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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. XXII No.27 A Merry, Merry Christmas! Oh, what friends we have just before Xmas. Miss Lizzie Cowens will leave this week to spend the holidays at her old home in Missouri. The play to have been given by Mrs. B. S. Hicks is postponed until further notice. The A. M. E. church Altar Guild will meet next Tuesday with Mrs. Theo. Pemberton on 1416 E. 18th St. Mrs. Tillie Lee of Clarinda will arrive December 26 to spend the winter with her daughter, Susie. Mrs. Flossie Fristo entertained Misses Lulu Jackson and Georgie Ford on Sunday at dinner. Mrs. H. A. Morangeopie, the wife of the noted African missionary, is sick at her home at 1002 W. Thirteenth street this week. Miss Helen E. Hagan, the great pianist of Cambridge, Mass., may appear here again this spring in a recital. Announcement later. The Paul Lawrence Dunbar club will meet at the home of Mrs. Lillian Jowers, 784 10t street, Friday Dec. 31st, her sister Cyletha McMillen hostess. The best Christmas present you can buy is the Bystander one year for $1.00 and send it to your relatives or friend. It will last for 365 days. The Mothers' Congress will hold an open house January 1 at the home of Mrs. A. M. Rivers on Sixteenth street. Hours from 2 to 5 p. m. Everybody is invited to call. Dr. Jefferson reports the birth of a ten pound baby girl, born to Mr. and Mrs. Thos. J. Davis at 1053 Fifth street, December 17. Both mother and child doing well. Rogers & Regers Entertainment Concert Company and Ventriolquist will give a concert at Maple Street Baptist church Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 27th and 28th Admission 25c. PERSONAL—Wanted to correspond with a light complexion, respectable, intelligent business woman with ample means for a business partner. Prefer an unimcumbered middle-aged maiden lady or widow. Only those who mean business need answer this add. Address Golden Rule, care Bystander, FOR SALE My Billiard Hall, Barber Shop and Cigar Store, if taken at once. L H. S. Brown, 229 3rd street Rumor has it that our popular yuong mail carrier is to wed a beautiflu Des Moines girl, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., during the holiday season. Mrs. Rodgers will give an entertainment Monday and Tuesday evenings, December 27 and 28, under the auspices of the Rosebud Sewing circle at the Maple Street Baptist church. Everybody invited. STOP! LOOK! READ! Chittetling Supper Union Congregational Church Wednesday Dec. 29 6 p. m, Cottage Cafe 761 10th 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 FOR SALE My Billiard Hall, Barber Shop and Cigar Store, if taken at once. L. H. S. Brown, 229 3rd street. We have a few small cottages for rent, 4 and 5 rooms, partly modern. Just phone Drake 3882. REMEMBER THE Palace Sweet Cafe UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Is the best place to go for Good Home Cooking Everything First Class Red I387 1012 Center Street Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson, Props Atty. S. Joe Brown left Wednesday for Mason City to exemplify the third degree by raising several to the sublime degree of master Mason. He is the grand custodian of the Masonic lodge. Revs. T. L. Griffith and S. Bates returned home last week from Hiteman, where they attended the board meeting of the Iowa-Nebraska Baptist association. The children of Union Congregational Sunday school will give a concert and musical play Wednesday evening, December 29th. Everybody invited. The ladies of the Missionary club will serve a 6 o'clock chitterling supper. Mr. R. .C. French met with a serious accident Wednesday. While working in the coal mine a piece of coal flew into his eye and greatly injured the same. As yet the doctor cannot tell the extent of the injury. Mr. Edward T. Banks, one of our old and highly respected citizens, left Monday evening for Mobile, Ala., to spend the winter with his brother and sister. Capt. Banks is a high, active Mason. He is P. G. M., present deputy grand high priest and deputy eminent commander. In the Lee E. Holt trouble which occurred a few weeks ago the grand jury found four indictments against him and fixed his bonds at $22,000. Mr. S, Joe Brown and J. B. Rush, his attorneys, are working very hard in conjunction with other friends in his behalf. We received the announcement of the marriage of Rev. Dr. T. H. Phillips to Miss V. live Bailey at Keokuk. They will be at home at 1802 Palean street after January 1, 1916. Dr. Phillips is one of the prominent men of Iowa, Missouri and the northwest. He is a successful business man, managing a large sanitarium. The annual Xmas dinner and box social which met at the home of Mrs. A. M. Rivers on December 22, was a decided success. Presents were exchanged with each member of the club. The next annual Xmas dinner will be held with Mrs. R. N. Hyde in 1916. The Triple H club met Tuesday December 21st, with Mrs. Anderson White, 815 Twenty-eighth street. A very interesting Christmas program was rendered. The next meeting will be Tuesday, December 28, at the home of Mrs. Louis Avery, 764 Eleven street. The program will consist of "Our Ideals for 1916," presented and discussed by the various member of the club, after which a box luncheon will be served. WANTED—First class barber at once. Four chair shop. L. J. Shelton 509 Mulberry FOR SALE My Billiard Hall, Barber Shop and Cigar Store, if taken at once. L. H. S. Brown, 229 3rd street. IOWA MAN DIES IN CHICAGO. We received the sad intelligence of the death of Fred D. Hooker, formerly of this city, but now of Chicago, Ill., who died last Sunday of hemorrhage, after only being sick a short time. He was a single young man who took care of his mother, who left Des Moines a few years ago, after her husband died, to make her home with her only child. Mrs. N. E. Morton, a close friend left Monday to attend the funeral. A FREE CHICKEN DINNER The Doers will serve a free will chicken dinner at St. Paul's A. M. E. church Christmas Sunday, December 26th, from 12 to 2:30. After the dinner has been served a free will offering will be taken and every one will give according as God has given you. MASONS TO CELEBRATE. King Solomon Commandedry, No. 6, Knights Templar, will hold divine services at their asylum in North Star Masonic temple Christmas morning at 11 o'clock. The Rev. M. W. Alexander will deliver the Christmas sermon, to which all Master Masons are invited, and on Monday evening, December 27th, North Star and Doric ledges will unite in a festival in honor of the anniversary of the birth of St. John the Evangelist at North Star Masonic temple, which all Master Masons are also cordially invited to attend. PROGRAM. The following program will be rendered at the St. Paul A. M. E. Sunday school December 26th: Opening song by Sunday school Invocation by Bro. J. L. Edwards. Piano voluntary, Miss Mildred Griffin. Oration, Master John Roscoe Brown. Solo, Mrs. A. M. White. Paper, Mrs. S. L. Birt, subject "The Xmas Spirit." Violin solo, "The Holy City," by Arthur Wilson. Address, Rev. Henry McCravens. Solo, Mrs. C. B. Woods. Recitation, Pauleta Smith. HOTEL GUESTS. Gray Cummings, Chicago. James Thomas, Des Moines. Earl Brown, Cadis, Ohio. William H. Glasby, New York. Walter Read, Madison, Wis. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1915. J. E. Detters, Pittsburg, Pa. Bruce Burch, Mountaintown, Pa. D. G. Guy and wife, Dayton, Ohio. to some dark life? Stop! Look your list over again, count your money once more; there Spirit and in Truth. Manger, which is the our oneness with God, EDITORIALS Once again and the first time this year all Christian nations have centered their thoughts and hopes on the coming of Christ's natal day, which brings joy and gladness to the worshipful of the Christian religion. While this Christmas day will bring many heart aches, tears, sadness and sorrow to the many millions of Anglo-Saxon and the Teutonic races of Europe because the bloody hand of war has taken their loved ones, father, brother, husband or sweetheart, hence the Christmas joy that once was in that home is gone forever and gloom has entered. It does seem that our boasted Christian religion of love as we are taught is erroneous or false or else it is the unseen hand of God moving in a mysterious way his wonders to perform. While we in this new hemisphere should profit by the experience of other countries. First seek God, teach righteousness, justice, love and true brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God, rescue the perishing, feed the hungry, cloth the naked, comfort the dying, care for the sick, then we shall have Christmas and joy all the year, and not only for one week. MAJOR MOTON HEADS TUSKE- GEER New York, Dec. 20.—Maj. Robert R. Moton of Hampton institute, Hampton, Va., was selected to succeed Booker T. Washington as president of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., at a meeting of the special committee of the trustees of the institute here today. The choice was unanimous. Robert Russa Moton, the well known commandant of cadets at Hampton Institute, was born in 1867 in Amelia county, Virginia. He entered Hampton in 1885 and graduated in 1890. For one year he served as a drill master and then became commandant of cadets. Since the death of General Armstrong in 1893, Major Moton has served Dr. Hollis B. Frissel, principal of Hampton Institute, most loyally and efficiently both as a commandant of cadets and as a speaker in Hampton educational and financial campaigns throughout the country. Robert Moton in 1908 became the secretary of the Negro rural school fund board: Anna T. Jaeens foundation. Since 1912 he has served as president of the Negro organization society of Virginia, which works through several hundred Negro o-organizations for better schools, better health, better farms, and better homes. This society touches the lives of at least 350,000 Negroes in Virginia. Major Moton is also the trustee of several Negro institutions. In a statement issued by the committee it is declared that by the election of Major Moton "the policies, aims and attitude of the institute will continue unchanged." THE FIRST CHRISTMAS. (Written especially for the Bystander.) That one thousand, nine hundred and fifteen years ago The Christ-child in the manger so Lay there day by day, The cattle looked, but would not hurt him, so they say. The wise men brought him gifts so rare, Of which they laid beside his feet with care, And the angels sweetly sang, Peace on earth, good will toward men. By Enola V. Thompson, 1306 20th St., Des Mcines, Ia. MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY. By Mrs. H. M. Hockaday, Kirksville, Mo. (Written especially for Bystander.) Another twelve months have passed and we find ourselves again standing upon the threshold of another Christmas. Xmas is the most joyous of all holidays. Our minds are taken from ourselves, and we think only of our friends and what we shall give them. We are planning surprises for father, mother, sister, brother and a host of friends; and they in turn are preparing something for us. But the thought of making some one happy; the thought of bringing a smile to the face of a loved one is the thought that is uppermost in our minds. The value of the gift we scarcely consider. We are so filled with the spirit of giving and of the loving hearts waiting to receive. But what of the poor? Have we prepared a gift for some orphan, for some poor widow, a cripple, a shut-in, or for some poor lonely grey-haired mother, whom having laid her own sons and daughters to rest, finds no loving hands outstretched to brighten her cheerless fireside? Have we thought only of bringing gladness to those already glad, has the spirit of giving extended beyond our own little circle of friends, or are we truly trying to bring happiness in- MAKE THE CHILDREN HAPPY JOIN THE Christmas Savings Club And you will be able to buy these things for the CHILDREN What is good for the young is also good for the old CLASS 5 START WITH 5¢ make your payments 5¢ more each week for 50 weeks and receive $63.75 CLASS 2 START WITH 2¢ make your payments 2¢ more each week for 50 weeks and receive $25.50 CLASS 5-A START WITH $2.50 make your payments 5¢ less each week for 50 weeks and receive $63.75 CLASS 2-A START WITH $1.00 make your payments 2¢ less each week for 50 weeks and receive $25.50 CLASS 5-B START WITH 5¢ make your payments 5¢ more each week for 25 weeks, then decrease your payments 50 each week for next 25 weeks and receive $32.50 CLASS 10-B START WITH 10¢ make your payments 10¢ more each week for 25 weeks, then decrease your payments 100 each week for next 25 weeks and receive $65.00 INTEREST AT 4 PER CENT WILL BE ADDED TO THESE AMOUNTS IOWA LOAN & TRUST CO. 210 SIXTH AVENUE HIPPEE BUILDING JOIN TODAY to some dark life? Stop! Look your list over again, count your money once more; there may be yet a few extra pennies to buy gifts for some unfortunate. "God loveth the cheerful giver." Then let us not only say "Merry Xmas," but let us try to make Xmas merry by making someone truly happy at this 1915 Xmas season. HEALTH HINTS. A. J. Booker. M. D. No narrative of the nativity is beautiful without the star being prominent. In all Catholic and Episcopal churches the symbol of the star stands out prominently and appeal-ingly effective. Stars have always figures in the affairs of men from the spiritual, the esthetic side, from the side to which we owe most of the eternally beautiful and rightfully helpful motives. A. B. Wise men love stars and babies. because they see in them the deep unfathomable problems of eternity, which are at once the admiration and despair of the seekers for absolute truth. Babies grow up, become men and in turn love other babies; but the stars remain, patient, persistent, perpetual reminders of the first evening when God rested. Changing, vascillating messengers are not safe purveyors of great truth; so when the wise men of the east saw a star for a guide they followed implicitly. The star of truth will still be our guide to the manger of the Savior. The same star will yet guide wise men to manger of humility and happiness, if search with open minds and clean hearts. Christmas is not a December occasion, but is a permanent and perpetual feast. The King's birthday is the day he is born in your heart, and He, being without beginning and without end, is being born every day, every hour. This realization comes only to those who worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. We come to the manger, which is the realization of our oneness with God, by letting truth guide us over the roads of honor, nobility, service and charity. These spiritual qualities may not, cannot be matured by the observation of one fast, nor by observing one day of the week. The week days must be kept holy, the heart must ever keep the soul's eye on the Star of the East. Then will the wise men of the spirit bring to us the myrrh of joy for spreading glad tidings, helping to make peace on earth and good will toward men; the frank incense of feeling our kinship with God, in the diffusion of this feeling it becomes more intense; the gold of worth for the faith we have kept with man, the image of God whom we are to love and serve if we will know Him in all His glory. Every day is the birthday of the King and the temporary altruistic feeling of being responsible for someone's happiness is to be bound to one's soul and made use of every day. The Christmas feeling of joy and gladness is the one we should make the normal one instead of the spasmodic one. Then will the kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, and the spirit will be reincarnated in men and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year will ever be to you all. MACON, MO., NEWS. Rev. B. P. E. Gales is spending Xmas at his home in Evanston, Ill. Dr. J. H. Garnett filled the pulpit in his absence and preached an excellent sermon Sunday morning. At night Prof. Roger, a missionary for the Western Baptist convention, gave a lecture in behalf of Western college, which was highly enjoyed and appreciated by all. Prof. Roger's address to the students of Western college Friday evening last at their literary society, the T. G. A. Rev. G. W. Cross preached two excellent sermons Sunday morning and evening. The pupils of Dumas school of rooms one and two, under the auspices of Miss Oliver and Brooker, will give a concert Tuesday night. Miss Gona Jackson of Des Moines is in the city to spend Xmas with her parents. Miss Ida Garnett, who is employed in the high school of Quincy, Ill., is in the city to spend Xmas with her parnets, Mr. and Mrs. J. H, Garnett. Mr. J. B. Harris of Quincy, Ill., is expected home Xmas. The Macon Women's Federation club, under the auspices of Mrs. Ida Garnett, the honorable president, will hold a bazaar Monday evening. They are anticipating much success. Mr. Edd Draper will leave tonight for a visit in Davenport, Iowa. Mr. William Oliver, one of the well known colored men of our city, dropped dead Saturday last at the electric light plant, unloading coal. Funeral will occur Wednesday at the Vine and Broadway Baptist church. While holding revival meetings at the A. M. E. church last week we are overly, glad that Charley Johnson has been walking in the council of the ungody so long, has confessed Christ. There will be a doll given away by the Sunday school of the Vine and Broadway church Xmas eve, a doll to the little girl collecting the most money, and they will also have an Xmas tree. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hoskins of Rock Island, Ill., were called to our city by the death of Mrs. Hoskins' father. Western college will close Wednesday evening for two weeks. Miss Ruth Perkins will spend the holidays with her parents. The G. O. F. will give a musical on Wednesday night at the M. E. church. There will be an Xmas ball given Wednesday night, December 29, by the boys of our city. For Eczema, etter and Salt Rheum. FOR EZZEINA, etter and SARA The intense itching characteristic of these ailments is almost instantly allayed by Chamberlain's salve. Many severe cases have been cured by it. For sale by all dealers. The Bystander holiday rates are now open -$1.00 for one year. KROKUK, IOWA. Mrs. Katie Bowell, Missouri state organizer of the B. Y. P. U., lectured 11 Price Five Cents at the different churches Sunday. Mrs. Jennie Freeman has sold out her restaurant business to Mr. Hugh Watts of Lamar, Mo. The wedding of Miss Jennie Woods to Mr. Clay of Quincy, Ill, occurred recently at the home of the bride's parents near Sandusky. The Autumn Leaf club met at the home of Miss Ielia Bland on Friday, December 3. The Ladies' Aid society of the First African Baptist church will give a Christmas market Saturday afternoon and evening, December 18, at the church corner Seventeenth and Main streets. Mrs. Katie Boswell of St. Louis, Mo., is the guest of Dr. T. H. Phillips and daughter, Mrs. Wright. The phyllis Wheatley Rescue club met Tuesday, December 6, at the First African Baptist church. Mrs. Katie Boswell of St. Louis, Mo., addressed the club. Refreshments were served by some of the ladies of the club. Mr. S. B. Williams of 1518 Ridge is ill at his home with typhoid pneumonia. Mrs. Katie Boswell addressed the Forum club Sunday afternoon at the A. M. E. church. Owes Her Good Health to Chamberlain's Tablets. "I owe my good health to Chamberlain's Tablets," writes Mrs. R. G. Neff, Crookston, Ohio. "Two years ago I was an invalid due to stomach trouble. I took three bottles of these Tablets and have since been in the best of health." Obtainable everywhere. CLARINDA, IOWA. (Special to the Bystander.) Mrs. Jones was called to Bedford, Iowa, her sister, Mrs. Howe, being sick. Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson are planning to spend Xmas in St Joe. Mr. Lewis Arnett has opened up a second hand store. Phoebe Rogers is very sick. The Mite Missionary society of the A. M. E. church had a bazaar at the Eastern Star hall. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Washington's own contribution to the work at Tuskegee was the plan, then the finding of money to amuse it. He had the address and the kind of persistence which win money from the rich for benefaction purposes. He was perhaps the most successful educator of funds the country has ever known. For more than twenty years he has ranged up and down the country setting for his purposes at Tuskegee, exploiting the effects of his work, and through these appeals winning financial support. The great establishment at Tuskegee, now liberally endowed, is a monument to his industry, his powers of exposition, and of his absolute devotion to a great cause. Ten years ago or more Mr. Andrew Carnegie made direct provision of a fund of $190,000 for Washington's personal benefit. At the time it was predicted that being than removed from the possibilities of individual necessity Washington's energies in behalf of Tuskegee would suffer a decline. But not so. Up to the day of his death he gave to the institute the same uneasying devotion that he had given it in his own days of poverty. It is not too much to say of Booker Washington that the example of his Tuskegee school affected profoundly the educational fashion of the country. Twenty years ago a distinguished man wrote to a famous college president asking if he knew where a white boy might get precisely the training afforded to colored youth at Tuskegee. The inquiry started the educational world in the sense that it exhibited the practical deficiencies of our system. The effect of it was to stimulate the industrial and vocational idea throughout the country. Because of a late ruling of the county court at Tulsa, Oklahoma, in which the owner of an oil lease is forced to turn over to the lessee the royalty oil instead of its equivalent, Sarah Rector, one of the very rich, if not the richest Negro girl in Oklahoma and probably in all the world, now is receiving in royalties $2,900 more a month than formerly. According to this ruling her guardian, J. T. Forter, is permitted to sell this royalty oil in the open market at the highest price available, and has entered into a contract with an oil company to buy it at ten cents premium a barrel, the market price being 50 cents, the price at which she was compelled to sell before this decision was rendered. This girl, who was born in poverty and ignorance, suddenly became very wealthy when about ten years of age. Like all other Negro children of freedman parents living in the Creek nation, she inherited the right to choose or have chosen for her 150 acres of Creek land. Her land was leased to oil prospectors, and when developed became exceedingly valuable. It is said the least now produces 160,000 barrels a month, one-eighth of which is her royalty. This amount, at 90 cents a barrel, brings her $18,000 a month. As several independent refineries are in the market to buy oil at a premium it is probable many other guardians will take advantage of Judge Campbell's ruling. It is estimated that the churches in the United States spent on Negro education during 1912-13 $2,000,000. The Methodist Episcopal church leads the Whenever all the colored people of a community unite earnestly in asking and working safely and wisely for a needed improvement, whether it is a better schoolhouse, a manual training or cooking equipment, better teachers, better sanitation, or anything else worth while, they usually get it. Scores of delegates at the recent third annual meeting of the Negro Organization society, which was held in Petersburg, Va. testified to this truth. Maj. J. R. M. Moton, commandant at Hampton institute and president of the society, said, in part: "The movement among colored people for better schools, better homes, better health, better farms, seems to have made an irresistible appeal to all the people of the state. Religious, benevolent, secret, and educational organizations of every character have joined in this movement. Leading white people, including the officials of the Virginia boards of health, education and of charities and correction, have been most cordial in their support. "The state-wide campaign for clean premises, clean homes and clean lives. Last year the new wealth produced on American farms was officially placed at about ten billion dollars. This year it will be nearer eleven billion dollars than ten billion dollars. After three years of work a government committee has recommended a uniform system of weights and measures for all India. Honey and wax to the value of more than six million dollars are produced annually in the United States. Honduras is a rich country and its resources remain in almost virgin condition. It possesses a climate that varies with its topography, the temperature of the coasts being hot, in the lowlands of the interior it is warm, and in the mountains it is temperate and in some places cold. The mountains abound in minerals, and the tablelands and valleys are especially adapted for raising cattle and for agriculture. Housing is rigidly regulating auto- denominations in the amount of money given. This church gave for the year $412,200. The Congregational church (through the American Missionary society) leads in the matter of permanent endowment for work among Negroes. A report says: "As typical church organizations doing extensive work among Negroes, the following are given: The Congregational church has 65 schools, 12,967 students, and a permanent endowment of over $2,000,000. The Methodist Episcopal church had 22 schools, with 6,568 students, and it has about $1,500,000 invested in school plants. The American Baptist home mission board has 24 schools, 7,551 students, and about $1,520,000 invested in school plants. The Presbyterian board of missions for freedmen has 126 schools (112 of them given as elementary), 16,427 students, and not quite $1,000,000 invested in school plants." Another report concerning denominational education for Negroes closed by saying: "The secretaries of the various church boards at their semiannual meeting in Washington, D.C. February 2, laid definite plans for the future in the following particulars: As far as possible there would be in the future no duplication between private and public schools; the various Negro schools would be standardized; and the denominations would act in concert in preventing schools under different denominational control from occupying the same territory." J. M. Gandy, president of the State Normal school at Petersburg, who is the executive secretary of the Negro Organization society, reported that in one year over 15,000 people had been addressed on subjects relating to community improvements; 502 school terms had been lengthened; 604 school leagues had been reached; 8340 had been given to five schools, and that these small gifts had inspired the people to raise thousands upon thousands of dollars for their own schools. T. C. Erwin of Petersburg, the society's field agent, reported that 247 organizations and 643 individuals had become members of the Negro Organization society. Professor Erwin has been at work in 28 Virginia counties. He has carried a message of new hope through organization to thousands of men and women. He has reached school improvement leagues in 19 counties and has aroused the people to the necessity of practicing self-help and working out a constructive plan. Several hundred delegates attended the annual meeting and heard addresses by Mayor Cabanis and Prof. James E. Shields of Petersburg; Rev. Dr. L. L. Downing, Roanoke; Prof. S. C. Atkins, Winston-Salem, N. C.; W. T. B. William, Hampton institute; J. H. Binford, Jackson Davis, Ennion G. Williams, R. C. Stearnes and Miss Agnes D. Randolph of Richmond; Principal E. A. Long of Christiansburg, Dr. W. E. Atkins and Mrs. Jarie Porter Barret of Hampton, and many other white and colored speakers, who are experts in community improvement. Sediment carried to sea by the Amazon river can be detected 100 miles from the coast. Extensive work has been begun to prove definitely whether petroleum can be found in South America. has received help and support that was little dreamed of. The two races have been brought together on the ground of common needs of humanity. We have given white people a chance which they have long desired—a chance to help the Negro without compromise or embarrassment. They have met us more than half way. "I am most anxious that we shall continue to be sane and wise in what we do and say, and not be sweep off our feet by those who feel that the great problems of humanity can be solved by abusing those with whom we do not agree." Reports from delegates, including many women, showed clearly that hundreds of rural communities are waking up to the possibility of making genuine progress by having people work together for common economic and social interests, regardless of religious or fraternal affiliations. Ideas gathered at preceding meetings have been carried to distant rural districts, and have been the means of emancipating thousands from the bonds of poor health, inferior schools and unattractive homes and churches. The world's principal jade mine is in Burma, where the privilege of mining the stone has been in possession of one Indian tribe for many generations. Europe has about three and one-half times the telegraph traffic, nearly twice the first-class mail traffic, but only two-fifths the telephone traffic of the United States. Eighty per cent of Cuba's shoes come from the United States. Elise Cavallion of Nimes, France, when in September he presented himself to the recruiting station in answer to an enlistment order, was informed that he had been officially dead since 1904, and that he was under arrest for an effort fraudulently to escape military service. He later established the fact that his father had brought about the certification, but even so he was unable to escape a two-year's prison sentence. Five new Mongolian towns have been opened to trade. THENON BOMB-THROWING DEVICE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE One of the devices used by the French army for throwing bombs from the trenches. CRADLE OF THE WORLD IS SCENE OF WAR'S WRATH Campaign in Mesopotamia Differs From Every Other Operation in Old World. CRUEL TREACHEROUS PEOPLE British Official Report Tella of Events Before the Reversal at Ctesiphon —Kut's Captured After Fierce Battle Across Level Plain. London.—The official press bureau has just given out a pictureque account of the campaign for Bagdad by Bir Mark Sykes. He describes the victory of Kut and deals with events before the British reverse at Ctesiphon, further up the Tigris. He says: The campaign in Mesopotamia differs beyond all words from every other operation taking place in the world in this year of war. It may be called the Cinderella of campaigns, for indeed, if past history and modern engineers tell a tale to be believed, the swamps and wastes of Irak will be changed within the life of the present generation into something as different from themselves as were the mice and pumpkin of the fairy story. The lawless and ignorant tribesmen of Persia are being urged and organized to plunder Bushire, Bander Abbas and Jask by erstwhile commercial travelers; the half-witted Persian fanatic is deliberately encouraged to assassinate British and Russian consular officials in the provincial capitals. To meet and check this policy Great Britain must needs detach small bodies of troops at Charbar, Jask and Bushire. In each of these places a small handful of Indian troops under a few British officers give peace and security to traders, foreigners and Persians alike. Inland the tribesmen roam in anarchy; on the shore peaceful commerce is protected from their onslaught by these little bands of exiles. On the southern side of the gulf at Muscat and Bahrein again we find similar isolated groups, in each place holding in check those forces of disorder and violence which the enemy's agents seek to provoke, but on the Arabian shore the star of Germany is on the wane, the Arab sailor folk know that on the sea "Allemani" are no more. These Arabs, who cruise as far afield as Zanzibar and find their way to Malabar across the open sea without sextant or master's certificate, have learned that the flag of Germany cannot be shown upon the waters of the earth so long as war lasts, and the word has gone through the Arabian coasts that he who would trade abroad must be the friend of the Ingliz, who spoiled the slave trade in years gone by and lately stayed the traffic in arms. Cruel, Treacherous People. A winding river which is restless in its bed, capricious in its fall, uncertain in its rise, and sown with shifting shoals and sands is the sole means of communication between Bagdad and the sea; it is the inevitable line of supply, advance or retreat for Turks and British. On either hand stretches limitless plain, showing a horizon as level as the sea save for here and there a mound. As for the population, it is base, semi-momadic Arab, cruel, treacherous, and rascally as the town influence can make it, yet predatory with primitive Bedouil instinct. To these people, Turkish corrup- Fully Explains. Columbus, O.-Suffragette methods on the threshold of the altar has resulted in the muffing of the wedding bells for Genie Wintz, thirty a plasterer of Richmond, Va., and Julia Thompson, thirty-eight, a widow of Columbus, and their marriage license has been returned to the chief clerk. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER THROWING DEVICE French army for throwing bombs from THE WORLD IS THE WAR'S WRATH tion, smugglers and a year's war have brought a wealth of arms and munitions; without any cohesion or policy they are neither for British nor Turk; on the day of battle they haunt the outskirts of the fight, plunder the wounded and stragglers impartially, harass the retreat of the defeated side, hoist white flags over their tents and make professions of unswerving fidelity to whoever seems to be in the ascendant. Before the occupation of Kut mattera were thus: asstride the river stood the Turks; on the left bank three swamps were linked by chains of en trenchments traced with every device known to the science of the Teutonic engineer; on the right bank the position was continued with equal care and preparation, and so conforming it self in relation to the bends in the river as to oblige an enemy endeavoring to turn it from the landward side, to make a detour which could not be compassed unobserved in the space of one dark night. Is this position was firmly established a force of Turks numerically superior, well armed, plenitively supplied and supported by a greater number of field guns than those against them. Seven miles in rear of this prepared position lay the town of Kut; midway between Kut and the entrenchments the river was spanned by a pontoon bridge. On the night of September 27 the striking force of the British army in Mesopotomia lay six miles from the Turkish entrenchments. On the night of the 29th the British were in occupation of Kut with above a thousand prisoners, half the enemy's artillery, and a considerable quantity of ammunition in their hands, while the Turkish army was putting as large an available space between itself and its enemy as the river, the Arabs, the swamps and canals would allow. Amid the din and thunder of the great war this achievement may pass almost unnoticed, and yet such a battle fought across a level plain in the face of perfect entrenchments, modern artillery and machine guns, in an unmapped country, with rumors of large forces of hostile tribesmen menacing communications, will, when things come to be reasoned out and proportioned, rank well enough in our annals. Kut the day after its occupation was as Kut of the day before, yet with a difference, the Turks had gone and the British had come. The British soldier and his brother, the Sepop, were in possession. Now neither Briton nor Indian owe any debt of gratitude to the Arab tribemen who have plundered, wounded, mutilated the dead, sniped, pilfered, spied and betrayed; there is no reason why our fighting men should distinguish between the inhabitants of the towns and the encampments; roughly dress, language, habits and appearance are one, and in war the soldier has no time for nice ethnological differences and the historical influences. No Justice or Right Doing. The British o. Indian soldier does not know that since Ja'afer the Barmecide was executed by the despairing Harun-al-Rashid no man south of Bagdad has stood for justice and right doing; that all has been wrong doing from the age when Ma'amun fought Amin for Bagdad, to the day when Hulagu the monster pierced the canals and annihilated by famine a population of 11,000,000, and thence to the committee of union and progress and the concessionaires who have thrived on intrigue and wickedness in these later days. of the probate court with a word of explanation from the bridegroom who was to have been. Wintz in his letter to the court officials has this to say concerning the severing of marital negotiations with his bride: "You will find in close a marriage license, which I am returning unused. My objection for not performing the marriage was that my fiancee proved to be two bossies she started bossing just as soon as the license was granted. I am not in favor of woman suffrage, and I don't All the English and the Indian soldier knows is that his dead comrades' bodies are scripted and sometimes mutilated, that if a trooper loses his way aim he is little likely to return, that perhaps a bullet has sunk his own arm or pugnuee from a mud wall above which fumaras a white flag, that he has now and again found a dear loved friend lying, an offense against the morning light, with throat cut from ear or in consequence for good or ill the word Arab is not one to evoke the gentlest feelings in our soldier's breast. This digression is necessary to appreciate the manner of the occupation of Kun—the Turks and fed in haste, our men, both horse and foot reached the sown soon after they had gone. For the last week the Turkish commander had been mummifying his preface by daily hangings and shootings, his last act before leaving had been to shoot individuals for desertion, snipping or cowardice. Enter the victors within an hour the women were chaffing milk dates and sweet limes, the merchants were offering contracts, policemen were controlling the dirty little streets, a governor was established in an office-tired troops were standing in the sun while billions were sought for them, and most unbelievable of all the Arab cultivators were dropping in to complain of a certain horseman who had ridden through a crop of beans, and of a supply and transport officer who had parked his belongings in a garden. The Rule of Terror. It must not be supposed that our coming evokes enthusiasm, nor our justice gratitude, nor our discipline admiration, to the Arab mind these are not the qualities of "kingliness" — a king must rule by terror and be guided by captive—read the chronicles of Tabari and you will there see what kingliness was in Gumaymad and early Abbasid days. Haijaj when he ruled Irak said no man must be abroad after sundown, and presently they brought to him a certain Bedawi who had been found asleep in the market place—I live in the desert and I knew not of the order. O most auspicious Governor." "If you are telling a lie you will be executed and burn in hell, and if you are telling the truth you will die a martyr's death and dwell in paradise," replied Haijaj, and they hewed the Bedawi in pieces. Now, that sort of justice is the zenith of traditional government in Irak, and when people come with policemen and low taxation and quiet, then they will be regarded as persons whose motives are as inscrutable as their actions. Kut is a dirty, tumble-down, insatiable little town, but the minaret and the portals are signs of grace. They are not very old, yet in design and line they are as perfect as the best work of ancient times, and they signify that under the crust and fifth of ages of neglect and mismanagement the Arab fires of intellect, poetry and art survive—where the land is not sodden with marsh or parched for want of water at is as fertile as in the days when the world's civilization radiated from its prosperity—so with the people deep down under the wilderness and chaos induced by centuries of evil rule and poverty there lies the capacity which made Nineveh, Babylon, Persia, Partia, and again Persia, and lastly the Calliphate, the center of Asiatic culture, progress and wealth. DECORATED BY FRANZ JOSEPH PARKER & EWING Mrs. Augustine McIntyre, wife of Captain McIntyre, U. S. A., now stationed at Fort Myer, Va., is one of the few women entitled to wear the "Krieg Medalion" (war medallion) of Austria. McIntyre, for more than a year military observer of the United States in Austria, has just returned with his wife. At the start of the war Mrs. McIntyre became one of the leaders in the Red Cross in Austria and Emperor Franz Joseph conferred the honor on her for her work in the hospitals. think that a man ought to be hen pecked, so soon. So the job is of and there is nothing doing no hen pecked business for me." The Optimist—I was run over by a patrol wagon one day last week. The Fessimist—Tough luck, wasn't it? The Optimist—No; that is what I call good luck. The fact that I was run over by the thing shows I wasn't in it. HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS A TOY CRANE. This little crane travels along an elevated track supported at its ends upon the tops of chair backs (Fig. 1). $\textcircled{1}$ Fig. 2 shows details of the crane, windlasses and turntable and Fig. 8 the cabin walls and oof. The crane boom is made of two strips (A. Fig. 2) 14 inches long with a short block (B) fastened between, one and one-half inches from one end. Bore a one-fourth-inch hole through each neck near the upper end for the axle C (Fig. 4) to fit in, and a one-eighth-inch hole near the lower end through which to pivot the boom. Make the pulley of two spool ends nailed together (Fig. 4). After completing the boom, cut beam E (Fig. 2) about eight inches long, to fit between strips A of the boom. Cut the windlass block F (Figs. 2 and 5), and bore a hole through it for a fourth-inch stick shaft (G) to run through. Make the windlass drums out of spools, with cranks tacked to their ends as shown in Fig. 6, and $\textcircled{4}$ $\textcircled{5}$ $\textcircled{6}$ $\textcircled{2}$ $\textcircled{3}$ $\textcircled{7}$ after slipping them upon the shaft drive brads through the shaft ends to hold them on. Nail beam E to the lower edge of block F, then nail it to the turntable (1), a block five by eight inches in size. Center the beam in the width of the turntable, and allow three or four inches to project over the end, as shown in Fig. 2. The turntable I is pivoted upon the base K, a block eight inches square, with a small block (J) inserted between them. Bore a four-fourth-inch hole through the center of base K and block J, so the screw pivot will turn freely, and slip an iron washer over the screw to keep its head from pulling through the holes. Screw the lower ends of the boom sticks A to the end of beam E. Drive a nail into block B, attach one end $\textcircled{8}$ of a three-foot piece of cord to it, and tie the other end to one windlass. This is the cable by which the boom is raised and lowered. Use a cord five or six feet long for the hoisting cable, the tie one end to the second windlass spool, run the cord over pulley D, and tie the other end to a hook bent out of a hairpin (Fig. 7). Fig. 1 shows how the windlasses are laced by loops of string. Build the cabin of cardboard. Fig. 8 shows the front and one side. Cut the two long openings in the front for the cables to run through, and the square opening for beam E to fit in; and cut the square opening in the side of the right size and in the right place for the windlass spools to pass through (Fig. 1). There need be but one doorway. Tack the walls to the edge of the turntable, then bind together the corners with paper strings. Make the tracks of strips just wide enough for the spool wheels to run upon, and connect them with cross-pieces. Willing to Help Him Bookkeeper (beginning his plea for a raise)—"I've grown gray in your service, Mr. Stone and—" Newspaper Owner (interrupting)—"If you'll forward a self-addressed stamped envelope to our beauty column conductor, she'll send you an excellent and, perfectly harmless remedy!"—Puck. Insists on Too Much. The trouble with the man who blows his own horn is that he so often insists on being the whole orchestra. A DRESSER SET IN CRETONNE. The hatpin receptacle in Fig. 1 requires a long, slender box such as hat pins are sold in. Sew or glue the cover on the box, cut off the end set the box will be several inches shorter than the hatpins, and cover with cretine. Figures 2 and 3 show two dainty pin-cushions. The square one is made of a small box cover, filled with sawdust, with a covering of cheese both fastened over the top. The hanging pin-cushion (Fig. 2) requires two round pill boxes. Glue these together bottom to bottom, as shown in Fig. 4, then fill one at a time with sawdust, cover, and finish by sewing a band of cretonne about the edge of the boxes, and attaching a loop of ribbon to hang it by. The glove box in Fig. 5 is made of a cracker box of the form shown in Fig. 6. First cut off the end flaps so they will be just long enough to turn down and fasten to the inside of the ends (see dotted lines in Fig. 6), and remove the flap on the lid. Cover $\textcircled{1}$ $\textcircled{2}$ $\textcircled{3}$ $\textcircled{4}$ the outside of the box and lid with cretonne first; then cut pieces of cardboard to fit the inside, bottom, ends and side; cover these with padding and then with silk (Fig. 7), and glue in place. Get the cover to a shoe box for the brush and comb tray shown in Fig. 8. Re-enforce the corners with pieces of cardboard folded and glued to them, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10. Then put on the cretonne covering. Cut one piece of the right size to fit the bottom of the cover and lap over the rim and on to the inside, then, after stitching this in place, cut a piece of cardboard to fit the inside, cover it with cretonne (Fig. 7), and glue this covered piece to the inside of the cover. This completes the tray. Figure 11 shows a daisy trinket chest with three drawers. After seeing how to constuct it, you can make yours to contain as many drawers as $\textcircled{5}$ $\textcircled{6}$ $\textcircled{7}$ $\textcircled{8}$ $\textcircled{10}$ $\textcircled{9}$ you wish. Small cardboard boxes form the drawers (Fig. 12). You can get empty spool boxes at a dry goods store. Pile one upon another and figure out the dimensions for the chest. Then fold a piece of cardboard as shown in Fig. 13, to make a case of the right size, and after bringing the folded ends together, bind them with a strip of paper (Fig. 14). Next cut strips of cardboard for shelves, and fasten these between the ends of the case by running pins through into their ends, as shown in Fig. 14. When the shelves have been adjusted properly, cover the back, ends, top and bottom of the case with cretonne (Fig. $\textcircled{16}$ $\textcircled{11}$ $\textcircled{15}$ $\textcircled{14}$ $\textcircled{13}$ $\textcircled{12}$ 16); also the front of the drawer boxes (Fig 15); and sew a fancywork ring to the center of the front of each drawer (Fig. 11) by which to open them. Complete Information Complete "Information. Book Agent—"Here's a volume crammed with useful information. Chapter one, for instance, tells you how to manage servants." Housewife—"Don't want it. One can't get any help in this town to manage." Agent—"Then here's another chapter in the book on self-help."—Boston Transcript. Need of New Thought. We lose vigor through thinking continually the same set of thoughts. New thought is new life.—Selected. HARLAN'S CHRISTMAS EVE BY F.M.FEHRENBACHER ACK HARLAN stood before his desk dressed for the street when a boyish voice broke the silence of the office with "What you got in all them bundles. Mr. Gridley?" J It was the office boy, Jim, talking to Gridley, Harlan's manager. "These bundles? Why, here's a drum; and this is an electric railroad, and here's a game of parceles. Did you ever play parceles, Jim? It's a great game, all right. My boy Al gets so excited when he can put one over on me and win a game he can hardly keep from whooping!" "They're all boys, ain't they?" inquire the office boy. "Yes, and glad of it, too," answered Gridley. "Here, Jim, is something for your Christmas, and hope you'll have a nice day!" "Oh, thanks. Good by, Mr. Gridley, Merry Christmas!" called the boy as the door slammed after the overlaid Christmas. Harlan slid down the top of his desk with a bang and the left. What a happy little hustling fellow Gridley was; a little shrimp of a man, and yet he always seemed to radiate pleased self-importance and good cheer! Jim caught sight of Harlan as he was going sight of Harlan as he was going sight of the front door. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Harlan," he called, "Thanks for the check and Merry Christmas to you!" "Merry Christmas, bah! What does Christmas mean to me now, anyway? Christmas is a time for fools and babies," muttered Harlan to himself as he walked to the street car, first telling the waiting chauffeur to drive home without him. And when he got to the car he walked up on Market street; he felt he could not bear the W. T. W. The News Failed to Interest Him. inside of a stuffy car. The street at least held a variety of things to divert one's thoughts. Decorations were on all the buildings; wreaths dangling broad red ribbons hung in most windows and red where the flower venders were selling holly, while "Merry Christmas!" he heard on every side. Great bunches of cherry laurel and eucalypt boughs - made a veritable canopy over the flower venders stands, where flashed red and white and yellow carnations, red and green Christmas wreaths and holly. "Holly here, mister; only 15 cents a bunch, two for two blots. Take a bunch home to your wife" and a flowerender poked a bunch of holly into Harlan's face. He cried, brushing the vender aside; and walked on. At last, unable to stand it longer he jumped into a waiting taxi and called out his home address. At first he peered from out the taxi; but every window seemed to hold a Christmas wreath and he soon gave up glancing out the window to stare straight before him into the dimness of the cab. When the taxi stopped, he sprang out; paid the fare, and let himself into the house with his latch-key. A woman in the white apron of a nurse-maid was just ascending the broad staircase as he came into the hall. She had a child with her but 'Harlan did not see the child; the nurse was too quick in running up the stair. "I'm sick of seeing that woman slink away like a thief every time I enter a room where she's had the child. Why under the sun don't she stay away from this part of the house altogether like I've ordered her to" grumbled the man. He hung his hat and overcoat on the hall rack, and striding into the living room, he flung himself into a large leather armchair and tried to read the evening paper. But the news failed to interest him somehow tonight; and as twilight came on and the room darkened, he found himself staring into the grate fire. He had many things one can imagine in the frame of a grate fire. And, as the man of the frame filled up big armchair, all the dear days of the dead past came trooping out of the coak. An office room he saw first. with himself sitting at a desk and a fair-haired girl at a writer in the corner. The girl was poorly dressed but the sweetness of her smile captivated the man at the desk. And in the next picture he heard the man asking the girl to become his wife. A hillside flooded with moonlight he behold next—the picture of an evening from out their honeymoon, with them sitting on that hillside in the shadow of the tall, dark, sweet-smelling pines that loomed up as a background. Here there were no more visions for a time, while the man sat dry-eyed into the fire The scene of the next picture was laid in the sitting room. She was in a low rocker by the window, sewing on something soft and white. Every once in a while she looked out of the window. Through the window he saw an auto stop in front of the house, and the man who got out and entered the house was himself. He heard his step and sat with her hands loosely crossed on the sewing as he entered the room and stepping behind the rocker, put his two hands over her hand and she drew doves his face to hers and put her cheeks and then on the forehead and eyes and mouth. At this, Harlan burted his head on his arm, while a dry sob shook his throat. "Oh, Nadine, nodded, why did you leave me!" he sobbed. He turned from the flaming coals and his eye fell upon a Christmas tree all decked with shining ornaments. It was a real tree. He knew it was there for the child; and was annoyed at the thought of the cause of her death. He lit his pipe and leaned back for a smoke. But through the blue smoke haze the tree was shining. A ladder leaned up against it and at the top of the ladder, high up, and half hidden by the pungent green bough, stood a golden-haired woman. And he was standing beneath the tree, steading the ladder with both hands. She was putting the last touches to the tree. She held a shining bright tinsel in her hand, and God, what was this she was saying! "Look, sweetheart, how bright the star is!" Ah, dear, next Christmas the tree was past ages, old, just enough to notice things; and I'm sure he will notice this star; now won't he? Don't you think so, dear?" "Come down, Nadine, come down; I am afraid you will fall," he heard himself cry, and then as she laughingly descended the ladder, he clasped her in his arms before she reached the bottom and kissed her again and again. "You big story teller," she laughingly reproved him, "you weren't a bit afraid I'd fall; you just wanted to hug me!" "What if I did? Now what are you going to do about it?" He was demanding—when the girl gifed, and that dream picture of himself in other days vanished and nothing was left but the Christmas tree. Harlan will pull his chair away from the window and to the window, and, shaking back into its depths, he watched the glimmer of the windows in the houses across the street and their soft shine on the pavement. He must have dozed a long time, for when he awoke the arc lights in the street were lit and a bright shaft of light fell across the room, and presently into this shaft of light came stumbling a little white robed figure. It was a little boy like me, and the Christmas tree and toyed playfully with the ornaments dangling from the lower branches. "Pretty, pretty things," he kept saying over and over in a soft little voice. Awaked from a dreamless slumber, the first thing Jack Harlan's mind reverted to was the dream picture of his wife in the Christmas tree. And this was the child, his child and hers. He heard her voice again. "Next Christmas he will be six months old, just old enough to notice things, and he will notice the star; it is so bright." Had he noticed it that first lone Christmas when everything was so desolate in that household? Ah, there had been no tree! And the next Christmas, when the baby was a year and six months old, the nurse had asked if she might get a tree and Harlan had said "No." This year she had bought one without asking, and Harlan felt thankful to her and strangely glad. What was the baby saying to himself? "I wanted to see the star, the star, but nurse wouldn't let me wait cause my papa was comin'. An' now the darl will come; it's all dark an' gone out an' I don't see it no more—no more." The child broke into a little huddled heap, sobbing in the shadows at the foot of the tree, and a stray ray of light coming thrigh the hall door fell upon his fair head. With a stifled cry of remorse and pity Harlan gathered the trembling little form tenderly in his arms and pointed out the tinsel star at the top of the tree, while the tears of the child mingled with his. And a great peace filled his soul. Christmas Rites. One of the charms of Christmas is its perpetuation of ancient rites and customs. The Christmas tree, the mistletoe and the holly, the chants and anthems, Santa Claus and the reindeers—all hark back to earlier centuries when life was simpler and mankind sought its joys on a less intensive plan. In a sense, there is no such thing as a modern Christmas, though we may give it a modernist touch here and there. MISTLETOE. HOME BEAUTIFllowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation --- THE CHRYSLER MUMMY A Bunch of 'Mums That Makes Bright the Living Room. --- THE TREE HANDLING FLOWER POTS Casters we know are cheap. Five cents apiece, and four of these fastened in the discarded legs of an old table, bed, or even if these are not at hand, four pieces of square pine wood on which you can nail a long shallow box. This is really a good stand on which to slip your window plants in their pots. Fill the shallow box half full of sand, bed the pots in this sand, which absorbs the moisture from the pots, saving the carpet below and sending some of it back, into the plant roots. Of course the box should be painted a good color. I have seen for this arrangement the combination of the legs painted green and the box done in lattice like stripes of white and green. Make the box have room each side in the window (not measuring just the window space itself), as then one can alternate the pots, bringing the end pits in turn to the middle and direct light. On very cold nights, as glass draws frost as well as heat, flowers often get nipped. A box for plants resting on casters is easily drawn away from the window direct, and can be pushed back the next morning. These casters are also a convenience when sweeping about the window. Any woman who keeps house plants in her room can, herself, make two or three window boxes, legs and all, picked up from where carpenters are building. These boxes, of course, are used mainly in windows that are kept for the saving of plants for spring, and yet they can contain an assortment of flowers, which, banked back of a window, give an effective picture of beauty to the passer-by as well as to the inmates of the room. For a small window, and one from which you must get light for the room, be sparing of the plants. There is nothing pretty in a dark room, the cause of which is the window literally hung and placed full of all manner of foliage. It is such a mistake to fill up a window so full of plants and vines in winter that one can neither get light for reading nor sight of the prettier world outside. A few plants, in a small window, artistically arranged, is a much happier scheme. If you are buying winter plants from the florist, don't unwrap the roots until ready to pot them, but be sure to give the soil in which the plant roots are bedded, plenty of water—keep them literally soaked in water, and by the time you are ready to pot, if it be two hours after, you will find the plant wonderfully refreshed. It pays to get fresh, strong bulbs each fall. From these, if they are given proper treatment, you can be reasonably sure of fine flowers. Grow flowers for others. Be generous with them. Many a heartache has been eased by a gift of a flower or blooming plant. AUTIFUL Makes Bright the Living Room. WORK AMONG THE FLOWERS For worms in flower pots, take one teaspoonful of ground white pepper to a quart of boiling water; or, two teaspoonfuls of ground strong mustard to a quart of boiling water. Let cool a little and saturate the soil. In the hands of an experienced person liquid manure is a great value; but in the hands of a novice disaster to the plant may result from using it too strong, or when the plant is at rest. Begonias must have heat, a moist atmosphere and shade. The dust and dryness of the air of the average sitting room is very unfavorable to them. To keep the air moist have a water-filled jar and keep it full of water, with a little charcoal in it to keep it sweet. Set a brick in the water and rest the pots on the brick. Some roses—the Crimson Rambler, for instance—seem particularly liable to mildew. If outdoors, the disease may be kept in check by using the ammoniacal solution of copper carbonate, applied faithfully with the sprayer about every two or three weeks, or oftener, if the case seems to require it. Hyposulphate of soda, used in the proportion of half an ounce to ten gallons of water, is a good spray. In some cases nothing serves to do any good. If the home gardener would take more interest in making the home surroundings attractive it would be a good investment for him. Plant hardy shrubs and dwarf trees and note the effect. The New Bridal Bouquet. The KITCHEN CABINET Be square with yourself. The inin- cerity of others, may hurt you, but can inflict no such injury as being in- secure with yourself. We have such extraordinary powers of persuasion when they are exerted over ourselves.-Dickens. The following are a few good dishes to serve at times of the gathering of the clans: Jellied Chicken Sand-wiches.—Chop the meat of a cold chicken with a stalk of celery, or put all through a food chopper. Season with a little grated onion and minced parsley. Soak one tablespoonful of gelatinated in a teaspoonful of water, then add six tablespoonfuls of cream and heat over hot water until the gelatin is softened, and dissolved. Add the chicken meat, lemon juice and paprika to taste; heat all together thoroughly and pour into a shallow pan, wet in cold water. Set on ice to chill, then cut in slices to fit the bread cut for sandwiches. Roast Beef Salad.—Cut rare roast beef in thin slices and marinate with French dressing, to which a finely chopped onion has been added. Serve with pickled beets and lettuce. Coffee Ice Cream—Scald a pint of milk with a half cupful of dry coffee. Strain into three slightly beaten eggs, one cupful of sugar and a fourth of a teaspoonful of salt. Return to the fire and cook until the mixture coats the spoon. Add a quart of cream and freeze. Serve with marshmallow sauce. Marshmallow Sauce—In the upper part of a double boiler put one-fourth of a band of marshmallows. When melted, pour over it a sirup made by boiling one cupful of sugar and a fourth of a cupful of water ten minutes. Add one-half of a teaspoonful of vanilla and cool. Roast Goose With Stuffing—Prepare the goose as usual, washing in soda water to remove all objectionable oil and dust, wipe after rinsing and stuff with two finely chopped onions, one-fourth of a cupful of finely chopped pork, and combine with two cupfuls of hot mashed potatoes and one and a half cupfuls of bread crumbs. As some of the potatoes are chopped, add third of a cupful; salt well, add one beaten egg, a teaspoonful of sage and a little black pepper. A new stuffing for turkey which is recommended is the giblets chopped and mixed with cooked seasoned macaroni and used as any stuffing. For a chilly night what more grateful or appetizing odor could greet one than potato soup. Potato Soup.—Cook three potatoes, three stalks of chopped celery and a stock of chicken and stock together. Rub through a sieve when the vegetables are done. Scoal a pint of milk with a slice of onion, a blade of mace and a bit of bay leaf; strain and add three tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour creamed together, cook five minutes. Combine mixtures, season to taste with salt, pepper and cayenne. Spinach Omelet.—Make an omelet, using four eggs, four tablespoonfuls of milk, salt and pepper to taste. Have the omelet pan hot, put in a tablespoonful of butter, then turn in the egg mixture. As the egg sets lifts with a knife around the edges. Fold the omelet and turn out on a bed of cooked, hot, seasoned sulnach. Mock Beef—Cut hubbard squash in thick slices, removing the shell and the inner seeds and pith. Butter a deep stone baking dish. Arrange a layer of squash; dust with salt and pepper add thinly sliced onion and a layer of thinly sliced carrots, covering a thin layer of chopped parsley. Repeat with the alternate layers until the dish is full and then fill up with beef stock. Cover and cook for two hours. Make a thick brown sauce with some of the stock, add a tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce and arrange the cutlets on a platter with the brown gravy poured over it. Serve with peas and limpa. Tiny Fish Balls—Pick the fish fine and add to the mashed potatoes while they are hot, taking two-thirds as much potato as fish. Add plenty of butter, salt and pepper and fry in deep fat. Cranberry ice—Cook a quart of cranberries in a pint of water six minutes. Strain through a cheesecloth, and a pint of sugar and stir until dissolved. The mixture is hummus and freeze to a musk. This will serve a dozen sherbet cups. English naval vessels given corrugated hulls for experimental purposes are said to be economical of fuel, to have more cargo room, to be stronger and to be less sensitive to wave motion. An education scheme which has been under way in Siam for twenty years has led to the laying of the foundation of Bangkok university's first buildings, for arts, medicine, and engineering. To prevent the vibration of small craft using detachable motors an inventor has mounted his motor on a separate float that can be fastened behind a boat or canoe. The Philippine bureau of agriculture has begun a thorough study of the banana, botanically and commercially, and has collected banana plants from all over the world. A floor scrubbing implement has been invented that is supplied with water through a tube from a faucet and carries a supply of soap in a container through which the water passes. NEED CARE IN COOKING NEED CARE IN COOKING CEREALS MUST BE PREPARED WITH EXACTUDE. To Bring Out the Full Food Value of the Grain Requires Skill and Thought on the Part of the Housewife. We have no fault to find with the many excellently prepared and co-licated cooked cereals which from time to time are found appetizing and agreeable in appearance, but there is also need of cereals which require long-continued cooking to extract the full value of the grain and bring it to a delicious creainness. In this class are oatmeal, wheat, hominy, rice and corn. By whatever name the various ground preparations are called, they all need continued cooking to burst the starch cells, soften the surrounding husk tissues, and make them thoroughly fit for human food. Cracked wheat is a coarse form of wheat with a particularly nutty flavor. So-called "whole" or "pinhread" oatmeal has advantages over the more usual "rolled" form. Good hominy, which is now no longer prepared with lye, is another breakfast food which should be more frequently used. Cormmeal, although fallen into dissect and considered common, perhaps, is one of the best of cool weather cereals. It is rich in starch and fat and thus in heat-producing qualities. Oatmeal is the one cereal containing the largest amount of protein or muscle-forming nutrient. That is, it is comparable to meat or any any cereals, and contains less starch. If the oatmeal which should be most frequently given to the growing child, the whole grain must be soaked all day and then steamed several hours, but in this form it furnishes a splendid and sufficient breakfast cereal. Next to oatmeal comes wheat with a higher per cent of starch. It should, however, be used in as nearly the natural state as possible—that is, the cracked grain with the outer coat remaining in which are stored the important mineral elements which make bone and the best kind of tissue. Hominy is almost entirely starch and therefore needs the most perfect cooking in order that the starch shells may be adequately hurst and cooked. For all of these cereals either a steam cooker or a fireless cooker is preferable. Given a half hour's quick boiling at night they may be placed in the fireless cooker, preferably with the heated radiator under them, and allowed to cook slowly with the retained heat of the fireless. Sufficient water should always be put on them to allow perfect swelling of each grain. Such cereals, when properly cooked, are not a "mush" but of a uniform, creamy consistency; it's take time to allow a little more effort to cook cereals properly, but the effort is more than repaid in the quality of the food. The cool weather cereal should be a point of special care with the housewife. Curried Chicken. For curried chicken prepare one large frying chicken by joining it in the usual way. Put two ounces of butter into the frying pan and add three sliced onions, one chopped apple and the chicken. Fry all a delicate brown, then add one pint of white stock in which a dessertspoonful of curry powder with a tablespoonful of flour have been blended. Let all sammer for half an hour, remove from the fire and add a tablespoonful of lemon juice and milk. Serve on a hot platter with boiled rice heaped in the center, the chicken arranged around it and the gravy poured over it. Curried Oysters. Drain and wash 25 oysters. Make on an ordinary pancake griddle. Throw the oysters, three or four at a time, on the griddle and brown on both sides. Lift quickly and -place in a double boiler, which stands beside the griddle. When all the oysters are cooked add to them one tablespoonful of flour, one-half tablespoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of curry powder and a dash of cayenne pepper. Stir until the ingredients reach the boiling point and add one tablespoonful of lemon juice and one small onion grated. Spanish Rice. Have ready a saucepan in which are two tablespoonfuls of nice hot drippings. Throw in a half cupful of well-washed rice and toss about until nicely browned. Add one sliced tomato, one sliced onion and a clove of garlic and brown slightly. Cover the whole with hot water, season with salt and pepper. Cover and let the rice cook thoroughly, adding more water as needed. Do not stir, as the beauty of it lies in the plump brown unbroken kernels. Orange Shortcake. Make a rich biscuit dough and roll about half an inch thick. While it is baking peel three large oranges and break them into sections, or cut crosswise in thin slices. Cover with a cupful of sugar and let them stand until the cake is done. Split the latter and spread each half with softened butter. Sift the butter with orange slices be between the cake and on the top. Scrice warm. Paprika Potatoes. Select large potatoes Nor baking. As soon as done slice crosswise, once each way to the depth of an inch. Turn up the ends of the skin loosened and with a fork loosen the potato well inside; season with salt and add a generous piece of butter, plenty of paprika. Stand in the oven for a moment and serve. Minced Lamb With Peppers. Add one shredded sweet pepper to remnants of cold lamb which have been chopped fine. Put two tablespoonful of butter in a hot frying pan, add the lamb and peppers, season well and dredge thoroughly with four. Then add enough stock to molasses. Serve on small squares of buttered meat. GOOD THINGS TO EAT. Jellied Chicken Sand-wiches—Chop the meat of a cold chicken with a stalk of celery, or chip all through a food chip. Season with a little grated onion and minced parsley. Soak GOOD THINGS FOR WINTER. Potato Soup.—Cook three potatoes, three stalks of chopped celery and a quart of chicken stock together. Rub through a sieve when the vegetables are tender. Scald a nint of POSTSCRIPTS We have such extraordinary powers of persuasion when they are exerted on good people. Do not be content with following good advice; catch up with it. FOOD HELPS. Efficiency in housework, as well as cooking, demands that no money be wasted. Energy, patience and time should also be conserved for they are of still more value. Potato Omelet. — This is an economical omelet and will in consequence appeal to the thrifty Potato Omelet. — This is an economical omelet and will in consequence appeal to the thrifty cook. Beat the yolks of three eggs very light. Season a cupful of mashed potatoes with a saltspoonful of salt, add a half cupful of milk, two teaspoonfuls of sifted flour, a little chopped parsley, pepper to taste and lemon juice if liked. Add well beaten yolks to this, then the beaten whites. Add a tablespoonful of butter to a ploping hot omelet pan, pour in the potato mixture and brown lightly, turn and serve very hot. Garnish with fresh parsley. Parker Roast Beef.—To prevent the meat from becoming dry in cooking cover with pieces of suet that have been pounded with a wooden mason until thin as slices of bacon. If a long thin roast allow eight minutes to the thin roast. This applies more to a gas oven than slower heat. Serve with fresh grated horseradish. Another Swiss Steak—Select a two-pound steak from the upper part of the round. Have it one and a half inches thick. Sear on both sides in a hot frying pan, then remove to a meat board and dust thickly with four, pound in as much as possible with the edge of a saucer, place in a casserole, add one chopped onion and a cupful of tomato. Season with salt and pepper, place this dressing on half of the meat and fold the other half over. Add a little water, renewing occasionally as it is needed and cook very slowly for three hours. Thicken the gravy and serve from the casserole. Cranberry Relish—Take two parts of cranberries, three and a half pounds of sugar, one pound of seeded raisins, the rind of two oranges, chopped fine, one cupful of vinegar, the juice of two oranges, one teaspoonful each of ginger, cloves and cinnamon. Cook until thick like marmalade. This is excellent conserve with cold meats, especially turkey and game. SEASONABLE DISHES On these cold winter nights when a hot soup is most acceptable, the cheap winter nights when a cheapest, the cheapest onion soup is easy to prepare. wave appetizing. Truck Onion Soup. To four good sized onions, chop e d very fine, add two thin slices of bacon; cook slowly until the onions are soft and the bacon a light brown. Add two cupfuls of cold water and let come to a boil. Mash the onions with a spoon, add to the soup one and a half cupfuls of rich milk; season well with salt, pepper and a dash of cayenne. Thicken with a tablespoonful of flour mixed with a little milk, cook until the flour has time to be well cooked. Fruit Roly-Poly.—To two cupfuls of flour add a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a tablespoonful of shortening. Mix with cold water to a consistency to roll out thin. Take a cupful of canned peaches or pineapple, chopped, or any fresh fruit, spread the fruit on the rolled out crust and sprinkle with sugar, roll up as a jelly-roll and put into a deep round pan, well greased with butter. Add a half cupful of sugar with a tablespoonful of butter, cover with boiling water and put into the oven to bake until brown. The boiling water, sugar and butter make a sauce. Serve hot. Roast Goose with Russian Stuffing.—Soda water, sugar and wash the goose in strong soda water, rinsing and wiping well. Dredge with flour and stuff with two cupfuls of tart apples, greensauce or baldwins, and one cupful of raisins. This is a stuffing which will be delicious and quite different. Jellied Prunes—Cook a third of a pound of prunes until soft; remove the stones and cut the prunes in pieces. Soak half a box of gelatin in a half cupful of cold water and add to a pint of the sirup in which the prunes were cooked. Add a cupful of sugar, a fourth of a cupful of lemon juice and the prunes. Mold and chill. Serve plain or with whipped cream. Nellie Maxwell By producing from 50,000 to 60,000 oscillations a second a new German generator for sending wireless signals causes a fine musical note to be heard at receiving instruments. A wild goose has been the pet of a Kansas man for 18 years, acting as weather prophet, watchman and a decoy when he goes hunting. A clock with a revolving dial that a Chicago man has invented enables a person to tell the time in all parts of the world although it uses but the customary pair of hands. Government experts estimate that of the 26,000,000 horsepower which it is possible to develop hydroelectrically in the United States, 19,000,000 horsepower iles west of the Rockies. A Motorist's Wall. "In some communities the automobile regulations get you, no matter what you do." "What got you?" "A Blankville cop arrested me on a recent run. Charged me with having dazzling lights in front and dim lights in the rear. How are you going to please 'am?" ‘KIREKSVELLE. MO. Mrs, Stella Jones is reported il! at her home on Fifth street, prisiaatlicy Lene’ Bisa, bare ter, iurris, have ‘yeturned from Edina, Mo., where they ‘visited Mrs. Payton’s mother. ‘Mrs, Edward Damon has returned from Kansas City, Mo., where she was called by the iliness of her sister. It is reported that Mr. Warren Adams is numbered among the sick thi sweek. Memorial services'at the Baptist church Sunday night at 8:30 were very interesting and well attended. ‘The following program was rendered: Song; by congregation. Invocation, Mr, B. F. Barnes. His Early Life, Mr, 8. T. Lynn, Our Loss As a Man, ‘Mr. W. Hoskina, As An Educator, Prof. Wm. Frakes. Song, Face To Face, Mrs, C. B, Johnson. “The True Friend To Mankind,” Mrs, H. M. Hockaday. As a Race Leader, Mr. H. M. Hockaday. Song, Asleep in Jesus, Miss Carrie Johnson. Talk, Prof. C. B. Johnson. As a Christian, Rev. T. R. Sayles. Resolutions, Miss Carrie Johnson. Doxology. Resolutions, In the death of Prof. Booker T. ‘Washington the race, the church, the nation. and the world have lost a reat man; the race an able defender, the church a fearless exponent of ‘truth; the race a champion of human ‘brotherhood, and the world a propo- gandist of social betterment. ‘The life of this man is an inspira- tion to the youth of his race, and of all races, He lived his creed, pursued kis ideal, built his own monument “daily, and finally worn by the arduous Irbors that absorbed him, he fell asleep surrounded by the great uchievements of his life and works. Be it resolved therefore that the death of Dr. Booker T. Washington be made @ splendid memorial in the lrearts and minds of the churches and people of Kirksville, Mo. ‘Respectfully, submitted, R. Carrie Johnson. 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Maud Miller. ‘Mrs. Sitvia Miller is in Ottumwa with her eon, Mr. Benjamin Shoemak- er, who is sick. Mr. G. E, Best was in Ottumwa-on Saturday on business. Mr. and Mrs, Roe Cunningham and ‘Mis, Emma Tibbs were visiting in Centerville on Sunday. Mr. Thos. Gordon atid Miss Bernice oliver were married Saturday. Mr. Gordon is one of our industrious young men: Miss Toliver is a daugh- ter of Mr. J.'M. Toliver. We wish their journey together through life a success. 1 ‘Mr, Robt. E: Hughes has returned home from Kansas City, Mo, His mother accompanied him home. Miss Cora Crittenden of Centerville was visiting in Mystic on Sunday. Mr. C. E, Best was transacting bus- iness in Centerville on Friday. Mr. Elwood Brown was calling in Centerville on Sunday evening. Laughter Aids Digestion. Laughter is one of the most health fal exertions; it is of great help t digestion. 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Because it does not contain opium or any other narcotic. Because it is’fithin the reath of all It only costs a quarter. Obtainable everywhere, WASHINGTON, IOWA. NOTES. ‘Wm. Moore, a former resident of Washington, and a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Moore, died Monday, December 13, at Provident hospital in Chicago, of a tubercular trouble, and was buried in Washington on Thurs- day, December 16, from the A. M. E, church, He was a brother of Mrs. Jas, Redd of this place and Mrs. A. G. Clark and Mr. Frank Moore of Oskaloosa, who were both here to at- tend the funeral. The service was conducted by Rev. Booyd, assisted by the church choir. Mr. Moore was about 58 years of age. Miss Gertrude Boyd is spending her vacation visiting an aunt in Chicago. Mrs, T, L. Burnett got a fall on the icy walks one day last week and was pretty badly shaken up. She is get- ting along all right. ‘Mr, Harley Palmer, who has been a resident of this place for some time, left the fore part of the week for Minneapolis, where he will reside in the future. Mrs. Blanche Booth ig visiting the parental home in Chicago during the holidays, She will return the first of the new year. Mr. A. I, Hall and son, Samuel, Jr, have rented the Berdo farm south of the city and will farm it in connec- tion with their city business next year. A wise move for them, They now have on the place ubout thirty- five head of hogs to start with. ‘The cantata, “Jephtha and His Daughter,” was put on at the A. M. E, church on Thursday evening, De- cember 16, to a full house, in spite of the inclement weather. It was put on in good form, as all participants did well. The P. E. G's realized about $20 for their effort. At the trustee election held recent. ly the following were elected: A. L. Hall, Thos. Lewis, Aaron Howard, Cecile Boileau and W. H, Rhodes. Hayes Crayton was unable to be at his work last week on account of sick- ness, having a touch of pneumonia. ‘The president of the Intellectual Improvement club called a meeting last Tuesday evening and the sessions will continue the rest of the winter Some lively times are anticipated. ‘The Sunday school Christmas fes- tivities were held at the A. M E, church on Christmas eve. A program was given and a tree was had for the tots. Henry Rhodes is at home from near Wellman, where he had been husking corn ior the past month, Rev. Boyd is contemplating a series of revival meetings in the near future. Mrs, Emma Black is spending the holidays in Oskaloosa and Des Moines visiting relatives. gg I Be . ° « You Should Use TESTIMONIAL, 5 Madam P. M. Dabney’s ook “With the use of Madam P. M. . XXTH CENTURY Dabney's XXth Century Hair Prep- arations my hair has grown four HAIR PRE PARATIONS inches in six months. I would not be without them.” Mrs. Henderson, 1721 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 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Harris, Mod.'Mt, _ HAIR PREPARATIONS Co,. : es ho! sean anne Shy aul moines fie ie tan IOWA STATE BYSTANDER —————— MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA. (Special to the Bystander.) Christmas services will be held Sat- urday afternoon at the Second Bap- tist church, Sermon to be preached by pastor, Rey. J, Roman, ‘A Christmas tree and a short pro- gram will be rendered Friday evening for the Sunday school. Club No, 2 of the Second Baptist church will give a chicken supper Monday night, December 27. Oyster soup and chitterlings to be sold in quantities. Hope to have the patron- of all friends, ALBIA NEWS, Mr. W. Hawkins of Ottumwa was in Albia on Monday. Mrs. Virgie Burns was in Albia de- livering goods. She canvassed Wed- nesday, also Mrs, Singleton, both of Hocking. The Sewing Circle club and Mis- sionary society held a bazaar at the city hall Thursday. Mr. Henry Jones has not been so well the past week. ‘A number from surrounding towns have been in Albia Christmas shop- ping. The death of Mrs, Laura B. Schoo!- field, the bvangelist, occurred in New Sharon on December 15, The body was then sent to Oskaloosa where she had resided for a number of years and did evangelistic work, and then brought to Albia, where she had lived when a child, and where her mother, father, sister and brother are buried in Oak View cemetery in Albia. Holiday entertainment begins De- cember 24th with the Sunday school Christmas tree and lasts until Janu- ary 1, 1916, the K. P. outdoor recep- ‘teens Constipation, if Neglected, ‘Causes Serious Illness Constipation, if negiected, leads to almost innumerable | complica- Hobe akectine the wenéial heath. Many cases of typhoid _ fever, appendicitis and other severe dis- eases are trace- able to prolonged clogging of the bowels. Regard- the effects of constipation, C. E. Ayers, 6 Sabin St., Montpelier, Vet. ‘says: “i was amictea with, “constipation eer Sennen ee a aly a SMR typhoid | fever, QP appendicitis and other severe dis eases are trace. 4 B able to prolonged bh #6) cloxging of the ty bowels. Regard- ae the effects of ! constipation, C. ise E. Ayers, 6 Sabin St., Montpelier, /.. eas HE) ich “connipation ‘ TE) <*> “constipation HEI Sr" viicuences to years, and at times becsme'so: bad I Would become unconscious. I hava been Found in that condition many” times. Physicians did not seem to be able to deme. any “good, I would become weak and for days at a ime could de Be week. Not long age 1 got a box ef Dr. Mies’ Laxative Tablets, and After using them found T had. sever fried anything that acted in auch a mild Sad: affective manner. 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Elkhart, Ind Many Are Called, but— Some Don’t Answer HEN the telephone operator says, “(Number 546 does not answer,’’ it does not necessarily mean that the man whose ear you're trying to reach is indifferent to your call. “Gentral’’ gives him a reasonable time in which to answer, but sometimes he’s too far away from the bell to hear it, or too busy to answer it, Tn some instances, telephone bells are put out of order temporarily by a storm or other cause. We have special a for detecting this kind of ‘‘trouble,’” but the operator may give the ‘‘don’t aniswer’’ report on such calls until she learns of the difficulty. Then she announces that ‘‘the line is.out of order,’’ until the trou- ble has been remedied. If's a pretty good rule always to answer your telephone promptly—the call may be an urgent one, or one you can ill afford to miss. ® OWA TELEPHONE COMPANY monTeRVELLE NEWS. Sunday was @ glorious tev eewiey Second Baptist church, Rev, Crowley of Mystic, Iowa, preached two excel Tent sermons morning and evening in the absence of our pastor, Rev. Coop- cer, who is assisting Rev. F. K, Nich- lson in a revival meeting in Daven- port, Iowa. Rev. Crowley expects to leave for his home in Cambria, Mo. Friday noon. The Mission Circle was entertained at the home of Sister Bertha Morton by Bro. J. Brock. A delightful lunch- con was served. ‘The entertainment which was given Saturday evening by the committee was well attended in spite of the bad weather and proved to be a success. ‘Mrs. Mollie Jackson left for Coun- cil Bluffs, Iowa, Saturday morning, where Rev, Jackson is pastoring. We hiope that Rev. and Mrs, Jackson will like their new location. ‘An oyster supper will be given at the church Tuesday night, Mrs, Joe Robinson entertained the Art and Industrial club at the home of Mrs, John Hicks on Friday, De- cember 1%. ‘The ladies of the Art and Industria club have been studying the life o! Booke rT. Washington. The same wa: discussed Friday at this weekly meet- ing. Mrs, L. Baker, as leader of th discussion, will be continued for the next two weeks. Mrs, A. Tiewater of Kansas City Mo., who has been visiting her daugh ter, Mrs. Frank Morton, and friends left for her home Wednesday. ‘The Sunday school program will b rendered at the church Friday nigh under the auspices of Miss Heler Jeter and Mrs. Thomas Riding. Mrs, Riding is on the sick list this week. ‘Mr. and Mrs, Eugene Reed are re- ported better at this writing. ie . r Wf Ve, = 5s) af , ‘(emer oN me ie >, wie Pr YE a ‘Woman's Crowning Glory !s Her Hair Why not grow your hair by usin Mme. M. Beard Hair Grower It removes dandruff, stops itching of the scalp and makes it graw long, soft and beautiful. Price 60¢ a box. Send stamp for pamphlet. MME. M BEARD AGENTS WANTED 519 So. 16th St. St. Joseph, Mo (7 Memeea 7. NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASEOCIATESN * SSESTIATEON uwWa oleic DyYSlauces BYetsroae cv OBR fee one momen o.oo FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1915. cf . = nen THE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON “MEMORIAL FUND. The trustees of the Tuskegee Nor- mal and Industrial Institute met at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Mon. day, December 18th, and'decided to make an effort to raise two million dollars, to be known as\“‘The Booken ‘t, Washington Memorial Fund of ‘Two Million Dollars,” in memory of the late Dr, Booker T, Washington, ‘The statement of the board as issued Ly Hon, Seth Low, chairman, follows: ‘Tuskegee Institute is Booker 'T, Washington's monument, and his most fitting memorial is the perpetu- ation of its great work for the benefit of the colored people and for the pro- motion of helpful relations between the races. ‘The gap at present exist- ing between the ordinary income of the institute and its annual outgo is approximately $150,000, It is not de- sired to close this gap so completely fas to make the institute independent of the interest and support of the liv- ing, but it is desired to reduce this gap to manageable proportions, ‘The trustees therefore propose to invite subcriptions to the Booker T. Washington Memorial Fund of Two Million ($2,000,000) Dollars for the continuance of the institute and of the work for the Negro race which centers there. * : It is hoped and expected that $250,- 000 of this sum will be given by Ne- groes, out of which fund a suitable memorial for Booker T. Washington will be erected on the grounds of the institute. ‘The trustees have already -received subscriptions of more than $450,000, some of which, but not all, are condi- tional upon larger sums being raised. ‘The Negroes may, therefore, feel that every dollar they give will be met more than dollar for dollar by gifts from white people. ‘The fund to be invited from the Ne- gro. people will be managed from ‘Tuskegee Institute and will be under the charge of Emmet J. Scott, secre- tary of t he institute. Other subscriptions to the memor- ial fund should be sent to William G. 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