Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. Mrs. Carrie Stone was hostess to the Wednesday Night Bridge club. Rev. and Mrs. M. W. Alexander left Monday night for a two weeks' vacation. They will visit in Chicago and La Porte, Indiana, the home of Mrs. Alexander. A large number of children and adults attended the Sunday school picics of both the St. Paul's A. M. E. and Union Congregational Sunday school picnic. The Altar Guild of St Paul's A. M. E. church will meet at the home of Rev. Edward Jackson, 13th and Day streets, Thursday afternoon. The Old Settlers Association will picnic at Union Park Thursday, August 5th. You are invited to attend and help celebrate this event. Miss Mildred Griffin is spending a few day in Buxton this week, while there she will be the guest of Miss Georgia Williams and Edith M. Jones. Hon. C. R. Foster, merchant and justice of the peace of Buxton, spent several days in the city this week attending to business and renewing acquaintance with old friends. The Bystander just received a communication from the editor, Mr. John L. Thompson, to the effect that his last stop was in Windsor, Ont., Canada. The Mary Church Terrell club met at the home of Mrs. J. H. Perkins. Mrs. V. L. Jones was in charge of the lesson, after which a dainty luncheon was served. Mr. John Coalston of 1011 Crocker street, who was operated on three weeks ago at the Methodist hospital, is so much improved that he will be brought home Sunday. Mrs. W. H. Warricks, who was called to Canton, S. D., on account of the illness of her son, Willie, has returned home and states that he has improved a great deal and while a little weak, he is able to be up. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cook who have been spending the spring and summer in the west on account of the latter's health, returned home Saturday feeling much benefited. They left Monday for Lafaye Okeboji to spend the remaining summer months. The Coricithian Aid Society met with Mrs. Erickson on Des Moines street. Mrs. Wm. P Smith of 103 Lynwood Grove, Middleboro, Ky, was present and made some very fine remarks. The club will meet this Friday with Mrs. Franklin, 106 Franklin avenue. The "Gideons," a band of gospel workers who are holding their annual convention in the city for the next few days, with headquarters at the Savery hotel, will hold evangelical services at Union Congregational church Sunday morning, July 25. A cordial invitation is extended to everybody. Mrs. L. P. Blagburn, who has been spending a few weeks in Omaha with her daughters, passed through our city Thursday on her way to the southland, where she expects to remain for some time at her old home. While here she stopped with her daughter, Mrs. Georgie Smith. She left Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Price Alexander left Monday night for Rochester, Minn., where Mr. Alexander is to undergo treatment at the famous Mayo Bros. sanitarium. Word has been received to the effect that they reached their destination safely and found comfortable quarters. They have been in consultation with the doctors, but no conclusion had been reached as yet. Mr. A. C. Fisher has returned from a trip to the Pacific coast, where he went with the Shrine Templars of this city. He says Seattle, Wash., is a very interesting and delightful point, but nothing can compare with the trip to the navy yards, where Mr. Fisher saw his first battleship. He also stopped in Spokane and visited with his brother-in-law, Mr. Dave Mayes, also Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota and Minnesota, and arrived home Tuesday. The Deborah Administrative Council of the Order of the Eastern Star held its regular quarterly session at the residence of Mrs. Etta Holland, Fifteenth and Fremont streets, Monday evening. After the transaction of routine business Atty. S. Joe Brown, the counselor, gave an interesting and instructive lecture upon the oesive work of the order. The next regular meeting will be with Mrs. Edith Essex, worthy matron of Oziel chapter, at 1541 Buchan street, Monday, October 18th, at which time the council degree team will be expected to rehearse the work of conferring the O. E. S. degrees without rituals. Subscribe for the Rystander now. Mr. and Mrs. S. Joe Brown entertained at luncheon last Saturday Past Grand Master E. T. Henks, Grand Secretary, W. W. Gross and Junior Grand Warden M. W. Akew, the latter two re- State Capitol Bldg Hist locat Room siding at Keokuk and Sioux City respectively, and stopping over in the city enroute from the Masonic Grand lodge which was held at Cedar Rapids last week. At the annual election held by Silver Leaf Lodge No. 9075, G. U. O. of O. F., the following officers were elected: Gus Nichols, Advocate; Wm. Hammitt, Noble Grand; George Laws, Past Noble Grand; H. Raper, Noble Father; F. Stewart, Past Noble Father; Rev. Irvin, Worthy Chaplain; Wm. Essex, Treasurer; J. W. Smith, P. S.; Robert Miles, E. S. Forest Gillette, ViceGrand The Des Moines Negro Lyceum met at the home of Douglass Miller, Jr, Mr. C. R. Foster, the only colored justice of the peace in Iowa, was present and spoke to the members. Wm. Pickens' lectures were discussed by the members. The lyceum meets next Tuesday at the home of the president, Miss James. History of the liberty bell will be discussed, with Miss Graves as leader. Mrs Effie Brown, 206 Arthur avenue was hostess io the Marcheal Neil Art club Wednesday, most of the afternoon was given to needlework. Miss Mamie James was a visitor and gave some very interesting remarks upon club work. A delicious lunch was served by the hostess. Mrs. Addie Dorcey will entertain the club and a number of friends at the Masonic Temple next Wednesday afternoon. On last Sunday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Vern Simmons with Miss Bessie Graves as hostess, the High School Girls' club met and discussed the recent lecture delivered in the city by Prof. Wm. Pickens of Morgan college, Baltimore. M. D., also discussed in a general way his book "The Heir of Slaves," which was presented by him to them on last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Simmons made a few encouraging remarks, after which a dainty repast was served by the hostess. Next Sunday the girls will meet with Miss Edna Johnson, 721 S. E. 26th street, at which time they will begin the study of "The Heir of Slave" taking up the first chapter, My Parentage led by Miss Bulah Walden. A CORRECTION In the Bystander's announcement of "The Model Drug's free trip to Chicago Contest" last week an error was made in regaud to the date of the preliminary count of trading stamps. Instead of Tuesday. July 29, as the announcement appeared (a coincidence which does not exist) it should have been Tuesday, July 20 In order that each contestant may have a fair chance, the date of the final count has been extended to August 6th; but in order to qualify be sure to bring in your coupons for the first count not later than Saturday July 31. Postively no exceptions to this arrangements. The names of the contestants will be posted in our store Sunday August 1st, together with the return ticket to Chicago which will be good from August 5th to September 5th. MODEL DRUG CO. Wade H. McCree, Prop WESTERN BAPTIST CONVEN- TION. The Western Baptist convention held a very pleasant and profitable session with the Washington Avenue Baptist church, Springfield, Mo., July 13th to 18th. Delegates were present from Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma. A larger attendance had been hoped for, but the future of the convention appears to be very bright. The field workers reported conditions that make necessary the pushing forward of this movement. The missionary systems of the various states were discussed at great length, with the result that all the workers are determined to try to organize the state forces for more aggressive work in this regard. This convention did more to define the relations to the educational work than any previously held. For years the convention has been trying to assist the Western college, but has had to work largely without the assistance of the Missouri ministers in the work of the convention. This year the Missouri Baptist state convention made official recognition of the Western convention, and Dr. J. T. Caston proposed to the Western convention a definite plan which was accepted. The Western convention will support a chair of missionary training in Western college and will pay part of the salary of a theological teacher. The convention has reorganized the educational board, making the headquarters in Wichita, Kans., and through this board the receipts from the Western convention for the support of this chair will pass. Dr. E. J. Fisher, president of the convention, was too ill to be present. The next session will be held in Kansas City, Kans. The following officers were elected: President, Rev. T. L. Griffith, D. D., Des Moines; vice president. Rev. S. A. Moseley, St. Louis. Mo.: recording secretary, Rev. E. A. Wilson, D. D., Muskogee, Okla.: corresponding secretary, Rev. J. Goin's, D. D., Jefferson City, Mo., treasurer, Rev. Geo. MacNeale, Kan- JOHN E. BRADFORD W. M. of Hiram lodge of Davenport elected Senior Grand Warden of the M. W. U. Grand Masonic lodge of Iowa ATTY. S. JOE BR P. M. of Doric lodge, Des Moines, e Grand Masonic TY. S. JOE BROWN, P. S. C. , Des Moines, elected Grand C. Grand Masonic lodge of Iowa ATTY. S. JOE BROWN, P. S. G. W. P. M. of Doric lodge, Des Moines, elected Grand Custodian of M. W. U. Grand Masonic lodge of Iowa C. B. WOODS. P. J. G W. P. M. of North Star lodge, Des Moines, appointed Grand Reviewer of M. W. U. Grand Masonic lodge of Iowa. sas City, Kans.; auditor, Rev. D. A. Holmes, D. D., Kansas City, Kans.; statistician, Rev. W. A. Brown, A. B., Kansas City, Kans. OBITUARY. On Tuesday night at 10:30 at her home, 1013 Crocker street, occurred the death of Mrs. Cornelia Midgett of valuular heart trouble. Deceased was born in Missouri fifty-two years ago. She leaves to mourn her death one daughter, three sons and many friends. The remains will be taken to Chillicothe, Mo., for burial Saturday. Mrs. Mary L. Dammons was born near Oskaloosa, Iowa, on the 5th day of November, 1868. She died at the Miners in Albia, Iowa, at 3:10 in the afternoon of Sunday, July 18, 1915, aged 46 years, 8 months and 13 days. She was a member of the St. John's A. M. E. church at Buxton, Iowa, at the time of her death and had been a consistent Christian for thirty years. She leaves to mourn ehr death a husband, Mr. J. M. Dammons, of Durfee, Iowa, where she re- --- OBITUARY. M. ASKEW W. M. of Decatur lodge, Sioux City, elected Junior Grand Warden of M. W. U. Grand Masonic lodge of Iowa. OWN, P. S. G. W. Selected Grand Custodian of M. W. U. Lodge of Iowa sided at the time of her death; a son, Mr. Charles Holmes, and two grandchildren, Mary Louise Holmes and Charles Holmes, Jr., who reside at Des Moines, Iowa; four sisters, Mrs. Martha Patterson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mrs. Anna Cousins, Mrs. Carrie Laws and Mrs. Lena Wilkinson, and two nephews, Lawrence Laws and Henry Wilkinson of Des Moines, Iowa, with many other relatives and a host of Christian associates and friends. Mr. Wm. Williams of the Green Supporter Supply Manufacturing Co. of Chicago was here for a few days on business. Dr. E. L. Scruggs, who has been visiting here, left for St. Paul, Minn., to visit friends. He will stop here again before returning to his home in Jacksonville. Mrs. Arzella Batsell visited relatives in Calgary, over Sunday. tives in Galesburg over Sunday. Mrs. Edward Payne, who has been sick for some time, is much improved. Mr. Payne has also been sick with rheumatism, but is able to be about M. ASKEW MONMOUTH. ILL. Irene and Lillian Jones of Aurora came Sunday to visit with their grandmother, Mrs. Moses Brown. Mr. Clarence Catlin left Saturday morning for Kewanee. Mr. Robert Metlock of Cedar Rapids was in the city Saturday. Mrs. Anna Wallace and Mrs. Margaret Collins are both quite poorly at this writing. Mr. Preston Wallace of Kentucky is here visiting his brothers, Tom, Reuben, Henry and Richard Wallace. The chorus of the A. M. E. church was in Alexis on Saturday, where they gave a concert there that evening. Mr. Camn Collins of near Biggsville was in town Monday. Mrs. Savanna Young, one of our oldest residents, passed away Tuesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Florence Shenshaw. She was born 86 years ago in Hart county, Ky., and has lived the last seventeen years in this place. She leaves to mourn her death one daughter and a host of friends. The funeral services were held Thursday at the Calvary Baptist church, Rev. C. C. Mason, assisted by Rev. H. L. Forte, in charge. CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. Rev. Cato was in Burlington on Sunday. Rev. Ford filled the pulpit Sunday morning and Rev. Thomas on Sunday evening. Mrs. Maker of Omaha, Neb., is visiting at the home of Mrs. Price on Sixth avenue East. Mrs. Elmer Watson, accompanied by little Eva Morgan, left Tuesday for Truer, Iowa, where she will join her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Watson expect to make Traer their future home. The Sunday school picnic was held at Riverside park. Master Roy and Marion Terry have returned from Davenport. Mr. John Jackson is home from the hospital. We hope to see Mr. and Mrs. Jackson out soon. Mrs. Maud Robinson is improving slowly. Mrs. Mealy of Buxton and Mrs. Redcross of Pittsburg, Penn., passed through en-route from Buxton to Pittsburg. Mrs. Redcross has been visiting relatives in Buxton and Mrs. Mealy will visit relatives in Pittsburg and Boston before returning home. They stopped over a few hours the guests of Mrs. Mae Terry. (Last Week.) Mt. Zion Baptist church had their dedication Sunday, July 11th. Their pastor, Rev. Northcross, preached at 11 a. m. Rev. Dr. R. H. Cato of the Bethel A. M. E. church preached at 3 p. m. Rev. Cato's sermon was a splendid production and well delivered. His choir rendered excellent music. Quite a large crowd of his congregation was present. At 8 p. m. the following program of dedication was rendered: Opening prayer, Rev. S. Coneybeare, D. D., Central Park. Scripture reading, Rev. H. E. Harned, D. D., Congregational church. Rev. Jas. McGee, T. L. M., of First Baptist church, preached the dedication sermon. The receipts for the day were $74. The Mt. Zion church is located on one of the prominent streets of the city, the church having been organized only a little over a year ago, and has made rapid progress, especially since Rev. Northcross took charge of it, and the public is giving the Rev. much praise. We hope they may progress as rapidly in the future as they have in the past. Mr. Waldon and wife of Marshall-town were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Gomer. Mr. and Mrs. Spots of Marshall-town were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gresham. Dr. Willis and wife of Buxton were the guests of Mrs. Mae Terry. Mrs. Willis will be remembered by her many friends as Mrs. Ella Lucas, sister of Mrs. Terry. Atty. S. Joe Brown of Des Moines and Mr. M. Askew of Sioux City were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison. Mr. Al Walker and Miss Jessie Walker of Marshalltown were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Horne. Atty. Rush of Des Moines and Mr. Wm. Bailey of Buxton were guests of Rev. and Mrs. Ford. Mr. D. S. Johnson of Davenport was the guest of Mrs. Mary Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey and daughter of Marshalltown were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Warm. Mrs. J. L. Thompson and children arrived in Cedar Rapids on Thursday p. m. to join her husband. While here they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Milligan. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson and children left on a late train for Chicago and Michigan. Rev. and Mrs. Northcross entertained Dr. and Mrs. Willis at a 6 o'clock dinner Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Milligan entertained Grand Master J. L. Thompson and family, Mr. Wm. Bailey of Buxton and Mrs. Clyde Washington of Burlington. Mrs. Alkens and daughter, Mrs. Charley Brown, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Fields and family in honor of Mrs. Fields' sister, Mrs. Bird, of Denver, Colo. Benefited by Chamberlain's Liniment, "Last winter I used Chamberlain's Liniment for rheumatic pains, stiffness and soreness of the knees, and can conscientiously say that I never used anything that did me so much good."-Edward Craft, Elba, N. Y. Obtainable everywhere. CLINTON, IOWA. Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Lowery left on Monday for Chicago, called there on account of the death of the latter's sister. Wm. Rose left Tuesday for Ottumwa. From there he will go to Minneapolis, where he will take a situation. The measuring party given at Bethel A. M. E. church Saturday was a success. Miss May Culberson arrived home last week from Chicago, after several months spent there. Mrs. F. J. Nott and daughter arrived in the city recently to make their future home at the parsonage of the Second Baptist church. Miss Elizabeth Searcy of Ottumwa is the guest of Mrs. Geo. Johnson and family. On Monday evening, July 12th, a large number of the members of the Baptist and Methodist churches called at the parsonage of the Second Baptist church, bringing well filled baskets of good things to eat for Rev. F. J. Nott and family. Ice cream and cake were served and talks were made by Mrs. Emma Herron, Mrs. Holland Williams and others. Rev. Nott, after thanking the members and friends for their liberal donation, suggested that the company form a permanent organization and call often. The members of the Second Baptist church met at the parsonage and organized a choir on Thursday evening. July 15th. Mrs. Jennie Martin and her mother Mrs. Greenlee, visited in Rock Island on the 11th. Mr. Frank J. Nott, Jr., son of Rev. F. J. Nott, and Miss Anna Branch of Rock Island, ill., came to Clinton on July 16th and were united in marriage at the Baptist parsonage. The bride and groom returned to Rock Island on the 12:10 p. m. train. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Martin are preparing to build an addition to their residence. Mr. J. N. Hancock, who has been identified in business circles in Clinton for the past thirty-five years, has gone to Morrison, Ill., where he has taken over the dining room of the Whiteside hotel. The opening was held on July 15th. MACON, MO. NEWS Rev. G. W. Cross preached two excellent sermons Sunday morning and evening. Miss Margaret Oliver will leave Saturday for a short stay in Kansas. Miss Brookie Carter has returned after a long visit in Garmett, Kansas. Miss Margaret Young is home from St. Louis for a visit with relatives. Mrs. Lo Hoston spent Thursday in Kirkleon, Mo. The Young Ladies' Culture club met Saturday at the home of Miss Alma McElroy. A delightful evening was spent. Mrs. Andrew Hoskins of Rock Island, Ill., is expected home soon. The Macon Women's club will meet Saturday at the home of Mrs. J. Ancell. Miss Pearl Russell, the music instructor of our city, passed through Macon en route to Clarence and Shubina, Mo., where she has a music class. The death of Mr. Bud Brooks occurred Monday evening at his home. Further arrangements are being arranged for the burial. Mr. Hiram Clark will leave soon for a visit in Ohio with his daughter. Mrs. Vie Ewing and Mrs. Alex Henderson remain very ill at this writing. Miss Lucile Harris is contemplating on leaving the first of next month for a few days' visit in Quincy, Ill., with Mr. J. B. Harris of St. Paul, Minn. Rev. B. P. E. Gales is expected home soon. Several Macon knights will spend a jolly good time in Quincy, Ill., the 4th of August. Miss Ada Kimbrough departed for Chicago, after a month's visit with relatives. Mrs. H. McGill, the hairdresser of our city, is on the sick list. BOONE, IOWA. (Special to the Bystander.) There was a benefit social at the A. M. E. church for Mrs. Jennie Robinson, who is endeavoring to raise funds to enable her to go to Rochester, Minn., for treatment of the Mayo brothers. Miss Bessie Coleman, a school teacher of St. Louis, Mo., is in the city visiting her sisters, Mrs. Gso. Taylor and Mrs. F. Johnson. Mrs. Henry Coleman of Buxton, Iowa, is visiting Mrs. Thomas Patton and her son, Clarence. There are quite a large number of visitors in our city this summer. The W. M. M. society will give a 6 o'clock dinner, followed by a lemon social Wednesday, July 21st. As this is the last before the president will leave for the convention they hope to have a large crowd. By request of the bishop of this district the A. M. E. church held their memorial services of the late Bishop Henry McNeal Turner. Mrs. V. Johnson was mistress of ceremonies. The following resolution was adopted by the church: We pause at this hour to the church: We pause at this hour to a tribute of respect to the memory of our dear departed Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, who was born at Newbery C. H. S. C., February 1, 1883, and departed this life May 8, 1915, to embalm in lasting remembrance his virtue and usefulness, and at the same time reverently consider the mystery of death in relation to him and ourselves. In the bustle and strife of life we are apt to forget our dead and also forget how close we ourselves are to eternity. Hence it is plain to be seen that memorial meetings like this are a manifold value. They not only fittingly commemorate the good qualities of our beloved departed and set forth our love and respect for them, but they also hold a light to time, that we might look into eternity. They bid us question ourselves and it may be their most important lesson to us is in reminding us that we are living within the shadow of the gate of death, whose door is waiting silently and relentless to receive us all. Wha the roll is called in the house of bishop, the Rt. Rev. H. McN. Turner will not be there to answer to his narse. He has gone. He is no more with us in body, but his excellent Christian character and Christ-like qualities marked him as a follower of the lowly Nazarene. He is dead; we also are to die. He yesterday and we tomorrow. He did his work well and eternity has dawned for him as it will for us. Whereas we feel that the A. M. E. church, race and community has lost a valuable and useful man, whose influence will ever be felt among us as a race of people. Therefore be it resolved that Bethel A. M. E. church of Boone, Iowa, extend to the beaved family our heartfelt sympathy. We can picture your heartache, your desolate home and how appalling the cry of anguish that comes from a burdened heart, but we know our loss is His gain, because He has attained that inward peace which passes all human understanding because it is the peace of God. He is now enjoying the joy like no other joy a felicity of which the pleasure of the world cannot even convey an idea or a painter picture. Be it further resolved that we, the members of Boone's church, send you this message: Sorrow no more, sorrow no more, for he is at rest, having found the realization of his utmost desire. Weep no more, weep no more, for the day of your union is not afar off. We pray and commend you to Him who can keep and comfort you unto the perfect day, so that when cuv time shall have come to join our loved ones we will have nothing to regret and that we can say with the Psalmist, "In the shadow of death I fear no evil." Therefore be it further resolved that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family, be spread on the records of this church, a copy be sent to the Iowa Bpstander and a copy be sent to each of our connectional papers. Respectfully submitted, Mr. C. L. Cochran. Mrs. V. Johnson. Miss Sadie White, Secretary. Mrs. Minnie Stansberry, Chairman. ODD FELLOWS GRAND LODGE The Thirty-third Annual Session of Iowa District Grand Lodge No 30, G. U. O. of Old Fellows, will be held with Rehance lodge No 1859 in Keokuk, Iowa, the fourth Tuesday in August, 1915. See bills later. Geo. O. Terrell, D. G. M. Mrs. C. W. Carson of Pueblo, Colo., was the guest of honor at a four course dinner given at the home of Mrs. C. A. Winslow, Thursday evening. The table was center with pink and white carnations. Fourteen places were marked with dainty cards. Mrs. R A. Todd assisted the hostess. CARNEY IOWA The memorial services of Bishop Turner was held in Carney by Rev. J. W. Hill. Songs by the choi ; cituary read by Mrs. Ethel Yeager; a poem in memory of Bishop Turner was beautifully delivered by Mrs. Yales. ALBIA NEWS. The Sewing Circle club met at the home of Mrs. George Holloworth on Monday afternoon Lunch was served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Crelo Hollingworth. Miss Debi Davi was a visitor. The A. M. E. Sunday School held their Children's day exercises on Sunday evening. Miss Nellie Bell of Burlington favored the school with a selection. They also had a basket dinner on the parsonage lawn Sunday after morning. The daughter of Rev. Morgan, of Ottumwa, attended church services here Sunday. Mr. Charlie Davis of Ottdmwa visited at his home in Albia a few hours Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Hawkins accompanied by a little girl friend and her father-in-law Mr. Hawkins, visited Mrs. Minnie Johnson and other friends in Albia last Thursday. Mrs. E. Jeffers with her friends Mesdams Ackers and Taylor of Des Moines, arrived in Albia Saturday evening for an extended visit at the old home. Quite a number of strangers are expected in town in the near future. Crawford—Do the rich know how the other half live? obtain them. After taking their money from them they must be able to store some idea of how they are compelled by it. - Puck AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS B. Julius Williams writes in the Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald as follows: "In the message sent out by the governor of our great state, he said, 'let us save the white boy and girl by stamping out ignorance.' Did he mean that we infer that he meant, to not overlook the fact that their salvation depended largely upon the extent of consideration given 400,000 Negroes of school age in this state?" "Two races cannot live in the same state, under the same law, enjoying the same pursuits of happiness and life, if one race's interests are advanced at the sacrifice of the other." "Our state superintendent of education has not as yet been able to say how much the Negro children." "Our county superintendents have not spoken out in loud tones; maybe after a while they will be heard from." "When we think of it, we are not pleasantly reminded; the education of my people stands at the head but not at the foot, because it is at the bottom of life's ladder one must begin life's journey. We were first taught to make a living, when our first lesson should have been to make a life." Here is the remarkably practical and workable suggestion of this man who so freely writes of his race. This matter should come to the attention of every man, woman and child in the state. "If in every home where my people are employed as servants they are give an half-hour—even a quarter of an hour—each day by the third or fourth grade child in that home teaching these servants to spell, read and write their own names, what a great school we would have through this medium for the Negro, and how much it would mean to your children. Many of the cooks live in the yard and not in the kitchen in spite of all they do, your children will learn from them by association. "What is true of your cook and children is true of your washerwoman and children, nurse and children, your driver and children, and even the men, women and children of my race that pass your home. Your children going on the street to and fro from school in this way form habits through observation. "Will it pay? Will it be worth while striking out ignorance among the 400,000 in our state? "We need more laws of human kindness and less laws of civil punishment." We cannot but realize the justice of this man's plea; we know when the Negro woman has been properly educated and is a competent small way by the institutions of learning for the Negro in this state; the tired mother may not be subjected to the diet of underdone or overdone food, the child will not so often be the victim of disease and careless nursing, through the companionship of an ignorant nurse maid. Because the South still considers the Negro in the light of a domestic necessity, the occupation of house servant becomes their vocation. If we desire efficiency in our Negro help we must at least grant them education along the lines of work they have been placed in. Fire losses and the expense of fire prevention cost the United States more each year than the total value of its production of gold, silver, copper and petroleum. The fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Negro Business league, of which Booker T. Washington is president will be celebrated in Boston August 18 to 20. The organization was formed for the discussion and solution of business and economic problems peculiar to the Negro race. The coming sessions will be devoted to a consideration of the progress made since 1900 and to practical suggestions for new business methods and for general co-operation. According to figures compiled by the league, since 1900 the number of Negro business enterprises in the country has increased from 20,000 to 45,000; the number of Negro banks from 2 to 51; the number of drug stores from 250 to 695; Negro-owned undertaking establishments from 450 to 1,000; wholesale businesses from 450 to 140; retail stores from 10,000 to 26,000. Since the organization of the league, as revealed by the federal census for 1910, farm property owned by Negroes has increased 177 per cent in value—from $177,404,688 to $262,892,218. The value of domestic The list of the British and Foreign Bible society at the present time includes versions in 456 tongues—the complete Bible in 112 languages, the New Testament in 111 more, and at least one book of Scripture in 233 other languages. Many public bequests are contained in the will of William H. Swasey of Newburyport, which was filed at Sealem. Among them is one of $10,000 to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial school. A woman will labor hard all day shopping for her friends, just for the pleasure of spending the money. Before going courting, get acquainted with the neighbors and hear their opinions of the girl. The fact brought out by Dr. William C. Woodward, health officer of Washington, D. C., before a Negro health conference in New Orleans, that the high death rate among Negroes is not wholly due to hygienic conditions, but to racial ones as well, serves only to increase the concern with which the entire subject is being viewed. The Negroes, according to this authority, are, for physical and racial reasons, not so well prepared as the whites for the conditions of climate and mode of life in this country. To add the handicap of the racially unfit to the already heavy burden shouldered by the Negro is to increase the load of responsibility for the wate man. When Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans and other large southern cities began to investigate the sanitary and living conditions in their Negro quarters recently the communities were shocked at the revelation. In a state of segregation the thing would have been bad enough. But colored nurses, cooks and servants of the white people lived amid these conditions and came daily to wash, dress, serve the children of white people, serve their meals and clean their houses. This fact, needless to say, struck residents of those cities with considerable force. Protests had been made for the census bureau for not separating the whites and blacks in the mortality figures for southern cities, the contention being that the high rate was unfair to charge against the white people. But after the first flush of indignation wore away and people gave the subject sober second thought was realized that the white people were responsible for the high death rate among Negroes, inasmuch as they had done little or nothing to decrease the figure. The determined effort on the part of the white man to know in broader terms the life of the southern Negro has been remarked by Dr. W. D. Weatherford of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A. This is no morbid curiosity, but a real interest. "nor is it a passing fact. There are fewer magazine articles, perhaps, and less agitation, but a book written by a southern woman passed the 20,000 mark within eighteen months after its publication, which is a marvelous sale for any book dealing with a social problem. I make bold to say that there have been more volumes on the Negro read by southern whites in the last five years than there are read in all the 50 books in the library. This same authority cited also the determination by the best element in the South to share in the religious and social improvement of the Negro race. Farm demonstration agents are helping from one to a dozen Negroes to become better farmers. County superintendents throughout the South are holding institutes for colored people with much thoroughness and enthusiasm and visiting Negro schools as never before. A wounded soldier who was operated on in Paris was found to have suffered from 68 separate wounds. Most of them were from bullets and pieces of shell. A remarkable fact is that the man will probably recover. With English engineers doing the work, the Russian city of Baku will obtain a new water supply from mountains 120 miles distant. animals from $5,216,337 to $177,273,785, or 107 per cent; poultry from $7,388,792 to $1,513,736, or 36 per cent; implements and machinery from $18,586,225 to $3,686,141, or 88 per cent; land and buildings from $6,936,420 to $27,501,665, or 293 per cent. Officers of several affiliated organizations, among which are the National Negro Press association, the National Negro Bankers' association, the National Negro Directors' association, the National Negro Bar association and the National Association of Negro Insurance Men, will tell the members of the league the results attained in their several lines. Besides the business meetings a social program is being arranged. A special train will carry the Southern members of the league to Boston, and arrangements are being made for other trains to bring delegates from Chicago and further west. Emmett J. Scott of Tuskegee, Ala., is in charge of these details. A Paris scientist is trying to collect phonograph records of all forms of speech. The amount of whisky distilled in Kentucky fell off two-thirds last year, the decrease in Pennsylvania was 33 per cent and that in Maryland more than 40 per cent. Prohibitionists say that since whisky is kept from four to eight years before consumption, a corresponding decrease in usage is expected in that length of time. Cape Cod, the peninsula of Massachusetts, is no longer a cape. It has been made an island by the completion of the Cape Cod canal. The joke about finding a long hair on a man's coat is the oldest one in the world, and the poorest. It is hard for a woman to realise there was a time when there were only two files in the world. If you can tell whether it is old whisky the probabilities are that you drink too much of it. The whale's progress through the water is limited to ten or twelve miles at hour. Copyright Underwood & Underwood In the German advance toward Libau, the Teutons retaliated for the incendiarism of the Russians in eastern Prussia by setting fire to many of the towns and villages in their path. The picture shows the Russian town of Szkwale going up in flames as the poor inhabitants flee with their scant goods. German officers and soldiers are observing the effects of their work. In the German advance toward Libau, the Teutons retaliated for the incendiarism of the Russians in eastern Prussia by setting fire to many of the towns and villages in their path. The picture shows the Russian town of Szkwale going up in flames as the poor inhabitants flee with their scant goods. German officers and soldiers are observing the effects of their work. NATIONAL WEALTH SHOWS BIG GAIN FEDERAL DEBT ALSO GROWS Interesting Facts Brought Out In Decennial Report of Wealth, Public Indebtedness and Taxation by the United States Census Washington, D. C.—The decennial report on wealth, debt and taxation, issued by Director Sam L. Rogers of the bureau of census, department of commerce, and compiled under the direction of Mr. Starke M. Grogan, chief statistician in charge of the inquiry, will show an increase in the national wealth of 75 per cent in eight years; in net federal income, in net state indebtedness, of 44.5 per cent in 11 years; in net county indebtedness, of 89 per cent in 11 years; in net municipal indebtedness, of 114 per cent in 11 years; and in the general property tax levy, of 86 per cent in 10 years. In this report are brought together in two bound volumes all the statistics pertaining to the general subject of wealth, debt and taxation which have been issued from time to time since the past year in a series of bullets. The National Wealth. The bureau estimates the total value of all classes of property in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and the insular possessions, in 1912 at $187,739,000,000, or $1,965 per capita. This estimate is presented merely as the best approximation which can be made from the data available and as being fairly comparable with that published eight years ago. The increase between 1904 and 1912 was 75 per cent for the total amount and 49 per cent for the per capita. Real estate and improvements, including the $110,677,000,000, or 59 per cent of the total, in 1912. The next greatest item, $16,149,000,000, was contributed by the railroads; and the third, $14,694,000,000, represented the value of manufactured products, other than clothing and personal adornment, furniture, vehicles and kindred property. Public Indebtedness. The net public indebtedness in 1913 amounted to $4,850,461,000. This amount was made up as follows: National debt, $1,025,564,000, or $10.59 per capita; state debt, $345,942,000, or $3.57 per capita; county debt, $371,528,000, or $4.33 per capita; and municipal debt, $2,884,833,000, or $4.27 per capita. Thus the average urban citizen's share of the net federal, state, county and municipal debt combined was $72.76; and the average rural citizen's share of the net federal, state and county debt combined was $18.49. The total federal debt in 1910 was $2,916,205,000, of which amount $947,366,000 was represented by bonds, $375,622,000 by noninterest-bearing debt (principally United States notes or "greenbacks"), and $1,753,157,000 by certificates and notes issued on deposits of coin and bullion. Against this indebtedness the net treasury amount was 1,000 in cash available by payment of debt, leaving the net national indebtedness at $1,028,544,000, or $1,059 per capita. The increase in the net indebtedness between 1902 and 1913 amounted to 6 per cent, but for the per capita figure there was a decrease of 13 per cent. The burden due to the national debt is thus very light in comparison with that imposed by the indebtedness of other great nations. The state debt, however, rests more easily on the shoulders of the average citizen, who is one-third of the total state debt of that the nation. The total state indebtedness in 1913 was $42,797,000, and the net debt—that is, the total debt less sinking-fund assets—was $43,645,000, or $3.57 per capita. The net debt increased by 44.5 per Patriarchal Colored Man In Georgia Also Says He Has 44 Children. Rome, Ga.-Jerry Neal, colored, of Cave Spring, celebrated his one hundred and twenty-fourth birthday anniversary a few days ago. He is, so far as is known, the oldest person in Georgia, if not in the United States. He has papares which establish his age beyond question, and the oldest inab- IOWA STATE BYSTANDER INS BURN A RUSSIAN albau, the Teutons retaliated for the inc the towns and villages in their path. Th or inhabitants flee with their scant good cent between 1902 and 1913, and the per capita net debt by 18 per cent. The only two states in which the per capita state debt in 1913 exceeded the per capita national debt were Massachusetts, with a net debt of $79,551,000, or $22.78 per capita, and Arizona, with $3,065,000, or $13.28 per capita. In these states, however, the large per capita debt is due principally not to the state debt proper but to the considerable amount of contingent debt assumed by the state in the name of the metropolitan districts in Massachusetts and the counties and municipalities in Arizona. The total county debt in 1913 amounted to $938,070,000, which amount $71,528,000, or $4.33 per capita, was net debt. The net indebtedness increased by $9 per cent between 1902 and 1913, and the per capita net indebtedness by 55 per cent. By far the greatest item of indebdenness in this country is that of municipalities. This amounted in 1913 to an aggregate of $3,460,000,000, of which $2,884,883,000, of $54.27 per capita, represented net indebdenness. The rate of increase in net indebdenness between 1902 and 1913 was 114 per cent. The total levies of taxes on real estate, personal property and other property subject to ad valorem taxation, by states, counties, municipalities, school districts, and other civil divisions, increased from $724,737,000, or $9.22 per capita, in 1902 to $1,349,841,000, or $13.91 per capita, in 1912, the percentages of increase being 86 for the total amount and 51 for the per capita. Levies for state purposes increased from $80,402,000 in 1902 to $155,643,000 in 1912, or by 94 per cent. During the same period the levies by counties, municipalities, school districts, etc. increased from $644,235,000 to $1,184,253,000, or by 84 per cent. The county levies in 1912 were $388,932,000, school districts, and other minor civil divisions amounted to $955,231,000. Thus it appears that an increase of 75 per cent in 8 years—indicating a gain of 115 per cent in 11 years—in national wealth has been accompanied by an increase, during 11 years, of 6 per cent in net federal indebtedness, 44.5 per cent in net state indebtedness, 89 per cent in net county indebtedness, and 114 per cent in net municipal indebtedness. In conjunction with the growth in national indebtedness, however, it should be borne in mind that the proportion which urban population represented of the total was materially greater in PRETTIEST IN AMERICA TOLLAND MARRIAGE OF THE MONTH Hoboken, N. J., has come into its own again, for the prettiest girl in America was once called the "belle of Hoboken." That was before Miss Justine Johnstone won the $5,000 prize for being the most beautiful girl in America. "If I were not a pretty girl," says Miss Johnstone, "I might still be living in Hoboken, instead of New York. If I had my choice between being the prettiest girl in America and the most talented girl, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter." itants of Floyd county remember that Jerry was a grown-up man when they were in their kites. Jerry, the father of 44 children, distinctly remembers the war of 1812, and many of the Indian war. He is now a widower, but has been married three times. He is well and hearty, but uses a cane when walking. Father of Triplets Sixty-Five. Cookeville, Tenn. — Triplets were born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Joan Mcors of Riekman, 15 miles north of 1913 than in 1902. The net indebtedness of national, state, county and municipal governments combined increased by 71 per cent in 11 years. A more significant comparison, however, can be made between the growth of the national wealth and the increase in tax levies. The national wealth, on the assumption that its saw increased rate of growth from 1907 to 1912 was the same that which prevailed from 1904 to 1912, increased by 101 per cent in 10 years, while the increase in tax levies during the period 1902 to 1912 amounted to 86 per cent. The total revenue receipts of the national government during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913, aggregated $53,597,000, and the expenditures for governmental costs were $52,601,000. The corresponding figures for 1903 were $65,232,000 and $61,739,000. The percentage of increase in governmental costs between 1903 and 1913 was 54. The nature and amounts of the leading items which made up the total revenue receipts in 1913 were: "Special property taxes" (principally receipts from customs and from tax on circulation of national banks), $13,963,000; earnings of public-service enterprises (principally postal receipts), $270,704,000; receipts from revenue taxes for manufacture and sale of liquor, $230,140,000; "business taxes" (internal revenue receipts from all sources except manufacture and sale of liquor, together with receipts from income tax), $113,385,000. Of the expenditures for governmental costs, the leading items were: For protection to person and property (expenses of military, naval, lighthouse, steamboat inspection, revenue cutter, life-saving and immigration and naturalization services), $244,671,000; for expenses of postal service, $244,107,000; for pensions, maintenance of pensions, $244,107,000; for maintenance of legislative, executive and judicial establishments, and administration of executive departments, $61,784,000; for improvement and maintenance of waterways, $42,652,000; for construction of the Panama canal, $41,741,000; for interest on public indebtedness, $25,256,000; for outlays on public buildings and grounds, including military posts, and for the bureau of construction and repair, navy department, $25,256,000; for education (principally maintenance of universities) academies, Indian schools, library of academics, agricultural experiment stations, and study of animal and plant industries), $17,243,000. State revenues in 1913 aggregated $367,585,000; and the expenditures of the states for governmental costs during the same year amounted to $322,551,000, or nearly $15,000,000 more than their revenues. State revenues and governmental cost payments in 1903 were $189,165,000 and $185,764,000, respectively. The percentage of increase in state expenditures for governmental costs between 1903 and 1913 was 105. The revenue receipts of counties in 1913 were $307,043,000, and their payments for governmental costs aggregated $385,128,000, or about $15,000,000 more than their revenue receipts. The governmental cost payments of the counties increased by 95 per cent between 1902 and 1913. The aggregate value of state properties (exclusive of those of Pennsylvania, for which no data were obtained) in 1913 was $695,495,000. The largest two items, $175,944,000 and $169,844,000, are represented the value of buildings, building improvements and educational institutions and of state houses and departmental libraries, respectively. The value of county properties in 1913 was $576,657,000; of which amount $293,295,000; or more than one-half, represented the value of court-houses. The value of public properties in 1913 for incorporated places of 2,500 and over was $497,869,000. Of this amount $1,501,183,000 or more than 4,000 represented lands, buildings and equipment of public-service enterprises. The remainder covered the value of lands, buildings and equipment of the various municipal departments, of which the leading items were: Property of schools and libraries; $1,018,528,000; parks and other property falling under the general head of "recreation," $967,488,000. this city. They are all girl babies and are healthy, normal and vigorous infants. The proud father is sixty-five years old, while the mother is thirty. Sent Her by Parcel Post Savannah, Ga.—Wearing a placard on which were her name and destination, and 15 cents in parcel post stamps, Edna Neff, six years old, passed through the terminal station here on her way from Pensacola to Christiansburg, Va., where her father awaited her. ON NEW PRINCIPLE HAVE QUEER POWER Windmill That Is Not at the Mercy of the Wind. Diagram Shows the Working of the Plan—Compleat Machine Can Be Placed in Position at Small Cost—High Power Made. When the wind strikes a surface inclined at an angle to the direction of the wind the latter tends to displace the surface in a direction that depends upon the degree of inclination. Upon this well-known principle sailboats, windmills and aeroplanes are built. When the wind comes in a diametrically opposite direction it is to say, strikes the surface on the other side to displace it in the opposite direction. It would seem, then, to be impossible so to place a surface that it shall always move in the same direction, no matter whence the wind that moves it comes. A French windmill maker has, however, succeeded in solving this apparent paradox, and his device is described in detail by R. Villers in La Nature. He makes a horizontal windmill with perpendicular vanes and axis revolved by the vanes without gearing. The wind is utilized "going and coming." When the vanes are properly inclined the power produced by this strange windmill is quite high, and the wind that reaches nine-tenths of the wheel's diameter is set to work, no matter from what direction it is blowing. The firm that is making these mills delivers one, complete, in France, with mounting, pipes, pump, etc., for 600 francs, or about $120. The wheel may be raised or lowered on its axle by pulleys, and the upper socket is self-fabricated from a covered tank of oil at the very top. The turning wheel operates the pumps through an eccentric at the bottom of the mast. This eccentric is a most ingenious but simple device for regulating the speed of the pump according to the strength of the A The windmill with horizontal wheel on its mast. At the top it the receptacle for oil, protected from the weather by a hood. Below is seen the variable eccentric that transmits the power to the pump. wind. As the wind increases, the eccentricity increases automatically, so that when the wind is high the pump works at great speed and quickly fills large reservoirs. In a Name. War which transforms noble cathedrals into shapeless masses of broken stone, which spoils the farmers' innocent fields with trenches full of burrowing human beings bent on blowing each other to pieces, which twins kings' palaces into barnracks and gentlemen's country houses into hospitals, makes its own uses also of places dedicated in time of peace to the amusement of the populace. For instance, it was in a certain town in the Auvergne that a number of German prisoners were lodged in the hippodrome or circus. Some care was taken to make things as comfortable as possible for the involuntary inmates, but the persons' r charge refused to remove a sign—thoughtfully put up the previous year by a humane society. The sign said: "Be good to the animals." Kitchen Calisthenics "You ought to take a little exercise every morning before breakfast, Jobson." "I'm. What sort?" "Ou dumb bells or Indian clubs?" "That's out of the question." "Nonsense! It sheer laziness on your part. Get up, go through a few brisk movements and then sit down to your breakfast." "That's exactly what I do. I cook my own breakfast while Mrs. Jobson sleeps." Quite Suitable "Do you think string instruments and good accompaniment for the voice?" "They ought to go all right with vocal cords." - I support our quarrel makes you draw comparisons with your own home. He - Yes, this is just like the rows mother used to make. Lawyer—And the defendant go home in the interim? Witness—Naw, he didn't. He went to the hospital in a ambulance. without making any actual progress" "Yea! Especially since the dancing craze set in!" But a Seasoned One. "Did you see the statement that Spain last year enforced 300,000,000 pounds of money?" "My, but that is a strong statement." Extraordinary Electric Qualities of Many Plants. One in India Has Movement Very Similar to the Small Hands of a Watch—"Vegetable Octopus" of South America. All plants are electric batteries. Some are weak, others are strong. According to Royal Dixon, author of "The Human Side of Plants," who has an entertaining article in the Edison Monthly on the extraordinary electric qualities of plants, the strongest is the well-known plant, the equisetine (Mimosa pudica) but the iris, nicotina, nasuring and practically all the meat-eating plants produce a current of from .005 to .02 volt, which can be measured with a galvanometer. "A very peculiar plant," writes Mr. Dixon, "and one which has tremendous East Indian Telegraph Plant. electrical powers, is the 'telegraph plant' (Desmodium gyrans). It is a native of India, and each of its leaves is composed of three leaflets; the larger one stands erect during the day but turns down at night, while each of the smaller leaflets moves day and night without stopping. They describe by means of jerking motions complete circles, not unlike the smaller hand of a watch." Then there is the Utricularia, or fishing plant, which lures small fish "into its capacious mouth and suddenly, as if an electric button were secretly pressed, closes in upon its helpless prey. In other words, it fishes with a net electrically wired!" Near Lake Titicaca in South America and in the interior of Nicaragua is found a really terrible plant, a sort of vegetable octopus. This was first discovered by the naturalist Dunstan, who heard his dog cry out as if in agony. Running to his relief, Mr Dunstan found the animal "enveloped in what seemed to him a perfect net work of what seemed to be a fine, ropelike tissue of roots and fibers." The magnetized flesh fibers of the magnetized plant shyly fibers of the magnetized flesh were dislubbed. The dog was covered with blood. "The twigs curled like living sinuous fingers about his hands and it required terrific force to free himself from the plant's electric grasp, which left his hands red and blistered." "How's the Wind. Sergeant?" Every British soldier at the front is said to have become a close observer of the wind since the German began the use of gas; if it veera to the north and east it is an almost certain sign of attack. The respirators, or "muzzles," as the men are declared to give little protection from the gas. "Just get some one to throw a handful of chloride of lime in your face," says an officer in describing the face. "That will give you a fair idea of the preliminary stages of the gas trouble." Of the Second battalion of Lancashire fusiliers, 403 men are reported to be "suffering from gas poisoning." Scientists are believed to have discovered a means of combating the gas. it is planned to squirt hypoxulphite of sodium in the air as the gas reaches the lines, thus destroying the deadly effects of the fumes. No Hanoverian Orders the duke of Cumberland, struck off the roll of the Garter, cannot retaliate by striking Englhamen off rolls of his own as "rightful" king of Hanover. Hanoverian orders ceased to be conferred half a century ago, when Prussia extinguished the kingdom of Hanover, and the duke of Cambridge was the last surviving British Knight Grand Cross of the Guelph Order. This order was established in 1815 by our prince regent, afterward George VI. After Hanover and Britain parted, King Ernest Augustus I established the Order of St. George, in 1838. But in 1839 we find Queen Victoria refusing permission to her subjects to accept Hanoverian officers, explaining to Lord Aberdeen that "would not be pedient to give to king of Hanover a power which the herself does not possess, viz., that of granting orders as favors, or for personal services."—London Chronicle Always on the job Dubuwhite believes in taking a day off whenever the opportunity presents itself. "If Dubuwhite still believes that, he's one of the most hopeful men I have ever met," Why so? "To my certain knowledge he's been waiting twenty years for an opportunity to present itself." A Consulting Thought. "Dubuwhis is a great comfort to me." "I don't see how you can say that, it's the most tiresome chump I have ever met." "That just it. Although I don't amount to much it's true, every time I look at Dubuwhis I feel that I could amount to less." The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation Francis Scott Key Rose, Named After the Author of "The Star Spangled Banner"—The Flowers Are Usually Large and Double. IN THE HOME GROUNDS By EBEN E. BEXFORD This month will be a busy one for the garden. There will be plants to put out, weeds to pull, insects to kill—quite enough to keep one at work most of the time. I do my transplanting on cloudy days, if possible, but if the weather persists in being gnushy, I do the work after sunrise. Before lifting a seedling, I apply enough water to thoroughly saturate the soil in which it is growing. If this is done, the young plant can be moved without exposure to the roots, and it will receive no check whatever, but will keep on growing as if nothing had happened to it. But allow its tender, delicate roots to be exposed to air for ever so little a time and you run a serious risk of losing your plant. If this does not happen, it will receive a check from which it will take a long time to recover. One cannot be too careful with anything as delicate as a seedling plant. In bright weather newly transplanted seedlings will require shading for a day or two. I cut out a circle of coarse brown paper, about a foot across, make a slit to the center on one side of it, and fold the paper over two-or three inches, running a wire out and in through the folded part. This wire serves to hold the paper together and acts as a support for the little brown paper umbrella. It should be at least twelve inches long—long enough to insert in the ground close to the seedling, and hold the paper cone well above the plant it is designed to protect. This kind of a covering keeps the sun away from the plant, but does not interfere with free circulation of air about it. What kind of a support are you going to give your gladioli? Tying their stalks to sticks gives them such a stiff and prim appearance that I always feel sorry for the poor plants. A stick in the center of a clump does not furnish a really satisfactory support to the stalks of it, and a hoop support on sticks is open to the benefit of being only a little better than nothing. Here is my plan—and one that works well, and can be easily carried out. I take a strip of coarse mesh netting of the size of the bed THE HUNTING "Queen of the Belgians" Orchid. $1,000 FOR AN ORCHID One thousand dollars has been bid in the auction for the famous "Queen of the Belgians" orchid; the proceeds of the sale went to the Belgian relief committee of the American Red Cross. This beautiful orchid, cultivated by Clement Moore, was one of the feature of the recent international flower show. The orchid, which is the only one of its kind in existence, and which connoisseurs have pronounced the most valuable market of Cattleya Schroederia, is being cared for like a young baby. Following the English custom, As He Saw He He went to dine with a bachelor friend who prides himself with his togetherness wives gena. After havin- g enjoyed themselves well—too well in fact—at dinner, they adjourn to the picture gallery, where the host pointed out to his guest a landscape saying: "What do you think of that, my boy—ehh?" The following reply was hocaciously, but spoken: Beautiful, old chap, rather fine—aw- fraid, Trees wave 'bout so nearly.' containing the gladioli and stretch it over the plants before they begin to send up their flower stalks. I support it on stout stalks that project about eighteen inches above the surface of the soil, using enough of them to keep the netting level all over the bed. This is the season for making warfare on the enemies of the rose. If one would have fine flowers he must make up his mind that he's got to fight for them. I use an emulsion of soap and kerosene. It is very necessary that the application should get to the under side of the leaves and the inside of the bushes, where the insects are likely to hide away; therefore it will be well to have someone assist by bending the bushes over and holding them in that position while the application is being made. Worms, slugs, green lice and the rose-chafer can be kept from injuring the bushes if the emulsion is applied thoroughly and frequently. As soon as my lilacs are past the flowering periods, I go over the bushes and cut away all the seed clusters. The result is—I get a fairly good crop of flowers on what is generally eroded the "off year" of this excellent old shrub. It is allowed to develop seed, it generally has few flowers except in alternate years. Speaking of lilacs reminds me to say that I do not indorse what some people say about this plant being a nuisance because of its habit of sending up so many suckers from its roots. That it is profile in this respect I admit, but there is no good reason for allowing them to grow until you have a thicket of bushes. Give your hoe blade the sharpness of a knife by filing it to a keen edge, and go over the ground about your illacs at the sprouting season, and shave off every sprout that shows its head above the grass. You can do this just as easily and rapidly as you can cut off so many weeds, and by doing it you can keep your illacs from spreading all over the yard. These bushes are nuisances only when allowed to have their own way. Give them the attention they need and they are easily kept under control. The secret of success consists in not letting them get the start of you. Belgians" Orchid. Mr. Stump is keeping it locked in an air-tight glass case to prevent any possibility of the pollen being stolen, for a more touch of a feather or toothpick to its stamens would secure sufficient pollen to make possible the breeding of a similar plant by hybridizing with another orchid. Strange to say, the fact that the glass case is absolutely air tight will preserve the blossoms for a longer time than if the plant were in the open air. Clean trees, devoid of insect life, are a credit to any home, and no yard is complete without them—for shade as well as beauty. Important "Dont's." Adam Smith, who, regardless of all criticisms by subsequent political economists, is still quoted by those very critics as being the foremost figure in the history of economic thought, was born June 5, 1723, in Kirkcaldy, Fifehys, Scotland. It is said of him by historians that he was the founder of political economy and the branch of human knowledge, and that no writings about the subject in any language failed to draw on that Scotch tradition of reasoning. EASY WAYS TO AVOID WASTE Many Methods by Which the "Left Overs" May Be Converted Into Appetizing Dishes. Of course, in using "left-over" something new must be added. Tough steak may be finely chopped, seasoned with salt, pepper and onions, and fried in little cakes. A nice steak can be made of the pieces of cold beef. Cut them in small pieces and cover with water, boil till tender, add an onion, carrot, potatoes, a little turnip, a spoonful of rice, pepper and salt. Serve with slices of toasted bread. Scraps of veal, mutton, lamb or lean pork, alone or all together, make a fine meat pie, or, finely chopped up, may be heated in tomato sauce. Remnants of fowl of any kind can be served with cream sauce; hashed with a dash of mustard and served on toast; used as sandwiches. The bones of fowl slowly simmered in water for a long time give the foundation for a rich soup. Chop pieces of cold ham finely, season with onion and mustard and use for sandwiches, with scrambled eggs or in hash. Horseradish makes a good seasoning for this. Cold potatoes may be fried, mashed, creamed and used in salads. Other vegetables may be used in hash or stews, or as a vegetable salad. Cold beans and corn warmed up in milk make a fine succotash. Cold rice can be made into a pudding or used in muffins and griddle cakes. Make hash and balls with left-over fish. Chop cold oysters finely and add to poultry dressing. Dry and pound all stale bread and use for rolling croquettes and fish in. Fry cold oatmeal or wheat in butter and serve with cream and sugar. "Waste not, want not," is the motto which should be hung in every kitchen; every kind of food left over can be utilized in some way. MAXIMS FOR HOUSEWIVES Don't forget to close the refrigerator door each time you use the box; the ice will last much longer. If the aluminum cook utensils turn black, try boiling tomato pairings in them and they will brighten. It is best not to serve the same dish twice, a week unless it be a vegetable, as everyone likes a variety. The bone should be left in a roast; it will help to keep the juice and will add flavor and sweetness. To clean finger marks on doors, rub with a piece of flannel dipped in kerosene oil. The marks will disappear like magic. The clean cloth wring out of hot water to take away the smell, as it does not destroy the paint. Paraffin oil is also excellent for cleaning varnished hall doors. Kumlas. This dish is of great value in the stickroom, as it is one form in which milk seldom falls to be retained by the patient. Kumiss made at home in the following way is most satisfactory: Heat one quart of milk to 75 degrees Fahrenheit, add one and one-half tablespoons of sugar and one-fourth of a yeast cake broken in pieces and dissolved in one tablespoonful of lukewarm water. Fill sterilized bottles to within one and one-half inches of the top. Cork and shake. Place bottles, inverted, where they can remain at a temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit for ten hours; then place in icebox for forty-eight hours, shaking occasionally to prevent cream from clogging up of bottles.—Woman's Home Companion. Southern Biscuit Sift together two cupcakes of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, and a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Then rub in a tablepoonful of lard. When the flour looks like steal, stir into it the white of one egg beaten to a stiff froth, and mix with a cupful of milk. Beat with a spoon, then turn out on a floured board and knead very lightly. Roll out about one-fourth of an inch thick, brush with melted butter and fold. Press together lightly, but do not roll again. Cut in small rounds and bake in a very quick oven. Codfish and Cheese Soak a pound of codfish six hours in tepid water, then let it come to a boll. When cold, pick into flakes with a fork and season with pepper. Heat a cupful of milk to a boll, stir into it a teaspoonful of butter rolled in two of prepared flour. Mix with the picked fish and pour into a baking dish. Strew grated cheese thickly on top and bake in a quick: oven to a delicate brown. It is yet nicer if you add a raw egg before cooking it. Something real new. Tomatoes and Bacon. Prepare tomatoes as in the preceding recipe, omitting the sauce. Keep them hot while you broil or fry thin slices of bacon to a delicate crisp. Arrange the tomatoes on a dish. lay a slice or two of the bacon on each piece of the tomato and serve. This is an excellent breakfast dish. If for any reason it is not convenient to broil the tomatoes, they may be fried in butter or in olive oil, drained dry and served in the same fashion. Sausage Bundles. Roll out plain paste in six-inch squares, rather thin. Cut fortuck sausages in thin slices, rejecting the skin, and lay the slices in two rows in the center of the piece of paste; double, pinch ends together and fold as you would do up a bundle, wetting the edges to make them stick; then set away on ice until ready to bake. Bake in hot oven 15 minutes and serve hot with French or German mustard. Soap Economy. Soap should be stored some time be fore using in order to get the best value out of it. Remove wrapper, put the soap on a tin and place in a hot oven until mollet, but be careful not to touch the surface. Shape and place in a cool spot. In a few hours it will be found hard and will last twice as long. 6689X IOWA STATE BYSTANDER BUNGALOW HAS COME TO STAY Type of Building in Greater Demand Than Ever, and With Good Reason. PLANS FOR IDEAL RESIDENCE Arrangement of Building and Grounds Makes Use of Every Foot Available—Excellent Cellar Basement Provided For—Splendid Light In Kitchen. Bx WILLIAM A. BADEFORD questions. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he, in without doubt, the highest authority in the building industry. Address all requests to William A. Radford, No. 127 Prairie avenue, Chicago, Ill. and only enclose two-cents stamp for reply. Noat, attractive, five-room bungalows are in great demand in towns, villages, and in the outskirts of large cities. American ingenuity has met all difficult and adjusted this type of building to the satisfaction of builders and owners and the public in general, with the exception only of covetable neighbors who are not fortunate enough to own bungalows. The perspective and floor plan here with illustrated shows a bungalow type of residence intended for a comparatively narrow lot that has considerable depth. The general arrangement is to the house about twenty feet back from the street to look well on the lot. The depth of the house is 41 feet 6 inches, which brings the rear of the building about alky feet from the street line. A bungalow setting requires considerable garden at the back and a neat-kept grass plan in front to carry out the idea of cozy comfort. A flower needs beautiful flowers and handsome shrubbery to complete the picture. The construction of this bungalow is concrete up to a few inches above grade. Here the framework starts with a plank sill doubled, spiked and locked at the corners in the usual plank frame construction manner. The studding are toe-nailed into the sill in the usual way, and the main floor joists are supported by 2-inch girders gained into the studding at a height sufficient to give 7½ feet of head room in the cellar. This height of head room is necessary for the proper setting of a warmth furnace. From the joists up, the framework is built in the usual way, using 2 by 4 for studding and rafters, boarded over with common boarding and covered with building paper and shingles. The sides and roof are built alike, except that the shingles on the sides of the house are laid differently to get a more pleasing effect. The spacing is made narrow and wide alternately as the layers go on. There is little variation in the outside finish in the pediments of the gables, which are covered with metal lath, panelled with wooden strips and plastered with stucco between. This is done to vary the outside finish and to give more character to the strucure. The front of this fungal is rather more ornamental than usual on account of the pergola extension and general character of the porch design. Over the front door is a wide entrance way of rather heavy construction. The floor of the porch, including the pergola end, is of concrete with a waterproof finish. It is made level across the front of the house, but is given a slope outward for drainage. This is especially necessary because of the unprotecting character of the pergola. It will be noticed that the approach The KITCHEN CABINET To be a worty queen I trow Demands a heft of things to know: It calls for clever choice and tact And much that many kings have lacked. To be a cook one must command A thousand queenly gifts in hand Crowned with the artist's pride in art And leavened with a mother heart. of cucumber cut in cubes, a cupful of broken walnut meats and a cupful of cooked peas; mix with a boiled salis dressing and serve on lettuce. Peas, peanuts and chopped onion in another combination which is good serve this on lettuce with a French dressing TOOTH&OME COCOANUT DISHES When the fresh nut may be obtained there are so many delightful dishes which one may prepare for the family that the economical nut ought to be a common combination often served. Curried Chicken or Rabbit-Joint a well-dressed chicken or rabbit and fry light brown in gutter; remove the pan an 3.3 fry a slice on it, then add three tablespoons of grated coconut (the dry may be used if soaked in milk for an hour), a teaspoonful of curry powder, one teaspoonful of chutney, a half cupful of milk or stock, a teaspoonful of salt, then add the chicken and simmer 40 minutes. Add a tablespoonful of lemon juice and serve with plain boiled rice. There are any number of confections that are delicious made with coconut, as well as cake fillings and puddings. A custard pie sprinkled with a generous handful of coconut is well liked. Coconut added to a salmon salad is, perhaps a little unusual, but is really most useful. Salt-Take Two cupsuits of grated coconut, a pint of chopped apple, a tablepoonful of chopped red pepper, one of green and a teaspoonful of grated onion, seasoned well with salt and a dash of cayenne, if the red pepper is sweet, is a very good salad. Cocoanut Cookies.—Take a cupful of cocanut, a cupful of currants, two cupfuls of brown sugar, a half cupful of butter, one half cupful of lard, one cupful of raisins, a teaspoonful of baking soda, a half teaspoonful of salt, two cupfuls of flour, two well beaten eggs and a half cupful of warm water, a teaspoonful of milk, and let stand overnight. In the morning roll very thin, add more flour, if needed, and cut when very soft. eggs and a a teaspoonful gether and a morning roll if needed, b roll and cut Cocoanut as a filling Grated co sugared silica dessert. It's fun to when goes. And to see skies dawn; For victor, defeat, is true. It's fun to right. GOOD Peas are Cocanut added to whipped cream as a filling for cake is most delicious Grated cocanut sprinkled over sugared slices of oranges is a pleasant dessert. It's fun to dare in the face of despair when the last long chance seems gone And to see hope rise in the angry dawn; to like a promise of rosy dawn; For victory's sweet when it crowns and you learn this much is true. It's fun to fight when you know you're right, and your heart is in it too! Peas are one of our most nourishing vegetables, will take the place of meat and furnish a wholesome and filling dish. Pea Soup. — Either canned or green or dried peas may be used for this dish. Take a pint of peas, add a teaspoonful of sugar, two cupfuls of cold water and cook with the rest of the utes. Drain, rub through a sieve, reheat and thicken with two tablespoonfuls of flour, cooked with two tablespoonfuls of butter, add a slice of onion to a toast of milk and, when scalding hot, remove the onion and add to the pea mixture, season with salt and pepper and cook until smooth. Peas that are too old and hard to serve as a vegetable make most satisfactory soups. Green Pea Soup—Take a pint of green peas, a quart of stock, six spring onions, a small bunch of mint, a bunch of parsley, a large handful of spinach, two tablespoonfuls of butter and salt. Wash the peas, parsley, mint and spinach. Add a teaspoonful of salt to the milk, cook with the rest of the peas and parsley and onion until soft; five minutes before they are done add the spinach. Put all through a sieve and boll again. Season with butter and salt. Serve hot. Peas and Rice—Put one cupful of rinsed rice and a fourth of a cupful of butter into a saucepan. Stir until the mixture is well browned. Then add a can of peas with the liquor, three cupfuls of boiling water, a little salt and sugar, if desired. Place in a baking dish and cook until the rice is tender. Spanish Salad—Cut up a cupful of chicken in small pieces, add a cupful Community Directed by Women. One French community is directed by women, not by chance, but by custom and necessity. This is the rocky island of Ushant, dreaded by sailors, which breeds a hardy race of seamen engaged either in the French navy or mercantile marine or in fishing, the work on land being done by the women. Courage. Courage conquers things; it even gives strength to the body—Ovid. To Avoid Taking Cold. How shall we avoid taking cold? To begin with, lead the physiological life, is the advice of a well-known physician. Get up in good time; bathe well; eat three meals of wholesome food a day, and don't hurry about it. In the fresh air all the time, day and night; and get in the sunshine whenever you can, and it isn't too hot. Training. "Your parrot talks insensitively." "Yes, he used to belong to a woman's claw." to this little bungalow is made extra wide. The fashion of building wide front steps and a correspondingly wide concrete walk reaching to the street has been noticeable during recent years. One man after surveying his new bungalow remarked that the steps must have been stolen from some schoolhouse. At the same time, after thinking the matter over, he decided that schoolhouse steps are necessary to carry out the bungalow-expansive idea. Wide front steps seem to require rampart step borders, which are useful as seats, besides giving the necessary finish to the house porch. In using this bungalow plan the cost of the lot was taken into consideration. The most attractive bungalows have rather a low appearance in front. A winter bungalow requires a cellar to be deep and well lighted. It is better to have a lot slope away to the back, because it permits the owner to bury his house in front and to have considerable exposure at the back. Bungalow cellars are used a good deal for storage purposes. Accessories must be taken care of. For this reason a cellar basement becomes more important than the cellar and two story. With the lot slope away to the back it is easy to make an excellent storeroom under the front part of the house and to finish the rear of the basement in such a way as to partition off a splendid laundry and furnace room that is entirely separate from the storeroom department. Every house built in the North should have a heating apparatus in the basement. Furnaces spool a celar for cold storage unless it is partitioned into rooms. It is customary to put larger and deeper windows in the back wall, for these reasons. A laundry room at the back makes a comfortable work room both in winter and in summer. It is never hot and it is never cold. It is easy of access by way of the stairway that goes down from the back hall. The plan of this bungalow shows that the living room and dining room are so closely connected that the two rooms really make one large room, 13 feet in width by 21 feet in depth. It is a grand room with plenty of light from the windows on the side. Such a combination living room and dining room requires a uniform design in woodwork in both rooms. The floor is of hardwood and the woodwork from the baseboard to the crown molding at the ceiling is rather heavy, but severely plain; the only difference in the general woodwork design of the two rooms is in the plate rail and built-in buffet. Where the living room and dining room are used as one room the plate rail sometimes is left out. The dining table is placed in one end of the room next to the kitchen. All the furniture as well as the woodwork corresponds, so that an elegant room, comfortably furnished, results. It is much easier to furnish a large room than a small one, a fact that must be appreciated because there are so many large living rooms in the newer houses. Especial attention is given to the woodwork and general finish of the kitchen. The work of lathing and plastering is carefully done, and the woodwork is hard and smooth, and the whole surface of the walls and cellings is given a smooth, glossy finish, which is white lined with glazed tile. The kitchen is made light by two large windows and a glass door that opens on the back porch. On the opposite side of the house, which usually is the north or east side, we have two comfortable bedrooms, with the necessary clothes closes, linen closet and bathroom. All the rooms in the house are connected by a short hall that takes up very little space; an arrangement that is well liked in a house of this design. In addition to the splendid basement, considerable storage is provided in the attic. A stairway is built leading up from the pantry, so that odd things may be put out of the way until needed. The attic has considerable size and is lighted from two large sables. Easier to Spell. Young Arthur, the pride of the family, had been attending school all of six weeks, and his devoted parent thought it was high time he should find out how things were running. So he asked, one afternoon: "And what did my little son learn about this morning?" "Oh, a mouse. Miss Mia, ox told us all about mouse's that he how do you spell mouse?" it turned that Arthur gave promise of being an artful doger. He paused meditatively for a moment, then said: "Father, I guess I was wrong. It wasn't a mouse teacher as well telling us about. It was a rat." —Harper's Magazine. Hubby Wanted Meat "You see they tell us to use less meat," remarked the matron. "So I give my husband cheese and tomato fritters for his tea one day. Next day he'd cheese and macaroni. Then I give 'im cheese and bananas. But me give 'em cheese and bananas. He looks at his cheese and bananas and says, 'Missia, I'm over fifty, but if you don't stop this I'm off to the blooming war. You can get meat there." of cucumber cut in cubes, a cupful of broken walnut meats and a cupful of cooked peas; mix with a boiled salad dressing and serve on lettuce. Peas, peanuts and chopped onion is another combination which is good; serve this on lettuce with a French dressing. Many times, especially in the country, it is impossible to get a trained nurse when the means are sufficient to warrant one if obtainable, so that it is quite important that mothers and heads of households be intelligent as to the care of the sick. The proper food is as important as medicine, especially convalescence, and nutrition and appetizing food must be so served that the sight of it will create a desire to eat. The arrangement of a tray and the removal of the same as soon as the meal is taken is most important. A small amount of food well arranged will often appeal to the appetite when a tray carelessly set and overloaded would be refused. The home nurse should dress in a fresh, clean, washable dress, keeping as cheerful and good to look at as is possible to be. Talk about cheerful things, don't discuss illness of others or allow the patient to talk of his symptoms too much. A cheerful, hopeful attitude of mind is most essential to recovery. The nurse who allows her patient to think he will not get well may as well get ready to make the funeral arrangements. Many nervous people die because they think it is expected of them. If there was only one word to be used in describing a sickroom let it be one of cleanliness. Everything about the patient, the room and the nurse should be spotless. Frequent bathing for cleanliness is necessary, as the pores of the skin have their important office to perform in the elimination of waste. When the patient has fever, frequent bathing keeps down the temperature. Rubbing with the hand wet with good alcohol is most refreshing after a cleansing bath. It cools the skin and rests the patient. It is not used or an oilcloth may be placed under the patient before bathing so that the bedding need not be dampened. Often the rubbing of the patient with a bathtowel, when the bath seems too fatiguing, will be found most helpful. A fine cake is an achievement, but one which may not be performed once a month or less often with very good results. The good cake makers are those who make them often; they are perfected by much practice. An old-fashioned pound cake is one which is usually enjoyed at any time by anyone. It is a cake which is simple to make, yet is too often not good. The butter must be beyond reproach, the eggs fresh and good favored to have a tasty, appetizing cake. Cream a cupful of fresh, sweet butter until soft, add 1-2 cupfuls of fine granulated sugar very gradually, beating constantly, then add five eggs, one at a time, giving the batter a vigorous beating after each. The eggs are foamy add two cupfuls of sifted pastry flour added in lightly. Bake in a slow oven an hour. The tin should be lined with buttered paper. Spice Cake.—A third of a cupful of soft butter is added to 1-1.3 cupfuls of brown sugar, then well mixed add two eggs, a half cupful of milk 1% cupfuls of a half cupful of three teaspoonful of baking powder, one half teaspoonful of cinnamon, a quarter teaspoonful of cloves, a half pound of dates, seeded and cut in pieces, a half teaspoonful of nutmeg. Beat all together and bake in a moderate oven 45 minutes. The ingredients are all added together before mixing, making it a quick cake to prepare. Orange Filling—Mix a cupful and a half of sugar, with 2½ tablespoonfuls of flour, then add the grated rind and juice of an orange, a tablespoonful of lemon juice, one egg slightly beaten and a tablespoonful of butter. Cook until smooth and thick, stirring constantly. Cool and spread on the cake. Cover with a white ice. Nellie Maxwell Auntie Evidently Not a Venus. A maiden lady said to her little nephew: "Now, Johnny, you go to bed early and always do so, and you'll be rosey cheeked and handsome when you grow up." Johnny thought over this a few minutes and then he observed: "Well, aunty, you must have sat up a good deal when you were young." Optimistic Thought. The whole of life is but a moment of time. The Substantial Thing. "The founders of the republic started a great nation when they pledged their sacred honor to its cause." "But that wouldn't have gone very far if they hadn't pledged their cash, too." A Good Test. "So you wish to become an aviator. Do you think your nerve is sufficiently steady?" "Well I've been out in a canoe with a nervous fat girl." which one may prepare for the family that the economical nut ought to be a common combination often served. Curried Chicken or Rabbit, both well-dressed chicken or rabbit, and a fly. a light Pea Soup. — Elither canned or green or dried peas may be used for this dish. Take a pint of peas, add a teaspoonful of sugar, two cupfuls of water, and pour slowly for twenty minutes. Drain. rub through Courage. IN THE SICKROOM nurse when the means are sufficient to warrant one if obtainable, so that it is quite important that mothers and heads of households be intelligent to the care of the sick. The proper food is as important as medicine, especially in convalesces. SOME DELICIOUS CAKES. a month or less often with very good results. The good cake makers are those who make them often; they are perfected by much prac- tice. The best pound cake is one which is usually enjoyed at Rev. Hubbard and Mr. McDavin visited in Cedar Rapids, attending the Masonic grand lodge. Mr. Eddie Kebo visited his sister, Mr. S. McDavis, for over a month, and departed for the west Saturday. Quite a few of our young students spent their vacations in the city getting ready for next term of school. Mr. Bert Kebo and wife, who were here visiting his sister and relatives, departed for their home in Kookuk, Iowa. They spent over a week after the Fourth of July. Mr. Willie Green was in the city Sunday from Cedar Rapids. He came after his baby, Mildred Green, who was with her grandma and relatives. He said he was lonesome without her. (This Week.) Mr. A. Reubenstein of S. U. I. and an active Y. M. C. A. worker, gave us a lecture on Sunday evening which was largely attended and very much enjoyed. Miss Mary Perkins of S. U. I. school of music gave a recital in Fort Dodge, Iowa, which was very successful. ...The Ladies' Home and Foreign Missionary society will serve dinner on the 22d of July from 5:30 to 10 o'clock p. m. at the church. Well can anyone tell me, I wonder, where is Sweetie? Mr. and Mrs. T. McDavis entertained a few friends at dinner in honor of their brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Tyebo of Oskaloosa, Iowa. CENTERVILLE NEWS Sunday was a rainy day. Though stormy, services were well attended, the evening services especially. Rev. Cooper preached two excellent sermens. The Centerville colored band gave a social Monday evening, and rendered a splendid musical program, which was enjoyed by all. A large crowd was present. Mrs. A. Cooper entertained for breakfast Thursday morning Miss Lenora Payne of Trenton, Mo., Mrs. Hazel Penston and Mrs. A. L. Crittenden. Mrs. Hazel Penston entertained a few ladies at her home Saturday evening in honor of her aunt, Miss Lenora, and Mrs. Bernice Richmond of Aurora, Ill. All reported a nice time. The members of the Art club gave a reception at the home of Mrs. Anna Lacy on Sunday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Bernice Richmond and Miss Lenora Payne. Each member had an invited guest. All reported a nice time. Mrs. Leonard Lewis still remains quite ill. Rev. J. E. Smith still remains quite ill. The Helping Hand will give a social Tuesday evening. The Mission Circle will be entertained at the home of Mrs. G. Cooper on Thursday evening. Madame Mary S. Williams arrived in this city, her former home, after a period of two years' stay in Oskaloosa, Iowa. While there she learned the Madame C. J. Walker hair grower trade and received her diploma and is now able to grow hair for all those who desire to take treatments. Thirty-five friends of Mrs. Clara G. Jones went out to her home Monday evening, July 19th, and pleasantly surprised her. She received many beautiful and useful presents. Ice cream and cake were served. They departed at a late hour, wishing Mrs. Jones many more happy birthdays. All reported a nice time. Help for Those Who Have Stomach Trouble. After doctoring for about twelve years for a bad stomach trouble, and spending nearly five hundred dollars for medicine and doctors' fees, I purchased my wife one box of Chamberlain's Tablets, which did her so much good that she continued to use them and they have done her more good than all of the medicine I bought before. Samuel Boyer, Folsom, Iowa. This medicine is for sale by all dealers. SIOUX CITY, IOWA. Mr. A. J. Hogg was called to Luther, Okla., by the illness and death of his father. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Arnold of New York are in the city. They are stopping at the J. W. Hudson home, 618 Sioux street. Mrs. Priscilla Mack entertained a few friends Wednesday evening at the Victor Wright home, 614 Sioux street, in honor of Mrs. Phoebe Wright and Mrs. Mary Logan of Chicago. Mrs. Phoebe Whittemore and Mrs. Mary Logan of Chicago were in the city last week. They were the guests of Mrs. Priscilla Mack. The A. M. E. and Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday schools will hold a union picnic at Grabbe's park on Thursday, July 29. The Hann Jubilee Singers will appear at the Swedish Baptist church Monday evening, July 19, under the auspices of the Mt. Zion and A. M. E. churches. Presiding Elder S. B. Moore was in the city last week and conducted quarterly conference Wednesday evening at the Malone A. M. E. church. He departed Friday morning for Council Bluffs. Mr. M. Aaskew, delegate from Decatur lodge, No. 14, A. F. & A. M., has arrived home from Cedar Rapids, where he attended the grand lodge. He was honored by being elected grand junior warden. Mrs. Mattie Warriors of Des Moines, district president of the normal institute of the Des Moines District Sunday School conference, visited in the city for a couple of days while en route home from Canton, S. D., where she had been called by the serious illness of her son. While there she was a guest in the F. A. Mackley home. Frederick B. Harrison, reader and honorary patron, appeared in recitales of the A. M. F. and Mt. Zion Baptist churches Monday and Tuesday evenings. His readings both nights were splendid and were greatly enjoyed by the audiences. Those assisting and contributing numbers on the program Monday evening were Mrs. Priscilla Mack, piano selection; Mrs. A. Askew, vocal solo, and Miss Anderson, vocal solo. Mrs. J. Miller was hostess to the A. I. P. clu blast Friday at her home in South Sioux City. Following a pleasant afternoon of visiting and needlework the hours were concluded by the serving of a two-course repast. ST. JOSEPH, MO. A large number of the U. B. F. and S. M. T. will go to Kansas City next week to attend the triennial session of the national grand lodge of the U. B. F. and S. M. T.. It is said that between 15,000 and 20,000 visitors will be in that city next week. Mrs. Geo. W. Walker is in St. Louis this week attending the annual session of the Eastern Star. Mrs. J. F. Lewis of Muskogee, Okla., arrived in our city last week to spend the summer. The folk festival under the direction of Mrs. Hattie L. Buren given at the Lyceum theater on the 9th inst. for the benefit of the Ebenezer A. M. E. church was the most successful entertainment, and we congratulate local talent. The prices for admission were 50, 35 and 25 cents, and there was nearly 800 people who paid those prices to attend that entertainment, and we congratulate Mrs. Buren for preparing such a unique program, and as we have said before, our people are beginning to patronize more liberally high class entertainments, and we must commend them for attending any program in which it takes time and educatiol to prepare. Mr. W. J. Irving, a railway mail clerk that lives in Horton, Kans, spent part of Tuesday in our city. He is now papa, as the stork has been a recent visitor at his home. Both mother and daughter are doing well. the memorial for Bishop Turner was held at the Ebeneze A. M. E. church last Monday night. The pastor of that church, Rev. N. C. Buren, presided. A nice program was rendered and the resolutions prepared by the committee were unanimously adopted. The Dressers club, a new organization, gave their first reception at the Sanitary cafe at 226 W. Missouri avenue last Tuesday night. After a short program by the members of the club those present were introduced to the guests of honor, who were the Misses Goodson of Carrollton, Barnett of Atchison, Kans, and Reed of Colorado Springs, Colo. Then a three-course menu was served, during which a few short speeches were made in the absence of Dr. Goodson, who was to have been master of ceremonies. The president of the club, Mr. Edward Barnett, presided. About forty guests were present to enjoy the reception. Miss Arabella Payne, after about a fortnight visit with relatives and friends in this city, returned to St. Louis last Friday. The union picnic of the Sunday schools will be held in the near future at Lake Contrary. Miss Barnett, a graduate nurse of Provident hospital at Chicago, is the guest of her brother, Mr. E. Barnett, this week. Traveling Man's Experience "In the summer of 1888 I had a very severe attack of cholera morbus. 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She is representing the Wharton Mite Missionary society. Sol Butler, star athlete, starred at the tryouts for the Panama fair games held in Chicago. He broke the A. A. U. record for the running broad jump and he expects to shatter the world's record for this event at the fair games. The McKinley Baptist church will give a barbecue at the exposition park August 4th. The White Rose club of McKinley Baptist church met at an interesting session last week. Mr. Moses King is back from a trip to Chicago. OTTUMWA, IOWA. Mrs. Fowler was in Des Moines attending the executive board of Iowa State Federation. Mr. John Williams of Chicago was in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. Green on Center avenue. Mr. R. B. Harrison was a visitor for a short while at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Owens. He will give a recital at the A. M. E. church Friday evening, July 23. The baby show given under the auspices of the M. M. S. Monday evening was a success. 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D. 1907, the following described real estate, towit: Outlot "B" in the town of Loring, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to F. H. Noble of the payment of the taxes for the year 1906, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by W. H. Meredith. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated July 7, 1915. W. H. Meredith. By J. C. Meredith, His Attorney in Fact. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To W. H. Crooks, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 2, A. D. 1907, the following described real estate, towit: Outlot "A" in the town of Loring, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to F. F. Pease for the payment of the taxes for the year 1906, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by W. H. Meredith. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for id lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated June 21, 1907. Dated July 7, 1915. W. H. Meredith. J. C. Meredith, His Attorney in Fact. IOWA CITY NEWS. (Last Week's News.) Rev. Hubbard and Mr. McDavis visited in Cedar Rapids, attending the Masonic grand lodge. Mr. Eddie Kebo visited his sister, Mrs. S. McDavis, for over a month, and departed for the west Saturday. Quite a few of our young students spent their vacations in the city getting ready for next term of school. Mr. Bert Kebo and wife, who were here visiting his sister and relatives, departed for their home in Keokuk, Iowa. They spent over a week after the Fourth of July. Mr. Willie Green was in the city Sunday from Cedar Rapids. He came after his baby, Mildred Green, who was with her grandma and relatives. He said he was lonesome without her. (This Week.) Mr. A. Reubenstein of S. U. I. and an active M. Y. C. A. workker, gave us a lecture on Sunday evening which was largely attended and very much enjoyed. Miss Mary Perkins of S. U. I. school of music gave a recital in Fort Dodge, Iowa, which was very successful. ...The Ladies' Home and Foreign Missionary society will serve dinner on the 22d of July from 5:30 to 10 o'clock p. m. at the church. Well can anyone tell me, I wonder, where is Sweetie? Mr. and Mrs. T. McDavis entertained a few friends at dinner in honor of their brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Tyebo of Oskaloosa, Iowa. CENTERVILLE NEWS. Sunday was a rainy day. Though stormy, services were well attended, the evening services especially. Rev. Cooper preached two excellent sermens. The Centerville colored band gave a social Monday evening, and rendered a splendid musical program, which was enjoyed by all. A large crowd was present. Mrs. A. Cooper entertained for breakfast Thursday morning Miss Lenora Payne of Trenton, Mo, Mrs. Hazel Penston and Mrs. A. L. Crittenden. Mrs. Hazel Penston entertained a few ladies at her home Saturday evening in honor of her aunt, Miss Lenora, and Mrs. Bernice Richmond of Aurora, Ill. All reported a nice time. The members of the Art club gave a reception at the home of Mrs. Anna Lacy on Sunday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Bernice Richmond and Miss Lenora Payne. Each member had an invited guest. All reported a nice time. Miss Payne left for her home in Trenton, Mo., Monday evening. Mrs. Leonard Lewis still remains quite ill. Rev. J. E. Smith still remains quite ill. The Helping Hand will give a social Tuesday evening. The Mission Circle will be entertained at the home of Mrs. G. Cooper on Thursday evening. Madame Mary S. Williams arrived in this city, her former home, after a period of two years' stay in Oskaloosa, Iowa. While there she learned the Madame C. J. Walker hair grower trade and received her diploma and is now able to grow hair for all those who desire to take treatments. Thirty-five friends of Mrs. Clara G. Jones went out to her home Monday evening, July 19th, and pleasantly surprised her. She received many beautiful and useful presents. Ice cream and cake were served. They departed at a late hour, wishing Mrs. Jones many more happy birthdays. All reported a nice time. Help for Those Who Have Stomach Trouble. 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Zion Baptist Sunday schools will hold a union picnic at Grabbe's park on Thursday, July 29. The Hann Jubilee Singers will appear at the Swideish Baptist church Monday evening, July 19, under the auspices of the M. T. Zion and A. M. E. churches. Presiding Elder S. B. Moore was in the city last week and conducted quarterly conference Wednesday evening at the Malone A. M. E. church. He departed Friday morning for Council Bluffs. Mr. M. Askew, delegate from Decatur lodge, No. 14, A. F. & A. M., has arrived home from Cedar Rapids, where he attended the grand lodge. He was honored by being elected grand junior warden. Mrs. Mattie Warriicks of Des Moines, district president of the normal institute of the Des Moines District Sunday School convention, visited in the city for a couple of days while en route home from Canton, S. D., where she had been called by the serious illness of her son. While Mrs. she was a guest in the F. A. Hickory home. evenings. His readings both nights were splendid and were greatly enjoyed by the audiences. Those assisting and contributing numbers on the program Monday evening were Mrs. Priscilla Mack, piano selection; Mrs. A. Askew, vocal solo, and Miss Anderson, vocal solo. Mrs. J. Miller was hostess to the A. I. P. clu blast Friday at her home in Sioux City. Following a pleasant afternoon of visiting and needlework the hours were concluded by the serving of a two-course repast. ST. JOSEPH, MO. A large number of the U. B. F. and S. M. T. will go to Kansas City next week to attend the triennial session of the national grand lodge of the U. B. F. and S. M. T.. It is said that between 15,000 and 20,000 visitors will be in that city next week. Mrs. Geo. W. Walker is in St. Louis this week attending the annual session of the Eastern Star. Mrs. J. F. Lewis of Muskogee, Okla., arrived in our city last week to spend the summer. The folk festival under the direction of Mrs. Hattie L. Buren given at the Lyceum theater on the 9th inst. for the benefit of the Ebenezer A. M. E. church was the most successful entertainment, and we congratulate local talent. The prices for admission were 50, 35 and 25 cents, and there was nearly 800 people who paid those prices to attend that entertainment, and we congratulate Mrs. Buren for preparing such a unique program, and as we have said before, our people are beginning to patronize more liberally high class entertainments, and we must commend them for attending any program in which it takes time and education to prepare. Mr. W. J. Irving, a railway mail clerk that lives in Horton, Kans, spent part of Tuesday in our city. He is now papa, the stork has been a recent visitor at his home. Both mother and daughter are doing well. The memorial for Bishop Turner was held at the Ebenezer A. M. E. church last Monday night. The pastor of that church, Rev. N. C. Buren, presided. 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Mrs. Flem Bassett is recovering slowly from her recent accident. Mrs. Bassett fell and sprained her leg. Mrs. Ollie Penn leaves soon for Gary, Indiana, where she will act as a delegate to the Chicago conference Mite Missionary convention. She is representing the Wharton Mite Missionary society. Sol Butler, star athlete, starred at the tryouts for the Panama fair games held in Chicago. He broke the A. A. U. record for the running broad jump and he expects to shatter the world's record for this event at the fair games. The McKinley Baptist church will give a barbecue at the exposition park August 4th. The White Rose club of McKinley Baptist church met at an interesting session last week. Mr. Moses King is back from a trip to Chicago. OTTUMWA, IOWA. Mrs. Fowler was in Des Moines attending the executive board of Iowa State Federation. Mr. John Williams of Chicago was in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. Green on Center avenue. Mr. R. B. Harrison was a visitor for a short while at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Ovens. He will give a recital at the A. M. E. church Friday evening, July 23. The baby show given under the auspices of the M. M. S. Monday evening was a success. The baby receiving the most votes was awarded a prize of a silver dollar. Little Crystal Genevieve Long was the lucky baby. There were five babies, all very sweet and pretty, and many others absent on account of sickness. Mr. G. McGill and Mr. A. Bibbs have purchased beautiful homes. Mr. Dave Wilson and family are sick with a malady that has invaded several families. Mr. Wendell Johnson is in Chicago where he went to seek employment. Rev. M. I. Gordon is in the city greeting old friends. Faithful Few met with Mrs. Ham on Center avenue. large attendance. After business a program was rendered. During lunch each repeated a poem from Dunbar. Rev. T. J. 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Crooks, the person in whose name the real estate, described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 2, A. D. 1907, the following described real estate, towit: Outlot "B" in the town of Loring, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to F. H. Noble or the payment of the taxes for the year 1906, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by W. H. Meredith. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated July 7, 1915. W. H. Meredith. By J. C. Meredith, His Attorney in Fact. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To W. H. Crooks, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 2, A. D. 1907, the following decribed real estate, towit: Outlot "A" in the town of Loring, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to F. F. Pease for the payment of the taxes for the year 1906, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by W. H. Meredith. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for a lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated July 7, 1915. W. H. Meredith. J. C. Meredith, His Attorney in Fact.