Iowa State Bystander

ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER The Best and only medium that reaches the colored people of the middle west. XXII No. 32 Miss Lola Reynolds who has been sick is convalescing. Mrs. Agnes Jacobs is gradually re- covering from a severe sick spell. Mrs. J H. Perkins who has been very sick is much better, weich is good rews to her many friends. Mr T. C. Brown who has lived here several years, is preparing to move to Chariton, Ia. and later may move to Illinois. Mrs. J. H. Sheard received two big fat o'possums right from Missouri this week, the gift of her relatives near New Bloomfield. Mrs. Geo. C. Young has moved her dressmaking parlor to the Thompson hotel, where she will be pleased to meet her old customers and now ones. Mrs. Clara Tate, 1433 Buchanan, underwent an operation at the Iowa Methodist hospital Tuesday Jan. 25th. She is doing nicely at this writing. Mrs. William Kinney, 1021 Chestnut street, was taken to the Methodist hospital Thursday Jan. 27th for the purpose of undergoing an operation. Mrs. D. Mickle Ousley received a very painful sprained arm Tuesday afternoon at the skating arm, but is reported doing nicely at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Reeves, 908 Fourteenth Street Place, are the proud parents of a fine baby boy, weighing eight pounds, born Sunday Jan. 23rd. The M. C. T. club will meet with Miss Gertrude Hyde Monday, Jan. 23rd and continue Senyson's Idylls of King Mrs. Davis will read a paper on Education. The Eliza E. Peterson W. C. T. U. will meet Thursday, Feb. 3rd at the home of Mrs. Agnes Jacob, 1238 20th street. All members are requested to be present. After a business session of the B. Y. W. K. Art club Mrs. J. Roberts served a delightful two course dinner. Meet next week with Mrs. H. Toliver, 16th and Walker. The Twentieth Century Art club will hold its next meeting at Mrs. Drew's home, 225 Arthur street, Wednesday evening Feb. 2nd. All members are asked to be present. Mother's Congress will meet Saturday Feb. 5th with Mrs. S. Joe Brown, subject to be discussed is "Where Reform is Most Needed." The principal paper on the subject will be by Mrs. F. P. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. S. Joe Brown and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hamilton have both been remodeling their beautiful homes, adding more rooms and making the interior more convenient, which when completed will add greatly to the beauty as well as to the value. Word has just come that Miss Helen E. Hagan, our race's great pianist, has been meeting with a brilliant success in Alabama, West Virgina and Tennessee. To miss hearing her you will miss the master artist in music of our race. She will be here Monday Feb 14 We wish to correct an error in last weeks article concerning the roller skating party given by Miss Marie Bell. We should have said Miss Hyatt received a prize. Miss Hyde did not participate in the skating. 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, Proprs. 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 Constipation and indigestion. "I have used Chamberlain's Tablets and must say they are the best I have ever used for constipation and indigestion. My wife also used them for indigestion and they did her good," writes Fugene S. Knight, Wilmington, N.C. Obtainable everywhere. THE BYSTANDER Atty. S. Joe Brown, Grand Custodian of Masona, returned yesterday from Ft. Dodge where he held a private school of instruction with Western Star lodge, U D., the youngest lodge in the Jurisdiction, and reports them progressing nicely under the leadership of Mr. Luke Raglin, Worshipful Master. Madam Robinson of Hocking, Ia., is now able to give the Madam Walker's Hais Dressing and Scalp Treatment. Treatments given at your or her home. Give me a trial and if work does not prove satisfactory your money back. Madam M. Robinson, A meeting of District No. 1 of the Iowa State Federation of Colored Women's clubs is announced by the chairman, Mrs. Jessye E. McClain, at her residence, 1227 Crocker street for Saturday Feb. 26th at 2:30 p. m. All club workers are especially urged to attend as important subjects of interest to the District will be discussed. Mrs. Jessye E. McClain, Chairman. The Callanan club met the 26th at the home of Mrs. Thornton Adamn, 2621 Chester avenue. A very interesting meeting was held, after which the following officers were elected: President. Mrs. Emma Pyree; Vice Pres. Mrs. G. Nickels; Secretary, Mrs. G L. Johnson; Asst. Sec. Mrs. Amos Adams; Treasurer, Mrs. A. M. Rivers; Chaplain, Mrs. W. H. Johnson; Reporter, Mrs. Thornton Adams; Critic, Mrs. L. M. Mason; chairman of Executive Board, Mrs. S. Joe Brown. Next meeting with Mrs. L. M. Mason, 601 23rd street. THOMPSON HOTEL GUESTS Ira B. Gray, New York City; Sam Bailey, New York City; Thomas Brown Chariton, Iowa; Harry Anderson, Omaha, Nebr.; Julius Glenn, New York City. The members and friends of St Paul's A. M. E. church will doubtless be pleased to learn that the trustees have received full payment from the insurance company for the damage caused to the building proper by the recent fire and that the work of temporarily repairing the building will in all probability be commenced some time during the coming week. The damage to the pipe organ, piano and other furniture, however, has not yet been adjusted. On last Friday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. S. Joe Brown the ladies of the Intellectual Improvement club met and installed their newly elected officers, viz: President, Mrs. H. W. Hughes; vice president, Mrs. J. L. Edwards; secretary, Mrs. John L. Thompson; treasurer, Mrs. Maud M. Wilkinson; critic, Mrs. Jessye E. McClain; reporter, Mrs. S. Joe Brown; chairman executive board, Mrs. Frank P. Johnson. The ladies decided to hold a public suffrage meeting on ebruary 11th at the Union Congregational church, at which time all of the federated clubs of the city will be invited to co-operate with them. The club will meet this afternoon with Mrs. Bailey at 758 Eleventh street, and Mrs. R. E. Patten will have charge of the program, which will include the educational outline as laid down by the state chairman of the federation. ANNOUNCEMENTS. Mrs. Geo. C. Young & Mrs. Ross Mitchell have moved their Dress-making Parlors to the Thompson hotel, 9th and Park streets, and are now open for Spring business. Public invited. NOTICE. We have a few small cottages for rent, 4 and 5 rooms, partly modern. Just phone Drake 3882. HIGH SCHSQL GIRLS' CLUB. The High School Girls' club met on last Sunday at their social center, 1058 Fifth street. The Ohio book for the Lincoln jubilee was reviewed by Edythe M. Jones and a solo was rendered by Beulah Waldon. Next Sunday the life and accomplishments of Miss Nannie H. Burroughs will be discussed by Mary Stanton. THE Typewriter Exchange Underwood No. 4 visible . $35.00 Underwood No. 5 visible . 45.00 Oliver No. 3, visible . 25.00 Oliver No. 5, visible . 35.00 Monarch No. 2, visible . 35.00 L. C. Smith No. 2, visible . 35.00 Smith Premier No. 10 " 35.00 Remington No. 10 " 40.00 Royal No. 1 " 30.00 Smith Premier No. 2. 17.00 Remington No. 6. 17.00 608 MULBERRY H'PPEE BUILDING DES MOINES IOWA KEOKUK, IOWA. I notice in your issue of January 14 that a committee of our people and of your city are making a desperate fight to prevent the "Birth of a Na- tion" appearing in Des Moines. It is a just fight and a cause no man should be ashamed of, and yet are we, as citizens of Iowa, doing our duty? Can we expect Woodson and Brown to watch the corrupt and discriminating laws against our people before the legislature in this state, when very often the have to spend their own money for hotel bills and railroad fare in the same cause. I for one think the time has come for the men of Iowa to shoulder some of the responsibility, by chipping in a few dollars to hel psome one fight for us, while we are not able to fight for ourselves. Who will take the lead? I am a good follower and make this appeal to the men of our race. You will find below an editorial from the National Tribune dealing with the "Birth of a Nation," and every loyal American should read it, and if Ohio can do so much, why not Iowa? Don't forget to put a copy in the hands of your mayor of Des Moines and to the Negroes. "Right is might." T. H. Phillips. Public Safety W. F. Mitchell have secured the promise of the management of the theater which has advertised the film that they will procure the film some time in advance of April 30th, the date set for its public appearance, and give a private performance to be censored by the city officials and representatives of the various protesting organizations, the result of which exhibition will determine what, if any, action is to be taken by the city authorities by way of suppressing the play. WEALTHY COLORED PEOPLE TO HAVE GOLF COURSE NEAR ATLANIC CITY, N. J. Atlantic City, N. J.—An exclusive residential colony for wealthy colored persons of this city, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, with pretentious summer homes surrounding a golf course and tennis courts with a handsome club house completely equipped, is the dream of leaders of the race here who are about to organize a second country club of Atlantic City. RUSH CANDIDATE We take great pleasing that James B. Rue for municipal judge object to the city print and pay $50 annually port of the enterprise. THE BIRTH OF A NATION. Those who have been watching the fight being led by the Des Moines branch of the N. A. A. C. P. against the production in Des Moines of the photo play, "The Birth of a Nation," will doubtless be pleased to learn that the national association has been joined in their protest by the editorial writers of the Evening Tribute, the Des Moines Capital and the National Prohibitor, also by the local post of the G. A. R. and the City Federation of Women's Clubs (white). As a result of these united protests Mayor Hanna and Superintendent of Yes, 'Tis S Buying This Great C of One Hum Has proven it. Prices were offerings were never better. We must sell 100 pian on our floors for incoming response given our first warn those who would par to hurry. ONE LOT VALUES You may take your choice. makes and styles. All are good judge you can pick w for only $148. Was $225 Now $148 ANOTHER LOT $200 There are only a few in thi are used instruments, but gone over and look and p at only $98. Yes,'Tis Surely Piano Buying Time Has proven it. Prices were never cut as deeply. Our offerings were never better. We must sell 100 pianos at once to make room on our floors for incoming shipments, and the ready response given our first announcement leads us to warn those who would participate in this bargain fest to hurry. ONE LOT VALUES TO $350 FOR $148 You may take your choice. There are several different makes and styles. All are good pianos. If you are a good judge you can pick values in this lot up to $350 for only $148. Was $225 Now $148 Was $225 Now $148 There are only a few in this lot-five to be exact. They are used instruments, but they have been thoroughly gone over and look and play like new. Your choice at only $98. $450 PIANOS NOW $288 These are high grade, n ments. The styles are excel $5 Down These are high grade, nationally advertised instruments. The styles are excellent and the value wonderful DAVIDSON'S Thirty-First Annual February Sale The Greatest Home Furnishing Event of the Year Starts Tomorrow, SATURDAY, the 29th Time Payments Gladly Arranged Everything for the Home Underpriced Goods Held for Future Delivery DAVIDSON'S NICEAS LARGEST FURNITURE STORE 412-414-416-418-WALNUT-SZ $1 a week to $6 per month. Public Safety W. F. Mitchell have secured the promise of the management of the theater which has advertised the film that they will procure the film some time in advance of April 30th, the date set for its public appearance, and give a private performance to be censored by the city officials and representatives of the various protesting organizations, the result of which exhibition will determine what, if any, action is to be taken by the city authorities by way of suppressing the play. WEALTHY COLORED PEOPLE TO HAVE GOLF COURSE NEAR ATLANIC CITY, N. J. Atlantic City, N. J.—An exclusive residential colony for white colored persons of this city, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, with pretentious summer homes surrounding a golf course and tennis courts with a handsome club house completely equipped, is the dream of leaders of the race here who are about to organize a second country club of Atlantic City. Already a site has been selected at Douglass City, the future model community, a large tract lying between built-up sections of Pleasantville and Absecon, on the mainland, within easy reach of the shore road, a paved section of the ocean boulevard. B. F. Garrison, a real estate promoter, who is acting for a committee of colored hotel men, lawyers, physicians and other well-to-do members of the race here, added today to the announced fact that that a nine-hole golf course is assured, the further information that the new country club will have at least 150 members living in Atlantic City who are willing to tak estock in the holding company urely Piano ing Time Clearance Sale dried Pianos ne never cut as deeply. Our vos at once to make room g shipments, and the ready announcement leads us to participate in this bargain fest TO $350 FOR $148 There are several different good pianos. If you are a values in this lot up to $350 Was $225 Now $148 O VALUES ONLY $98 s lot—five to be exact. They they have been thoroughly lay like new. Your choice NES PIANO CO. 807 WALNUT ST. State Capitol Blvd Historic Room and pay $50 annually toward the support of the enterprise. RUSH CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE RUSH CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE We take great pleasure in announcing that James B. Rush is a candidate for municipal judge of our city, subject to the city primaries March 13. Under the new city law there will be four city judges to be elected and we honestly think it but just that there should be one colored man, and, too, Lawyer Rush has by his many years of practice proven fully competent to discharge every duty. He has lived and practiced law for nearly twenty years in our city and is thoroughly acquainted with every branch of our courts. He is a temperance man, active in church and social reform work. The colored voters should all work for his nomination and we command him to the white voters as worthy of their hearty support. A GOOD WOMAN GONE Mrs. Frances Spencer, wife of David Spencer, deceased, was born November 15, 1840, and passed away December 31, 1915, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edna Taylor, in Mason City, Iowa, after a brief illness of dropy. She was married to David Spencer on January 25, 1859, and to this happy union were born eleven children, all of whom survive, and one brother, Mrs H. Young, of this city. John Spencer of Grinnell went to the bedside of his mother and was present with other members of the family when the end came, which was peaceful. The children are: Sherman Spencer, Mrs. Sallie McDaniel, Mrs. Jennie Brannan of this city, Mrs. Edna Taylor, Mrs. Julia Currio, Horace and Harvey Spencer of Mason City, Iowa, John Spencer of Grinnell, Iowa, Mrs. Olive Merical of Sigourney, Ia., Mrs. Victoria Brown and Miss Hattie Spencer of Chicago, all of whom are a* home to be present at the funeral, which will occur Monday at 2:30 p.m. from the Second Baptist church. Mrs. Spencer was a devout and upright Christian and was loved by all who knew her. Mrs. Virginia Thomas went to Otamwa on Sunday to visit over Sunday. The members of the Sewing Circle that attended the meeting at the home of Mrs Joe Robinson in Hocking on Monday were Mrs. G. A. Davis, Mrs. Pearl Thomas, Mrs. Oscar Roper, Mrs. Emma Smith and Mrs. Edward Butler of Albia. Mr. Williams of Clarinda, the grand chancellor of the K. p. Lodge, was an Albia visitor this week. Social at the A. M. E. church on Monday evening. Mrs. Mary F. Ward is still confined to her home with la gripe. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Davis took 12 o'clock dinner at the home of Mrs. Brittian Thomas on Sunday. Mr. Lawrence Carter of Buxton is a student in the Albia high school and stays at the home of Mrs. Oscar Roper. Many have been down with the la gripe in Albia the past week. Mrs. Oscar Roper entertained a company to 6 o'clock dinner in honor of Mrs. Virginia Thomas on Tuesday evening. 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. There will be a benefit concert given for the Third Baptist church by some of the best talent in the city at the Friendly House on January 29. The members are striving to make it a grand success. Ref. N. B. Jones, evangelist, closed a very successful revival last week and left for his home in Chicago on Thursday. Mrs. Mary Ann Oney of Weskan, Kans., is in the city visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Logan Oney. Mrs. Oney will remain for some time and expects to be joined by her husband, who will drive over in automobile. Mrs. Frank Brown was called to Kirksville, Mo., by the serious illness of her mother, who remains very sick. The East End Art club meets with Mrs. Ella Fugua on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. John of Gordon entertained sex- ALBIA NEWS. DAVENPORT ITEMS eral Moline ladies Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Henry Merchant, formerly of this city, but now of El Reno, Okla. is visiting friends in the tri-cities. FORT MADISON NOTES. (Last Week.) Friends will be surprised to hear of the death of Mrs. Merle Bassfield Moore, which occurred at the Sacred Heart hospital in this city last Friday. Mrs. Moore was sick but a short while and her death came as a great shock to every one. She was a loveable young woman and will be greatly missed by her many friends. Those attending the funeral of Mrs. Moore from out of the city were Mr. Arthur Moore (husband), Mr. M. Moore, Mrs. Bettie Bannister of Rock Island, Ill., Mrs. Griggsby (grandmother) and Mrs. K. Johnson of Keokuk. Mrs. Moore was born in Muscatine, Iowa, February 15, 1885, and was nearly 31 years of age at the time of her death. She leaves her mother, Mrs. N. A. Ison, For Madison; husband, Arthur Moore, Rock Island; Raymond Cranshaw (nephew), and Freida Range (cousin), both of this city. The many friends of the bereaved ones, and especially of Mrs. Ison, the mother, freely express their deep sorrow and sympathy. It was just about one year ago that Mrs. Ison was bereaved by the loss of another daughter, which makes this a burden, not easily borne. The sweet disposition of Mrs. Moore certainly justified the comparison of her life to a "sunbeam." Mrs. D. Ison and Miss Jennie Harper are planning the organization of a children's club among the colored children of the city. We are glad to know that Mr. Garret Dunlap has entered high school for the last semester. Mrs. A. Jackson, who has been very sick, is able to be up and around again. A mock congress under the auspices of the People's Forum, is now in session at the Second Baptist church. There will be a midwinter picnic under the auspices of the Bethel Literary at the A. M. E. church next Thursday. The Rev. L. W. Routt enjoyed a happy Christmas. On Christmas night Mr. George Taylor presented the pastor $10.25; assisted by a number of his friends. The pastor was very much pleased to receive his present. Last Sunday night a good many of the students from Ames, Iowa, attended the service at the A. M. E. church. Rev. Routt preached a good, feeling sermon. The church is moving on nicely under his leadership. The Sunday school is moving on nicely under Mrs. Virgine Johnson, who is still the superintendent. Miss Sadie Patton is secretary. She is a bright youn glady. Mr. Charley Coleman and Rev. Routt are the teachers. Mrs. Lul* B. Routt is organist. The juvenile choir is doing nicely. The A. M. E. Literary society held an important meeting Monday, January 3rd, for the purpose of electing officers for the coming year. The following officers were chosen: President, B. F. Taylor; vice president, L. H. Barlow; secretary, Miss Sadie Patton; assistant secretary, Roy Schults; treasurer, H. T. Humble. The funeral of Mrs. Lina Brown was held Monday afternoon, January 10th, and the remains laid to rest from Welin chapel. She had but recently moved to Boone and is survived by her husband, who is a blacksmith, and her father, who lives at Buxton, Iowa. She came from Des Moines. The funeral services were in charge of Rev. L. W. Routt, pastor of the A. M. E. church. The congregation rendered appropriate selections and Mrs. Lulu B. Routt sang "Asleep in Jesus." The deceased and her husband had but recently moved to this city from Des Moines. Her father is A. J. Johnson of Buxton. Rev. Routt has returned from Marshalltown, where he preached last Sunday, January y16th. He had been over there since last Wednesday. He reports a good time. He was highly entertained by the members and friends of Marshalltown. Everybody extended him invitations. The Rev. found the members working faithfully. They have recovered the church and are doing good work, it measuring arms with Boone. IOWA CITY, IOWA. Mrs. Donnegan has been ill for several days. Miss Mary Parkins Short is in the hospital with la gripe. Mrs. Elizabeth Bell is in the hospital. Miss Greta McDavis is improving nicely, after her operation for appendicitis. Rev. Moore held quarterly meeting last Tuesday evening at the church. Rev. Wharton conducted church services Sunday, after an absence of three weeks. Last Sunday he assisted with revival meetings in Washington, Iowa. Miss Vaeletta London led Christian Endeavor last Sunday evening. Miss Zelma Patterson of Des Moines visited in Iowa City a few days. The first semester will close the 6th of February. Final examinations are raising the burning of much midnight oil. This cold weather has hurt them. BOONE NEWS an so th d ve g as y he od is of at in r of h in ty ts n ok he ed of a ed vria lt. of as a le, his urecds of an ost lo 1883 ir as the haime, we the to nan wis just His celloh by sted teat has such city that n a only can the be in of r. Pay Boost and read the Bystander Dont borrow or read your neighbors, help make this a great paper toes, cheeks and ears of a number of students. The G. S. U. I. met with the president, Miss London, Saturday night. Next week it will meet with Miss Gross. A. A. Keene has been elected pole-march of the fraternity. Mrs. Brown had a very serious operation Tuesday morning. A new rule of discipline will be enforced in the university next semester. There will be no cuts. All absences unexcused will cause absentee to lose one-tenth of a credit. MACON, MO. NEWS. We are very sorry to hear of the illness of our pastor, Rev. B. P. E. Gales, in Evanston, Ill. Messrs. Raymond Houston, Preston Wright and Darlington Austin agent Sunday in Palmyra and report a pleasant time. The Macon Women's Federation club met Saturday last at the home of Mrs. C. Harris. A delightful two-course lunch was served. Mr. Loranzo Harris of Brookfield, Mo., was the guest of Miss Alma McElroy on Wednesday last. Morgan's Mighty Minstrel were in our city Wednesday last. Miss Lucille Harris of our city was awarded the second prize, which was $5.00, from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for writing the best letter of what she thought of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. The Macon Women's Federation club will give a bazaar Friday night at the Vine and Broadway Baptist church. In connection with the bazaar Prof. Richard B. Harrison will give a reading. Mr. Nathaniel McRoy is on the sick list. The banquet which was given by the young men of our city was quite a success. The Baptist Missionary Circle will meet Friday evening at the home of Mrs. C. Harris. The death of Mr. Grant Brassell occurred at his home in Rochester, Minn. Remains were brought to our city for burial. Mr. Brassell has formerly been a resident of our city and a member of teh K. P. lodge. He leaves a host of friends to mourn his death. Mrs. Jane Kimbrough, who has been very ill, is slowly improving. Several Maconites attended the ball in Moberly Monday last. Harry Cobbie and W. Proxter of Kirksville, Mo., spent Wednesday last in our city and attended the Morgan Mighty Minstrels. The death of Mrs. W. Enix occurred at the home of her son in Moline, Ill. The remains were brought to our city for burial. She leaves to mourn her death three sons and a host of relatives and friends. Mr. John Williams has departed for St. Louis, after a three weeks' stay with Mr. Albert Perry of this city. Mrs. Ed Harris is reported better at this writing. Why not subscribe for The Bystander and get what you can get. For the Macon news which The Bystander puts out, believe me, it is sure worth the money. CLINTON IOWA Mr. J. W. Porter, who was badly burned on January 17th, is doing nicely and expects to be out in a few days. Mrs. Greenlee, who has been quite sick for some time, is able to be up and about the house again. Mrs. Wetherall is reported quite sick. Mrs. Jennie Martin and Mrs. F. J. Nott have been complaining the past two weeks. On the afternoon of January 22d Rev. F. J. Nott, pastor of the Second Baptist church, was invited to the residence of Mrs. Josie Carter, where he was presented by Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Carter with a new hat, given by members and friends. Mrs. Stella Robinson served a nice lunch and the Rev. and Mrs. Nott went home thankful and happy. Mrs. Laura Michell is on the sick list. Mrs. John Gunn is under the care of the doctor. Rev. G. E. Sanders and Miss Zella Green of Rock Island attended the funeral of Willard Green on Tuesday. The Rock Island colored band attended the funeral of Willard Green in a body, rendering appropriate music. Deceased was a former member of that organization. Mrs. Melissa Glanton passed away Monday night at her home, after an illness of short duration, superinduced by the infirmities of old age. More will be said later... The funeral of Willard Green, who was fatally shot on Sunday afternoon in Fred Alenk's pool hall by Albert Green, was held Tuesday afternoon from the Second Baptist church, Rev. F. J. Nott officiating, assisted by Rev. W. W. Williams, Interment in Springdale. The leap year party held at Bethel A. M. E. church last Friday evening was a success. The ladies of the O. E. S. are royal entertainers. Louis Culberson of Chicago visited relatives in Clinton the past week, returning home Saturday. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Let us all subscribe and pay for The Iowa State Bystander and stop borrowing your neighbor's paper. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Re for co-location the full all power cons in hot room of to kn the Mr. Oh ch to be po. Alabama Negroes, and, indeed, all citizens interested in the future of Tuskegee institute, should receive every encouragement in their efforts to have he institution conducted along the lines laid down by Booker T. Washington, its founder. They naturally feel that this can best be done by the election of a successor to Washington who has lived in the South and who is thoroughly familiar with the aims and purposes of Tuskegee. The agriculture department of the Birmingham (Ala.) Industrial high school directs its energies toward a model garden which sets the standard for more than 300 home gardens. That these gardens earn money for their owners is shown by the fact that 116 students were depositors of some bank even before the school savings system was begun. Just behind our kitchen is a small building which was erected by our boys. This is the laundry and no small part does it play in helping us to realize that "Cleanliness is next to godliness." Emergency room linen, kitchen cloth, schoolroom curtains and bags, and uniforms of our girls and for baseball boys are all kept clean by our aid. The tailoring and shoe repairing departments are kept running to accommodate students while the boys learn the work. Clothes are cleaned and shoes mended for the bare cost of material with which to work. These boys work cheerfully that the rest of the students may be helped by their skill and keep up a neat appearance. Besides printing all posters for games, exhibits, etc. the art department teaches stenociling, tooled leather, brass craft and bookmaking and binding in an ordinary schoolroom with homemade sewing frames and a closet as equipment. Thus we have been trained in the great lesson of each working for the common good, in using the simple things at hand and the saving grace of economy, by learning to do as much as possible with a little. What the future holds we know not, but we feel tonight that our school has given us, along with other forces, the spirit with which to go at things, and we believe that this spirit is going to help us to find and make a way. From this description one can easily see the aim of the work is service, aiding the pupil to undertake the position in society our present civilization considers fit, and elevating that position by his own ability. In passing through the school this sign caught the eve: SHOE SHOP. Half Soles ..... 25c Heels, per tap ..... 7½c Rubber Heels ..... 15c Professor Parker said the shoe shop grew out of an accident; several girls were absent from school and when questioned why, gave as an excuse their shoes had to be repaired. The idea occurred to Professor Parker such work might be done in the building cheaper and better and the pupil not miss a day. Since then the work has been done in the school and in one year 800 pairs of shoes have been repaired in actual cost of the rubber and leather only. No book is allowed to be lost, the bookbinding department does the work here neatly and carefully and the book is made usable for the school library or the student. According to a morning newspaper, Governor Fielder of New Jersey heartily approves the selection of December 9 as "Booker Washington Day." Though we deeply lament the death of Doctor Washington, for he was undoubtedly one of the most unique character before the American public, I fear that in our grief we forget the service rendered by that other great Negro, Frederick Douglass, writes Fenton Johnson in a communication to the New York Evening Post. Mr. Douglass in his day achieved for his race a moral and political recognition that is not yet extinct. He kept from utter annihilation a race just emerging from two centuries of degradation and bondage. Without him the oratory of Wendell Phillips would have been merely oratory, and the journalism of William Lloyd Garrison sensational radicalism. He was the connecting link between the transplanted African and the sentimental abolitionist. He showed the world that in the American Negro himself lay a promise as deep as any in the more fortunate race, and that freedom for such a being would not be merely a quees- German steel makers claim to have perfected a material for use on sashes that is practically proof against the burglar's oxyhydrogen or oxyacetylene burner. Carlsbad by law requires all buildings to be as nearly fireproof as possible, with the result that 'the city's firemen earn most of their wages as chimney sweeps. An old set of encyclopedias given to the school by the city has been rebound and are as valuable and every bit as good as new. In the artroom, which is nicely fitted with pictures showing excellent taste, are architectural designs and reproductions of old masters. The following appropriate text was written on the board: Six reasons for the study of art: 1. It creates interest. 2. It prevents disorder. 3. It commands respect and confidence. 4. It secures and holds attention. 5. It inspires faithful study. 6. It sets up ideals. The top floor of the building holds an auditorium, used on Fridays during the year for meetings and literary programs. The place is ugly, unattractive and dangerous; a makehift stage is arranged for plays, some scenery having been obtained from the old O'Brien opera house. In making it a Professor Parker of the housing conditions of the school plant, he said: "The influence of surroundings cannot be overestimated. I dare not let myself dwell upon this building; we have to live over and above it." Why should not the state and city lend every effort toward making some preparations to better house this splendid work? It is a duty we owe these intelligent, self-respecting citizens. Quoting from one of the essays delivered at the graduation exercises is the following pertinent question: "The mothers of the children have appealed for a chance for their children to go to sanitary and comfortable school buildings. Will that appeal be made to the great heart of Birmingham in vain?" Professor Parker said he is constantly uneasy about his school in case of fire, although a fairly good amount of staircases are in the main buildings, the fire escape is too dangerous to be usable, as the building is so old and poorly constructed it cannot hold the iron stairway—Mrs. Sidney M. Ullman, in the Birmingham Age-Herald. Ed Scott, a Negro, of this city pur- chased a pig last spring under the Booker T. Washington suggestion that every Negro family in the South raise one pig, paying $2.50 for him, says a dispatch from Bryan, Tex, to the Houston Post. He killed the pig a few days ago and it netted 298 pounds. Scott gives his profits as follows: One hundred and sixty-eight pounds of meat at 10 cents, $16.80; 40 pounds of sausage at 12 cents, $4.80; 40 founds of lard at 15 cents, $12; total $33.50; cost of raising the pig. In- cluding purchase price. $12.50; net profit $21. Englishmen from the South African possessions are leaving in large num- bers to go home and join the army, an outstanding example being that of a man who gave up a job worth $25,000 a year to serve king and country. Steamboats built in England for use on a tropical river have been provided with means for spraying their cabin roofs with water to cool them by evaporation. There isn't a department store on earth large enough to supply every thing a woman wants. tion of religion and politics, but of practical application. Doctor Washington himself, in his "Up from Slavey," admits the great debt that heowed to Frederick Douglass regarding the question of Negro education. He speaks of Mr. Douglass' letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe, in which the foremost of the black race advocates an education that would fit the masses of the newly emancipated for a place in the industrial world. Upon those views of the shaggy-maned sees of Rochester, Tuskegee was founded. Upon the moral support of a leader who probably was never aware of the work the younger man was accomplish, Washington succeeded among the leaders of both races in the North. Let us not forget Douglass. If we would give the Negro a national holiday, let it be in honor of both man—Douglass, the Moses of his race, and Washington, the Joshua. By rearranging the body, without removing or adding any part, a new automobile can be used as a two-seated roadster, a touring car or a light delivery wagon. On the ground that an aeroplane is a scientific instrument necessary for its owner's livelihood, a court in Hungary decided that it cannot be seized for debt. A United States navy collier has succeeded in pumping fuel oil through a hose to a battleship while both vessels were running at a speed of sixteen miles an hour. If one is fond of spicy literature one should read cook books. The national library at Washington, D. C. is now a century old, for although it was startled 115 years ago, the present efficient organization was not established until after the British burned the capital in October, 1815. An electric piano player, using endless music rolls of several kinds, has been invented to permit a motion picture operator to fit the music to the pictures. BRITISH AND GREEK TRANSPORTS CONTRASTED A curious contrast between the British and Greek transports is presented here. British Tommies look with interest at the small, two-wheeled carts used by the Greeks, which the former pass on the highway near Saloniki. --- Civilian Prisoners of War Well Cared for in England. Civilian Prisoners of War Well Cared for in England. Correspondent Visits Britain's Military City and Discovers Why Captives Find Joy in Confinement —Have Theater Privileges. Bx WU PUB & FORREST London. — Alexandra palace, England's largest single internment camp for civilian prisoners of war, corresponding to Germany's iJuhleben, near Berlin, is the fascinating interesting British military city I was permitted to visit today. No other press representatives were there; and this is the first time a press man has been permitted to enter this camp. More than 3,000 enemy aliens, rich and poor, from all parts of the world, are living at Alexandra palace, North London. Hundreds of Croats and Poles from Pitsburgh and Detroit, captured on their way home to fight; well-known European musical artists, interned while performing in England; Germans and Austrians taken from ships in the Atlantic and the North sea, and Austro-German directors of big British firms, together with alien inhabitants of England, some of 30 years' residence, make a unique and remarkable colony—for the duration of the war. There is no social distinction in the three battalions of a thousand men each. Military discipline prevails. It affects the English-German aristocrat and the lowest Pittsburgh steel worker alike. A company of British soldiers guards the palace, which in peace time serves as a London Cony Island, or White City. There are benevolent societies, directors' meetings, institutes of painting, drawing, sculpture; a theater that would do credit to Broadway, workshops for dozens of trades, a fully equipped hospital; schools, post offices, football and swedish drill; laundries, mammoth spotless kitchens, stores and shops, commodious bathrooms and dozens of other things inside the barbed wire enclosing this multitude. "They are making the best of it and it is my duty to let them enjoy life to the limit of military possibilities," remarked Col. Frood Walker, a British regular army veteran of twenty years in the Orient, who is the commandant. THE FASHION After the war is over, there is very little doubt that the social register of Great Britain will be considerably altered, the younger generation coming into its own. Among the most popular members of this set of the nobility of England is Mary Irene, the heir presumptive to the barony of Ravensdale. She is the oldest daughter of the earl and the late Lady Curron. She was born January 20, 1896. Her mother who died in 1906 was Mary Victoria Leiter, daughter of the late Leiot Zoelier Letter of Chicago. Fowl Attacks Little John Seaman While Feeding Chickens at His Home in California. Los Angeles, Cal - John M Seaman, two-year-old, John M. Musa Hur, his home in this city, is dead at Ontario following an attack by a large rooster at the ranch home of the child's grandparents, John and his mother visited at the THE BYSTANDER British and Greek transports is present arts used by the Greeks, which the former The commandant's words voice the British attitude toward prisoners of war, both military and civilian. It considers the human side of those forced to live behind wile entanglements. Once a week the commandant turns over his office to prisoners who have complaints. He hears the stories and does what he can. Twice weekly the commandant personally inspects every one of the 2,000 prisoners' best roots of the palace. These beds are neat and clean, with four blankets and a soft mattress for each. There are e.g. cooks for every thousand prisoners. The food is prepared and taken to three great messrooms, each of which can compare in floor space to the main lobby of New York's Grand Central station. Here is the food allowance, per man per day: One and one-half ounce of meat, one-half pound of potatoes, two ounces of peas, lentils, beans or rice; two ounces of sugar, one-half ounce of tea or two ounces of coffee, one ounce of margarine or two ounces of cheese, tinned milk, salt and pepper. There is afternoon tea with bread and butter. Each battalion has a large canteen where a prisoner may augment his food supply. The weather intereses freely patronize the canteens, but the ordinary fare better meet the needs of Pittsburgh workers ever had in his life. These Pittsburghers aren't anxious for the war to close. They are satisfied. The American embassy, godfather of all enemy allens in the British isles, works hand in hand with a special committee of the wealthier interned men to care for the special wants of the poor. Almost every prisoner looks forward eagerly to the weekly theater. Here artists, some high in the profession, perform vaudelle stunts. Professional actors present the latest plays. The theater will seat 1,500 persons. The scenery was painted by artists who rank high in British and German art circles, and is infinitely better than that found in the average London playhouse. A smaller hall, for 500 persons, is set aside for the evening musicals. This hall is always crowded. At a night concert Herr F. Lorant, an Austrian violinist, who will be heard in America after the war, was the star attraction. "PLEASE FIND MY MATE" Baby's Shoe Travels 6,000 Miles in Effort to Locate Its Mate. Ely. Mo.—A baby's shoe, which has traveled more than six thousand miles through most of the states of the Union, arrived recently at the office of the American express here, having been sent by the agent of the company at Virginia. On the sole of the shoe is written "Please find my mate," and that explains the shoe's long journey. American express agents all over the country have paid traveling for months to locate the missing shoe. The journey was started at Chicago and has led the shoe through the entire South and most of the western states. It will be sent on its journey from Ely in a day or two if the mate is not found here. PROFIT IN CATCHING MOTHS Iowa Couple Make $500 a Year With Very Little Trouble and Find Pleasure in it. Nevada, la.—Mr. and Mrs. O. Floyd Hiser of near Nevada have an avocation providing a daily hour of pleasure and $200 profit a year. Trees on their farm long have been the habitat of a colony of the cata moth. They catch the moths and butteries and sell them to butterflies collectors and sell their varieties for prices ranging from 5 cents to $1 a piece. Several times they have received orders from abroad. The Hisers follow the pursuit only early on summer nights. They mark trees with white cloths to attract attention and then spray a solution of sugar and stale beer over the foliage. Columbus, Ind. — Rev. A. H. K. Bean, ninety-eight years old, a pioneer United Brethren minister, who served 60 years without accepting remuneration of any kind, is dead at his home in Hartmanville, near here. He retired after a stroke of paralysis. to the boy, and he was anxious to feed them. With prodigious bravery that was thought only childishly cute he accomplished his desire. A few days ago he was so engaged when a large rooster jumped at the little fellow and buried its spine deeply in his sculp. Blood poisoning developed and the child died in a hospital after much suffering. The mean distance of the earth from Directory Shows That Many Teutons Have Deserted Capitals Since the Middle Ages London.—"Kelly's Post Office London Directory" for 1916 carries practically as much weight as ever. Last year it weighed 14 pounds, 14 ounces, and the loss of 50 pages, largely due to the disappearance of many Schmidt, Schneiders and other bearers of Teutonic names, has not given it any look of emaciation. About 3,500 pages remain. The Schmidt has made a notable exodus. In the London section their number is reduced from 48 to 22, while in the country and bururbs their strength is now only eight as against 18 last year. Many small tradesmen have given up business since the 1915 directory was compiled. In the London trades section there is a column less of bakers, representing a falling off of about one hundred, but most of the names that have gone are German. In the county and suburbs section there is a drop of about sixty bakers the same reason. At a time when Great Britain is believed to be the invention of shellmakers the lists of 27 ammunition makers and eight cartridge manufacturers look very modest. Sixty-nine new trade headings are introduced. They include two makers of periscopes. SHIPS TO DEFY TORPEDOES Our Future War Vessels Will Be Proof Against Them, is Opinion of Experts. Washington—Future American battleships will be able to survive the explosion of a single torpedo against their hulls, regardless of where they are struck, in the opinion of navy experts. Experiments which have been in progress for more than a year have demonstrated that two or more torpedoes must find their mark before these ships can be sent to the bottom. The two superdreadnaughts and two battle cruisers congress has been asked to authorize this year will be designed on this plan. Battleships 43 and 44 have added interior construction resulting from the study made of the question of torpedo defense since the outbreak of the European war, but later ships will have even increased provisions in this regard. The experiments are continuing and officials expect further information on the subject to be developed. Details of the work are regarded as confidential, but it is known that some experts are hopeful that a type of construction will be evolved which will greatly reduce the effectiveness of either mines or torpedoes against heavy ships. SENORITA CONCHITA GUIRDLA A Sonorita Gutrola is the daughter of Dr. Rafael Gutrola of Salvador, one of the prominent scientists who at the time founded the scientific congress in Washington. GETS WIFE BY ADVERTISING Virginia Man Carries on Courtship by Mail and Then Marries Woman in Indiana. Hymera, ind.-Thomas Bond Buchan, aged forty-five, a wealthy farmer of Petersburg, Va., advertised for a wife and he found one. After a few months of courtship by mail he came here to see his sweetheart. Each was pleased with the other's manner TO SIGNAL TO MARS May Be Done With Gigantic Light Rays. Group of Mirrors About Two Hundred and Fifty Square Miles in Extent, It Is Estimated, Would Be Required. It is suggested that the only practical way to communicate with the inhabitants of Mars is by some gigantic mirror, or projector of rays of light, by which signals may be flashed, just as an army communicates with distant divisions, or as the navy communicates between ships. If two signal officers on earth are 25 miles apart they may communicate by a small mirror an inch in diameter, catching the rays of light and flashing them. It is by some such device that communication may be established with the Martians. If they are provided with telescopes at least as powerful. It has been calculated that the mirror required for casting the ray of light the distance to Mars ought to be something like forty miles in diameter. But one of these mirrors would not be enough, for the ray sent back from it would be hardly more A than a point of light by the time it traversed the millions of miles which separate us from Mars. It has, therefore, been suggested that ten mirrors, each one 40 miles in diameter, be grouped next to each other. The total of these mirrors would be about 250,000 square miles, and it would be an enormous problem to secure the glass, the quicksilver for coating the glass and the enormous quantity of iron which would be required for the frames of the mirrors. The difficulties are so great that many say they are insurmountable and that we shall have to wait until the electric waves have been perfected, or we have machines which can cast a ray of electric light through space. Perhaps wireless telegraphy indicates the way in which we shall communicate with Mars, and it may be by sound, not by sight. Science has advanced tremendously in the use of sound waves, being now able to talk 5,000 miles or more without wires. And in a year or two it may be possible to talk around the world by this method. It must not be forgotten, however, that when Mars is nearest to the earth it is 30,000,000 miles away, and that its extreme distance is 48,000,000 miles. It will probably be years and years before communication is established with Mars, and even in that event, success depends upon the Martians having receivers that will catch earthly communications. Improved Electric Hammer An electric hammer of new design has recently been evolved by a leading American electric manufacturer. Briefly, the new hammer consists of a high-speed, series-wound electric motor driving an eccentric mechanism through reduction gearing; the mechanism, in turn, operating a plunger, which is virtually the hammer. A sleeve is provided in which the drill or hammer rod may be inserted, so that it can be rapidly struck by the plunger. Beautiful French Provinces. Languedoc, the land of oce, with its green canals and turbid River Tarn, is a lovely district, where geography has influenced both people and architecture, from Roman times to the present day; a land of great cities and wild wild expanses; of weirdness and goblin fascination. Toulouse, the greatest city of the Midi and the embodiment of its history, is a living testimony to geographical influence. Palaces, houses, donuts, library and churches are built solidly of brick. Plenty of Time. Knicker—How does Jones think we should prepare? Bocker—He evidently thinks any nation that might want to swallow as Not necessarily Abandoned by Women Who Have Chosen to Purese We often hear that women used to be more maternal than they are now. The difference was that they had larger families and were compelled to do more work about the house, because modern household conveniences were then wanting, asserts Dr. Mary Kent isham, a successful New York physician. The fact of a large family is not necessarily an indication that there is much maternal feeling in the mother. The maternal instinct is found in women who want children—whether they have them or not—and who occupy themselves preferable in ways which deal with the young. The majority of single women and of women with careers do not lack the maternal spirit and do not lack the sex instinct, but they are wanting in a certain recklessness which would enable them to accept the wrong husband or go in for what has been called "unbridled motherhood." They are perhaps trained into too great self-control and caution. Others are too intense and passionately maternal to marry. They must have whole crowds of children with whom to deal, like a mother, with their husband. The husband is a secondary consideration. A large number of women who are engaged in social service and who, for various reasons, have been deprived of homes of their own, or find the duties in their homes too limited, are spending their generous helping of maternal energy in a larger social field. SWEEPS DUST FROM RECORDS Automatic Cleaner for the Phonograph That Will Save Much Time and Labor. An automatic cleaner for phonograph records, invented by Joseph W. Pitcher of Washington, D. C., has just been patented. It consists of a ring that fits around the sound box, an arm extending downward therefrom just behind the needle, and a brush made of bristles of vein of bristles and felt. The bristles engage the that its around the sound box, an arm extending downward therefrom just behind the needle, and a brush made of alternate layers of bristles and felt. The bristles engage the surface of the record first, removing dust from the lines, and the felt sweeps small particles out of the needle's way. SHOOK PEARLS FROM GOWN One Woman at Least Who Believes That Tight Styles Are Strictly All Right. Persons in the rose room of the Actor, one night recently, were interested when they heard a pretty woman with diamonds glistening on dainty hands say: "The pearls have gone—the string snapped in two." She wore a coat with a moleskin collar, the New York Herald states. Her husband suggested that she take off her coat. She then tugged on the end of a string and brought forth a hand, a skiffing affair—six pearls left at the end of the necklace. After stitching up once twice and engaging the attention of a waiter she brought forth a handful of pearls by the time her husband returned from a telephone call. "Good thing this dress was tight," she laughed. They proceeded to count the pearls before they ate soup and it was the consensus that three pearls had strayed from the string. Again the pretty woman stood up, shrugged her shoulders. Result, one more pearl. Two were missing. They ate their dinner, not forgetting the mishap, and started out of the dining room in Indian order, the woman first, then the husband, then the waiter who had aided in picking up pearls, finally a head waiter. The waiters had to keep their eyes open for pearls. Would the woman tell her name? No. TO PROLONG LIFE OF GLASS Simple Arrangement Which Requires Only a Quantity of Stout But Pliable Wire. Cups are often hung in chinless or in cupboards by hooks, thus prolonging their lives by keeping them out of harm's way. A device for securing the same safety for glasses should, when worn, also meet with popular approval. ```markdown ``` A device has been placed on the market which will meet with much favor. It is very simple and can be made at home if one will but secure some stout though pliable wire. The wire is fastened to the wall with a screw or staple and then twisted to the shape shown in the sketch. Vain Hope. "Everybody says I'm light on my feet, father," said the elf. "Umph," replied the disappointed parent, who didn't raise his boy to be a dancer. "I wouldn't go so far as to wish you had been born clubfooted, or to do wish your head was heavy enough to act as a sort of drag to your feet." Preparedness "Why did you leave the party so hastily the other day when the rising young novelist I wanted you to meet was announced?" "Because a literary man I know told me he had a remarkably successful touch." Same Way. "That mean old fellow is consistent, at least." "How so?" "Even when he is full, his money The KITCHEN CABINET If each man's secret, unguessed care on his brow, is shared How many people share Who have our envy now? And if the prompts of each heart No artifice concealed, No part would part At what they saw revealed. EGGLESS DISHES. expensive it is a things which usually call for e.gs. without them ```markdown ``` Oatmeal Dainties.—Cream on one cupful of butter with one cupful of sugar. Dissolve a teaspoonful of soda in a cupful of sweet milk and add to the butter and sugar, then stir in six cupfuls of rolled oats. Add a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, a half teaspoonful of cinnamon, and a fourth of a teaspoonful of cloves. Mix these with a little flour, add a cupful of raisins and sufficient flour to handle. Flour the hands and make into cakes the size of a silver dollar. Bake in a slow oven until brown. These are cakes which keep well. Bread Sponge Cake—Take two cups of brown sugar, one cupful of lard, three cupfuls of light bread sponge, two cupfuls of seeded raisins, two cupfuls of flour, one tablespoon each of cinnamon and allspice and a half teaspoon of cloves. Add a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in one half cupful of coffee. Mix the ingredients and let rise a half hour. Bake one hour in a slow oven. This will make a large loaf or two small ones. Eggless, Butterless, Milkless Cake—Boll together three minutes a cupful of sugar and water and a half cupful of lard, two cupfuls of raisins, an eight of a teaspoonful of grated nutmeat, a teaspoonful of cloves and a half cupful of oil add two cupfuls of flour, a cupful of molasses, a half teaspoonful of baking powder, a teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little water. Bake forty minutes. This makes a chewy cake which the children especially enjoy. Cream Spice Cake—Take a cupful of sour cream, one cupful of brown sugar, one teaspoonful of soda, a teaspoonful of baking powder, a pinch of salt, one-fourth of a tablespoonful each teaspoonful of cinnamon. Sirl with flour to make a drop batter and bake in a moderate oven. GARNISHES FOR SOUPA It is often the tasty garnish which takes the soup out of the common into V Almond Balls—Pound a dozen almonds to a fine powder. Beat two eggs light, season with salt and pepper, add the almonds, half a teaspoonful of minced parsley and three-fourths of a cupful of flour sifted with a teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix and roll into very small balls and drop into the boiling soup to cook for five minutes before serving. Marrow Balls—Take a piece of marrow the size of an egg, add a cupful of crumbs, moisten with cold water, add two eggs unbeaten and shape into small balls. Add to the boiling soup and cook very gently two minutes. Crustons—Trim crusts from bread and cut in half dice. Toast in the oven and fry in deep fat. If toasted in the oven, spread the slices with butter before cutting in dice. Egg Custard.—Beat three eggs and add half a cupful of highly seasoned beef stock. Butter a small pan and pour the mixture into it. Set the pan in another of warm water and place in a moderate oven for half an hour until the custard is set. Cool and cut in squares and add to the soup just before serving. Egg Balls.—Chop fine four hard-cooked eggs, add a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, a cupful of bread crumbs and a pinch of salt, with a dash of red pepper. Blind with the yolks of two eggs or a half cupful of cream. Make into balls, dip in egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat and add to the clear soup when ready to serve. Soup Balls.—Roll crumbles, mix with butter and make into firm balls the size of a marble. Drop in the soup when ready to serve. Quenelles.—Take small bits of meat finely chopped, mix with crumbs and bound with egg, shape into balls, dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. Add to the soup when serving. TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES. Chile is building 208 miles of railroad. North Carolina last year produced minerals valued at $2,739,696. Luxemburg covers 1,000 square miles and has a population of 206,000. Switzerland spends more on relief of poor than does any other country. A government survey has resulted in ranking the Yukon river in fifth place among the great streams of North America. According to French statistics, only one-fourth of the aviation accidents are due to defects in aeroplanes. For the last 30 years the average yield of pollen in acre in Ontario has been about 42 percent over that of the United States. A Chinese girl, a graduate of Wellesley college, will be at the head of a college to be opened in that country by the American institution. The government Amical des Avocates de France, an association of French women lawyers, has become affiliated with the Women's Lawyers Time which strews a man's hair with silver, sometimes fills his pockets with gold. SOME CHEAP MEAT DISHES The flank which is one of the cheap cuts of meat is very good when nicely heaps is very good when nice cooked. Take two three pounds, remove the tough skin and spread the meat with a well-seasoned force meat, using bread crumbs, herbs, parsley, minced onion and salt and pepper. Roll up. cooked. Take two or three pounds, remove the tough skin and spread the meat with a well-seasoned force meat, using bread crumbs, herbs, parsley, minced onion and salt and pepper. Roll up and tie firmly to keep in shape. Have ready a pint of mixed vegetables, carrots, onion, celery and turnip. Place these in the bottom of a shallow baking pan with the meat on top with just enough water to cover; add a blade of mace and three or four cloves. Cover closely and cook slowly for four hours, basting the meat frequently with the liquor in the pan. When done remove the meat and vegetables to a hot dish and thicken the gravy with browned flour. Strain the gravy over the meat, removing the cloves and mace before serving. Sour Beef—This is a good way to treat tough beef. Take a pound and a half of lean beef from the shim, cut it in small pieces and roll in flour. Brown the meat in a little bacon fat, then remove it and add to the same fat two tablespoonfuls of flour; brown this also, then add slowly two cupfuls of water or stock and stir until boiling hot. Put in the meat and cook slowly for one hour, then add two onions, salt and pepper to taste and finally a tailspoonful of vinegar. Mix the sauce and vinegar. Continue the cooking until the meat is tender. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve. Beef in Casserole—This is another method of cooking meat that is inclined to be tough. Take two pounds of the shin or round, wipe it carefully and lay in a casserole. Cover with a can of tomato, add two bay leaves and salt and pepper to season. Cook in the oven for two hours. Dish up the meat, thicken the tomatoes with flour and butter cooked together and serve the meat with potato pancakes. The acid of the tomato softens the tough fibers of the meat as does vinegar. HELPFUL THOUGHT& Ink can be removed from any fab ric with fresh milk if quickly applied. Blood spots on woolen may be easily removed by rubbing the spots with dry starch. This absorbs the blood, and the cloth when dry woolen may be easily removed by rubbing the spots with dry starch. This absorbs the blood, and the cloth when dry may be brushed, freeing the starch from the cloth. Before polishing a stove soap the hands well with a good laundry soap, filling the nails with the soap, then dry and the hands will not be at all stained when the black work is done. A bar of laundry soap moistened to a lather rubbed over the back of the oilcloth that slips and slides on the table will keep it firm without the use of tacks. Salt shaker tops which have become rusted on may be removed by soaking the tops in a little vinegar. The salt dissolves the rust and the tops will then unscrew. Cut hot gingerbread or cake with a fork. This makes each piece light and fluffy, whereas a knife used will spoil the cake, making a heavy streak where it is cut. Use a little kerosene in the cleaning of windows, adding a teaspoonful to a pallet of soapy water. Also use it in cleaning the bathtub, kitchen sink, linoleum, wash basin and the rollers of the clothes wringer. Newspapers may be used in many ways to lighten work. Cut in small squares and hang from a convenient hook. Use the pieces to rub off the stove, wipe out a greasy dish, or on which to set a smoky kettle. They save utensils in dressing chickens and preparing vegetables. The fruits nuts; they protect the sink drin; if used to cut out greasy dishes before washing. If dampened and corn bits may be used to keep down dust sweepings. When tightly twisted they make good kindling for fires, and good packing for a homemade fireless cooker. To keep a kitchen cooksure clean an ordinary school eraser sprinkled with kerosene is a fine improvement over the brush which just changes the position of the dust. Neele Maxwell New Jersey factories employ more than 323,000 workers. John Pease of Philippsburg, Me., received an offer of $80 for one wheel of an old one-horse chase, which originally came from Peabody, Mass. The wheel is all handmade and is seven feet one inch in diameter. A book used in 1873 in Farmington, Me., reveals the fact that in November of that year, prices of beef ranged from 5 cents to 19 cents, chicken, 11 cents; pok, 12 cents; lamb, 10 cents to 12 cents; turkey, 17 cents. Attempts to introduce merry-go-rounds and other amusement devices in Zanzibar have proved unsuccessful. The natives do not care for anything but the tribal dances. A nest of worms will kill from 3,000 to 4,000 flies a day, but the one or two they may miss will breed about 23,456,768 more before the avengers can get back on the job next morning. Of the blind persons in this country, 32,444 are blind. The majority is doobles largely due to the extra liability of males to accidents, to their INDIA IS QUIET AND LOYAL TO BRITAIN IN WAR Only Disturbances Are Caused by the Ever Restless Warlike Border Tribes. TO ASK VOICE IN EMPIRE One Effect of War Will Be Demand by India for Greater Degree of Autonomy—Mohammedans of India London.—All efforts to stir up serious trouble for the British in India have so far failed signally. The few seditious movements noted have had their origin in Hindu organizations which antedate the great war. When it is considered that the population of India—315,000,00—is more than three times that of the United States, the relative insignificance of the few outbreaks in the last year and a half is evident. In such a great nation disorders are inevitable, in either war or peace, just as the United States or any other nation is never quite free from labor troubles causing loss of life or property. All the information, official and otherwise, received here, shows that the Indian empire is profoundly quiet, except for the ever-restless, warlike border tribes of the Northwest. The rulers of the great native independent or semi-independent states, from the nizam of Hyderabad with his 14,000,000 people down, are loyal to their emperor, King George V of England. They have contributed liberally of their public and private means to assist Great Britain against her enemies. Many of their relatives are active members of the British army. The Mohammedans of India, far from being an element to be distrusted,' are the greatest bulwark of British rule. This minority of 75,000,000 has always sided with the British as its protectors against the more numerous Hindus. It is stated here that no Mohammedan has ever been convicted of complicity in a treasonable enterprise in India. Just Quiet Farmers. It must be remembered that of the 300,000,000 people in India at least 250,000,000 are quiet, uneducated, gentle agriculturalists, quite uninterested in politics, asking from their government only a chance to till their little farms in peace and caring no further as to the character of their rulers. It must not be concluded from these facts that the world war is without important effect on India. The Hindu intellectual leaders see the growing prominence of Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand in the empire. They know that these British dominions will soon ask a place in the councils of the empire, and a voice in the peace congress which shall follow the war. They believe that the time has come for India to have a voice in the empire, too. They demand a further degree of autonomy for India, something approximating the freedom of England's white dependencies. This was clearly set forth by the Indian National congress at Bombay on December 30, which unanimously adopted a resolution 'demanding self-government for India. At the same time the delegates to the congress heartily applauded Baba Surendranth Bannerjee when he said: "India's devotion to the throne during the wxr has been unsurpassed." Fellow Feeling Among Asiatics. India, like other eastern nations, is permeated, too, with the spirit of "Asia for the Asiatics." Despite the long hostility between certain nations, notably China and Japan, there is developing a fellow feeling in Asiatics nations against European dictation. An illustration was an incident which occurred in Tokyo 'n December. Two young Indians, British subjects, received 36 hours' notice to leave Japan, the reason being their allied complicity in German plots to foment disturbances in India. The notice was so timed that the only vessel by which the departees could sail was bound for Shanghai, where they were liable to arrest by the British consul. The Indians laid their hard case before sympathizers in the Japanese press. Leading independent politicians were approached. in a few hours a formidable agitation was afoot. a deputation waited on the foreign minister and asked that the order should be withdrawn or altered so as to permit the Indians to board a ship bound for America. The minister refused, whereupon the government was defied. A leading member of the diet who delights to act the part of a "rormin" or freeance (literally a warrior without a lord), took the Indians to his home and kept them till the time specified in the order had expired. Feared a Flaircase The authorities drew a cordon of police round his house but did not risk entering and removing the Indians. Next morning they covered up the bodies of the Indians and dug dumps that dug dumps had escaped—which nobody believed, the efficiency of the Japanese $100 ENOUGH FOR A KISS Woman Sues for $5,000, but Arkansas Jury Decides That Is Too High. Fort Smith, Ark.-A jury in the circuit court found a verdict for the defendant in the suit of Mrs. Della M. Gorts on Sam Stuart, a wealthy property owner, wherein the plaintiff sought $5,000 damages on the ground that Stuart attempted to take her. THE BYSTANDER police in the matter of surveillance being well known. The Indians probably have sailed for America. The interesting point about this defiance of the Japanese government is the ludicrous small means by which the great engine of government was stopped. The mass of the Japanese nation knew nothing of the Indians, and the work of a handful of men on the Tokyo press, backed by half a dozen political free lances. No questions of policy were involved. There was, in the official eye, nothing whatever to make a fuss about. Why did the government climb down? They feared a flare up. They remembered that 18 months ago, over just such a small matter, involving a couple of Chinese students, the director of the political bureau of the foreign office was assassinated by a fanatic as he was entering his house, and small but angry armed mobs terrorized officeladm. The bellies which inspired the agitation were (1) that the Indians were not German agents, but bona-fide revolutionaries, and (2) that the Japanese government was acting at the request of the British and not of its own initiative. Japan is England's ally, and is bound in terms of the alliance to assist England if India is attacked by a hostile power. But the Japanese people are deeply jealous of all foreign influences in Asia, of which they consider themselves leaders. "Japan, lord of the Orient" is a frequent phrase in the Japanese press these days. No Serious Revolution. Like sentiments are warmly welcomed in many parts of India. This cannot be denied. But as far as active revolution goes, Great Britain so far has seen nothing which looked formidable. The most extensive outbreak since the beginning of the war occurred near Lahore, when as a result 24 Indians were executed and 27 others sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Native press were quite unanimous in ascribing the munitions agitation to the work of a band of conspirators located on the Pacific slope of America for several years. These conspirators are declared here to have been sentenced to be whisked away to stir up antagonism to British rule. It is also known here that between the middle of June and the middle of September of last year 17 Indian cavalrymen in the Punjab and Bengal were sentenced to death for mutiny, making bombs, and cutting telegraph wires, and 17 others were convicted of other offenses. J. Austen Chamberlain, secretary of state for India, stated publicly in the house of commons that the disloyalty of some of the native troops in northern India was due to the activities of an anti-British association having its headquarters in the United States. China is another center for anti-British plotting. Gaekwar Only Suspect. As to the Hindu organization in the United States, it has been at work since 1907. It comprises natives of India who are highly educated; also members of the Clan-Na-Gael, and of late many Germans and American pro-Germans. One of the announced aims of the organization is to start a mutiny in India in 1917 to commemorate the "Diamond Jubilee of the Mutiny of 1857." The Hindus in America have a newspaper devoted to their interest and also a school of instruction for the purpose of educating natives of India in the use of arms. British agents closely watch these activities. They are still of negligible extent. If a revolution ever does gain headway in India, there is only one important native prince whom the British will have cause to suspect. This is the gaekwar of Baroda, well known in the United States, who is reported to have encouraged Hindus in ant-British views. The gaekwar is in ill-social repute both in London and in India because he married a dancer. AS A SPANISH SENORITA V. M. C. Miss Frances Hall in the costume she wore at the Spanish ball at Coronado beach. Miss Hall is a sister of Mrs. Harry W. Hill, wife of Lieutenant Hill, commanding the U. S. torpedo boat Paul Jones. vances caused her to lose her reason temporarily and she further charged she suffered great physical discomfiture. Stuart, who is seventy-one, alleged he had paid Mrs. Gortx $100 and that she signed a waiver of all damages against him. The jury deliberated seven minutes and held that Stuart had paid enough. As the globe rotates, one half is always exposed to sunlight and the other TERROR IN SERBIA Guerrilla Chief Metes Out Stern Justice to Eviddoers. "Executed" Man Escapes and Is Now Safe in America After Being Stabbed and Thrown into Vardar River. Gievgoli, Serbia.—One of the most picturequeous figures of the European war is the Serbian "komitadj" or guerrilla Ivan Stoikovtikh, known to name as "Babounsky." The name is drawn from the famous Babouna Pass, where recently the Serbs so long held the invading Bulgarians at bay, Ivan Stoikovtikh comes from that part of Serbia and is therefore known to his followers and to the Serbian population at large by a nickname indicating the fact. A slight man, tail, with honest gray-blue eyes and the pale features of a student, he impresses the stranger with anything but the terror which his name inspires. Nor do his looks betheir his real profession. For the redoubtable "Babounkys" was a schoolteacher until fired by an ardent patriotism he gave up his classes to gather about him a band of intrepid spirits in the fight for the release of the Turkish part of Serbia from the Ottoman yoke. Ever since the first Hakai war he and his followers have been under arms. Unrecognized by the laws of war, they have taken their own risks of capture and instant execution. Their refuge is in the Serbian mountains, and they have been willing to trust their security to their own astuteness and the impregnability of their numerous hiding places. Especially since the complete breakdown of the Serbian administration, has "Babounsky" become a personage of prime importance in Serbia. Before the advancing German and Bulgarian armies town after town was evacuated, only the Turks and the Bulgarians remaining. While waiting for the arrival of the armies of their compatriots they were not averse to going through the deserted Serbian dwellings and acquiring a few useful articles. "Babounsky" did not approve of this. Naturally the deserted dwellings and all in them would fall into the hands of the conquerors. That was all right—the chance of war. But that former neighbors should do the looting was not in "Babounsky's" code. And those who tried it were dealt with in a most summary manner. Whoever among the Bulgarians was suspected of giving information to the advancing Bulgar armies also received short shrift. A story is told of the first Balkan war when a certain pseudo-Serb known as "Kochko" was suspected of treason to the Serbian cause. "Babounsky" band appeared upon the scene one night and "Kochko" and four others were arrested, tled in secret by the band at midnight and sentenced to be "sent to Saloniki"—that is, taken to the banks of the Vardar river, stabbed and thrown in, their bodies to drift down with the current to Saloniki. At five were lined up on the bank of the Vardar river, gave the signal for the fatal blows to be struck. But unfortunately "Kochko's" executioner, a lawyer from Begrade, had never killed a man before and his hand slipped. The five bodies were thrust into the Vardar, but "Kochko" was still alive. A week later the Serbian consul at Salonik was called to the hospital. "Kechko" told him the story of his escape from death, but begged that it be kept secret until after his departure for the United States. Ultimately recovered from the unskillful stab of the Belgrade lawyer, "Kechko" quietly departed for America. Whenever the allied troops have need of fresh meat or wood or mules one of the officers acquaints a Serbian with what is required. The next day 20 shirts are cut, wood and 20 mules are broken into Novín or Kaphadar, as the case may be, by a Serbian peasant. The peasant collects an equitable sum for the goods delivered, and in time each Serbian who has been involuntarily levied upon for lamb or wood or mules receives his payment. "Babounsky" does not even keep a commission. SAW AND CHOP FOR CHURCH Wood Enough to Heat the Place for the Winter Is Provided in One Day. Columbus, Ind.—How to get wood to last the Garden City Christian church through the winter bothered some of the members of the church, which is situated two miles southwest of this city. Then somebody suggested a "wood chopping and sawing." The members of the church turned out the other day and brought in wood into proper lengths, and then split the blocks into stove wood. Mrs. Mack Neptune, one of the members of the church, served dinner at noon, Rev. W. H. Book, pastor of the Tabernacle Christian church of this city, used a cross-cut saw a part of the day. Eighty Chicken In Pie. Pomona, Cal.-In order to feed 350 members of the Loyal Men's Bible class of the First Christian church at a banquet, Rev. C. R. Hudson had a local teacher to hone in a teacher for four feet long, one hun den and 11 feet long. Bute Squirrels to Work K Clarksville, Ga.—John D. Keslar, a barber of this city, is believed to be the first man to put squirrels to work. He has a pair in front of his shop, and they turn the usual colored sign. The little a imals keep the cylinder turning airight as continuously as a motor, and the irregularity of the movement attracts greater attention. The skeleton is one much shorter THE TROPICAL WILDERNESS Cactus Has Been Wonderfully Developed Until Today One Sees it in Many Varied Forms. THE FLOWER BIN HOW FLORAL NOVELTIES ARE DEVELOPED By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN. Anyone can cultivate flowers who has the necessary earth and seed. At least, anyone can cultivate flowers of existing species, but the fad of the hour, the work of creating types. is very fascinating, and opens a new world to one who has been taught how nature works to make all things different. We who work with her find much delight in the new thoughts as well as the new creation. The value of a novelty depends upon its popularity or use. It is a great delight to the grower to discover a blossom which shows a decided tendency to break away from established rules; to show the character of a new type. At once a desire to develop by selection crossing. This consumes time. By selection the new flower must be allowed to develop and seed, and the other plants destroyed. The seeds, when planted, must be again selected and the rogues destroyed. The rogues in the flower world are the plants that do not come true, and they must be destroyed. After the selection has been made sufficiently, the type is fixed and the flower established. When crossing is done to develop novelties, the plants are selected for the type of the new flower; two plants possessing qualities which, when blended, may produce desired results. These flowers are crossed and the seeds planted. The plant children are carefully watched until they develop and bloom; then selection is made of the best for further development. It may be something very beautiful will develop from the first cross; perhaps they are commonplace flowers. The secret in developing novelties lies in being quick to see possibilities and then to develop the tendencies displayed by the flower. GARDEN NOTES Sun and wind are apt to damage some evergreen trees during winter. These can be protected by building a triangular frame over them, made of light wood, boarded up on two sides. Fill vacant window boxes with bulbs, ferns or small evergreen. A few roots of mint taken up from the garden and planted in a shallow box, placed in the greenhouse, will give a supply of green mint all winter. Mulching consists of spreading manure or litter on the ground under plants and over roots. Mulching does not mean to spade the manure or litter in, nor to put it under the ground. Manure should be supplied occasionally as a surface dressing under evergreen and arbuscular trees and shrubs. Apply several inches in the garden and work it into the soil in the spring. During the winter flowers and plants in window gardens and conservatories should be watered only in the foreonem. Aim to water the plants just enough and no more. When the soil becomes hard in the pot, it will not remove it and replace with fresh earth. Give chrysanthemums under glass as much fresh air as possible. Turn over the garden beds and apply manure. The manure will rot during the winter and be in condition for plant food by the time it is needed next spring. Dahilas in an old-fashioned cellar will keep well without any covering, but in a cellar having a cement bottom, or heat, the boxes or barrels should be lined with paper and covered with paper or burial. This cover preserves a more even temperature. Crottons do not need a specially rich soil. Mix together three parts of leaf-mold, one of garden soil and one of thoroughly rotted manure. Heat and moist air are essential. Full sunshine is liked. PLANT BULBS EARLY Hardy bulbs must be in the ground before the middle of December. If planted later, while they may grow, they will not bloom satisfactorily. After the ground freezes the bed may be given a thick mulch of old manure. WITH YOUR HOUSE PLANTS If possible arrange some kind of curtain, to cut off the window garden from the rest of the room, when sweeping or dusting, or when airing the room during severe weather. Dust is very bad for the growing plants, and the cold air chills them, often being fatal to the life of a plant. Keep water on the heating stove at all times, to supply the moisture. Once a week or oftener, when the weather is very cold, and the air of a room is, of necessity, dry and hot, put a horseshoe, or other piece of iron in the fire, and get it red hot. Then drop it in a pail of water, set underneath the window garden. Do not be discouraged if your young plants seem to be stunted, and are slow of growth, and neglect them. All at once they will change their ways, and surprise you with their growth and beauty. Until one has seen a really well grown, so-called papyrus, or umbrella plant, one cannot realize its decorating possibilities. Like the calla, it likes plenty of water to stand in. The mealy bug, which resembles flour lodged in the axils of the leaves, can be dislodged with a strong spray of water. Tobacco tea, a weak solution of coal oil emulsion, whale oil, scaopsids, and equal parts of sulfur and sulphur, applied with a powder gun, will clean the plants of this pest. There are two methods by which you may make the soil sound and by touch. When you tap the pot, and hear a bellow sound, and when you touch the surface of the soil, and find it dusty, you may know your plants need watering. st. ee _ WATERLOO, 10WA, NEWS. art evar acer ae: veneess it’s all over about the banquet te be siven in Bees Chapel AM. E church Pebruary 14th in honor of Hon. John BR. Linch. “Mrs. Jennie Thornton and children have returned home from Waterval- fey, Miss, after a two weeks’ visit reporting a very pleasant trip. ‘The literary society which meets in fhe A. M. E church each Thuredsy grees & Hie becoming « sola! om ‘The Y. M. 8. C. has become a fix. ture among the organizations of the city. Stw programs are high class and attract the best citizens of the city to ite meetings. ‘The Helping Hand gave its maider entertainment on the 18th and it ‘success was quite encouraging. ‘The Y. W. C, A. entertained at sup per the ministers and their wives 0 the city on the Bist. Rev- I. W. Bes were among the guests. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Jobo Brock left fo San Antonio, Texas, Friday evenins for an indefinite stay. COLFAX. IOWA. Services were well attended Sun- day. The pastor, Rev. J. W. Morton, preached an inspiring and eloquent sermon Sunday morning and evening ‘The B. ¥. PU. elected the follow. ing Officers for the ensuing year: President, Miss Gertrude Broddus; secretary, Miss Irene Duke; treasur. ¢t, Miss Margaret Robinson; program committee, Miss Mabel Welch; cate chizer, Mr. Theodore Sorrel ‘The B. B church gave an enter. tainment Saturday night, which wa: ‘well attended. A neat sum was rea lied. Rov. G. 0. Terrel is seriously ill a! his home at this writing. Mesdames J. J. Beasley and J. C Weich ‘were Capital City visitor: Sunday. Mrs. B F. Cooper, who has beer visiting cher sister, Mrs. Adalaide Jeffers, of Mason City, returned home ‘accompanied by the latter and her 00. Mr. LE. Johnson of Boise Idaho ‘and Mr. Ralph Spencer of Mason City were over Sunday guests in the spring city. Mrs. J. W. Holmes, who has beer very sick, is somewhat better at this writing. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. William Bell Friday, January 21, 2 son. Mother and son getting along nicely: SCANDIA. IOWA. Our church is still progressing Sunday, January 23, our pastor, Rev. G._W. White, delivered an excellent ‘sermon both morning and evening. Mr. Jim Hamilton left for Indian- ‘apolis, Ind., to attend the miners cecnvention. Mrs. Isaish English, who has beer ill for several weeks, is convalescing. Mrs. Anna Griffith and little daugh. “ter; Mabel, returned to their home in Perry, Towa, after several weeks Yisit with Mrs. Isaiah English. Troy Hamilton left Tuesday for ‘Topeka, Kans, where he was called by the serious illness of his mother.” ‘Renew your subscription and help boost the Bystander. Bad Cold Quickly Broken Up. 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Turner, one of the old settlers of this place, has been sick for the past three weeks, and the grip fseems to have = pretty good hold on him. He is improving very slowly. {lou Moseley, a veteran flagman on She California train on the Rock Isl- es uae, oy ve he. , oe: ae e ' ay Ge mee cae. | 7 cme ‘Woman's Crowning Gloryis Her Halr k 7 ag net grow your hair by using ‘ime: M, Beard Hair Grower "Ak removes dandruff, stops itching of “Fin scalp and makes it graw lone, soft Daad beautifal. Price 50c s bo: ed dens intamp for pamphlet. 2 mE. m BEARD bee) AGENTS wanreD ep Bo. wth St. St. Joseph, Mo} had » narrow escape in = wreck ‘the train at Trenton, Mo, a day week. He escaped with a few ‘cuts and bruises, "Last Sunday night st the revival meetings at the M, E. church (white) the A. M. E. church furnished » quar- tet number, song, composed by Mrs. ‘HL C. Boyd, Rev. Boyd, Samuel Hall, jr and N. L. Black- Miss Helen ‘Mots was pianist. ‘The church was ‘packed, about 1,700 im all | Henry Rhodes contemplates moving to the country in the near future. He has already a nice large team of ‘horses to start with. He also has his farm contract. i A. L. Hall and son, Samuel. Jr, expect to farm the Berdo eighty scres couple of miles south of the city. Miss Margaret Campbell, who has been visiting her sister in North Da- kota, is expected home in the near ee 1 BUXTON, IOWA- ‘Through self-control the evil im- pulses are nullified and the good nourished. Miss Ethel Johnson of Miama has been confined with la grippe. Miss MeNola Sears was in the city » few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Toran received ‘a happy visit from the stork and ‘while he was there he left a pair. ‘Mother and both children are doing fine. "Rev. Ferribee is in Chicago on bus- jiness this week. Mr. R. G. Potter, who recently went ‘to Knoxville to work, has returned to ‘Buxton, Claims work didn’t suit him. The boys are preparing themselves for another home talent minstrel soon, under the management of Arthur ‘Bill. Mr Pete Billings left Buxton last [week to look up a new location. Miss Blackburn was called away from her school Monday on out of ‘town business. | Mrs. James Galauth made a busi ness trip to Des Moines on Monday. Mr. Sears is ill. | Rev. Brasco is carrying on a series of revival meetings at the Tabernacle Beptist church. Everybody is wel- ‘come. ‘The Gist Of It. “Las. December I had a very se- vere cold and was nearly down sick in bed. I bought two bottles of Chamberlaix’s Cough Remedy and it was only very few days until I was completely restored to health,” writes © J. Metcalf, Weatherby, Mo. If you would Enow the value of this remedy ask any one who has used it. Obtain- able every eins. Somes, Gur” VCC simi. We are the Tefeest mane heettrerset este eee See's aie Beh, aa ieintrsdaes Ser gests we Ste “tending Hoe Garis St book iherike mye ae Senin oe mee ae oto wg. 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A trial will convince you, ‘Dr. Miles’ Laxative Tablets are sold ‘by “all druggists, at 25 cents a box containing 25 doses. If not found satisfactory after trial, re- turn the box to your druggist and he will. return your money. ss MILES MEDICAL CO., Rikhart, Ind “Women of Sedentary Habits, Women who get but little exercise are likely to be troubled with consti- pation and indigestion and will finc Chamberlain’s Tablets highly bene ficial, Not 60 good asa three or four mile walk every day, but very much better than to allow the bowels to re- main in| constipated condition. They ito: easy and pleasant to take and rrequble in ‘eft. Obtainable Saige h Se A es HEALTH HINTS A- J. Booker. M.D. Consistency is a rare jewel; sincer- ity is found little oftener. No man ought sacrifice a principle to appear consistent, yet there are some great mearares upon which we must stand regardless of appearances or position. In the first, place a thass are peste 4 principles 0: ee = ba] manhood which es 4 f} should stand out, BUS ee) reesrcless of ea | how it affects Fe business or pol- ed icy. A human a being must de- p cide whether he ne oa jence and boner more tuan money oF ‘position. There are times when we must decide once for all whether pol- ey or principle is going to decide the ‘course, Every man and every woman zens han the crits cots, and up- on the decision depends all the future ‘with its attendant self-respect As | Lowell puts it, “Once to every man and nation comes ‘a moment to decide, In the strife with truth and falsehood, |___ for the good or evil side, | Some grea: cause, God's new Messiah, offering «each the bloom or | blight, |Parts the goats upon the left hand | and the sheep upon the right, | And goes on forever ’twixt.that dark- | ness and that light, | Then it is the brave man . chooses | while ‘the coward turns aside, | Doubting in his abject spirit till his | Lord is cracified.” | ‘The man who cannot be a man and je free in spirit to reject an infam- lous proposition because he is poor jand hungry would not raise much | noise about the proposal if he had a {million dollars. A man ‘who has deep seated convictions on a proposition |does not consider the advantage of countenancing a wrong for the imme- diate benefit. Who would mortgage his soul for money or position? ‘The old saying, “The Lord sent it jeven if the devil did bring it,” is no |more humorous than it is logical. |The minister who claims to denounce |gambling and the calls upon “the | boys” to bring their ill gotten gains ‘to carry on the Lord’s work is either ja hpocrite or a crook; the man who |says. the saloons are bad, but gets |drunk at home is mighty weak on |cgic; the doctor who puts abortions Jon a financial basis is a moral leper; |the man who is afraid to speak out |on a rotten subject when his soul eries Jout against it is paying a mighty | price for comfort of a physical na- |ture. There is a type of individual | which accepts conditions as they are; they do not pose as reformers; they jdo not Haim to possess a fine sensi- |bility. ‘This type is much more to be [respected than the one that frowns | with the face, but grows jolly in the | pocket and is so sorry that the world |is going to the bow wows | ‘The insincere and the inconsistent | will be with us so long as the dollar mark is the shrine before which they | worship; men will try to be monkeys until they think money will make men of them, but once surrender manhood and all the money in the bank will not buy it back. People in this coun- ‘try, it is true, to a large extent ap- pear to respect riches, but ‘without any apology, without any qualms, without affecting respect they wor- ‘gute snatitiond amd ‘sotrepe: ROCK ISLAND, ILL. Mrs. Grace Clay has recovered from her attack of la grippe. _ Mrs, Keonia Hoskins gave a grand musical entertainment Monday night Januar y24, at the A. M. 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The program is one celebrating “Young People’s Day.” Mr Travis, Sr,, is seriously ill. ‘Mrs. Rhoda Reynolds enter“sined the Sewing Circle of Wayman chapel A. M. E. charch Thursday, January 27th. ‘Mrs, Ada Jackson entertained the Mite Missionary society of the A. M. E. church Friday, Januar 28. All present reported a fine time Miss Zellay Greene was called tc Clinton, Iowa, Tuesday, January 25 by the untimely and sad death of het youthful brother, Willard Greene ‘The band, of which he had been s member, also went to pay their re spects to their dead comrade. Mr. Lambert is still very sick. ‘Mrs. Floreace Hopson has movec to Chicago She was a member of the A. M. E. church here and wa: very popular. SIOUK CITY. IOWA. ‘The A. I. P. club will give a “Vel- vet Tea” Friday evening, January 26, at the Mt. Zion Baptist church for the benefit of the A. M. E. and Mt. Zion churches. : Little Phalbia and Naomi Green, children of Mr. and Mrs H. G. Green, and Lillie May, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Webb, are on the sick list. = |_ The Ladies’ Aid society of the A M. E, church met last Thursday aft |ernoon at the parsonage with Mrs. J 1H. Garrison as hostess. Adjourned to hold their next meeting with Miss Mary Thompson. Mr, and Mrs, Arthur Webb were hosts at a dinner Sunday in honor of Mr. R Delaney of Chicago. Other gvests were Mr. and Mrs HG. Green, Mrs, Marjorie Dickersoa, Mr. ‘Perry Louneer and Miss Jessie Fa- gain. Next Sunday will be quarterly ‘meeting at the A.M. E. church. Pre- ‘siding Elder Rev. S. B. Moore will be [present and will preach throughout the day: ‘The Ladies” Aid societ of the A. ML. E. chureh will give a concert, bazaar |and supper Thursday evening, Janu- lary 27th. Miss Mary Thompson, chairman. Rev, R, Knight filled the pulpit at the A. M. E, church last Thursday evening. Fever Sores. | - pever sores and old chronic sore should not be healed entirely, but should be kept in healthy condition ‘This can be done by applying Cham- terlain’s Salve. This salve bas no superior for this purpose. It is alsc most excellent for chapped hands sore nipples, burns and diseases of the skin. For sale by all dealers. Crawtord—Do the rich know hot (eo other batt live? Crabshaw—After taking thelr mone} from them they must be able % form perme idea of bow they are compelle te live—-Puck NOTICE 10 REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. BALE ‘To A. J. Barter, the person in whose ‘name the real estate described be- dow is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a “regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Towa, on December 4, 1911, ‘the. following described real estate, | towit: | Lot eight (8), in block two (2), in the town of Chesterfield, now inclad- ed in and forming a part of the city ‘of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, | was sod o W 'L. Baugh for the pay- ment of taxes for the year 1910 | thereon, and a certificate of purchase | was duly iesued to him by the tress: | urer 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, | Towa, unless redemption from said cale 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 69. | NOTICE 10 REDEEM FROM TAX 1 SALE. To Jas. Chittick, the person in whose name the real estate described be- low 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: Lot thirteen (13), in block one (1), ‘of the official plat’ of the northeast quarter (1-4) of the southwest quar- ‘ter (1-4) of section twenty-three (23), township seventy-nine, north of range twenty-four (24), (except the east eight hundred thirty and four- tenths (830.4) feet thereof), now in: cluded in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Towa, 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 Towa, 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, Towa, 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 28, page 111. NOTICE 1@ REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To Eljsha McClain, the person in ‘whose name the real estate de- scribed below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax-sale held in and for Polk county, Towa, 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 form: ing 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 certifi. cate of purchase was duly issued t him by the treasurer of said Poll county, Iowa, which certificate is now THE BYSTANDER BYSTANDER PUBLISHING CO. PUBLISHER ‘DES MOINES, 1OWA PO ins see Sle JOHN L. THOMPSON, EDITOR a een FHIVAY, JANUARY 28, 1wi6 owned and held by E, C. Worthing. ton. ‘That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said real estate will be issued to hin by the treasurer of said Polk county, Towa, 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 28, page 104. NOTICE 10 REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To M. L. Davis, the person in whose name the real estate described be- low is taxed: You are hereby notified that at » regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on’ December 4, 1911, the following described real estate, tewit: 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 pay. ment 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, Towa, 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 de- scribed 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 certifi cate 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. Worthing- ‘ton. 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, Towa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated Des Moines, Towa, 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 be low is taxed: You are hereby notified that at s regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Towa, on December 2, 1912 the following described real estate towit: Lot fifteen (15) in block twelve (12), in Larison Place, now included in and formig a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, was sold to W. E. Kersey for the pay- ment of taxes for the year 1911 thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treat urer 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 Towa, 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 whost name the real estate described be low is taxed: You are hereby notified that at 4 regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Towa, on December 6, 1909, the following described réal estate, towit: Lot nine (9), in block eight (8) (except railroad right of way) of T: E. Brown's official plat of the north- east quarter (except the northeast forty acrés of same) of section thir- ty-six (36), township seventy-nine (79), north of range twenty-four (24), now included in and forming @ Part of the city of Des Moines, Polk founty, Towa, was sold to E g Worthington for the payment taxes for the year 1908 thereon, asd & certificate of purchase was dull issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, which eertif- ‘cate is now owned and held by B. C- Worthington, ‘That the time for redemption frost said sale will expire and a deed for said real estate will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county; Towa, unless redemption from said sele be made within ninety days from ‘the completed service of this notice. Dated Des Moines, lows, January 12, 1916, > Srecuugua so oe BO. ing tors S Ranke OF waee Oi i chads