Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. Cold weather this week, 22 below zero to-day. Mrs. John Wilkinson was ill last week. Mrs. Clay Lewis is atill a very sick woman. Mrs. H. E. Jacobs is convalescent. Mr. Lu Miller is much improved Mrs. H. Gould is able to be out again, which is good news to her many friends. The D. Y. E. club had an interesting meeting Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Jefferson. Will meet next Tuesday with Mrs. Sadie Smith, West Thirteenth and Day streets. The Deborah Administrative council will meet next Monday, the 17th, at the resident of Mr. and Mrs. S. Joe Brown, 1058 West Fifth street. Mrs. S. Joe Brown, president; Mrs. John L. Thompson, secretary. We received word that Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Edwards of Omaha, Nebr. an- counciling the arrival of a baby girl. They formerly lived here, and we of Des Moines expect the cigars from doctor. Hurry up, last call to get the Bystan der one year for 1 dollar. It closes January 16th. The Triple "H" club met at the home of Mrs. Hurbert Jacobs, 1218 Twentyth street, Tuesday afternoon, January 11. The officers for the ensuing year were installed and the various committees were appointed by the president. Next meeting will be with Mrs. James James, 2230 E. Eighth street. Mr. Roberts, chief grand mentor over jurisdiction of Iowa, of Marshalltown, Iowa, hold a board meeting Monday in this city. Mrs. Matie Brooks, G. H. P.; Mrs. Aikens of Keokuk, grand recorder, and Thomas Allen, grand secretary, of Mason City, were present. Mrs. B. Carr entertained them to refreshments Sunday evening. St. Paul's Mite Missionary met at the parsonage Tuesday afternoon. After the regular business the society remarked by Charles Mohammet of South Africa, followed by Rev. S. L. Birt. Rev. Mohammet told of the good work done there by our late Bishop H. M. Turner and of the good that had been accomplished by the PERSONAL—Wanted to correspond with a light complexion, respectable, intelligent business woman with ample means for a business partner. Preferably a maiden lady or widow. Only those who mean business need answer this add. Address Golden Rule, care Bystander. NOTICE. We have a few small cottages for rent, 4 and 5 rooms, partly modern. Just phone Drake 3882. AGENTS WANTED - Life Booker T. WAGENTS WANTED. Big Book $5 per cent discount. count price only $1.00; send 10d as postage on free outfit. Credit given. Wilmore Book Company, Chicago, Ill. HOTEL GUESTS Mrs. Nellie Woods and daughter, Des Moines; K. Johnson and wife, Valley Junction; W. D. Madison, Ames, Iowa; H. M. Claridy and wife, Kansas City; Thomas Allen, Mason City; Ed Robinson, Marshaltown; H. E. Boadridge, Des Moines. REMEMBER THE Palace Sweet Cafe UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Is the best place to go for Good Home Cooking Everything First Class Red 1367 1012 Center Street Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson, Props. Life of Booker Washington FOR SALE Cloth Binding $1.00 Library Binding $1.50 Every Home Should Have One Address ENOLA V. THOMPSON, Care Bystander Office On last Sunday afternoon at the social center, 1058 1fth street, the High School Girls' club met, and after listening to an instrumental selection by Miss Mildred Griffin and a reading by Miss Meredith Humbard, Mrs. S. Joe Brown spoke on the life and accomplishments of the lamented Mrs. Warren Logan of Tuskegee, Ala., wife of treasurer and a pioneer teacher of the Tuskegee Institute, also one of the presidents of the National Association of Colored Women. Next Sunday the Ohio book for the Lincoln jubilee by W. A. Joiner will be reviewed by Miss Edith M. Jones. The Iowa state board of the International Order of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor of the order of Twelve held a special called meeting here Monday. The full board was present, as follows: C. G. Mentor Sir Ed Robertson of Marshaltown; Thomas Allen, grand treasurer, of Mason City; Miss Isabelle Akens, grand recorder, of Keoku; Mrs. Mattie Brooks, G. H. P., of Des Moines; Sam Bryant, member of the board of Des Moines. All of the above made a pleasant call at the Bystander office except the latter. They speak very hopefully of their great order, as we now have a state organization of our own. Mrs. P. P. Johnson entertained the Intellectual Improvement club last Friday. The principal business for the afternoon was the election of officers, which resulted as follows: President, Mrs. H. W. Hughes; vice president, Mrs. J. L. Edwards; secretary, Mrs. John L. Thompson; assistant secretary, Mrs. H. R. Graves; treasurer, Mrs. Wilkinson; critic, Mrs. J. H. McClain; assistant critic, Mrs. R. E. Patton; journalist, Mrs. Mollie Watkins; assistant journalist, Mrs. Harvey Brown; reporter, Mr. S. Joe Brown; executive committee, Mrs. F. P. Johnson, Mrs. James Bailey, Mrs. Cousin. Chas and Mrs. J. B. Rush. The club adjourned to meet with Mrs. S. Joe Brown. N. A. A. C. P. Dr. A. J. Booker, chairman of the educational committee of the Des Moines branch of the National Association, announces that he has secured the consent of the Rev. Dr. Curtis W. Reese, the noted moral reformer, formerly of Alton, Illinois, but now pastor of the Unitarian church of this city, to deliver his famous lecture, "The Greatness of the American Negro" under the auspices of the branch at Union Congregational church Tuesday evening, January 18th. All members are urged to be present and the general public is cordially invited. No admission fee. By order of S. Joo Brown, President. A. M. E. CHURCH BURNS. At the annual church conference of St. Paul's A. M. E. church last Tuesday evening the following were elected trustees for the ensuing year: Atty. S. Joe Brown, Mrsens. Adam Dixon, C. C. Johnson, John Jackson, J. L. Edwards, Thornton Graves, O. L. Glass, A. A. Alexander and John Moore. These new officers are having a strenuous initiation, as on the following night after their election a fire broke out near the furnace in the basement of the church and ate its way through the auditorium and out through the roof, seriously damaging the building, furniture and fixtures, completely destroying the piano and practically ruining the pipe organ, entailing a total loss of about three thousand five hundred dollars, which is only partially covered by insurance. Through the kindness of Mr. Steward, the new general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. the services of this church will be held in the auditorium of the new Y. M. C. A. building on Fourth and Chestnut streets while the building is being repaired. PROTEST BIRTH OF NATION. A delegation from the Des Moines branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, consisting of Atty. S. Joe Brown, Pres. Hon. Harvey Ingham, Editor John L. Thompson and Mr. E. R. Hall of the public committee; Mr. Jesse A. Graves, member of the board of directors, and Attys. Casper Schenk and Geo. H. Woodson of the legal redress committee, accompanied by Mr. John B. Hammond, a representative of the Iowa Purity association, called at the mayor's office on Monday afternoon and presented the formal protest of the Des Moines branch against the photo play, "The Birth of a Nation," scheduled to appear at the Berchel theater in this city next April. The principal argument was made by Atty. Woodson, who had seen the play, and gave a detailed description of it, which was listened to with interest by the mayor and Councilman Myerly, who happened in during the conference and who stated in very strong terms that if the production was anything like it was reported he considered it in violation of certain of the city ordinances and therefore should be prohibited; and the mayor, while not expressing himself as freely as Mr. Myerly, announced to the delegation that he would present the matter to Mr. Mitchell, the superintendent of public safety, and to Albert & Getchell, proprietors of the Berchel theater, and attempt to procure their voluntary withdrawal of the play, as they did upon his request withdraw the stage production of the play called "The Nigger," which they had advertised to appear at the Princess theater during his first administration several years ago, and against which a similar protest was filed. The Des Moines Women's club, the G. A. R., and the Des Moines Catholic Men's League and other organizations, of the city for civic and moral reform have also been appealed to and it is hoped will join with the national association in their protest against the production in Des Moines of this exhibition, which is conceded by all who have seen it to be not only of an immoral tendency but also a libel upon the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic as well as upon the American Negro. city of one hundred and fifty or more votes in the convention showed that the strength of the convention was against the charter, whereupon Dr. Morris and his followers left the chair and the convention immediately elected E. P. Jones and an entirely new set of officers. The incorporated convention, led by Dr. Morris, got out an injunction to prevent the the city, the guest of Elroy. Raymond Houston Wright will spend Smyra, Mo. Mrs. Lizzie Reese formerly resided in Monday morning in Her body will be broul for burial. OBITUARY. Gibbs Lamar Johnson was born at New Orleans, La., August 6, 1888, and resided in that state until the month of August, 1910, when he removed to the state of Iowa and settled in Des Moines, where he spent the remainder of his life. On July 3, 1911, he was married to his present widow, then Miss Jennie Story of this city, who missed to be a most devoted companion and was at his bedside administering to his every want when death claimed him at Mercy hospital in this city Sunday, January 9, 1916, at 10:20 p. m., after a brief illness of only nine days. Shortly after coming to Des Moines he was initiated into the Order of Elks and was soon elevated to the highest station in his lodge, that of exalted ruler. Later he became a member of the Masonry fraternity and was advanced to the degrees of Royal Arch and Knight Templar, in which latter, the highest branch of York Rite Masonry, he was just recently elected to the office of junior warden. During the winter of 1916, under the pastorate of Rev. E. G. Jackson, he joined the St. Paul's A. M. E. church and lived a consistent Christian until the end came. He leaves to mourn his loss a devoted wife, a loving mother and father, ten sisters and one brother, all except the widow residing at Pass Christian, Miss. The funeral services were held at St. Paul's A. M. E. church Wednesday afternoon, in charge of North Star lodge, A. F. & A. M., and King Solomon commandery of Knights Templar, the Rev. S. L. Birt, pastor, officiating, and in the face of one of the worst blizzards Des Moines ever experienced, with the mercury registering five degrees below zero, a large representation of the membership of the church, the Masonic and the Elk fraternities turned out to pay the last tribute of respect to his memory. Beautiful floral emblems were presented by North Star Masonic lodge, G. H. Cleggtchapter of Royal Arch Masons, King Solomon commandery of Knights Templar, Hawkeye lodge of Elks, also by the Mary Church Terrell club, of which the widow is a member. A committee from North Star lodge and the escort from King Solomon commandery accompanied the remains to their last resting place in Glendale and there deposited them with the honors due a Knight Templar of his rank. KANSAS CITY SELECTED National Negro Business League to Hold Seventeenth Annual Session August 16, 1916. After a most careful consideration of the several invitations received from different sections of the country for the next meeting of the National Negro Business League, we are authorized by the members of the executive committee to announce that the league has decided to accept the invitation extended by the Local Negro Business League of Greater Kansas City. The meeting will be held August 16, 17 and 18, 1916. It appears that the business league has selected a most opportune time to hold their meeting in Kansas City, for as Mr. Fortune J. Weaver, president of the Kansas City local league says: "These dates fit in just right, as the Masons will hold their grand lodge in Kansas City during the second week of August and the National Medical association comes during the fourth week." These two meetings in addition to the Business League session will offer best possible inducements to the railroads to make special reduced fares and will afford delegates to the grand lodge and the Medical Association an opportunity to attend some of the sessions of the Business League. The executive committee has also decided that it will be most appropriate and fitting that the first night's (August 16th) session be devoted to memorial exercises in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington, founder and first president of the National Negro Business League. JONES FACTION WINS IN COURT Decision in Chicago Rendered This Week Sustained the Contents of E. P. Jones and Followers, Making Them the National Baptist Convention—Judge Smith Rendering Decision. Chicago, Jan. 10.MA decision rendered in the courts of Chicago today by Judge Smith sustained the demurger of Attorneys Walter M. Farmer of this city and Wm. Harrison of Oklahoma City, recognizing the National Baptist convention, of which E. P. Jones, D. D., of Vicksburg, Miss, was elected president. It will be remembered that during the month of sarsurdqi ouu uuau aau asuqamadqs held a convention in this city and divided into two parts over a charter gotten out by seven men. A major- ity of one hundred and fifty or more votes in the convention showed that the strength of the convention was against the charter, whereupon Dr. Morris and his followers left the chair and the convention immediately elected E. P. Jones and an entirely new set of officers. The incorporated convention, led by Dr. Morris, got out an injunction to prevent the Jones people from using the name National Baptist convention. SCANDIA, IOWA, (Special.) Sunday was Covenant day at the Mt. Zion Baptist church. the pastor, G. W. White, delivered two excellent sermons morning and evening. Mrs. Eliza Ray and children left Sunday evening for Elkhart, Ind., where they will spend several months with relatives and friends. Mrs. Thomas of Centerville, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Jim Overton left for her home Monday morning. Mrs. Isaiah English has been ill for several days at her home. Mrs. Robert Nichols, who has been ill for several days, is to valence t. seven, twelve, and fifteen miles, Milkier and little daughter, Mabel, of Perry, Iowa, are visiting her sister. Mrs. Isaiah English, Mother and child are on the sick list at this writing. Much success to the Bystander. MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA. (Special to Bystander.) (Last Week) Mrs. Eula Fields and children, accompanied by her niece, Miss Marie Scott, and Miss Imogene Wilson, all of Kecku, returned home Sunday, after spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Robertson. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson, Mr. C. P. Gilmore and Mrs. Thos. Robison are on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Humphrey entertained at 3 o'clock dinner Mrs. Eula Fields and children, Miss Marie Scott and Miss Imogene Wilson. Covers were laid for eight. ROCK ISLAND. ILL. Mrs. R. C. Campbell has been on the sick list, but she is now in good health. Mrs. Marie Golden is confined to her room with the la gripe. Rev. R. C. Campbell has returned from Chicago, where he attended a conference of the A. M. E. pastors. Mrs. MacClay has been very ill with the la gripe. Mrs. James Hoskins will give a musical entertainment at the A. M. E. church the 24th of this month. Mrs. Sanders, wife of Rev. Sanders, has been very sick. Rev. B. R. Penn preached Sunday at Wayman's Chapel. His subject was "The Prodigal Son." Sunday was Trustee day at Wayman's Chapel. Solomon and Benjamin Butler are visiting friends in the city. Miss Carrie Mae Sanders, age 16, died Monday morning, January 3rd. She left a Christian mother and two brothers to mourn her loss. The funeral was held from the McKinley Baptist church. Rev. Sanders conducted the services. Miss Deborah Stewart, sister of Mrs. Cass, is at present making her home with Mrs. Cass. Miss Stewart has entered the high school and has been placed in the junior class. MACON, MO., NEWS. Miss Dorothy Skillmore has returned to resume her studies at Western college. Mrs. F. B. Watson, instructor of the missionary department at Western college, spent Sunday in Shelbina, Mo. The Baptist Missionary Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Samuel Jackson. Mr. Loronzo Harris of Brookfield, Mo. spent Thursday evening in our Younker Any Man Wants on Habe should attend the great sa- here. Large special purc stocked jobbers and manuf added much from our stock savings ranging from a fo pecially important is the s Men's Shirts --lines that were made to s $2. And-- Munsing Under at Third --including cotton, wool a union suits. Also-- Younker Brothers Any Man Who Wants to Save on Haberdashery should attend the great sale which is now in progress here. Large special purchases were made from overstocked jobbers and manufacturers, to which we have added much from our stocks. Prices that reign mean savings ranging from a fourth to nearly half. Especially important is the sale of --lines that were made to sell at 1.50 and as much as $2. And-- --including cotton, wool and cotton mixed and wool union suits. Also-- A Great Sale of Neckwear city, the guest of Miss Alma McElroy. Raymond Houston and Preston Wright will spend Sunday in Palmyra, Mo. Mrs. Lizzie Reese Johnson, who formerly resided in our city, died Monday morning in East St. Louis. Her body will be brought to our city for burial. Rev. B. P. E. Gales is out of the city. During his absence Dr. J. H. Garnett filled the pulpit, preaching two excellent sermons. Dr. J. H. Garnett departed Sunday night for Kansas City. Mr. William Brown of our city is preparing to give a banquet the 17th of January at the K. of P. hall. Admission $1.00 a plate. We wish for Mr. Brown much success. The following entertained for Mr. J. B. Harris while in our city: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Garnett and Mr. and Mrs. Joe T. Ancell. Miss Flossie Patrick of Lincoln, Neb., is visiting relatives in our city. Several parties have been given in honor of Miss Patrick while in our city. Miss Ora Finney entertained Thursday last at a leap year party. Mr. J. B. Harris of Quincy, Ill., has departed for his home, after a very pleasant visit. Miss Julia Howard entertained on Monday evening at a leap year party. Miss Birtena Young has returned from a visit in Chillicothe, Mo. Miss Cynthia Materson was called to Palmyra by the death of her cousin. Miss Alma McElroy entertained at a party Thursday night in honor of Mr. Lorenzo Harris of Brookfield, Mo. Miss Maydeen Howard is on the sick list. While in our city hungry see T. H. Henderson's cafe on Rubey street. Mrs. William Carter of Omaha, Neb., has returned to her home, after a visit with relatives and friends. Master James Herndon has returned to resume his studies at Western college. Next week of this month will occur the by-monthly examination for the students at Western college. Miss Pocahontas Smith and nephew, Master Chester, are visiting relatives in our city. Subscribe for The Bystander and get all the Macon news. ALBIA NEWS Mrs. Nellie Estes of Ottumwa passed through Albia on Tuesday en route to Ottumwa. Mrs. Edward Butler entertained Friday evening, January 7, at 6 o'clock dinner and in the evening about fifteen in honor of Mr. Edward Butler's birthday. Mr. Pearl Thomas has accepted a position in Ottumwa and left for that city. The Epworth League young people are preparing an Allen day program for February 14, 1916. Mrs. M. F. Ward entertained at 12 o'clock dinner on Sunday about six couple, Mr. Roy Burns of Hocking, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wahington, Mr. and ms. Ronne Davis and Master Bennie Grayson. Mrs. Robinson of Hocking was in Algia on business thi week. Mr. Roy Burns attended services at the A. M. E. church Sunday. OTTUMWA, IOWA. (Special.) Mrs. Minnie Green and daughter, Aileen, and Mrs. C. Derrick returned from Moberly, Mo., where they visited during the holidays. Mrs. T. J. Carr left Wednesday for Louisville, Kentucky, called there by the serious illness of her mother. Mrs. Daisy Fowler Patten is seriously ill in the hospital with pneumonia. Brothers man Who to Save urdashery the which is now in progress cases were made from over- structurers, to which we have s. Prices that reign mean north to nearly half. Es- sle of at One Dollar sell at 1.50 and as much as wear (Seconds) Savings d cotton mixed and wool State Capitol Blog Historical from January 1st at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Downey, occurred the marriage of Lelia Agnes Downey to Mr. Chas, W. Crawford of Brownlee, Nebraska, Rev. Searcy of the A. M. E. church officiating. The bride was attired in pink satin and carried a shower bouquet of pink and white roses. Preceding the ceremony Miss Constance Downey, a niece of the bride sang "Until Eternity." After the ceremony a reception was held. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford will reside in Brownlee, where the groom is engaged in farming. Mr. Thomas Spicer does not improve as his many friends had hoped. Mrs. Margaret Fox, widow of the late Booker Fox passed away at the home of her daughter, Hattie Weeks, 3743 La Salle street, Chicago, January 6th, at the age of 80. The remains were brought to Ottumwa and interred in Ottumwa cemetery. Mr. Simt Hearoll has returned from Topeka, Kansas, where he spent the holidays. Mrs. Carrie Gordon, widow of the late M. T. Gordon, is getting along nicely under the care of Mrs. Jemima Owen. The health hints by Dr. Booker are excellent. Miss Nell Fowler and Mrs. Cecil Jones of Chicago are guests at the parental Fowler home. The following are confined to their homes with la gripe: Miss Ellen Williams, Miss Constance Downey, little Eunice Kipper, Mr. Isaac Patton and Mr. Jewel Campbell, and Mrs. Beatrice Bibbs and Mrs. Cleo Thompson are ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Mattle Thompson and children of Clinton spent the holidays at the home of her mother, Mrs. Anna Foster. COLFAX. IOWA Service were well attended Sunday, The Rev. J. W. Morton, pastor of the B. B. church, preached an eloquent and inspiring sermon both morning and evening. The B. Y. P. U. held an interesting meeting Sunday night. The president requests all members to be present next Sunday night, January 16, for the election of officers. The Household of Ruth, No. 1929, and the Odd Fellows will give a installation next Saturday night, January 15, at the Odd Fellows hall. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Lula Edgar entertained Friday evening at a 6'clock dinner the following guests in honor of Mrs. John Jackson of Buxton: Mrs. Orpheus Cabell of Mason City and her father, Mr. Henry Banks, of this city, Rev. and Mrs. G. O. Terrell and Rev. J. W. Morton. Mr. T. W. H Hughes of Newton was a business caller between trains Monday. Mrs. B. F. Cronk, accompanied by her little daughter, Elaine, returned home Thursday to Chicago, after an extended stay with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. G. O. Terrell. Card of Thanks—We wish to extend our thanks and appreciation to our numerous friends for their kindness during the long illness and death of our mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Banks, Mrs. Henry Banks and children. Miss Bertha Strather of this city and Mr. Reuben Gaines of Buxton, Iowa, were united in marriage Monday in Des Moines at the home of Rev. T. L. Griffith, who performed the ceremony. Her mother, Mrs. L. Strather, accompanied them and was a witness. Following the ceremony the bride and groom took their departure for Buxton, where they will make their future home. Miss Strather is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Strather of this city. Since her graduation from the Osakalosa high school she was employed as stenographer in the office of Atty. George Woodson a few years. The groom is a well respected citizen of Buxton and much respected. The Bystander desires to join with the hosts of close friends of the young people in extending sincerest congratulations. Mr. Harry Strather was a Des Moines visitor Saturday. Messrs. Walter Banks and William Vandever of Carney were Spring City visitors Sunday. Stomach Trouble Cured. If you have any trouble with your stomach you should take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Mr. J. P. Klote of Edina, Mo., says: "I have used a great many different medicines for stomach trouble, but find Chamberlain's Tablets more beneficial than any other reedy I ever used." For sale by all dealers. BUXTON, IOWA Those who have the good fortune to bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. Mr. J. C. Rowletta received the sad news that his sister, Mrs. Odella Clark, who spent a portion of the summer with him, is dead. He left Monday evening to attend the funeral services at her home, Sparta, Ill. Mrs. Ferribee has returned from an extended visit with her son in Chicago. Mr. Lonnie Carter was indisposed several days last week. Bill Wheels has decided to try the better or worst degree in partnership with Mina Mattle Doyle. I have been aschy at aly an heir of Price Five Cents Wesley Mays is still unable to resume work. Mrs. Eva Brookins' little daughter was taken suddenly ill Saturday evening, but is better at this writing. Frederick Coleman led Sunday school meeting at Y. lat Sunday. Mr. L. W. Tucker, former secretary of the Y., spent two or three very busy days in Buxton in the interest of the Royal Union Life Insurance company, of which he is assistant superintendent, Headquarters at Chicago, Ill. Miss Eva Pugh is playing in Miss Bertha Allen's place in the Sunset orchestra. Miss Allen is spending the winter in Des Moines. Be careful not to miss the treat of the season, the Sunny South Minstrel, February 14, 1916. WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Monday on December 26, 1915. Mother and babe doing nicely. Mrs. Chas, Burkley had a relapse and was again confined to her bed a few days last week. She is better at this writing. Booker T. Washington memorial services were held at the A. M. E. church on Thursday evening, January 13, under the auspices of the Christian Culture club. Ms. Blanche Shelton Booth has returned to Washington for an indefinite stay, after a holiday visit at the parental Shelton home in Chicago. Ms. Henry Green, who was taken suddenly sick at her home recently, is now able to be up a little. Her friends hope for a speedy recovery. Miss Mitchell has returned to her home in Fairfield, after a short visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. Philip Rushing. Ms. Emma Black has returned from her holiday visit with relatives in Des Moines and Osakaloosa. She has been sick since coming home, but is now convalescing. In the absence of the presiding elder, Rev. S. B. Moore, Rev. Wharton of Muscatine conducted the quarterly meeting on Sunday, January 2. Wharton delivered three very able sermons. Hayes Clayton has accepted a position at the Oaks barber shop. Mrs. Fred Turner has returned from a visit with relatives at Osakaloosa and Ottawa. Harley Palmer, who has been a familiar figure around the city for the past several months, has gone to Minneapolis, where he will take a position 'n a pantatorium. Miss Luba Gwinn is again at her post as masseuse at the Washington chiropody and shampoo parlor, after a week's illness, being confined to her home with the grip. Mr. Palmer, the barber, is home from a visit with relatives at Cedar Rapids. Ollie Howard is assisting at the James Redd barber shop. OMAHA. NER Dr. and Mrs. Edwards are the proud parents of a baby girl, Mother and baby are doing nicely. Mrs. A. Jones of Twenty-third and Clar kbroke her arm at the Mecca roller skating rink last week. She is getting along nicely. Mr. McCater has been sick for the past ten days, but is getting better. Mrs. R. Lee on Patrick avenue is getting better, after being quite sick. getting sick, or being quite sick. Mr. Clifford Penn, who underwent a serious operation for appendicitis at St. Joseph hospital, is improving rapidly. Mrs. Scott, wife of Rev. Scott, pastor of Moriah, was taken suddenly sick Saturday evening. CEDAR RAPIDS NEWS. (Special.) Sunday was quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church. Rev. S. B. Moore, P. E., was present after several weeks of illness. He was assisted in the service by Rev. Cato, the pastor, Rev. A. Ford and Rev. Thomas. Rev. Moore after the service Sunday night went out to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milligan in order to rest up a few days, as he is quite weak, before he will start out on his work. A great deal of sickness among our people. Mr. Miller, an old citizen, died here last Monday a week ago. His body is being held at the undertakers waiting for his son, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio, to claim it. Mr. Luther Lowery, the mail carrier, is sick with the la gripe; also his mother. Trio No. 3 of the stewardess board of the A. M. E. church will give a volunteer social February 19th for the benefit of the stewards. The poultry show will open up here this week. Mr. Milligan, the only colored man in the association, will be on hand to capture some of the prizes, as he has in the past. Mrs. Moore of Iowa City was received into full membership in Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday at the morning service. Revs. Cato and Northcross went before the mayor to interview him on the coming of the Birth of a Nation. We are waiting for results. We are glad to note the closing of the saloons. It has not made any change in the affairs of the colored people. The Rev. Mrs. A. Ford, who has been conned to her home for four weeks, was out Sunday to the service. aa. iia: i al Sh kcal ee 7 AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Major Robert Rusea Moton of Hamp ton, whom = subcommittee of ths Board of trustees of Tuskegee Normal ‘and Industrial Institute unanimously ‘selected a3 successor to tho lato Book- er T. Washington, said in an interview that he fntended.to carry on the work of Tuskegee along tho same rational Anes which Doctor Washington had followed. “I accept this new respon: albility,” eald Major Moton, “with anx- fous humility. Doctor Washington was truly s great man, viewed from every angle cannot fill his place, but witb ‘the guidance and support of Tuske- gee's wise and sympathetic board of ‘trustees, and with the earnest cooper: ation and Joyal help of the faithful and efficient corps of workers whom Doc- tor Washington gathered about him at ‘Tuskegec, I shall endeavor to the best ‘of my ability to carry on the work to which he gaye his life with the same ‘pirit and with the same rational methods which he ‘so wisely and 30 successfully used.” Major Moton, it is Known, was Doctor Washington's ‘choloe ‘as is successor as leader of Tuskegee's work. The two men were intimate friends, held the same views as to the best methods for helping thelr race to a fuller citizenship, and ‘often spoke from the same platform in the North and on the “educational tours” of the Southern states. The subcommittee which chose Major Mo- ton was composed of Seth Low, Frank ‘Trumbull, W. W. Campbell, Victor H. Tulane, and Edgar A. Bancroft. Mr Low gave out the following state- ment: “The trustees of Tuskegee in- stitute at thelr meeting in Tuskegee, December 13, appointed the under: signed committee with power to se- lect the principal. provided it could act unantmously. The committee to- day bas, by unanimous action, ap- pointed Major R. R. Moton to be prin- ‘cipal.’ His installation will take place at the commencement next May. .0 taking this action, the committee has ot been unmindful of the long devo- tion and many qualifications of Em: mett J. Scott for the position. The problem to be dealt with {s a many- sided one, and it has seemed wise to seek a solution of it that will bring to the work of Tuskegee another force: ful perzonality." The late Booker T. ‘Washington, in his book entitled “My. Larger Education,” had this to say of the man who fs to succeed him as principal of tho institution which Doc: tor Washington built up from a loz cabin, ant to which he devoted his Ife: “It hns been my privilege. to ‘come inte contact with many different types of people, but I know few men ‘who are #0 lovable, and, at the same ‘time, 60 sensible in their nature as Major Moton. He ts chock‘ull of common stnse. Further than that he fe a mad who, without obtruding him- self and without understanding how he does it, makes you believe in him from the very first time you see him and from your first contact with him, and, at the exme time, makes you love him, He is te kind of man in whose com- pany { always feol like being, never tire of, always want to be around him or always want to be near hima, “One of the continual sources of sur- prise to people who come for the first time Into the southern states is to hear of the affection with which white men and women speak of the older generation of colored people with whom they grew up, particularly the old colored nurses. The lifelong friend- ships that exist between these old ‘aunties’ and ‘uncles’ and the white ehildren with whom they were raised OUST nee enrernree. No financial achievement which St- ‘Louis has put to its credit in the past half century 1s more significant than the success of the colored cltizens of Bt. Louis in raising $50,000 for a col- cored ¥.M.C, A. building. But a scant alt century ago the colored citizens of St. Louis had just emerged from slav- ery; and, as Booker Washington put it, their sofe assets consisted of a few ‘bed quilts, pumpkins and fowls “mis ‘cellancously gathored.” Today the race iumbers many men of substantial means and big civic spirit. A large Proportion of the people of St. Louis, fncluding ‘the writer of these words, come of Southern stock. Our ances- forswere tended in thelr infancy, ‘served in thelr mature years and t:n- Gerly cared for in their old age by the strong hands and warm hearts of ‘American Negroes. This obligation ‘thus accumulated through the genera- tlonis is one which we can never fully Aischarge. The opportunity to help in ‘the work so nobly started in tho tn- ¢oreat of an institution whose function {a to make colored boys into good cltt- ‘sens, who might otherwise develop In- ‘to bad ones, 18 one that wo cannot at- Se © Nice shiny bugles may be bought ery cheaply up in. Manitoba, whero & Yarge consignment intended for the dele ‘cast aside because In ies sma’ nook on tho inside was Heard these words: “Made in Ger- ‘maany.” ‘King Alfonso bas reigned longer than aay other European sovereign, ‘with the exception of the king of Mon- temegro and the emperor of Austria. Ho was born a king, and so hes selgned just over 19 yours. “it wtatistice are to be belleved, the Shirth rate in the United tates, in ‘Gpeak Britain and in ssost other civi- tants 14, boing steadily, though ‘Mowty, lowered, each year. Bah ene ©, Gavtags wegons ine German city ore: am 49 be: drawn elther by bores or siectre. tractors, the later Sakae 8 er, coms cheaper (0 operste, chat fe eomget 2 [, Maranie tespariall, Italian ari pak te Londen, Bie = collection fold, ‘gatas rat fhe Otteenth and g.srorth $500,000, | 1s something that is hard for strangers to understand. It 1s just these qual- ities of human sympathy and affec- ton that endeared so many of the older generation of Negroes to thelr masters and mistresces, and which ‘seems to have found expression, In a higher form, in Major Moton. At though he has little schooling outside of what he was able to get at flamp ton fastitute, Major Moten is one of the best read men and one of the most intoresting men to talk with I have over met. Education has not ‘spotted’ him, as it seems to have done in the case of some other educated Negroes, It has not embittered or narrowed him in his affections. He has not learned to bate or distrust any class of people, and he is just as ready to aseist and show a kindness to a white man a to a black man, to a Southerner as to a Northerner. How files aud mosquitecs carry dts. ‘ease was one of the phasys treated in the exhibit on hygiene and sanitation made recently by the colored pupils of the Washington (D. C.) schools, ‘The model in this were made by Juntor students of the schools, and will be used {n instructing gradu children a3 f0 the methods of keeping well. Right and wrong kind of dairies, right ‘and wrong methods of supplying houses with drinking water, as well as a model of the District's water supply plant: right and wrong methods of ventilating houses: proper methods of Aisposing of garbage and trash. and how children may ald in <eeping com- ‘munities In which they live clean and healthful were included among the models displayed. One of the points of Interest about this part of the quad- ruplex exhibit was that the cost of the material used was but slight. Oid boxes, pasteboard, clay and ilivstra- tions cut from magazines were alt used to good purpose. Miss Jessie Wormley of the normal faculty di rected the students Students taking the domestic scleuce course under Miss Helen Irving compiled exhibits showing the various uses to which cot ton In put, as well as its by products. From the raw material to various finished products was shown through actual material and pictures, not only of cotton, but also of iinen, wool, hemp, ramle, jute and silk. So far as fs possible material and information furnished was used. The students made crayon pictures, showing various nutritive materials and units contained fn the ordinary foods. Some of the most modern pieces of apparatus were on display in the laboratories under Charles M, Thomas, who has charge of the sclences in the school. The ‘equipment for psychology tests {s “up to the minute” and serves a double purpose—for instructing the embryo teachers in psychology and how they ‘can best toach those who come under them, and for carrying on psycholog- ical experiments, particularly with de- fective children. Although the material used in the science department Is al ways out, being in constant use, it Is attracting wider attention now than ordinarily, in connection with the oth- er exbibits. Teachers attending va- ‘rious institutes recently have {n- ‘spected it, and had its used explained to them by Mr. Thomas. ‘The 90,000 waiters and kitchen at- tendants of the New York hotels and restaurants are being licensed. To do 0 thoy must pass a physical examina. ton. ford, in view of past history and pres: ent needs, to pass by—St, Louls Re. public. From 1790 to 1870 the actual work of gathering census statistics was per- formed by the United States marshals, and the enumerations varied in length from ten to eighteen months. In 1280 there was adopted the plan, followed at all subsequent censuses, of having this work done by a large body of enumerators under the direction af supervisors. ‘A recent investigation by Professor Haberlandt of Germany shows that Ilv- ing wood 1s of much food value, sap- wood, twigs and branches containing large quantities of sugar, starch and oll, with some albumen, | Soft woodd contain much ofl, hard woods much starch. An electrical smoke abatement de- vice has been invented whereby the particles of soot are charged by cur. Tent led through fine wires in a smoke- stack until they unite and become heavy enough to fall into a receptacle. ‘A London railroad station has been equipped with penny-intheelot ma- chines to sell tickets to persons who ‘wish to accompany friends to trains. ‘A California inventor's wave power motor wiflizes the horizontal motion of the water instead of the vertical, usually the case in such devices. On a farm conducted by the muntict- pallty of Berlin cows are being milked fn the elds by electrical machines deriving their power through cables In Germany one man in 213 goes to college; in Scotland, one ih 620; in the United States, one in 2,000, and to Eagland,. one tn 6,000. Olives ‘which ate dead ripe are dé- elous, but extreme ‘care is required to preserve them. Alligators donot sttato full sise ‘until ‘they/are nearly one hundred Tear Oe i, Abe ‘ ant RP Res Pe LOADING A BIG ITALIAN GUN NEAR GORITZ Ceo nae eW “ i) Pie Co oa. Mpg oe 3 pba Se. ge ear ge Emi ey Be ea ae Agia oe IY few me (as) ot jet i = LP saa NE A ae —_\ ca 7 Wes ws oY i oe a ee Se td es : ere iY ae Ss po ee Bo, Ma ORS ‘Cue of the Italan iv5 millimeter guns in the mountains above Gorits during the long stege ot that Austrian elty The erew ts about to put in the projestite, EA AN (DIL OF THE CARRANZA, NEVER AN ID: MEXICANS. HAG A HARD TAS. AHEAD Ui, , Faces a Gigantic Work in the Resuscitation of War-Torn Mexico— His Government Opposed by Organized Government Only in the State of Oaxaca—Brigandage Exists in Almost Every Section of the Country. El Paso, Tex.—Although be bas com- posed peace with the followers of Francisco Villa and finds his govern: ment opposed by an organized gov- ernment only in the state of Oaxaca, Vehustiano Carranza to¢ay faces a Eigantic problem in the resuseitation of war-torn Mexico. His handicaps, in the order of thelr difficulty, may be summarized as follows: 1. Brigandage in almost every sec- tion of the country; widespread love of a buccaneering lie, brought about by the succession of revolutions. 2. Zapata's revolutionary army in tue Montenegrolike state of Morelos. 3. The state government of Oaxaca, ‘This government fs a novelty in Mex: {co, and has maintained order ad de- sJarod itself “neutral”-toward Villa and ‘Darranza and other chieftains of war- tke procilvity. 4. The question of “manhood,” i. e. the difticulty of finding suitable men for government positions. 5. An empty national treasury and prostrated industries. ‘Typhus. ‘As to brigundage, an American nemed Simons, who arrived in La- redo, Tex., a few days ago from a point near Mexico City, where he ts engaged in business, brings an inter- esting story. He describes chaotic conditions prevalent in the country contiguous to the Mexican capital at this ttme where, environed by con- tagious diseases and pestilence on the ‘one hand, and by marauding bands of outlaws and recalcitrant people gen- erally on the other hand, Gen. Pablo Gonzales, the Carranza military com- mander of Mexico City, is confronted with on intricate problem, ‘Within a radius of 35 miles north- west of Mexico City the land is filled with bands of outlaws and marauding and devastation is keep- ing them busy. Large haciendas, ‘or ranches, are being raided by these outlaws, the homes looted and the people compelled to flee to afety, and {n some instancos, the torch appiled. ‘The roving bands of marauders are strongly organized and travel in large force, and whenever Carranzista sol ders’ are sent out to attempt to dis- perso them or givo battle, the “sol tery 1s generally defeated. Only re- cently @ force of Carranza men sent ‘out to a point northwest of Mexico City about 20 miles failed to return, and {t 1s believed they were ambus- caded by the outlaws and annihilated. Swarms With Brigands, However, the principal abode ot lawlessness at this time begine at a point 35 miles northwest of the Mex- fean capital, says the American, and fn thlat section the country 1s swarm- ing with brigands. ‘Thoy aro nolther Zapatistas nor Villistas, but each large band bas its leader, and with them the orders of. the leader ts law. Occasionally these men engage the soldiers of both Carranza and Za- pata, but the Zapatistas are thinning ‘out around Mexico City now and are takiag to the mountainous country to the southwest of the capital. Gen. Pablo Gonzales has exerted ‘his utmont effort to quell the disturb- ‘ances in his dlatrict, states the Ameri- can, but he has an ingdequate force to cope with the situation with which hho 1s confronted at this time, There is even dissension noticeable among his _men, because of the restrictions ‘exacted ‘to confine them to certain quarters of the elty on account of the unwholesome health conditions pre- vailing. In the Pachuca district, says Mr. Si COW, BREAKS BUTTER RECORD saakatlorlt ae $20,000 Lady Pontiac Johanna of Guf- fal, Ne Yn Produces 41.81 Pounds a Week. Buffalo, N. Y.—Lady Pontiac Jo- hanna, © cow valued at $20,000, has fust broken the world’s record for but- tor production by yielding 658 pounds of mitk. 4) one week, from which was BAAS SLAE pepinta: of utter.” This SP Tee cee eer vend 8 aybiter_ pusita. Ths com IOWA STATE BYSTANDER mons, there Is occasional fighting now between torres represunting the fac tions of Carranza, Villa, Zapata and even Oaxaca Indians, ‘The latter t- Ajans are inclined to cast their tots with auy faction that appears in the majority, and when there is any un- certainty as to this condition they fight for themselves, loot and raiss havoc generally. “The state of Oaxaca {6 neutral and ‘conducting her affairs independently of ail the rest of Mexico,” says Mr. St mons. ‘The governor of that state ‘was put in the executive ehair by the people of Oaxaca; he has a large army to carry out bis orders and the pco- ple generally are loyal to the gov- emor. There is no trespassing in the state allowed from Carranza, Villa, Za- pate or other faétiénal forces or brig- ands. In this state perfect tranquillity {s being maintained and the state gov- ‘ernment ts not being molested by out- side influences. In Oaxaca, the state government has exacted but one prom: {se from the people besides that of living peacefully and tawfully—that ts, that they will not use the factional currency of elther Carranza or Villa, but that the bank bills of Onsaca, to- gether with silver and gold money, shall be the prevailing medium of cireulation. Has Done Great Work. Unlike In Mexico City, the people of Oaxaca are consequently only us- ing bank bill currency and gold and silver money of the old Mexican gov- ernment. Under these conditions peace and prosperity prevails only in the state of Oaxaca.” “Between Tampico and the coun- try for @ distance of about 60 miles northwest of there.” he continued, “the brigand forces of the Cedilla brothers are looting. These bands cannot be apprehended by the Car ranza soldiers, for after making one of their raids they hike to the mountain: ous country dnd in the fastnesses of the mountains they elude pursuit.” However, the American states that First Chief Carranza has so far ac: complished a great work for Mexico. for in many places the oldtime pros: perity and general activity. has beew restored, mines and other industries have resumed and an air of confidence prevails. Many Americans and other foreigners who from two to four years ago fled from the country on account of the revolution are now returning there—some to teke old positions which they gave up, and others to make investments and hazard the chances of making good now that pace appears to be firmly established {n portions of the country. Some {ntercsting details of Carran- 21's recent tour of the northern states arrived here today trom Saltillo. Ac- companying him was Gen. Alvaro Ob- regon, the man who defeated Villa. now the strongest military figure in Mexico. Wherever the news of the coming of the first chief preceded: his flock of special trains—there were seven ot them—the national colors blossomed in all the pristine exuberance of the Diag regime. From Tampico to Saltillo the Mexican revived not only the prac- tlee of decorating thelr communities with the national colors and playing the national anthem, but the art of building triumphal arches. In his native city, Saltillo, series of beautifully-designed arches showed him the way back to the state capitol from the balcony of which in February, 1913, he proclaimed. the beginning of Pervision of a representative of the New York stato agricultural depart ment. Lady “Pontige'| Johanna. ts owned by Oliver Cabana, Jr. of Buffalo. Heifers Chase Rabbits, = Pennsburg, Pa—It a new idea of « Sumneytown {armer becomes a fad thie rabbit dog. nay” be pushed into tho background. He bas trained some a Fina toes crane Re rare en te Com the rovolution against Victoriano Huerta and from the courtyard 0} which he mounted his horse and set forth to restore to the people thelr constitutional rights, Tho arches bore such Inscriptions es these: “Venustiano Carranza, preserver of the uations! liberties” “Venusticno Carranza has spokes for the sou! of his people.” “Venustiano Carranza, the liberator. the vatrio’ the bera” | the patriot, the kero.” Tell a Wretched Story. | The neighborhood of Saltillo bee al ways been & Carranaistas country. oul the abundant wreckage of trains, st: tions and publie buildings i the state of Nuevo Lzon aud the suited tnlus ties tell a. wretched “sory of even pitlon smong the JobaSitants The almost eiiply streets of Monte reponce the Pitteburgh of Sealco~ Antonio Villareal was there. Ile pre Cut Wilarroate retreat” was. accom: frnieg Sy tiueh random eboottng that tropped scores of elvlians. ‘Toe max niteent wow ratiroad station was tired Shells tad low nany kotce of the oor people. "Vila ease a fex months ago aud compelied the tradespeople to pay I, woud pecos. ‘Then tue Vilitas Bed Uefore Treving eid there was more helterskeiter, shooting bore killed lookers ou, Sg. when Monterey heard that Carcanca end Obregon were com eg with anauy’ trains of Yaquls. Mou Torey obeyed orders to take ® boris aad then wept off he etrects a the eillelong procession that Goveinor de ta Garza got up th NOnor fof the distngulshed visitors there fuze igre men tha ail the eden, Wom fn aud chitdren on the sldewalls, BUL it was the meat orderly parade of rovo- Ialeniets that had taken place in Mon- teres sbice the beginning of the days or occupations, evacuations und riumphal entries. Ard 20 towards the lacter part of the afvernooa the people ot ‘Monterey emerged trom. thelr Houses and wandered road Ia seaveb of tke celebrities. There was a kermess in the evening at one of the Alamedas, Carranza went to it. He bought huge quanticice of flowers, subutted to “arrest” and “ine” of 19 pesos. ehoot hands with all the pretty soung ladies and. as Usual, bore himselt with diguly. Obregon went to the Kermiess, 100 ‘The young lavies mede a tremendous aio over this huwsome one-armed hero of the revolution, When the two men left the park everybody crowded around thelr automobiles aad shouted “vivaa." It was the trst time for many aday that any considerable nember of Fopresestattve Monterey folks bad shouted vivas for revolutionartes. Back in the fret Constitutlonalis occupation of the City of Mexico, whien Carranza rode forth In Avenida Fran elaco I. Madero or inthe Paseo the People paused to Took at bim and to fay to one another: “here goes Carranza!” The Caute, Not the Man. It they ald not have too many eavesdrorping neighbors they were likely to add one oF two other favorite words. Seldom or never, came a viva," The silence was damning. it It were broken at all by an outery the enthust ast turned out to be a man li uniform. Dit alt Uhrough the states of Tasaull pas and Nuevo Leon and through Coubilla to this tty Carranza bas been given abundant evidence of one minded revolutionary enthusiasm, He has aecepted this homage with grave dignity. often with vnchansing face, Uke a'man after all receiving only his ave. “Tt Ie not enthusiaet for the man," say his followers. “It Is for the cause that he roprescuts and leads-the eause of the people." ‘The Mexicans use the words "el pueblo:”” White the diction ary translation of “el pueblo" is “the people,” the words “the populace” erve best to convey the’ Slesiean meaning. They are mostly Indians who gather at the atations and. throng the city Streets to stout “vivas™ for Carranza and Obregon, Mt Is doubtful if more than one in Ay of them can read or write, bit there ts no dovbt that they Know Carranza when he steps forth from his car. and the mere sight of Obregon sends them Into hysteries The gravity of Carranza on tour, oF elsewhore, for that matter, Is imper turbable, and 80 perhans what bis fol Towers tay Is true, that the enthistasm fs for the cause that he represents Certainly local spokesmen toll him el: quently to lis face. that the. people have gathered to emphasize to him the meaning of the cause of the people. They say this with all respect ald they give him thelr gratitude and homage, tut always, even in the most obscure mountain hamlets, tho cause of the people is placed above personalities. The appeal of Obregon to. hamiet sroups and city populacos Ie instan- tancous. He le a gallant, cheery fgure that takes the eye. From bim redtatos a world of energy; ite effect fs mast cal, ‘The cause of the people may bo the greatest thing in the world to these. audiences of Firat Chiet. Car. ranza on his triumphal tour, bit Obre gon is a full-fledged hero. He has all the attributes of the hero, including a stump of an arm which his victory at Calaya left him. All the sunshine of Mexico plays over Obregon's handsome irish tace, He likes his people, and he likes them so well that even as he amies back at ‘Wealth In Gopher Traps, Cottonwood Fall,’ Kan.—Trapping gophers, on which this county pays Bounty of ten cents, is providing a source of wealth to many farmer boys, who bring in thelr packs of gopher aealps to be exchanged’ for bounty money at the county treasurer's: of- fice.” The record: number of gophers on which this county has ever: paid bounty. was brought in recently by Al bert Ramsey, a farmer boy of Dia miond Creek township, who’ bad cap’ tured just 240 gophers and wae etl B08 os (88 ik VAY ee a 2B LIGHTED LIFE BELT|IN FORM OF LADDER ie Resouers to Assistance of| Ship Really Climbs on Its Pas. | Drowning Person. sage Through Looks. ae — ‘that invention of New York Man Has | Economical Device Where Waterway ' Practical Value Will Be Read: Has to Be Cut Through High ity Seen From Deseription Country—Superiority Over of ite: Construction. ‘Tide-Water System. ‘The aiiteulty of saving @ man who has failen overboard at night 18 al: most incuperable, because of the tt: possibility of seeing him tn the heavy: Ing waste of waters, When great maritiie disaster takes place at night, as the wreek of the Titanic did, and hundreds or thousands of human be ings aro scattered over the sea in the arkness the loss of life is appalling, simply beeatse they cannot be seen. If every iife belt could bear a light, the floating or swimming persons could readily be picked up. To pro- vide such a lighted life belt ts the ob: Jeet of an invention by A, M. Mogi of New York It consists essentially of a bag made of rebier or other waterproof mate: rial, eoatalning a smail electric flash: liek and attached by straps to the ordiaey We belts and life preservers. The fushiights may be either tubs tar cr dat, the former belng more Suit: able to ring lif belts, the latter to those that are strapped about the hody. The flashlights can be of small size, for these will glow through the greater part of a night, When a life prosorver 1s thrown at night to a taa2 who has fellen over beard he can rarcly find it in the dark, but with a little flashlight glow: ing upon it Le will see It and be able to reach It if he can swito Bucter, 15 Yeare Old, Wine D.C. M. Tue youngest soldier in the Britis) empire to win the distinguished con- uct metal Is Eugler Anthony Gintay. ficteen years old, of the First Royal Montreal rifles He carried dispatches through excessive fire during a battle in Franee, and besides being decorated was given a feave of absence to visit fan uncle at Dunoon, Scotland. Young Gislay's father and mother emigrated to Canada from Ireland and when the Door war ocebrred his father enlisted anid lost his Ife fa South Afriea, Just fatter (he present war began the boy's riother dled, leaving him alone tn the world, Only fourteen, he persuaded the coloxel of the Montreal rifles to take Eim (0 the front 28 a bugler. Now the fs not only a D. C. M, but he has eon enrolled as a private in his rex ment and really is @ full-fledged 80} dier.—Montreal Star. Fish Substitution. A correspondent writes: “Tam «iting to make many food concessions fi; war time, but I am not willing tc have one kind of fish palmed off as another, ‘Tho ether day, at a famous London restaurant, turbot figured on the menu. I ordered turbot, and was supplied with inferfor hake, swamped with sauce, Yesterday, on another menu, there was haddock. 1 ordered haddock, and was served with salt col. Now, | know fish, and { carry magaifylug glass that enables me to identity them conclusively by the seaies Ia man offers for sale Harris tweed that is not Harris tweed be may fd himself in gaol. What about 8 restaurant that sclls herring hake ‘as turbot?—-London Chronicte. Found Gems Worth Thousands. Jowelry valued at several thousand dollars fourd by a “sandwich man” un der a wagon at Broadway end Forty: second, New York, several days ago. was recovered when the police found the man’s wife offeriag a dlamond-in: chusted watch in a pawnshop for $2 ‘The woman said the wateh was only one of a larze number of pieces of Jowelry her husband had found. The police then found the husband pacing up and down Broadway with a heavy sign over his showlders. Ho sald neither he nor his wife knew the value of the goms he had picked up ‘hore was nothing about the jevrels to dicate who owned them, Treasure. On Galtiyoti, between whiles of at tacking the Turk and being attacked by him, time hung leavy on the hands of the Australian soldicrs of his maj. esty, King George V. Old prospectors among them took note of the fact that the soil of the inhospitable peninsula in which thelr trench was. dug resem: Died that of the continent In the antip. oder Several enthusiasts began to dig. With the result (according to a French paper) that one ex-ainer, work: ing with what tools he could improvise in the pay dirt of his bomb-proof, panned out almost a pound of pure gold! ‘To Utilize Cltrue Weate. ‘The city of Upland, Cal., in the heart of the finest orange-growing section in the world, bas established a new {n- dustry, which promises to make use of the waste products of citrus and deciduous orchards. ‘The plant, which will cost about $100,000, will attempt to utilize all parts of the frufts that now are wasted, and will turn out acids, concentrated fulces, trait pastes and essential ofls, and manutacture marmalades and preserves. Cashed at Face Value, ‘The chancellor of the exchequer of Great Britain reports the total amount ot scrip vouchers sold to date to be $26,000,000. ‘This amount ts not what was hoped for from the serip vouch. ers. Now it is proposed to issue bonds in the multiples of £1. They will bear an interest of & per cent and can be cashed on demand at thelr face value at any time. In return for these faci. tes bonds will carry no interest for the firet six months, Ne eet Pia SN Wie” abel ee ag tage Pe ‘he acreage of rice in Louisiana and Arkansas bas increased approximate. Ty 700,000 acres in the last two years, The United States 1s now growing practicaliy. the equivalent of. all the ites ae Ds Ship Really Climbs on Its Pas- sage Through Locks. Economical Device Where Waterway Has to Be Cut Through High Country—Superiority Over ‘Tide-Water System, It fs @ fact that a ship really clinds a ladder. Each step in the ludder is a small lock in which the ship can float. To begin the ascent a pair of gates at the bottom of the Indder Is opened and the ship sails in, ‘Then the low: est gates are shut and more water fs allowed to go into this lock, or dock, where the ship 1s, When the water tn this lock is tevet with the water in the upper lock. an- other set of gates Is opened aud the ship sails into the second lock. ‘The gates are then shut, and when the water has been allowed to flow into the second lock, in which the shin now Is, other gates are oponeil. And 80 on the ship goes up the ludder. It ft were not for the system of locks, which may be really called ship. ladders, the canal would need to be ‘cut very, very deep where tt gues through high country, go that the sur- face of the water would be on the same level throughout the entire length of the canal, But with locks the cutting of a canal is much easier and cheaper. It was for this reason that the Pan: ama canal was designed and construct. ed as a lock canal, although many en- gincors favored the tide-water or non- lock as the better system, It is claimed that the slides which have already caused thousands of dollars in damage to the canal would have been {a worse had the channel been cut to @ depth which would have directly connected the two oceans, ‘Pista Sedinen-Wikinare.. ‘Telephones aro being used in one of the restaurants at Plainfield, N. J., 8s substitutes for waltresses, says the Popular Mechanics, Instruments have been installed at cach of the several tables and permit the guosts to com- municate thelr orders direct .to the kitehon without suffering delay. The activities of the waitresses are con- fined solely to the serving of food. To simplify the system, each menu on the card is numbered so that a patron ‘may render his order numerically. A switchboard operator makes a record of all orders and attends to the Is ‘suance of the checks, The guests are privileged to use the telephones for Outside calls and likewise may receive incoming messages without leaving their respective tables, Warning to Motoriate, A fine of $20 “for lying" and $5 for spocding was assessed against Louis Groonspon of 6829 Westminster place, ‘& merchant, by Pollco Judge Hogan, according to the St. Louis Post-Dis- pateh. It was charged that Greonspon drove bis machine at 25 miles an hour on Locust street. between Beaumont street and Twenty-frst street, When he was arrested, Judge Hogan asked ‘him if be had not beon arrested before for speeding. Greenspon said he had not. Hogan had the record looked up, and it showed that Greenspon was fined $5 on August 14 for specding. “Young man," Judge Hogan said, “t fine you $20 for lying and $5 for speed: Ing.” Dutch Barges on the Thames. Belgian barges have appeared on the Thames and are probably fraternizing with those Dutch neighbors who are always to be found just below London bridge. For more than two centuries there have always been big, brond- stemmed Dutch boats lying in the river, with a baggy-trousered Dutchman smoking on board quite calmly. It {8 the reminiscence of a Dutch conquest. ‘Those boats have moored there, with their eels for London, ever since Wil- Ham IM gave them the right of trattic. And {f there wasn’t a Dutch boat for & single sccond just below London bridge, the ancient rights would be ost. But you will always find the calm Dutchman smoking on his “pitch "—Dundee Advertiser. =e "Tried to Cook Gunpowder. Mistaking @ bag of powder for one ot flour in Pennegrove, Thoma Patchess of Philadelphia was badly burned about the face and hands. Patchell, who operates a jitney ‘bus botween Pennsgrove and the Carneys Point Powder plant, bunks with two Powder workers {na shack {n Penns: Srove. He was getting the breakfast, and put what he supposed wus four Into a pan on the stove, He took the wrong bag. There was a fiash awd Fonr of flame and Patchell staggered back, blinded and suffering agooles from burns. He was given attention by @ local physiclan, and then gent to the hospital, ‘feow Wtntn te Unies ‘eases: Since the United States department of agriculture established tho section of seed and plant introduction im 1907 this has introduced Into the United States almost 60,000 varieties of Dlants. in the year ending last Juno ‘more than 2,000 were introduced and 171,851 experimental plants and 11,468 Dackots of seeds wore given to expert monters, of each of which a record ls ent, Thote Dear Girls, Atmee—Young DeMutt proposed te /me one evening last wook, Hazel—Why, he. proposed to me, also! Aimeo—Well, I'm not at all sur Drlsod, When f refused him he throat fened to do something desperate, On Three Counts, “No,” said the editor, “we cannot’ esiyaye anked “ts It top 1y,"” anh ‘the post, “is It top Tong? F i Yes," hissed the editor. “Iva tom. long, and too wide, and too thick" 6722 X PRETTY COTTAGE OF FIVE ROOMS Arranged With Cased Openings, to Allow Large, Unobstructed Floor Space. PORCH COZY AND ATTRACTIVE Built Under Separate Roof, But Has the Popular Built-In Effect—House Has Admirable Lighting Arrangements—Storage Space Provided For. BY WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE O'COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience, Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 127 Prairie avenue, Chicago, IL, and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The porch is the greatest factor in determining the impression that a person receives from a house. An attractive and cozy porch will always help in making any house more pleasant. Porches can be built in many ways so as to fit in with the general scheme of the house design. Sometimes they are set back under the main roof, which gives the built-in effect. Other times they are detached from the house proper and built under a separate roof, which of course connects up with the main roof of the house. The design shown here the porch is built under a separate roof, but it is built so low that it gives the built-in effect just as if it were under the house roof. The square, white pillars combined with the low roof and the overhanging eaves add to the idea of a built-in porch. The porch roof is of the gable type, while a hip roof covers the house. A bungalow effect is created by the overhanging eaves on both the house and the porch. In small houses, cased openings are becoming more and more popular to join up the rooms in the front part of the house. With a small home it is impossible to get very large rooms, and such an arrangement may be desirable for entertaining. This is accomplished by using cased openings. The reception hall, living room, and dining room are connected in this way here. The arrangement gives a large unobstructed floor space along the front and one side of the house. The cased opening between the dining room and the living room is so wide that it makes these two rooms into one large room. The lighting of these rooms is taken care of in good shape BED ROOM 11' x 10' CLO KITCHEN 11' x 8' BATH 11' x 8' CLO LUNGE KLO HALL DINING ROOM 15' x 11' MARRIAGE BED ROOM 11' x 10'' ACCEPTION HALL 9' x 8' LIVING ROOM 14' x 11'' FRONT PORCH 23' x 6' x 6' Floor Plan. by four windows in the living room and two windows in the dining room. and two wide ones in the dining room. A seat can be built into the square bay in the living room if desired. Built in seats are found now in nearly every house, and are an exceedingly pleasant feature. Almost any built-in seat will add to the costiness of a room. In the dining room is a built-in but fetts on the side. This buffet extends consequently along the wall and con- sequently over the floor for ocea, silver, or any of the many things that are used in the dining room. Storage space is often at a premium in small houses and the closets become filled up because there is no other place to keep things that are not in actual use all the time. Even in the best-regulated families there are always many things around that nobody is using but they are kept beedy. They may be of service some day. They probably be stored somewhere they are always kept, anyway. Plenty of storage space is provided in this plan in the attic. This extensive space is reached by stairs through the dining room. In addition to the room in the attic there are plenty of closets, including one in each bedroom, one in the bathroom, one in the back hall, and one in the reception hall. The compact kitchen is of the type that is so popular among homeowners. Everyone presents people remark about the wonderful large kitchen in some house. If they had to work in that wonderful large kitchen for a while they would stop calling it won- derful, but they would shorten its name down to just large kitchen. The person who works in the kitchen has to move around a good deal and if this room is too big the walking that has to be done in preparing a meal is very tiring. What is the use, then, of wasting space that will be valuable in some other room? In planning the house figure on a small, compact, and well-arranged kitchen and you will never regret it. In the design shown here the kitchen is only 11 feet 6 inches by 8 feet, which cuts the waste space to a minimum. Room for all the various things that are needed in the kitchen is provided by a pantry. This is a small room in the kitchen, and is located near the kitchen. In the kitchen there is a cupboard and also a refrigerator that is iceed from the outside. The kitchen opens on to a rear porch that can be used as a kitchen annex in the warm weather. This house is set well above the ground, so that there is a large and well-lighted basement. It is absolutely necessary to have a heating plant in any of the northern parts of this country. To do this the house must be set high enough so that there is plenty of headroom for the type of plant that it is installed. A deep cellar could be built with the same effect, but the basement would be inclined to darkness and it would also be damp. With this house a laundry can be installed and there would also be room for a small workshop. The entrance to the basement is from the kitchen. A storage room for fruits and vegetables can be built in a part of the cellar that is as far from the furnace as possible. WOES OF MUNITION WORKERS Powder House Jag A frequent Affliction—Chronic State of Nervousness Common. Alcohol is greatly feared by the powder people and rightly so. But the people in the military that appears among their workmen in the powder mills. As subter- ranean labor in compressed air pro- produces "the bends," work in the powder mills creates the "powder house jag," which is described as fol- lows by Merle Crowell in the Amer- can Magazine. "A powder house is no place for an unmade or an unseeing eye, but the 'powder house jag', a freak product of the plants themselves, is something which no amount of diligence can forefend. Large quantities of alcohol are used in the making of smokeless powder, and the air in the shops frequently gets heavy with its fumes. Men have been known to leave the plants reeling and stupefied, while one serious accident recently was caused because a fumefuddled workman threw on both the high pressure and the low pressure brakes at the same time. "A weir nervous disorder that steals upon powder makers has been called 'powderlits.' Treading all day with rubber-soled shoes in a shop which a vagrant spark will change into a crate, they get kowed "up to a nervous tension that never runs down, with the result that even when off duty they nearer jump through their nearest flame of light. Although powder, unless it is confined, does not explode at a spark under normal conditions, a powder shop may be changed into an inferno of wildfire in a few seconds." Serbians Good Infantry All Serbian peasants are great walkers. A servant, given a short leave, will think nothing of footing it to his home, five and twenty miles off, and walking back after a short day spent with his family. It is quite in the ordinary way of their business for both men and women to be two days on the road to market. Owing to their remarkable marching powers Serbian troops are mobilized and moved with surprising rapidity. They are able to communicate. And then they march light. With little in the bread-bag that hangs at his belt the Serbian soldier is quite content if only he can roll himself a cigarette now and then, and look forward perhaps, to a tot of plum-cognac. The Family Coach. "Family coach" is the game going on in our social life, and the stately homes of England are being denuded still further of their domestic servants. The boys don khaki, the parlormale throws away her cap and apron and skips off to take her place on railway, trancar, business office, the police service, and, more particularly, the restaurant. Instinctively the ordinary mistress knows that the servants, having unite wages, and those dear, unite hours of personal liberty, will not return to the "servants' hall", and there will be many mistresses who will be left lamenting—London Chronicle. Sugar Center in Philippines. The erection of a sugar center, far larger than any at present operated in the Philippine islands, has just been assured by the signing of a contract between members of the Yulo family of occidental negros and allied interests, and a syndicate of Honolulu sugar capitalists, who have agreed to advance $250,000 gold to be used in development work. A This is probably the most elaborate deceptive device used by any of the belligerent armies. The French have posted a large number of their 220-centimeter mortars in woods and other places, where they are hidden from the enemy's "air eyes." In order to deceive the German aviators, the French have placed very clever fake guns around the real mortars. They are substantially built of wood and metal to look genuine, and uniformed figures are placed about to represent the gun squads. When an aviator appears overhead, soldiers a long way off pull strings to make the figures move. Smoke also comes out of the gun muzzle. LOSES MEMORY IN BATTLE, WOOS FIANGEE ANEW Canadian, Mind Made Blank by Shell Concussion, Does Not Know Parents. IS STRANGER THAN FICTION Thomas Trusler, Sent Back to Front From Hospital, Fails to Recall His Name and is Reported Missing —Forgets Sweetheart and Fails in Love With Her "All Over Again." New York.—Fate has played many strange pranks with the men fighting in Europe, but none perhaps is more curious than that in which Thomas F. Trusler figures. Mr. Trusler, who is stopping at a hotel, was a gunner in the Third brigade, Canadian field artillery. The concussion from a shell which struck the ground near him last winter caused him to lose all recollection of the past. Consequently, his fiancee in Montreal mourned him for dead, and even after he learned his identity through a scar on his right foot he did not remember her or his parents. However, as he explained recently, he took his parents' word that they were his father and mother, and, although he does not recall his first proposal, he said he has fallen in love all over again with the woman he was to have married and soon he hopes to make her his bride. Although Sir Frederick Treves, King George's surgeon, is said to have attempted to restore his memory by means of bynismot, Mr. Trusler, who is twenty-one years old, recalls nothing of his past prior to the day his mind became blank from the concussion, and when he returned to Canada in the early autumn because of his wound it was necessary for him to relearn the way about his native city of Montreal and to be introduced to lifelong boyhood friends and schoolmates. Under Fire at Ypres. The young gunner went with the first Canadian contingent which reached France a year ago. At that time the German general staff was perfecting its schemes to break through to Calais by way of Ypres. Mr. Trusler first came under fire Vlamanting, just west of Ypres. His division was acting as a reserve force. "I have been told by men who served with me on my gun that we all saw a huge German aeroplane fly over us," Mr. Trusler said. "Soon thereafter there was a rain of high explosive shells from a big German gun. Several of our boys were killed, and the fact that I was not was a miracle. One of the shells fell within ten or twenty feet of me, I was told, but did not explode. The concussion, however, was terrific, and it dazed and stupefied me. "I remember awakening in a base hospital with the wounded all about me. I felt myself all over and could find nothing smashed, so I sat up in my cot. Then I got out of it and stood up and asked why I was there. A physician told me what had happened to me and sent me back to my brigade, which he located by the insignia on my uniform. When I got back I didn't seem to recollect anything or anybody. "Some of the men of my gun company saw me and took me back to my quarters. It was necessary for me to make friends with companions again. They called me 'Howie'—a nickname—and soon I became known as 'Howie Trurler.' That fact made it difficult for my parents to locate me, because Petromotility, or Automobile Gas Polisoning, Kills a Chicago Lawyer. Chicago—Eugene M. Bumphrey, a lawyer, is dead at his home here of what physicians term petromotility, or automobile gas poisoning. According to physicians, it is the first fatal case to Chicago from that cause. An idea of the violence with which patromutrio attacks its victims was IOWA STATE BYSTANDER DEVICE TO DECEIVE ENEMY ate deceptive device used by any of the pontimeter mortars in woods and other receive the German aviators, the French substantially built of wood and metal to load. When an aviator appears overhead comes out of the gun muzzle. when I was asked my name I spelled it "Tressler," because I didn't want anybody to know that I couldn't recall where I came from or who I was. Is Reported Missing. "Consequently T. F. Trusler" went on the rolls of the missing. Consequently also, I failed to get mail from my fiancee and my parents. It was not until last summer when I was wounded in the leg so badly that I was sent to England that I made any attempt to find out who I was. I confided my story to an English woman who was wounded in the hospital. She made inquiries among the officers of my brigade who remembered "Trusler" who came out with the contingent. "My parents were communicated with and my mother remembered an old scar on my foot. Sure enough the scar was there. Even when I returned to Montreal I didn't recognize my mother and don't yet. I learned I was engaged to be married before I left for the front and on my return home my flance was at the station with my mother and father. I didn't recognize any of them, but they took me home." Here Mr. Trusier admitted that he had fallen in love "all over again" and with the same girl. Although the gunner cannot remember what happened before January of last year, he has a vivid recollection of what has happened since, and his description of the battle of Ypres in April and the effect of the poison gases used by the Germans is most vivid. "About five o'clock of the evening of April 23," he said, "we were getting quite bored, for we were in the reserve force along the Poperinghe road, three miles west of Ypres. The dull monotony was rudely broken by the sudden appearance of swarms of French colonial troops, Singalinese and Zouaves, rushing in from the front trenches, clutching at their throats, holding their sides, rolling on the ground, gasping for breath, eyes bloodshot and staring, many of them bleeding at the mouth, but most of them unable to explain the cause of their peculiar actions. Asphyxiatng Gas Cloud. "Along with them came scores of refugees, men, women and children, bearing with them all they could take from their burning and wrecked homes. At that time we had never heard of asphixating gas and were at a loss to make out what it all meant. The order 'stand to your arms' was quickly passed along to the reserves. The Montreal Highlanders were the first to get on the move. It takes longer to get artillery wagons on the move, and while we were working at feverish haste the Highlanders went by, each man singing and smiling, although they must have known that many of them would never return. "At seven o'clock the artillery forces were all ready and waiting for the order to move forward. I shall never forget the scene at the town where these arcs high in the heavens huge jets of flames, while overhead shells burst by the hundreds, and in our ears was the din of falling walls and all sorts of indescrutable noises. "When the order came to move forward we urged our horses with a cheer and a song. It was necessary for us to make a detour south of Ypres in order to get to the main road leading to our damaged front. It also was necessary to cross the Yer canal, about half a mile south of the town, on a pontoon bridge. The first gun got over safely, when along came a German shell and destroyed it. "Under a deadly fire, for the Germans had the range, we waited while the engineers worked to construct another bridge. Two long thick poles were placed across the narrow canal and crossways on them timbers and logs were piled. The second gun went across precariously, but the third was upset by a rolling log, the cannon carriage falling on one side of the narrow bridge and the six horses on the other. While the cannon and horses seemed to be seesawing this way and that across the bridge a shell put an end to all the trouble. given by Dr. John D. Ellis, head of the department of occupational diseases of Rush Medical college. "The thing is new to science in some aspects," said Doctor Ellis. "Persons who are subject to vertigo may be attacked when in a close, small garage. The danger lies in a failure of certain elements in the gasoline to oxidize. In any event, there is a quick suffusion of a violent gas that renders the victim faint. Thus if the exhaust of an automobile continues, the result is almost instant death. ed, and my gun went across. By this time the glare from the burned town was dying down, and I was wondering just what was ahead of us when an aeroplane high above dropped a star shell. This was followed by a perfect hurricane of shells, and the last gun to attempt the crossing went into the water. Emerging from a wood, we ran into a murderous gunfire from German infantry and machine guns. My gun and others of our battery were hurled into this open fire-swept field, swung around and in less than two minutes opened fire on the Germans. "Each of our shells contained 300 bullets, and at a range of 250 yards one can readily imagine how the German fell. Finally we halted them, but the German infantry remained hidden behind a deep fringe of trees with their own dead piled up against them. Our guns could not do effective work because of the trees. Therefore we were ordered to use high explosive shells. "I shall never forget how those shells were brought to us. The horses on the ammunition supply wagon became crazed and ran away. They dashed within a few yards of the German lines, and one brave rider—one ever knew who he was—shot the first two horses dead. The wagon was thrown into the water. "Then there was an explosion, for the wagon, hit by a shell, was blown to bits. The explosion wrought havoc among the Germans and our infantry, quickly following up the advantage, drove the Teutons out of the woods. "Meantime our line was badly pressed near St. Julien, and after the arrival of fresh British and Candiants our battery was ordered there. We went right into the town. But on and on came the German infantry, and the retreat was sounded. "Spying at the dangerous. "Spying at the front is the most dangerous of all occupations." Mr. Trusler continued. "The Germans are very clever at it, and one method of sending news between the lines is by trained dogs. One night one of our sentries saw a dog dart past him. He called to the animal, thinking the dog would make an excellent mascot for the battery. The dog came back and wagged his tail the sentry took him to his quarters. "The following morning one of the men remarked on the thickness of the plain leather collar worn by the dog. An examination revealed that the collar was hollow, and in it we found a message in cipher. Instantly an officer was summoned, the dog was put on a long wire leash and driven out of camp. He went direct to a barber and asked him to cut the collar of lounging and talking when off duty. The barber, whom we thought to be a Belgian, was a German spy and afterward was put to death." 1 Miss Schofield's recent entrance into the society of the national capital was welcomed enthusiastically, for before her debut she had been one of the most popular of the younger leaders. "The post-mortem showings are those of brain and lung congestion." Bumphrey went to his garage last night to get his automobile, in which he intended to deliver a number of Christmas gifts to poor families. An hour later his body was found on the floor of the garage, the engine of the automobile was running, and the small room was filled with gas fumes. The street trees of Paris number 56,000, 16,000 being glaciers, 16,000 chestnutts and 14,000 sims. The KITCHEN CABINET Misery may love company but remember it loves cheerful company. All good work begins with contentment. The heart must sing while the hand toils. If good work is to be achieved. PLENTY OF PANCAKES. For a cold-morning breakfast or a chilly night supper the pancake still holds its popular polish the flat frons, in fact a hundred uses will be found for emery and sand paper. If in a hurry for baked potatoe, boil them a few minutes then put them into the oven to bake. They will cook in a much shorter time. Cabbage is of much better flavor it cooked uncovered and contradictory; as it may sound neither does it scen- the house as much. MILK Bread Pancakes. —Sook some bread crumbs in hot water until soft, then add milk and moisture, and to one pint of the bread add two well-beaten eggs, a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter and sufficient milk to make a smooth batter. Just at the last add a teaspoonful of baking powder and fry in hot fat. Rice Pancakes—Boll a quarter of a pound of rice till quinoo soft, then drain and leave till cold. Mix with it one cupful of cream, four beaten eggs, a little salt, nutmeg to taste, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and flour to form a smooth batter. Italian Pancakes—Beat well together two eggs, a quarter of a cupful of flour, one tablespoonful of sugar, half a cupful of warm milk, add a tablespoonful of melted butter and a few drops of lemon extract. Bake in buttered saucers in a hot oven for 20 minutes. Serve buttered and sprinkled with sugar. Pineapple Pancakes—Beat two eggs well together with a dessertspoonful of rosewater, two of rice flour, two of sugar, and then add half a cupful of cream. Put one tablespoonful of butter into a small fryingpan, and when boiling hot pour in the mixture so as to cover the pan thinly; fry a light brown; then drain well. Have ready some long slices of pineapple and roll one in each pancake. Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, then add one teaspoonful of vanilla extract, divide it into two parts and fry separately; do not turn, so that it leaves the pan like snow. Lay these across the pancakes. Stuffed Pancakes—Beat two tablespoonful of butter to a cream then gradually beat in one tablespoonful of sugar, four eggs, one cupful of warm milk, pinch of salt, two tablespoonfuls of currants, the rind of a lemon and flour to form a thin batter. Fry lightly on both sides. As each is cooked, spread with fresh or preserved fruit, roll up and keep until ready to serve. If you have not the force of character to make an enemy, you will never make a friend. Beware of the man of whom everybody speaks well. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. If you are ever unfortunate enough to "spill indelible ink on linen, rub it quickly with salt and saturate with ammonia, then rinse in cold water. The ink will vanish in less time than it takes to write about it. Put your wax candles for the birthday cake and evening table on ice and not drip while burning. quickly with salt and saturate with ammonia, then rinse in cold water. The ink will vanish in less time than it will write to about it. Put the birthday cake for the birthday cake and evening table on ice and they will not drip while burning. Citron melon is far more delicate and enjoyable if grated than cut in dice as it is usually preserved. A spoonful of the grated citron on a dish of plain ice cream makes a simple dish quite elegant. Take a nap everyday if it is no longer than five minutes. Learn to relax, let go of every muscle and rise refreshed and ready for more work. For a variety, when using cream puffs, make them smaller than common; fill with ice cream and put into glassed glasses, then pour over a maple sauce when about to serve. This sauce may be accompanied with chopped nuts if desired, making a most delicious dessert. The following is one grandmother's cure-all. Take one tablespoonful each of the bark of sassafras, saraparilla, and cascara; add one tablespoonful of senna leaves and pour over it a quart of cold water, simmer slowly until reduced to one-half, bottle and keep in a cool place. For an adult a tablespoonful night and morning when the liver needs jogging or the appetite fast. A piece of sandpaper is as valuable a help in the kitchen as it is at the desk in sharpening lead pencils. Keep a piece to sandpaper off the rough place on the broom handle or to scrape a dish that has had food burned on; to POSTSCRIPTS Controlled by an electric motor, a Massachusetts man has invented apparatus for unlocking and opening or closing and locking garage doors while a man is seated in an automobile some distance away. To prevent death by poison tablets taken in mistake an inventor has brought out tablets coated with rubber, which is said to resist the stomach acids long enough for a tablet to pass out of the system. There are 77 men who have worked for the Pennsylvania railroad 50 years or more and are young enough to be still at work. Gold-backed mirrors for searchlights are being tried by British warships on the theory that they will penetrate fog better and distinguish more readily a gray vessel against a background of similar color. Crude oil in its tanks limited the amount of water which could enter a steamship when it struck rocks near Ceylon, creating large holes in its hull and enabled it to reach port five days later. fad. at. if. as is is of an at 3d as he ene, we he to an ist His illu by sed ant was ich yat a ally an the bein of polish the fat irons, in fact a hundred uses will be found for emery and sand-paper. If in a hurry for baked potatoes boil them a few minutes then put them into the oven to bake. They will cook in a much shorter time. Cabbage is of much better flavor if cooked uncovered and contradictory as it may sound neither does it scent the house as much. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten if nature can substitute on three. Thank heaven for three. Amen. Oliver Wendell Johnes. THE WINTER BERRY. The appetizing cranberry is a reasonable fruit in price, and one that is especially enjoyed as an appetizer with meats. In cooking cranberries care should be used in cooking them in granite or earthenware dishes, as the field tin. Aluminum ware and porcelain are other dishes that are safe to use with acid fruits. is especially enjoyed as an appetizer with meats. In cooking cranberries care should be used in cooking them in granite or earthenware dishes, as the acid acts on the tin. Aluminum ware and porcelain are other dishes that are used with acid fruits. Pick over, wash and drain the berries to be used for sauce, add one and a half cupfuls of water to three pints of berries, let them boil until tender; before adding the sugar, then add three cupfuls of sugar and cover closely for a few minutes. The berries may then be put through a sieve and molded, if so desired. If it is desired to keep the berries whole make a rich stirup and add the berries to the boiling stirup. A pretty dessert is this: Remove centers from cupcakes and fill with cranberry jelly, set in sheerber cups and serve with whipped cream. Cranberry and Orange Sauce—Squeeze the juice from an orange, cover the peel with cold water and heat slowly to the boiling point, boil until tender, then scrape out the white part and cut the peel into narrow stripes. Simmer one and a half cupfuls of raisins until tender, add the orange peel and juice and a quart of cranberries. Add more water to make a cupful of the liquid, cover and cook ten minutes or until the berries are tender. Then add two cupfuls of juice, and boil until thick. Cranberry Shortcake—Sift together a quart of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one-half teaspoonful of salt. Mix with the tips of the fingers two-thirds of a cupful of shortening and add milk to make a soft dough. Roll out into two thin cakes, spread with butter and place the second on top of the first. Cook together a cupful of cranberries and a half cupful each of raisins and water. When the berries are soft, stir in a cupful of sugar and a tablespoonful of cornstarch, well blended with the sugar. Flavor with nutmeg, beat well and spread on the cakes while they are hot. GOOD THINGS FOR THE TABLE. The ordinary rice pudding may be made a most dainty dish with different sauces or garnishes. Pack remnants of cold rice into a mold. When time to serve, turn out on a dish and cover with with sauce. Put in a bowl. Put out of nifle. sauces of garnishes. Pack remnants of cold rice into a mold. When time to serve, turn out on a dish and cover with whipped cream. Put a row of pits ted dates around the base of the mold, sprinkle with pistachio nuts. Grated maple sugar or brown sugar with chopped walnuts and garnish. Instead of the whipped cream a half pound of melted marshmallows, mixed with cream enough to melt them poured over rice and garnished with cocoa or grated chocolate. Stuffed Egg Salad.—Cook four eggs until hard, shell and cut lengthwise into halves. Remove the yolks and beat to a paste, adding a tablepoonful of chill sauce, two tablespoonfuls of minced chicken and a teaspoonful of butter. When blended fill into the egg whites and arrange on a bed of crisp lettuce, pouring over a thick boiled dressing and garnish with capers and slices of pickled beets. Apple Ramekins—Half fill ramekins with apple sauce, filling the space with whipped cream. Cover with a short pie crust and bake. Serv hot or cold with grated cheese over the top. Turnips With Macaroni—Quarter and cook tender small turnips, add some seasoning of the macaroni. Turnips. Pour over the some peanut butter, sprinkle with buttered crumbs and bake until brown. Nessie Maxwell To prevent waste and keep ribbons clean in stores a North Carolina woman has patented a reel with a spring clip to prevent it becoming loose and with a paper tape printed with feet and inches for measuring it. What is believed to be the smallest fresh-water fish in the world has been carried to New York from Haiti. When full grown it is less than an inch and a half long. This species swarms in many tropical rivers and is of great value as a destroyer of mosquito larvae. New York provides subchiefs of the fire department with automobiles as an economy measure. A wealthy and somewhat eccentric ex-deputy, M. Carret, who retired from political life in France many years ago to live in an Alpine grotto in Savoy, has left his fortune to his native town on condition that each year a price of $2,000 be awarded to the most perfect girl, both physically and morally, in Savoy. A duster made of cheesecloth, soaked in turpentine and then dried, will accumulate dust instead of scattering it. Mrs. Lizzie Bailey of Kewanoe, Ill., is visiting her mother and relatives in Keokuk. Mrs. Lizzie Bailey and Mrs. Thos. Davis and daughter were the guests at the Mr. and Mrs. Thos. H. Brown home Wednesday, December 29th. A four-course dinner was served. Mrs. Lizzie Bailey and Mr. Taylor Robinson, her uncle, from Bellflower, Mo., and Mrs. Thos. H. Brown were the guests at the Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Shelton home, her sister, at a six o'clock lunch, Saturday, January 1. Mrs. Lizzie Bailey and daughter-in-law and son were the guests of Mrs. Thos. Davis, her niece, at a six o'clock dinner Sunday, January 2. An eight-course dinner was served. Mrs. Thos. Davis was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Evelyn Rightout, at La Grange, Mo. DAVENPORT ITEMS Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Bradbury, at 3:30 this morning. Those who survive are three daughters, Mrs. H. Bradbury, Mrs. Jennie Proctor and Mrs. Ida Smith, four sons, Joseph, Samuel, William and Richard; one sister, Mrs. Susan Moore of Burlington, several grandchildren, one great great grandson. Funeral from the Third Baptist church Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. A new club has been launched in the city to be known as the East Davenport Art club with officers as follows: President, Mrs. Lewis Fiqua; Mrs. Henry Burns, vice president and historian; Mrs. Milton Howard, secretary; Mrs. A. T. Thomas, treasurer and journalist; Mrs. Wm. Baker, chorister. Mrs. Lee Holmes has returned home from Kansas City, where she visited relatives during the holidays. She reports a fine time. Revival meeting are in progress at Bethel A. M. E. church. Rev. N. B. Jones of Chicago is preaching splendid sermons every night and much interest is being manifested. Mr. Wm. Barnes was called to Burlington last Saturday by the serious illness of his mother. Prof. Fred D. Solomon and Miss Margaret Allen of Galesburg, Ill., will appear in a recital of high class music on various musical instruments at Bethel A. M. E. church Thursday evening, January 20th. Miss Geneva Watts of Springfield, Ill., is in the city visiting her grandmother and other friends. The funeral of Sylvester Price was held from the Bowling undertaking parlors last Sunday afternoon, Rev. T. W. Lewis officiating, assisted by Rev. N. B. Jones of Chicago. Miss Mary Crawford has been very sick, but is much better at this writing. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To A. J. Harter, 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 4, 1911, the following described real estate, toit: Lot eight (8), in block two (2), in the town of Chesterfield, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to W. L. Baugh for the payment of taxes for the year 1910 thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, which certificate is now owned and held by E. C. Worthington. 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Chittick, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 6, 1910, the following described real estate, to wit: Lot thirteen (13), in block one (1), of the official plat of the northeast quarter (1-4) of the southwest quarter (1-4) of section twenty-three (23), township seventy-nine, north of range twenty-four (24), (except the east eight hundred thirty and fourteenth (830.4) feet thereof), now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to E. C. Worthington for the payment of taxes for the year 1909 thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, which certificate is now owned and held by E. C. Worthington. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said real estate 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 Des Moines, Iowa, January E. C. Worthington. Book 28, page 111. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To Elisha McClain, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 6, 1910, the following described real estate, towit: The west one-half (1-2) of lot six (6), in block seven (7), in Oak Park, an addition now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to E. J. Boynton for the payment of taxes for the year 1909 thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, which certificate is now owned and held by E. C. Worthington. 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Send samples of hair with all orders. 2416 Blonde St., Omaha, Neb. 1 2 3 WATERLOO NEWS PETER H. BURGESS IOWA STATE BYSTANDER auspices of the Y. M. S. C. Arrangements are now being made for his entertainment. The second quarterly meeting of the A. M. E. church will be held on January 16th. Naomi, the 7 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cooper, 402 Glenwood street, passed away on December 27th, accused by scarlet fever. This was a very sad funeral. first because the family was quarantined and unable to attend the funeral and Naomi's cheerful disposition gained for her many little friends and she was a favorite in the A. M. E. Sunday school, to which she belonged. Rev. I. W. Bess was in charge of the funeral. Interment was in Fairview cemetery. Watch meeting services at the A. M. E. church were a success, although it rained all day and night. A good attendance was had and they remained for refreshments. Mrs. W. 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Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo is the best cleaner for the washing of the heads of colored people. It contains no astringents or other ingredients harmful to the scalp. It promotes hair health and vigor. For woman, man or child. PRICE 50c. PER BOTTLE Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo Treatment $1.25 Kansas City, Mo. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1916. gestion. My wife also used them for indigestion and they did her good," writes Fugene S. Knight, Wimington, N. C. Obtainable everywhere. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To M. L. Davis, 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 4, 1911, the following described real estate, to wit: Lot four (4), in block two (2), in DeWolf's addition, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to E. C. Worthington for the payment of taxes for the year 1910 thereon, and a certificate was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, which certificate is now owned and held by E. C. Worthington. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said real estate 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 Des Moines, Iowa, January 12, 1916. E. C. Worthington. Book 29, page 81. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To Claude A. Baker, 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 4, 1911, the following described real estate, towit: Lot twenty-three (23) of George Garver's sub-division of lots one (1) and two (2) official plat of lot forty-seven (47) of Brooks and Company's addition to the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to E. J. Boynton for the payment of taxes for the year 1910 thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, which certificate is now owned and held by E. C. Worthington. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said real estate 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 Des Moines, Iowa, January 12, 1916. E. C. Worthington. Book 29, page 49. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To N. W. Clark 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, 1912, the following described real estate, towit: Lot fifteen (15) in block twelve (12), in Larison Place, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to W. E. Kersey for the payment of taxes for the year 1911 thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, which certificate is now owned and held by E. C. Worthington. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said real estate 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 Des Moines, Iowa, January 12, 1916. E. C. Worthington. Book 30, page 69. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE To E. R. Moore, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 6, 1909, the following described real estate, towit: Lot nine (9), in block eight (8), (except railroad right of way) of T. E. Brown's official plat of the northeast quarter (except the northeast forty acres of same) of section thirty-six (36), township seventy-nine (79), north of range twenty-four (24), now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to E. C. Worthington for the payment of taxes for the year 1908 thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, which certificate is now owned and held by E. C. Worthington. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said real estate 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 Des Moines, Iowa, January 12, 1916. E. C. Worthington. Book 27, page 71. Fever Sorea. Fever sores and old chronic sores should not be healed entirely, but should be kept in healthy condition. This can be done by applying Chamberlain's Salve. This salve has no superior for this purpose. It is also most excellent for chapped hands sore nipples, burns and diseases of the skin. For sale by all dealers.