Iowa State Bystander

ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER The Best and only medium that reaches the colored people of the middle west. XXII No. 46 Dr. J. A. Booker in is Davenport attending the annual State Medical association. The Baptist Union at Corinthian Baptist church Monday, May 15th, at 8 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Watkins entertained at 6 o'clock in honor of Mr. Wm. Mash of Spokane. Wash. A very delightful evening was spent. Mrs. Emily Rowland of Chillicothe, Mo., will arrive in our city Saturday to visit her daughters, Mrs. Maude Wilkinson and Mrs. Florence Taylor. Mr. Gus Comley returned Wednesday from a two weeks' visit with relatives in Alton and Belville, Ill., and reports a fine time. The Union Baptist church will observe Mothers' day next Sunday, May 14th, with special program at 3 o'clock p. m. in the hall of Doric lodge, No. 1705, Des Moines. All are invited. Mrs. Mansfield Askew of Sioux City will spend Sunday in our city, en route to Oskaloosa, Iowa, to attend the Iowa Grand Chapter. While in our city she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thompson. There will be a meeting of all the colored republican clubs of Polk county Friday night, May 19, to perfect a big county club. Only delegates from the different clubs with credentials will be considered members of the organization. We received word that Mr. and Mrs. Hurburt R. Wright, our consul to Utila, Madagascar, have returned to their home in Marshalltown, Iowa. Both of the family are real sick. The climate is not congenial to their health. Wm. Mash of Spokane, Wash., was called to Missouri to attend the funeral of his mother. He is this week spending a few days here on business and visiting his relatives. He returned Tuesday to the far west. He is looking well and says that Des Moines is growing fast. Mrs. Ruth B. Bright, G. W. matron of Electa grand chapter, O. E. S., for Iowa and jurisdiction, passed through our city Friday en route to her home in Davenport. While in the city she was the guest of Mrs. Maude M. Wilkinson. She had been visiting the new chapters and reports all in a flourishing condition. The Independent Art club has completed its first organization. Membership is limited to twenty ladies. Club met with Mrs. Simons last Wednesday and adjourned to meet this Wednesday with Mrs. Ruby Lewis, E. Sixteenth street. President, Mrs. E. T. Hicks; secretary, Mrs. S. Bates, and teacher, Mrs. Ruby Wells. The Callanan Industrial club will meet Wednesday, May 17, at the home of Mrs. Weston, Twelfth and Center. Final plans will be made for Federation. All members are requested to be present. By order of president, Mrs. Pyree. Atty. S. Joe Brown, grand custodian of Negro Masons of Iowa, returned Thursday morning from Fort Dodge, where he held a private school of instruction Wednesday evening exemplifying the work of the first and second degree upon two candidates for Western Star lodge U. D. of that city. REMEMBER THE Palace Sweet Cafe UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Is the best place to go for Good Home Cooking Everything First Class Red 1367 1012 Center Street Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson, Proprs. The Cutt Studio and Sign Works 220½ West 2nd St. All kinds of Signs and Art Work by Des Moines lead- ing, colored artist and sign writer. The Helping Hand society of the Second Baptist church met Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Leta Henryy, 22 Spruce street. The subject for discussion was "Woman's Suffrage," opened by Mrs. F. E. Range, and discussed by members. Visitor present, Mrs. George Mack. During the social session a delicious luncheon was served, consisting of pomegranate sandwiches, lobster salar and coffee, chocolate cake with gelatine and whipped cream. A large delegation of ladies will leave our city Monday and Tuesday evening for Oaklahoma, Iowa, to at- THE BYSTANDER tend the grand chapter. Those who are going are Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs. R. C. French, Mrs. John L. Thompson, Mrs. Etta Holland, Mrs. C. B. Woods, Mrs. I. Robinson, Mrs. John Perkins, Mrs. Chas. Cousins, Mrs. J. H. McClain, Mrs. J. H. Shepard and probably Grand Master John L. Thompson, Grand Cuctodian S. Joe Brown and P. G. M, and Worthy Patron J. H. Shepard. SUFFRAGE TEA. The Des Moines Suffrage club gave a suffrage tea at the residence of Mrs. J. B. Rush on Wednesday afternoon, May 10. Suffrage songs, addresses by Miss Flora Dunlap, president of the State Suffrage association, and Miss Josephine Casey of Chicago, labor organizer; a paper by Mrs. Johnnie Johnson and instrumental by Miss Marie I. Bell composed the program. Suffrage pennants were in evidence. Each guest was presented a small pennant. Miss Dunlap presented to the club a copy of the prize suffrage picture. A pleasant time was enjoyed by all. DRAMATIC BRT CLUB The Dramatic Art club met tuesday afternoon with Mrs. C. A. Garth, Lesson, scenes 4 and 5, act 1 of Antony and Cleopatra. Meet next Tuesday with Mrs. Wm. Hammit, Lesson, act 2. MOTHERS DEPARTMENT N. A. A. C. The local committee of the mother's department report the following social work since January 1st, 1916. Pensions secured for two widows, house rent for two widows, weekly groceries for two families, room rent, board and clothing for one woman, clothing for three families, one little boy sent to children's home, one child sent to juvenile home, home found for one child, general supervision of three girls, employment secured for three women, three girls released from jail, one girl sent to state hospital, one man and wife reconciled, five emergency calls responded to, two unfortunate girls cared for, t two cases investigated. Mrs. J. B. Rush, Supt. Mothers' Dept. N. A. A. C. Supervisor Local Work. Mrs. J. P. Hamilton, Chairman. Mrs. Harvey Brown, Secretary. CLUB WOMEN TO OBSERVE MOTHERS' DAY. Mrs. Helena Downey, First President I. F. C. W. C., Will Speak. Mrs. Helena Downey of Ottumwa, first president of the Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, will deliver an address Sunday evening, May 14th, at St. Paul's A. M. E. e church, under the auspices of the Richard Allen Aid society and Mothers' Congress, in observance of Mothers' Day. Mrs. R. N. Hyde, chaplain of the State Federation, will deliver the invocation, while Mrs. J. B. Rush, chairman of the mothers department of the N. A. A. C., will give the scripture reading. Mrs. Frank P. Johnson, first president of the Mothers' Congress, and Mrs. Gus G. Nichols, state chairman of the music committee, will sing. Mrs. S. Joe Brown, state president, will preside. Other local members of clubs will have, part in the evening service, which will be in charge of club women. Every one is ocularly invited. EDITORIAL FROM THE ANAMOSA EUREKA, ANAMOSA, IOWA, MAY 4, 1916. With five primary candidates in the field for attorney general there is bound to be confusion among the voters in arriving at an intelligent choice. Without attempt at speaking in disparagement of any of the other candidates we feel like saying: a very kindly word for Mr. H. M. Havner of Marengo. He is仁暖ed in experience. Those who are close to him readily put forward the very best reasons why he should be favorably considered. He is conservative, dependable and fearless. Mr. Havner would make a very acceptable attorney general. Perhaps he might not be quite as active in gaining publicity as some of the other fellows, but he would be found at his job, and that counts in the long run. SAMPSON FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL For a number of years we have had the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with Mr. Sampson, the popular candidate for attorney general, and are glad to add a word of commendation for his strong integrity and high professional standing as a lawyer, By nature, surroundings and training his sympathies are with the masses and he is a true friend of the people, and interested in the welfare of each one of them. Conditions in Iowa at this time are such that the office of attorney general is almost as important as that of governor. The man best fitted for this high office is Mr. Sampson, who during the past five years has served as an able assistant to Attorney General Cosson. Because of the valuable training had under Mr. Cosson and on account of his intimate knowledge of the work of the office he is just the man to assume full charge of the affairs when Mr. Cosson retires. He is accounted one of the good lawyers of DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1916. the state, and is a man of high character and strong convictions; he has the courage to stand for the right as he sees it. His name, Sampson, implies strength, and he is proving the strong candidate, and will be a strong attorney general when elected. a true Christian until his end came. He was a deacon of the church and died on his duty. He was a member of Doric Masonic lodge, No. 30. ALPHEUS DIGGS. Mr. Alpheus Diggs died Monday school in that contered Drake unite therefrom in 1908, a representative from 1904 to the leg served with honor county. He is an THE BIRTH OF A NATION CASE. Although one of the longest and most bitterly contested trials ever conducted in our local municipal court, Judge J. E. Meyer of the criminal division yesterday morning discharged the manager of the Berchel theater, finding him not guilty of violating any ordinance in putting on the photo play "The Birth of a Nation." The trial lasted just one week and about fifteen of the leading white ministers, lawyers, business men and veterans of the civil war in this city were examined on each side; those produced by the prosecution testifying without exception that the exhibition was indecent, immoral, lewd and inflammatory and that it was calculated to create prejudice, hatred and antipathy for members of the Negro race and those produced by the defense on the other hand with the same unanimity testifying that the exhibition was none of these things. In addition to this the defense attacked the validity of the ordinance under which the prosecution was brought as being unconstitutional and void. The judge in his opinion uphold the validity of the ordinance, but said he was not satisfied that he could say beyond a reasonable doubt that the exhibition was indecent, lewd or immoral or that it was calculated to create a feeling of prejudice, hatred or antipathy against any particular race or class of individuals and therefore gave to the defendants the benefit of the doubt and found them not guilty, and while all of our friends in the community regret very much that the decision was against us on the merits of the exhibition, yet we are satisfied that the fact that three of the leading white ministers, four of the leading white lawyers and other prominent white business men, such as the president of the Ragsdale Printing Co., the private secretary to the governor and the associate editors of the Register and Tribune and the National Prohibitor, after having witnessed the exhibition took the witness stand and upheld every contention that had been urged by Attorneys Woodson and Brown and the other of Woodson and the Des Moines Branch proves conclusively that there must have been some just ground for the protest made by the national association for the Advancement of Colored People and cannot be other than helpful to our cause in this community, and while we not accustomed to rejoice at another's misfortune, it should be a source of some satisfaction for our friends to know that instead of increasing the receipts of the owners of the exhibition, as had been predicted, they themselves admit that they have not had but two or three full houses in almost two weeks of two performances each day and that the expense of defending against this litigation has cost them more than they have made on the engagement in this city. Too much cannot be said in commendation of the manly stand and able assistance rendered us by Corporation Counsel H. H. W. Byers and his capable assistant, Guy Miller, city solicitor, our attorneys, Woodson and Brown, and Hon. Casper Schenk, the latter three of whom gave their valuable services without money, though without price. OBITUARY--DR. WILSON DIES. Our citizens were shocked last Saturday to learn of the death of our esteemed physician, Dr. C. M. Wilson, who died at the Methodist hospital Saturday morning, after only a short illness. He was a very quiet, affable man, active in all things for the betterment of his race. He was born about 42 years ago in Fayette, Holmes county, Mississippi and educated in the A. and M. college at Allcorn, Miss. He took one year at Maharrah Medical college at Nashville and two years at Flint Medical school, New Orleans, La., graduating in 1905. He was married in June, 1906, and began the practice of medicine in Little Rock, Ark. He moved to Oklahoma at Hennessey. From there he came to Des Moines in 1913, where he settled in East Des Moines, and has practiced ever since. He was a member of Independent lodge of K. of P., an active member of Maple Street Baptist church and belonged to social societies and clubs. He was a man that always stood for the right. He leaves a loving an devedoted wife, a little darling girl of 9 years, a brother and sister of Keokun, who came to attend the funeral, and a host of friends to mourn his loss. The funeral was held from the Maple Street Baptist church, under the auspices of the K. of P. lodge, and Rev. S. Bates, assisted by Revs. Griffiths, Alexander, Lee and Pearl, conducted the funeral. The body was taken to Keokun for its final resting place. PETTIGREW. Mr. Chas. Pettigrew was born in Missouri about 64 years ago and died in Des Moines on May 7, 1916. He has been married for thirty years and he joined church twenty-seven years ago. He leaves a devoted wife and three children, four nephews, mother-in-law and the church to mourn his demise. He was a true Christian until his end came. He was a deacon of the church and died on his duty. He was a member of Doric Masonic lodge, No. 30. ALPHEUS DIGGS Mr. Alpheus Diggs died Monday evening, May 8th. He was born in Colfax, Iowa, eighteen years, eleven months and eight days ago. He was a hard working young man. He leaves to mourn his loss a mother, a grandmother, a loving wife and a dear little baby and one brother and a host of relatives. The funeral was conducted at the Jones & Samuels undertakin gparlors by Rev. W. L. Lee. Two representatives for Polk county will be nominated at the primary June 5th. John F. Page is a candidate. He was raised on an Iowa farm. Is a college graduate of collegiate and law courses. Has practiced law six years and has lived in Des Moines sixteen years. He is a son of Franklin Page, a soldier of Company D, 15th Illinois Vol. Inf., who served under Grant and was injured at the eBattle of Shiloh. Mr. Page favors good roads for Iowa, home rule for cities, better schools, protection for life and health of workmen and conservative expenditure of taxes collected. Judge DeGraff of the district court says of him: "Have known him many years; as a teacher, lawyer and manager he has achieved success; as a citizen he is honest and upright and his character is unimpeachable. He is a property owner and taxpayer. GRAY FOR SHERIFF. The name of Mr. J. F. Gray will be on the republican ticket as a candidate for sheriff at the coming primaries in June. Mr. Gray was born in Indiana in 1854, came to Iowa in 1800 and to Polk county seventeen years ago, where he worked as a carpenter, and has followed his trade until now. He is a member of the carpenters union, an active Christian worker, a member of the University Place Christian church. Also a member of the Knights of Pythias and Sons of Veterans camp. Mr. Gray is an honest, hard working, industrious man, well qualified by age and experience to make a splendid sheriff. He is a true and tried friend of the colored race and if elected will give all classes equal justice. For, all who know him knows him to be honest and upright. He has never asked for or held a political office before, although an active republican worker for many years. BROWN FGR STATE TREASURER The name of Hon. W. C. Brown, the present state treasurer, will be on the republican ticket as a candidate for nomination. Mr. Brown is from Clarion, Weight county, Iowa. He was born in New York in 1859, graduating from the public school at Ogdensburg, N. Y., and then entered the road service. Game to Iowa at an early railroad. In 1903 he was elected sheriff of Wright county, serving five years. He was connected with the State Fair association for fifteen years. Was elected member of the house of representatives in 1910 and first elected state treasurer in 1912. He has been an active republican worker all of his life and has made an efficient record as state treasurer. His many friends throughout the state are working hard for his re-election and his name will be seen on the republican ticket, subject to the primaries in June. BRAMMER FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY Geo. E. Brammer, one of our active young republican workers, is a candidate for county attorney, subject to the primaries in June. Mr. Brammer was born in Carroll county in 1886. Graduated from the Deadhigh high I'm For H. M. HAVNER For Attorney General ARE YOU? Republican Primaries, June 5th. school in that county, and then entered Drake university, graduating therefrom in 1908. He was elected as a representative from Polk county in 1904 to the legislature, which he served with honor and credit to the county. He is an active member of the Christian church, superintendent of the Sunday school and is associated with various other societies. He is making his candidacy for the office upon his record as a member of the legislature and his many friends urge you to give him your support next June at the primaries. HENRY FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY The above cut is that of Ward C. Henry, the first assistant county attorney, who is a candidate for county attorney to succeed George Wilson, the present incumbent, who is not a candidate for said office. Mr. Henry is one of our Polk county boys, having been born in Polk county in 1883. Attended public schools and also high school. Later he entered the State university at Iowa City, graduating in 1902. He then entered Drake university law school, from which he graduated in 1906. Admitted to practice and has been practicing law in partnership with his father, Geo. F. Henry, ever since. Mr. Henry is an active republican worker and has never before asked or held a political office, and his many friends feel as though he is entitled to this office, by virtue of his experience, qualification and by being the present assistant county attorney. Remember his name on the 5th of June. REYNOLDIS FOR SUPERVISOR Our good friend Mr. H. Reynolds is a candidate for supervisor of Polk county. Representing West Des Moines district, subject to republican primaries in June, Mr. Reynolds was born on a farm in Iowa in 1856, came to Polk county in 1881, where he entered the lumber business and has been connected with the lumber company most all of the time. At present he is the manager of the Jewett Lumber company. He is an active republican, and a member of the University church, and stands for all that is honest, upright and high ideals of life. He is no doubt a true friend of the colored race and all struggling humanity. If elected he will give all the people equal justice in his department. He solicits your vote and support. SENATOR THOMAS FOR STATE TREASURER Abraham Lincoln, the great emancator of the colored race, in his early manhood made a trip down the Mississippi to New Orleans in a flat boat. While there he witnessed the sale from an auction block of a colored slave, a mother separated from her child. His great human heart revolted at the inhuman sight and he then and there made a vow to Heaven that if he ever was given an opportunity to hit the institution of human slavery he would hit it hard. This opportunity came when he signed the emancipation proclamation that gave freedom to a race in the great American republic. Senator Thomas, candidate for the republican nomination for state treasurer, was reared a poor boy on an Iowa farm and began life ther as a wage earner at 20 years of age at the low wage of 55 cents a day. An old cobbler trusted him for a pair of half soles on his well worn shoes before State Capitol Blvd. Historical Room he could begin the job. He has tasted poverty and hard work on the ground floor and in his early struggles the purpose was burned into his life that if ever the opportunity came to him to help make the path easier and brighter for the children of toil who were traveling over the same road he came over that, God helping him, he would try to do that thing. His opportunity came, too, when he was elected to the senate of Iowa four years ago. He has been a consistent friend of the colored race and, as a member of the general assembly, one of the best friends of labor that has ever held a seat in the legislature of Iowa. He was the author and ably championed the bill to fix the minimum wage and the maximum hour to protect women and minors in certain lines of employment where they are notoriously underpaid and overworked. Of the blue sky law for teachers. Of the blue sky law to protect worthless stocks and millions, the loss of which amounts to millions of dollars annually and falls mostly upon the people of moderate means. He supported the compensation law and every measure that had for its object improved conditions for labor. It is a record that ought to secure the support of every colored voter. WHY THE NEGRO WOMAN SHOULD VOTE. By Mrs. G. L. Johnson, Des Moines. The question has been asked me, over and over again, "Why does the Negro woman want to vote?" If the universal cry was "Votes for white women, we would say, sure enough, that slavery was at our back door, waiting for a chance to sneak in. But, on the other hand, they are saying, "We women want the vote," "we will work together to get it," "we must have it," "it will help both of our conditions." The Negro race, ever since they have existed, have always been classed as an interior race—for one reason, that our foreparents were once slaves—that did nothing but till the soil and serve their masters and go and come at their master's bldings. Other races thought it, and they acted it, so that our parents were made to be free. When the emancipation issue was at stake, it was by the strong efforts of a loyal few white women of the north, backed by the emancipator, that our forefathers and mothers were made free. Then our mothers worked hard both night and day, struggling through life, with the determination to educate you and me. The results have been most wonderful, as we have lawyers, doctors, merchants, pharmacists, bankers—in fact all professions that other races enjoy, we have them also. Why is it that there are three girls to every boy that graduates. Doesn't it show that women are more progressive, and that women are not contented with a few things, and her mind seems to crave a broader scope of life than the man? We have had for years a woman president of a bank in Richmond, Va., who is praised very highly for her ability and progressive spirit. We as a race have been made to feel that this is our country, because we have served it—and served it well—and we have a right to partake of all things that have a tendency to develop our intellect and become more citizenized. You take the foreigner, he will come to this country, and after a certain number of years he becomes Americanized—that means that he has made up in his mind that he will stand by our president, and protect our flag. Surely we feel more obligated to do the same thing, since we were bred and born in America. Now after the civil war there were certain restrictions on the Negro voter, that is, he had to have a certain amount of education before he could be a voting citizen. Well, you find in the south today that education is not the thing that holds the Negro back, but it is prejudice, and there's such a foothold on it until it will take years to destroy. The reason the southern states Subscribe for and read your own neighbor's or quit going to the public library to read it. city ter W ilie an we he al u or to Pay Boost and read the Bystander Dont borrow or read your neighbors, help make this a great paper Price Five Cents GRIFFIN FOR SHERIFF. The above cut is a true likeness of John F. Griffin, the present sheriff, who is a candidate for renomination. Mr. Griffin is one of our Polk county boys and has been active in the republican party for many years. He has made a splendid sheriff, giving all classes a fair treatment, and his many friends feel that it is no more than right that he should be renominated again, as complimentary for his splendid services thus rendered. could not come to a national settlement on the question of suffrage was because they knew that if they asked for "woman suffrage," that would include the Negro woman also—that the voting white southerner did not want, so you will find that the states that are most prejudiced are Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama and Florida—and all of the outerm states, because they haven't decided how they could manage to grant the white woman the vote and exclude the Negro woman at the same time. Now we, "A Des Moines for instin- ance, in a free for all state, our race is segregated in all social lines of amusement—but the Iowa state laws are not the back of it; well, what is the back of it? The prejudiced southerner, who has come here and poisoned the good feelings of the opposite race with the Negro race. We women are handicapped. We have no vote. But we are asked by the good white women to lend them a hand to secure a vote for all women. Are our men so blind that they can't see how the suffrage bill can help us, more than any other so-called free woman on the globe. Just suppose now iw "The Birth of a action" would have shown here next year, about this time, and the legislature, meeting here this fall, and the women would get the vote on June 5 this year, what do you think would become of the play? I can tell you, with the 7,000 white club women of this city, together with our club women, and the voting males that are against it now, there would be no chance other than defeat, and it would not even enter the state. That is the way to do business. The men are dependent on our women and they can't deny it. For instance, look how quick the men appealed to the federated club women of this city in the prevention of the play I've just mentioned. The women in a body had a session with the council and made good, tring appeals against the play. Finally the councilmen and mayor just hooted them off by saying, "Oh, well, we can do as we please about this play; the women have no vote, they can't hurt us anyway. But yet our men can't see that. We want the men to understand that we don't want the vote to take full charge of the government, but we want to help them. It isn't because they don't mean well, but there are things that are overlooked by men that women could be wide-awake to, if only given a chance. A certain senator from Mississippi said on one occasion that "Why, the women don't need the vote, for this reason, that they could generally influence their husbands to vote the way they wanted them to anyway," but this statement has been proven false here in this state. How is it when the man doesn't bother himself about voting at all? Then there is not a single vote cast in that family. SUBLIME COURAGE AS IT IS SEEN IN THE HOSPITALS BEHIND VERDUN Unconquerable Spirit of the French Soldier Is Manifested at Receiving Stations, Where Stir of Battle and Incentive to Brave Deeds Are Lacking—Day With Wounded Described in Graphic Letter From Noted Writer. Paris.—The unconquerable spirit of the French soldier, as manifested in the field hospital to which the American ambulance among others hurry the seriously wounded from the relief stations in the immediate rear of the fighting lines at Verdun, is told in graphic fashion by a noted French writer, A. Vollis, as a result of a trip which he permitted to make in the fifth week of the great battle. "On the previous day," he writes, "the great guns had been roaring unceasingly, with a hoarse, thunderous noise and with formidable explosions of fury which made the windows rattle and caused the last of the snow to fall from the roofs. On this morning the silence is almost complete. my sergeants, my lieutenants, my or derly—and he was such a good boy but the others kept on running for ward. It was magnificent. And then this wretched piece of shell caught me in the ribs, and how those boys looked after me. They carried me in an over cott, and when a shell exploded they lay down on me, they actually covered me with mud and debris. And to think that I left them out there all alone, my chasseurs, my boys'! "My boys," sounded strange from so young an officer. "Yes, madame, I promise you I am going to be calm. I have now plenty of time. What, help me to undress. Ah, no, thanks; not that." "Well," said the nurse with a sigh "It is a sign that the infantry is attacking," says the sergeant in charge of supplies, who is something of a strategist. "We are soon going to be busy." "Very soon the dull roll of the ambulances is heard. It can be recognized among the bounding and tearing noises of the ordinary wagons. "The bell rings three times, which means that there are three wounded men, and the litterers are hurriedly brought out into the yard. "The stretcher is always the cause of a special touch of emotion. Will they be able to save the wounded man? Is it life or is it death?" Glad to Be Alive. "In the case of the two first comers there is nothing serious to fear. They are two subileutenants, two boys, and they have become acquainted on the way. Although their looks are still full of astonished stupefaction, they try to laugh, happy at having fought well and at being alive, even merely alive, although a thigh has been broken and a lung pierced. One of them has his helmet tightly pressed on his breast. "No, don't take it away; don't take it away, he pleads. 'I shall take it to bed with me; it is my friend, my savior,' and he points to an enormous slash in the blue steel. 'To think that I came off so easy! With only a damaged leg.' "The other amies gently as he drew her美ily. He is blind, with a light down on his cheeks and his eyes are blue, and his whole appearance boyish. "'Leutenant,' says the attendant who is emptying his pockets, 'you have a military card and letters which are not in your name.' "The young man raises his eyebrows. "Oh, yes, I remember," he says suddenly. "I had just hit him, and they placed me against the bank; I was nearly frozen and my teeth were chattering. In the neighborhood a company was about to start to the attack. Then one of the soldiers, an old fellow with a big mustache and kindly eyes, leaned over me and said, "You are cool, poor boy." He took off his coat and threw it over me, and then I saw him running in his shirt sleeves to catch up with the others." "Here is a photograph of his wife and children, said the attendant, 'and also his purse." "It was a worn leather purse, with a gold piece, a few cents, and three cigarettes in it, the entire fortune of the polite." "It was a good fellow," sighs the little leutenant. "I don't know him and it would not be easy to find him now; it will be a case for the special bureau." "A major and a captain," announces an ambulance driver. "The major's gray head shakes with the movement of the carriers. His eyelids are like dark cavities in a face frightfully discolored. His purple lips continuously murmur words in a spasmodic and touching way: 'Quick-Telphone—They are holding—More munitions—Ah, the fine boys!—They have got there—Fine!'" "Someone raises the covering, and from the neck to the feet the great body of the major is revealed wound up in reddened bandages, like a mummy in rusted stains. At the first relief post they had not spared their pains in dressing his wounds. "Are you suffering, major?" he is asked. "His eyelids slowly uncover the already dimmed pupils. His distant look turns to the crook face of the attendant and the white cap of the nurse, as soon as with a peculiar accent of gentleness and exhaustion, he says: 'No my boy; no, my little girl.'" "His eyelids drop suddenly, closed forever." "Madame," an attendant says to the chief nurse, "please tell the captain that he is not reasonable. He wants to get into bed by himself, and he has a fragment of shell in his side." "The captain is a young officer of chasseurs, slender, vigorous, with his cap on his car. Seated on the stretcher, he is making efforts to rise, and a little grimace twists his mouth." "Madame," he says, "I present my compliments. I don't want to be carried. I am not a little girl. What would my chasseurs say? Ah, madame, the fine boys, the fine boys! If you had seen them climb out of the trenches to attack the food of Germans, and they fell; I saw them fall; Prisoner, Tells Judge in California Why He Stole Drug From a Hospital. Los Angeles—How and why he invaded the county hospital, stole a can of other, a package of lodoform and a roll of bandages, told by H. L. McCusin in Judge O'Neill's court, was declared the court's court, the similar statement ever made before him. my sergeants, my lieutenants, my orderly—and he was such a good boy; but the others kept on running forward. It was magnificent. And then this wretched piece of shell caught me in the ribs, and how those boys looked after me. They carried me in an overcoat, and when a shell exploded they lay down on me, they actually covered me with their bodies. And to think that I left them out there all alone, my chasseurs, my boys! "My boys," sounded strange from so young an officer. "Yes, madame, I promise you I am going to be calm. I have now plenty of that. What, help me to undress? Ah, no, that means I have a sigh, that means 104 degrees of fever this evening. "Gradually the beds are filled. Each little room has its share of suffering—of silent suffering. The seriously wounded do not complain much. "The chief surgeon and his assist ants come along. He has just left the operating room; his linen coat is stained with blood and he holds his hands, covered with rubber gloves, high in the air. Under his white cap his face, crossed by a thin mustache, appears thin and hollow, with the strained, sharp expression evoked by a day of work at high pressure. The surgeon makes a brief examination and pronounces a few brief words No time to lose, for there will be operations all night long. The Battle With Death. "Send this one to the operating room at once. Yes, captain; it will be a quick affair. Send that one next. Give him 500 centitres of serum in the meantime. Give that other one camphorated oil, maximum dose." "It is the bitter, determined struggle against death, which is eagerly on the watch. "There is a more lengthy delay at the bed of a lieutenant who has just been brought in. His stiff hair is curly and his face is like a sculpture in clear bronze. His eyes are of a bright, clear color and they look sharply at the faces that bend over him. "All right!" says the surgeon at last, in a gentle voice. His eyes wandered to the bed table and he observed an open letter in a graceful feminine handwriting, on which the three words "I love you!" stand out sharply. He covered up the wounded officer and tucked in the covering around him quite tenderly. "We shall not touch you tonight, he adds. 'You are not suffering too much? Good, you will have a sedative. Rest well and good night.' "As the surgeon leaves the room he makes a gesture across his abdomen from one side to the other and whispers: 'He is lost; cut right across. He has no pulse and he will not live till morning. And what a magnificent boy; such courage and such a brave look. It dreadful to feel that one can do nothing.' "Madame, the lieutenant with the CHAMPION OF THE BIRDS PETER H. HARRIS T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies, with headquarters in New York, has put bird protection in America on a practical basis. Appointed financial agent for the association upon its formation seven years ago, he raised funds for carrying on the work effectively and has since been instrumental in placing bird-protecting laws on the statute books of a majority of the states, besides organizing bird-study classes among the school children of the country. McCaslin described himself as "an ether souse" and pleaded guilty to the larceny charge. According to his story, his indulgence in the soporific dates back two years. He said: "One night I started to ride to work at Bakerfield on a motorcycle and on the way was struck by a car. They took me to a hospital to operate on my heart, the first time in my life I smelled her breath. I finest experience I ever had. Since then I have persuaded six more doctors to operate on me. Then I found curly hair wishes to speak to you, says an attendant. The nurse returns to the room on the tips of her toes. "Madame, the lieutenant says calmly, I ask for you because I am lost." The Great Sacrifice. "You lost! Why talk such foolishness?" "Thanks, madame, but it is useless to deceive me. I am lost; I feel it, and I know it. Oh, I am not complaining; so many of my comrades are gone. It was my turn; that’s all. Besides, I have the immense joy of knowing that I die for something. They will not get to Verdun and they are wearing out. Only (as) he turned to watch windows, I would have liked to see the sun again. Madame, I have some letters, here and a photograph. Will you do me the favor to burn them?" "The bronzeed hand reaches out and seizes the papers on the table and presses them over his breast, which rises in a sigh. For a brief moment his fingers tremble and his mouth contracts. Then he holds out the papers. "Take them. Thanks." "He is silent. His sacrifice has been consummated. Tears fall from the nurse's eyes on her white bodice and on the love letters, which she presses tight. "My mother, begins the lieutenant again. "Do you wish to dictate a letter for her? "There is a pause. 'No; I am not strong enough. You will tell her. You will know best how to tell her.'" "His eyes close, and then all at once they open again. "My notebook. All my war life is inscribed in it, day by day. I have entered the date of my wound. When all is over, will you please add the day and the hour." "The nurse nods her head affirmatively. "Thanks once more. madame; you are kind. You must not cry. Go back to the others, who need you more. Good-night, madame." "This course has not as as...hus the fever and intoxication of battle, the call of duty or the example of a superior, courage naked and sublime, the courage on the hospital bed." Reminiscences of the Day. "The wounded continued to arrive. There are hardly any beds unoccupied. Some young officers who can be moved—broken arms, bullet in the shoulder and general wounds—will be sent to the rear in the evening. They are seated around a fire in their muddy uniforms, which are torn and stained with blood, and they chat in low tones, for there are three comrades in bed near them. They are talking of the recent fighting and their movements are feverish and their eyes shine. "How funny you looked, old man," says one to another, 'as you ran forward, with your hair in the wind and a bagful of grenades on your stomach like an opossum." "Did you see Lieutenant X—? After the first attack he waved his yellow gloves and said in that miring voice of his: "Is not this shelling ridiculous? No poor Boches have no sense of art." "All the same, with his gloves and his funny voice, X— is more reckless than all of us together." "Oh, for reckless bravery—" "Another stretcher shakes the stairs. At the top there is a pause. Then a gentle voice is heard: "Madame, it would be awfully good of you if you could find a little aeu de colgne for me. A few drops would do. I am really ashamed to be brought into your presence in such a dreadfully unclean condition." The tones are soft and clear and just a trifle affected. No Sympathy Desired. The three officers rise and dash forward. "Why, it is X—!" "Here I am," he replied. "A little late, but I was occupied." "Where are you wounded?" The young man, very pale, lifts the covering and raises with an effort the stump of an arm. "You have lost an arm? Already amputated!" "Yes, it was a very ugly bruised mess and disgusted me, so we had it off." "Poor old chap!" "Nonsense. With a nice little artificial hand with a glove over it, no one will tell the difference. Besides, you cleaner for some purposes. You fellows used to make fun of my gloves. I was just-practicing." "X——, you are wonderful. And how things going when you loft the front?" "Fine, marvelously. The Boches were falling like tenpins. And not an inch did they gain, my boy, not a single inch." COCONUT IS SENT BY MAIL Address Burned on Oval Sent From Hawaii Hawaii to Texas to be Covered Outer Covering Huntington Park, Cal.—The queenest piece of mail matter in local post-office history arrived recently addressed to Dr. Sigmund Frey, head of the Jewish Orphan's home. A coconut from Hawaii was delivered to him. The nut was still within its original fibrous covering and the address had been burned into the smooth outer surface with a burning needle. Sixty cents' worth of stamps were necessary for postage, stuck on the nut itself. I could buy the drug. "Lately I have been living in Pomona. On orange day I brought some of the fruit from Pomona to the county hospital, where I met some of the boys who were there when I was a patient. I got a chance to get a big can and some things for my leg. Then I was arrested." Judge White sentenced McCaslin to 90 days in jail. Every day the River Thames scoops 1,600 tons of earth from its banks. THE BYSTANDER NOVEL FIRE ESCAPE Modified Parachute Is Latest Safely Device. intended for Use of Those Residing in Top Stories of Hotels or Other High Buildings—Can Be Carried in Valise. Like the man who goes down to the sea, the fellow who contemplates spending the night, in the upper stories of a skyscraper hotel takes his life preserver with him, as does also the man who is booked for a trip aloft in an airplane. Such a life-saving apparatus has been recently patented, consisting of a modification of the parachute adopted for the purpose. The principal feature of the apparatus is a bag having a spring catch at the apex and the means of securing one's self to it by a strap to be passed around the waist. The bottom of the bag is supplied with a spiral spring secured around its marginal edge, so that when the opportunity is offered the bag is automatically spread out and carries its burden gently to the ground. It folds so compactly that it may be carried in a bundle outside of one's travelling bag, often when the occasion arises and when the occasion arises it is simply necessary to secure the spring to come overhead object to assist in its expansion at the proper Sink Gently to the Ground. time, and after passing the strap around the waist the fire-imprisoned person jumps from the window and is carried nicely to the ground. Activities of Women. Nearly 100 women are now working as hostlers in the British horse depots. Women will have 91 electoral votes at the coming presidential election. Mrs. James A. Orne, captain of the schooner Hazel Dell, is known as the original sea suffragist. Miss Marion Mitchell of Philadelphia has been chosen as one of the prettiest girls at Wellesley college. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, head of the National Association of American Woman Suffrage, was once a new student at Wellesley and received her training in San Francisco. Representatives of the most important woman's colleges in the United States have formed an interscholastic council, the object of which is to promote athletics among the female students of the various colleges. Held for Libeling Washington. George Washington may be regarded as the Father of all Americans, a Tacoma (Wash.) judge ruled recently when he said that the information against Paul R. Haffer might stand and that the case should go to trial. Haffer is charged by Col. A. E. Joeb with having libeled George Washington when he wrote a letter to a newspaper in which he said that the first president was an explorer of slaves and used profanity and liquor. Joeb forced the case through patriotic motives. Haffer's attorney contended that it was no more libelous to call Washington a tipher than it was for persons to speak harshly to Adam for the indiscretion he and Eve committed in the Garden of Eden—Seattle Post-intelligence. Uncle Joe's Cigar Secret. "Here's a secret that it took me years to learn," said Uncle Jee Cannon, who, as nearly everyone knows, is an inveterate smoker. "If you want to get the most out of a cigar light the 'wrong end.' Any man who smokes cigars to any great extent will tell you that he gets more real enjoyment out of the last inch of his cigar. Now, my plan is to light the last half first and get to the best part of the smoke as soon as you can. Of course, you have to snip off the end that is supposed to go in your mouth before you can light the cigar, but if you try my plan you won't ever go back to the old-fashioned way unless I'm badly mistaken." Wise Mo. "Why," asked a Missouri paper, "does Missouri stand at the head in raising mules?" "Because," says another paper, "that is the only safe place to stand."—Christian Register. At the Dinner "So Mr. Smithks decided not to start on his ocean trip yet." He " didn't start but just look at him, he looks weary, we have, for he's half sea over already." A Note of Apprehension. A Note of Apprehension. "Do you think your boy Josh will be satisfied to stay on the farm?" "Mebbe it be just as well if he isn't," commented Farmer Cortnossel. "The way he wants to run the place, if he is satisfied nobody else can be halfway comfortable." Modern Improvements "As this is a model prison, I suppose you separate your intellectual prisoners from the common herd?" "Certainly, madam; we put them is the brain cells." New Yorker's Invention of Great Importance. By Means of Glass Prisms Rays Are Scattered in Every Direction—Believed to Solve Problem Long Puzzle to Scientists. A patent has just been issued to Peter Cooper Hewitt of New York for a globe for electric lights, which is an application of mathematically exact calculations of the reflecting and refracting powers of glass prisms. The new globe is of spherical glass, with its outer surface formed into a Diagram of the New Cooper Hewitt Globe. proximately parallel prismatic ridges, the outer angles of these being of 32 degrees and 24 minutes for glass having an index of refraction at one and fifty-two one-hundredths. In such prisms all rays falling upon their inner surface from the interior of the globe will be reflected inwardly at least once and none more than twice before they are emitted. In Mr. Hewitt's patent the source of light is placed below the center of the globe, to which lines bisecting the outer angles of the prisma would converge. The effect of this double reflection and refraction is to scatter the rays of light in every direction. The scattering is shown in the accompanying diagram, in which two sources of light, 13 and 14, are indicated, and the course of the rays from each (13a, 13b, and 14a, 14b respectively) can be followed by the dotted and broken lines. Grade of Commodore. The reasons for the abolition of the grade of commodore in the navy are also good reasons why this rank should not be revived, as is proposed in the new naval personnel bill. Commodores are flag officers, who may command a flotilla, a division or even a whole squadron. Admiral Dewey was a commodore. In no foreign navy, however, is there a grade intermediate between that of captain and rear admiral; so when an American squadron happened to be in company with a foreign squadron or even smaller fleet division, whether in home waters or abroad, the commander of the latter force, being a rear admiral, would outrank the American commander, though the latter might be many years his senior in years and experience and his superior in ability. To equalize conditions we abolished all flag officers below the grade of rear admiral; and in order to keep them equal we should abstain from restoring the abandoned grade—Philadelphia Record. "Burglar" in the House While the Noblesville council was in session the other night Floyd Christian, city attorney, was called to the telephone. "Hurry up to your office; get your gun and then run home" said Mrs. Christian rather impatient. "There is a man in the house. I heard him impatient. Christian rushed back into the council chamber and directed Chief of Police Hill and two officers to go to his home. "If there is a man in the house, I would rather for you to make the trip," he whispered to Hill. The three officers ran all the way to the Christian home and made a thorough investigation. They arrived at the conclusion that the disturbance had been caused by an upstairs window through the opening and blew one of the doors shut, the noise being heard in all parts of the house.—Indianapolis News. Woman Invents Clever Mail Box Woman Invents Clever Mail Box. Mrs. F. L. Mathews of Gadsen, Ala., has invented a mail receiving apparatus adapted to the railway mail service. It is so constructed that when a pouch of mail is thrown from a mail car while under way the pouch falls into an iron box, which is locked automatically. An invention along this line is now being tried out in Illinois, but is designed to take care of a large quantity of mail. A second track is constructed along the railroad for a few yards and when the mail car passes it picks up and carries along for a short distance a small car onto which mail is automatically thrown by machinery, while at the same time mail outgoing is gathered up from the car. Poor Deal When a New York husband and wife separated they agreed that, in the division of their belongings, he was to have the pet dog, but the wife refused to surrender the pup, so the husband has begun suit for $5,000 damages. This is a case in which court testimony would be cruel to separate either husband or wife from the dog—Washington Herald. China Industry Revived Ever since the year 1396 all the fine porcelain used in China's royal palaces has come from the King Teh Cheng factory. The factory was partly destroyed, and many of its choice designs were divided among certain leading revolutionists. Recently, the ancient factory has received a grant of $20,000 and will again produce the rare and beautiful porcelain for which it is noted. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Throughout the various departments of the Birmingham (Ala.) industrial high school a practical spirit is constantly seen. In the sowing room girls are taught to sew all of the ordinary thin things which must be used in every home. The costumes for our annual musicales are always made here, and no girl can graduate until she makes her entire outfit the dresses of which must come within the limit of $1. That this can be done and the result be pleasing alike to eye and purse you can easily judge by looking at the dresses of the girls who sit upon this platform. Our emergency room is an instance of all working together. Several pieces of furniture, including one of the beds, was made in the carpentry department. The sewing room furnished the quilts, the art department made the placards over the door and the Mothers' Improvement association furnished the medicines to go into our school-made chest. Our superintendent once made the remark that our school was the least expensive one to the city in the system. Instead of having someone do things for us, the only expense incurred is for materials, as we do the work ourselves. The only outsider who has done any work at our school for over three years was a plumber, and if our city did not have such funny plumbing rules our boys would have done that work. When books fall to pieces, as these cheaply bound editions are sure to do, the bookbinding department resews and binds them, thereby often making them more durable than at first. These are then put into bookcases made by the boys, for our office counting, and that is placed bought furniture, and that is the principal's desk. Not satisfied with furniture making, this year our boys went a step further and built a sanitary drinking fountain so that the health of all the children can now be safeguarded by drinking from a bubbling stream. In our cooking department girls are taught to practice economy in the most-needed place of all—the kitchen. The dining room contains an extension table, buffet and chairs, all of school manufacture. The art department stenciled the curtains which hang at the windows. Our room lunch is offering a most excellent opportunity for a development of business thrift. Ten girls of the senior class were chosen last March to work in pairs and serve one day in each week. They were given the same amount of money as a beginning and told to plan their own means and keep their own accounts. At the close of the semester the results were as follows: Team 1 has made $6.15; team 2, $6.08; team 3, $9.30; team 4, $7.61; team 5, $7.62. During the term two baseball teams have been entertained at our building. The emergency room was turned into a dormitory and meals were served at the dining room to the complete satisfaction of all concerned. Danger to four hundred American Mormon colonists at Colonia Dublan was removed by the arrival of a portion of Colonel Dodd's cavalry column there. Dublan is south of Casas Grandes. The Tenth cavalry, Negroes, reported to have been the first to enter Mexico, south of Hatchita, early Thursday, composed the Dublan relief party. The march of Colonel Dodd's forces from Hatchita to Casas Grandes, a dis Racial feeling emphasized by color persists in spite of broader and more humanizing Influences. Gradually, however, the line of demarcation is being expunged and the fellowship of intellect and spirit is being recognized as supreme. A notable instance occurred the other day in the New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. It followed a discussion as to whether a Negro clergyman should be considered eligible for election to the bishopric. Many white members of the conference took part in the debate, and it was evident from their speeches that sympathies were widening and prejudices yielding ground. Then Rev. W. H. Brooks, a negro pastor, closed the discussion in a plea of remarkable eloquence. The vote was taken. It was marked by 15 in favor of wiping out the color line. The colored Methodists have their own denominational bodies, in which all ecclesiastical offices are filled by them. The policy hitherto has been to encourage this religious segregation, but the New York conference leads the way in a demonstration that Interest in the Booker T. W. Washington memorial is increasing, says the Indianapolis News. The colored people here were asked to take some share in providing the $2,000,000 endowment needed for the maintenance and development of Tuskegee Institute. A vigorous campaign was waged under the direction of Thomas E. Taylor. The city of Jacksonville, Ill., was named for a prominent colored preacher, and is perhaps the largest community in the country named for a Negro. The meat of the possum and the hardshell crab may be improved by keeping them in captivity for a sufficient period, in which their feeding is under restriction, which precludes the natural dietary carelessness of the species. Processes have been perfected whereby mattings, binder twine and other coarse textiles are being made of the leaf fiber of the scrub palmetto of the palm tree, which is used fusely in several of the Southern states. tance of slightly over one hundred miles, is said by General Funston to be one of the finest marching records held in American army history. Funston stated that smaller bodies of picked men had made marches of 70 miles in 24 hours, but that for a large force to maintain an average speed of 50 miles a day in rough, desert country is most remarkable. Led by Mormons who had left their families in Dublan, Dodd's horsemen were in the saddle almost continuously for 60 hours. Spurred on by reports that the colonists were in danger of massacre by Villistas, the troopers covered 100 miles of the most difficult desert country in Chihuahua on forced marches that will go down in the annals of army history. The column took advantage of the knowledge of the Mormon scouts, who knew every water hole, trail and road along the route. --- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with headquarters in New York, has addressed to the senate and house committees on military affairs an urgent plea that in the formation of additional regiments for the army under the pending army bills two new regiments of infantry and two regiments of artillery be recruited from the colored men of the country. Under existing law there are two colored cavalry regiments and two of infantry. The president of the association is Moorfield Storey of Boston and the treasurer is Oswald Garrison Villard of New York. Among the vice presidents is Archibald H. Grimke of New York. In its letter to the committees the association points out that the adjutant general of the army has stated he doubted if 175,000 regulars could be recruited in the United States. "There is no difficulty in recruiting colored regiments," says the letter. It discusses the fine record made by the colored soldiers of the army since the days of the Civil war, and states that there have been fewer desertions from the colored regiments than from the white. The colored soldiers are much better fitted for service in the tropics than the white, the records have proved, the letter asserts. In conclusion, says: When ten regiments and several units of artillery were added to the army in 1901, the colored citizens of America were deeply offended that Secretary Root failed to recommend the establishment of any colored regiment. "Now that the question is before congress again, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urges that the right of these 10,000,000 citizens to participate to the full in every phase of our national life be recognized by designating two of the artillery regiments and two of infantry, of those about to be created by congress, as open for enlistment to colored Americans. "If hyphenated citizenship is a weakness of the body politic, why insist that ten million men and women must remain Afro-Americans unto the fourth and fifth generations?" To lessen the amount of metal used in fire escapes a Hungarian living in Canada has patented one the chief feature of which is a basket to be lowered by ropes from a bracket fastened to a window frame. the Christian spirit outlives race prejudice. In speaking on "Patriotism, the Highest Ciciv Virus," at the annual observance of "patriotic night" by Bethel Literary and Historical association at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, Washington, Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota lauded the colored race, saying that "none had been more faithful nor more loyal to the flag than those of the colored race in the remarkable rise of the United States in the galaxy of nations of the world through the universal spirit of patriotism among her faithful sons and daughters." Other speakers were Representative Martin B. M., Madden, Mrs. Isabelle Worrell Ball, Mrs. Mary Faunce, Fatha, patriotic instructor of the department of Leut. Arthur C. Newman, D. C. N. G. Julia Hamilton, Rt. Rev. L. J. Kispeau, son of the diocese; Rev. C. H. Stephau and M. A. D. Madre, president of the organization. Burma has 4,730,810 oxen, 178,690 goats and 1,080,892 buffaloes. In a modern battle 100,000 men may be killed and wounded, but the tubercle bacillus slaughters 147,600 of our citizens yearly, and 1,500,000 remain infected, the greater number of which will die of tuberculosis. A church, said to be the smallest in America, was recently dedicated in Manchester, N. H. The main auditorium is 18 by 28 feet, with seats for about 70 persons. In a tiny gallery are seats for 28. There is also a vestry and a basement. So many thousands of new hands have poured into Sheffield, England, since the outbreak of war started a boom in the munition and steel factories there, that the housing problem has become acute, some cases existing where a two-family house is occupied by four families, each of which takes in lodgers. The annual production of sulphur in the United States has increased from a few more than 3,000 tons to more than 230,000 tons in the last dozen years. THE KITCHEN CABINET And the little god of love turn the split? Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endear. DAINTY MEALS FOR SMALL FAMILY. As we all learn from sad experience, roasts are not satisfactory bought in small quantities and no family enjoys beef, mutton or chicken three or four days in succession; neither does the frugal housewife wish to waste good food. To make a successful caterer for a small family attention must be paid to the marketing and arrangement of quantities. If one arranges to have guests for lunch, after having a chicken dinner, the chicken may be used in patties, or salad or as chicken croquettes. Thus one may entertain without feeling any special drain on the living expenses. A varied diet may always be given, as broths may be made from the bones of the aforesaid chicken for the next day's luncheon, following with a dish of macaroni and cheese or spaghetti and tomato sauce, thus having a soup and an entree at slight expense. A can of corn may be opened and part of it used as a vegetable with milk or cream, then a few days later prepare it with egg, a cupul of white sauce and seasonings of mustard, salt, worcestershire sauce and pepper into an scalloped dish, to serve either as a main dish at luncheon or as a vegetable at dinner. Such dishes as veal birds or olives are attractive and made from small bits of meat. Flatten them by beating, roll up with a piece of bacon or salt pork and bread crumbs brown in a hot frying pan, then add cream and simmer until tender. Cucumbers too old for slicing may be cooked after crisping in cold water and served as one does asaparagus. Why in the world do you want to carry Things that annoy and harass and harry? Stop them and drop them, a new day is here. Squeeze a laugh from it instead of a tear. VEGETABLE COOKERY. It may perhaps have been noticed—the lack of space given in our cook It may perhaps have been noticed the lack of space given in our cook books to the subject of vegetable cookery. This lack shows the value we place upon them and the reason for the slipshod methods of cooking. We do not learn, by instinct, to cook vegetables, and until they take their proper place in food values they will no doubt continue to be wasted in cooking. The failure of getting good results from vegetable food may be with the selection, for vegetables out of season are neither economical nor satisfactory; the flavor is usually in inverse ratio to the cost. The best of cooking and seasoning cannot supply the lack of flavor. Vegetables may be crisp and fresh when brought from the market, but by careless handling are wilted and spoiled. In the cooking of vegetables there are a few things to remember, first to retain all the mineral matter and nutrient possible, to soften the cellulose and to develop the flavor, making them more palatable. Spinach cooked properly should be well washed and cooked without the addition of water or very little. This vegetable being rich in iron which is soluble in water, may be being cooked in a large amount of water be nearly valueless as a food. This is true of salsify, green peas and beans, or, in fact, any other nutritionally florid vegetables. The seasoning is another important item; the flavor should always be disguised by seasoning. Usually butter, pepper and salt, not too much, is the best because it is the plainest. To accomplish these results one may use several methods; cook the vegetable whole or in large pieces, to cook with the skin on when possible, to cook in as small an amount of water as possible without burning, to serve the water in a sauce with the vegetables, to cook in the season after the vegetable has started cooking so that the salt does not draw out the flavor. "You have deceived me," said the young man, "and from this time henceforth you shall not occupy my mind." "Oh, thank you, kind sir," she rejoined. "I am so glad." "Why are you glad?" he queried. "Because," she explained, "I never could be satisfied to occupy a flat." Must Have Real Experience. "One cannot know war without having been under fire."—Exchange. Change Shade of Canary. A bird's color, in many instances, is affected by the nature of its food. Among bird fanciers it is a common practice to change the color of canaries from yellow to orange red by feeding them on red pepper. This food, however, is said to have no effect on adult birds, but must be fed to nestlings. Change Means Advancement. If people never changed their minds humanity would still be in the stone Coffee ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` An angel paused in his onward flight With a seed of love, and truth and light. And told "Oh where shall this seed be grown? It is as important that the growing child should have tissue building food as it is that he should have plenty of fresh air. Both are necessary for growth. Highly seasoned rich food, sweets, pickles and spiced foods have no place in the diet of a child. Simple, plain, well-cooked food of sufficient variety to conform to the age and health of the child is important enough for each mother to give time and study to her child's needs. Broths of various kinds, as well as purees of vegetables, are good dishes for children, with a slice or two of well buttered whole-wheat bread. Well-cooked rice with no seasoning but salt, served in good, rich milk, will make a satisfying meal. Rice combined with sugar, eggs and milk makes a dessert which is safe and wholesome. Oranges juice may be given quite a young child, provided it is done between feedings. Scraped apple, stewed figs and prunes without sugar, are all good for the child. The natural craving for sweets may be satisfied by giving a piece of wholesome candy after a good meal. Never allow the child's appetite to be cloyed by sweets before a meal. Oftimes the irritable, naughty child is only so because of improper food and being allowed to eat sweets. For a child's supper dish there is nothing that takes the place of good bread and milk, adding a pinch of salt to the dish. Mutton Broth—Wipe three pounds of the neck of mutton, remove the fat and skin and cut in small pieces. Cover with cold water and heat gradually to the simmering point; skim and strain when the meat is tender, season with salt and add three tablespoons of rice or barley. Cook until the rice is tender. All that men ever did, Somewhere sometime was hid; Thought has to dig it out, Zeal has to bring out Nor can it be wilt, grit and skill; Your lot depends on the strength of your will. The soup for an emergency is without argument the canned variety. It is wise to have on the emergency shelf with which every well-regulated family is supplied, a variety of canned soups to which to turn in time of need. Cream of Peanut Soup—Put a cupful of peanut butter into a quart of milk; add half a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne, a tablespoonful of grated onion, a bay leaf, a pinch of celery seed, or a few of the leaves of celery tops. Cook in a double boiler for ten minutes. Moisten a tablespoonful of cornstarch with cold milk and stir until smooth, add to the soup and cook ten minutes. Strain through a sieve and serve with squares of toasted bread. Freshly roasted peanuts may be ground fine or pounded and used instead of peanut butter. Cream of Pea Soup—Press through a colander a pint of pea, add a quart of milk, a bay leaf, and a teaspoonful of onion juice. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add two tablespoonfuls of flour, and when well cooked add the first mixture. Remove the bay leaf, season well and serve hot. Quick Egg Soup—Stir a teaspoonful of fat extract into a quart of boiling water, add a quarter of oil, salt, vinegar, and a paper to taste. Pour hot into a tureen with four tablespoonfuls of boiling rice and two well-beaten eggs. Serve hot. Any portion of cold cooked vegetable may make a very palatable soup, if put through a sieve, added to hot milk, seasoned and thickened as usual. Nellie Maxwell Some men succeed because they inherit wealth with which to overcome adverse circumstances; but the man who makes good with only his brain and his hands as his capital is the real thing. The Difference. "Light shower" is defined by the Kansas City Star as a thunderstorm just before the ball game. A "cloud-burst" is a thunderstorm just before church time. Curing Diphtheria With Kerosene. In several grave cases of diphtheria relief has been brought within forty-eight hours and final recovery assured by the internal administration of ordinary kerosene oil. The disagreeable taste of the oil was disguised by mixing it with sarsaparilla and the doses were given every four hours. One Fault of Optimists. Some people are such optimists that they lose their temper with you if you don't cheer up to suit them. BONNIE'S BONNIE'S BONNIE'S as it is that he should have plenty of fresh air. Both are necessary for growth. Highly seasoned rich food, sweets, pickles and spiced foods have no place in the diet of a child. is wise to have on the emergency shelf with which every well-regulated family is supplied, a variety of canned soups to which to turn in time of need. Put a cup of peanut butter — put a quart of milk add a tea. JUNIORS OF THE NAVY LEAGUE DRILLING INTERNATIONAL INFANTRY SERVICE The members of the Junior section of the Navy league in New York are as enthusiastic over preparedness as are their elders, and daily, when the weather permits, the youngsters may be seen engaged in their outdoor drill, which includes the regulation army drill and wall-scaling contests. QUICK THINKING SAVES SOLDIER HURLS HAND BOMB AND RUNS Wine Promotion and the Distinguished Conduct Medal for Sensational Escape From German Patrolling Squad—Saved From Prison by Bomb. London.—Captured by a German patrolling squad, escaping through the use of a hand bomb which was overlooked when he was arrested and narrowly escaped with his life in a rain of shell fire are some of the experiences which won promotion for Sergt Arthur James Brooke and also the distinguished-conduct medal. In a letter to the roctor of the church at his home in Manchester, which was printed recently in an English newspaper, Sergeant Brooke gives the details of his daring escape: "I can hardly tell how thankful I am in being able to write you this day after the troubled experiences of Sunday night last. I have had many exciting times previous to this occasion, but nothing to be compared with this last one. I took out my party of scouts at half-past six in the evening and arranged them in various positions across the marshes. Having done this I remained with one small party. "Everything seemed all right, so off I went myself to push farther on. But before doing so I intended seeing another small party in another position on my way. I got as far as my men should, but could not find them anywhere. Something was wrong somewhere. I thought. Suddenly I heard someone coming and, it being a very dark night, I could not see who it was. They passed me toward our position. I looked around to see if anybody else was coming and I saw another man. "Up went my rifle at ready and I said, 'Who are you?' " "Working party," was the reply in good English. Dropped Patrol With Shot. "Come here, working party," I said. He came until I saw he a German, and then he he dropped at a shot from my best friend, my rifle. I then turned to do those who had passed me something also and did succeed in damaging one or two. However, they came from all directions for me and soon had me a prisoner. They took away my best cap, the rifle, and my ammunition. Next went my cap. Following this the beautiful scarf which you sent was taken from me, also my letters. "After they had got enough souvenirs half a dozen of them commenced to drag me toward their village. While I was being taken away a terrible struggle was taking place between one other scout and other Germans in a wood. This half dozen took me about two hundred yards toward the village and then left only one tall man, over six feet, with me. Now was a chance for me, I thought. I said a short prayer asking him to help me get back to my comrades safely. "Then I suddenly thought of a bomb which I had carried with me. It was not in a pocket where I had put my other things, but was in a slit in my leather jacket. I suppose that is the reason they overlooked it, for it was still there. I then managed to get it out, but found I could not pull out the safety pin in with only my right arm. However, I did the trick by hitting him on his temple with it, dropping him without a word. Off I made as fast as my legs would carry me, and at once out came another lot to get me. "Still the bomb was left. I stopped, pulled out the pin and threw the bomb among them. It put more of them out of the fight, but still they kept after me. They were only a few yards from retaking me when he opened the door. I was safe from them, but was in danger of being shot down, by our own gun which had Fossil Remains of Specimen 60 Feet in Length Unearthed in Chinese Cave. Shanghai, China.—This is the dragon year in Japan, and it is appropriate that that prehistoric beast should emerge from the well-known "mist of ages" and take his place as a forsure fossil. In testimony that this may be, we have the story of a correspondent of the Times: THE BYSTANDER NAVY LEAGUE DRILLING of the Navy league in New York are as their elders, and daily, when the weather engaged in their outdoor drill, which wall-scaling contests balked them. I got within a short distance of our position when a German gun commenced to shell all around. "I was blown from place to place and in the early hours of the morning I found myself in a large shell hole half buried with dirt, where I must have lain a long time. I got home again later, safe and sound, suffering only from a bad head. My watch was lost, as the Germans took that and smashed it before my eyes. Our commanding officer was coming out getting away and doing what I did. At the same time I was told I had been given the distinguished conduct medal for my work. I had a fine reception from our men and have since been made a sergeant as a result of it." SUNFLOWERS A PAYING CROP Raised by Farmers in Southeast Missouri on as Large a Scale as Corn. Kansas City, Mo.—In southeast Missouri farmers raise sunflowers to feed chickens. Many farmers in New Madrid county, Missouri, are growing sunflowers for seed on as large a scale as they grow corn. The seed is high in oil and protein and makes an excellent feed. It is used chiefly as a feed for parrots and as a part of the commercial poultry feeds. The seed is purchased each fall by general seed buyers from St. Louis. The soils in which sunflowers are grown are the once swampy lands and range from sandy loams to clays. The average production is about 8,000 to 15,000 pounds of seed to the acre. The annual selling prices from 24, to 4 cents a pound. The average return is about $40 for each acre. Some of the farmers are growing the sunflowers in place of corn. The crop is planted about the same as corn. In the labor required in handling and cultivation, the two crops are alike. When the crop matures, a wagon is taken into the field and the beads are cut off and thrown into the wagon. The seeds are then threshed out with a threshing machine. GOOD NEWS TRAVELS FAR THE MUSICIAN San Francisco recently observed the tenth anniversary of its destruction by earthquake and fire by striving to outclass any other city in the United States in its per capita membership in the American Red Cross. It has 11,000 members now and is aiming at the 25,000 mark in a vigorous campaign. This special effort is inspired by its gratitude for the aid rendered by the Red Cross in San Francisco's disaster ten years ago. The picture shows Miss Mabel Boardman of the American Red Cross in Washington receiving a telephone message from San Francisco telling of the opening of the campaign. Jealous of "Mourning" Husband. New York—Mrs. Elizabeth Sherwood has instituted proceedings in divorce against her husband, Peter V. Sherwood of New York city. She alleges he "went in mourning" for the death of another woman and refused to tell her the woman's name. "That the dragon once existed in China we can no longer doubt, for we have seen fossilized specimens of him. Doctor Irwin of Tientsin, while staying here for some days, explored the river banks at the entrance to the gorges. In a cave was found what is undoubtedly the fossil romains of a kind of dragon. "A large specimen measures 60 feet in length, while there are also several small or young ones. This is an interesting discovery, and has naturally aroused considerable talk among the SUFFER THE MOST BEFORE A BATTLE German Soldier Gives Psychology of War as It Affects the Men. FEAR IS ROUTED BY SONG Doubt and Expectancy Proves Unnerving to Many—Fighters Assailed by Thousands of Thoughts, Says Former Schoolteacher. Berlin.—The following interesting article giving the psychological study of a battle, was written by a German schoolteacher, who since has been killed on the west front. The article which appears in the German papers, has caused considerable comment: "To describe the sensations, the emotions and the innermost feelings of the soul of a soldier in battle is an unusually interesting but difficult task. While the battle rages a soldier is beset and agitated by thousands of thoughts that flash like lightning through his brain, but it is only during the remarkable calm that comes after a battle that he is enabled to analyze them. As I have participated in thirty-six engagements and battles, both on the eastern and western fronts, I have been in a position to make a study of the soul of the soldier. It is a great subject for the psychologist and one that opens a mine of valuable information. "Is This Real?" The troops receive orders at night to prepare for a charge the next morning. The first thought is, is this real? Somehow, it seems like a dream. It is the same thought that stirs the soul in any great event in life, be it one of joy or one of sorrow. It does not seem real. However, when the soldier does realize that it is no nightmare, he begins to thin, of the likelihood of death claiming him in that battle. A strange, indescribable fear begins to agitate the soul. The awful thought pesters him that he will go to his death and leave home and loved ones and everything that is dear in a moment of time. He ponders over the subject of immortality and wonders if death comes whether it will mean eternal darkness and annihilation. To one who is in the prime of life, who has everything to live for, hell itself cannot offer torture to equal the terrorizing doubts that assail the soul in those dreadful moments before a battle. "Then, too, the thoughts come that we have not made the most of life; that there is so much which we would still like to do; that if only given the opportunity how different we would shape our life in the future. "All night long the troops move to the front, and all night long we think of God and the uncertainty that lies directly before us. Song Route Fear. "Morning comes. It is a most beautiful morning; the sun shining warm and bright. The notes of a German song are wafted on the still air. It is a song of the fatherland and all join in the chorus. It is then that we forget all our doubts and fears. A new life seems to us washed and we are ready to go down to the gates of death unafraid. "And then the battle. The bullets begin to whistle. In those first moments the soldier naturally looks for some sheltered place for protection. Nevertheless, the soul is remarkably calm. Though comrades are falling on all sides we never for a moment think of being hit by a bullet ourselves. We keep on running, running toward the enemy. All feeling, all thought, all emotion, all sensation is obliterated, we go on, fearing nothing. Occasionally we hear a voice uttering a curse or a threat, due to the hate against the enemy, born anew in the thick of battle. That feeling of hate becomes uppermost. We are seized with a frenzy of rage, and our one thought is to meet the enemy face to face and annihilate him. As this hate is mingled with a certain feeling of patriotism and love for the fatherland, the lust of battle is developed in such a manner as to quiet our nerves and forget all about danger and death. "The battle has been fought and won. The soul experiences an indescribable peace, but when we begin to see our broken ranks and make count of our fallen comrades, painful sensations follow. Then only do we realize what danger we so callously faced, and a wave of thoughtfulness warms our blood and body. "The feelings and sensations on emerging battle balls be like those of confidence from a serious illness. The tired soul longs for peace and rest, and the soldier falls into a deep, sound, dreamless sleep, in which all the fear and stress and storm of the time are forgotten." Invalid Cremated In His Chair Philadelphia—Unable to make his feeble voice heard, James B. Yerkes, a sixty-nine-year old invalid, was burned to death in his chair in his home in Philadelphia. It is supposed Yerkes dropped a lighted pipe among his clothing. Chinese, who can now without exaggeration declare that they have seen what every respectable Chinese of mature age likes to say he has seen, a dragon, though in this instance a fossilized one. A small portion has been chipped off and sent to the British museum." In order to increase speed by overcoming wind resistance, one of the New English dirigibles has all the machinery and space for passengers included in the balloon. 17 Effective Planting Makes for Beauty. HOME GROUNDS BEAUTIFUL By BETTY PAKE. Look out for dahliais, gladiolus and other rank-growing plants that are likely to be blowed down by the wind and stake them. Pick the panies and nasturtiums every day if you want to have plenty of bloom. When the iliacs have finished blooming all the seed clusters should be cut away. It is fatal to some plants to fertilize them with rich manures when the ground is very dry. Never allow roses to remain on the bush until the petals fall. If the seed is allowed to develop on the root of a generally has few flowers except in other year. The best way to kill weeds is to pull them up by hand. Do not allow them to get ahead of you. Look out for the red bug and other enemies of the rose. An excellent spray for the rose bushes is made of one-half pound of laundry soap melted in hot water to which is added one cupful of kerosene. When this comes to a boll, use about one part to fifteen parts of water. Keep the moisture in your soil around your plants by applying road dust about the roots during the hot and droughty weather. Lawn clippings make an excellent mulch for bushes, shrubs and large plants. Tea roses like to have the soil about their roots cool and moist. Grass clippings are good for that purpose. Spread the grass over the bed to a depth of two or three inches. As soon as it withers work it into the soil when as it decays it will act as a fertilizer. Apply fresh clippings. HELPS IN FLOWER GROWING Don't drain the soil before the moisture of winter and spring has drained from it, so that it will pulverize perfectly. If the soil drops from the spade in moist, soggy lumps, so sure it is not ready to work. As the frost leaves the soil dig in the manure-mulch places, all fall leaves are soft and hardy perennials. If there be no winter mulch about such plants, be sure to apply some kind of fertilizer to them. A good coat of bone meal in the ab- A Charming Place in Mini THE HOTEL A Charming Place in Miniature—A Girl's Playhouse. EDGING PLANTS Plants for edging should be low-growing. There are many effective plants that add beauty to the rest of the bed. In pink, petunias, candytud, portulacca, phlox, pinks, verbena and surprise are effective. In white, dwarf ageratum, dwarf white petunias, portulacca, zinnia illput and dwarf white verbena. In red, sock'scomb, dwarf compact scarlet verbena, portulacca, phlox and portulacca. In yellow, dwarf single marigolds, yellow violet, dwarf yellow chrysanthemum, double yellow portulacca, double miniature zinnia. Use the bore more, the hose less. A dust mulch is a better air in dry weather than the artificial snow. If you must use a watering can, so sence of well-rotted manure will serve. Scatter it about the base of the plants after the soil is stirred, and let the rain drive it to the roots. Dig a strip 15 or 18 inches wide across the bed or border and then rake it, beginning at the bottom of the trench and fining the soil from the subsol to the top. Continue this throughout the length of the bed, and then you will have worked the soil perfectly. To insure a succession of blooming periods, do not sow all your annuals at the same time, nor your blooming bulbs. Wait two or three weeks. Start cosmos as early as possible, and at the end of April plant in the open two to four feet apart, for they need plenty of room. They want light rich soil, and can stand a great pinching back to keep them stocky. It is said that the quickest growing hardy vine is the Kudzu vine—pueraria Thunbergiana—which often grows 40 feet in a season. It needs winter protection as it sometimes winterkills. Just as soon as the frost is gone, plant the Madeira vina. It is propagated by tubers. It grows rapidly, has thick, waxy leaves, and its flowers—drifts of creamy snow—cover the plant when in bloom. The finest example of what this plant can do was seen on a second-story porch, turning a prossis second-story flat porch into a Juliet bower of beauty. Give the wild grape a place about the home. It is so hardy and its flowers so sweet. If you have a dry, bare spot that gets sun all day, seed it to portulacca. They will heat weed seeds growing. TRANSPLANTING SEEDLINGS As soon as seedlings can be conveniently handled, transplant in pots or boxes; give them plenty of room on all sides. Transplanting carefully by hand is the way professional gardeners do their transplanting, a forbid stick can be used if carefully handled. Shade from the bright sun for a few days and water carefully. If the weather is advanced, give the newly transplanted plants plenty of air. In this way they are hardened off until they will be able to stand full exposure in the open ground. Care must be exercised with all plants removed from conservatories, hotbeds or from plants raised in boxes or pots in the house. ature—A Girl's Playhouse. it with a will. Give enough water that the moisture will penetrate to the roots instead of coaxing them to the surface, there to be the more susceptible to a protracted drought. Brugmansia is a tender greenhouse shrub, and if started out of doors in the spring must be botted before frost. The flowers are beautiful—first a pale cream, turning to a pure white. They are trumpet shaped and the shrub is sometimes called "Angel's trumpet." PLANT IN LONG ROWS By planting everything in long rows across the entire length of the garden, planting all the things that require a whole season to mature on one plant, planting crop vegetation will be in a compact way on the creek side of the garden plot. BRUGMANSIA Sunday, April 14th, being communion, the pastor read for opening the 7th chater of Matt, after which we went into covenant meeting and enjoyed a splendid meeting. Rev. Roman and family are now located at their new home, No. 6 East Tenth street. An invitation is extended to all to visit them, strangers as well as acquaintances. The stork has been very busy the past week and visited the following homes: Mrs. George Varnsdale, also Mrs. Miller, bringing them daughters; Mrs. Daisy Brinker, a son. Mothers and children are doing fine. Mr. G. W. Norris is on the sick list. Mr. Sam Burkett is still on the sick list. Mr. James Grimes, president of the Booker T. Washington Literary society, had a splendid program arranged for Monday evening, May 8, which consisted of papers, solos and readings, which was a complete treat to all that were present. DAVENPORT ITEMS. Mrs. M. G. Hunter of Buckhannah, W. V. is in the city to care for her daughter, Mrs. Enzor Green, who recently underwent an operation, Mrs. Green is gradually regaining her health, which will be good news to her many Friends. Miss Mary Crawford is in a very weakened condition at the home of her niece, Mrs. Della Marshall. rMs. Frank Brown was the victim of a surprise party last Friday night on the occasion of her birthday. The evening was spent in music and conversation and dainty refreshments were served. Mrs. Fred Hoskins of Rock Island baked the birthday cake, which was delicious. Mothers' day will be observed at Bethel A. M. E. church next Sunday with a sermon by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Lewis, in the morning and a program in the evening. Carnations for every one. Mrs. Fannie Munson and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Baker of Momouth, Ill., spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. John Harris of Eastern avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Baker returned home Monday. Mrs. Munson will remain indefinitely. Miss Claire Brandt, who is so kindly disposed to our people, desires to meet every colored woman in the city in Bethel A. M. E, church lecture room next Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. Miss Brandt hopes to meet the girls there at 2:30 as usual. Business of importance. The K. P.'s held their annual thanksgiving service at the Third Baptist church last Sunday. The attendance was very good and the sermon, which was preached by Rev. Whitfield of Moline, was greatly enlightened. The Missionary club of the Third Baptist church will give an entertainment May 17. A drill by the ladies will be one of the features. The annual sermon of the Odd Fellows of this city will be preached at Bethel A. M. E. church next Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. A Symbol of Health. The Pythagorians of Ancient Greece are simple food, practiced temperance and purity. As a badge they used the five pointed star which they regarded as a symbol of health. A red five pointed star appears on each package of Chamberlain's Tablets, and still巩固 its ancient mission as a symbol of health. If you are troubled with indigestion, billiousness or constipation, get a package of these tablets from your druggist. You will be surprised at the quick relief which they afford. Obtainable everywhere. 1916 FUTURE EVENTS FORE CAST THEIR SHADOWS Republican national convention at Chicago on June 7th. National Negro Business League Nation City, Mo August 20 National Teachers Association. National Bankers' Association at Kansas City, Mo., August 20. International Conference of Grand Master and P. G. M. and Grand Secre- tary 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 O. E. S. at Chil- cago on August 21. General Conference of A. M. E. church at Philadelphia on May 4. Iowa Grand Masonic Lodge at Ot- tumwa on July 11. Iowa Grand Chapter of O. E. S. at Oakalake on May 16. Iowa Grand Lodge of K. of P. at Des Moines on July 18. Iowa Grand Lodge of Order of Calanthe at Des Moines on July 18. Iowa Grand District of Odd Fellows at Colfax on August 22. Iowa Grand District of Household of Buth at Oceans on August 22. International order of Daughters of Tabernacle at Keokuk on August 1 Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Association at Centerville on September 4. Milicensus and Constipation. For years I was troubled with bili- nessness and constipation, which made life miserable for me. My appetite failed me. I lost my usual force and vitality. Pepin preparations and cathartics only made matters worse. I do not know where I should have been today had I not tried Chamber- lain's Tablets. The tablets relieve the ill feeling at once, strengthen the digestive functions, purify the stomach, liver and blood, helping the sys- tem to do its work naturally—Mrs. Rosa Potts, Bimingham, Ala. These tablets are for sale by all dealers. DILIGENT WORKER FOR METHODISM Fine Record of Dr. J. C. Caldwell as a Minister. Fine Record of Dr. J. C. Caldwell as a Minister. POPULAR WITH THE MASSES How the Secretary of the Allen Christian Endevor League Has Increased the Membership of This Department of the A. M. E. Church—May Be Elevated to the Episcopacy. Nashville, Tenn.—No department of the African Methodist Episcopal church will receive more attention at the general conference, which meets in Philadelphia in May, 1916, than the Allen Christian Endevor league, of which the Rev. J. C. Caldwell, D. D., is the corresponding secretary. This department of the A. M. E. church is devoted to the religious training of the young people of the denomination. Dr. Caldwell was born in Chapel Hill, N. C., but in his youth his parents moved to Philadelphia, where he got his foundation for an education. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia, graduating from the manual training school. He felt that he was called to the work of the gospel ministry, and with that end in view he made ample preparation. He was licensed as a local preacher by the Rev. J. M. Palmer, presiding elder in the Philadelphia annual conference. He took up the study of oratory and elocution in the National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia under Professor J. W. Sheenaker. In this line his ability asserted itself, and many were the predictions made concerning his future which have come true. Later he entered Wilberforce university with the determination to further REV. DR. J. C. CALDWELL. prepare himself for his life's work. He studied diligently and made his classes year after year, graduating in 1896. Coming out of school, Dr. Caldwell reported to the Missouri conference, then being held at Springfield, Mo. Bishop B. T. Tanner, recognizing in the young minister rare ability, sent him to Jefferson City, Mo. It was his first real charge, but he took hold of it like one who had been in the ministry for a quarter of a century. He made many friends in his new field, serving two years, and was the nearest sent to the place where he had entered the conference. Two years were spent in Springfield, and then he was assigned to the church at Lexington, Mo. Each year the young minister made more friends, and his reputation as a minister spread throughout the state. He found the people of Independence, Mo., asking for him, so the presiding bishop assigned him to that charge, only to remain one year. Dr. Caldwell was then assigned to the largest charge in the north Missouri conference, Ebenezer A. M. e. church, St. Joseph Mo. He went there to stay until removed by the limitation or by elevation to some other charge, and it was the latter that took him to work. Durir was assigned to St. Joseph he paid off the mortgage debt, which had been standing for some time, and then installed a pipe organ at a cost of $2,000. Many members were added to the church, and improvements were made in the church edifice. In May, 1908, Dr. Caldwell went to the general conference held in Norfolk, Va., and was elected to his present position. He has brought it into recognition among the organizations of Christian young people throughout the denomination. He is a life trustee of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, being one of the six representatives of our race. At each session of the league he is given the highest consideration and recognition. When he was placed at the head of the Allen Endeavor league eight years ago he found 600 societies throughout the entire connection. This number has increased until now there are 4215 societies with an approximate membership. This work and the real worth of the work and the real worth of Dr. Caldwell which command him to the next general conference to be held in May, 1916, at Philadelphia. It is expected that in recognition of his worth and work he will be elevated to the episcopacy, which will be a well earned reward. Rheumatism You are troubled with chronic on ucular rheumatism give Chamberlain's Liniment a trial. The relief from pain which it affords is alone worth many times its cost. Obtain- able everywhere. 100 Sampson for Attorney General Years as Assistant Attorney General under Mr. Cossson. (See editorial comment upon; the candidacy of Mr. Sampon) KEOKUK ITEMS. Mr. Harry Harper of Fort Madison, Iowa, visited relatives in this city Saturday of last week. Mrs. Phoenix is seriously ill at her home on North Fifth street. At the home of her son, J. W. Bland, occurred the death of Mrs. Sarah Frances Williams, after an illness of eight weeks. Mrs. Williams is survived by three sons and two daughters, John W. George, William, Mrs. Annabel Harris of St. Paul, Minn., and Mrs. Gertrude Shortridge. Besides these she leaves to mourn her loss eight grandchildren, four great grandchildren, a brother and sister, A. A. Bland and Mrs. M. I. Fields, and nieces and nephews. The Self-Culture club will meet at the home of Mrs. Kate Owens on Monday, May 15th. Mrs. W. A. Frye returned home on Monday of this week, after a two weeks' stay in Galesburg. The funeral of the late Dr. Cornelius Wilson, who died in Des Moines, was held from the A. M. E. church on Tuesday of this week. Revival services will close at the A. M. E. church on Sunday. Mr. W. A. Frye spent Sunday in Galesburg, Ill. ST. PAUL BUDGETARIAN. The Tuskegee Jubilee Singers, under the degree of Chas. Winter, pleased the large audience of St James A. W. E. church Sunday morning by rendering several favorite selections. They are on a concert tour. Miss Geraldine Grant, formerly of Sioux City, Iowa, was crowned queen of the Boosters carnival at Union Hall Friday evening, she having received the most votes and was presented with a beautiful pair of pearl opera glasses. Miss Harriet Jeffry won second place and was presented with a gold medal. The carnival, which lasted three nights, was a success. Recently the Minneapolis Woman's Mite Miss-nary society was organized to work for St. James A. M. E. mission. Mrs. L. A. Henderson is president, Mrs. Corinne Woodford, secretary, and Mrs. Lyons, treasurer, Membership, twenty. Meeting weekly. The grand baby show under the auspices of the King's Daughters club at St. James church on the 11th. Vote for your baby. The Literary and Social club of Pilgrim Baptist church met at the home of Mrs. Whitehead on Monday afternoon. Tuesday evening the N. A. A. C. P. gave a symposium at St. James church in commemoration of the birth of John Brown. The One More Effort club served supper. A joint debate on "Preparedness" between Pilgrim Baptist and St. James Sunday school, was the attraction at the former church Monday evening. A meeting of the Crispus Attucks Home association was held out at the home Sunday afternoon. The $1,000 rally for the home terminates June 1, Mrs. Overby, who demonstrates for the Calmet Baking Powder Co., is in Duluth this week. Mesdames Geo. Wills and John Cloak went to Chicago Lake Monday afternoon to get their summer cottage in readiness for the season. Mrs. R. B. Chapman is in the University hospital for treatment. An e executive board meeting of the State Federation of Women's Clubs was held Friday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Dora Adams, 411 Charles street. The annual meeting of the State Federation will be held in Minneapolis. THE BYSTANDEK Attorney General in Primaries June 5th General under Mr. Cossson. the candidacy of Mr. Sampson) lis on June 28th and 29th. Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Mason returned Friday from a very pleasant visit in Chicago, the guest of Mrs. Mason's parents. The Excelsior club had a most enjoyable time at their indoor picnic Friday afternoon. This is a wide-awake club, working in the interest of St. James church. Mrs. Birdie Reynolds is quite sick at the home of her brother, Chas, Miller, on Edmund street. Mrs. Bessie Roberts is confined in Dr. Bloom's hospital with a severe abscess of the head. "Chamberlain's Tablets Have Done Wonders For Me." "I have been a sufferer from stomach trouble for a number of years, and although I have used a great number of remedies recommended for this complaint, Chamberlain's Tablets is the first medicine that has given me positive and lasting relief," writes Mrs. Anna Kadin, Spencerport, N. Y. "Chamberlain's Tablets have done wonders for me and I value them very highly." Obtainable everywhere. G. W. 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