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ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER The Best and only medium that reaches the colored people of the middle west. XXII No. 44 Rufus Jackson, a student at Ames college, spent his vacation days last week visiting his parents. Mrs. M. L. Davis, 127 Jefferson avenue, who underwent an operation last week at Methodist hospital is getting along nicely. Mrs. Ottamae Robinson and daughter, Vivian, have left to spend the summer with her parents and relatives in Missouri and Illinois. Mr. Frank Johnson, one of our former boys, who is making his headquarters at Kansas City, spent a few days this week in our city visiting old acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Coleman of Buxton passed through our city yesterday en route to Fort Dodge, Iowa, where they are going to make their future home. It is requested by the management of the June musical to be given in June for all those who have been asked to take part in the musical to meet Monday evening at St. Paul's A. M. E. church. The Callanan Industrial club will meet with Mrs. Redmon, 1009 14th street, May 3rd. President desires all members to be present. Mr. Johnson will read a paper on Suffrage. Come early. Atty. S. Joe Brown, grand custodian of Masons, returned Wednesday from Waterloo, Iowa, where he held a private school of instruction in the new Masonic temple of St. John's lodge of that city Tuesday evening, exemplifying the work of the first and third degrees. The Easter services at the various churches last Sunday were good. The churches were decorated with flowers, illies and plants and the special programs given by the little children were very good and commendable. The attendance was fine and weather nice. Grand Master John L Thompson made his official Masonic visit to Cedar Grove lodge No. 18, Buxton, Iowa Wednesday. On Monday evening he expects to visit Eureka at Marshalltown and Tuesday night Western Star, U. D. at Fort Dodge, Iowa. The Missionary society of Union Congregational church are planning to give a very fine and unique Bazaar on May 10th and 11th. Each night a free program will be rendered. Many beautiful as well as useful article will be displayed in the different booths. The Public invited to attend. The Model Drug Co., formerly located at 9th and Park, have moved in the corner building on 11th and Center Sts., where Mr. McCree and wife are nicely located to take care of all their old customers and solicit all the new people to come there. MEDAL CONTEST OF HIGH SCHOOL BOYS. The silver medal contest of high school boys was a decided success. The young orators made a strong appeal for temperance reform and very greatly impressed and delighted their audience. John Beverley of West High receiving first place was awarded the medal for his oration, entitled "The Man of the Hour." Judges were Mr. Archie Alexander, Mrs. Mary Isabella Smith and Mrs. Gertrude Durden Rush. While the REMEMBER THE Palace Sweet Cafe UNDER NEW MAN4GEMENT Is the best place to go for Good Home Cooking Everything First Class Red 1367 1012 Center Street Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson, Props. NOVELTY Dance and Waltz Contest Given by Jesse J. Johnson at Woodman' Hall 6th and Main Sts. Keokuk, Ia. Thursday Eve. MAY 16TH Music by Agne Orchestra Dancing from 8 until 2. Other Contests also. Admission $1.00 Per Couple THE BYSTANDER judges were deciding upon the merits of the contestants Mrs. Anna Edworthy charmed her hearers by a dramatic reading. KNIGHT TEMPLARS CELEBRATE King Solomon Commandery, No. 6, in full uniform turned out Easter Sunday and marched to St. Paul's A. M. e Church, where divine services were held in honor of the resurrection. Rev. I. W. Beas, a member of the commandery and pastor of the A. M. e Church at Waterloo, was present and delivered the principal address. Remarks were made by Capt. E. T. Banks, grand generalissimo of the grand commandery, and musical numbers were rendered by Mrs. F. P. Johnson, Miss Mildred Griffin and Messrs. Chas. C. Johnson and F. G. Gorgins. ANNOUNCEMENT Regular monthly meeting of the executive committee of the Des Moines branch of the N. A. A. C. P. at the residence of the chairman on Monday evening, May 1st. By order S. Joe Brown, Chm. Dr. Jefferson has reported the following births: An 8% boy born Saturday, April 22, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rhodes, 954 14th Street Place; a 7 pound girl born Tuesday, April 25, to Mr and Mrs. Lewis Jackson, 650 Des Moines street. All are doing well. Subscribe for The Bystander THOMPSON HOTEL GUESTS. Mr. and Mrs. Morton, Marahailtown; Misa Berta Stephenson, Minneapolis; Prof. T. W. Watman, Langston, Okla. H Ramerey, Wm. Cain, W. G. Madison; Ames; Mrs. W. W. M. Brooks, Ft. Dodge; J. D. Hopkins, Waterloo; Mrs. Grace M. Hutton, Omaha; Master J. Hutton, Omaha; W. J. Smith, city. Subscribe and pay for The Bystander. EDITORIALS "BIRTH OF A NATION" PROHIBITED BY CITY COUNCIL. Last week our new city council went on record as voting to prohibit the play, "The Birth of a Nation," from being shown in our city. The first staged play by the city attorney, Hon H M. Myers, who said that the council could stop it under the city ordinance, whereupon the council all being present all voted to prohibit it except one member, who voted no, and that was Harry Frase (which we were much surprised). Those gallant councilmen who voted yes were Hon, John MacVicar, John Budd, Thomas Fairweather and Ben Woolgar. Those men simply did their duty, which no honest or honorable man could have done otherwise. It was too bad that our city is to have left one Judas, there is a reckoning day and we will not forget. FALSE TO HIS RACE The Des Moines Daily News of Monday, April 24th, has the following article purporting to be an interview from J. B. Rush: J. B. Rush Would Attend "Birth of a Nation" Film. J. B. Rush, attorney, is one Negre who will see the film, "Birth of a Nation," if it is shown here and "if they will let him." I never could see any reason for all this fuss about a thing of this kind, says Rush. We were indeed shocked to read of such a statement from Atty. Rush. If I could not help our race in such a gigantic struggle we are making against this infamous play I would at least keep silent. The enemies of our race always seek to get a division among us. Then they can say, as they have said just as soon as they have read the above article, I told you that some of the colored people were not opposed to the play. Then again many of us worked hard to get all of the colored people to support Mr. Rush for municipal judge only a few weeks ago. Shame on such weakling. We want true, real men who will stand the test of right, justice and equal manhood for their race. MISTREATMENT OF COLORED SOLDIERS It does seem to ye editor that each week here lately all of my editorials have been complaining or protecting against first one wrong or discrimination or another, yet if our public newspapers do not sound their voices against the evils, wrongs or injustices of their day they cease to be the leaders of public thought. We have just been informed that the president has ordered the colored soldiers down in Texas and old Mexico to protect the lives of the Americans on the Texas border against the Villistas, and our gallant boys go, as all loyal soldiers should do, but when the colored and white soldiers are injured in battle and the government brings those injured and dying back to our American hospitals, why do they put the colored injured and dying in box cars to come through Texas; then put them into regular coaches, but put the white soldier that are injured in the coaches and bring them in the in those coaches. Isn't the life of a colored soldier just as dear to the Texas when that colored soldier has offered up his life to save the Texan's family's life? Why, oh why is this? Oh government at Washington, why stand for this treatment. Oh government why stand to see innocent colored men and helpless children and women murdered and burned at the stake in the south and say nothing, but if a few men voluntarily get up on a British armed merchant vessel and are drowned you want us to go over there and stop those submarines. Oh hypocrit; hypocracy in the highest degree! home at 9 o'clock a.m. Tuesday, after an illness of a week. She leaves a husband and three daughters. Her remains will be taken to Louisiana, Mo., for burial. Mrs. Ether Mitchell was hostess on last Thursday to the "Gates Ajar" and about forty of her friends at the home of Mrs. Ggo. Moss. After the routine of business a two-course luncheon was served. Each voted Mrs. Mitchell a charming hostess. The annual Easter hambur will take tachment from Mo. mon lodge will have the funeral, all other in a body. Many letters of co-grams have been received family through Illinois. Thus the curtain drawn on a valuablenz. SAMPSON FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL It is a pleasure this week to present to our many years throughout the state of Iowa the picture of Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Sampson, an attorney from Polk county, who is the leading candidate for attorney general, subject to the republican primaries June 5th. We can say that we are personally acquainted with Mr. Sampson and can recommend him to the colored voters of this state as an honest, upright, capable and broad-minded man, and one who will give all classes and races a square deal if elected. He was reared on an Iowa farm and educated in the public schools and for the past five years has been assistant attorney general in the office of Mr. Cosson. Because of his long experience in the office of attorney general, and his intimate connection with the practical work of that office he understands the necessities of Iowa and is acquainted with the law enforcement officers of the state and is fully able and especially qualified to continue, if elected, the present policy of law enforcement without a break. He is a clean-minded Christian gentleman and because of age, experience and practice is eminently fitted for the high office to which he inspires. He realizes that for the upbuilding of a greater Iowa entire citizenship must be conserved, and this can only be done by guarding the interests of our wealth producers. The voters of Iowa will make no mistake in selecting him for the next attorney general. A GREAT WARRIOR HEARD FROM Keokuk, Iowa, April 22, 1916. To the Editor of The Bystander: Sir. I have just read in the columns of the Gate City, standing the defeat of "The Birth of Nation" in your city. All hal you to suit, S. Joe Brown and Woodson and Governor Clarke, and others, just tell them we are coming, not drifting downward, upward. The last long roll has not yet been sounded to summon the old soldier, both whites and black, to appear at the gate to be discharged. It cost too much blood and heart-breaking for Thomas Dixon, avowed enemy of the union and the Negro, to publish a play both vicious and immoral, attempting to show that the union was wrong and the confederacy was right. It will do to produce that play in Washington, D. C., where confederacy is in the saddle, and a feather cock president, who said to the Negro, I am elected. I will give you a square deal. He's perfect honest in what he says, but we'll let the Negro answer that. What Negro has ever given a job? And who is he controlled by? By the spirit that endorses the Clansman or the Birth of a Nation. Democrats were not all rebels; neither do all rebels belong to the Clansman, but all rebels were and are democrats. For instance, Hoke Smith, Tillman, Vardaman and poor old Jeff Davis of Arkansas, who rode into office on racial prejudices, and now they would stand no more show to appeal to the intelligent white democrats than a snowball in h— and yet they are in congress and the senate. Oh consistency, thou art a jewel. The day has come that men must be men with enough Christian spirit to lift up his fallen brethren. Mr. Editor, the white man must find something to fight besides the Negro and the Catholic. To fight the Catholic they are divided; to fight the Negro and crush him is an attempt to crush God. For God said Ethiopia shall put forth her hand and I will lead her. Now beat God and you beat me. T. H. Phillips. IOWA CITY ITEMS. Miss Gretta M. Davis, Miss Maggie Wind and Miss Mary Perkins are in Des Moines spending Easter with friends. Miss Eliza Gross went home Easter to Keokuk, Iowa. Miss Wheeler went to her home in Marshalltown, Iowa, for Easter. Mr. Arthur Scott and Bob Whitner went to Davenport, Iowa, Sunday. There were a good many went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Sunday for Easter, Miss Vera Black, Mrs. Ella Moore, Mrs. Daisy Lemin, Miss Miler, Miss Mamie Dicker, Mrs. Lottie Donnegan, Mr. Earl Alberts, Master George McDavis and Allen Lemin. Mrs. Larentze and baby are back home again, after spending a month in Waterloo. Mr. and Mrs. McDavis was in Cedar Rapids on Monday shopping. Quite a number of the young men of the city went to Cedar Rapids on Monday night to the dance of K. of P. QUINCY, ILL. ITEMS Bethel A. M. E. church is preparing for the May festival May 1 to 5. The drama, "Queen From Africa," will be rendered at Bethel on Tuesday night, the 25th. Mrs. Harriet Stewart died at her home at 9 o'clock a.m. t. Tuesday, after an illness of a week. She leaves a husband and three daughters. Her remains will be taken to Louisiana, Mo., for burial. Mrs. Esther Mitchell was hostess on last Thursday to the "Gates Ajar" and about forty of her friends at the home of Mrs. Gso. Moss. After the routine of business a two-course luncheon was served. Each voted Mrs. Mitchell a charming hostess. The annual Easter banquet will take place at Eighth and Elm Street Baptist church on Easter Monday night. Mrs. Ione Young will spend the Eastertide in St. Louis. Wayman Chapel A. M. E. Sunday school will render the Easter services on Monday night at the church, after which there will be an Easter hunt. Mrs. Esther Mitchell left Thursday to spend the Eastertide in Kansas City. Mrs. Emma Powers, wife of Mr. Jas, Powers, died at Blessing hospital Tuesday d. m. at 9:15 after an illness of several months. She leaves a husband, two daughters, two grandchildren, other relatives and a host of friends. Her remains will be taken to Louisiana, Mo. The bazaar of Lincoln school was well attended and was financially a success. WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. Mrs. H. C. Boyd is a guest at the Rev. Cato home in Cedar Rapids for a couple of weeks. The Ladies' Aid rally on Sunday, April 16th, was a fine showing for their first effort and are to be commended for the success that it was. Rev. Boyd visited the Keokuk district conference at Burlington one day last week. Cupid is ever on the job, and who can tell but what he will have his arrow pierce the heart of an aged lady in this community are long. The Mito Missionary society gave a very interesting program at the evening A. M. E. church service. The special musical numbers were: Solo, Mrs Jessie Turier; duet, Miss Marie Whaley, Mrs. Walter Williams; violin solo, Samuel Hall, Jr.; accompaniment, Miss Helen Motts. The Sunday school gave a very nice Easter program at its usual afternoon hour. Mr. Geo. C. Hurst of Ottumwa was in the city a few days last week in the interest of the Indianapolis Ledger, for which paper he is traveling solicitor. The P. E. G.'s gave a hard time social in the lecture room of the A. M. E. church Thursday evening, which was much enjoyed by those present. Some frightful costumes were in evidence. Rev. Harrabellio A. M. Marangeope, the famous walking mission, was in the city this week and gave one of his lectures at the A. M. E. church. He is a native of the island of Mauritius, Mozambique channel, and speaks twenty-seven languages. In the twenty years that he has walked he has been on every continent and has walked 111,822 miles, having never once been on a railway train, a carriage or an automobile. He also walked across the Sahara desert. He has a very unique and interesting personage. The city press each gave him a column writeup. ROCK ISLAND. ILL. A Distinguished Citizen Gone. (Special to the pstander.) H. M. O. Burris, the oldest mail carrier of Rock Island, a prominent citizen, died Saturday morning, April 22, at 4:45 a.m. at his home, 1100 1-2 Seventh avenue. Mr. Burris had been falling in health since last August and for several weeks his condition had been critical. He was born in Batesville, Ark., July 20, 1853. At the age of 11, in 1864, he came to Rock Island with his mother, Mrs. Wm. Burris, and he had made his home here for the past fifty-one years. Mr. Burris was married to Miss Alice Hangerfield in Rock Island on June 17, 1879, at the Memorial Christian church. Besides his wife he leaves six children to mourn his loss, Edward, Henry and Howard; at home; Mrs. Grace Blackwell, Chicago; Arthur, Minneapolis, and Albert, Detroit. Henry Burris was senior member of the Rock Island carrier force. A little over a year ago he was rewarded the silver star, denoting a quarter of a century in the service, and was the only member of the force bearing this distinction. He was a faithful, conscientious and popular carrier, always attentive to duty, always gentlemanly in his conduct, and genuine sorrow is felt by his associates over his demise. Mr. Burris was not only prominent as a mail carrier, but was also a Mason in its truest sense. He has served as grand master of the state of Illinois, patron of Adah chapter, No. 10, and a member of the U. B. of Friendship. Mr. Burris was originator and founder of Prince Hall Masonic in 1804, for the aged people of the Illinois jurisdiction. His loving wife and only daughter, Grace Blackwell, of Chicago, did all that hands could find to do during his short illness. The funeral will be held from the Memorial Christian church (white) Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Rock Island carrier force will attend in a body, also a des tachment from Moline, King Solomon lodge will have full charge of the funeral, all other orders attending in a body. Many letters of condolence and telegraphs have been sent to the bereaved family throughout the state of Illinois. Thus the curtain of life has been drawn on a valuable and noble citizen. C. H. THOMAS, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR STATE TREASURER. A successful business man. For a great business office. Resident of Iowa forty years. Hardware business thirty-five years Vice president and manager Kent State Savings bank. Proposed constitutive for verdict by five-social cases. To the Republicans of State Senator C. Union county is a c republican nomination of state treasurer. State senator, Fifth district. President Blue Grass road. Methodist—32 years. Odd Fellow—32 years. Modern Woodman—17 years. Woodman of the World—22 years. Sketch of Legislative Record. Iowa "Blue Sky Law." Prohibitory amendment. Teachers' minimum wage law. Daily distribution senate and house journals. Highway marking law. Gettysburg veteran act, Thirty- sixth general assembly. Panama-Pacific exposition bill, Thirty-fifth general assembly. Bill for county uniformity school text books and new county board of education to select them. Bill to raise age of consent from 15 to 18 years. Bill to fix minimum wage and maximum hours for protection of women and minors in certain lines of em- KEOKUK ITEMS. Mr. George King of Burlington, Iowa, spent Easter Sunday in our city as the guest of Miss Elizabeth Gross. Mrs. W. A. Frye was called to Galesburg, Ill., this week on account of the death of her sister and the serious illness of her father. The Autumn Leaf club met at the home of Miss Artesha E. Fields on Thursday of last week. Miss Elizabeth Gross, who is attending the Iowa State university, spent the Easter vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Gross. Mr. Fred Thomas of Burlington, Iowa, spent Easter with his sister, Mrs. J. C. Craig. The Phyllis Wheatley Rescue club will meet Tuesday, May 1, at the First African Baptist church. Mr. Pearl E. Perkins of Croton, Iowa, spent Sunday and Monday in this city. Friends will be glad to know that Mrs. J. C. Craig is now able to out, after a serious attack of tonsilitis last week. Mrs. S. T. Kellis was called to Monmouth, Ill., on account of the death of an last week. Mr. French Bland entertained a few of his young friends at a theater party Monday afternoon of this week. Mrs. Ida Mae Davis of Buxton, Iowa, spent Sunday in this city. Mrs. Lena B.porter is home again with friends and relatives, after spending the winter in Chicago, Ill. Mrs. A. Johnson and daughter, Letha, are in the city. About twenty young people gave a surprise on Miss Elizabeth Gross on Monday evening of this week. Dancing was enjoyed until a late hour. BUXTON, IOWA. Every man's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and the future uncertain. Miss Blackburn and Mrs. Minnie London are preparing elaborate school exercises for commencement on April 27th. The Booker T. Washington Literary club gave a very interesting debate on woman suffrage last Monday night. Wm. Bailey and Atty. Spears won against Thos. Liggons and Lee Garrett in favor of suffrage. Mrs. J. E. Mills entertained the ladies of the Industrial club Wednesday. Mrs. Mary Short and husband of Iowa City spent a few days in Buxton. Mrs. Lonnie Carter gave a dinner as a social attention to Mrs. La Dochy Montjoy, Mrs. Louise Montjoy and Mrs. Grace Hutton on Monday evening in Rock. Many of the Monroe Mercantile company clerks are enjoying their vacation. Mr. Edward Mease and wife were Easter visitors. Mr. Elbert Brews was suddenly called to Omaha on account of the illness of his father. He returned Monday and left his father improving. Uncle Ned Robinson, Mrs. Mary Carr and Millie Woodfork are Des Moines visitors. Miss Grace Hutton, one of the Bux- Proposed constitutional amendment for verdict by five-sixths of jury in civil cases. To the Republicans of Iowa: State Senator C. H. Thomas of Union county is a candidate for the republican nomination for the office of state treasurer. Permit us to call your special attention to his proven ability, high character and fine business training for the position. We have known him for years. He is making the race upon his record as a successful merchant and banker. He began life as a wage earner on an Iowa farm, without a dollar. Today he ranks as one of the leading business men of southern Iowa. He is a tireless worker and will not be a figurehead in the office. He is broad minded and public spirited and will be a live wire on the executive council. As a legislator his work was of a high order and of a state wide constructive character. You will make mike mistake in giving him your active support for this great business office. We appeal to you for it. P. S. Junkin, Creston, Pres. Iowa Press Association. W. W. Morrow, Afton, Treas. Iowa State Fair. ton school teachers, left Wednesday to school her home in waydes, Neb. She expects to go by way of Des Moines to spend a few days visiting friends. Mrs. Eliza Peterson, national representative of the W. C. T. U., stay was short, but the time was well filled and we hope to have her again. The Progressive Literary society served refreshments in honor of Mr. Fred Coleman and wife, who left Thursday to make their home in Fort Dodge, Iowa. CLINTON, IOWA. The Iowa club will give a delar sertie entertainment at Bethel A. M. E. church on May 1st. Mr. William Allen, an old and respected citizen, who has been sick during the winter, passed away at his home on Third殿 Friday afternoon. Deceased is survived by his wife, a son, Wm., Jr., and other relatives. His funeral was held Sunday at 2:30 from Bethel A. M. E. church. The G. A. R., of which he was a member, were in attendance. Rev. W. W. Williams was officiating pastor, assisted by Rev. F. J. Nott of the Second Baptist church and M. O. C. Bulerson. Interment was in Springdale cemetery in charge of the G. A. R. The juvenile chair rendered beautiful music Sunday morning at the A. M. E. church. Mr. Henry Junction, Mrs. W. Guy and several others were Davenport visitors Sunday. Eugene Nott left for Milan, Ill., last Monday morning. Mr. G. W. Martin is on the sick list. Mr. H. G. Williams is visiting relatives in Chicago. There is some talk of organizing a temple of the S. M. T. in Clinton in the near future. Mr. Frank Chaline and Mrs. Alice Holder of Clarence, Mo., were united in marriage at the Baptist parsonage on the 19th, Rev. F. J. Nott officiating The Easter exercises at the Second Baptist church on Sunday evening were well attended. The choir gave a splendid program. A short talk was made by the pastor, Rev. F. J. Nott, on "What the Day Should Mean To Us." Rev. Green visited his daughter in Rock Island, Ill., Sunday. Rev. W. W. Williams and J. B. Easley report a most enjoyable time at the district conference in Burlington last week. Easter was appropriately observed at Bethel church by the Sunday school with music and recitations. The work of the chorus of young boys and girls was commended on every hand by those present. Mr. W. R. Richardson is still on the sick list. We hope he will recover. erate with the coming spring weather a guest at the A. A. Bush home. MACON, MO., NEWS. Easter was observed at the M. E. church Sunday afternoon and evening also. The church was decorated very beautifully in purple and white paper. The cross was very unique, which contained the letters Christ is Risen The children of the Sunday school rendered a program in the afternoon Miss Ida Jones, formerly of city, but now of St. Charles, spent Easter in Macon, the guest of relatives. Miss Virginia Ancell and nephew J. T., Jr., spent Easter at the home of their parents. The Easter program which was rendered by the students of Western college was excellent. The chapel was decorated in green and white paper, which was most beautiful. After the program eggs were passed to the students and friends who were out to witness the program. Everything was very unique. Miss Nellie Goines of Jacksonville spent Sunday in Macon. Dr. J. H. Garnett was called Sunday to Moberly to deliver the sermon for the Masonic lodge. Mr. Luther Curtis, a student of Western college, preached two absmerms in Moberly on Sunday morning and evening. Mr. Charley Butts of Chillicothe spent Sunday in our city. Mr. Samuel Leroy Richardson spent Sunday in our city. Mrs. Cotton of Omaha, Neb., I visiting friends in the city. Mrs. Gona Black of Des Moine Iowa, is the guest of her parents. iowa, is the guest of her parents. Miss Ida Garnett of Quincy, Ill spent a few days in our city, the guest of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. H. Garnett. The program which was given by the freshman class of Western col- lege Friday evening was very suc- cessful. Easter program at the Vine and Broadway church was very good. Se- eral recitations were readered by the children of the kindergarten department, after which several gifts were presented by the superintendent t different members of the Sunday school for their loyalty, including Bible, Book of Psalms, $2 in gold an $1.50, after which eggs were passes. The program in the evening, which was rendered at the night choir, wi- very good. Raymond Houston, Darlington Aust- in and Preston Wright spent Sunday in Moberly. Miss Alcata Pleasant spent Easte out of the city. Mr. Willard Carter and Lloy Davis spent Sunday in Moberly. Aunt Caroline Crocket is on th sick list. Subscribe for the Bystander. As a healing salve burns, sore sore nipple, and clapped hand Chamberlain's Salve is most lent. It allays the pain of a burn most instantly, and unless the injury is very severe, heals the parts with out leaving a scar. Price, 25 cent For sale by all dealers. COUNCIL BLUFFS ITEMS. Easter Sunday was a day long to be remembered by both church Sunday morning at Bethel A. M. I. church there was a large audience. The junior choir furnished the music which indeed was a credit to the and also to Mrs. Edwards, who spare no pains, but did everything in his power to train the children. The choir is a new one with just eight pupils, and if you don't think they can make a loud noise you come out Sunday morning. The Sunday school gave their exercises at night. It was the best that has ever been rendered by them. The Baptist Tabernacle church was well attended both morning and evening. The Sunday school gave the program at night, which was high enjoyed by those present. Mrs. E. Peterson of the W. C. U. occupied the pulpit Sunday morning at Bethel A. M. E. church lectured at night. Mrs. Peterson's marks are always highly received those who hear her. While in the city she was the guest of Mrs. R. Robinson. The W. W. club held its soot he meeting at the church Monday night, at Next Monday night will be the business meeting and all members a sir requested to be present. Mr. James Woodson has been visiting his sister, Miss Woodson, of Norte London, Mo. The Sewing Circle meets at large parsonage with Mrs. Edwards, on Thursday afternoon. FT. MADISON NOTES. Those attending the district conference at Burlington last week were Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Augustus, Miss Jennie and Naomi Harper, Miss R. Mack and Mr. Ervine Mack. "Leah The Forsaken," given at A. M. E. church last Thursday, and the auspices of Bethel A. M. Literary, was a grand success. Mr. credit is due the president, Miss N. harper, who so fitly acted Ler. The Easter program given by A. M. E. Sunday school was certainly well rendered and was enjoyed every one present. Mr. C. E. Hurst, who has been our city in the interest of the indus AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS A the can Save work by the color that she pai bole spe be pe or ou lie po Hi the of is He the ju t j y s a d c p k w n o o d T o s h d t p t d q n e e r The principal speaker at the memorial exercises held at Washington for Booker T. Washington, late head of Tuskegee institute, was R. R. Moton of Tuskegee and success to Doctor Washington. The exercises were held in connection with the annual convention of the colored teachers association of the state. Other speakers at the meeting who paid high tribute to the late head of Tuskegee institute were two of the state's most prominent citizens, W. W. Campbell, a banker of Tuskegee, and former president of the Baptist state Convention, and H. O. Currier, president of Marion institute. Mr. Campbell told of his acquaintance with Booker Washington and his work for a quarter of a century and spoke of the high regard in which he was held by the white people of Tuskegee and Macon county. Mr. Murree paid a tribute to Booker Washington as a leader of his race and an educator and told of the splendid work he had done to elevate the Negroes of the South. Mr. Murree stated that the late head of Tuskegee was held in the highest regard by educators throughout the nation and that he had done much to bring about a better feeling between the races. A large number of prominent white men and women attended the meeting, and the program has been pursued for them. The address of Principal-elect Moton was the first delivered in this state since he was chosen as the successor to Booker Washington, and he created a most favorable impression. "Booker T. Washington's educational program was not merely local, it was national, world-wide in scope," he said. "Industry, thrift, mortality, decent homes, clean bodies and minds, better methods of farming—a kind of education which made a universal appeal was his. It was an education that helped farmers to do better farming, the carpenter to do better carpentering, and the cook to do better cooking. He believed that education in the broadest sense should teach a farmer how to get more out of an acre by better methods; that a carpenter was receiving useful and useful advice how to build a better and more beautiful home at less cost; and to instruct those who cook how to keep a cleaner kitchen and prepare a more appetizing meal at less expense, in his opinion, an education of the most essential sort. "Booker T. Washington was most persistent in his efforts that education, whether for farmer, preacher, or teacher/should be linked in a definite, tangible way to life, and the life of the lowly man and woman in particular—for he wanted to see each man and each woman live to do better in his daily vocation. This idea he worked out and put into practice in such a remarkable and convincing way as to command the respect and admiration of the entire world. The colored schools of Alabama, as a rule, have been wise enough to follow Doctor Washington's advice, and as a result the wise people of the state are growing more interested in Negro schools. If the white man sees that Negro education makes a more industrious community, if he sees best-results on his farm, in his kitchen, better behavior on the streets, in the life and conduct of the colored people of the community generally, he will not only believe in and unreservedly approve of Negro education, but he will The movement to provide a $2,000,000 endowment fund for Tukegee institutes as a memorial to Booker T. Washington, has been brought to the notice of Indianapolis by a committee which met recently at the colored Y. M. C. A. It is desired that at least $56,000 of the endowment be obtained from colored people throughout the United States. The committee organized in this city formed subscription teams. Contributions were asked only from the colored people, although any person desiring to participate in the general fund might do so by sending a subscription direct to the colored Y. M. C. A. It was hoped by the committee that at least $3,000 would be raised among the Negroes of Indianapolis. Receipts were given for all amounts, and $5 or more entitled the subscriber to a certificate of recognition from Tukegee. The committee ought to experience no great difficulty in obtaining considerably more $2,000 from the colored people of Indianapolis. The city contains a great many of this race, not a few of whom have been successful in business or the professions. Indianapolis The capabella is the largest of the reedens. It grows to the size of a small pig and similarly is fond of wading about in mud. It's flesh is a delicacy as food, suggesting both tender pork and the meat of the squirrel. Hoolock, a lonesome monkey in the Central Park zoo, New York, was miserable until the curator conceived the idea of taking phonographic records of his whining chatter. Now Hoolock listens to his own talk, thinks he has a companion and is perfectly happy. An ordinance creating the first Negro-manned fire station in Atlantic City, N. J., was approved. The measure was introduced by Director of Public Safety William H. Barlett, and was considered a political move to gain the colored vote in the commission election. Fifteen men will be used, supplements being left entirely to the North side. The station will be 'at Kentucky and Baltic avenues, directly in the heart of the "frame house" district in which a majority of seamen have been resulted in past find a sense to give us better schools. Our white people can usually find a way for anything they think is really worth while, but they must be convinced that it is worth while and nobody can do better than the Negro teacher, and no one demonstrates more conclusively more effectively than the man in whose memory we are gathered together. "We, as teachers must, first of all, live clean, honest, industrious, unselfish lives. We are living in an era when we are expected to practice what we preach. Let us take a stand for morality, and set our faces like flint against the loafing, less element in the Negro race. Let us follow Doctor Washington in teaching the members of our race the necessity of decent living, and the beauty and dignity of labor. For, indeed, we have more to fear from the lazy, less, ignorant, criminal Negro than from any race prejudice in Alabama. And let us remember that in the solution of a problem, a large meauses depends upon us, and practical, Christian education will be one of our most forceful and helpful mediums for good." In closing his address Principal Moton made an earnest appeal to the white people for their continued cooperation and support in helping the Negro in Alabama carry out the wise, unselfish program formulated by Booker Washington. This appeal was effectively emphasized by the story of Dr. John White of Atlanta, given before the National Negro Business league, in which Principal Moton urged that the white people who had a firm, definite hold on civilization, would not cut the rope from the Negro whose grasp was so indefinite and uncertain. "My people," said he, "need your kindly advice and criticism—your religious and moral instruction, and your help and protection in all that makes development." Maj. Charles Young, the only Negro graduate of the West Point Military academy, who won distinction in the Cuban campaign, is among the comparatively few American soldiers that have engaged in actual battle with the Villa bandits. Major Young is at present with the Tenth cavalry, a squadron of which, under command of Col. W. C. Brown, attacked the Villistas 18 miles southeast of Bachinia and killed between 40 and 60 of them without a single American trooper being wounded. Although reports from the front have made no direct mention of Major Young, it is presumed he was with the detachment that routed the Mexican murderers from their lair. He was with his command when it started on its pilgrimage into Mexico, having been recalled from Liberia to rejoin the Tenth just before the trouble started. Major Young was awarded the Spingarn Medal on February 22 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for distinguished services in Liberia in reorganizing the constabulary and constructing roads into the difficult hinterland. Governor McCall presented the medal at a mass meeting in Tremont temple, Boston. In Italy fuel made of old newspapers, rolled and compressed, is coming into use as a substitute for firewood. has encouraged education among the folk, and this should encourage support of a memorial to Doctor Washington. Tuskegee institute stands today largely as the product of his zeal and devotion to the cause. The memorial fund will be needed to continue the good work. Indianapolis, or at least Indiana, has contributed to the teaching staff of Tuskegee. Colored teachers trained in the public schools of this state have not infrequently followed their profession elsewhere. Doctor Washington was pre-eminently a teacher of his people, and it is fitting that any memorial should be generously participated in by colored people, according to their means.—Indianapolis News. The city of Roanoke is scarcely more than twenty-five years old, but now it has a population of about 30,000, and is sometimes called the Chicago of Virginia. It was produced by the location of the Norfolk & Western shops. Men who were failures elsewhere have made their fortunes in Roanoke. For houses of limited room a combined kitchen sink and bathhub has been invented, the former being mounted on top of a cabinet that is moved out of the way when the latter is used, the same faucets and outlet serving both. The largest single dock inclosed by artificial walls in Great Britain is at Newport, Monmouthshire. Its total water area is 110 acres and its dimensions 4,000 feet long by about 1,000 feet wide. There are no better soldiers than the Negroes. Let congress heed the appeal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People by providing that some of the new regiments to be added to the regular army shall be made up of Negro citizens. The four Negro regiments now in the army have made excellent records as fighters. It might be urged, also, that the recruiting of Negroes would be comparatively easy. Give the black race the chance and it would furnish a large army for the Members of the Eighteenth infantry machine-gun squad throwing up intrenchments along the border at Douglas, Ariz. PUTS PRICE ON HEAD OF DARING FRENCH AVIATOR German Government Wants "Corsair of the Air," Dead or Alive. LEADER OF BOMBING RAIDS Has Caused Damage of Grievous Kind and With Persistence That Seems to Know No Limit—Reward of $6,250 is Offered. Paris.—On the head of one man in the French army the German government has put a price. This man has caused them damage of a grievous kind and with persistence which seems to know no limit. The sum of $2,000 marks ($X, $250) will be paid for Captain X. of the French aviation service dead or alive. The French government has been very careful to avoid giving his name, and it is believed the Germans know him only by description. It was Captain X. who three successive times went to bombard the German powder and ammunition factory at Rottwell, in Wuertemberg. On each occasion he performed an extraordinary feat. The sobriquet of "corsair of the air" has been given to him. Some of his exploits partake of the ruthless vigor of the true pirate. Captain X. is the principal leader of the French bombing expeditions, and he seems like a hero who has dropped out of a romantic novel. Danger is his very life, and he plays with it so that his adventures during the war have been almost fantastic. He began by being made prisoner as a result of an injury to his motor which obliged him to descend in a neutral country, but he succeeded in obtaining his release. When he returned to France he was sent to the eastern frontier for active service. Though he demands much from his subordinates, he sets good example himself. When he goes out with them for bombardment each of the machines carries a special sign. He takes his position about eight thousand feet above the object to be destroyed, while his companions are discharging their missiles. Through his glasses he watches the results and notes the points which have been struck and the actual damage done and makes a record of it in his notebook. When the others have completed their work the captain descends in a spiral, alms with precision and delivers the final, and generally the most fatal, blows to the enemy property. Guards His Flock. He waits to judge the effects of his work, and then he starts for home, escorting his men and acting as a faithful dog does to the flock, hurrying to the assistance of those who may need it. It is not without having run the most serious kinds of risks that he has become the terror of the Germans. During one bombardment he fought with a large German aviator armed with two machine guns. His whole machine was seriously damaged by shots, a number of important parts of the apparatus being, and form, the machine. The ritory and went direct to a railway station and factory which he had set out to bombard, carried out his mission and returned safely to his base. The first time he went to attack the powder factory of Rottwell was on March 3, 1915. The journey lasted five hours and twenty minutes. Ten minutes after he began the attack on the plant a confession was noticed beneath him, and he realized that he had destroyed at least an important part of it. He had brought four large shells with him and he descended very low in order to deliver his attack so that each of the shells struck home. Four shams landed in the living basin of nitric acid and glycerine the others fell on the buildings. Flames at once arose and the smoke made a column forty-five hundred feet high. His next important bombardment was at the railway station which the French authorities indicated as V. To Ohio Man Won and -Thus Saved the Endangered Life of a Six-Year-Old Child. Steubenville, O.—In a race with a fast passenger train here P. J. Mullen, forty-seven, Pan Handle railroad conductor, won and saved the life of six-year-old Martha Wulinski. Mullen, 50 feet away, saw a west-bound flier bearing down on the child, who was interested in an eastbound THE BYSTANDER AT DOUGLAS, ARIZ. country machine-gun squad throwing up duglas, Ariz. accomplish his task here he dropped down almost at the station roof. Then came the second bombardment at Rottwell, on April 16, 1915. Ten four-inch shells were dropped on the powder factory and caused a fire and an intense black smoke which entirely hid the building from view. Captain X. remained for a quarter of an hour above his object at an altitude of five thousand feet, tantalizing the two vertical batteries which the Germans were aiming at him and the section of 77 millimeter guns which had been placed around the factory for its defense after the first bombardment. Damaged Two Zeppelin. The French officer returned to his camp with eleven shrapnel fragments in his machine. In the same month he dropped six shells in the great shed which harbored two Zeppelins, both of which were seriously damaged. The three special batteries placed for the protection of the sheds fired at him constantly, but failed to injure him, though they damaged his machine to some extent. A few months later he bombarded railway station indicated as C. He started out at four o'clock in the morning with five other machines and in the afternoon he was back at his base, took up eight more shells and returned to attack the station for the second day, the course of one day. The flight, in which more recently and for the third time he attacked the powder factory at Rottwell, was the most tragic which he ever carried out and at the same time the most successful. Four other machines were to have started with him on that expedition, but one of them a few days earlier had attacked a train from only fifteen feet above the ground and the pilot was still ill as a consequence of injuries he had received. Another who was to have gone had trouble with his QUEER USE FOR LOCOMOTIVE Philadelphia Man Rigs One Up to Furnish Power for Compression of Hay. Philadelphia.—A locomotive with a 35-foot smoke stack is being used here for the compression of hay for the allied armies of Europe. This plant, the first of its kind, is located on the banks of the Schuylkill river. It is another proof of the fact that necessity is the mother of invention. Orders for 50,000 tons of hay to feed the horses of the allies were received by the Army in Irving. He selected the present site for his plant, and expect the Philadelphia Electric company to furnish power, bought the necessary machinery to begin work only to find, when ready to operate, that because of un- C foreseen engineering difficulties the electricity could not be supplied. In this emergency, Mr. Irving turned to steam as a driving power, but discovered that there were no boilers available. He then negotiated with a railroad company and bought a twenty-seven-year-old locomotive, mounted his tall smoke stack and now his factory is running smoothly. freight. He beat the train to the spot and by a fraction of a mile snatched the girl in his arms and was just grated by the engine as he cleared the tracks. Dog Willed $100 Dies. La Crosse, Wis.-Willie, the dog that was left $100 by his owner, Mrs. Mary Johnson, when she made her will, is dead. Otto Amarad, the principal beneficiary under the bill, died one week before the document was filed for probate. Mrs Johnson's motor at the very beginning of the flight and had to return to the lines. There remained consequently only three. Besides the captain there were Lieutenant D. and Corporal P. The three started off together and followed the Swiss frontier to the Rhine and then entered the Black forest and penetrated in the direction of the Wuertemberg plant. All had gone well until they were within a few miles of the latter, when several German chaser machines came out of the fog and spread themselves in fan shape to bar the way to the Frenchmen. The latter were carrying a ten-hour supply of gasoline and a load of bombs and their machines consequently were slow and not easily manageable. An Easy Target. They offered a relatively easy target and could not defend themselves very satisfactorily. Mr. Jacques Montane, who describes the incident, says the first to withstand the shock was the captain himself, who was attacked by a large monopole of the type of Latham's Antoinette. Two men were on board and the machine was well known by the pilots who operated on the Alsatian side. The French officer replied with so much valor that the aggriecer judged it prudent not to insist and abandoned him in order to attack the machine of Corporal P. The captain endeavored at once to go to the aid of his subordinate, but the adversary was much more rapid and after a short flight succeeded in bringing down the unfortunate corporal. During this time the captain was turning and swerving and did not lose a single point of the painful drama of which he was a powerful witness. But he decided to avenge himself. After the fall of P. he started off on the way to the powder factory with the determined purpose of making the Germans pay dearly for the loss of his fellow aviator. He flew calmly, scouring the enemy who had gone above him in the hope of cutting him off and of attacking him, for the first success had encouraged the occupants of the big German machine. Leutenant D, who had continued his way without stopping, now saw himself surrounded by enemy machines. One of them brought him down, to the northeast of the town near the factory. This death was considered a sad loss to the French aviation service. D. had distinguished himself several times in bombarding expeditions, often by night, and had been of a boldness worthy of his chief. The captain remained alone to accomplish his mission. Instead of turning back, as prudence might have dictated, for he still had a considerable distance to go before reaching his objective, he persevered all alone against the German machines and went and cast his eight shells slowly and with great care on the powder factory. All of them struck true. His Sad Return. A thick black smoke at once arose to the sky, the black smoke which this same bold pilot saw for the third time at the same place within a year. He remained, according to his custom, for ten minutes over the establishment, in order to make notes of the result of his shelling, and then he started for home, along the same route by which he had come, not bothering to make a single detour to avoid enemy machines. The alarm, however, had been given, and when he arrived over the Black forest he perceived a veritable curtain of aeroplanes waiting for him. They all swooped toward him in the hope of bringing him down. By clever maneuvering he avoided half a dozen of them, and then he was obliged to engage in close combat with two, the second of which awaited him above L. The duel with the latter was particularly bitter and the captain ended it by forcing his adversary to take飞. Quately he resumed his way toward the French trenches, mourning the death of his comrades. Near the lines he perceived French chaser machines which were awaiting the return of his squadron. One of them approached and made signs to inquire if the other aeroplanes were coming. The captain with a gesture of desolation indicated that there was no one to wait for, as he was the sole survivor of the expedition. And a miraculous survivor he was, for when his machine was examined it was found that the top and nacelle were riddled with bullets; some of them had even passed between the captain's legs. The supports were cut, the joints broken and the wings torn by shell fragments. When the spoke to the captain about these numerous injuries he replied simply: "Of course it was to be expected that they would wait for me on my return." The following day the German official communication made this announcement: "Under Officer B. on his first trip succeeded in bringing down two ene my aerosplanes which were on a bombarding expedition. The third succeeded in escaping." The German under officer, it is interesting to note, soon became lieutenant and received three decorations, one being the Iron Cross of the first class, which was given to him for the above exploit. Recently this German Officer B. was flying in upper Alsace when his motor stopped, the machine fell and the pilot was killed. Captain X. gallantly regretted the nature of the accident to the German aviator and regretted still more that it had not been left to him personally to avenge the death of Lieutenant D. and Corporal P. three brothers and a grandniece have fled a request in court for partition of the estate now that the dog is dead No Trouble About That. Miss C. went to call on a lady who had entertained her. The little five-year-old daughter was playing on the pavement and, seeing Miss C., ran to meet her, saying: "Mother is not at home." Miss C. responded: "for I have come to pay my party call." "Oh, I'll take the money," the five-year-old responded. —Christian Register. DEADLY WAR TRAPS All Sorts of Contrivances to Stop Soldiers. Simple Barbed Wire Is Not Considered Sufficient for the Purpose—Some of the More Modern Methods. The chevaux-de-frise is sometimes known as the "knife-reest," and consists simply of a long pole, resting at each end on two pieces of wood constructed in the form of a St. Andrew's cross. To this framework the wire is attached, and the chevaux-de-frise is then thrown over the parapet by two men. When the garrison of the trench have not the necessary framework, the wire is distributed in loose rolls in front of the position, forming rough cylinders three or four feet in diameter and eight to twelve feet in length. Used even in this impromptu way barbed wire has proved itself to be of the greatest assistance to a defending party. The erection of wire entanglements, even when the trenches are some dis- Chevaux-de-frise. tance apart, is at all times dangerous (300 yards is thought a considerable distance in the western front—I have been in firing trenches only 60 yards from the Germans). The men slip over the parapet and in the first case knock in the supports with mallets. Russian Trip. having previously carefully wrapped cloth round the heads of the latter so that the sound may be deadened. Two other men carry the wire drum—a wooden cylinder around which the wire is rolled—with a long pole through the center for carrying purposes, while a comrade attaches the wire to its supports. The work is slow and nerve-straining, as star-shells burst often and oblige the men to Drum on Which Barbed Wire is Carried. Drum on Which Barbed Wire is Carried. crouch low, remaining motionless until the flare burns out. To each soldier who takes part in modern warfare thick gloves for gripping wire and strong pliers for cutting it are as essential as the rifle and bayonet. Before an assault by his own regiment the soldier cuts his own wire, and he must then endeavor as best he may to cut and hack his way through Loose Rolls. the enemy's, pulling down a support here, cutting the wires while the machine-gun batteries rap out their message of death towards him. Thus barbed wire, so simple in itself, so deadly, is used in the various ways of fire described into every phase of operations in the firing zone — London Exchange. Quickly Recover From Wounde Quickly Recover From Wounds. A remarkable recovery among the Austrian wounded is reported. It is stitched in tennia that no less than 93.5 per cent of the wounded wounded in 1915 recovered so completely as to be fit for service again. Of the remainder 8.8 per cent were retired, and only 1.7 per cent died. These figures show a considerable improvement over the returns at the beginning of the war. In August, 1914, out of 100 wounded 85 recovered, twelve were retired, and three died; but after this the percentage of recoveries rose gradually, though varying somewhat in different months. The highest rate of complete recoveries was reached in the summer months—91.7 in June and 91.8 in May and July. In December, 1914, the death rate had been reduced below 10 per cent in January and February, 1915, it was only 1.4 and 1.3 respectively. Only Herb Husbands for Bratton Girls Only Hero Husbands for Breton Girls. The young girls in Brittany have formed themselves into an association which forbids its members marrying any young man who has not taken his part in the war. This does not only refer to the deserts and those who did their duty, but to the "slackers" who found the means, through influence or by king; without reason of ill health or for other just cause, to keep safe in the rear and leave their comrades to do the fighting. The rallying cry of these patriotic young Breton girls is: "Better a cripple than a slacker!" One member of the association expressed thus her thought: "I would rather love a man who had no arm than one who had no heart." Buch Ignorance "Why didn't you call my street?" asked the irate passenger. "Hog pardon," answered the politician, "but I didn't know it was your word." True to Life He--And how did the novel end? She--Oh, in the usual manner. The duke married the American heiress, and they lived unhappy ever after. Electric Eels, Found in South America, Have Been Provided With Strange Power. The marshy waters of Bera and Rastro in South America are filled with innumerable electric eels, which can at pleasure discharge from every part of their silny, yellow-speckled bodies a deadening shock. This species of gymnotus is about five or six feet in length. It is powerful enough to kill human beings and the largest animals when it discharges its nervous organs at one shock, in a favorable direction. It was once found necessary to change the line of road. Unwelcome Visitor. from Uritucu across the steppe, owing to the number of horses which, in fording a certain rivulet, annually fell a sacrifice to these gymnoid, which had accumulated there in great numbers. All other species of fish shun the vicinity of these formations. Even Eventu, when fishing from the high bank, is in dread lest an electric shock should be conveyed to him along the moistened line. Ancient "Cures" Still Persist Superstititions as to methods of curing diseases, once very prevalent, are not altogether extinct yet. Some of them were very ridiculous. Much ancient faith clustered about the mandrake root, which was carved in the form of a doll, dressed in fine clothes, and kept in a box or coffin concealed in some corner of the house. Each month it was washed in wine and water and freshly garbed. Another universal cure was to carry a piece of mistletoe which had been cut from a tree by a golden sickle and caught in a white vessel as it fell. Metal scraped from a church bell or a piece of the rope was supposed to have a similar protective influence against disease, as also a cloth stained in the blood of a murderer, or the rope with which he was hanged. Catch Aeroplanes by Cowboy Lasso. Cowbys of the air may be the new type of airmire if the invention of Joseph A. Stolmetsm of Philadelphia is adopted in war. It has been developed from the principle of the lasso. The attacking machine scars higher and suspends a bomb lower than the hostile craft. The bomb is attached to a long wire, on the other end of which is a heavier weight, which is thrown on the other side of the enemy machine. The weight descends by gravity and the higher the bomb up into contact with the craft. This causes the bomb to explode and destroys the airship. Mr. Steinmetz is convinced that it is not necessary to catch the enemy aviators asleep in order to effect the maneuver. Make Use of Derelicts The utilization of trees which have been washed loose along the river bottom, has developed into a remunerative industry in Nebraska, on the Missouri river. The floating logs are made into rafts and floated to the town of Decatur, where a sawmill has been erected solely for the utilization of this salvage timber. More than 20,000 feet of good lumber were made last year from these derelicts. The industry is under the control of one man. The logs have been submerged for years. He asserts that if a log is fully submerged, so that no air reaches it, no deterioration comes from its being under water, while half submerged logs begin to rot in a few months. The only true and thorough way to know the dog is to own one. A common residence under the same roof tree, be it animals or humans, is the sure test of personality. To own the dog is to comprehend him in his faults and virtues to protect his weakness. To own the dog is to catch the contagion of his love, and to agonize if it so be that he die. Our Dumb Animals. Was Not to Be Caught. My niece was left alone with the baby for the first time while my sister went to the store. Her mother had cautioned her not to open the door for anyone. She no sooner had gone when my father rang the bell. Elizabeth asked who was there and he said it was grandpa and to open the door. Elizabeth started to the door and then, thinking better of it, said, "O, no, that's the way Little Red Riding Hood was fooled."—Exchange Putting Him to the Test "I can't tell you how sorry I am to see you in such a plight," said the ready sympathizer to an old friend in distress. "Don't attempt to tell me," replied the old friend. "I know you are a man. I don't want to take up much of your time. I show me up and I will be on my way." The Crux of the Matter "It isn't the high cost of living that causes so much trouble in the world." "You surprise me." "It's the high cost of living up to a more or less imaginary position in life which think they are bound to maintain." Rather Dull. "Agy activity in real estate about here?" asked the tourist. "None whatever," answered the disconcertate citizen of an Arizona town, "except when a puff of wind comes along and shifts a little sand." Repudiated-the Job, "Why old Hickory's wife so indignant at him?" "How!" someone that his wife was the malkin of him, and she overheard him"—Browning's Magazine. BUREAU'S TASK IS TO FIX STANDARD FOR ALL SORTS OF THINGS --- Washington.—Ever since the advent of the new year the bureau of standards of the department of commerce has been deluged with inquiries from all corners of the country concerning standards of everything from electric and gaslight brilliance to the length of aATER. The bureau is pouring in from public service corporations and their old enemies, the public utilities commissions. Primarily the bureau of standards was charged with the duty of testing and determining standards of exact measurements of every kind and nature. A steel yardstick which may be a yard long in June will be something less than a yard in cold December, and it is the bureau's task to find out what constitutes a real yard under all conditions. Naturally, in pursuing this chase for elusive constants, the bureau branched off, more or less, into measuring things other than yardsticks, among other things, and interacting in learning what amount of electricity should go into an electric light. As this was only a step from learning what constitutes a real gaslight candle power, the bureau learned that also. Several years ago, it appears, those who planned for the future of the bureau anticipated that eventually they would be called upon to referee the constant clashes between public service corporations and those state and municipal commissions appointed to regulate the corporations. They felt that the day would come when the word of the bureau of standards must settle such controversies, and they set to work to rig up their administrative plant to provide for it. And just as they planned the need arose, and they were prepared. For a while the public utility experiments and decisions of the bureau were ried along as a rather unanticipated portmanteau of active burden, but as the demand for information increased along public utility lines it was finally decided to set aside a certain part of the bureau's force into separate quarters and put them to the task of working out the destiny of those corporations which serve the public. Some Knotty Problems. Electric light and gas companies and street railways furnish most of the knotty problems the bureau is called upon to solve in the public utilities field, and perhaps no problem has given the bureau more study and trouble than the process of electrolysis of underground pipes in cities where the streets are honeycombed by pipes of all sorts. Most of the street railways are operated on the single, overhead trolley plan, with the electric current passing through the car into the track, via the wheels, after it has passed through the car motors. Most of the current is properly conducted back to the generating stations, but some of it escapes and menaces gas and water pipes in the vicinity. These stray currents produce what is known as electrolysis, which eats away the pipes. This leads to constant wrangling between the street railway companies and the railway companies that have been injured. While it has so far been almost impossible to completely prevent the corroding of pipes thus exposed, the bureau has been able to advise public utilities commissions how to compel the various corporations involved to mitigate this current wavage and the consequent evil effects. As a result of tests made during the past year at St. Louis, Springfield, Mass., and Springfield, O., the bureau has been enabled to lay down some definite rules which will prevent a great deal of damage from this agency. Bonding of the joints of rails to give greater conductivity to the rails, was one plan. Another was embodied in radical roadbed changes, to lessen the connections between the earth and the rails. At present the bureau is conducting tests to show the extent of electrolytic action on pipes of all kinds and this is expected to throw additional light on the question. The bureau gets every assistance from the gas and electric companies and from municipalities, while the street railway companies usually give but scant attention to the matter. The reason is obvious, as the results of the work tend to increase the cost to the railway companies through the necessary installation of safeguards, whereas railways themselves are not concerned in the matter of damaged pipes owned by other parties, unless a lawsuit results, and the courts have been able to get very little action here. Gas Service Standards. Determining service standards of gas, both for heating and illuminating, is another factor in the work of the bureau. Most city and state utility commissions rule rather uniformly on the matter of meters, meter testing, heating value and candle power of the gas product, degrees of chemical purity and amount of pressure required, but the bureau experts have been able to formulate a set of uniform regulations. It is the aim of the bureau to make the gas requirements of San Francisco as near those of New York as possible. A fairly uniform meter regulation, for instance, would remove a great ob- Organized to Clean Up New York's East Side and Keep It Clean. New York—Five hundred organized police girls, with badges, clubs, blue caps and jackets are the latest thing in the campaign to keep the East side clean. The girls, beddecked with glittering badges, recently swooped upon the sides of the district and informed stacle to meter manufacturers. At present a meter acceptable in San Francisco might not do at all in New York. The bureau, thanks to the exports, could furnish at this moment a set of rules for the government of public utilities anywhere, which, with possibly a few minor alterations, could be put into effect with marked benefit to the community and without serious hardship to the corporations affected. For instance, three sets of model electric ordinances have been prepared—large cities, one for medium-sized cities, one for smaller cities and towns. Big-city requirements inclined to be more stringent than those applicable to smaller communities, and to enforce these requirements upon electric power companies in small towns would be more or less of a hardship. Then there is a different set of model regulations, suitable for adoption by state utilities commissions, which strike a happy medium between the stricter regulations of the large cities and the laxer rules applicable to smaller communities. In formulating these rules the bureau has received support only from utilities' commissions throughout the country but from electric companies as well. It frequently happens that representatives of the bureau are asked by public utilities commissions to attend hearings on matters of more than usual importance. In such case an expert is sent, and usually he supplies data of vast benefit in enabling those interested to reach a definite conclusion. Safety Codes. One important phase of the bureau's work is its plan to formulate and have adopted a national gas and electric safety code for the protection of both workers and consumers. The idea is to have the code uniform throughout all states. This work, however, is not completed. Sometimes this year a conference will be held in Washington to consider the bureau's national electrical code, adopted by the convention its adoption by the state legislatures will be urged. The same method has been followed in the preparation of a gas safety code for all the states. To investigate the telephone as a public utility it has been necessary to make some survey of telephone transmitting and receiving apparatus, as well as switchboard equipment. So far, the bureau has not now on the bureau will devote itself more energetically to this task. In the opinion of the bureau telephone standards are in sore need of fixing. Public service commissions throughout the country are noting increasing frequency of petitions for permission for connections between telephone systems under different ownerships and the question is constantly arising as to whether an impairment of service would result. M. Thomas Mott Obborne, former warden of Sing Sing prison, posed for the Survey in the old iron head cage which he found in the basement of the head cage weighs eight pounds, and was used as recently as 18 years ago on refractory prisoners. $1,000 for Nine Lives Des Moines, Ia.-W. O. Allen, a West Des Moines high school teacher, has received a Carnegie hero medal and $1,000 in cash for bravery in saving nine persons from drowning at Athens, O. in connection with a dent in the university at Athens, then the Hocking river overflooded and carried everything before it. Allen and a companion, using a small skiff, rescued nine persons. Ready for Big Flood Drayton, Mo.—Foreseeing a food to cover the whole earth, John Rule, a farmer, living on Red river, has built an ark in which he expects to save himself and his family. them that banana peelings and the like should not be thrown from windows into the streets and that rubbish must not be admitted to accumulate in the corners of the room. The girl police has been organized by Harry S. Schlacht, president of the East Side Protective association. The captain of the squad is Cecilia Goldberg, thirteen years old. The girl police has been assigned to their home clean. They are intelligent school children between the ages of twelve and eighteen. SINGS HIS WAY TO FREEDOM Boy Wins Release of Parents Who Were Prisoners of Villa's Band of Cutthroats. Philadelphia. — Little four-year-old Harry Joline of this city sang to Villa's ferocious guerrillas and brought about the release of his imprisoned parents. This youthful traveler is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Joline. With his father, who is a mining engineer, and his mother he has traveled during the last 45 days a distance of 10 miles while imprisoned in the United States, Canada and Mexico. At the time of the Columbus raid he and his parents were in Juarez, Mexico, and were subjected to considerable affront MILTON Harry Joline, and finally were incarcerated in a bull pen. Young Harry was allowed to roam about, and soon succeeded in capturing and holding the affections and imaginations of Villa's Hero soldiers, who 'showered him with Villa currency and released his father and mother and saw them safely to the border. Harry is also a young hero in the eyes of traveling men and doctors who consider his feat of traveling 14,000 miles in ever-changing altitudes without becoming sick, a truly remarkable achievement. He has imbibed all kinds of spring, soda and mineral waters, and has changed his clothing on some days, twice, and occasionally three times, to suit the climate through which he was passing. Changes vary from freezing to summer heat, traveling on 23 railroads and sleeping on railroad trains and in different hotels each night have left no ill effects upon this youngster. INDIAN STUDENT IS GRATEFUL Nez Perce Urgea All Redmen Who Can To Go to the Parallel Indian Chief Carlisle, Pa.—Superintendent Oscar H. Lippa of the Carlisle Indian school, is in receipt of a letter from Stephen Reuben, a Nez Perce Indian, who left the school 33 years ago. Mr. Reuben says he has not escaped the temptation of the reservation, but he is thankful that he has been given strength and courage to rise when he fell and "stand like a man." He urges the pupils to make use of their opportunities here, for they will be thankful some day, as he is today, for what Carlisle is doing for the Indians. He says among other things: "I allowed not my hair to grow below my ears. I wear still the stiff head collar on my neck and I wear a good jacket. I am like a farmer, on a farm, raise grain, vegetables and fruit, and drive six horses with train wagons just like I did in Buck county, Pennsylvania. I built a house for myself from what I learned of the carpenter's trade at Carlisle. I have 1,524 fruit trees, one-half bearing fruit now." AUTO AID IN COAST DEFENSE Seven-Inch Howitzer Carried Thirty- Eight Miles in Three Hours Over Hilly Road. San Francisco.—Officers of the coast artillery here expressed satisfaction over a test made to determine the value of the automobile as a factor in coast defense. The Thirteenth company was rushed from Fort Miley to Half Moon bay. The artillerymen took with them a seven-inch howitzer, weighing four tons. The distance is 38 miles, over a hill road and the trip with horses would take, army officers estimated, about a day and a half. The artillerymen covered the distance in 90 minutes in motor cars. The gun was only three hours on the way. Knocks Hla Customer Down. Portersville, Cal.-W. S. Beller, a carpenter, employed at a local mognite mine, was prevented from committing suicide when he was knocked down by a clerk in a local drug store just as he had thrown back his head preparatory to tossing into his mouth sufficient poison to have killed a regiment of men. He bought the poison with the statement he used to use it in poisoning gophers, and his actions aroused the suspicions of the clerk. THE BYSTANDER The HOME Flowers and Their Care and The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation How Beautiful Is a Flower Farm. HAVE A FLOWER FARM By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN. The demand for choice flowers never falls and the big cities of the United States sell enormous quantities. They must be fine though. The city man who wishes flowers for a special decoration does not care how much they cost if they are the best that can be grown. Farming is an agreeable occupation. But little help is required. The costly adjuncts, such as curing, drying, housing and storing are not required. Plants increase in value, and once a place is going it continues to increase in productive ability with each year. Flower farming does not require rich soil, but it must be quick and responsive. Some of the requirements for success, however, demand that your farm be located near a railway station or a shopping center. You can telephone, ice or a cold spring, and a good road to town. Start in a small way. Be content to buy from 100 to 500 plants, each year until your plants get old enough to divide and build your stock from. By starting in a small way you will acquire the necessary experience to cope with the situation and understand the workings on a larger scale. No book knowledge can compare with a year's actual experience. The hydrangeas will pay for itself in a single year. The peony takes longer to arrive at perfection. If planted in the fall the peony will bloom the first season, but young plants are apt to be too quick in getting out in the spring and the buds may be injured by late frosts. One thousand bushes three-years old will produce 30,000 flowers. The dahlia is a good flower to grow. it can be planted June 1, come into bloom about August 15, and will be in full bloom by September. It is a free, easy early bloomer, light color, low maintenance plum tubers. The peony must not be overlooked. its requirements are simple, yet at a few periods they are very easily damaged. Plants that are kept dormant by being dug in the fall may be planted until June with fine success. When planting peonies in clayey ground they should be set about four inches deep, but in light, sandy soil or loamy soil five or six inches deep. Never use much manure the first year on newly planted peonies, and never overmanure them. Cultivate them about three inches deep, then apply about one inch of manure and work well into the soil in the spring. Plant peonies in the same suburbia that are like shade shade or whose roots may sa The Beauty of Homes and Streets Can Instead of Having Fences MAKE GOOD CUT FLOWERS --- 1111 1111 1111 The Beauty of Homes and Streets Can Be Enhanced by Planting Hedges Instead of Having Fences Around the Home Lot. Annuals of easy culture that make good cut flowers are many. No matter how many perennials you have some easily raised annuals are necessary for the beauty of your garden. In the white-flowering annuals you can select sweet allysum, which is so attractive in bouquets and so fragrant; carnations, candytuft, chrysanthemum, Cosmos, early and late flowering, Dianthus, Gypsophila, Nicotiana, Pansy, Phlox, Ten Weeks Stock, Sweet Peas, Verbenas, Zinnias and Scabiosa. Blue—Ageratum, Centurea or Bachelor's Button and Aster. Lavender—Ten Weeks Stock, Sweet Peas and Aster. Lavender—Ten Wheat Bread, Sweet Peas and Asters. Yellow—Nasturtiums, Poppies, Mignonette, Stocks and Zinnia, Ann the plant food in the soil where they are planted. Peonies are grown from a division of old plants and also from seed. It takes from five to eight years to come into full bloom from seed. To get the best results from phlox they should be planted new each fall or spring and given plenty of water while in bloom. Hardy phlox can be transplanted at any time, preferably in the spring or early fall by dividing the old clumps. Plant in April about fifteen to eighteen inches apart and pinch the tops back when about four inches high. The result will be that they will give a maximum of bloom. Give an occasional dressing of manure or manure water. When a very large mass of plants is desired, pinch back about one-third of the stems about May 1 and about three weeks later another third should be pinched back. This lengthens the season of blooming and adds to their beauty. PLANT FOR BEAUTY A tropical effect can be obtained by planting a round bed with a few castor-oil plants in the middle, with tall-growing cannas around them. Use elephant's ears for the border. A glorious hedge is obtained from salvia. Plant a triple row of the red sage, as it is often called. Set it, but early in June, and let it grow unchecked until it is a blaze of color. If the aphis attacks the sweet peas spray them with strong soap suds. Give heliotrophe rich, porous soil, composed of leaf mold, thoroughly rotted manure, and sand to make it friable. It requires good drainage and plenty of water and will not thrive in heavy sour soil. Ever-blooming larkspur is a novelty that has proved hardy and beautiful. It grows to a great height, four or five inches tall, and is a constant bloomer. As a hardy perennial of great beauty it is well to try the Albion, white and bella-donna, sky blue, they are a riot of gorgeous coloring and a great improvement over the oldtime larkspur. Sow mignonette every two weeks until the middle of July. There is no flower so fragrant and it is easily grown and will supply plenty of perfume for the home rooms. But better than the commercial fertilizer is well-decayed manure. It supplies humus, which improves the capacity of the soil for holding moisture and admitting the air to the roots. Take care of the palms and plants that have been growing in the house all winter. Do not expose them to the full sunshine of the garden. Keep them in a secluded spot until they become accustomed to it. Be Enhanced by Planting Hedges as Around the Home Lot. Plum and choice can Drain and from the st one side, re fine a dozen pimento, rli dried; bea cheese, add ture is need lemon placed the three, balls and fi ball of che balls and the leaves of French dress Crab Cock of mayonna catchup, a shredded, a and a can chill and s in cocktail Care show delicately f season the st stroy the fir Ja Proverbbs the Japanese cording to Register. A ages these, irrhinum, Calendula, Callopsis and Marigold. Red-Carnation, Poppy, Peony, Stocks, Sweet Peas and Zinnias. HYDRANGEAS In the spring hydrangeas should have some branches cut out at the bottom to give them a more compact and sturdy look. They should occupy a sunny position in the garden and be protected from the cold winds of autumn. When the buds begin to swell in the spring cut the branches at the bottom and the plants will quickly throw up shoots that will produce large heads of bloom. The plants should be watered occasionally with liquid manure. Hydrangeas make a good house plant if good air and sunshine are given them. Not I had taken restaurant f for the meal he picked it him, politely thing to do something "You shouldn't help a mail boy,nant between which of the The KITCHEN CABINET If you rise superior to your disappointments, whatever they may be, you are adding 100 per cent to your power to conquer future difficulties. The sure way to catch success is to catch the opportunity. GOOD THINGS FOR THE TABLE. When preparing cranberry sauce try this combination, to be served when All things come to him who waits But here's a rule that's slicker, The man who goes for what he wants Will get it all the quicker. SEASONABLE DISHES. Brown a cupful of well washed rice in two tablespoons of butter, the add a small onion cut in shreds; stir and cook until the onion is slightly cranberries are out of season. Add a cupful of seeded raisins to a quart of cranberries that have been cooked and wiped through a sieve. Cook five minutes after adding the raisins, then turn into a mold and chill. Graham Cookies. — Take a beaten egg, add a cupful of sugar, a tablepoonful of butter, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, one cupful of sour milk, or buttermilk, one teaspoonful of soda, two cupfuls of graham flour and a cupful of chopped raisins. Drop on a greased pan and bake in a moderate oven. Maple Walnut Dessert. — Dissolve one package of peach or orange gelatin in half a pint of boiling water. Add a half cup (one cupful of maple and when used with walnut meets, cut rather fine. Set away to harden and serve with whipped cream. Berlin Cabbage—Slice red cabbage very thin; let stand an hour in cold water to crisp. Drain and put into a saucepan, using two tablespoonfuls of butter, a half teaspoonful of salt and one tablespoonful of chopped onion, a grating of nutmeg and a dash of pepper for each quart of cabbage. Cook until the cabbage is tender, then add two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, half a tablespoonful of sugar; cook five minutes and it is ready to serve. Amber Marmalade—Now is the time to prepare this delicious concoction. Cut in thin slices one grapefruit, orange, and lemon, cover with twelve cupfuls of cold water, let stand over night. Cook until the peel is very tender, four or five hours, let stand again over night, then add ten cupfuls of sugar and cook until thick. Success doesn't consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one twice. The worse a reputation the harder it is to lose. DISHES DAINTY AND DELICIOUS When serving a fruit cocktail of grapefruit, for example, use a French dressing combined with a mayonnaise, seasoning with paprika, tabasco sauce and chill sauce, and adding mayonnaise dressing to give the sauce a thick consistency. Apple and Bermuda Onion Salad—Cut in small dice two or three cupfuls of apples of good flavor, add a third as much of finely dried onion and a mayonnaise or any good coiled dressing. Celery may be added, using the same amount of celery as onion; this is a salad particularly well liked, served with a pork roast or with chops. Apple and Raisin Salad—Pare and cut into small dice three choice apples, squeeze over them the juice of a lemon and add a raisin that have been soaked over night in orange juice, a cupful of the tender hearts of celery, cut in small pieces, season with salt and paprika and pour over a well-prepared French dressing. Serve on blanched lettuce well chilled. Plum and Cheese Salad—Select choice canned greengage plums. Drain and dry them and cut open from the stem to the blossom end on one side, removing the stones. Chop fine a dozen pecan meats and half a pimento, rinsed in cold water and dried; beat these into a cream cheese, adding cream if more moisture is needed, a little olive oil and lemon juice, any one, or a mixture of the three. Shape the cheese into balls and fill each plum with a small ball of cheese. Arrange the cheese balls and the plums in a nest of heart leaves of lettuce and serve with French dressing. Crab Cocktail—Take a half cupul of mayonnaise, a third of a cupul of catchup, a third of a cupul of olives, shredded, a stalk of celery, cut fine, and a can of crab meat. Mix and chill and serve in green peppers or in cocktail glasses. Care should be taken when serving delicately flavored fruits not to overseason the salad dressing and thus destroy the flavor of the fruit. Proverbs have great influence with the Japanese in their daily lives, according to a writer in the Christian Register. Among their countless adages these, with their English equivalents, are quoted: "Some insects feed upon smartweed" (There is no accounting for tastes). "If in a hurry, go round" (The more haste, the less speed). "Live under your own hat" (Let well enough alone). "The mouth is the front gate to misfortune" (The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity). Not What He Wanted. I had taken my little nephew to a restaurant for dinner. When the waiter put the menu down in front of him, he picked it up and back it to him, politely. "We don't want anything to read, thank you, we want something to eat." Chicago Tribune. Spirit of Mischief. "You should never be cross," "I can't help it sometimes," replied the small boy. "I like to start an argument between father and mother as to which of them I take after." All things come to him who waits But here's a rule that slicker, The man who goes for what he wants Will get it all the quicker. Brown a cupful of well washed rice in two tablespoons of butter, then add a small onion cut in shreds; stir and cook until the onion is slightly browned; add two cupfuls of hot broth, half a teaspoonful of salt and a dash of paprika; cook until tender, adding more broth as it is needed. When done add two tablespoons of sausage fat and two canned pimentos cut in bits. Turn out on a platter and surround with cooked pork sausage. Calf's Liver in Casserole - Fry five slices of fat salt pork until brown, to the hot fat one dozen potato balls, turn bells, turn milk of coley, six onions sliced. Cook very slowly for ten minutes, then place in the casserole. Cut in thin slices a liver and lay it on top of the vegetables. Season with salt and pepper, add a pint of boiling water and a table-spoonful of kitchen bouquet. Cool one hour. Goetze—Boll two pounds of flank beef until tender, then put it through the meat grinder. Put into the liquid left from boiling the meat one pound of coarse oatmeal; cook thirty minutes then mix it with the meat; season with pepper and salt and pour into a mold to cool. Cut in slices and fry brown. This is a dish similar to scrape and is served with or without stirp. Rice With Orange Marmalade—Cook rice in milk and season well, then mold in a ring mold. When ready to serve fill the center of the mold with orange marmalade. This combination is especially good when served with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored with grated orange rind. Philadelphia Scrapple—Cook a pike head in boiling water until the flesh slips from the bones; chop the meat fine. Remove the fat from the liquid when cold and reheat the liquid to the boiling point, adding a teaspoonful of salt for each quart of liquid with pepper to taste; sift in carefully, stirring constantly, cornmeal, to the consistency of mush. Let it boil vigorously for 5 minutes then cook more slowly for half an hour. At the last stir in the meat and turn into pans to cool. Cut in slices a half inch thick and fry brown. Serve hot for break fast. Among all the basic principles of economic life, none is more vital than the food. The food should have a job; that he should work at the thing for which he is best fitted, and that he should be paid the full sum what he produces—Scott Nearing. In America, rice is more commonly used as a dessert than as an entree. The wholesome dishes in combination with other foods are legion. Rice Czarina—Butter a baking dish and put a layer of boiled rice in the bottom. Over this sprinkle fine chopped fresh tomatoes, season with salt and pepper and let it place another layer of rice somewhat thinner, and over this spread finely-chopped green peppers and so alternate the tomatoes, peppers and rice until the dish is full, having a layer of rice on top. Pour two tablespoons of melted butter over all, cover and cook in a slow oven 20 minutes. Belgian Rice Dessert—Add a half cupful of boiled rice to a pint of hot milk and a half cupful of currants; stir in the yolks of two eggs well beaten and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Remove from the fire, add a teaspoonful of vanilla and form into croquettes. Roll in egg and crumbs and fry a golden brown. Serve with currant jelly and roll the croquettes in powdered sugar. Rice Creole Style—Chop fine one onion and two green peppers, sauté with half a cupful of raw ham, shredded fine, in a fourth of a cupful of butter; cook ten minutes, then add a cupful of cooked rice and three cupfuls of broth, simmer 20 minutes and add four sliced tomatoes and a teaspoonful of salt. Cover and cook slowly in the oven or in a double boiler. Nessie Maxwell "Of course you have your own ideas about what the government ought to do in a crisis." "Yes. But I'm not saying anything. Maybe the government will have to act so promptly there won't be time to listen to all the speeches. I could make on the subject."—Washington Star. Does Too Far. Any man who can laugh at all his troubles is too hypocritical to be a desirable acquaintance. When Plants Do Not Thrive. Bury a small piece of beefsteak close to the roots or lay a piece of raw potato on the surface of the ground near the roots. If there are worms around the roots, they will come to the meat or potato to eat, and may be easily removed. Speaks First. "Does your friend give much thought to his speeches?" "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum. "The thinking behind that he doesn't do the thinking behind he makes them." cranberries are out of season. Add a cupful of seeded raisins to a quart of cranberries that have been cooked and rubbed through a sleeve. Cook five minutes, then mince milk, then turn into a mold and chill. Graham. Cookies. • Take a hateneg. add a dressing combined with a mayonnaise, seasoning, with paprika, tabasco sauce and chill sauce, and adding enough mayonnaise dressing to give the sauce a thick consistency. Japanese Proverbs. Not What He Wanted SEASONABLE DISHES. add a small onion cut in adds a small onion cut in stirr; satur and cook until the onion is slightly browned; add two cupu- pals of hot broth, half a tea cupful of salt and salt, half a cupful of until tender, adding more broth as it is needed. MORE RICE DISHES The wholesome dishes in combination with other foods are legion. Rice Cicea-butter. A baking dish and but a baked dish and but a baked dish and but the bottom. Over this sprinkle fine chopped fresh tomatoes, season with salt and pepper and dot with butter; Goes Too Far When Plants Do Not Thrive ION, W. C, BROWN FOR STA’ 'ASURER. ‘The above cut represents our 00d friend, Hon. W. C, Brown, the present incumbent, who is a candidate for re- election for state treasurer, and by his past experience will be still better qualified to redder even greater ser- ~vices to the state. While he has been in ill health for several months ané is still w siek man, yet his friend: throughout the state honestly believe that he is entitled to this term an¢ was his predecessor. Mr. Brown has always been « tru friend to‘common humanity and « special friend to the colored people He comes from the old abolition stock and on every occasion has demon strated his love for the common mass es of struggting humanity. He 50: licits your support. PROGRAM. M,C. A. at Buxton on May 22 to 24, inclasive, Board meeting Monday at 3 p. m. Monday Evening, May 22—Citizens’ Night. Music—Americs, Invocation—Rev. F. B. Wooiard, pastor Mt Zion Baptist church Instrumental solo—Mrs. Eva Pugh. Welcome address on behalf of city —Mr, Richard Anderson, Vocal selection—-Mrs. Roza Guy. Welcome address on behalf of churches—Rev, J. H. Ferribee, pastor of St. John’s A. M. E. church. Clarinet solo—Mr. Joseph Tate. Welcome on behaif of clubs—Mrs. Belle C. Watkins, first vice president LF.C W.C. ‘Trio—Mesdames Carter, Mills and Miss Mardis. Response to addresses—Mrs. Jessye E. McClain, secretary I. F.C. W.C. Musie—Self-Culture club chorus, Announcements. Benedicticn, ‘Tuesday, 8:45 a. m. Invocation by chaplain, Mrs,/R. N. Hyde. ‘Song, “Iowa Beautiful Land.” Roll call of district chairmen. Re- sponded to with two minute talks telling of their efforts towards build- ing up federation. 3 Report of credential committee. Commas appointed. Devotional exercises, Report of committees. Minutes cf board meetings. Report of officers. Report of home board, + Tuesday. 2 p. m. Music, Invocation by chaplain Roll call—Quotations, miscellane- ous. Minutes morning session. Report nf clubs. Duet—Mesdames Claybrook and Bailey. Parliamentary drill—Mzs, Helena Downey, parliamentarian. Music,. Symposium, Education—Mrs, A. G. Clark, chairman. ‘Co-operation of Parent and Teacher —Mrs. Minnie Brown, Buxton. Race Literature—Mrs. Emma Brooks, Davenport. Vocational ‘Training—Mrs, Anné Williams, Buxton. Mothers’ Meetings—Mrs. Gertrude E. Durden Rush, Des Moines. ‘Address, Earlier Educational Ad vantages—Mr. A. G. Clark, Oska loss. Report of music chairman—Mrs Gus G, Nichols, followed by demon stration. Why Preserve Negro Folk-lore— Mrs, Clara Shepard. Tuesday, 8 p. m. Music, Invocation. Roll cal—Quotations from Negr women, ‘Minutes afternoon session, Musical. selection—Miss Edni Jones, Oskaloosa. Original poem—Miss Margare Roberts. Instrumental—Miss Mildred Griff Annual sddress—Mrs. 8. Jo Brown, president. Violin selection—Miss Vivian Smith, Waterloo, Reading—Miss D. Mae Lee, Vocal solo—Mrs. S. H, Armisted. Style show, conducted by Madam Geo, C, Young, assisted by Madam C H, Mease, ‘Announcements. ‘Wednesday Morning, 8:45 a, m, Devotional exercises, 15 minutes. Music. Roll call—Quotations, miscellane ous. ‘, Report. of temperance chairman— “Mrs, Lydia’ Hockedy. Report of civics chairman—Mr Wells Fowler. Report of arts and crafts chairman ‘-Mrs.:J, Alvin. Jefferson. Report of ‘health chairman—Mrs Elnora Gresham. Paper, “The Practical Influence of ‘the Clabe’—Mrs, Lulu ‘Horne. ‘Solo—Mrs, Minta ‘Miles, ‘Address, “Why Clubs Should Fed- “Pape, “‘edicinl Yalao of Fri A inal. Value ts se Vases followed by demon- i oe Mrs. Clara Comely, Webster ity), assinted by delegate F. B, W, Rey port of young women’s chairman ole io Bound table, “What. Qur Young “Women Are Doing,” delega ‘from /Yeee women’s clubs ee sors iale—Miss Juanita White, 2. ee ian oman as Report of suffrage chairman—Miss Teresa Adams, followed by five min- ute talk, soffrage workers. Wednesday, 2 p.m. Music, Invocation. Holl call—Quotations from Dunbar. | Minutes. Parliamentary drill—Mrs. Helena Downey. Music. Symposiam, Social Service—Mis Jessie E. Walker, chairman. ‘The Home as a Social Center— Mrs, Jennie G. Johnson. ‘The Church as a Social Center— Mrs, J. L. Edwards. The School as » Social Center— Mrs. Minnie B. London. Vocal duet—Mrs. Gus G. Nichols ‘and Mrs, C. B. Woods. Report of child welfare chairman— Mrs. LL, Brown. ‘Address on child welfare—Dr. E. A | Carter, Buxton. | Election of officers. : | Originai poem—Mrs. Jennie Store) Johnson. | Wednesday, 5 p. m. Music, | Invocation. | Roll call—Quotation from Dr | Booker T. Washington. | Minutes. | ‘Vocal selection—Mrs. Pearl Thomp son. Original poem—Mrs. H. W. Hughe |, Paper, The Care of the Teeth,” Dr L, R. Willis, Buxton. | “Musie—Mrs. W. A. Brown, ‘Address, “Our Boys”—Mr, J. H McGrew, Buxton, secretary Y. M. C \A. | Report of committees. | Installation of officers. | Adjournment. ALBIA NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Will G. Davis and Miss Mildred English of Elko, Nevada, has been at the parental Monroe Davis home the past week, before go- ing to Kansas. Easter Sunday was observed at the A.M. E. church along with other churches of the town, A nice pro- ‘gram was rendered. “Mrs, Allie Bowman returned to ‘Muscatine on Wednesday, after a week's stay in Albia. attending to business. On Tuesday evening, April 18, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Davis celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home, 310 C avenue West. Their home had been nicely decorated for the evening with the United States flag and yellow, white and blue col- ors, as Mr. Davis was a veteran of the war in 1865, About 100 guests gathered in the evening to pay hom- age to this couple as citizens of Albia in married life for fifty years. The Rev. Morgan spoke of them as mem- bers of the A. M, E. church, while Miss Robinson played “Silver Threads Among the Gold.” Fifty candles were lit while Mesdames Henry Jones and C. Thomas, the oldest citizens of Al- bia, held the cake. Many toasts were made to the worthy couple, ‘The Robinson orchestra of Hocking fur- nished music. The worthy couple re ceived $30 in gold from their man} friends and children. A bountifa supper was served in two courses. Te this union of fififty years has beer Pithent A\ , SLUM \ fie V9) - ee) Ts (HY Bn @ PALMER’S [550 | Ss KIN bere WHITENER Clears and Bleaches the Complexion | Makes Dark, Brows or Sallow Sian Whiter Good for Pimples and Rough Skin Get the Original aud Genuine Made Only by : JACOBS’ PHARMACY | i ATLANTA, GA. | i 5 ys it v Lyd re Se) Take One . Pain Pill, then— IN Take it SO Easy. Fer Neuralgia, nothing ie better than - Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills Used by thousands for a generation Those who have suffered from neuralgic pains need not be told how necessary it is to secure re- Hiok, The easiest way out. of geuralgia is. to use Dr, Miles! ‘Anti:Pain’ Pills. They have re- lieved: ‘sufferers for so. many Petts tt they have become & wusehiold necessity. “1 baye taken Dr. Miles’ Anti-Path ‘Pills for five years and they are the | ‘only thing that does me any good, They have telleved neuralgia in may head in fittgn minutes. 1 have'also kde ees for rhaunatlam, Rend. ache, in the breast, toothache, fareche and pains In the ‘bowels and limbs. I ‘have found nothing to equal them. and-they are all that 19 Mm, BRDGE, Bive Springs, Me. a, bmbOn, Blue Me. | } AS, all deviggtste—25 doves 26. conte, | “Sa atearen sae. in bull ot MILES MEDICAL C0.. Rikhart, Indi, Sampson‘ Attorney General Pee CS Subject to Republican Primaries June Sth Years as Assistant Attorney General under Mr. Cossson. | (See editorial comment upon the candidacy of Mr. Sampson) given seven children and two grand- children. Those from out of town present were Mr, and Mrs, Art Estes, Ottumwa; Mrs. Nora Grayson, Hite- man; Mr. and Mrs. Tesdale of San Francisco, Cal, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Davis and Miss English of Elko, Ne- vada, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson of Hock- ing, Mr. Chas. Davis of Ottumwa. Mr. and Mrs, W. G. Davis have been entertained by the following per- sons while they visited in Albia: Mrs, Edward Butler, Thursday; Mrs Roy Grayson, No. 3 mines, Hocking, on Friday; Mrs. Britian Thomas or Sunday evening. After visiting ove Saturday and Sunday with Mrs Davis’ relatives in Ottumwa they lef Monday evening for Kansas. Lawyer Geo. H. Woodson was ir Albia from Buxton over Sunday anc spoke to the people at the A. M. E ‘church Easter Sunday evening. HEALTH HINTS, } A. J. Booker, M. D. ‘The effect of the recent election in Des Moines has been most wholesome. It has proven the fact that we can get together. It establishes the further fact that the reason we have not done bigger things is because we have not worked with a single mind. When we see that by unit we are more able, that the benefit of one is the best for all, we will do wonder- ful things. Politics ie a great game and a great study. There should be permanent jclobs and organizations to keep alive the interest of the whole people in our needs and possibilities. Spasms are good to create excitement, but “eternal vigilance is the price of lib- erty.” We have capable men and patriotic men who will give their best thoughts and hours to the public is- sues , But they are not treated right unless they have the moral and con- certed backing of their respective comminities . A man cannot be a successful leader unless he is chosen by the people; still the people ought to have brains enough to pick for a leader the man who seems to be work- ing for them. ‘A minister ought to take as much pains to instruct people how to vote as he does to teach them the sup- posed right way to get into heaven It is one’s Christian duty to vote right as it is to say prayers. Mos! of us are primarily interested in good living here as we are hereafter. We are striving for the great democracy which Christ told about, where jus: tice and truth and equality are the rule and not the exception. We car help this kingdom to come by assist- ing men to office who have high ideals and a conception of the brotherhood of man. It will be a long time be- fore the millenium, but we can make this earth a little less of a, hell by letting all classes of people enjoy the pursuits of happiness. It is the imaginary differences which keep us a race apart, We have church differences, lodge differ- ences ,s0-called social differences, an¢ once in a while there is some. pin- headed idiot who tries to complicate all these by occupational difference ‘Whatever may be our views on some of the above, there is one thing whick is common to us all; that one thing i race persecution and race humilia tion, This is true regardless of our various complexions or views of th hereafter, or af the way we earn money, or af our associates, or mor. als, No matter how we dodge, we are one when the final test comes Sinee these things are #0, whether we want to be so classd or not, why car we not be one on the principle and policy of throwing off this terrible weight? It lias been. It can be done. It will be done, It must be done crearest HAIR GROWER G e T ° Don't ba foiled by wale ae rr some fake. preparation a Pan ; ich clutss ontrtgen | alll mm ih your hair. Kinky haircan- ee a hs Bet be made strlehts you Ie 4 ° ‘are just fooling yoursalt by 14g i fein Youbare Share ore youn Position he, "Now, Sa F Entre Gees Po a : elibehairand sakes te § a ae Beier ror iat ool «ein Sar ae Z Exslento Mediciie bait ice ioe Adante, Ga, aia ge at ‘nce "Tt leawes Exoleato Medicine Co, Dear Companys ite ‘stubbors, ~ Gentlement Tans sending you Bising Fonaly ts thg prsint betitg feloitandsy, Crate Ta Snding rower in ‘world Tt made ‘eon fx up. ny mt Barron est he war rs etek i Resin Cuisine Fonda hard ioe ye, Ueda ce wis we ci roe inches wth ¢ ote a Sea Sailin ave) TRY A BOX: "sal goes do what soe chet my picture Price tS cunts by mallow oat Yarn Fi Exslento Medicine ecear a Bae es a fae: Baieaee ar eeist Baie oa Se hie coin de ‘Pouenneee feeroereell, | THE BYSTANDE« It depends upon you and me and our neighbors, and if we are willing t follow the men who have given time and thought to the best way of bring- jing about the happy condition. Do not allow some trifle to stand between you and the dream of all our lives. Let us elect men who love the race, not those who like so-called excep- tional individuals. Think, brother, to colorea © Semen Our PEC Fis. “Twa are_ the Taseent mane « ufacturers of elorea wee rena nar, BSP in chat ie 4idtesduse Sefer free our late Eee ok, iyi” fo Colored ‘wor Seen ia, tae yfeteie © nal? 1S Beery ea ored “woman should” have one” We Saeace Snare angulosa, oF Seer ensnded MALI air wil post: vel giana comping Soeameens woe Gh, talalacture © SERAIGHTER- mG COMB cf wolld Brass, wien es Try henry back abeclotey, re De tia Shed \eeeviceabie made, oly SRL BimANGhith each "comp ee sell EEGs idee price of $9 conus we give EPEh Soulsense ct toy a > Seat pepe far 09. f(:a FULL LINE of Hair Brushes. niche bune-Tollee articies ts Wiastrated isa’ dan be bought for leas than of Bs ewetzent staiap for book today ‘RUMANIA BAmE COMPANT, © “Tas Pare Bow. New York! Department 61. 1916 FUTURE EVENTS FORE. CAST THEIR SHADOWS. Republican national convention at Chicago on June 7th. National Negro Business League at Kansas City, Mo., August 20. National Negro Press Association at Kansas City, Mo., August 19, National Teachers’ Association. National Bankers’ Association at Kansas City, Mo., August 20. International Conference of Grand Master and P. G. M. and Grand Sec- retary at Chicago on August 21. Knights Templar Conference and Imperial Council and Supreme Grand Chapter of R. A. and Supreme at Chicago, August 22. Grand Chapter of 0. E, S. at Chi- cago on August 21. General Conference of A. M. E. church at Philadelphia on May 4. Towa Grand Masonic Lodge at Ot- tumwa on July 11. é Towa Grand Chapter of 0. E. S, at Oskaloosa on May 16. Towa Grand Lodge of K of P, at Des, Moines on July 18. Téwa Grand Lodge of Order of Calanthe at Des Moines on July 18. Towa Grand District of Odd Fel- lows at Colfax on August 22, Towa Grand District of Household of Ruth at Colfax on August 22, Towa Grand International Order of ‘Twelve at Keokuk on August Ist. International Order of Daughters of Tabernacle at Keokuk on August 1 Towa-Nebraska Baptist Associa- tion at Centerville on September 4.* Towa-Nebraska Sunday School As- sociation at Des Moines on June 13. | __ Why Constipation Injures. | ‘The bowels are the natural sewer age system of the body, When they become obstructed by constipation : part of the poisonous matter whict they should carry off is absorbed int the system, making you feel dull an stupid, and interfering with the di gestion and assimilation of food. This condition is quickly relieved by Cham berlain’s Tablets, -Obtainable every ‘where, aes & fred ‘i y ie é oe Atlante, Ga, asia Medline Goes Sosa fam Sie 70 my plctare to show you ‘Exalente Quinine Pomede ior mademy hair to grew. It have zewn 16 inches within 4 menthe, and is does de what you claim 10 wi, Xours, 2. - Lore You BEAUTIFUL HAIR ? BA STA WE are the only Importers and Manutac- ¥ z turers iti Real Colored People’s Hair. Also Wavy Hair. + my gi e 55 ‘@ We absolutely guarantee our hair to stand e PC combing and washing and to retain its color and Pay B crimp. LN ‘Wies, Plats, Braids, Transforinations and Putfs In VE B stock ori ode; all shade, spas too aifcut FEL a «BAH Straightening Combs and Tailet Articles, ig. 5684 Gwocent samp for Price 1s, Mail Orders recive prompt ation. ‘The Old Reliable Mme. Baum’s Hair Emporiam = * 486 8th Avenue SEIG2I6. Between th and Sth sts, NEW YORK CITY —————_—_———————EEE ~ fa A z@gectrn A Good Garden Sa A Tees RES Gives Pleasure, Health and Profit.| Se MMITIN ee sens fs Seca or a cts cf oar tana ee S y a ie ff cintve cataiocuo and select the’ varittes. wanted ite Pe Linb> yNOW 1S THE TIME io er cce) OSAP ED coor cacmcasa nme, ues pr ae oP bare veryiing ward ett to Your garde sd 2 FF GSE FAAM SHIPS reas os MB fl Dir ayamas Cunlomue fei Jou weatod Tae on e @ = A a a. Pecazime= IOWA SEED COMPANY, Bes Moines, lowa rT ia ial <x am Watch Your Step Te ls and be sure it re leads only to a ope eee GLPL= j SEE i i Fare |: 3 Lis iPORO QA | 5 ee aoe 5 yf mabe ony ae ee | GEEED SE | \AWi(roxSitontrraunctaintrennc) WKd) | = 8 ZW} \ SCALP;GIVING LIFE.BEAUTY.COLOR / {JP = | Weer ay |e : | Ves | : ie, : Sue t. we” 9 SPOROF Asem Spring. Spring is looked upon by many as the most delightful season of the year, but this cannot be said of the rheumatic. The cold and damp weath- er brings on rheumatic pains which are assthing but pleasant. They can be relieved, however, by applying Chamberlain's Liniment. Obtainable everywhere. FAIRFIELD NOTES. The Easter program given at the ‘A.M. E. charch Sunday night was excellent. Much credit is due the su- perintendent of the Sundzy school, Mrs, R. Baker. "Miss Jennie Harper of Ft. Madi- son is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Coleson. ‘Mr, Hatrabellio Marangeopa, the Malay missionary from Africa, was ‘in our city last week. He delivered "an excellent sermon at the Free Meth- ‘odist church last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Lizzie Crawford delightfully | entertained a company of friends at a 6 o'clock dinner Wednesday after noon in honor of Miss Jennie Harper Mrs. Marangeopa and Miss Jennie \0. Harper were guests of honor at ¢ \1° o'clock Tuncheon Tuesday at th jhome of Mrs. Geo. Coleson, 704 S \Fifth street. Covers were laid fo | eight. aS ae oe va 4 oN i sty 2 > - ¥ a 4 q + RA <x lahten TS C} a rt S Be Woman's Crowning Glory is Her Halt Why not row your hair by using Mme. M. Beard Hair Growel It removes dandruff, stops itching o! the scalp and makes it grow long, sof and beautiful, Price 50c a box. Send stamp for pamphlet. MME, M. BEARD ACRNTS WANTED 519 So 16tb St. St. Joseph, Mo G. W. SCOTT will open his Pool & Billiard Parlor at his new location April 29th, at 714 West Grand Ave. +He will also handle a fine line of Cigars and Soft Drinks. OFFICIAL NOTICE. ‘To the members of the lowa and Nebraska Baptist Sunday School Convention: I now break # long si- lence to call your attention to the nearness of the time of the next meeting of our convention, In less than three months the delegates from the various Sunday schools of the state will have their faces turned to- ward the Corinthian Baptist Sunday school, Des Moines, lowa. On Thurs- day before the third Lord's day in June the convention will begin its thirty-first annual meeting. We are hoping for big things at this meet- ing intellectually, financially an spiritually. We hope that eaci school feels the burden of responsi bility and will represent, not for th ‘sake of representing merely, but fo [= desire to help out in the Lord’ | work. This means that we wil [bring as much as we can financiall |to meet as far as possible the de | mands made upon us by our missior ary and educational work. Let each school strive for the bar ner. Brethren and sisters let v pray for the success of the meeting | Let us give until we have done ot 1 Tausamnia, Indigestion nearly always disturbs the sleep more or less, and is often the cause of insomnia. Eat a light supper with little if any meat, and no milk; also take one of Chamberlain's Tablets immediately after supper, and see if you do not rest much bet- ter. Obtainable everywhere. PPLE LIS PERSIAN CREAM HAIR GROWER 1 Benetiol oad of Male fp Your Fda, the rh dubeettilat State, tbe Mon Woneortel Di Try thts Real Hale Gre SS: ) | J ssa) Allair Gr ower and Straightener =a 5] Re aa i. ‘The New Way of Treating the Scalp and Growing the Hair. se, ae ere a RE Be Leese! a See Fred SEHR oe oad Neceted or Fe thaTeaiy ened at home Prioe 30" cent, seme SL RES el Tit setgnant Sa, ean od Nv FST, STE ere aie or tall out es EEDA ‘Dandercide is @ Sclentioe remedy Che TET re roe bre area ade ace tbe hale and heloa ‘maintain @ EM bs eT: “prevents. any unplearant odor of the scalp ar Sh oaty aie fe Ha sea ei ict ee sae Care sand Bigaches ihe Ey Haran Pr te wees ciao cas a tn uanvenar saeco oe a BOAT See mre ‘Indianapolls, Indiana. x Madam Robinson, Hair Dresser and Scalp Cleaner, of Hocking, Iowa, and agent for Madam Walker's treatment of the scalp, has practiced in Albia, Hiteman and Hocking for the past year giving satisfaction to all. Write her, or give her a call. 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The cause will live, We be blessed and God will be glori Tam as ever, yours for the cause, F, B. Woodard, Presiden | Safe Medicine for Children, “Is it safe?” is the first questi be considered when buying Cough Remedy has long been a fa ite with mothers of young children [it contains no opium or other cotic, and may be given to a.chil confidently as to an adult. It is pl ant to take, too, which is of importance when a medicine mu: given to young children, This edy is most effectual in reli coughs, colds and croup. Obtai | renters: L. E, Hanger NEW ] New Reliable Place to {E Meals 15c and up | Lunches or Short Orders Servi | 304 W. Grand Ave. Des Moines Io Subscribe for and read your Bystander and quit borrowing neighbor's or quit going to the P library to read it. lowa-Phone 778 rd automatic 3952 Rates Stee Tenth Avenue Hote 1 block from C. & N. W. Ry: All Rooms are Warm. Restaurant and Lunch Room SPECIATIES [Chop Suey Chili Con Carne Yookt Oysters in Season Special attention wiven to Theatrical ‘Barber Shop in connection F. F. JACKSON, PROP, SREN DAY. Clinton, 4 For Constipdtion. / Mr, L, H. Farnkam,{ a5 druggist of Spirit Lake, Io) “Chamberlain’s Tablet,’ the best thing on the atipation.”” Give these You are certain to find able and pleasant in eff cents, For sale by all