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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. Mrs. Hannah Porter has returned to our city, after an extended visit in Denver, Colo. The Busy Bee Sewing Circle of St. Paul's A. M. E. church meets today with Mrs. Thornton Adams on Chester avenue. The Callanone club will meet next Wednesday p. m. with Mrs. Thornton Adams on Chester avenue. Richard B. Harrison, the noted reader and impersonator of Chicago, the guest of Miss Josephine Bell White in the city. Mr. Richard B. Harrison, the noted reader, gave a private reading Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fields on Eleventh street. The Triple "H" club met October 6 at the home of Mrs. L. A. Avery, 64 Eleventh street. The time was devoted to the industrial part of the club. Next meeting will be held with Mrs. Baker Dixon. Miss Josephine Bell entertained at three-course, dinner Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Mary Monague of Los Angeles, California, and Richard B. Harrison of Chicago, Ill. Covers were laid for fourteen. We are sorry to chronicle the serious illness of Master Malcolm Griffith, son of Rev. T. L. Griffith, whose house has been quarantined in for the last week on account of diphtheria. He is gradually improving. Rev. S. L. Birt, the newly appointed pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, left Tuesday morning for Galesburg, his former pastorate, and expects to return with his wife and family the latter part of the week and will occupy his pulpit Sunday morning and evening. The Wednesday Night Bridge club resumed their meetings, after a summer vacation, and at the met at Miss Ardella Carr. The club will meet next Wednesday with Miss Daisy Clay at 817 Twelfth street. The Old Maids' Convention, a playlet given at Union Congregational church Monday evening was a decided success. The Athenian Literary society deserves great credit, especially Mrs. M. M. L. Gregory, president. The club will meet Monday evening, October 18th, with Mrs. Birney, who will entertain in honor of those who took part in the play. Mrs. Eliza Dunn, formerly of Des Moines, arrived in the city the first of the week, after having brought the remains of her husband, Mr. Geo H. Dunn, who recently died in Colorado, to his home in Missouri for burial. She is here fixing up her property and attending to business. While here she is stopping at 506 S. E. Ninth street. Mrs. Eliza Qualls of Lim, Ohio has been spending the past three weeks with her sister, Mrs. Mary Guinn and other relatives. Both sisters left for North Carolina on an extended visit Tuesday night. The Eliza E. Peterson Union will meet Thursday Oct. 14, at the residence of S. Joe Brown, 1658. All members are urged to be present; business of importance. N. A. A. C. P. At the meeting of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Monday evening the first reports from the captains in the grand prize membership contest were received and Mr. Jesse A. Graves having reported the largest number of applications to date was also given credit for the five applications received at the membership meeting September 22nd. Those elected to membership were Chas. Smith, John L. Thompson, John F. Usry (white), Isom G. Harris, Dr. J. A. Jefferson, W. R. Banta, Donald Van Platter, Mrs. T. M. Wilson (white), W. J. Howard, Chas. C. Johnson, Henry Robertson, Geo. Williams, B. J. Hack Rufus P. Jackson, I. M. Jones, C. Bridgewater, Harry Walters, E. T. Banks, Mrs. S. F. Wright, W. T. Buckner and S. W. Hohn. Rev. S. L. Birt was received as a transfer from the Galesbury branch, thus increasing the membership to 167. The executive committee also decided to present a gold membership pin to each member bringing in ten new applications and accepted a proposition from Mr. E. R. Hall to put on an entertainment Monday, November 22, the proceeds of which are to be invested in subscriptions to the Crisis, to be sent to influential white citizens in the community in an effort to interest them in the work of the as- Cottage Cafe 758 9th Street Cottage Cafe 758 9th Street Hot Cakes and Coffee at 6:30 Dinner from 12 to 2. Special Chicken dinner on Sunday from 12 to 3 GIVE ME A TRIAL Mrs. Nella Shelton State Capitol Bldg Historical Room association. A meeting of the captains will be held at 1058 Fifth street each Monday evening during the campaign, but the next meeting of the executive committee will be Monday, November 1st, in connection with the annual membership meeting at Union Congregational church, at which time all new applications will be voted upon and the officers for the ensuing year will be elected. ONLY NEGRO SUMMER RESORT IN U. S., PLAN IN MICHIGAN. Half of 14,000 Lots Platted at Crook ed Lake Sold—Golf Club and Tennis Among Features, Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 27.—(Special). A summer resort for Negroes only will be opened next summer on the shores of Crooked lake, near White Cloud. Fourteen thousand lots have been platted and half of them already sold. A golf and tennis court will be among the features of the only Negro summer resort in the United States. Only educated Negroes will be admitted, it is asserted. The resort will be known as "idlewild," and is among some of the prettiest scenery in northern Michigan. Attorney Charles Anderson of Chicago is one of the promoters. OBITUARY. On September 22 at Pueblo, Colo., occurred the death of Mr. Geo. H. Dunn, a former resident and property owner in Des Moines. He was well known and highly respected here and for many years was employed by the Rogg Drug Co. He had been in good health until six weeks ago, when he suffered an attack of typhoid fever and his condition gradually failed until the end came. Mr. Dunn has been in the employ of the Pullman company for many years and has been working at Pueblo for the past eight years. He is survived by his wife, who was in British Columbia at the time of his death, but hastened to Pueblo at once. The remains were shipped to his old home at Hamilton Mo., for burial. His many friends and acquaintances extend to the beaved widow their heartfelt sympathy. WATERLOO NEWS. Miss Mertle Beason of Clifton is in the city, the guest of Mrs. S. C. Smith and daughter Vivian who has been in the past week. We wish her a speedy recovery. The services were well attended Sunday at Antioch Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. John Brock left for Chicago Wednesday to spend the week. Rev. I. Bess is spending the week in Galesburg visiting Rev. S. B Moore and family. Rev. Malone filled the pulpit Sunday at the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Gee Bugg of Martian, Tenn. arrived in the city and will make this place her home. The wedding that was to be at the Antioch Baptist church Monday was postponed for some unknown reason. Mrs. Cora Pearson is on the sick list ALBIA, IOWA Editor John L. Thompson of the Bystander was in Albia this week looking after business Rev. R. N. Morgan is again pastor of the A. M. E. church in this city. He is looking up his official and expect to make an improvement on this year's church work. Miss Mildred Lewit was able to be out for a drive Sunday for her first outing for several month. Mr Lawrence Carson is among the Hocking schools attending Albia High School this year. Little Bennie Grayson spent Sunday at Hocking No. 3 with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grayson. Mrs. M. Robinson of Hocking was in Albia and Hiteman on Wednesday of this w-k with wadam C. J. alker's hair shampoo and hair grower. RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENT FOR SISTER BANKS Whereas it has pleased the mighty to remove from Princess Zorah chapter, No. 10, O. E. S. Sister Alice Banks, and whereas Sister Banks was the founder of the Princess Zorah chapter and P. M. of the same, and Whereas Sister Banks was a faithful member and zealous promoter of the interests of the said chapter, Therefore be it resolved in the passing of Sister Banks, Princess Zorah chapter has lost a valuable member, end. Be it further resolved that the chapter extend deep sympathy to the bereaved husband, that a copy of these resolutions be placed on file and a copy sent to the husband, Sister Gertrude Johnson, Chm, Sister Maude Tnompson, Sister Jessica F. McClain. The Bystander collector will be in your city in a few days. Please see and pay him your subscription. Would Seem So. Crawford, a rich know how the landlord DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1915. Fort Dodge, Iowa, Sept. 17.—Quite a number of our Des Moines men journeyed with me up to Fort Dodge to set up a new Masonic lodge, which we did the next morning. I briefly observed this city of about 12,000 people, of which 100 are colored. Here lives Hon. William Kenyon, our junior U. S. senator, who is a true friend of this struggling race of mine. Mr. S. Hudson runs a pantomium just across the street from the Waukonis hotel. He has a large and lucrative trade. He owns two five-passenger automobiles. He took the grand master, Dr. A. J. Booker, B. J. Hack, and James B. Mitchell sightseeing over the city in one of his large cars. Sylvester Lewis is still working at the gypsum plant. L. Raglin is porter at the same torsional shop. He has purchased him a home. Scott Davis has remodeled his home. Mr. H. Venerable is still on his farm near the city. He is a successful farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper run a hotel at 225 Central avenue. All should patronize them. Howard, one of our Des Moines boys, is working here. He is well liked. W. H. Laveville is running a clothes pressing shop in the Waukonis hotel. We next spent Sunday and part of Monday in Sioux City, that growing, hustling city in the northwestern part of Iowa. Here is indeed another of Iowa's beautiful wide paved streets. All kept clean. We have about 500 colored people two churches and two secret societies, the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges, doing well. The A. M. E. church and the Baptist church. The A. M. E. minister had gone to the conference and the Baptists are without a minister at present. Rev. Tower, pastor of the large Congregational church there, preaches for them at the evening hour. Mr. T. H. Sturgis and C. E. Stubblefield are still on the U. S. mail force as carriers. They are both fine men and have made good in the service and as citizens they are real representative race men. C. F. Williams is still in the carpet cleaning and dusting business and is succeeding nicely. He owns valuable property. His office is 704 West Seventh street. Mr. M. Askew is one of the leading and reliable men of this city and state. He is still employed at the large drug store. He owns several houses and lot in this city and was recently elected R. W. grand junior warden of the Iowa grand lodge. He has a loveable wife, who is W. matron of the Eastern Star here. Edward Askew is a brother to M. He is also doing nicely and owns a beauti- DAVENPORT ITEMS. Mrs. Ida Corn of Galesburg, Ill., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Kellis Baker. The V. N. C. will make their annual trip to Clinton on October 20th, where they will be joined by a number of Clinton ladies and be entertained at the residence of Mrs. Henderson. Every member is urged to attend. Mrs. Francis Baker, president; Mrs. Archey Perkins, secretary. The E. L. D. held their fall opening October 1st at the residence of Mrs. Levi Cunningham and entertained about twenty of their husbands and friends. A program was rendered and refreshment served. Many encouraging remarks were made by guests. Mrs. Sarah Wright of Marshalltown was an out of town guest; Mrs. Jenny Johnson, secretary. Two of the guests applied for membership. Mrs. C. H. Marshall, presi-Moore made a farewell call on Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Kellis Baker entertained at dinner last Sunday Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Sims, Miss Ada Sims, Mrs. C. H. Marshall and Mrs. Miller. The dinner was all that appetites could call for. Miss Della Watkins has returned from a ten days' stay in Buffalo, Iowa. Mrs Jesse Lucas, who has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cain, left for her home in Chicago last week. While in the city she was the honored guest at quite a number of social functions. Among those who entertained for her were Mrs. Wm. Cain and Mrs. Chas. Shearp. Mr. A. D. Corbin, formerly a resident of this city, but recently of Des Moines, has returned here and purchased a row of flats, which he is repairing and beautifying. When completed they will be quite modern and valuable. Rev. T. W. Lewis, recently appointed pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church, is expected in the city this week. Richard B. Harrison, dramatic reader of Chicago, will give a recital at the Third Baptist church Friday evening, October 8th. Mrs. Wm. Brooks, who has been visiting in Chicago, Aurora and Mendota, Ill., returned home Monday evening. Rev. I. P. Sims and family leave this week for their new field of labor in St. Paul, Minn. They carry with them best wishes from the people ful home at 212 West Sixth street. Mr. F. M. Askew, another brother to M., is living here. He is employed at the Davidson dry goods store. He also owns nice property, Miss Laura, their only sister, lives with her parents. She is an active church and Sunday school worker, Rev. J. W. Dowden, a retired A. M. E. minister, is living here. He is junior at the Y. M. C. A. building. Dr. J. Wilbur Norris is another one of Sioux City's leading business men. He is magnetic doctor and has a nice office in the Little block. Dr. Norris is one of the few men that have made a success in his chosen profession in the north. He is a thorough race man, one of the leading spirits of this city. Mr. Grant is still working at the same place. Miss Goldie Hackley chronicles the news for this city to The Bystander. L. F. Sadler is still operating his pool hall and barber shop at 413 West Seventh street. He is doing well around the wet, dull season. He is an active Odd Fellow. Dr. R. A. Dobson is the only colored physician here. He has been here more than one year and is doing nicely. Rev. R. L. Wright is a retired A. M. E. minister living here. He wishes to be remembered by all his old friends. We next stopped at Yankton, S. D., formerly the capital of both the Dakotas, but as civilization pushed further northwest she has lost the capital, yet it is one of the largest South Dakota cities. They have about 120 colored people up there. Most of them own or work on the farm lands. Mr. Lewis is one of the pioneer men here, having been here for the past thirty years. He is a plastering contractor. He owns a beautiful home and has a cultured Christian wife. John Forte, formerly a heavy farmer of North Dakota, is living here. There are two churches here, the A. M. E., pastored by Rev. Campbell. Their church is very old. It is a brick building in the down town district. The Episcopal church built a church about two years ago, a nice church. Both churches are out of debt. Rev. F. H. Heryford, formerly of Keysville, Mo. is their pastor. He is a fine man to meet and is doing well with his church. Mr. Goodlow and wife have moved from the country into the city. Those here who will now read the Bystander are John Fate, Rev. F. H. Heryford, C. W. Glover, W. F. Smith, Mrs. L. M. Furges, L. A. Smith, Mrs. E. W. Stakes, Al Hayes, C. C. Yancy, A. Allen and Elige Bentley. OSKALOOSA, IOWA. Mr. Redrick of Grinnell was an excellent player. He is the excellent guest of Mrs. Edisonna Swaney. Mrs. Rolland Weeks left Saturday night for Des Moines. The prayer meeting Wednesday night at the Baptist church was led by Brother Watts. Mr. and Mrs. Mahin Stewart entertained Tuesday at dinner Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tolson and daughter, Gerie. Mrs. Hackley, who has been a patient in the Mercy hospital, was taken to her home in Evans, her condition being too weak to undergo the operation. Cyrus Finley came down Saturday night from Grinnell, where he has employment, to spend Sunday with his wife. He returned Monday. Wm. Holt and wife of Marion are guests in the Simpson Mitchell home this week. Mr. Holt is Mr. Mitchell's nephew. The second quarterly meeting and conference of Wesley Chapel M. E. church Saturday and Sunday. Rev. W. H. Wheeler of Kansas City will preside. The Gideon men of the Second Baptist church served luncheon Friday night at the church. Mrs. W. E. Witt, after a siege of illness, is convalescing. Mrs. Ethel Fields is still numbered among the sick. Mr. E. E. Jones visited several days this week with his son, Roscoe, in Minneapolis. Mrs. Chas, Wilson of Ottumwa spent the first of the week with her mother, Cora Jones. Mrs. Fannie Wilson entertained at Sunday dinner Cyrus Finley and wife. Mrs. Eliza Green and Mrs. Leslie Green and son, Herbert. Simpson Mitchell has improved his property with a coat of paint. When Baby Has the Croup. When a mother is awakened from sound sleep to find her child who has gone to bed apparently for breath, she is naturally alarmed. Yet if she can keep her presence of mind and give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy every ten minutes until vomiting is produced, quick relief will follow and the child will drop to sleep to awaken in the morning as well as ever. This remedy has been in use for many years with uniform success. Obtainable everywhere. ACCOMPLISHES MUCH GOOD Major Robert R. Moton and Party of Distinguished Citizens Receive Warm Welcome at Every Point on Tour of Northern Neck Interest in the Movement Increases. Hampton, Va. - The Negro Organization Society of Virginia recently concluded a successful campaign through the Northern neck in the interest of "better health, better schools, better farms, better homes." This was the third Virginia campaign. It showed clearly that white and colored people alike are waking up to the importance of public health, education, economic prosperity and wholesome home life. President Robert R. Moton and his party of race colored were everywhere located cordially. In the region between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, embracing Northumberland, Lancaster, Richmond, Westmoreland and Essex counties, there are many colored people living in attractive and well kept homes, which they own, and worshiping in MAJOR ROBERT B. MOTON. large modern churches which are in charge of well prepared and respected preachers. The Negro Organization society during its five day campaign was welcomed by more than 5,000 colored people and by the best white people, who realize the importance of maintaining friendly race relations. The largest meeting was held in a white camp meeting ground that had been loaned by the white people. Several meetings were held in courthouses and theaters. Among the white men who delivered addresses were Judge Chinn and Superintendent Blake T. Newton of Richmond county, Hon. C. C. Baker, commonwealth attorney of Westmoreland county, and the mayors of Rappahannock and Fredericksburg. President Moton, who is also commandant of cadets at Hampton institute, brought home to the audiences of white and colored people the great advantages that come to the colored people from living in this country, especially in Virginia. He pointed to the many opportunities for acquiring personnel for securing employment. President John Hope of Morehouse college, Atlanta, Ga, was pleased with conditions he observed as he traveled from county to county and declared that he could use some of the Virginia methods in his work among the colored people of Georgia. President Hope made a strong plea for the home training of Negro youth. T. C. Erwin, the field agent of the NEGro Organization society, through whose efforts the arrangements for the trip had been perfected, summarized the year's work, which included aiding and improving all schools, starting teachers' institutes, the co-operation of the Virginia state board of health with colored leaders, the signing of thousands of health pledge cards, the conducting of a successful cleanup week campaign and the raising of money for the Industrial Home School For Wayward Girls. W. T. B. Williams, a graduate of Hampton and of Harvard, who is now serving as a field agent of the Jeanes and the Slater boards, outlined the progress of Negro conditions during the last decade and pointed out the need of training boys and girls to take care of the property which their mothers and fathers had already required. Rev. A. A. Grumman, pastor out of church, Phoebe Va., paid out of gains the people of Virginia through working with the officers and members of the Negro Organization society. The party included Major R. R. Moton, Captain Aiden Washington, and W. F. B. Williams of Hampton Institute, F. W. D. Wheelock of Hampton, Rev. A. A. Grumman of Phoebe Thomas C. Walker of Gloucester Court House, W. E. Robinson of Essex county, W. H. Crocker, Suffolk, T. C. Erwin, Petersburg; Rev. L. D. Lowning, Dr. Norman Lassiter, Newport News, and President John Hope, Morehouse college, Georgia. KEOKUK, IOWA. Miss Ella Scott has returned from New London, Mo., where she has been visiting her sister. Mrs. N. W. Wright of St. Louis and Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie of Jacksonville, Fla., are the guests of Dr. T. H. Phillips. Miss Imogene Wilson, who has been seriously ill, is improving. Rev. D. E. Butter has returned to Bethel A. M. E. church for another year. Rev. Graves of Chicago has been assisting at a revival of Pilgrim's Rest Baptist church for the past week. The children of Gate City Juvenile Tent of S. M. T.'s enjoyed a picnic at Rand park Saturday, October 2. Rev. H. S. Johnson was child from the family home at 808 Morgan street Monday afternoon at 2:30 'clock and burial was made in Oakland cometery. The body bearers were Lewis Wilson, William Martin, C. D. Bland, William Alden and David Sawyer. The arrival of Grace Johnson, aged 11 was held Thursday at the Bethel A. M. E. church. Mrs. Minnie Taylor is visiting in Hannibal, Mo., called there on account of the death of her mother-in-law. The Ladies' Pilgrim Aid of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin will have a supper and apron sale Wednesday evening, October 20th, at parish hall. Mrs. F. D. Fields returned home October 1st, after a pleasant visit with relatives in Chicago. ROCK ISLAND, ILL. Rev. R. C. Campbell, the new pastor of the A. M. E. church, comes highly recommended. He was accompanied by his wife. Rev. Campbell comes from Yankton, South Dakota. Mrs. Della Dickerson entertained Saturday afternoon at lunchroom for Miss Rhoda Coursey, niece of Mrs. G. W. Reynolds. A fine three-course luncheon was served in the beautifully decorated dining room. The centerpiece of the table was a basket of cosmos. The following ladies were present: Mrs. Rhoda Reynolds, Mrs. Ray Brown and the Misses Strauthers, Coursey and Celia Reynolds. The Booster club of the McKinley Baptist church has done a great deal of improving about the church. Mrs. G. W. Reynolds left Monday night with her niece for Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Reynolds will be gone two weeks. The Union Giants of Chicago beat the All Stars (white) of this city Sunday by a score of 3 to 11. An enthusiastic crowd of Nergees were to root for the colored stars. Misses Marge Ferry and Polly Coursey on Monday afternoon. Mr. Mrs. John Brown of Monticello, Mo., are visiting Mr. Brown's mester, Mrs. Sarah Smith. Miss Mabel Brown, who was very sick, is now convalescent. Mrs. J. C. Bradley is still very ill. The Clinton high school team, which defeated Rock Island high school Saturday, had as a member of it a colored bay named Slater, who proved to be the star of the game both on carrying the ball and on defensive play. Mr. Lewis Windsor was chosen recently at the high school as clerk of the court in one of the mock trials held by the various classes in civics, is shorthand report was far superior to those presented by the other clerks Mr. Windsor is also a good typist. IOWA CITY NEWS. House cleaning at Kappa Alpha Phi. There are quite a number of new students to join us this year. students to join us this year. Friends of Mr. Beshears will be glad to know he is again attending school here. Mr. and Mrs. Midgett of Des Moines are here for an indefinite time. Mrs. J. H. McDowell is also here, a delegate from Liza Patterson branch of the W. C. T. U. of Des Moines. Rev. B. F. Hubbard is attending annual conference this week. Mrs. Lee, who has been spending the summer in Iowa City, leaves for Washington, D. C., the first of October. We are sorry to see her go, for she is a good church goer, and we have few of that kind. We have just learned we lose our present pastor, and are to get Rev. Wharton of Rock Island for the coming year. Football today and of course it is raining. (This Week.) Mrs. Clay Brooks of Buxton is very ill at the hospital here. A stag party was pulled off at Kappa Alpha Phi on Saturday night. The boys stood it fine. Only one nose showed the effects of hard use. We are glad to see Mrs. Nina Leslie back. All the boys and girls enjoyed a splendid musical at Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Donnargan's on Sunday afternoon. Rev. B. F. Hubbard returned from conference only to bid a good bye. He goes to Mount Pleasant and Fairfield next year. We wish him all the good luck he deserves. Dr. Lowyer rave us an enjoyable lecture Sunday night. A nice crowd was out. Mr. Williams. Iowa City's only colored barber, we find still prospering at his post. We wish him success. Price Five Cents Mrs. Chas. Donnagan is visiting in Cedar Rapids for a few days. A reception will be tendered our departing pastor on Thursday evening by the ladies of the church. Three weddings in two weeks in Iowa City is rather encouraging, isn't it? A freshman party Saturday evening at K. A. S. Know we will have a good old time. WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. The Rev. H. C. Boyd has been returned to the A. M. E. church here for another year as its pastor. The people in general are very well satisfied, as the Rev. has shown by his work among us that he is what his professes to be, and more. The whole Boyd family has endured itself to the people of this place, so that they were loath to take them leave here. Rev. Boyd took with him to confer with the following, which was a part of his annual report: Number full members, 29; number probationers, 7; total members, 36; number members in Sunday school, 40; number baptized during year, 11; number of accessions to the church, 18; amount of money raised for the year was By trustees, $192; by stewards, $390 for connectional claims, $57.95; missionary money, $22.17; by P. E. G.'s, $30.45, and the Sunday school about $25.00. The church is entirely out of debt in all branches, and starts of the year with the best of promises, as all are working together for one end. Mrs. Robert Crump and four children have returned to their home in North Dakota, after a visit of several weeks at the H. Campbell home. She was accompanied home by her sister, Margaret, who goes there for an extended visit at the Crump home. Miss Rosa Buckner of Keosauqua, Iowa, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Emma Black, and with friends for an indefinite period. Mrs. N. L. Black is home from an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. S. W. Callaway, in Chicago. Enough home she visited a day at the Mrs. Fannie Grooms home in Muscatine. Rumor is it that the wedding bells will ring in the near future. Mr. Harry Badgett of La Junta, Colo., who was visiting at the Mrs. M. Motts home, has returned home. Harry promised to come back next year and bring his family with him. Mrs. Motts is his aunt. Mr. Emmia Black was somewhat indiaposed last week, as was also Mrs. Emma Hall and Mrs. Sarah Davis. All are better at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Gentry are expecting to move from their present residence on South Iowa avenue to 420 South Avenue B. Thos. Lewis, wh. was in Kentucky on business, has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams entertained a few friends at an 8 o'clock supper Monday evening of last week in honor of Mr. Harry Badgett of La Junta, Colo. Covers were laid for eight. A very pleasant evening was spent by all. This is homecoming week in Washington, and she is entertaining quite a few of her old-time and used-to-be residents. Mrs. Taylor of southern Mississippi, who has been visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. R. Cravat, has returned to her home, after several months here. Mr. Henry Rhodes and Mr. Theodore Turner have put down cement walks in front of their residences. A. L. Hall suffered a loss recently in that he lost two of his road horses. It is quite a loss to him, as he will now have to replace them both at once. For Chapped ands. Chapped skin whether on the hands or face may be cured in one night by applying Chamberlain's Salve. It is also unequaled for sore nipples, burns and scalds. For sale by all dealers. Sum Washington Periscis Rare Washington Portrait. A rare and curious mezzotint portrait of George Washington in the library of the late Lafayette, a grandson of Lowell, Mass., a teacher of last year in Boston. It is attributed "George Washington," the account of the United States of America, to the author of March 14, 1801. I. Hinton Lindon. It is a small f and is colored by hand. It looks much like George III, as it does a Father of His Country. Baker, who wrote the "Engraved Portraits of Washington," says that only one impression of this mezzotint has come under the notice of the writer. It was in neither the Clarkson nor the Carson sale of Washington portraits. Insist on Yellow Flour. Charles Christalor, an expert on flour and grains, sounds the keynote at the new situation brought about by the bleached flour decision when he says in a communication to the editor commenting on the bleached flour decision. "The housewife will sit on yellow lined creamy flour, a flour that is naturally that a natural four years white can in no un manner compare with the creamy or yellow flour in as far as glutten and muscle building values are concerned." At 55 to 90 percent, of the countries where bleaching process, the decision is being reached—National Food AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS One thing that appealed most to me was a little cottage set off in the corner of the grounds—the center of several acres, surrounded by garden, orchard, poultry yard, barn and pig pen, a home of the humble type, just such a home as work will give to any thirty Negro; or white man, who wants to live, to make a home, relates a visitor to the Tuskegee institute. This is where every girl in the school has to spend a week during the term. She in given a small amount of cash, a day and day, and she has with her during the period, having each an equal amount of change. So as to make a comfortable home for themselves, here is their real lesson in household duties, with a teacher to direct. The house consists of two rooms, kitchen, dining room, living room, pantry, bath, front and back porches. The furniture made by the beginners in woodwork, indicating that any body can make some furniture without much effort, at least with so much wood around have a bed, chairs, tables and a few benches. The windows are draped with cheesecloth, cross-stitched by the girls; the portieres are made from croaker sacks or other rough material, dyed by pupils; settees are made the same way; rugs, home made; the students are taught here the care of beds, of closets, of wood, disinfecting, dish washing, cooking, settling table and all duties pertaining to housekeeping; they work the garden, gather and prepare the vegetables, care for chickens and the stock, even learn the care of garbage. Connected with the home is a flower garden and a playground. Do our mountain people, do our rural schools have such a chance in life? Why not? I did not go there to find out what the northern capitalists were doing to educate the Negro. I had been told all of this. I knew what money would do. I went there to find out what Booker T. Washington and his wife were doing for the Negro and how the Negro was making use of the opportunity. I did not leave the grounds from the minute I drove in the Lincoln gate until I left for the depot. I ate and slept there in a home reserved by the school for white friends. I was treated with the same courtesy and attention as I have been accustomed to by the Negroes all of my life, and I probed by the experience and enjoyed every minute of my time. Booker Washington was not there, but his wife was. She had done as much for the uplift of her race as he has. He has financed and planned and she has executed much of the details. She was born in Miss. educated at Nairobi and taught in this institution before she married. She is a very intelligent, industrious woman, with a strong purpose, and she details the details of this problem of the poor and helpless among her people. She hopes to see the day when every Negro is trained to give the best of his sense and energy, when he is certain that work is the only way to attain a great end. She has a handsome home and she keeps it well. She loves the South and speaks with gratitude of her friends in the North. This training and environment will in time give to the white people of the South the competence that was needed in the intelligent work is needed in every office. This is a work for the people of both races, as I saw it on my visit. The movement of southern Negroes toward farm ownership has been one of the marked developments of the past decade. Nevertheless, even with a general knowledge of this movement, it is a surprise to learn that one-fourth of all the Negro farmers of the South own the farms they cultivate, and that their total value is $500,000,000. These are the figures offered by Dr. E. C. Branson of the University of North Carolina of a committee with the expenditure of $500,000 for the settlement. Negro. He reports that colored man is solving his own problem, and is solving it in terms of industry and soil ownership. Negro population in the South is dwindling, says Doctor Branson, except in the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma, but it is increasing in the cities and decreasing in the country. The Negroes are rapidly changing from tenants to farm owners—Boston Transcript. Talk about the intelligence of the people is discounted by the fact that a great many of them believe in madstones—Exchange. The Texas sweet potato crop will amount to 10,000,000 bushels this year. But residents of that expansive state are merely irritated by such diminutiveness. They say the figure should be ten times larger. Many of the largest Japanese warships have been equipped with wireless telephones which operate successfully for distances up to 100 miles. Ore found in the Yellow Pine mining district of Nevada contains rich platinum deposits. A new speedometer not only indicates the rate of travel, but absolutely prevents the speed reaching a predetermined point. Although built, early in the Christian era, and built without mortar, a stone church in Ireland still is in excellent condition. It has been estimated that there are about 500 bodies of fat in the world. Illinois day exercises brought the Lincoln Jubilee and Negro Emancipation Semi-Centennial exposition to a close at Chicago. During the four weeks the show has been in progress at the Coliseum 100,000 persons have passed through the doors. Adjutant General Frank S. Dickson, representing Governor Dunne, was the chief witness. During the afternoon of the closing day the commission in charge of the exposition held a conference with Thomas W. Swann, the Negro deposed as secretary two weeks previous. Swann and his attorney wrestled with the problem of straightening out his books and accounting for money handled by him. It developed that John V. Clinton, the attorney originally employed by Swann, had given up the case. It became known that new bills contracted by Swann without the knowledge of members of the commission had been presented for payment. Total gate receipts during the four weeks of the exposition amounted to about $13,000. The most able day was Wednesday, when mayor Thompson was the speaker. The amount taken in that day was $1,370, representing 5,480 paid admissions at 25 cents each. The cost of the exposition will total approximately $75,000. Of this amount $50,000 was appropriated by the legislature, and the additional amount, exclusive of gate receipts, raised by popular subscription. Our good brother, President Leftwich, who is doing a unique work of phenomenal proportions among the Indians and Negroes of Oklahoma, was at the Hammond congress. He spoke briefly at both auditoriums, and was received with enthusiastic applause. No one who hears this humble hero for a moment doubts the feasibility of his stupendous undertaking, or his resourcefulness in carrying it through. Friends who heard him voluntarily contributed $205 of the amount needed to complete his buildings. It is Brother Leftwich's hope that he may be able to extend the helping hand to thousands of young men and women of the Greek Indian and Negro races. President Leftwich is himself an ardent segregationist, and is at work on the problem of the needy race in a sensible way. His program is similar to that of Booker T. Washington, and so good a judge as P. H. Welshmer declares that he is not hindered to that great leader in fervor, good rense or eloquence. President Leftwich needs $200 or $300 to complete his buildings—$500 would enable him to start in fine shape. The students are there ready for work, and the teachers available. Will not Standard readers supply the needed funds to launch this worthy enterprise? Where are the five men who will give $100 aplices? Let "our folks" speak out—Baptist Standard. Port Hope, Alaska, which is in darkness during the long arctic winter, will soon have an electric plant. Storms along the coast will be harnessed by windmills to produce the electricity. Paraffin-wax models are made of every new British battleship laid down, and these models are tested in a tank specially erected for the purpose. The survey of the results of half a century of Negro emancipation in the United States, presented in connection with the convention in Boston of the National Negro Business league, contains impressive statistics. The progress has been especially marked in the last fifteen years, as is shown by an advance from 20,000 Negro business enterprises in 1900 to 45,000, from two banks to 51, from 149 wholesale establishments to 240, from 10,000 concerns to 2,500. In the shorter period of ten years the value of farm property owned by Negroes has advanced from $177,404,688 to $492,822,218. The Glasgow Tramway corporation took in last year 689 tons of copper and 87 tons of silver in fares. The revenue amounted to more than 1,000,000 pounds, the latter figure being in money terms, however, not avidrupois. The first Porto Rican to be graduated from West Point received his diploma the other day. His name is Luis Raoul Estes. Rabbit fur is said to be supplanting wool in felt hat making in Australia, where 32 factories are in operation. The fur is considered much superior to the finest Merino for this purpose, and millions of rabbit skins are used annually. For light duty one of the largest locomotive works in the United States is turning out a locomotive that resembles the coal-burning type in outline, but is driven by an internal combustion engine with oil or gasoline fuel. A theory has been advanced by a French scientist that electric currents can be made to take the place of food in sustaining life to a considerable degree. In some portions of Switzerland granite is so plentiful that it is used for telegraph pole. British Columbia has 57,622 students in its schools and colleges. PATRIOTISM IS FIRST DUTY OF STURDY SWISS Many of Them Sympathize With the Allies, but Demand Fair Treatment. STANDS BETWEEN TWO FIRES European Republic Declines to Be Overwired by Powerful Neighbors —Refuses to Starve or Be Driven Bankrupt—Would Fight for Rights. BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER, (Correspondent of the Chicago News.) Lausanne, Switzerland,—Seignobos, in his "Histoire Politique de l'Europe Contemparaine," begins his chapter on Switzerland as follows: "The interest of Swiss history must not be measured by the size of the country. This little country holds a very important place in the history of contemporary civilizations. To whoever desires to understand the evolution of our modern democratic society, this history may be recommended as the most instructive selection of examples of the application of the principle of popular sovereignty." Foreigners who know Switzerland, with or without having visited it, as a country of tourists, hotels, mountains, picturesque chalets, mountain railroads, glaciers, milk chocolate, St. Gall embroideries, cheese and refuges for revolutionists, may be pleased to know that of all the people of Europe the Swiss have, historically, been the most belligerently tenacious of their independence and that they are today the people who have gone farthest in the realm of popular government. The "initiative" has been general since 1848, and the "referendum," considered a most radical, modernist measure, came in about the same time. Proportional representation was adopted by the Italian canton of Ticino as far back as 1891. German Element Is Strong. The Swiss confederation counts today approximately 3,460,000 inhabitants, of whom about 200,000 are Italian by race and language, 750,000 consider themselves French and the remaining 2,000,000 speak German. Thus the German element is by far the strongest numerically and the most important. It can control in federative political matters. The French cantons, with the important centers of Geneva and Lausanne and their excellent newspapers, play intellectually a role somewhat beyond that presumed by their numerical inferiority. The Italian element is relatively insignificant, although one of the most brilliant of the government ministers, Sig. Motta, comes from the Ticino. So much by the way of prelude to a presentation of Switzerland's position during the present great war. At the beginning of hostilities the French and Italian cantons manifested a sturdy but inoffensive sympathy for the allies. The German cantons, to the contrary, gave vent to a single strong burst of Germanophilia. I have not taken account of the individuals whose sympathies are always with the side uppermost. Today, though by stages so imperceptible that they cannot be traced, the situation has become different. Here in Romansh Switzerland the population is still overwhelmingly pro allies. There is little German in the streets or in the stores. As soon as Italy entered the war the Titicacean pronounced for Italy. It is not an exaggeration to say that, notwithstanding the German speaking majority, there are now in the country as many open adherents of the allies as of the Austro-Germans. This means that a large number of persons who speak German favor the nations of the quadruple alliance, particularly France. Swiss Industry Badly Hurt. But a new economic problem has appeared and is forcing people to face it squarely. Switzerland, accustomed in time of peace to derive considera- tion from its fine scenery and its central position, now pays heavily for the latter. A large proportion of the national army has been mobilized at considerable expense and kept under arms since August, 1914. Industry is suffering. The foreigner comes but rarely to the countless hotels, which stand bleak and deserted like so many gigantic mausoleums. Only a few homeless individuals from foreign parts loiter in the streets—few by comparison with former years. Even the exiled revolutionary has quit the little country where he for so many years found sanctuary. A few frontier towns are centers of espionage and intrigue. That is all. The sun rises alone over the glaciers' fair desi- sion. There are no tourists shivering with cold and delight to welcome his upcoming to or turn away to hurry down the last slope homeward as he sets behind the purple mountains. The country suffers from the loss of tourists. But most of all it suffers from the bonds and restrictions with which the warring nations, and chiefly those which command the sea, age endearing to correct it. During a year the strings have been drawn ever tighter and tighter. Because she lacks a seaport Switzerland can CAUSES RUSH FOR TIMBER Great Demand for Wood Product to Make Gumcotton for Use in War. Kane, Pa.—The enormous demand for acetate of lime, used in the manufacture of gumcotton, has resulted in the greatest rush in history for Pennsylvania timber lands. Chemical manufacturers are buying all available timber trades throughout this section, but have used with much competition from UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD in this photograph, with his back turned to the camera, an officer of the Royal Flying squadron is being removed from his airplane in a serious condition. While making a reconnoissance flight behind the German lines in Belgium, he was struck by shrapnel and his leg was almost severed. He lost consciousness, but after the machine had made a wild drop he revived sufficiently to check it, and landed safely. IOWA STATE BYSTANDEE breathe less easily even than Holland. Constant disputes are arising relative to contraband, conditional contraband, imports and their final consumer. Is Between Two Fires. The situation finds adequate expression in the words of a contributor to the Gasse de Lausanne: "Germany and Austria have said to Switzerland: 'We are perfectly willing to deliver you such raw materials as you lack. But you must give us in exchange not money but certain products of which the allies' blockade deprives us and which we need.' The allies object to this, saying to Switzerland: 'From the beginning of the war we have placed our ships and our trains at your service, and, uninterrupted, we have the thought of providing compensation in goods upon you. In the future, as in the past we are quite willing to furnish you with raw materials as well as with foodstuffs. Only, desiring that our blockade be effective, we ask you to give your word not to pass on in any form whatever to our enemies that which we procure for you.' "Switzerland replies to the allies: 'I am grateful to you for supplying me with foodstuffs and raw materials without, demanding compensation. Masters of the ocean, you have been able to demand neighbors. Germany and Austria, although blockaded by your fleets, have also done what they could for me. Driven by need, they asked me to pay them in goods, while continuing to pay you in specie, and I have not refused, being myself hard pressed and neutral—that is, equally friendly to all and unwillingly to increase difficulties. In the meantime your fears are groundless, for I have taken care formally to forbid the exportation of machinery to warring nations of goods of urgent necessity. And I am always on the watch for smugglers." Needs of Swiss Industry. "On the other hand, my industries must live in spite of your war, on account of which I, though perfectly innocent, suffer more than you, perhaps, believe. And in order that my industries be not ruined they must be permitted to re-export to all countries the articles manufactured from raw materials furnished by no matter what belligerent. I am neutral) of my own free will, but with your apprehension. That is why, although I have obligations toward you (and I do not deny them), that you also have a few toward me, of which the first and, essential is to let me live." Here is the situation in a nutshell. The result of pressure from both sides, but principally from the side of the allies, has been to make the Swiss conscious of their nationality and to start a wave of patriotism. Negotiations are going on to regulate the matters of difference between the little mountain country and its powerful neighbors by establishing a Swiss control of all foreign trade with a view to do away with chances for cheating. For the people will not listen to propositions from either side offering "compensation" after the war. They want the difficulty done away with now, immediately. Would Fight for Rights. The Swiss are aware of their force. The effect of 35,000 sturdy, well-equipped and trained soldiers thrown into the balance today on either side would be considerable—might be decisive. "We have been much too humble," men tell me here. "From now on we shall cease to supplicate and begin to demand, courteously but firmly." "Certainly, if forced to it. We refuse to starve or be_driven bankrupt. England and France and Italy must be brought to realize this fact or face the consequences." "But your personal sympathies, as you have just told me, are with the countries you mention." "That is true. But you must realize that before we are German, French or British, we own our own country to look after. In any but an extreme case an attempt by the German-speaking majority to force the nation into war against the NARROW ESCAPE in this photograph, with his back to Royal Flying squadron is being removed dition. While making a reconnoissance glum, he was struck by shrapnel and collisions, but after the machine he clently to check it, and landed safely. the New York and Pennsylvania company, which has paper mills at Lock Haven and Johnsonburg, the mill at the latter place being the largest in the United States. This company has just closed a deal for 5,000 acres of timber lands near Bradford, over the McKenna county line. During the last two months the paper company has purchased thousands of acres of timber land throughout the country, the most important being located in the states of Washington and Maine. CORRESPONDENT DETERMINANT & COORDINATORS The lack of ammunition, which the Russians say was the cause of their repeated defeats, has been put up to General Soukhomlilinoff, who, until his removal, was the Russian war minister. For his alleged neglect of duty in permitting the Russian forces to run short of ammunition, he is to be tried by a superior court appointed by the czar himself. General Nicolas Petroff has been appointed president of the court. alles would mean an immediate rupture between us and them and so bring about the ruin of Switzerland. But if the present restrictions, already bad, grow heavier instead of lighter, if the allies cannot be persuaded by our diplomats that although we ask only to live we put our entire strength forward, we cannot be persuaded, French or Italian-speaking though we be, we shall fight side by side like a single man, as we would do tomorrow at the slightest infraction of our territorial rights. And I—well, I should fight too, even against nearly everything in the world I hold dear." MUST KILL PRAIRIE DOGS Texas Land Owners Are Compelled by Law to Destroy the Property Austin, Tex.—Prairie dogs are declared to be a public nuisance, according to an act passed at the special session of the Thirty-fourth legislature and which act is now effective. The act also provides for their extermination, but no bounty is given by the state for eliminating the so-called pests; owners of land on which prairie dogs exist are required under the law to kill them and an allowance of two years is given to such owners to rid their lands of the nuisance. It is also made the duty of the county commissioners of any county in which prairie dogs exist to investigate and remove such pests the land in their respective commissioners' precincts have compiled with the provisions of the law. In the event the owner of land on which prairie dogs exist fails to destroy such pests the act empowers the sheriff of the county involved to proceed and destroy the nuisance. For his service the sheriff is allowed five dollars a day for actual service, and this sum is to be paid by the county commissioners, but the amount so paid shall be assessed against the land entered as a lien against the land in case of failure to pay the amount due the Snakes Galore. Clarksville, Ga. — The killing of those thirteen rattlesnakes and pilots Rufus Harris killed some time ago was thinning snakes out some, but it is reported that there was the unreasonable number of 450 snakes killed on the farm of Willie Mullinax near here in one season. OF AN AVIATOR © UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD turned to the camera, an officer of the ed from his aeroplane in a serious con- flight behind the German lines in Bel- his leg was almost severed. He lost had made a wild drop he revived suffi- SWISS MAIDS FOR HIS GOATS Delaware Man Will Have a Score of Alpine Beauties on His Farm. Delaware City, Del.-Charles J. Winkler of Washington, who is about to start a goat farm along the Cheesapeake canal, says he will employ a score of Swiss milkmaids. The girls are to come from goat farms on the snow-mapped Alps. The goats are being shipped from Colorado. EDITOR HAD AN IDEA But Circumstances Prevented Him Utilizing it. Something Happened Which Was Worth Ten Such Thoughts as Had Come to the Scribe—So This Particular Gem Was Lost. One day the Observer had an idea. It is a rare experience, and the obvious thing to do was to get it down on paper just as quickly as the speed limit on his old typewriter allows. He grabbed a sheet of paper, rammed it into the typewriter, and started reaching for the first letter when the office door opened and a lady came in The lady, whose home is near Milford, extended a piece of paper and some money, with the remark that it was a subscription bill, somewhat overdue, which she had come in to pay. Glancing at the paper the Observer had a shock which drove that incipient idea into the remotest corner of his belfrey, where it seems to be lost forever. He is absolutely unable to remember what that great thought was about, what stirring gleam of sense was about to be born and given to the world. This is his excuse: The bill which was extended for payment was dated May, 1894. The explanation was that an old trunk in the attic was wanted for use, and in cleaning it out, among a lot of old receipts and papers, they had discovered this old bill. The system of filing bills and receipts was such as to make these honest people quite sure that the bill had not been paid. The lady was assured that if there was any record of the account, now 21 years old, it was in the cobweb-encrusted old books in the garret, that the account was outlawed anyway, and that very likely a duplicate of the bill had been paid 20 years ago. She was obdurate. She had come to pay that bill and get a receipt. An offer to receipt it for half the account was not satisfactory. It was her rule, and her husband's, to pay in full for everything, and she had traveled several miles to settle an account old enough to be a legal vote. She paid and took her receipt, and if she did not then and there create a world's record for which she made one which is seldom equaled. As stated, the bill was paid but the "idea" was gone. However, the idea was probably worth about twenty cents, which is one-tenth the amount of the bill, so if anybody else can dig up any antique accounts and pay them they are welcome to drive out, shoa away, slaughter and swat, any and all budding notions, at any time, any place, day or night—Milford Cabinet. EASY TO HAVE PURE WATER Simple Filter That May Be Constructed Wherever Campers Are on Banks of a Stream. A simple filter and cooler that anyone the least ingested can prepare is described in detail in the Journal of the American Medical Association. With any pure water may be obtained from any source of water. A large pail with a stout handle is the best receptacle for the water. A hole is punched in the bottom and over it a tin box is soldered. The floor of the tin box—one of the kind in which candy is packed may be used—is perforated with holes and a spring is attached to the cover and the bottom of the box. The spring is inclosed in a tube made by rolling up a sheet of tin, obtained, with solder, from tin cans. A chain is attached to the watertight cover of the box and the box is filled with alternate layers of charcoal and well-packed cotton. Suspended in the stream, the pail soon fills up with the filtered water. Then, by loosening the chain, the spring cover drops back watertight on the surface of the pail, full of filtered water is ready to be carried off for use. To Honor Old-Time Governor Descendants of the Wyandotte and Delaware Indiana will take part in the placing of a marker on the grave of William Walker, territorial governor of Kansas and Nebraska, at Oak Grove cemetery September 29. Mayor Green appointed the following committee: E. F. Heisler, I. H. Gard, Edwin Heren, B. R. Lane, Samuel Beaty, O. K. Service, Mark Armstrong, Mrs. J. A. Hale, R. L. McAlpine, Frank Betten, W. W. Zane, Miss Lida B. Conley, John McAlpine, John Caskey, and J. L. Smallley. Not all of the committee are of Indian descent. Some are descended from the early white settlers. The monument is being placed by the Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. Governor Capper will attend the exercles and the governor of Nebraska also has been asked to be present—Kansas City Star. Hur Long Kid Gloves. Some ingenious women in Ireland have taught a use for their discarded long white gloves, collared and kid gloves. These they turn into a lining for waistcoats for the men of army and navy, who find that the kid mannequin waistcoat windproof. It takes a number of pairs to line one garment, therefore the demand is great, and a brisk collection goes on. Soldiers in Modern Warfare Need Safeguards. Frightful Detonation of Modern Guns Would Speedily Cause Deafness if Most Elaborate Precautions Were Not Taken. The soldier who plugged up his ears before going into battle would have been considered offenable in the last century. The horrid din of war, fully as the poets have expatriated upon it, included until recently no sound power enough to split the drum of a man's ear, or to rack his nerves to the threshold of insanity. Things are different nowadays is it is particularly necessary to hear the ears in some effective way when one is in the vicinity of a big gun. Even with due precaution the gunners themselves often suffer from deafness, as is noted by C. V. Boys. Our quotation below is from an abstract of Mr. Boy's note: "The sudden access of pressure in the neighborhood of a gun at the moment of firing imposes so great a strain on the drum of the ear that deafness is a usual result. The increase in pressure in the modern gun, and the high pressure still remaining when the Section of Defender (Canonical) Full Stiff Diameter varies according to Size No. The Mallock-Armstrong Ear-Defender in Detail—A, B and F Are Washers —E Is the Sensitive Diaphragm That Records the Lightest Sound—C and D Are the Stops That Limit the Vibration and Shut Out the Deafening Din of the Guns—The Small Drawing Shows the Exact Sight shot reaches the muzzle, make the conditions more serious than they used to be until comparatively recently. Not only those who are near the gun when fired, but those also in the neighborhood of bursting bombs, bombs or explosives are liable to suffer in a similar way even if they are not otherwise damaged. "A. Mallock, who has for many years conducted investigations in connection with artillery, has invented an 'ear-defender', the object of which is to protect the drum of the ear from very sudden and violent access of pressure, while still allowing the minute variations produced by ordinary sounds to be received with but little loss. The defender consists of a containing-piece made of ebonite and shaped like the pieces used in the game of halma, and of about the same size. The ball end is very finely milled and it is made to fit the passage of the ear, there being five sizes, differing very slightly in dimensions in this part, to suit different people. The piece is pierced centrally by a hole one-fourth in diameter at the small end, and gradually enlarging toward the other end, where it opens into a access five-eighths inch in diameter. Into this are fitted in order a flat-farring washer, a disk of fine wire gauze, a very thin flat-farring washer, a delicate diaphragm, a very thin flat-farring washer, a disk of fine gauze and a flat-farring washer." Mr. Boys goes on to explain how this device protects the delicate membrane of the tympanum from the ear-splitting noises of battle while permitting the weaver to hear ordinary sounds distinctly: "When a pair of defenders is placed in the ears the thin diaphragms, untouched except near their edges, where they are held, are free to take up aerial vibrations and to transmit them to the ear-passage. Thus ordinary sounds are heard with little loss. When, however, the violent impact due to gun-fire or explosion in the neighborhood occurs, the diaphragm is brought up against the wire gauze, by which further movement is checked, also the injurious increase of pressure. Hence the ear is defended." Teach Art of Cooking. The world's greatest cookery university is in London, England. More than one hundred London county council schools and similar institutions are its colleges. Its graduates are men of the new army who have come up from the camp at Aldershot and other training centers throughout the country and its tutors and lecturers are the woman experts and teachers who teach the girls in the London elementary schools the theory and practice of plain cooking. These women—for the schools are now on holiday—ought to be enjoying their long vacation, but they have sacrificed a fortnight of it in order to teach the army how to get something fit to eat. The soldiers are living in college. Each class is billed in the school in which it is receiving instruction and has the run of the playground for purposes of sport, which here, as elsewhere, forms so important a part of the national system of education. Plan a "Dead Beat" Gallery. The formation of a national gallery containing detailed information of "dead beats," is one of the aims of the Retail Credit Men's National association, which recently closed its sessions at Duluth, Minn. The idea is to send detailed information about chronic "dead beats" from city to city. Hope. In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds—Nizaml. There are now 67 bird reserves in the United States where wild few may live unmolested. A330X Mistake to Stint on Expense When Building a Dwelling for the Hens. Building That Admits Plenty of Sunshine, for Instance, Means Eggs in Early Spring — Design Presented Here Has All Good Points. By WILLIAM A. BADEFORD. Mr. William A. Hadford will answer questions and give advice. FREEP OAP will be on hand to help a subject of building work on the farm, for the value of experience. On account of the experience, Editor John Madison, Address all inquiries to William A. Hadford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, IL, and only inclose two-cent stamp for reply. One of the best ways to build a poultry house is with a shed roof. In addition to being fine for the poultry it is also easy to build. The design shown here has a depth of ten feet, which will allow the sunlight to penetrate to the back part of the building. There is nothing that encourages the hens to lay, more than lots of sunshine. In the early spring the hens will light in price plenty of sunshine will be on the job, which means that the man who owns them is paying for a well-lighted house easily out of what they make for him. It is absolutely necessary to have a concrete foundation, as it is very discouraging to rats and mice to attempt to dig through this material. In this little house the concrete walls are carried up 1 foot 6 inches above grade, which forms a very effective barrier against the rodents that think chicken houses form ideal dwellings for them. The floor is also made of concrete, so that the rats cannot burrow up from underneath. The floor should be well covered with straw and the feed can then be scattered through this. Strong, vigorous hens can only be maintained if they are given plenty of exercise. This is furnished by making them scratch for their meals. The grain that is given to them A330X should be scattered through straw on the floor of the house. It's a great sight to watch a flock of healthy hens make the straw fly when they want a meal. Many poultrymen make the floor of lice because they say that the concrete wears the claws of the hens. Burned lime is placed over the ground several inches deep and is packed down hard. Sufficient water is then put on the lime to slake it properly so that it will form a mortar, which is then allowed to dry and harden. This sort of a floor is very satisfactory and also furnishes lime to aid in the making of egg shells. A floor like this becomes worn in spots and has to be renewed at times, but it is very easy to place lime in the depressions that are worn by the hens, and put a little water on it. The chicken house should always face toward the south, and the north and west sides should be carefully closed. Chickens have very little body heat, so the house must be care- 24'0" 24'0" ROOST SCRATCHING FLOOR FEED fully protected against the cold. Ventilation cannot be handled in the same way it is in stock barns. Thin cotton is stretched over the windows facing the south, and this provides good ventilation without causing any drafts, which are very dangerous to poultry. Very little headroom is needed by chickens, so the back of this house is only made 5 feet 10 inches high, while the front is 7 feet 10 inches. A small place such as this can be kept warm by the poultry. Poultry houses are often neglected in regard to appearances. There is no particular reason for this except that the building is small and people think that it will not make any difference. The necessary paint to make a nice-looking chicken house can be had for very little money and it can be applied easily in a short time. The walls are generally made of drop sliding and the inner walls can be made in several ways. One of the best is with wall board. Wall board is a nonconductor of heat and cold and is also straight and vermin proof. it makes a smooth, tight wall that can be readily painted with whitewash or crude oil and there are no nooks and corners to harbor the vermin that always get into the chicken house more or less. The walls can also be covered with matched ceiling which will give a smooth surface that can be easily painted. The roof can be made of sheathing, which is covered with prepared roofing. The inside wall is made of wall board or of matched ceiling the same as the walls. The rooats are placed in the back part of the house under the roof and are fastened to the droppings board that is placed underneath them. The pests are fastened underneath the droppings board and all the furniture thus be moved out together when the kitchen house is to be cleaned. The darkest that the heaps require for laying is furniture by placing glues under the droppings scratching floor is at the front of the house, so that it will get plenty of sunshine. One end of this poultry house is given over to a feed room, where the future meals of the chickens can be kept. This is a handy arrangement and the feed does not have to be carried from some other building to the chicken house. It will be a wise precondition to place a spring on the door between the chicken and the rest of the house so that the danger of the door being left open so that the chickens can get into the feed and eat too much. MARKET FOR CHEWING QUM Diplomat Sees Opportunities for Develpmentation in Trade With China Jullan H. Arnold, American commercial attack at Shanghai, writes to Commerce Reports of the opportunities which China presents to the chewing-gum and playing-card industries. "While," he says, "the consumption of chewing gum in China is at present negligible it would seem that this republic offers a splendid market for the introduction of American chewing gum. The Chinese chewing gum is not likely to be have, no particular version of the use of chewing gum." He cites the example of condensed milk. The Chinese were once strangers to condensed milk. Now they like it. Therefore, the conclusion is apparent, Chewing gum promotion must be done with wisdom and care, however. The advertising must be in Chinese characters. Furthermore, the illustrations must please, not the Occidental but the Oriental. Under another date Mr. Arnold has this to say: "It may be that China that the demand for American playing cards is on the increase. In Shanghai, for instance, the Chinese are showing preference for 'western' THE CHICKEN HOUSE playing cards over their own so-called "sparrow cards." The popularity of the foreign cards could be greatly increased by the addition of Chinese numerals and the Chinese characters for king, queen, jack. The Chinese are fond of showy cards, hence those with pictured backs would be the most popular, especially if the backs were designed in Chinese fashion." With American chewing gum and American playing cards well established in China the process of promoting culture will become much easier. Famous Crown of Lombardy. Italy declared war on the same day of May that Napoleon in 1805 was crowned king of Italy at Milan, and with his own hands placed the ancient iron crown of Lombardy on his head. This most famous crown of Europe is so called from a narrow band of iron miraculously preserved from rust attached to the inner circumference of the circlet. It is composed of jewels and embossed gold, the workmanship of which bears strange resemblance to that on the enameled gold ornament belonging to King Alfred of England, now preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. Ice Box for Sick Room. A convenience in the sick room in an improvised ice box. A large, common, red, earthen flower pot with a saucer a couple of sizes bigger than the pot should be bought, also a small wire trivet. Set this in the saucer and the lump of ice upon it and turn the flower pot over it. Stop up the hole with a bit of cotton and cover the whole with a damp rag. Misleading Degree. "Yaas," said Uncle Siles, "my son Bill hez got back from a special course he's been a-takin' at college, with a piece o' paper signed by the authorities sayin' as how he's an A. M. I dunno what an A. M. is, but I am afraid they're some mistake about it, for judge'in' from the time, he be gets down to breakfast he behaves more like a P. M. ter me." No Need to Worry. Girlie—"I've been reading. Harold, that kissing is hygienically unsafe, and think of the number of times you have kissed me." Harold—"Oh, well, 'there's safety in numbers,' you know."—Life. Grave of Fra Angelico. Florentines claim to have found the tomb of Fra Angelico, the famous painter, who died in 1455. His fame rests on his work in wall frescoes and setar pieces and he was long a protege of the pope. The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation ORCHID Cypripedium Leeanum. ORCHIDS IN THE HOUSE During my leisure hours in the greenhouse I find no plants so interesting as the orchids. Each succeeding season is making this exquisite, fantastic plant more popular with commercial florists and private collectors who have greenhouses of their own. The increasing demand for the cut flowers and the fact that, in spite of popular belief, orchids are easily grown and very little trouble, are sufficient inducements for many enthralling growers to include them among their plants. But as yet the ordinary house grower has been unable to overcome her fear of these beautiful, curious productions of nature. To her they are something extremely delicate and fragile—something that an ordinary whiff of air will shrivel and destroy. She looks at them longingly on her rare visits to the neighboring greenhouse, but shakes her head when approached on the subject of purchasing. They are too tender, she declares, with conclusive regret in her voice. They would be out of place among her window collection of sturdy carnations and begonias and callas and geraniums, and rarely do the persuasive arguments of the florist weaken her deep-rooted belief. However, there is now and then one who yields to the fascination of an exquisite dendebodium or odonto glosum and bears the treasure home with the shrinking conviction that it will live under her care but a few days. Still even for those few days of possession she is willing to pay the purchase money, and she places the orchid among her plants and gloats over it with the joy of an ignorant connoisseur—If the term may be used. And it goes without saying that having once begun she will not cease until she discontinues growing plants. But the days and the weeks and the months go by, and the beautiful fantastic foreigner shows no disposition to die, or even to languish. Long spikes of beautiful flowers, wonderful flowers, creep down among the geranium leaves, and other spikes rest caressingly against the rich green of the callas. Indeed so long as it plenitively supplied with water the little stranger is apparently well satisfied with the surroundings. It fills the room with fragrance, and its curious, white, finger and toollike roots cling tightly to the small board home th: hangs suspended above the other plants. But not all orchids are so complaisant. Many will not thrive outside of greenhouses, and many others would best be left alone, even by florists. However, among the hundreds of varieties, there are plenty that will accommodate themselves to their surroundings. I have had orchids that were far less trouble than ordinary bedding plants, and whose flowers were exquisitely beautiful and fragrant. The great secret of their cultivation is the resting. Many species that are considered hard to grow and flower, suffer much from too kind treatment when they should be left entirely alone in a cool temperature. In winter a daily syringing of growing plants is sufficient, and during the hot months fresh water evaporated several times a day makes a much better moisture than that of stagnant water. As a rule, orchids do better when suspended, and apple wood with very little or no moss at all is preferred by the majority of growers. Often strong roots, some of them one and a half feet long, hang in bunches far MARIE IOWA STATE BYSTANDER BEAUTIFUL and Shrubbery and Cultivation below the blocks, and these roots keep in healthy condition, while potted plants show more or less decayed roots in the pots or on the surface of the dressing. About the beginning of the year many orchids will show flower buds all up the stems of last season's growth and can then be kept in a temperature of 65 to 75 degrees, when in from 20 to 25 days they will be in a blaze of flowers. They should be kept growing slowly till toward spring, and then plentifully supplied with heat and moisture till growths are finished and lilies firm. After that water should be gradually withheld till they are stored away in a frosted rock. Thus flowering the plants should be looked over every day to see that they have proper drainage, and the spagnum that has become decayed should be removed and fresh used in repotting. At this season they should be carefully picked out and given a little more elevation, warmth and light, care being taken that they are not fully exposed to the sun's rays. These little attentions are the means of much success in the cultivation of the lovely odontogtops and cattleyas and cypripediums. And finally do not overheat; do not let them become overdogged, or very dry; and keep them in a cool place, out of drafts. These rules followed, every plant will repay the care given it. SOME FLOWER HINTS Store the tender hydrangeas in the cellar, and water only often enough to keep them from drying out during the winter. Oxalis buttercup is a lovely winter bloomer. In showering plants, use a force pump, or garden syringe. Fancy foliage plants are as lovely as flower-bearing ones, and much easier to care for. Give the plants plenty of soil; and before bringing them in, repot those that are root-bound. Spray the foliage of the plants several times a week to keep free from dust. Keep the soil only moist. It is impossible to overwater the calla, but water must not be allowed to sour about the roots. Brugmansia is a tender greenhouse shrub, and if started out-of-doors in the spring, must be potted before frost. The flowers are beautiful—first a pale cream, turning to a pure white. They are trumpet-shaped and the shrub is sometimes called "Angel's Trumpet." A spotted calla is a summer bloomer, and should be allowed to rest during the winter. It has wonderful vitality, and will keep well in almost any place, if not frozen. In central and southern states it is hardy out of doors. Moss roses often fail to bloom for years after being disturbed. The best time for setting is when dormant in the fall. Glory of Moss and Henry Martin are among the best. Souvenir de Bon is a most satisfactory tub plant after it gets too large for the window. It is an easy, quick grower, with most beautiful leaves, even if it did not bloom—which it does. Bubbs that were potted in October should be ready for the light, in December. When bringing to the light, in a shaded north window, watering moderately every other day, a few hours' sunlight in the morning, and keeping in a cool room, will prepare them for the full-light. If the roots of the bleeding-heart are disturbed, it must be removed to another situation, as, if allowed to remain it does not do well. მაგალით მაგალით მაგალით Some children roam the fields and hills. And others work in noisy mills; Some dress in silks, and dance and play. Whole others drudge their lives away; Some glow with health and bound with song. And some must suffer all day long. WAYS WITH CHOCOLATE. Chocolate is such a general favorite with everyone that any dish or combination using it will not We rise by things that are under our feet. By what we have mastered of good and gain, By the pride deposed and the passion sinn. And the vanquished fills that we hourly meet. THE APPETIZING APPLE. In spite of the fact that the apples was the downfall of our ancestors, we still enjoy the forbiddle fruit, and without doubt it has a large place. bination using it will not come amiss. Chocolate Pie. — Take a pint of milk, a pinch of salt and a half a cupful of butter; put up to boil, add a half cupful of grated chocolate, a half cupful of sugar, well mixed with a quarter of a cupful of flour; cook until smooth. Flavor with vanilla and bake in a bottom crust. Cover with whipped cream. This makes a good sized pie. Chocolate sauce to serve with ice cream or as a pudding sauce is delicious. Mix well one-half cupful each of grated chocolate and sugar, add a half cupful of cream and heat slowly until well blended. Chocolate Gelatin.—Take a pint each of milk and cream, a half cup of sugar, a half box of gelatin, two ounces of chocolate and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Cover the gelatin with one half cupful of cold water and let soak for half an hour. Put the milk over the fire, adding sugar and chocolate, then the gelatin. Take from the fire and add the vanilla and fold in the whipped cream when it is cool. Set away to chill in a mold. Chocolate Fudge.—Take a half cupful of milk, two cupfuls of sugar, a square of chocolate and a third of a cupful of corn syrup. Cook together, adding a tablespoonful of butter during the boiling. When a ball is formed by dropping in cold water, remove and stir, adding nuts if desired. Let it cool a while before stirring or set it into a dish of cold water while stirring. Cream puffs filled with a chocolate mixture dipped in chocolate frosting make a most delicious small cake. Chocolate Filling—This is a most delicious filling or frosting for a plain chocolate cake. Take a cupful of sugar, five tablespoonfuls of cream, one egg beaten and two squares of chocolate, cook in a double boiler for an hour. Then beat and when thick enough put on the cake. Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales, Each man makes his own stature, Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids; Her monuments shall last, when Egypt fails. The truth of the grander makes the mighty man. When delicate laces become soiled they may be cleaned by squeezing them through skim milk to which a little bluing has been added. They come out of their bath looking like new with just the right stiffness. Press on a Turkish towel. Never fill enamel pans with cold water after removing them from the heat, or emptying them of boiling mixtures as the sudden change of temperature locks the enamel. Whip it it is necessary to carry ointments of liquid when travelled with wrap them well and place them in your rubbers, put the rubbers together and wrap them well. A simple cure for hiccups which will be welcomed as it is a "never fall" remedy. Take the largest possible mouthful of cold water and hold it in the mouth while stopping both ears tightly with the fingers. Then with the ears stopped, swallow the water at a gulp. If the attack is severe repeat two or three times. When taking off gloves always roll or snap them together, it will save manure is spent turning the drawer upside down. Give a missing glove. Wash white silk glove at night so that they may dry in the dark, they will keep white longer. Save the camera plates, soak them in lukewarm water to dissolve the gelatin. Cut pasteboard the size of the glass and mount any kodak picture using passepartout binding. Small rings with stickers may be bought to use for hangers. To relieve the strain on the back and feet when ironing use a heavy rug. folded twice on which to stand. Had Right to Be Peeved. Village Storekeeper (as pastor executes a masterly retreat from his store) "Dinged old hypocrite! This is the same lead quarter I put in the collection last Sunday!" -Judge. Lucky Gold Seeker. A nugget of pure gold, weighing 84 ounces, was recently discovered by a prospector, at the Philbara gold field in western Australia, at a comparatively deep level. He also found another nugget weighing 49 ounces. Mix soft soap and powdered starch, half as much salt, and juice of one lemon. Rub the linen well in this solution and lie on the grass for a day and night. This treatment will remove mildew stains without harming the finest linen. Australia to Save Its Trees. In Australia there has been started a popular movement for the preservation of the giant "stringybark" trees of that country, the tallest in the world. HOW TO MAKE DRIED APPLES Peel, core and slice the apples. Place them on platters, wooden trays, or any other convenient receptacle and place them in the sunshine. Take them in at night and during rains; it is impossible to secure good dried fruit unless they are protected from moisture. Protect them from flies and other insects with netting, and place them out of the dust as far as possible. Continue the drying until the fruit has lost more than half its weight; if necessary, it may be placed in the oven for two or three hours at the end. Tie the dried fruit in paper sacks, using a double thickness if thin skin sacks are used, and suspend them from the ceiling of the dryest room available. When ready to use the dried fruit, wash it well, soak it for six hours or longer, and throw away the liquid drained off. Then cook the fruit for several hours at a temperature slightly below the boiling point.—Mothers' Magazine. USE PAPER JARS FOR JELLY Have Advantage of Being More Easily Packed Without Danger of Breaking. The paper family, already so helpful to the housewife, has a new member included in its circle—the paper jelly glass. It is of paraffin paper, like the drinking cup, and comes in several sizes, from two ounces to 16 ounces. The eight-ounce size costs about 15 cents a dozen. The advantage of the paper cup is that it can be packed more easily without danger of breaking and with less weight than the heavy glass jars. Again, there are many times when we want to give a glass of jelly to a friend and when we do not like to ask for the return of the glass. Yet the cost of many glasses is quite an item as contrasted with the cost of the paper tumbler. Also we often want to take a glass of jelly to a picnic and then we do not want the weight and bother of a heavy container. Here is where the paper cup has a distinct and permanent place with the housewife. Chocolate Fig Cream. Seald two cupfuls of rich milk, add two squares of chocolate that have been melted over hot water, two tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar and a tiny pinch of ground chanion. Cook until well thickened and remove from the fire, and when cold fold in the stiffly beaten white of one egg and half a pint of cream that has been beaten solid with two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Flavor with vanilla and turn into a two-quart freeze container. Place in a light resistance is felt, then add one large cupful of finely-chopped 8g. Continue freezing until smooth and serve in tall crystal glasses, each portion topped with a tablespoonful of sweetened whipped cream. Corn Dumplings. Mix the contents of one pint can of fresh, grated corn with one-half pint of milk, six tablespoonful butter, two eggs, one-quarter teaspoonful pepper, one-half teaspoonful salt, one-half pint flour or enough to make a dough that is easily handled, one teaspoonful of baking powder. If corn is juicy, drain, tear off some pieces of the dough the size of a butternut and roll between the palms of hands, drop into smoking hot fat and cook until nicely browned. Serve with tomato or brown sauce. Date Pudding. One cupful, sour cream, one teaspoonful soda, one cupful sip, one small, spoonful butter, one pound dates, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one half teaspoonful nutmeg, salt, enough whole wheat flour to form batter. Stone the dates and cut into halves. Mix ingredients with flour enough to make stiff batter and pour into deep greased mold and steam two and a half hours. Serve cold with cream and sugar—Mother's Magazine. Rock Cakes Rub three cupfuls of sifted flour with three ounces of butter. Add a quarter of a cupful of granulated sugar, three ounces of currants, an ounce of candied peel, cut in shreds, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a beaten egg, some grated nutmeg and a teaspoonful of salt. Put on a greased tin in rough little piles, 12 or 15 of them. Bake for 25 minutes. Dumplings That Never Fall Two cupfuls of flour, two heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, one half teaspoonful of salt and one cupful of sweet milk. Stir and drop in small spoonfuls into plenty of water, in which meat is boiling. Boll with cover for 15 minutes, then put cover on and boll 10 minutes longer. These are very fine with either beef or chicken Creamed Codfish. Soak the fish three hours; boil in fresh water until tender; pick out all the bones; take one p.l.t of milk and bring to the boiling point; thicken with a tablespoonful of cornstarch, dissolved in a little water, add a spoonful of butter, then stir in the fish, a good, large cupul or a little more; add' two well-beaten eggs, let them cook and serve very hot. A. Dalnty Hint. The odor of soap that often clings to clothes is not at all desirable. A lump of orris root put in the rinsing water for fine pieces such as handkerchiefs, lingerie and blouses will give a delicate violet perfume more permanent than that of the ordinary sachet. Fried Beets. Wash the beets carefully, drop them in boiling water and cook until tender. Drain, cover with cold water, rub off the skins, cut in one-half-inch slices, and fry on both sides in hot bacon or sausage fat. We rise by things that are under our eyes. By what we have mastered of good and gain, By the pride deposed and the passion shift. And the vanquished illus that we hourly meet. In spite of the fact that the apple was the downfall of our ancestors, we still enjoy the forbidden fruit, and without doubt it has a large place in our affections. There are apples of some variety in the market the year round, but the winter apple is the favorite. that there had been everything said about serving apples, but some new combination or arrangement is springing up each day. For the common baked apples, to add to its attractiveness a marshmallow placed on top while they are still hot, or even before they come from the oven, makes a pretty garnish. *Serve them with whipped cream. Whipped cream with a cube of jelly or a sprinkling of nuts on baked apples affords a pleasing contrast to the plain apples that are to be baked are many. Nuts, raisins, candied cherries or dates and fig chopped and mixed with lemon juice. Chopped hickory nuts is another wellliked filling; prunes, too, give a delicious variety. Apple Condé—Carefully stewed apple in a rich sirup, being careful to keep them unbroken. Cook rice and pack it into cups to mold, setting it on ice to chill. Turn out the rice on serving plates, arrange the apples neatly around the mold, then pour the hot stirup over all. Surround with sweetened cream and serve. Apple dumplings are favorites of the boys, young and old. Roll out a rich biscuit dough, cut in squares and wrap a cored, peeled apple in each square, pinching the corners to keep them tight. Bake and serve with sugar and cream. Apple mixed with celery nuts and a plain boiled dressing served in pretty apple cups, which are made by scooping out the apple at the stem and after cutting off a neat slice leaving the stem in, giving a most fetching salad, dish and all. Apples added to chicken salad make it go farther and are also an improvement. An apple added to a potato salad is well liked, giving an added zest. Life is an arrow—therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow— Then draw to the head, and let it go! THE TOOTHSOME OYSTER. Although oysters are not so nutritious as we once were led to believe, they are easily digested and are most delightful flavor in many dishes. Fried Oysters—Dip oysters into beaten egg diluted with milk, then into crisp cracker crumbs. Fry in deep fat and garnish with sliced lemon. Curried Oysters—Allow six oysters to each person. Prepare a sauce by frying two large sliced onions by frying mixing with two tablespoonfuls of carry powder, two ounces of grated coconut, a little sour orange and soup stock. Simmer for half an hour, thicken with flour, then add the oysters with their liquid. Simmer for three minutes. Then squeeze in the juice of a lemon and serve very hot. Baked Oysters—Take about two dozen oysters, two cupfuls of bread crumbs, half a pound of cheese and two cupfuls of milk. Butter a baking dish and cover the bottom with a dish of buttered crumbs, lay a layer of oysters on this and cover with cheese, seasonings and a layer of crumbs; add another layer of oysters but do not repeat again as three layers of oysters do not cook well. When the upper layer is done the middle one is uncooked. Finish with cheese and crumbs and bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven. Two cupfuls of milk are added before the top layer of crumbs. Cooked rice in place of bread crumbs is another method of baking oysters, and is well liked, omitting the cheese. The combination of cheese and oysters is not disliked by everyone. Nellie Maxwell Grammar is the science, or art, of correct speech. It is quite true that some people are able to speak and write correctly without having studied the rules as laid down in grammar, but it is none the less true that but for a knowledge, of the rules the majority of people would write and speak in a most barbarous fashion. Optimistic Thought. Misfortunes we cannot prevent are mitigated by resignation. Wisdom in Paying Just Demands. A wise man will know that it is always the part of prudence to face every claimant and pay every demand on your time, your talents, or your heart. Always pay; for, or first, you must pay your entire debt—Emerson. Spell Cast by Good Talker. "A good talker," said Uncle Eben, "tin take a subject he don't know noun" about an make somebody dat has studied it all his life feel terrible important." Chocolate Pie. — Take a pint of milk, a pinch of salt and a half a cupful of butter; put up to boil, add a half cupful of grated chocolate, a half cupful of sugar, well mixed, add a cupful of flour, cupful of milk, cook: AIDS TO HOUSEWIFE. them through skim milk to which a little bluing has been added. They come out of their bath looking like new with just the right stiffness. Press on a Turkish towel. Never fill enamel pans Lucky Gold Seeker To Remove Mildew From Linen: THE APPETIZING APPLE. of the fact that the apple nfall of our ancestors, we still enjoy the forbidden fruit, and without doubt it has a large place in our affections. There are many other reliance in the market the year round, but the winter apple is the favorite. It would almost seem they are easily digested and are most delightful favor in many dishes. Fried Oysters - Dip oysters into beaten egg diluted with milk, then into crisp cracker crumbs. In deep fat and garnish with sliced lemon. Rev. G. W. Cross and wife are in St. Joseph attending the North Missouri conference. We are glad to welcome Rev. B. P. B. White with again to visit with his family in Evanston, IL. Mrs. Jane White of Booneville, Mo., is in the city visiting friends. Miss Ruth Reece is slowly convales- sn at this writing. Rev. Harris of Gallatin has moved his family to our city to educate his daughter, Miss Zona, at Western college. Miss Corinne Wright is reported better as we go to press. Sunday was covenant meeting at the Baptist church. A glorious meeting was enjoyed by all present. We are glad to see so many students enrolled at Western college. Mrs. Estella Oliver of St. Paul, Minn., was called to the bedside of her daughter, Miss Corine Wright. Misses Virginia Wallace and May Brown have returned to attend Western college. Dr. J. H. Garnett departed Tuesday for Lawrence, Kansas, to attend the Kansas state convention. Mr. William Price of Sixty-one spent Sunday and Monday in our city. Quite a number of the ladies of the Bethel A. M. E. church enjoyed an outing Sunday at the home of Mrs. M. Burton. The Missouri State Federation met Saturday at the home of Mrs. M. E. Brookin. Several interesting re- ditions were made, after which a dainty course lunch was served. The bazaar which was given by the Baptist Ladies' Missionary was quite a success. The egg hunt which was given Saturday night was a success. Rev. E. L. Scruggs spent last week in our city. Mr. J. L. Thompson was in our city. Rev. O. T. Redd of Kansas City, Mo., was in our city and brought his son to attend Western college. Mrs. Laura Noel of Fulton, formerly of Macon, is visiting in our city on her way to St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Victoria Brassell has returned from a three weeks' stay in Mason City, Iowa, with Mrs. F. Gieslman, who has recently moved there. She reports a very pleasant visit. BOONE NEWS. The Rev. L. W. Routt and family arrived in the city last Saturday to take charge of his new work. Last Sunday was a glorious day in Boone. Rev. L. W. Routt preached two soul-stirring sermons Sunday morning and evening. Sunday night the church was packed to the utmost capacity. Beautiful songs were rendered by Routt trio, Jesse, Freddie and Louie. Mrs. Routt was organist. The little boys are beautiful singers. We welcome Rev. Routt and his family. They are active workers. Mrs. Routt is quite busy in the missionary work. On Monday, October 4th, a young couple from Marshalltown, Miss Matilda Jackson and Mr. Rutherford were quietly married at the parsonage at 3:30 o'clock. The pastor of the A. M. E. church, Rev. L. W. Routt, performed the ceremony. He said the words that made them man and wife. The witnesses were Mrs. Lulu Routt and Mr. Chas. Colhman. Chronic Constipation. "About two years ago when I began using Chamberlain's Tablets I had been suffering for some time with stomach trouble and chronic constipation. My condition improved rapidly through the use of these tablets. Since taking four or five bottles of them my health has been fine," writes Mrs. John Newton, Irving, N. Y. Obtainable everywhere. CENTERVILLE NEWS. The Mission Circle was entertained at the home of Sister Emma Martin. A large number were present. The whole community was shocked to hear of the sudden death of Mrs. Mary E. Kearney, which occurred Friday afternoon, October 1, at 1:45 o'clock at her home on East Jackson street. Sister Kearney will be missed by the whole community. She was the oldest member in the church and circle. She was a good and faithful Christian and a good worker in the church, helping to raise all monies for church purposes. She was the mother of the church and a life member of the association. Mrs. Kearney, better known as "Mother Kearney," was married to Mr. W. Kearney fifty-six years ago. To this union was born six children, all deceased but one. She leaves to mourn her loss her husband, W. Kearney, one son, Mr. L. Kearney of this city, and other relatives and friends. "Mother Kearney" always had a good and cheerful word for every one she met. She was a member of the Daughters of Tabor, the Golden Rule Tabernacle, No. 581, Centerville, Iowa. The six Knight and Daughters of Tabor had charge of her funeral, turning out in full dress for the occasion. Her funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Second Baptist church. Rev. V. S. Cooper, pastor, preached a wonderful and beautiful funeral sermon. She had many beautiful flowers. The church and Mission Circle had beautiful resolutions read for our deceased sister. Mrs. Bessie Lee sang one of Sister Kearney's favorite songs, "Asleep in Jesus." A precious one from us is gone, A voice is lingered still, There is a vacancy in our church Which power can be filled. Mr. L. P. Lewis received the sadd news from P. Mrs. Wm. Wyatt of Mt. Pleasant, Iown, of the death of his infant son, which occurred Thursday, September 30. Mr. Lewis went and brought the remains back for interment. Burial was at 4 o'clock Friday evening. The Helping Hand club will give a social Monday evening at the church. The Mission Circle will be undertaken by the help of the parishioners. An entertainment and consent will be given Saturday, October 6th. Mrs. A. Olliver chairman of the entertainment. Miss Edna M. Hicks left for Unionville, Mo, for a visit with Miss Eva Clarke. Mr. Willie Clarke left for Unionville, Mo, for a visit with his relatives. KIRKSVILLE, MO. The sick in our city are very much improved. The representative of The Bystander, J. L. Thompson, of Des Moines, Iowa, was in our city last week in the interest of his paper. This is a gentleman of much note, being editor of the Bystander, grand master of the Iowa jurisdiction of Masonic lodges and greatly interested in everything for the uplift of the race. Mrs. Ball was dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hockaday on Sunday. The supper Thursday night given by Mrs. Grant Lynn at Foster's hall was a perfect success. Mrs. Lynn is one of the best church workers we have and much credit is due her uniting efforts. An inresting feature of the supper Thursday night was the military drill by the young men and men. The ladies wore a pique skirts and middles and all carried red canes, with which they drilled. Mr. Warren Adeney, captain, Mrs. H. M. Hockaday, directress. This was for the Baptist church. Miss Alice Tolson of Milan, Mo., passed through our city Monday en route to Jacksonville, Mo., to the funeral of her uncle. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Barnes and Mrs. L. A. Frakes were callers of Rev. and Mrs. T. R. Sayles on Sunday. Mr. Tyler Steward of Sheffield, Iowa, spent Sunday with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Richards were callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Lynn on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Burris of Moberly, Mo., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Burris over Sunday. Rev. T. R. Sayles was home from La Velle, Mo., on Sunday and filled his place in the pulpit as usual. He reports much interest shown in the meeting there and lots of good being done. The "Good Will" Sewing circle meets at the church this Friday. This circle has been a "live wire" for the past year and a most helpful auxiliary of the church. SIOUX CITY, IOWA. Rev. J. H. Garrison has returned from Milwaukee, where he attended conference. He began his duties as pastor last Sunday, having been assigned this place again for the ensuing year. We are indeed glad to have him back, as he has done splendid work in our midst. Rev. J. W. Dowden has been assigned the pastorate of Yankton and Sioux Falls. We extend heartiest congratulations and wish him every success upon his field of labor. Rev. Jas, Washington, formerly an old resident of this place, but now pastoring at Phoenix, Ariz., is in the city for an indefinite period recuperating from arduous church duties performed by him at his church last year. He filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church all day last Sunday and delivered two excellent sermons. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To C. W. Orvin, 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. 1912, the following described real estate towit: Lot 8, block 3, South Riverside Park, now in and forming a part of the city of De Moines, Iowa, was sold to L. J. Kasson for the payment of the taxes for the year 1911, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefore, 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 September 7, 1915. W. H. Meredith. By J. C. Meredith, His Attorney in Fact. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF REIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To John W. 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Three persons were converted during the day. Mrs. Lula Webb has been returned home from the Samaritan hospital, having undergone a successful operation. Mrs. Etta Grant returned Tuesday from a two weeks' visit from the twin cities. She reports of having had an enjoyable time. The A. I. P. club met Friday, October 1, with Mrs. Joseph Baker. After a usual business session dainty refreshments were served. The musical given at the First Congregational church Thursday, September 30th, is reported as having been a great success. All who failed to attend are said to have missed a rare treat. RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To Joseph S. Lewes: You are hereby notified that on the third day of December, 1912, the following described real estate, situated in Folk county, Iowa, towit: West half of lot 9 of the official plat of government lots 4 and 5 in section 27, township 79, north, range 24 west 57 P. M. 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