Iowa State Bystander

ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER The Best and only medium that reaches the colored people of the middle west. XXII No. 34 Little Hortense Woods is ill with La Gripe. Mrs. Leota James has been ill the past week. Mrs. J. H. Perkins is reported sick again. Miss Lizzie Cowens returned home last week after a very pleasant six weeks' visit in Missouri with relatives and friends. Miss Daisy Jacobs, who slipped and fell on the ice last week, was able to resume her work after several days at home. The Twentieth Century Arts and Crafts Club will meet with Mrs. Hanger at 1716, next Wednesday afternoon, the 16th, from to 4:30. The Triple H. Club will meet Tuesday, February 15th, at the home of Mrs. McGrudder, Carpenter avenue, at which time Mrs. J. H. McDowell will read a paper on "False Economy." Mr. Joseph H. Shepard took suddenly sick Sunday night after returning home from church. He suffered intensely that night. Three doctors were attending him. He is much better at this writing. The many friends of Mr. W. Henry Stanton are glad to see him back from Omaha where he has been for several months. We are always glad to have our old boys return. Mrs. Daisy Atkins of Kansas City, Mo., and sister Mrs. Mable Coleman of Rock Island, Ill., were called here this week on account of the death of theirunt. Mrs. Julia Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. S. Joe Brown's residence caught fire by an overheated furnace which burned the wall a little. Were it not that Mr. Brown was at home and checked the fire at once the home might have been lost. Don't forget the Helen E. Hagan piano recital Monday evening, February 14th, at Union CnnIregational church. The President of the Callahan Club wishes to announce that there will be no meeting until the 23d of this month, but urges every member to be present on that day at the home of Mrs. L. M. Mason. Madam Robinson of Hocking, Ia., is no wable to give the Madam Walker's Hair 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. The Dramatic Art Club held their weekly meeting at the home of Mrs. C. Johnson, 825 13th street. Visitors were Mrs. S. W. Wright, R. N. Hyde, J. W. Campbell. Next meeting will be held with Mrs. Will Jones, 34th and Grand. Mrs. James Woods announces the marriage of her sister, Miss Cecil Harris, to Mr. Luther Bledsoe, both of Chicago, Illinois, which took place on Monday, February 7th, at St. Stevens parsonage. The ceremony was read by the Rev. Brice W. Taylor. They are at home at 559 E. 36th street, Chicago. Mr. George Brown, 1516 Illinois street, is confined to his bed on account of an accident received last Friday while working at the tile factory on a load of rock. The condition is much improved. GRAND MASTER OFFICIAL VISITS. Grand Master Thompson of the Masonic Lodge will start out upon his official visits on Tuesday, February 22r, at Waterloo; Wednesday, February 23d, Dubuque; Thursday evening, February 24th, Clinton; Friday evening, February 24th, Davenport. Further announcements later. Every Mason in good and regular standing is invited to be present. BIRTHS. Dr. Jefferson reports the following births for February 4, 1916, namely: An eight pound girl born to Mr. and Mrs. James Barton of Oralabor, Iowa and an eight pound girl born to Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Marmaduke, 1189% ?th street. All are doing well. 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. When costive or troubled with constipation take Chamberlain's Tablets. They are easy to take and most agreeable in effect. Obtainable everywhere. THE BYSTANDER DAVIDSON'S IOWA'S LARGEST FURNITURE STORE 412-414-416-418-WALNUT-ST. 31st Annual February Sales provides unequalled assortments and buying opportunities for those about to furnish a home complete or desirous of adding to the comfort and convenience of present surroundings. No Sale, irrespective of the nature of the business, whether based on a final clearing or any other reason, can offer as complete and general price reductions as Davidsong, Annual February Sales of EDITORIALS NEGRO FARMER'S CONFERENCE The ninth annual meeting of the Missouri Negro Farmers Conference will be held in Dalton at the Bart- Agricultural and Industrial School, February 10th and 11th. Their annual "Forward to the Farm." Their watch is 1,000 more Missouri farmers for Prof. N. C. Bruce, chairman of the conference, has prepared a splendid program for each day. IOWA BOY WON A PRIZE Stephen Leon Sheets, of 1502 Capitol avenue, this city, won a prize in the Semi-Centennial of the Lincoln Jubilee Exhibition celebration held last August in Chicago. Young Sheets is only in the second year in the provocational school on west Ninth street, and he will graduate in 1918. He was only 14 years old and made a fine office desk complete. He also made another fine office desk long for Professor of the East High School. He is the only Des Moines boy that a prize and to our knowledge the only one in Iowa. We congratulate the young man. THE BIRTH OF A NATION We have been asked so often by our white friends as to what is the play called "The Birth of a Nation" that so many people are protesting against its production here and elsewhere and perchance some of our colored people many not know what this play is based upon, I shall endeavor to enlighten all seeking more light as to this immoral, race hatred play, based upon Thomas Dixon's book entitled "The Clansman," dramatized and photized. We are surprised that so many pretended intelligent white people are so eager to have this inferior picture played which causes so much prejudice, quarrels and friction between the races, inflaming each with hatred toward the other. The play was written by Thomas Dixon, author of "Leopard Spots" and "The Clansman," and whose purpose is to degrade the Negro and the Union soldier and boost the "lost cause" of the rebels and portray to the American people that Jeff Davis and his gang were right. The Kuklux Klan, organized just after the war in the southern states, was for the purpose of overriding the emancipation of the Negro and the defeat of the rebel army. Colored men were suppressed and murdered by the Kuklux Klan because they wouldn't own the land they did ex-slaves. If Mr. Dixon and his crowd want to be fair about portraying the "birth of a nation," they should start out with Abraham Lincoln emancipating a race, thereby making a new nation on this continent, cementing the North and the South, and eradicating slavery, and thus display the rise of the colored man as well as the rebel soldier who held the slaves in bondage for years. Both factions have improved wonderfully since the war, and a picture of this kind would have been appropriate. Instead of portraying the black soldier trying to outrage a young white girl, he could have pictured the slaves protecting the wives and families of the rebels when the latter were fighting to keep them slaves. Instead of portraying the colored man as fighting to force a white woman to marry him, he could have pictured the thousands of slave-holders who were living in open adultery and raising families by colored women. This shown upon the screen would probably have had a different effect upon the American white man. There never was a redeeming feature about the whole disgraceful Ku-Klux Klan system. In fact, it is vile, treacherous and poisonous to the minds of the rising generation and it degrades the sacred war for the Union and the exalted courage of the Union soldier who fought to save this nation. Thank God that the Ohio state board of censors has prohibited its production in Ohio, and grand old Kansas board has just ruled it from the state of "John Brown." Detroit, Michigan, mayor revoked the license of the opera house that played it there. In Minneapolis, mayor knocked out; in Chicago the brow minded Big Bill Thompson, mayor, refused to permit it in Chicago. In even Houston, Texas, it is not permitted to play and many other places. And we in Des Moines propose to knock it and then we want our state legislature to pass a state law forbidding such plays in our fair state. The Bystander are sorry to announce to her many readers that the motor of the linetype machine broke Thursday afternoon when they had just started to set up our correspondents, and is not fixed yet, so the little news we saw this week came another form, so this week's correspondents do not appear until next week, therefor our correspondents need not send in my news for next week. OBITUARY. Mrs. Mash. Of the many deaths this week, Mrs. Chas. Mash was a victim. She was 70 years old, and a member of the A. M. E. Church for about 50 years. She had been married twice before, but both husbands died, leaving her alone wit wno relatives. She was a stewardess in the A. M. E. Church, and the Tabernacle and House Hold Ruth. Her mourn her death. She was a good Christian woman endeavoring to do the right. Mrs. N. Kinney. Was born in Tuskegee, Ala., in 1878. She was married to Mike Cunningham, and to them was born one child, Lilly Cunningham, who still survives. Upon the death of her first husband, in 1911, she was united to Mr. Will Kinney, who gave him with him until her death. She was married to the M.E. Church and a member of the Tabernacle and House Hold Ruth. She leaves to mourn her death a husband, daughter, and an adopted son, and a host of friends. to mourn her loss. A GOOD AND USEFUL WOMAN GONE. Mrs. Julia Taylor was born in Liberty, Clay County, Mo, May 24, 1852, and died of pneumonia, in this city February 6th. In the year 1869 she was joined in marriage to Mr. Geo. S. Taylor to which union five children were born, three of whom with her husband are left to mourn their loss, Mrs. Midget, Walter and Miller Taylor, she also leaves one grandchild, Matolia Midgett, one brother, Sam Mash, several nieces, nephews and hosts of friends. Aunt Julia, as she was called by almost everyone, was highly respected and was always willing to lend a helping hand when it was needed and many of those who paid their last tribute to her Wednesday afternoon were those who had been benefited by word or deed of Aunt Julia's. She was an active member of the Eastern Star and Household of Ruth, the latter having charge of her funeral. She was a member of St. Paul's A. M. E. church, her funeral be conducted by Rev. Birt, assisted by Revs. T. L. Griffith, S. Bates, W. L. Lee and J. L. Roberts. Interment was at Woodland cemetery. BEDFORD, IOWA. The scarlet fever quarantine was raised and churches held services Sunday. The Pilgrim Baptist church had services Sunday. Rev. W. Ewing, one of the young aspiring ministers of Maple Baptist church of Des Moines filled the pulpit morning and A. B. A. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Born Feb. 12, 1809, in Kentucky. Mrs. James Crawford, for Ottumwa, was pleasantly the Januar y25th in honor of her day by some of her many friends. HELP THE WEAKS (Mrs. H. M. Hookaday, Kirksville, Mo.) Help the weak when they are Reach to them an out hand. There are many for aid care Near and far, in all the sky? Shall we pass them by uncle Shall we leave them there Shall we leave them scare bleeding. While the clouds o'er ha sky? We must not, for we are by God commands us help the And we must, to these and Lend the hand for wha seek. ABRAHAM LINCOLN T was near the year 1620, When the Dutchman, you r Brought our forefathers, n many To America, yea, not a per MISS HELEN E. HAGEN. Our Race's Greatest pianist will give a concert on next Monday evening, February 14th, at Union Congregational church, Tenth and Park streets. Every lover of fine music should by all means hear this truly wonderful artist. To read the newspaper evening and one new member was added to the church. Mrs. George Howe is convalescent. Mrs. Mary King is on the sick list Mrs. Duncan of St. Joe Mo., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Robinson, returned to her home Sunday morning. Father Keene and wife have gone to live with their daughter, Laura. Mrs. A. W. Robinson was called to Red Oak by the illness of her daughter and daughter's family. SEVEN—Bystander— THE Typewriter Exchange Bargains in Rebuilt Typewriters 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... 17.00 808 MULBERRY HIPPEE BUILDING DES MOINES IOWA SHERIDAN, WYO. (Special to Bystander.) Mrs. Eunice Douglas, wife of Rev. Levi Douglas, is seriously ill in the hsopital. Mrs. Maguinez, wife of Rev. S. R. Maguinez, pastor of the A. M. E. HARRIS-EMERY BARGAIN BASEMENT "Where all Iowa Saves" These are just a few of the many real substantial savings afforded on Saturday to folks with an eye on economy-- $1.49 white ivory mirrors, Saturday.....$1.00 Women's $1 cape and gloves, Saturday at..... 85c 5c pearl buttons (all sizes), dozen..... 3c Fine soaps~ Saturday only-3 cakes for..... 10c Women's union suits; two-thirds wool;..... 94c Baby's wool shirts—special group—at..... 23c Women's 25c wool hose, priced per pair..... 18c Silk dresses—two new groups—with constantly arriving additions—Spring models—$5.95 & $9.95 a new section just opened comment on her musical ability and hear what professors in music say of her ability should be sufficient endorsement. There is none in our race her equal and very few in any race her superior in America. Admission 25c. The Peerless Octett will furnish a few number for the occasion. church, sails for Manila on January 26 to visit her mother and relatives. Mrs. Earl Smith, who has been visiting her mother-in-law Mrs. Lenora Smith, left for her new home in Chicago on January 24. Mrs. James Crawford, formerly of Ottumwa, was pleasantly surprised Januar y25th in honor of her birthday by some of her many friends. Help the weak when they are falling. Reach to them an outstretched hand. There are many for aid calling Near and far ,in all the land. Shall we pass them by unheeding? Shall we leave them there to die? Shall we leave them scarred and bleeding. While the clouds o'er hang their sky? We must not, for we are brothers. God commands us help the weak, And we must, to these and others Lend the hand for which they seek. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. T'was near the year 1620. When the Dutchman, you remember, Brought our forefathers, numbered many To America, yea, not a penny. They were brought to serve as slaves, On the hilltops, in the caves; They sowed the wheat, barley and rye. Harvested the hay, in due time when dry. So, as the weary years rolled by They had visions that the time was nigh When freedom would exclaim in somethoda's soul. somebody's soul, That slavery had reached its final goal. But at last was born a noble man, Firm and undaunted, he took a stand "For liberty I live, for liberty I die" Then sacrificed all for you and I. cut in- ins ed He olk at of of ng nes its ay. U. ur di- rt. in ar- er, it's He ral od ida he h. th, the ur es, are id- te pe are and our ave has as for — ou men the nch od We ing was My. the od his of nat an er of ffi- in ity its un- ook the od of a ted ev- his lit. of has a a ole, his nu- rec- eds of ein nost 1934 curz as the hea me, we the to man his grust His ncell- ohs by cted ent has such city, that n a only can the hea- ln of Pay Boost and read the Bystander Dont borrow or read your neighbors, help make this a great paper There's no song, no poem, nor rhythm That imbodies our thankfulness given. For a nobler man was never born Than by the name of ABE LINCOLN. With the hand of the Almighty, he helped us. To conquer our foes, we MUST! But cling to the blood stained ban- ner. For God has proven. He is just. —Jonnie Johnson. 2622 Chester Avenue. ENFORCE THE LAW. Below we publish a criticism of Senator Cummins by the editor of Detroit Leader: Republicans We Want a Square Deal. "Senator Cummins will not do our race any real justice, in his idea of cutting down the Southern Delegation. Evidence shows that the Southern white politician would be satisfied with much smaller power if he enjoyed that power alone. Justice demands that the black man of the South should receive a franchise without any restrictions. Why is it that the Northern republican cannot stand for right and justice in this matter of polices relative to the Southern Negro? No such remedy is attempted with any other big issue in this country. The idea of trying to assist one class of people at the expense of another. It is not American, it is not good republicanism. We want full right of franchise, we want to be unmolested by the Southern people in the enjoyment of that franchise. If this is a country for, by and of the people, we want a republican party to give us legislation that will bring about the same benefits, the same privileges that are enjoyed by any other class of Americans. "Direct primary, tariff, states rights, foreign policies, an devery other ism or cism under the sun is dealt with in no manner like that of the Negro and His Vote in the South. Is the republican statesman going backward? Is this the same party of '65? Is this he pary of Lincoln-Gran and Roosevel—the party of Right? These are questions that the Northern Colored republican wants to know. "We of the North will not be satisfied until our people are treated free and equal throughout the entire South." Now Brother Kemp, I am not here to defend Hon. Albert B. Cummins, for his past record for square dealing and fair play to every man is firmly established. He has been thoroughly tested and his doctrine is absolutely sound. eW all in the North states stand for equal right to every male citizen. The question of that Right is violated by certain states as it has been, and we have a law on our statutes books that prescribes a punishment for any one violating this statute ought not we to inflict the punishment, regardless of what we may personally believe to be the best method? I will quote you, Mr. Editor, for fear you have not read, else you have forgotten the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution, Sec. 1: Article XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Sec. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for president and vice-president of the United States, representatives in congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States or in any jurisdiction, except for participation in rebellion, other crime, the basis of representation, or wherein shall be the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state. Now, Mr. Editor, the duty of every law abiding citizen and every officer of our country is to enforce the laws and inflict the punishment for its violation that is upon our statute books, if it is a bad law reqalit e and make a better law. I believe that the South would protest if we would cut their representation down one-half as it should be. HONOR LINCOLN AND DOUGLASS. At the meeting of the executive committee of the Des Moines branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Monday evening arrangements were completed for the celebration in honor of th birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederic Douglass to be held at the Union Congregational Church tomorrow (Saturday) evening. February 12th, at which also a full report will be made on the light of the association's work to prevent the production in Des Moines of the photo play. "The Birth of the Nation." A number of those whose membership in the branch had expired during the month of January had their membership renewed for another year and the following new members were also voted in: Messrs. E. Tracy Blagburn and F. P. Johnson, and Mesdames F. P. Johnson and Camantha Ganett. For That Terrible Itching. Eczema, tetter and salt rheum keep their victims in perpetual torment. The application of Chamberlain's Salve will instantly allay this itching, and many cases have been cured by its use. For sale by all dealers. CARD OF THANKS. To the members of the Household of Ruth, members of the O. E. S. and the many friends who so kindly an lovingly assisted during the illness and death of our beloved wife and mother, we wish to extend our heartfelt thanks. We would appreciate the many beautiful,oral affinities. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS How many white men have argued wheel is greater than one made of iron. ```markdown ``` Among the differences that set apart the Negro race as a peculiar people none is more significant than the fact that he is insistently adduced to look to the future. Other men may rejoice not only in the present, but also in the past. But If the Negro recalls the past, this is merely to enable him to measure his progress away from it. If he thinks of the present, it is as basis for the radiant time that is to come. No doubt may ever cross his mind as to whether the present is as noble as some parts of the past. His past is happily dead. There is nothing in it he would perpetrate. His duty and his pleasure are to travel as fast and as far from it as he may. His own feeling about it has been enforced from the first day of freedom by those of more fortunate races who have shown an interest in him. Why then, asks the New York Evening Post, should the new year be signaled by the appearance of a magazine bearing the title, The Journal of Negro History? How can there be such a thing as history for a race which is just beginning to live? For the Journal does not juggle the word; by "history" it means history and not current events. The answer is to be found within its pages. The opening article, "The Negros of Cincinnati Prior to the Civil War," is a reminder that slavery did not cover all the country. Undamaged by persistent opposition, writes Doctor Woodson, "the Negroes of Cincinnati achieved so much during the years between 1835 and 1840 that they deserved to be ranked among the most progressive people of the world." Still, 1835 and 1840 are not very far back in the past, as other races measure time. By "history" most people mean ancient history. What has the black back do to that sort of past that he did not not forget? Well, in an article on "The Passing Tradition and the African Civilization." Monroe N. Work presents little-regarded developments in the Dark Continent a thousand years ago which show that the black man need not despise the rock whence he was hewn. "Not all black men everywhere throughout the ages have been hewers of wood and drawers of water. On the contrary, through long periods of time there were powerful black nations which have left the records of their achievements and of which we are just now beginning to learn a little." More impressive than these shady records are literary productions of which neither the Negro nor his better-educated white brother is often aware. These are the most interesting and impressive things in the initial number of the Journal, as to the Negro they should be the most inspiring Here is one passage: "That the Americans after considering the subject in this light—after making the most many of all possible exertions in defense of liberty—after publishing to the world the principle upon which they contended, viz. That all men are by nature and of right ought to be free, should still retain in subjection a numerous tribe of the human race merely for their own private use and emolument, of all things, the strongest in inconsistency, the deepest reflection on our conduct, and the most abandoned apottery that ever took place, since the Almighty flat spoke into existence this habitable world." Says the Mason (Ga.) Telegraph: "To set up that the South can get along without the Negro is ridiculous, and this being true, not a county should be allowed to shirk its share of the problem by the simple expedient of shoving it off bodily into the next one." Suppose that, by some magician's want, the Negro could be removed from the South. Instead of benefiting that section, the action would plunge it into bankruptcy. The African element is our farm labor—all we have and all we ever will have. If it is incompetent, that is a reason for improving it, not for dispensing with it. The trained Negro "is a more efficient instrument than the untrained white man"—and it is because the latter instinctively senses dangerous competition that he moves for banishment of the black. Empress Sadako of Japan is the mother of four sons, one having been born to her on December 2. The other children are Hiohito Michinomiya, the crown prince, born in 1901; Yasuhito Atanomiya, born in 1902; and Nobuhito Ternomiya, born in 1905. According to the United States public health service, a new disinfectant, derived from pine oil, a by-product in the manufacture of turpentine, possesses qualities superior to ordinary disinfectants, being more than four times as powerful as carmine for disinfecting surfaces yet nontoxic and without harmful effects when it comes in contact with delicate materials or with fabrics or metals. This discovery is particularly valuable at this time because of the shortage of coal tar derivatives for disinfectant purposes. For automobilists who wish to sleep out of doors as attachment for cars has been invented that extends to form a bed and folds to hold baggage when not otherwise needed. To make a child maintain an eroc groom while writing at a school dept. Groom has invented a rod to be put to a deck, terminating in a cup presents the child's chin. Commissary wood from British Gau saw of wood to castl iron or steel other wood water more powerfully than the Negro who signed himself, in this essay and another, "Othello?" He has a striking way of turning the tables: "Might not the inhabitants of Africa, with still greater justice on their side than we have on ours, cross the Atlantic, seize our citizens, carry them into Africa, and make slaves of them, provided they were able to do it? But should this be really the case, every corner of the globe would reverberate with the sound of African oppression; so loud would be our complaint, our own appeal to the inhabitants of the world all large. We should represent them as a lawless, piratical set of unprincipled robbers, pimpers and villains, who basely prostituted the superior powers and information which God had given them for worthy purposes to the vilest of all ends." "The chief aim of the higher education is to produce an efficient leadership." remarks Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard university. "According to the last available data from the federal census, there are 15,000 Negro clergy men, about two thousand Negro physicians and dentists. 21,000 Negro teachers, 700 Negro lawyers, and several thousand workers along the other lines of the higher callings and pursuits. These constitute about one-half of 1 per cent of the race; but it is to this class that the 99% per cent must look for leadership." Then Professor Miller points out that the graduates of Negro colleges and universities are at times "derided in all the moods and tenses of irony and ridicule. "In the rapid rise of this class from the lower to the higher levels of life instances of mai-adaptations and grotesque misfits might naturally be expected. But a wide acquaintance with the graduates of Negro colleges and universities in all parts of the land convinces me that such instances are exceptional, and do not in the least characterize them as a class. They are almost universally employed along lines of useful endeavor for the general betterment of the community and good will of the people of both races among whom they live and work." In a communication to the Baltimore American, Elliot Norton argues the formation of an army of Negroes He writes: "Preparedness is in the air. Secretary of War Garrison recommends an army of 500,000 men. Such men would be the hired men of the United States government, but they would not be engaged in any useful labor. It would, therefore, be a detriment to the country and to every taxpayer to take them from the ranks of regular laboring men. There is no overplus of labor in this country. But we do have a class, constantly increasing of men who idle away their lives, who are detrimental and wasters. I refer to the Negroes, especially those in the cities. Why not make our proposed army out of them? They make first-class soldiers. And the training they would receive would make men of them. To take 500,000 male Negroes, or half that number, and to train and discipline them as soldiers would pretty nearly settle the so-called Negro question." The swiftest dog in the world, the borzoi, or Russian wolfhound, has made record runs that show 75 feet in a second, while the gazelle has shown measured speed of more than 60 feet a second, which would give it a speed of 4,500 feet in a minute if the pace could be kept up. To enable an automobile to pull itself out of a mud hole there has been invented a reel of broad tape which, when fastened to a mired wheel, is unwound by it to form a dry pathway. By a Frenchman's invention as a language student hears a word spoken by a phonograph he also sees it appear on a printed roll in conjunction with its translation in his own tongue. During the last year 79,281,735 short tons of sand and gravel, having a value of $22,846,999, were dug out in the United States. This year will establish a record for the number of messages sent over Swedish telegraph lines. A new lifeboat which its inventor claims is proof against storm waves consists of a water-tight cylinder insulating a suspended floor that always remains level, connected to which are pipes to admit air. Japan will build at Tokyo an astronomical observatory the equal size and completeness of anything in the United States or Europe. If a word to the wise is sufficient, lawyers must consider jurupa a lot of idiots. Fame, from a literary point of view, consists in having people know you have written a lot of stuff they haven't read There is nothing too good for the small uncle, who has a pretty grown-up sister. A small boy's idea of happiness is to be able to lick another boy a size larger. Scotland now has 154 agricultural cooperative trading associations. Details of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Wilkes Booth. April 14, 1865, Will Long Be Remembered as One of the Saddest Days in American History—How Murderer of Great President Met His Death. On April 14, 1861, the Union flag was hauled down at Fort Sumter, and the war became a fact. On April 14, 1865, the man who had been the head of the Union spirit the struggle was shot by an assassin. The world today realizes the tragedy of his assassination, but not so well the shock it caused at the time. On the afternoon of April 14, 1865, President Lincoln, accompanied by his wife, went for a long drive. As a recurrent he had planned that night to see the famous actress, Laura Keene, in "Our American Cousin," which was being played in that street was then Ford's theater on Tenth street northwest, between E and F streets. General Grant's Narrow Escape. General Grant was to have been one of the theater party, and the fact that he was unexpectedly called away probably saved his life, as there is no doubt that his murder was also contemplated. The president's box had been draped with two flags, a silk one borrowed from the treasury department being placed in the center. It was in this that Booth's spur caught when he leaped from the box after shooting Lincoln. Within the box was placed a rocking chair for the use of the president. At 8:30 Mr. Lincoln, Major Rathbone and Mrs. Harris entered the box to witness a play of which they were destined never to see the end. As the president sat quietly in his box for an hour and a half, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, was bowering near, waiting for a favorable opportunity to fire the man she shot. He was a formidable young actor of the famous family of actors. Edwin Booth was his brother and Junius Brutus Booth his father. Ardent Southern Sympathizer. Young Wilkes Booth he was commonly called by his middle name—was an ardent Southern sympathizer, and his frequent visits to Washington brought him in contact with people of similar sentiments, and gave him the opportunity to put into effect the plan which he imagined would be that of a patriot. For some months he had been living in Washington, where he had discussed plans with a band of conspirators. These plans at first looked to capture him, but he managed him bodily, concealing him in one of the cellars of the old Van Ness mansion till a chance offered to get THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS AND CINEMAS Ford's Theater. him out of Washington, and then spiring him away to Richmond, and compelling the exchange of Southern prisoners for his freedom. But these plans have gone astray, Booth decided on the morning of April 14 to kill the president in the theater that evening, and escape at once by the rear alley, making his way across what is known as the navy yard to McFadden, and thence to Virginia. He never seemed to doubt but that his crime would meet with approbation. "Peanuts" Held His Horse. Shortly after 9 p. m. Booth got his horse, and led it to the back door of the theater, leaving it in charge of a boy named Joseph Burroughs, but nicknamed "Peanuts." About 10:15 he entered the theater, and, walking unnoticed down the aisle, entered the rear of the president's box. The guard who should have been on duty at the door was down in the parquet, in order to see better. Had he been at his post, it is believed Lincoln's life might have been saved. But as it was Booth gained access to the box, and placed in the doorway a bar, the occasion by which he prepared for the occasion by someone in the conspiracy. One of the actors, Harry Hawke, was speaking, when, at 20 minutes past 10, Booth fired a shot into Lincoln's brain. At the sound of the pistol, Rathbone leaped to his feet and grasped Booth, but the latter thrust him aside, after stabbing him several times in the arm. Flesh With Fractured Leg. Booth then laid his right hand on the box rolling and made a leap down to the stage, but he did so his ear caught in the fold of the primary door and he fell to a ground. LINCOLN BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY PEACEFUL life:--toil, duty, rest- All his desire:-- To read the books he liked the best Beside the cabin fire:-- Gods word and man's:--to peer sometimes Above the page, in smouldering gleams, And catch, like far heroic rhymes. The onnarch of his dreams. peaceful life:--to hear the low Of pastured herds. Or woodman's ax that, blow on blow. Fell sweet as rhythmic worms. And yet there stirred within his breast A fateful pulse that, like a roll Of drums, made high above his rest A tumult in his soul. peaceful life!----They haled him even As One was haled Whose open palms were nailed toward Heaven When prayers nor aught availed. And, lo, he paid the selfsame price To hill a nation's awful strife And will us, through the sacrifice Of self, his peaceful life. THE BYSTANDER JAMES WHITE PEACE All he To read Beside Gods who Above the pad And catch, like far he The onmarch peaceful life-- Of pastured Or woodmans ax the Fell sweet as And yet there sturge A faterful pulk Of drums, made he A tumult in peaceful life-- As One was Whose open palms w When prayers And, lo, he paid the To hill a nat And will us, through Of self, his p ing attitude, which resulted in a broken leg. Though suffering untold agony, the assassin sprang to his feet, ran out of the rear door of the theater into the alley, jerked the reins from the hands of "Peanuts," leaped into the saddle, and in another second was clattering out of the alley into F street, then away toward Anacostia like a man, and probably other men. With Dr. Chase, they holding the head and several other men the body, Mr. Lincoln was borne out of the door of the theater and into the house of William Petersen at 515 Tenth street. Just opposite Ford's. Death of the President. The fatal shot had entered the left side of the head behind the left eye, traversing the brain and lodging behind the right eye. At 22 minutes pass 7 on the morning of April 18, 1865 he ceased to breathe. At 11 o'clock that same day Chief Justice Chase administered the oath of office to the new president, Andrew Johnson, in the old Kirkwood house, which stood at Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth street. The funeral service of the martyrned president was held in the east room of the White House, Wednesday, April 18, at noon, the coffin being then taken to the capitol, where it lay in state in the rotunda till April 21, when the funeral train started for Springfield. Booth Escapes to Virginia To return to Booth and the rest of the conspirators. The assassin had fled from Washington, and safely passing the guard on the bridge at Anacostia, galloped down into Maryland. Pursuit was at once begun by the government, Col. L. C. Baker having charge of the force sent to capture the murderer. Some work in tracing the assassin, Baker at last stopped at the home of a farmer, Richard H. Garratt, near Port Royal, Va. at 2 a.m., April 26. A young son informed Baker that those he sought were at that moment sleeping in a wagon house or barn. Throwing a guard about the building. Baker sent young Garrett into the place to demand that the inmates surrender. Both men at first refused, but Herold at last weakened and came out to be manacles. Booth declared that he would never be taken alive, and would be back in the shed, leaning on a crutch, with a carbine leveled at the door. Baker Sets Barn on Fire. Colonel Baker, wishing to expedite mitters, lighted a wisp of straw and stuck it through a crack into a pile of hay in a corner inside. In a moment the interior was ablaze and everything within in a full light. The flames showed Booth standing with his gun in his hand, but retreating before the leaping fire. A shot rang out and John Wilkes Booth, the murderer of Abraham Lincoln, sank to the barn floor dying, with a bullet in the back of his neck. The shot had been fired by a Union soldier named Boston Corbett. Booth's body was dragged out of the burning shed and placed on Garrett's porch. His last words, uttered with great effort, "Useless, useless," referring to his inability to lift his hands. But before this he had told a soldier, "Tell my mother I died for my country; that I did what I thought was best." Booth received his fatal wound a little after three o'clock in the morning, but lingered in agony till sunrise, when he ceased to breathe. Body Buried in Baltimore. His body was sewed up in an army blanket, carried in an old wagon to Belle Plain, and put on board a boat to Washington. Reaching the capital, it was taken down the Eastern Branch to the old penitentiary. There, in one of the large cells, the stones were taken up, a grave dug, and the re Farmland of autograph signature of the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, on the register of the National hotel, Washington, day of the assassination of Saturday, April 4. Booth was assigned to room No. 22 by the room clerk, G. W. Bunker, who testified to these facts at the trial of the notorious Boston bomber, and doubt Booth's last signature, excepting the one on the card sent to Vice President Johnson's room on the day of mains, which were inclosed in a pine coffin, interred. They rested there till 1898, when Booth's brother, Edwin had them removed to Baltimore and buried in the family lot in Greenmount cemetery in that city. It is impossible to find any marking of Wilkes Booth's grave. There is none. The ivy growing on the base of the tall shaft to Junius Booth-Bruce-Wilkes' father—was lited up, a grave dug close in at the back of the stone, and the bones of the illabeled man repose to this day. Others Also Put to Death Others Also Put to Death Booth was not the only one to suffer death for this murder. There were many other conspirators, prominent among them being Mrs. Surrett, who made her home at 604 H street northwest; George A. Attertod, David E. Herold and Lewis Payne or Powell for he was known by both names. All four of these persons suffered death by hanging as punishment for their complicity in the crime. LINCOLN'S LIFE MASK This bronze doth keep the very form and mold Of our great martyr's face. Yes, this is be: That brow all wisdom, all benignity. That human humorous mouth; those Like some harsh landscape all the runner's skin. That fit for sorrow, as the sea For storms to beat on; the long angy Those silent, patient lips too well for Yes, this is he who ruled a world of men. As might some prophet of the elder day- Brooding above the tempest and the fray With deep-eyed thought and more than mortal ken. A power was his, bound the touch of art Or armed strength—his pure and mighty heart. —Richard Watson Glider. ORDERED SOLDIER TO COVER Story of Occasion When Lincoln Assumed His Position as Commander in Chief. The man who tells this new story of Abraham Lincoln is a native of San Francisco and was a soldier in Washington. He was on guard at the White House. One cold winter's day the president started out for a walk all alone. It was bitterly cold. The guard, who tells the story, was standing in front of his guardhouse, shivering in the blast of wind. Along came Lincoln. The soldier brought his musket to a salute and Lincoln returned it. Then the president turned to him and said: "You man don't you stand inside the wind!" "Can't do it, Mr. President. It's against orders." "But you freezing out there and there's no sense to it!" "It's the general's orders that none of us stay inside the guardhouse when on duty, Mr. President." Mr. Lincoln muttered something about "damn fool orders" and started off. He got about fifty feet and suddenly wheled about and returned to the guard. He paused a moment and, looking the guard in the eye with a sort of humorous twinkle in his own, said very slowly: "According to my understanding of the Constitution, in time of war the president is commander in chief of both the army and the navy" The guard nodded perplexedly. "Well, then, as president of the United States and as commander in chief of the armies of the United States, I countermand that order and order you inside that guardhouse!" The president waited until the guard saluted and stepped into the guardhouse, and then stalked off, wagging his head. INFECTS THE BLOOD EYE FOLLOWS SPOKE Why the Bite of a Mosquito Causes Malaria. Scientists Have Definitely Ascertained Cause of the Disease—Only Preventive is Complete Extermination of the Pest. What happens in your blood when a mollusk mosquito bites you, and what happens in a mosquito's blood when it suckes on a person who has mosquitoes is well illustrated in the accompanying diagram, taken from "Insects and Nun" by C. A. Eakland, M. A. formerly principal of the East English College of Agriculture, just published in America by the Century company. Let us suppose that a female mosquito has just imbibed a drop of blood from an infected man; along with the blood and in the blood corpuscles, several exceedingly minute creatures known as gametocytes pass into the stomach of the insect. (See cut A). These blood parasites are not all of the same size, the smaller ones, known as microgametocytes, carry out male functions, while the larger microgametocytes may be regarded as females. These two forms of the same parasite pass through certain changes (B and C), and eventually unite (D). The single organism thus formed becomes a wormlike, moving creature called a vermiculus (E). The vermiculus penetrates the walls of the mosquito's stomach and passes to the external muscular layers, where it grows rapidly and its nucleus becomes much divided (F and G) until it is merely a sac filled with many rodlike bodies known as sporozotes. The sac bursts and liberates these sporozotes into the mosquito's body cavity (H). About ten days after the meal of infected blood these sporozotes are in the mosquito's salivary glands, ready to infect the first human being the insect bites. When the mosquito punctures the skin countless numbers of these minute sporozotes are injected into the wound. They instantly attack the red blood cells, causing an acute corpuscle, where it quickly loses its elongate form and assumes that of a signet ring (J). This changes form until it has divided up into a multitude of tiny organisms known as metrozoites (R and L). The corpuscle is now dead or dying and it soon bursts, setting free the multitude of sporozoites into the blood stream. These again attack the healthy red corpuscles, and the process of destruction is repeated. As the original sporozoites attack the red corpuscles at the same moment, and as their development takes a certain time, usually about forty-eight hours, they are all liberated simultaneously. This process is repeated over and over again in a rhythmic cycle, and every time the red corpuscles burst and liberate the mercurioes the chill that is so characteristic of malaria on this. Usually takes place every forty-eight hours the intervals being filled with more or less fever. If no mosquito comes along to suck the blood of the infected patient the germs of the malaria are finally destroyed by the antizoxids of the blood—or by online, which effectively kills them—they prove too numerous. MAN MOSQUITO and kill the patient. If a mosquito of the right species imbibes them the whole cycle is repeated and they are ready in about ten days to infect someone else. If, however, they be imbibed by a mosquito of the wrong species the quickly perish. Why they can develop and unite and again develop in the blood of only certain mosquitoes has never been explained satisfactorily. The mosquitoes of the sub-family Anopheles are the only ones that can carry malaria. Those of the genus Stegnyia are the carriers of yellow fever, the process of which is similar.—New York World. Modern Child's Idea Little four-year-old Lettie had been leased to mother's story of the Christ child. She had been deeply interested and when daddy came home she proceeded to relate the story to him in her own animated fashion. Mother called from another room: "Where did mother say the little Christ child was?" Bettie, annoyed at the interruption, called back: "Oh mother, he was out in the garage bein born." 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Every person who has gone to the "movies" has probably noticed when there is a picture thrown on the screen which involves the rotation of a wheel having spokes, such as those on a buggy or an automobile, that as the wheel first starts to rotate it appears to revolve in unison with the rest of the picture, but as it gains speed it suddenly appears to rotate backward, rapidly at first; then it slowly stops turning, although the vehicle gains in speed it then seems to rotate forward slowly, then it turns back toward the rest of the vehicle. The film manufacturers have not been able to eliminate this unfortunate illusion. Many explanations have been heard, but they seldom approach the right one. The moving picture is based on the fact that the retina of the eye retains the vision for a small fraction of a second. A moving object seen on the screen in reality is a series of pictures projected with such rapidity that the retina of the eye still has the vision of a moving object. These appear. Thus the picture appears to move the case of a revolving wheel the eye follows the spokes. To make the eye Diagram Showing Why Wheels Turn. Backward in Movies. planation as simple as possible the tor spoke will be considered, and its subsequent positions and phenomena are alyzed. When the wheel starts to rotate to the right, as shown in the diagram, the top spoke in the picture will be in position No. 1. If the second picture shows the spoke in position No. 2 the wheel will appear to be rotating in unison with the rest of the picture. If, however, the wheel is rotating rapidly enough so that the second picture shows the top spoke in position No. 4 it will appear to the eye that the next spoke which was in position No. 5 in the first picture, has moved back to position No. 4, and the wheel appears to be rotating backward. When the wheel rotates so fast that the camera catches the second position of the first spoke in the first position of the second spoke, the wheel will show no rotation at all, though the vehicle still moves. When the wheel rotates so fast that the second position of the top spoke will appear in position No. 6, the wheel will appear to have rotated from positions Nos. 5 to 6. This appears as a slow forward rotation. When the wheel rotates so that the second position of the top spoke is in position No. 3, the wheel may appear to be rotating forward in unison with the rest of the picture, or it may appear to be rotating backward. The fact that the illusion springs from the very fundamental phenomenon of all "movie" work, explains why manufacturers have been unable to eliminate it. Probably, for that matter, they will be unable to eliminate it in the future, so the perverse wheel seem determined to stay with us so long as we have movies—From the Illustrated World. "Hungry Sam" Has Retired "Hungry Sam" Miller, who for years has been the terror of those in charge of church suppers, and who became famous throughout this part of the state for his gastronomic feats, has announced his retirement from heavy eating, says a Bloomsburg (Pa.) dispatch to the Philadelphia North American. In his own words: "It don't agree with me no more to eat 144 fried eggs at once." When "Hungry Sam" appeared at any supper where "all you could eat" was served, in charge gave up hope of making the affair a financial success, for he liked to eat until everything in the place was cleaned up. Advice to Young Writers Every few days a letter comes from some young man about to dip his ankles into the chill though bracing pool of literature. "Would you mind giving me some advice?" he asks, and flattered as we are we always say truthfully that we have none. 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