs; Current Events; Report of Citic Adjourned to meet with Miss Jacobs 1238 20th W. L. Lee, 349 W. 10th Street Tuesday evening. They will be entertained by Mrs. Mary Sweet at the residence of Mrs. Thornton Adams, 2121 Chester avenue, Monday evening the 5th. THOMPSON HOTEL GUESTS E. J. Clark, Oakalosa, Ia; Miss Ora Spencer and Miss Anna Lucas of Peoria Ill., E. C. Maning, Iowa City; Mr. John Stevenson, N. Y.; Stewart Wier, Younkers, N. Y. Mr Arthur Jones died at his home, 14th Street Place Wednesday morning. Funeral will be held from St. Paul's A. M. L. church this afternoon. The obituary will be published in next week's issue of the Bystander. The Model Drug has just received a shipment of the original High-Brown face powder—only 25c. Welish to thank the many friends for the consoling words and prayers throuh the illness and bereavement of our at. Mrs. Ella Boone. Mr and Mrs. Frank Shelton Proam Sunday morning Sunday April Org voluntary, Mrs. M. W. Alexander. Prai Pastor. Sontoly, Holy, Holy. 1. Scribe Reading. Songhrist Arose. 307. Songhrist is Risen, Mrs. John Bell. Serr. Solraise the Lord, Mr. H. W. Hughey. Offery. Viol Solo, Berceau, Mr. L. J. Shelto. Sund School at 12 o'clock. A very fine pram has been prepared by the pramstheatra. Come and spend an inspirirth with this busy progressive Sut School. In thvening Prof. Darius Cobb, the grexist who painted the famous picture christ, will lecture and exhibit great drawing at 7:30 p. m. Everyday to come out early and bring friends. Missah M. Jones of North High school bending her Easter vacation inton at the home of her parents and Mrs. E. F. Jones. The Guild of the A. M. E. church, hold their next meeting with McGunn, at 1180 Eleventh street, members are requested to be press I am the man. As a stalwart for burns, sores, sore nails and chapped hands Chambralivein is most excellent. It allays pain of a burn almost instantly unless the injury is very severe the parts without leave. State Capitol Bldg Hist Meal Room WA t her nice- The Corinthian Altar Guild club met with C. Rone, 1420 Crocker street. A pleasant time. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Richard Johnson on Park street, at which tile an entertainment will be given. THE LYCEUM The Des Moines Negro Lyceum will meet next week with Miss Eudy Jones at 1058 Fifth street and will review the fifth annual report of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as appears in the April Crisis. Mr. Darius Cobb, the noted artist and painter of New York, is in our city exhibiting his famous painting of Christ at the various white churches of our city this week, with a lecture on this famous painting and he has been secured to present the picture and lecture at the Union Congregational church next Sunday evening at 7:30 sharp. Admission free, and we would urge all colored person to see this great picture and hear he lectur Major Robert R. Morfon and a quartet of jubilee singers representing the Hampton Institute of Virginia will coduct the services at Corinthian Baptist church Sunday morning, April 14th. CORINTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH. Easter Sunday— Morning subject, "Adam and Christ, or Living and Making Alive." Sunday school exercises follow morning service. Afternoon—The Knights Templar service, for which the sermon subject is, "The Crusades and the Holy War." 6:30—B. Y. P. U. 7:30—Easter song service by the choir. NOTICE King Solomon Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar, will observe the resurrection of our Lord and Savior by appropriate service at Corinthian Baptist church on Sunday, April 4th, at 2 p. m., to which the public is cordially invited. All air knights will assemble at the asylum in full uniform promptly at 1:30. By order of S. Joe Brown. Eminent Commander. W. A. A. C. P. The regular monthly meeting of the executive committee, including all elected officers of the Des Moines branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will be held at the residence of Mrs. J. T. McClain, secretary, 1327 Crocker street, Monday, April 5th, at 8 p. m. By order of S. Joe Brown, Chairman. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH SUNDAY SERVICES. 777 W. Eleventh street. 10:30 a. m.-Easter services by Sunday school. 11:30 a. m.-Address by pastor, "The Relation of the Resurrection to the Life of the Child." 10:30 p.-Preaching. The pastor will deliver the closing sermon for the conference year. Subject, "Advancement in the Christian Life." 8 p. m.-Song service by choir. Annual report, and closing address by the pastor. Sunday closes the conference year. Every member is expected to be present at some one or all three services during the day. If you miss the service you will miss a great spiritual treat. FIRST CUMMINS CLUB To Buxton, Iowa, a colored mining camp, belongs the honor of organizing the first club. Now, therefore be it resolved that we hereby permanently organize the "Cummins for Presidency epublican Club" No. 1. And that we hereby pledge to Hon. Albert B. Cummins, United States senator from Iowa, our support for his nomination as president of these United States by the republican national convention of nineteen hundred and sixteen (1916). Resolved that we pledge ourselves to use every honorable means within our power to secure his nomination and insure his election. Resolved that we hereby invite Senator Cummins to address this club and the people of Buxton at his earliest convenience and that the officers of this club take steps to make proper arrangements for such meeting. Hon. Geo. H. Woodson presented the resolution, which was adopted unanimously, Dr. E. N. Carter is president. J. W. Nely is secretary. We congratulate the Buxton republicans and we shall certainly do all in our power for his nomination if he is to candidate. NEW BOOK. raca- her s. I. E. tenth and to ores, nam- ers in very deev. male knowledge the receipt of a very interesting book. "The Cheoctaw Freedman," by R伯特 E. Flickinger of Rockwell City, Iowa, is the name of a new book just printed, dealing with the early history of the five civilized tribes of Indians and the Bible in the public schools. France a half century without the Bible is indeed a very thou- ough and most interesting reading. The author is a retired Presbyterian minister. Below we publish a comment: Washington, D. C., Mar. 17, 1915 Robert E. Flickenger, Dockwell City, Iowa. My Dear Brother: I wish to ac- quire knowledge the receipt of a very interesting book. "The Cheoctaw fishing flavor that poor animal was enough to afford food" leaves to the eyes of the most Freedmen" of which you are the author. It is remarkably well done and gives a great deal of exceedingly instructive and encouraging information. Your work has been intelligent and well directed and evidently very richly blessed. I have also read the chapters on the live the more things the sky pilot can say about you. A fellow likes to hear nice things about himself even if he is dead. Do not let your life be determined by what Mr. or Miss Weisinheimer says. They are wearing pinching boots and like to see them on every one. Then when they persuade you Master Charles what indisposed week. There will be a little folks night at St. John. DAVENP MRS. FRANCE B "Bible in the Public Schools" and endorse heartily all the claims made therein. The book must do a great deal of good, it gives valuable history, and reflects great credit upon you and your associates. A PICTURE. Oh if I could paint a picture I would paint it mold and clear. I would paint a white man's cottage with his children blithe and gay And I'd paint a Negro's dwelling where his pickinies play. I would paint the glare of hatred hurled at this downtwisted race I would show the shame and sorrow on each pickinny's face. Shunned by those who should protect them, crushed, subdued to grief and shame; I would draw the picture plainly, showing those who are to blame. Those who brought to this country For the sake of greed and gain. I would draw those false tongued rascals to perfection clear and plain. I would paint the politician with his streamers all afloat. Through deceit and promised pledges scheming hard to get their vote. Then I'd paint there in the background a fair country broad and wide. And I'd call this country "Refuge," where all Negroes could abide Without snubs, sneers or oppression all would have an equal show. And I'd write there in the distance freed from hatred, grief and war. One seet from time to time souls that lighten the burdens of life and increase our faith in the belief that we were created to be happy. The smile is not one of affection, the happiness that radiates from the expression and cheerful words seems to infect and one goes on his way rejoicing. It is as easy to be happy as sad; it is as natural for us to be cheerful as it is for the sun to shine; all depends on the point of view. goes on his way rejoicing. It is as easy to be happy as sad; it is as natural for us to be cheerful as it is for the sun to shine; all depends on the point of view. There seems to be a species of biped that gets a morbid enjoyment out of continued complaints; of them it is not my want to speak. It is a mental habit, it is a matter of spiritual eyesight, it is a question, largely of association. Some people affect one like a cold, drizzling rain; others are like a breath of violets born by the gentle zephyr of spring. Gives us our relatives; a man can't help who his brothers and aunts are, but to offset this calamity one may choose his friends and associates. Upon them more than any other one factor depend character and happiness. When a fellow has a tear in his voice, with his wishbone where his backbone ought to be, and he wears mentally blue spectacles he will wish gleam on you unless you outrun him or talk in sign language; then even one must stutter and be deaf in the eyes to escape the calamity. Most people think they are getting along fine until some idiot wises them up to the fact that they do not know how to live, and that life is going by a torrent while they dream. Look out for Mr. or Miss Wiesinheimer. They are putting the skids under your happiness and putting you on the toboggan of despair. If you like you Wiesinheimer's hat it should be from not one of our minds, from what Miss Wiesinheimer to have, when you have to pay the bills. If you get mental discipline and glad feelings playingiddle-de-winks every evening, you should worry because Miss Wiesinheimer thinks you ought put on your American Lady and go to all the movies. One friend that makes you happy is worth a dozen that find fault with you and make you miserable with your present state. Half the extravagances are not from one's desire, but spring from a determination to get the other fellows ideas and go him one better. A silk dress won't make a frump look artistic, nor will a muslin one detract a bit of beauty. It is better to have a thing one can afford than to get something that makes you feel like wishing for the money. If one cannot be happy in a cottage, a palace would bring small joy. If they call you old-timey, perhaps Old Time will be more kind to you. A few simolans in the Des Moines National are better than some amount decorating your anatomy. Of course you go to die, fall, or have amnesia to you live the more things the sky pilot can say about you. A fellow likes to hear nice things about himself even if he is dead. Do not let your life be determined by what Mr. or Miss Weisheimer says. They are wearing pinching boots and like to see them on every one. Then when they persuade you to do the thing they have done they sit up with you and tell you how happy you can be and tell you the habit of cheerfulness. When they want you to hang your pace go off and have a good laugh, for misery like company, lots of it. You can choose your friends and if you let a lot of gloom carriers wish it on you it is your own fault. SCANDIA, IOWA. (Special to the Bystander.) Rev. J. E. Roberts, pastor of the Mt. Zion church of Scandia held services here today. Morning subject, "Last Resort." Ps. 107. Evening he took his text from John 5:6. Subject, "Are You Willing." Both morning and evening services were inspiring. A wonderful progress is being made in the religious movement at this place since our pastor has been with us. Also our Sunday school is rapidly progressing Mrs. Stella Overton, superintendent. George W. Montague, assistant superintendent; Miss Vassie English, secretary; Bro. Wm. Moore, president. Mr. Tom Smith is on the sick list at this writing. Bro. C. L. Martin, 66 years of age, is also on the sick list. Miss Violet Montague, who was recently married to Mr. C. A. Anderson, are expecting to make their future home on a farm near Des Moines. ST. PAUL, MINN. Pilgrim Baptist church Easter services: 10 a. m. —Covenant meeting. All members are urgently requested to take part in the service. 11 a. m. —Preaching. Subject, "The Resurrection of Christ." Special music by junior choir. 12:30 p. m. —The Lord's Supper will be administered. 1 p. m. —Sunday school. G. \W. Wills, superintendent. 6:45 p. m. —The B. Y. P. U. Mrs. mrsse M. M. president Fancee M. nurrall president. B p.m. A service of songs, given by the song choir. Each number to be rendered is the production of Negro composers. Organ prelude, S. Coleridge Taylor. By Mr. Robert Strong, organist. Invocation, pastor. Anthem, "The Lord Is My Strength" (S. Coleridge Taylor), senior choir of Pilgrim Baptist church. Scripture lesson, by Rev. B. N. Murrell, pastor. Solo, "Dear Lord" (DeKoven Thompson), Mrs. Ruth Currie. Anthem, "Come Unto Me" (Harry T. Burleigh), senior chair. Quartet, "Deep River" (Harry T. Burleigh), Miss Lenora Barkalea, Mrs. Hattie E. Hall, Mr. E. Edward Hall, Mr. John Henley. Solo, "Eternal Light" (W. E. Wier) by Mrs. Homer Goings. Anthem, "Lift Up Your Heads" (S. Coleridge Taylor), senior chair. Solo, "Through Peace To Light" (Harry T. Burleigh), by Miss Gladys Wright. Offertory, "Elegy," organ selection (S. Coleridge Taylor), by Mr. Robert Strong, Pilgrim organist. Chorale, "Lord Of All" (S. Coleridge Taylor), senior chair. Mr. Robert Strong, organist of Pilgrim Baptist church of Pilgrim Baptist church BURLINGTON, IOWA The B. J. Progressive club was entertained on Monday afternoon by Mrs. Eliza Ashby. The ladies spent a pleasant hour crocheting and discussing other kinds of fancy work. The hostess served an appetizing luncheon, assisted by her little niece, Miss Constant Brown. Mrs. Eva Stevens entertained the Willing Worker club on Tuesday evening. After the regular routine of business a delicious luncheon was served. Mr. Scott White will entertain the club on Tuesday, April 5th, at the home of Mrs. L. M. Abel. Mrs. Squire Henderson is confined to her bed with a broken leg, the result of a twenty foot fall from a back porch at her home, 135 N. Front street. She was removed to the home of Mrs. Josie Bland, 136 S. Sixth street, where she will remain until her recovery. Mrs. Ida Burris, who was called here to attend the funeral of her brother-in-law, Joseph Watkins, left Monday for her home in Chicago. A party of friends gave Mr. Wm. Stevens a very pleasant birthday surprise Monday, evening, March 29th. Music, games and a five-course luncheon were features of the evening's enquiry. Miss Lola Brooks is convalescing from a severe attack of la ripple. Master Charles Hedge was somewhat indisposed several days this week. There will be a special program by the little folks on Easter Sunday night at St. John's A. M. E. church. DAVENPORT NOTES Mrs. Frances Baker's Sunday school class of the Third Baptist church gave an entertainment Friday night, the 19th institute, which was very successful financially. Mrs. Munson of Monmouth, Ill., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John Hurris, of 617 Eternn avenue. Mr. Frank Brown has returned from a visit to his father in Keokuk. Rev. Sims left this morning for Aurora, Ill., to attend the district conference. Mr. Grant Hart of Judson street was thrown from a street car and hurt, but not seriously. Mr. Ferd Bynum has been sick, but is able to be in. She裴 Miss Irene She裴, wh has been sick for two and one-half months, was able to be out on the porch for the first time Sunday. The E. L. D. club is holding a sewing bee at Bethel A. M. E. church for the poor children for Easter. The T. L. O. club gave a social last Wednesday night, the proceeds to be used for charity. Mrs. Eugene Perkins of W. Tenth street has returned home from Quincy, where she was in attendance at the bedside of her mother-in-law. The stewardess board of Bethel A. M. E. church gave an entertainment last Wednesday evening. they rendered a very good program and cleared a neat sum. Mr. Alec Richardson, who is quite !!, is resting 'easy' at this writing. ALBIA NEWS. Mr. John Hayes visited in Keokuk a few days of the past week. Mr. Johnson and Clinton Taylor of Hiddle were in Albia over Sunday. Mrs. M. F. Ward and Mrs. Allie Bowman have been quite sick. Mrs. Bowman has been down with lung fever. Mrs. Geo. Nightengale and Mrs. Andrew Storval of Hiteam were in Albia on Saturday. Mr. Henry Jones was an Ottumwa visitor and business man on Sunday and Monday. Mr. Henry Harris went to Buxton to visit her sister over Sunday and a few days. The Sewing Circle club met at the home of Mrs. Mabel Robinson in Hocking on Monday. A number of Albians went down. Needlework with sewing has been taken up. A lunch was served by Mrs. Robinson. Messrs. Oscar Burges and Jackson of Buxton stopped in this city en route from Chicago to Buxton. Messrs. John Thomas and Cornelius Miller were Hocking visitors this week. Mr. and Mrs. Harris Bates of Hiteam were in Albia on Saturday and visited with Mrs. Jameson. Mr. Will Rhodes of Buxton was in Albia on Saturday on business. Mesdames Arthur Williams and Moses Arthur mines were in Albia on Thursday. Last Saturday evening, March 13, the grim reaper of death visited our community and removed fm our mist another of our good citizens in the person of Mr. Henry Bowman. The funeral services were conducted from the A. M. 1 e. church Monday afternoon, March 15 at 2:30 p. m., conducted by Rev. N. R. Morgan, pastor of the church, who read the following obituary: Henry Bowman was born; in Mercer county, Kentucky, August 7, 1858, and died March 13, 1915 at 7:50 p. m. at his home at 322 North Clinton street. He came to Albia, Iowa, in 1888 and in January, 1890, was united in marriage to Miss Allie Marshall. To this union five children were born, namely Earl W. Bowman of Des Moines, Mrs. Ezzoe Hollingsworth, Neil Bowman and Floy Bowman of Albia and Beulah, who preceded him in death, and Miss Mattie Bowman of Des Moines, a daughter by a former marriage. He was a good citizen, a kind neighbor, a dutiful husband and a loving father. He leaves to mourn his death a wife and five children, a mother, Mrs. Georgette Bowman, of Burgin, Ky, and a brother, Marshall Bowman, of Burgin, Ky, and a host of friends. Splendid for Rheumatism. "I think Chamberlain's Liniment is just splendid for rheumatism" writes Mrs. Dunburgh, Eldridge, N. Y. "It has been used by myself and other members of my family time and time again during the past six years and has always given the best of satisfaction." The quick relief from pain which Chamberlain's Liniment affords is alone worth many times the cost. Obtainable everywhere. CLARINDA, IOWA Mrs. Laura Jones entertained a party of sixteen to a supper at her home Thursday in honor of Miss S. Lee. Mrs. Tillie Lee entertained Rev. and Mrs. D. W. Brown on Friday at luncheon. Mrs. L. W. Blythe continues ill at the home of N. H. Pemberton. Mrs. Tillie Lee entertained the ladies of the A. M. E. Sewing circle. (This Week.) Mrs. D. W. Brown is very ill at her home. Mrs. Lottie Williams, entertained the Ladies' Federation on Tuesday. Miss Peterson gave an excellent address on W. C. T. U. work at the Baptist church Thursday night. Miss Jessie Baker is visiting friends in Buxton. Mrs. Ruth Bright, G W. M., of Davenport visited Rose of Sharon O. E. S. No. 16 of Clarinda March 24th. Her visit was a great treat to the order. After her grand lecture to the members a two-course lunch was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Henry Johnson and daughter, Mabel, of Gravity, came over to the O. E. S. meeting and Mrs. Bright went home with them, where she will be entertained at their home. Rev. D. W. Brown pastored in Beford on Sunday last. Miss Frances Mitchell has been unable to attend high school the last week on account of illness. Mr. Lewis Arnett and daughter, Elnora, visited friends in Kansas City and St. Louis the past week. Ms. Laura Letcher of Nebraska City is visiting her mother, Mrs. Howard Moss. Mr. Wm. Moss, brother of Howard Moss, has purchased property here and will soon move his family here. ST. JOSEPH. MO. Special musical programs will be given at the various churches Sunday, and being Easter a large attendance is expected. Hear the special music and sermons. It is reported that one of our St. Joseph young ladies will be married in Des Moines within a few days. The annual sermons of the H. of J. was held at the Francis Street Baptist church last Sunday morning and the K. of P. in the theatrery. Rev. G. L. Prince delivered both sermons to a very large and appreciative audience. A number of the young ladies gave a dancing party at the Masonic hall last Tuesday night and a pleasant time was enjoyed by those present. Mr. John Simms, Jr., a student at K. U., will spend his Easter vacation with his parents in this city. Mr. T. Winn and Wm. Alexander have established a "jitney service" in which a large seven-passenger automobile is being used. They expect to have another car in service in a short time, so when in need of an auto for parties or jitney" service let them own it. Mr. G. L. Prince and family have removed to 2515 Jones street. In a week or ten days it is said that another new business enterprise will open for business, a dressmaking and millinery establishment, and Mr. L. F. Ramsey, president of the Negro Business Men's League (Inc.), is pleased to know that members of our race are entering in new commercial enterprises, and says the league will render them all the assistance that their charter will allow. A number of persons expect to attend the oratorio, "The Seven Last Words of Christ" ((by Dubois), to be given at Allen chapel church, Kansas City, Mo, tonight by the combined singers of Western university chorus and Allen Chapel choir. R. G. Jackson, director, and N. Clark Smith, orchestra conductor. Dr. O. N. Gnows expects to spend Easter Sunday with his parents at Kansas City, Kans. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. From a small beginning the sale and use of this remedy has extended to all parts of the United States and to many foreign countries. When you have need of such a remedy give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a trial and you will understand why it has become so popular for coughs, colds and croup. Obtainable everywhere. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., of the Iowa State Bystander Co., published weekly at Des Moines, Iowa, required by the act of August 24, 1912. Editor, John L. Thompson, Des Moines, Iowa. Managing editor, John L. Thompson, Des Moines, Iowa. Business manager, John L. Thompson, Des Moines, Iowa. Publisher, John L. Thompson. John L. Thompson. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of April, 1915. J. H. Kelley, Notary Public Polk County, Iowa. My commission expires July 1, 1915 Chase & West Saturday Only Regular $6 Mattresses $3.75 Price Five Cents TENANT FARMERS AND LANDLORDS PERILOUS TIMES PREDICTED Undue Persistence in Cotton Growing at the Expense of Other Products Creates Monopoly For Money Lenders—W. J. Cummings Relates Story of His Trip Through Texas. Before the end of 1915 we will see "night riding" in the south that will make the Kentucky tobacco war look like a church social, is the prediction of W. J. Cummings of Detroit, Mich. While on a business trip to Texas and Mexico Mr. Cummings wrote a letter to his business partner, F. C. Norris, which appeared in a recent issue of the Cleveland (O.) Gazette. He thinks that the south will experience grave troubles before the clearing of the acute situation forced upon the cotton planters by the war which is not going on in Europe. According to Mr. Cummings, the sponsibility for the trouble rests in the tenant farmer, who does not know how to grow anything but cotton, and the Texas banker, who, it is alleged, has built up a system of usury to bleed the cotton grower through loans of 12 to 20 per cent. Mr. Cummings makes the following statement in his letter to Mr. Norris: "Among the farmers in Texas 54 per cent are tenant farmers, very largely of the nomadic, wandering type. This forces the landlord to play safe, and as it is hard to steal the cotton crop he will insist upon cotton being grown. On a 100 acre lease they will have nine acres of cotton and ten acres of corn—no space for pasture, no garden patch, no plaq. The renter has no money, and not growing any food, he buys everything on credit. Money loans at 12 to 20 per cent and credit supplies at 100 per cent. A very large percentage of the tenant's efforts go to pay usury. Both landlord and tenant suffer by the system. "The farmers absolutely refuse to listen to advice, but blindly continue to grow cotton. The agricultural department has been telling farmers for the last fifteen years to grow other crops. Their talk went unheeded. You will understand how grave the situation is when I tell you that there are more dogs than hogs in Texas; that out of a butter consumption of $12,000,000 in Texas she produces only about $3,000,000 herself. "I was in Athens, Tex., a few weeks ago. This would make an ideal dairy country. This town is about 4,000. Yet the restaurant keeper could buy only two pounds of butter in a whole week. This black belt valley land is absolutely the most fertile land in the world, and yet if a hog tight fence were built around this Brazos valley every person in here would starve to death in sixty days. The Texas legislature has refused to pass any law forcing the reduction of cotton acreage. Other states will follow Texas' lead because this state produces 38 per cent of the United States crop. "Cotton reduction will now become a private enterprise, and before the end of 1915 we will see 'night riding' in the south that will make the Kentucky tobacco war look like a church social. We have many fancy plans proposed. Some of them are pure fancy. Take the plan of Mr. Henry that the United States issue $230,000,000 of money or something that looks like money to valorize cotton at 10 cents a pound. Did you ever hear such tommyrot? "The next agency is the bank. That term in Texas is a misnomer. The bulk of the fraternity are not bankers; they are pawnbrokers in disguise. For twenty-five years they have been educating the Texan to pay 10, 12, 15 and even 20 per cent for money. Having built up such a system, do you think for a moment that they are going to let the people down here know that there is such a thing as 5 or 6 per cent money in the whole world? "Of course the bankers down there are loaning money on cotton. They have to do so. They will make a loan of $10 on a 500 pound bundle, charging 12 to 18 per cent and taking it off in advance. We are safe in assuming that no real help will come from the southern banker. The war forced the closing of 90,000,000 cotton spindles, practically two-thirds of 150 per cent entire cotton capacity. 140 per cent of the English market should be able to borrow, but would still leave about one-half of the world's spinning capacity idle. The present fighting is in the very heart of the French and Belgian spinning districts. "If we assume that the United States and Canada will consume during the next twelve months 7,000,000 bales, Great Britain 2,000,000 bales and allow 1,800,000 bales for the balance of the countries using American cotton we get an estimated total consumption of 10,800,000 bales for the season of 1914-15. To this add an estimated demand for 4,000,000 bales produced in foreign countries, and we have an estimated consumption of 14,800,000 bales as an average normal worker's output of 91,000 bales." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Three judges of the United States circuit court of appeals listened with respect interest to the plea of a Negro attorney, a one-time slave, who appeared before them in the Federal building at St. Louis. Probably few in the courtroom realized until he started his argument that a gray-haired Negro sitting near the front was a noted lawyer who has appeared before every United States judge in the central district in many funerals trials. The attorney, Turner W. Bell, represented three men who are confined to the federal penitentiary at Leavitt County, serving sentences convictions of the famous structural iron workers' dynamiting cases two years ago. Bell fingered his brief as he attaining to the argument of Assistant United States District Attorney I, S. Survey of the eastern district of Kansas, representing the government. He had spoken but a few words, however, when the crowd knew that such incidents evidently were in the every day life of the Negro lawyer. The men represented by Bell are white and were given sentences of six years at Indianapolis in December, 12. They were convicted of being implicated in more than one hundred dynasties cases, including the destruction of the Times building in Los Angeles, in half of the states of the United States. They were at one time owners of the organization of which J. McNamara was a member and he is now serving a life sentence California. Bell represented the men in the United States district court in Kansas at July and was defeated. He apologized. Bell's chief contention is that the men could legally have been convicted but on one charge under the revised statutes of the United States, and that the maximum penalty should have been but two years in the penitentiary or a fine of one. They were charged with having transported dynamite throughout the country, and with the blowing up of a bridge at Indianapolis. Bell has been a practicing attorney in Leavenworth 28 years. His "hobby," as told, is appeal cases. In 1574 he filed 61 appeals in the case of the death of his uncle, who was unsecured, in 41 of them. In but two cases were his clients Negroes. Bell was born a slave in Tennessee he was taken with his parents to Dakota, Ia., when young, and earned enough money to carry him through a course in law. The day he was admitted to the bar, at Leavenworth, United States Judge Hook was in the courtroom, and Bell considers Judge Hook one of his best friends. Among famous appeals in which Bell has been successful was the case of Charles A. Stevens, a wealthy Negro city, of Kansas City, who stole a mail mack containing $55,000. Stevens' sentence was reduced from ten to five years. As his fee Bell received $13,000. For the first time in about a dozen years mackerel have been caught in the New Haven waters. In recent years porpoises are believed to have driven them away, but in the last month thousands of mackerel have been caught. The Supreme court, speaking through the chief justice, denied the appeal taken by the state of Illinois in the case of John B. Gaskill against the Forest Home Cemetery company of Chicago, which has become historical. Gaskill is a Negro who purchased lot in the cemetery, but was denied permission to bury a member of his family there by the trustees of the cemetery after they made the discovery that the purchaser was a Negro. A bill for the relief of Gaskill passed the Illinois legislature some years ago, but was revoed by the governor on the advice of the attorney general. The case was dismissed by Chief Justice White on the ground that no federal question was involved in the judgment rendered by the supreme court of Illinois, which found against Gaskill. In the opinion of an English scientist, the wear of macadam roads is not due to the suction of automobile tires, but almost entirely to the crushing effect of horseshoe and iron-tired wheels. In view of prevailing high prices for necessities in Santiago, Chile, it is assumed to establish municipal provision shops there at an initial cost of $800,000. The neighbor says S. W. Featheringham's initials stand for "Southwest Wind." "The southwest wind," they explain, "blows nearly all the time." Every member of the family of Sir Peter Letbridge of England has gone to night, the women to nurse. There are times when it is easy to write to a brief for honest toll, the best member of the party implied in fixing the clock that blew up in Los Angeles Times was arrested recently. The volume is necessary for the effusive response to "double in brass." Because no longer is the achieve-ment wise. The loose, fragment example Ell Williamson (colored) ninety years old, for many years a licensed pilot, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. B. Fain, in Washington, following an illness lasting only five days. For half a century Williamson had followed the sea before he retired and made his home in Washington. He served in the navy and in the merchant marine. He became a skillful pilot and was the first colored man to obtain a first-class license at the United States custom house at Norfolk, Va. Captain Williamson, as he was known to his friends, was born in Murfreesboro, N. C., December 23, 1824, the son of Trial and Winnie Williamson, who had been a noted shoemaker and had bought his freedom from his master by making fine shoes. Ell Williamson's freedom came to him from his grandfather. When he was a youth Williamson went to live with a family of Quakers, who taught him to read and write, to the fishing nets and to rig seines for large fisheries. This gave him a taste for the sea which never left him. He enlisted in the United States navy and served faithfully. After leaving the navy Williamson entered the merchant service, and when the Civil war broke out he was chief pilot on the steamer Curlew. It was pressed into the service of the Confederacy and later was sunk. Williams was highly regarded by the officers under whom he sailed. He did much to aid in the uplift of his race, and was the founder of the Cool Spring church at Franklin, Va. He married Miss Emmaline Hunter of Virginia. Ten children were born to them, five growing to maturity. One son, the late W. E. Williams of Norfolk, Va. died February 1, 1916, of cancer, daughters, Emmaline, Vera, Mrs. Katherine, Red, Mrs. Sea Bird Faire, and Mrs. Emma Gray, survive him. For the last five years Captain Williams had made his home in Washington with his daughter, Mrs. Faire. Burial was in Harmony cemetery beside the body of Wife wife, who died March 14, 1911. It is true, of course, that Professor Just is not only the colored man to do scientific work of a high order, nor the only colored teacher ready to labor for a pittance in order to aid the education of his people. But the honor bestowed upon him is worth while merely if it recalls to public attention once more the fact that no one can measure the contributions colored Americans are certain to make to our common civilization, and not merely in the fields in which lie their peculiar talents. It was a colored physician who first ventured an operation on the living heart; a colored painter is in the front rank of his art as the delinellar of Biblical scenes; no composer of recent years won greater honors than Coleridge Taylor, the negro Any policy, therefore, which should be applied to the characters of the race must be a grave loss to humanity as a whole. No one would think, in any country outside Russia, of refusing to Jewish genius the fullest play in every field. Yet we continue to hear, not only in the South, but in the North as well, repeated assertions that anything except common schooling is out of place for the colored people.—New York Evening Post. The highest determined point in Florida is Mount Pleasant, 301 feet above sea level, according to the United States geological survey. The approximate average elevation of the state is 100 feet above the sea. All-stair cars are being experimented with on several railways in India. Metal freight cars have long been in use, but passenger cars have usually been built of teak wood resting on steel under-frames. Mrs. Kate Penner and Gertrude Pendel, English nurses connected with the Constantinople hospital, have received Red Cross medals from the German emperor for gallant service during the Balkan war. If you wish to interest idle men circulate the story that the hull of a suken ship is full of treasure. If you wish to excite them circulate the story that it is full of fine whisky. The yellow poplar, or tulip tree, the largest broadleaf tree in America, has been known to reach nearly 200 feet in height and ten feet in diameter. During courtship a girl thinks marriage is a haven of rest in which she will be free from worry and cars. After marriage she has another think coming. The new poison extracted from seeds of the castor oil plant by a German chemist is said to be so powerful that a single gram would kill a million and a half guinea pigs. Probably the fastest journey is that negotiated by a prize fighter who is on his way back to obscurity. In Stockholm the street car conductors sell hat pin protectors for a half-penny apiece to all women who wish to buy. It is estimated that throughout the world blind men outnumber blind women in the proportion of two to one. There are 41,046 miles of electric railway tracks in the United States. The low down white man is the Ne WHAT THE WAR MAY EFFECT Some Good Possible to Come Out of the Frightful Destruction Now Going On. Is the war a "dreadful catastrophe?" Members of the western branch of the World Presbyterian alliance objected to the designation and voted it out of a resolution. Their view was that the present European struggle might be ordained of God and designed for the betterment of the world. Perhaps that view may be correct, but we shall have to wait for the verdict of history. One authority has made the computation that it took 3,000 battles to win liberty of conscience, thought and speech. If so, the result was worth the cost. The war was through the wars of Algeria, the Great and the wars of modern government were laid by the conquests of Julius Caesar. There is a great difference of opinion as to whether the Crusades achieved any good, and the beneficent effects of the Napoleonic wars are difficult to discover. Perhaps the very best result that we may expect from the present conflict is that it will demonstrate war to be too costly, too barbaric, too inconclusive a method of settling international differences to be indulged in again. All who have watched the casualty lists, heard of the sufferings of the noncombatants, calculated the loss of industrial efficiency or depleted the resources of cathedrals, museums, universities and other art treasures will at least hope that such may be its influence on the nations of the world. MANY REFUGEES IN IRELAND Belgians Being Well Taken Care Of by Hospitable People of That Country. The fact that many Belgian refugees are being cared for in Ireland is disclosed in a letter received by a Brooklyn woman from her daughter, now in London, who says: "The Belgian refugees are being well taken care of in Ireland. I have seen something of them in Dublin and Cork. In Cork they are under the direct control of a Miss O'Brien and a competent committee. Miss O'Brien gives a rich sympathy and undersending to her work that already brings some hope to these sad people. "in one house in Cork—a municipal lodging house—there were 68 old men and women, middle-aged, young people, children and babies—two born since their mothers arrived in Cork. They are all peasants from the small villages near Lourvain and Aerschot. A prosperous farmer, having possessed one costing 500 francs, left with his wife two or three days before the arrival of the Germans, the priest telling them to seek a place of safety. He has neither seen nor heard of his children or grandchildren since he left Belgium. The poor old man won't wear an overcoat; he says it's so heavy he couldn't walk to Belgium in the rain; the refugees refuse to go to Ireland; he fears they fear they will never get back to Belgium."—Brooklyn Eagle. Candy From the Fields: One of the latest promises from modern discoveries is that the candy of the future may be grown in the fields. Alfalfa is the medium. A man who owns food mills in Idaho and Montana announces that he can make at least seventy-five different kinds of candy from alfalfa. There is also a mill in California that makes meal from alfalfa, which is for the raw material of the candy maker. A rich grade of sirup may also be made from alfalfa. The discoverer is so enthusiastic over the results of his alfalfa research that he is planning for the manufacture of alfalfa flour, which he will use to flour the flours for baking. This mill will probably be ready in six months. He has a mill in Idaho that has been making a balanced food for live stock out of alfalfa. If the candy experiment turns out to be a reality, there may be expected a large increase in the acreage of the planting. Deserted Egypt Mourns Egypt is suffering greatly from the European war. There is no season this year. The pleasant parties at Cairo and Alexandria are missing and the picnics, the little tours, the journeys up the Nile have all ceased to be. There are only the English, who must be here, and a few French, but no Germans or Austrians, no Italianes, and above all, mournful to state, no Americans. Most of the big hotels are closed. The Grand Connational and Shepherd's are open, but the Savoy, the Semiramis and the Gheizheir Palace will not open this year. Helouan is desolate, with only one hotel and a pension open. A few hotels maintained by the aged inviolens who insist upon going there are open at Abasie, at Luxor and at Assuan. Egypt mourns from the donkey boys to the haughty matagers of its great hotels. Most Copper Produced Here. The United States is by far the largest copper producer in the world; in fact, we produce more than all the rest of the world together. The growth of the copper industry in the United States has been notable, according to figures compiled by the United States geological survey, in 224,000 pounds; in 1913 it was, 1,224,484,088. The total production of the United States from 1850 to 1913 was 18,857,476,910 pounds. Leeches From India. One consequence of the European conflict is a leech famine. The battlefields occupy some of the most fertile leech areas in the world. England is now importing consignments of leeches from India. These are of a different genus and species from those hitherto used in Europe, but are said to be equally efficacious. Demand Would Be Great. If all the fruits and flowers worn women's hats were the real thing, artists and gardeners would all be IOWA STATE BYSTANDER EASTER CELEBRATION IN GREEK COUNTRIES Intense Fervor and Devotion Shown in Easter Ceremonies—Places of Pilgrimage Numerous. In all the Greek orthodox countries—Russia, Roumania, Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro, and a large part of Austria-Hungary—Easter is celebrated with great fervor and devotion. The Easter kiss is a well-known incident of these celebrations. A curious story is told of Czar Nicholas II and the Easter kiss. On leaving his apartments one Easter morning he kissed the guard outside with the usual salutation, "Oh how to which the response is, "He is truly happy." But the man answered, "coolly, "He is not risen." The emperor was aghast, and saddled, furiously, "he is risen!" But the man, with the utmost composure, repeated his denial. He was a Jew! Only the emperor's sense of humor saved him. Russia, as the premier Greek Orthodox nation, is very much in evidence in the Holy Land, and of late years has asserted her supremacy in the Christendom of the Orient in many ways—not only by generous contributions in magnificent buildings and financially, but also politically in strengthening the position of the Greek church. Especially at Easter it is interesting to observe the contrasts which take on a certain political hue between Latins, Greeks, Protestants and Gregorians (Armenians). Protestant religious activity in Jerusalem, which at one time was largely English, has of late years been much strengthened by the influx of Turkic, especially Sufi, and great internal infiltrated in Palestine by Emperor William, who visited the Holy Land and Syriac sixteen years ago, and initiated political as well as considerable building activity as well as considerable building celebration has become a conspicuous feature of holy week in Jerusalem, but English and American endeavor has also increased to a remarkable extent. Away from the ecclesiastical ceremonial the pilgrim in Easter time seeks the traditional places where our Lord spent his last days and nights. Of these Gethsemane is the principal goal, and here the difference in creed among the many visitors is obliterated by an carnest and quiet devotion which is unexpectedly free from the emotional. Another figure has a prominent place in Easter celebrations in Jerusalem; that of Moses, whose liberation of the Jewish people from the yoke of Egypt is commemorated in the ancient Hebrew pascal feast. But it is not the Passover celebrated by the ancient Jewish colonies of Palestine—the older Jewish-speaking, the Turk-speaking people, the Arabs and other central Asiatic regions, the Arabic-speaking Jews from Yemen, and the Polish, Russian and German Jews of Yiddish tongue. It is not the Jewish Passover that is the most remarkable celebration in honor of the great leader and the Exoduq. There is a very little known Mohammedan education which, though no longer so general as formerly, is still a most interesting one. To the Mohammedan, it must be remembered, Jerusalem is a holy city, like Mecca and Medina, and there is a saying among Arabs, "Syria is the blessed country, Palestine the holy land, and Jerusalem, the holy city, is the holy of holies." The tradition is that Ommi Selma, wife of the prophet, heard these words one day from Mohammed: "He who AS WEARY WATCHES WORE AWAY- AT EARLY DAWN OF THE FIRST DAY THE FATWALF FRIENDS TISOMB APPROACHED THE LINEN WRAPS WERE LAID ABIDE- HE Could NOT IN THE GRAVE ABIDE, AND LO! THE TOMB WAS EMPTY THEY HAD NOT YET ANGENT HIM AND BY THEM STOOD A SERAPHIM UNTO THEIR NEEDS TO MINISTER WE WOULD HIS BODY NOW PREPARE WITH SPICES AND PERFUMES, MOST RARE Q FELL WHERE THOU HAST LAID HIM ```markdown ``` THE RINGEL ANSWERED . . . THE S NOT HERE YOUR LORD HAS CONQUERED EVERY FEAR, AND TRUMPED OVER PAIN AND WOE, NOW KNOW THAT DEATH DOES NOT END ALL THAT LIFE SURVIVES THE TOMB'S COLD TARRAL, AND HOPE SINGS SONGS SUPERNAL makes the pilgrimage from Jerusalem to Mecca will obtain forgiveness of sins, past and future, and will carn paradise." There is a pilgrimage at Easter time which does not go quite as far from Jerusalem as Mecca, but whose goal is the burial place of Moses—Nebi Musa—between the city and the Dead sea. Although, according to Christian and Hebrew belief, the Lord buried Moses, and his grave is hidden from the city, the authorities regard a certain ruined sanctuary, some three or four hours' distance from Jerusalem, as covering the romans of the prophet. In cosmopolitan charm Easter in Constantinople almost equals that in Jerusalem. The capital of the Turkish empire is, of course, in itself highly cosmopolitan, and there is no other city in the world where so many languages are heard in the streets, not by foreigners but by the variegated native population. The background is a city of the Middle East, as in Jerusalem, but Mohamedmed and Christian, with a strong tinge of Spanish Jewry. Of the native Christians the Greeks predominate, but there has always been a very numerous Armenian element in Constantinople. The magnificent Greek Orthodox ceremonial well reflects the towering strength of that church in the Levant, which for centuries, under the absolute rule of the Ottoman sultans, acted in the capacity of imperial overseer of the Christian peoples under Turkish sway. Until the comparatively recent rise of the Balkan nationalities—Roumanian, Servian, Bulgarian, Montenegrin—Greek was the language of all cultured people of orthodox faith outside of Russia and Austria-Hungary. And Greek intellectual, social and political control through the unifying power of the Greek church was more complete under Ottoman rule than it had been under the Byzantine emperors. Recent events have once more shown the force of the people of Greek speech. Through the,breaking away of the Bulgarian church and the erection of a Bulgarian exarchate, Greek in religion, but Bulgarian in speech and political aims, it had been temporarily weakened. Egg Always an Easter Symbol. No other festival on the calendar is the center of so many ancient and honorable usages as is that of Easter. The oldest of all of these still prevail in Saxony and Brandenburg, where old people, before dawn climb their neighboring hills to see the sun dance for joy. The most universal of all the pagan Easter institutions, however, are the symbols of the egg, the bun, and the hare—the three, and the greatest of them is the sacred symbol of the egg. The Egyptian god Ibs is bore on its head an ostrich egg. Henry VIII's gift from the pope was an ostrich egg in a case of silver flagrege. Parsees give out sacred eggs at their spring festivals. Lilies ARE LED BY GHOST USE NIAGARA FALLS Russians See Skobeleff at Their Head. Belief Said to Be in the Ranks That Great Commander Directs the Movements of the Armies Some Russian soldiers have declared they saw the figure of Skobleff on his white horse, leading their forces, as of old, into battle. To those who know the protound impression that wonderful man made on the Slavonic mind, there is no improbability in such a suggestion. Drawn so largely from a primitive peasantry, the vast host marshaled by the czar must contain multitudes whose childlike imaginations are quite capable of conjuring up their legendary hero in a form once more, warding off defeat and pointing to victory. Even with the less simple there may well be a long way to go, a fighter at head in that great struggle he predicted would happen, and in which he would do dearly have loved to play his part. It was while the Russo-Turkish war in 1877 was raging that, from the midst of official incompetence and corrupt favoritism, Skolebelt emerged as the magician to whose ward victory was ever obedient. Entirely by his own merits, without the advantage of illustrious birth, and against the opposition of a prejudiced court, he had won his general's capeullets before he was 33. After the fall of Plevna, his rapid passage of the Balkans in midwinter brought about the surrender of Turkey's last army in the field and this was speedily followed by the capture of Adrianople. He was already at the gates of Constantinople when Lord Beaconsfield intervened to prevent its occupation, and in the Berlin treaty that ensued Skolebelt ever professed to see the seeds of the harvest we are gathering today. As a soldier he created among his men an enthusiasm for his leadership comparable only to that won by Napoleon himself. A strict disciplinarian, visiting any breach of commands with merciless severity, he was the friend and companion of every rank, a comrade who shared their privations, fed from their camp pots and merrily chaffed one and all. He did not know the sensation of fear, and faced the utmost dangers with cool contempt. Yet always he bore a charmed life. Horses were at his beneath him, his affair at His hands was broken in his hand, but no missile ever found in his billet. The story grew in the army that he could not be wounded, and some were found to declare they were hit by bullets that could only have passed through him first. It was facts and fables like these, losing nothing in the telling, that made him the darling of the Russian people. BATHTUB FOR THE PIGS Receptacle in Which Their Hogships May They Hog their Hogships' Content A cement bathtub for pigs! That's the very latest thing in progressive stock raising. The piggy-wiggs can roll in all the mud they want to (and they want to roll in a lot of mud, you may be sure), but before retiring for the night they will have to take a bath. At the recent national convention of cement manufacturers in Chicago the THIS IS THE LIFE new cement hog wallow, saucer-crusted and ornamented in Grecian style—a true hog wallow de luxe—was the object of much attention. It is the only one of its appointments—such as they were—as the bath of an exclusive club. Landlord Bars Childless Supercilious landlords may refuse to rent houses to families with children, but not Frank McDonnell of Detroit. In fact, Landlord McDonnell will not rent his houses to childless parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Allen, who have just obliterated their first wedding anniversary, found a deal cottage on Bagg street, belonging to McDonnell. Everything seemed satisfactory to both parties until the owner agreed that the Allens had no children. "You cannot have the place," the landlord said. "I learned long ago that young couples without children move often. They never stay long in one place. It doesn't pay to rent to them. Only couples with children can live in my houses. Sorry, but that's my rule."—John Dispatch to Los Angeles Times British Military Effuente Wholesale enlistment in England is responsible for some Gilbertian situations. For instance, a woman writes to a newspaper to know what is the proper thing to do under the following curious circumstances: She has two sons in Lord Kitchener's army—one an officer, the other a man. On one occasion she wanted them to go to a theater, but military etiquette does not permit of officers and privates both seen together in public. Again, the brothers cannot meet their mother's guests at the dinner table for the same reason. Socially, when in multi, they rank alike, but nowadays uniform is obligatory on all occasions. Hence the tan to Be Utilized Without Affecting Beauty. Engineers Have Worked Out Scheme Which It Is Believed Will Give Results Without Necessity of Destroying the Falls. Nigara falls is to be put to work without affecting the scenic beauty of one of the world's wonders, a plan having been worked out to save and utilize from 75 to 80 per cent of the power now going to waste without outraging the artistic sensibilities of nature lovers. Two of the most important features of the fall, in a scenic way, are the deflection of light through the water as it curves over the crest, and the rising spray from the impact of the water at the base of the cliff, and both of these features are to be preserved. This is to be accomplished by an ingenious arrangement of penstocks by which portion of the water is as it falls from the crest. It lod through the turbine, and then discharged into the sheet of water at the foot of the cliff, care being taken not to divert enough of the water through the penstocks to impair the beauty of the falling sheet. The plan involves the building of a permanent concrete crest for the falls. A The Water is Caught by the Pen-stocks Below the Crest of the Falls, Led Through the Turbines, and Then Discharged at the Foot of the Cliff. to prevent future erosion, as well as the construction of a tunnel across the river back of the face of the cliff. To divert the water from successive sections so that this work can be done, dams are to be made by building crisps in the river above the fall, and then floating them down to a point near the crest and sinking them. After the work is completed, the dams are to be removed by blasting, or by unloading the crisps and folding them to a new site.—From Poular Mechanics. Dog's Grief Ties Up Mail A dog is wearing his lifter starvation over the gut of an older dog at Yeadon borough, and as result the United States mail departments are late for the first time in ten years, says a Philadelphia dispatch. Thinking dog is Colonel. His company, Collie, is dead and buried, and Colel is showing his grief by refusing to eat. The postmaster is seeking an arm to carry the mail the one mile from the Fernwood railroad station lthe Yeadon post office. Colonel anCollie have been doing it for the later years. Jerusalem's Canal. Archeologists are manifestly much interest in the discovery byron Rothschild's excavating party a water canal at Ophel, in Jeremiah, southeast of Temple place, wh is older than the famous canal King Hezekiah. It was also on a ground land level. The discovery thrombose light on the early water supply Jerusalem. The Rothschild exclosures are still in progress.—Indapolis News. To Train for War Crawl through the trench and an unfinished sewer excavation the slush and cutting wind of sleet storm. Touch off a few stifle dynamite from time to time to you unaware of the lack of reguilems, and have an obliging police employ his revolver occasionally in general direction. Four of early moralizing hours of this will a you forevermore a real neutrabillier's Weekly. In the Newest Mod And those rippling skirts ever shorter than the tight skirt the last few months, thereby dilding Mildy's feet and ankles. Fifte to eight inches from the g hang the flowing skirts, while herable styles may be followed-inlining the remainder of the cot. The cossack overdress is espe up-date, and in this the art pliaries are emphasized, somins being devoid of trimming. --- PREPARE AND USE VEGETABLES GRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT EXPERTS GIVE RESULTS OF STUDY AND EXPERIMENT. USING FLOWERS AND FRUITS Certain Species are Eaten as Vegetables—Garden Flowers for Cooking Purposes—Stale Cucumbers Are Bad for Digestion. Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture. It is not generally realized that there are certain flowers and fruits we prepare and eat as vegetables. The example is the portion of the cauliflower meat, namely the flower head, and the globe artichoke (quite a different plant from the Jerusalem artichoke which yields edible tubers) is another. Capers, casula buds and cloves are unexpanded power buds. Among the fruits that we use as vegetables may be mentioned the pumpkin, squash, cucumber, peppers, okra, eggplant and tomato, and very often the banana and more commonly the apple, for instance, in the old-fashioned fried apples often served with meat. Pickled Nasturtium Buds. Pickled Nasturtium Buds. Some of our popular garden flowers occasionally have been used for cooking purposes. Nasturtium buds are sometimes pickled, and as their flowers have a flavor like water cress, they are sometimes eaten in a salad. Orange flowers are well-known ingredients of cakes, creams and confectionery, being added for the flavor which they impart. Saffron and marigold petals once were considered important adjuncts in cookery, chiefly for the yellow color they imparted, and are often mentioned in old recipes for soups, etc. Saffron is still a staple in southern Europe and is grown in southern Europe squash blossoms and the tiny squash to which the blossom is attached are dipped in batter and fried, and locust flowers also are used for fritters in France, as are elder blossoms in Germany. Cooked squash flowers may be folded in an omelet. But such things have little food value in themselves, though they help to give variety to the diet. Sometimes rose petals, violets, and mint leaves are candied, but are used more for garnishing than for food purposes. Rose petals are used in the Orient for making a very sweet preserve. Violets are used in cookery for imparting a purple color, while a number of other colors are made from blossoms or leaves, the more common being spinach. Some highly-prized vining extracts are made from flowers; for instance, rose extract, orange flower water, and a syrup of violets. Nasturtium flowers are used like tarragon flavoring vinegar. Valuable Vegetable Fruits. Valuable Vegetable Fruits. The distinction between a fruit and a vegetable is not always easily made. On the borderland between the two are a number of valuable food plants which have appropriately been called vegetable. These vegetables have already been cited. This family furnishes the largest fruits of any known plants, some being over eight feet around and weighing more than two hundred pounds. The squash, both winter and summer varieties, vegetable marrow, cucumber, and melons, belong to this family. Careful cooking will make a great deal of difference in modifying the texture or flavor of squashes or pumpkins. The best of these are heavy in proportion to their size, having thick rather than thin flesh. Where the fibers are coarse, long cooking and straining will reduce them, and an excess of water may be evaporated. Where the shells are hard, bake or steam and then scrape out and mash the flesh. Baked in the pan with roast beef, mutton or other meats they gain an added flavor. The cooked, strained pulp of squash or pumpkin, in addition to its use for pies, is sometimes combined with milk or stock for soups, or is added to doughs like those of corn bread or muffins, or may be cooked with sugar and spices for marmalades. The summer squash is not always fully appreciated because often allowed to grow too large. Either variety, crookneck or turban, should be so tender that the seeds and skin are edible when cooked. Summer squashes may be cut in slicees and fried, though they are most commonly boiled. When fully grown they may be used like winter squash, skin and seeds being removed. Stale Cucumber Bad for Digestion. **Sweet Cucumber Salad for Digestion.** Many people do not eat cucumbers, because they fear they may cause indigestion. This is often true if the cucumber is stale, willed or overgrown. A fresh, light specimen thoroughly peels and left in cold water (some times salted) before serving, loses its bitter juices and is a palatable and usually healthful relish. The cucumber may be served as a salad by itself or to accompany fish or meats, or may be grated to add to rich sauces. Cut in strips it may be cooked, and served on toast like asparagus, and cooked in many other ways. The skin and seeds may be removed and the firm flesh used as a case for salads or, like pepper and tomato, filled with forcement and saked. A little onion cooked with treated cucumber improved it for many. The tomato is a vegetable fruit to which cookery owes much, although or many years it was supposed to be poisonous. It has been used in this country for less than a century, but is growth in popularity has been rapid. Tomatoes are used in combinations of soups, sauces, welches and a large variety of many dishes because their appetizing flavor makes many more mildly flavored food materials appetizing. The sour taste of the tomato is easy to citrate. sold, its distinctive flavor to special substances difficult to identify. The peeling of tomatoes may be easily removed if the tomatoes are plunged into boiling water for less than a minute, drained, and chilled over ice, if possible. They may then be peeled when needed. Perfectly ripe tomatoes may be scraped with the back of a knife to loosen the skin, which then will peel easily, but this is less rapid than the scalding process. If cooked tomatoes are to be strained, it is unnecessary to peel them before stewing, as the skin will remain in the strainer with the seeds. Some persons believe that immersion in hot water injures the appearance and flavor of the tomato and peel them without this treatment. Many persons prefer to serve tomatoes unpeeled, particularly the hot-house tomato or other varieties with thin, tender skins. If this is done, the tomatoes, like all other fruits or vegetables eaten raw, should be washed carefully. The very small red tomatoes which grow in clusters, known as cherry tomatoes, often found in large markets, are very, attractive for salads. These and the yellow plum tomatoes are perhaps always eaten without peeling. When a banana is used underripe it is less of a fruit than a vegetable. It is also commonly used for fritters. It may be baked or fried like a potato, and served, and served the South American way to appreciate this fruit as a vegetable more readily than the North, though such uses are now very general. A simple way to cook bananas: Remove the skin, scrape off the rough outside, cut large ones in two across, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry brown in deep fat. HER TIME WELL OCCUPIED Pity the Poor Society Woman Who Is a Martyr to Duty of Being Well Dressed. The other day I called on a friend who lives in a fashionable New York apartment. She told me she went every morning for a "fitting." I protested. "You mean in the spring and fall, when you are getting your things, don't you?" "No. I mean every dry, through the eight winter months. It's an awful nuisance. No wonder I'm a nervous wreck. I wish John would let me wear ready-made things. It's aburd, but it's a fact that I hardly ever go through the day without going either to the tailor, the dressmaker, or try on hats or shoes or corsets. I have a good many things made between seasons, when the prices are lower. And I have to squeeze in time to go shopping; I want to see what the new imported things look like, and go to the openings. I've discovered a dear little Frenchwoman who makes all my lingerie (my friend wears lingerie, not underwear), and very cheap, too, considering the exquisite to tell her, but does it want to tell her, and to choose designs for the embroidery, and to buy the lace and ribbon; and, of course, on every garment. Stockings and vells are about the only thing I can get ready-made, and it takes a lot of time selecting them. Don't you think the new vells are awfully trying?" -Atlantic Tobacco in History It has been settled to the general satisfaction of students of tobacco history that one Hernandez de Tolemo introduced the smoking habit into Spain and Portugal in 1559, and that he brought his tobacco from Santo Domingo. Jean Nicot was the ambassador of France at the court of Portugal and he, acquiring the habit in Lisbon, carried it with him back to France, where the habit took hold in fashionable circles some time before Sir Francis Drake and his men carried Indian pipes and tobacco to England in 1558, at which time Sir Walter Raleigh set the pipe-smoking fashion at the court of Elizabeth, whence it spread over England. The habit of taking snuff followed closely in the trail of the pipe smoke. Elshes See Well. An examination of the eyes of many fishes in the tanks of the public aquarium at New York was recently made by means of the retinoscope and other instruments. It was learned not only that all fishes can see well, but that of the many examined none was near-sighted nor suffered from any abnormality. Considering their big, rolling, glassy eyes, a squint-eyed fish would be a horror! The glassiness, by the way, is owing in many cases to the fact that, in the absence of lids, the eyeballs are protected by a transparent skin; these are not noticeable in life, but after death quickly become cloudy or opaque. Fishes such as the absurd little puffers, which dig in the sand, have real lids that close over the eye. The studies of fishes' eyes have proved valuable in understanding and relieving human near-sightedness. A "Searcher Out." The science and genius of Mr. Marconi have made it almost impossible for alien spies to use a wireless telegraphic installation in the British lakes, but there is in use by the war office a "searcher out," which indicates the whereabouts of any "wiresite" used for the receipt or dispatch of messages. It is called the direction finder, in order to be intended to the navigation officer of a ship to take hearings of wireless telegraph stations, with a view to finding the position of his ship or avoiding collions with other vessels. The Charger's Lament "One man of the — Lancers I found lying on his back with his eyes staring at the skies. He was dead, without doubt. Standing over him was his horse, his wound. It was looking into his face every few minutes, and then neighing in a pitiful way that sounded just like a human being in an excess of grief. To hear that poor animal was enough to bring tears to the eyes of the most hardened man and I loved Lance Cox it. HOME BEAUTY flowers and Shrubbery fair Care and Cultivation The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation ```markdown ``` Daisies Make a Good Growth Indoors. STARTING OF THE ANNUALS Many annuals can be started from seed planted now for winter flowering, and with the use of the plants now growing in the garden and young plants raised from cuttings a good display can be obtained for house culture at a very small expense. It is a good idea to pot the plants sufficiently early so the pots can be plunged in the garden, permitting them to remain there a week or two before taking them into the house. A good rule is to allow two leaves to remain on cuttings of such plants as geranium, cutting off the top half of these leaves with a sharp knife. These leaves or rot must be immediately removed. The Rex Begonias are propagated from leaf cuttings, that is, a portion of the leaf cut and stuck in the sand. PEONIES ```markdown ``` THE FLOWER No other herbaceous plant lives so long or produces flowers equal to the peony. Peonies plant: this autumn will flower next season. The middle of September to the middle of October is the best time to plant, preferably the earlier season to permit the plants to make a good root growth before winter sets in. The soil must be rich as the peony is a grass feeder. Remove the soil to a depth of three feet and fill up the space to the depth of a foot with well rotted cow manure. Spade the manure in well. If the soil is clayey, mix with it equal parts of sand, leaf and mold and manure for the other half. Fill up the excavation with the prepared soil, rounding it up to the center, which should be six or seven inches above the level of the lawn. In setting the plants dig a hole from one and a half to two feet deep and two feet wide. Allow a space of three feet in diameter for each plant, placing the crowns three inches below the surface, firming the soil well around the roots. This is best done by the feet of the planter. Mulch well before cold weather with coarse manure and season. In the spring, mulch the soil, after returning the mulch, to a depth of five or six inches, care being taken to stir the soil without injuring the crowns of the plants. Commercial fertilizer strong in pots ash should be used in the spring PEONIES IOWA STATE BYSTANDER BEAUTIFUL and Shrubbery and Cultivation or the leaves can be spread out flat on the sand and pinned down tight with hairpins or wooden toothpicks. Keep the cuttings shaded. Another good way to make cuttings is in a small earthen crock without drainage. Fill with sand to within an inch or two of the top. Insert the cuttings in the crock until the sand is just covered. Keep the sand constantly covered with water and the cuttings will soon root. When the cuttings are inserted in the sand, the sand should be packed firmly about them with the hands. Insert the cuttings closely together. The foliage should be cut back on the cuttings. Plants growing in the garden, which make fine house plants include: Fuchsia, begonia, gemsia, chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum, daisies. Cut the plants back about one-half. THE FLOWER SOME FLOWER HINTS Set out Iris in September and they will flower next summer. Hellebore dusted on cabbage plants while they are wet with dew will keep the cabbage worms down. Late pruning induces a new growth on plants and trees, rendering them susceptible to injury from the winter cold. The time for pruning is during spring or early spring, before the buds start. Look at the stored roots and bulbs. If any sign of decay remove the rotten spot and cover quickly with powdered charcoal. Gas-heated rooms, unless well ventilated. are had for plants. All faded or fading blossoms should be cut, from every bush. Fruit trees are especially benefited by this treatment. The fruit will improve by the check in leaf growth. Climbing roses and vines can be made to follow your will, if you will give that a good start in summer. Cut back the shoots that are too vigorous and take out entirely every weakling. If a branch is going up straight and you want it to go sideways cut the branch so that the branch which will be at the top points the way you want the branch to go. Don't be too severe on your plants in summer, but at the same time let them understand you hold the reins and that they cannot run riot. When a cow's udder is caked it is better to leave the car with her small WHEN PREPARING EGGS Digestibility Is Affected by Temperature of Water in Which They Are Boiled-Proper Method of Making Omelet. While it would seem that anyone can cook so simple a food as an egg satisfactorily, no other food is so affected by different cooking methods and particularly by degrees of temperature. The albumen, or egg white, is greatly changed by heat, and the way the heat is applied. If it is gently warmed, coagulation, or hardening, does not at once take place, although the substance may be perfectly cooked. But if plunged at once into boiling water or liquid the albumen becomes tough and far less desirable as a food element. It is, therefore, much better to cook eggs by some other method than direct boiling; steaming, poaching or "coddling" keeps the albumen soft while cooking. For dishes requiring "hard-bolled" eggs, it is best to let them simmer for about twenty minutes, so that the white will be solid, yet tender, and the yolk dry and meal. Frying, or coating the egg directly with fat, also hardens the albumen and makes it less digestible. It is far better to put the eggs in a buttered dish and "shirr" or bake them in the oven. The secret of successful dishes like the omelet, which is made so well abroad, lies all in the temperature of the pan, the fat and the quickness and skill with which it is handled before allowed to become tough or stringy. Eggs contain no starchy qualities. This teaches us to build up our egg menus with starches such as potatoes, rice, macaroni. Eggs also need to be served with fat, which does not mean frying in fat, but a sauce or dressing containing butter or other oil. An error common to housewives is to relegate the use of eggs chiefly to cakes and puddings, adding these to an already heavy meat meal or meat. If we use them generously in a pudding we do not then need meat in our first course. Similarly, it is unwise dietetics to course se a heavy, rich cake as the last course of a dinner beginning with a fatty meat like lamb, which already has us muscle and fat. Plain Paper Best. A plain paper or one with quiet selftone pattern is the only kind that makes a successful background for pictures. The soft neutral tone of cartridge paper is a splendid setting for ornaments and pictures, white soft brown is a safe choice of paper for the average room, as against it almost any picture, be it oil painting, water color, portrait, etching or photograph, appears to advantage. Gray is also a good restful color. A happy and popular combination is the gray wall covering with white woodwork. It is an admirable idea for the city apartment, where there is none too much light. Angel Cakelets. Sift together several times one-half cupful of fine granulated sugar, one-half cupful of pastry flour, one-half teaspoon of cream cream tart, beat whites of four eggs till stiff and dry, then gradually mix in the sugar and flour. Flower with one-half teaspoon of almond, one teaspoon of vanilla, one pinches covered with buttered paper an inch or two apart; sprinkle with sugar, white or pink, and bake in a moderate oven ten or fifteen minutes; will make two dozen. To Wash Comforters. Make a nice warm soapads in bathhut. Put comforter in. Take scrubbing brush and scrub srolled ends, using washboard to scrub on. After soaking and stamping, let water off and drain, then fill the tub with clean water. Put the soapads in the drain. Don't try to wring. Put on line; when almost dry beat with carpet beater. It will be as light and fluffy as new and no muss to clean up. Ginger Cream. Beat the yolks of three eggs, add one pint of milk, two tablespoonfuls sirup from preserved ginger and one cupful sugar. Cook all together until thick. Strain, add one tablespoonful gelatin that has been dissolved in a little cold milk. the whites of three eggs beaten stiff and beat all together until it begins to thicken, then add four ounces preserved ginger cut in very small pieces. Put in a mold to cool and serve with whipped cream. Cabbage Slaw. Take a head of cabbage and slice very thin. Wash and put in kettle with just water enough to cover. Simmer slowly until tender, then drain and add enough milk to cover and add some flour. Simmer until you have some gravity from a roast, add, but if not, add a good-sized piece of butter. Serve very hot. Soft Custard. Two cups milk, one-quarter teaspoonful salt, one quarter cupful sugar, two rounded tablespoonful cornstarch, two egg yolks; scald milk and sugar in double boiler; mix beaten egg yolks, cornstarch, and a little salt and add to oven until thickened; remove from sauce when thickened; serve cold. Onion on Toast. Take half of a large sweet onion, slice very thin, put in frying pan with butter, season with salt and pepper. Cover and let stew slowly for ten or fifteen minutes, then remove cover and let brown. Thicken with flour and milk as for meat gravy. Pour over hot slices of toasted bread. **Hungarian Salad.** One pint cold boiled potatoes sliced very thin, one small onion, grated, two cold boiled-beets, diced, five sardines, boned and mashed, one tablespoon minced cold cooked ham, one small green pepper thin shredded. Sprinkle with salt, add one half The KITCHEN CABINET I wonder if the sap is stirring yet. If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the And circus fires are kindling one by one? -C. Rosettii. The following recipes may be suggestive to the young hostess when she is planning to entertain her friends and wants something good which can be prepared without requiring too much money on dinner salad is this: Make a grapefruit jelly, using one-third of a cupful of sugar and a third of a cupful of water, is planning to cater to her friends and wants something good which can be prepared without requiring too much work. A most delicious dinner salad is this: Make a grapefruit jelly, using one-third of a cupful of sugar and a third of a cupful of water, boiled together three minutes, and then add one and a half tablespoons of gelatin which has been soaked in two tablespoons of cold water; add a half cupful of grapefruit juice, one tablespoon of lemon juice and a pinch of salt; strain into a round bowl or mold. When stiff, unmold and serve, garnished with a cream cheese which has been well seasoned and mixed with cream to make soft enough to pipe around the mold of jelly. Serve with French dressing, using lemon juice instead of vinegar or a combination of the two. *Spring Soup*—Peel and thinly slice one onion and cook it in a tablespoonful of butter five minutes, stirring constantly; then add four cupfuls of chicken stock, with one cupful of stale bread crumbs. Bring to the boiling point and let simmer 45 minutes, then rub through a sieve and add one cupful of milk. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter; add two tablespoonfuls of flour and stir until well blended, then pour on gradually while stirring, the hot liquid when boiling hot; add one cupful of thin cream and season with salt and pepper. *Melba Sandwiches*—Chop fine a half dozen olives; add a tablespoonful of mayonnaise dressing and a teaspoonful of chopped pecan meats. Spread on buttered graham bread. Creamed Sardines—Melt four. tablespoonfuls of butter; add one-fourth of a cupful of soft, stale bread crumbs and one cupful of cream; bring to the boiling point; add one box of sardines, two cooked eggs, finely chopped, one half teaspoonful of salt and one-eighth of a teaspoonful of pepper and paprika. Boll up again and serve on narrow strips of buttered toast. The caneless rain is falling fast, and yonder gilled vane, Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main. SAVORY DISHES. When serving large sized baked potatoes use an apple corer and scoop out a piece, filling the cavity with a small sausage, put in the small slice, covering the cavity and fasten it with a toothpick; put in the oven and bake. When cooked the sausage will be seasoned, the nota. cavity with a small sausage, put in the small slice, covering the cavity and fasten it with a toothpick; put into the oven and bake. When cooked the sausage will have seasoned the pota- Rice With Sauage. — Put three-fourths of a cupful of rice in a quart of boiling water to cook, stir with a fork and boll five minutes, drain and rinse with cold water, drain again. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a double boiler to which has been added one chopped onion, stir and cook until yellow, then add the rice and cook until the rice has absorbed all the butter, then add two cupfuls of hot broth, half a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of paprika and cook until the rice is tender. More broth is added as needed cooked, stir in a heat-proof grated cheese, lightly tofu with forks, two tablespoonfuls of butter and two canned piling dish, finely chopped. Turn on a dishin dish, heap in a mound and arrange cooked*pork sausage around the rice. Sauage'at may be used to season the rice in place of butter and green peppers instead of the red. Beef Scrapple—Boll two pounds of flank steak until tender, put it through a meat grinder. To the liquor of the beef add a pint of a汤锅, oil for a half hour, then mix with the meat, season with pepper and salt and put into a bread pan or flat dish to cool. Fry in slices until a deep brown. This will keep for some time and makes a most wholesome breakfast dish. Potato Pancakes—Peel and grate six large potatoes after soaking in cold water. With the potato add one large onion, grated; half a teaspoonful of salt, two eggs, a teaspoonful of baking powder and enough flour to make a thin batter. Fry until brown on a hot well griddled dish. Loads of Hell. Pat and Mike, just landed in America, were spending the first night in a hotel. Mike was unable to sleep. About midnight a fire broke out in the neighborhood and a fire engine came down the street clanging its bell and belching fire and smoke. Mike ached to the window, looked out and pushed back to awaken Pat. He refused. Another engine came down the street. Mike was dressed plimsul with fright. "Get up! Pat, get up!" he yelled; "they're moving hell, and two loads have gone by already." Beneficent Nature. "Why is it, dad?" asked the young hopeful, "that love is blind?" "That," responded his father, "is an arrangement made by nature to encourage the marriage of three-fourths of the human race, who otherwise wouldn't stand a chance."—Richmond Times-Dispatch. First Step Toward Knowledge. When a man comes to know how little he knows The thoughts of worldly men are forever regulated by a moral law of gravitation, which, like the physical force, them down to earth. Dickens FISH, FRESH OR CANNED. Our fish cannery have arrived such a stage of efficiency that the out anheres have arrived at of efficiency that the output of varieties of fish which may be bought in almost any market are a great addition to the canned tummy fish, crab meat, and in fact any variety may be had of the canned fish at nearly all places or time of year. Fish is less of put of varieties of fish which may be bought in almost any market are a great addition to the menu. Delicious salmon, tunny fish, fish meat, and in fact, any variety may be had of the canned fish at nearly all places or times of year. Fish is lesspenative than meat in most places and as it stands second to it in nutritive value is a welcome dish for the table. Creole Halibut—Cook together a pint of tomatoes and a cupful of water with two slices of condiment, three cloves one-half (tablespoonful of) 20 minutes; then put through a strainer; cook together three tablespoonfuls each of flour and butter; add the tomato and cook two minutes. Wipe a two-pound piece of halibut with a cloth wrung out of cold water; put into a baking pan, stick with a rubber clove, pour around half of the sauce, and bake in a hot oven 40 minutes, basting with the sauce. Garish with parsley, when serving. Herring Salad—Cook salt herring minutes in boiling water to cover drain, cool and separate the flakes. There should be a cupful. Add an equal measure of one-third inch cubes of cold, boiled potatoes and a fourth of the amount of hard-cooked egg, whites finely chopped. Mix and assemble with French dressing and let stand in a cool place for an hour. Serve on a bed of lettuce and garnish with rings of the whites of egg and the yolks put through a ricer. Serve with a good boiled dressing which has been enriched by the addition of whipped cream. Crab Ramekins—Melt three table spoonfuls of butter; add three of flour, and when well blended, add three fourths of a cupful of chicken stock. When hot, add a cupful of crab meat, a fourth of a cupful of chopped mushrooms, the yolks of two eggs slightly beaten, and salt and pepper to taste. Re-heat and cook three minutes; add a teaspoonful of finely chopped parsley; fill buttered ramekins, sprinkle with buttered crumbs and bake in a moderate oven. Garnish with a sprig of parsley on each. OUT OF THE COOKY JAR. The small cakes and cookies are so popular with the children that a parity is always welcome in any home. SUNSHINE Pecan Cookies.—Beat the yolks of two eggs unil thick and lemon-cored, add one cupful of brown sugar gradually, then one cupful of chopped pecan meats, sprinkle with salt, the whites of two eggs beaten stiff and six tablespoons of flour. Drop from the tip of a teaspoon on a buttered sheet one and a half inches apart, spread and bake in a moderate oven. Tea Cakes.—Cream a fourth of a cupful of shortening, and gradually a cupful of brown sugar. Dissolve an eight-inch cupful of teaspoon of soda in a three-ounceful of cold water and add to the first mixture, and a teaspoonful of vanilla and a cupful of flour. Make into balls and place on a buttered tiled and bake in a hot oven. This makes forty cakes. Oatmeal Drop Cockies—Cream a cupful of shortening, and a cupful of sugar, two eggs, beaten light, one third of a cupful of milk, one and a half cupfuls of rolled cats, which have been put through the meat grinder and parched in the oven. Mix and sift together one and a half cupfuls of flour, one fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, or more if lard is used for shortening, one half teaspoonful each of cinnamon, clove, alpine and soda, one cupful of chopped raisins and a half cupful of walnut meats. Mix and drop from a spoon on a buttered baking sheet. Ginger Snaps—Heat to the boiling point a cupful of molasses, pour over a half cupful of shortening, half butter and lard, and a cupful of sugar. Mix and sift three and a quarter cupfuls of flour, a tablespoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful of salt and a half teaspoonful of soda. Roll, cut and bake in a moderate oven. The perfect man's measure is 38 inches around the chest, 34 inches at the waist, and 40 at the seat, according to the verdict of the International Custom Cutters, who met recently in Milwaukee to fix American styles for 1915. The tailors called attention to the fact that whereas a woman may maintain a form from year to year a man's waist-line in the absence of perpendicular is likely to show great variation as he approaches forty. Therefore the perfect man is generally a younger. Proper Ventilation In admitting the fresh air into the house, let it in as near the lower part of the room as possible so that, as it enters, it may force the vitiated air in the room to the ceiling, and give it a chance to escape through the window opened at the top. AMES, IOWA. (Special) Mr. Gee. Gater very pleasantly enriched the young people who are attending the Iowa State college and their friends Sunday afternoon at his home for home. Mrs. Edwin Gater and Mrs. Edwin Carter chaperoned the young people. Miss Katherine House of Des Moines was the out of town guest. All present had an enriched time. Mr. Madison, who graduated last year from the mechanical department of the Iowa State college, has returned from a visit to his home in Texas. A number of Negro students have enrolled at the college this year. Amos gladly welcomes them to the little city. DUBUQUE NEWS Henry C. Rose Weds—Well Know Colored Citizen of Du- sanburg, Young Bride At 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon L. K. W. Routt, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal church, said the words which made husband and wife of Dr. Henry C. Rose of Dubuque and Miss Mayne Lucas of Helena, Ark. The ceremony was performed in Dr. Rose's office, 314 Bank and Insurance building, three witnesses being present, Mrs. Lulu B. Roett, Henry Martin and Mr. Lowery. The happy pair will make their home in Dr. Rose's fine residence on North Fourteenth street. The bride belongs to one of the best and most cultured colored families in the state, she received a fine musical education and for a number of years has been training through the country giving concerts at churches. She was born twenty-eight years ago. Her parents live in the southern city. Mr. Rose was born in Pike county, Mo., thirty-eight years ago. His early life was spent in that state. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the Eleventh Missouri cavalry and saw hard service, giving creditable account of himself. He came to Dubuque in 1874 and for thirty-eight years was employed as porter at the Julien hotel, giving up his position there the day before the fire which destroyed that hostelry. He is well known to thousands of persons who have patronized Dubuque hotels in the past third of a century. Since the fire which destroyed the Julien Dr. Rose has confined himself to the practice of chariropy. Now it is announced his wife will open a manicuring office in connection, so that they will be partners in business as well as in life. Mr. J., H. Farnham, a prominent druggist of Spirit Lake, Iowa, says: "Glamourain'a Tablets are certainly the best thing on the market for conversation." Give these tablets a trial. You are certain; to find them agree- conta. For sale by all dealers. A Healing Fire for Burns, Chapped WASHINGTON, IOWA. NOTES. Last Sunday Palm Sunday was observed at Shorter A. M. E. chapel and very interesting services were held both morning and evening. Jas. Rushing invited a few friends in last Sunday to dinner to assist him in celebrating his 16th birthday. Mrs. Geo. Beridey served the youngsters a very appetizing meal, which all enjoyed. Mrs. Hayes Crayton is expecting her mother here the latter part of this week for an indefinite visit. She comes from southern Mississippi. Mrs. E. E. Jeffers and two daughters of Oskaloosa visited at the Mrs. Emma Black home the forepart of the week. Mrs. Estell, mother of Mrs. Aaron Howard, left last week for her home in Kentucky, after spending the winter here. The young men-gave an European plan social in the lecture room of the church last Tuesday-evening for the benefit of the trustees, which was crowned with success. "Prof." T. L. Barnett deserves much credit for its success. Easter Sunday services at Shorter A. M. E. chapel. Easter sermon at 11 a. m. by the pastor, Rev. H. C. Boyd. At 2:30 p. m. the Sunday school will render its Easter program. At 7 p. m. the Ladies' Mite Missionary society will render an appropriate program. Mrs. Will Carter of Oskaloosa is a guest at the parental Henry Green home. Mrs. A. L. Hall is recuperating from a severe attack of the grip. Mrs. F. Phillips is still improving slowly. CENTERVILLE, IOWA, NEWS. Rev. John Smith is on the sick list. Mrs. Mildred Mayneld entertained the Ladies' Art club Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Alice Copper. The Second Baptist Sunday school under the auspices of Bro. B. R. Baker as superintendent, has prepared quite an extensive program for Easter. Rev. V. B. Cooper returned home Friday from Macon, Mo., where he has been assisting in a series of meetings. The literary society of the Second Baptist church rendered a program late Sunday night. An interesting feature was a debate. The question was, "Resolved that a man will do for his wife than he will do for his mother." The Mission Circle will be entertained Thursday evening at the Second Baptist church by Mrs. Bessie Lee and Mrs. A. L. Crittenden. Roy. J. P. Jackson preached two collaring sermons Sunday, March 2014. FT. MADISON NOTES. Miss Louise C. Harper left for Ouscatine, Town, last Monday, where he has accepted a position in a county parlor. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week in that place. Rev. Owens expects to visit his wife and family in Chicago before returning home. Extensive improvements are being made in the interior of the A. M. E. church. Mr. Arthur Ware of Keokuk is here this week assisting Mr. Marcheke in making his Easter candies. Mrs. C. Moberly of Little Rock, Arkansas, is in the city visiting relatives and friends. MONMOUTH. ILL. Mr. Will Wallace made a business trip to Rock Island last Thursday. Mrs. Luci Cassy of Wilmette, in bear's arms, by the death of bear, sons. Mrs. Floyd. The Ladies' Missionary society of the A. M. E. church will hold their monthly meeting with Mrs. Dayse Lash on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Len Moor of Canton, Mo., is here visiting his aunt, Mrs. Laura Maupin. Miss Viola Merrial has been quite sick for the past week with a severe cold. Mrs. Ham Stocks is also sick and has been confined in bed for several days. Miss Bessie Goodloe left last Thursday morning for her home in Washington, D. C., after spending several months here with her sister, Mrs. Lillian Catlin. Mr. and Mrs. William Little are the proud parents of a baby girl, which arrived at their home the last of the week. Mr. Charlie Maginnis of Aledo spent a few hours between trains Saturday visiting Mr. Robert Catlin. Miss Harriett Collins and mother have changed their residence from North C street to the corner of Euclid avenue and C street. Mr. Asa Stocks of Peoria and Mr. Hugh Floyd of Chicago were here last week, being called by the death of Mr. Floyd's mother. KEOKUK ITEMS. Mrs. George Mott, who has been ill for some time, is still confined to her bed. The Self-Culture club met on Friday, March 26th, at the home of Mrs. W. W. Gross. Mr. Charles Alden celebrated his twenty-first birthday March 30th. Local comedians and comediennes will be given an opportunity to display thir wit and humor in the funny play which will be staged at the People's Institute April 14th and 15th. The title of the drama is "A Spoiled Darling," and if there is anything in a name this play has all other comedies "high lowed" to a finish. Mr. Fred D. Fields, a veteran in staging amateur and home talent plays, is in full charge and has gotten together the best talent in the city. The price Mr. and Mrs. George Kelles spent Sunday in Canton and Lagrange. Mr. and Mrs. Kelles attended the joint Palm Sunday service of the courts of Canton and Lagrange in Lagrange. Mrs. M. E. Wilson will preach at the Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday morning, April 4th. In the afternoon the children will have a special program. Also in the evening there will be song service and special program. About thirty persons were baptized at the Pilgrim's Rest Baptist church Palm Sunday. Don't miss "A Spoiled Darling" at the Peoples Institute on April 14th and 15th. An Easter market will be held at the Peoples Institute under the auspices of the members of the Altar of St. Mary the Virgin on Saturday afternoon, April 3rd. Keokuk people will be glad to know that the colored minstrel men of Keokuk will give a minstrel show April 12th at Hippodrome theater for the benefit of the baseball association. The minstrel is under the charge of Mr. James, Franklin, a star in min- A. Woman's Crowning Glory is Her Hair Why not grow your hair by using Mme. M. Beard Hair Grower It removes dandruff, stops itching of the scalp and makes it grow long, soft and beautiful. Price 50c a box. Send stamp for pamphlet. MME. M. BEARD AGENTS WANTED 519 So. 16th St. St. Josebh, Mo. VIVIAN L. JONES Funeral Director The very best service guaranteed Prices the lowest Calls answered promptly day or night No extra charges for distance-Reverse all phone charges PHONE: Maple 2548 Residence Wet. 6824. WAR: All About? HAS the whole world gone stark mad over a very foolish and trivial question? Are swords rattling, cannon rumbling, mailed armour glistening just because Russia wanted to show her love for the little warrior? ONION SEED SETS IOWA SEED strelsy. Arrangements are being made to have the colored Hannibal orchestra to play. You will get your money's worth if you witness "A Spoiled Darling." Mr. Samuel Scott, a well known resident of this vicinity, died at the home of his sister in Ottumwa, Iowa, last Wednesday. Remains were brought to Farmington, Iowa, and interred in the New Sharon cemetery last Saturday afternoon. Mr. George Hinch, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo., is the guest of his father, Mr. George Hinch, Sr. Mrs. Malinda Essex of Bowling Green, Mo., is visiting with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. Summers. Knight sirs and daughters will give a public entertainment Thursday, April 8, at Masonic hall. A literary and musical program will be rendered. Miss V. 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Mrs. Mattie Hicks ORIGINAL NOTICE In the district court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county, May term, A. D. 1915. Ivy. Wilder. plaintiff. Ivy Wilder, plaintiff, vs. John G. Wilder, defendant. To said defendant: You are hereby notified that on or before the 25th day of March, A. D. 1915, the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be filed in the office of the clerk of the disti court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county, Iowa, claiming of you a divorce on the grounds of desertion. For particulars see petition now on file. And unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term, being the May term of said court, which will commence at Des Moines on the 3rd day of May, 1915, default will be entered against you and judgment and decree ren- dered thereon. Dated this 25th day of March, 1915. Sullivan & Sullivan. Attorneys for Plaintiff. Published in the Iowa State Bystander March 26, April 2, 9, and 16, 1915. ORIGINAL NOTICE In the district court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county, May term, A. D. 1915. Charles A. D. 1915. Charles A. Davis, defendant. You are hereby notified that on or before the 25th day of March, A. D. 1915, the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county, Iowa, claiming of you a divorce on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. For particulars see petition now on file. And unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term, being the May term of said court, which will commence at Des Moines on the 3rd day of May 1915, default will be entered agains you and judgment and decree rendered thereon. ```markdown ``` Dated this 25th day of March, 1918 Sullivan & Sullivan Attorneys for Plaintiff. Published in the Iowa State By stander March 26, April 2, 9, and 18 1918