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ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER The Best and only medium that reaches the colored people of the middle west. XXII No. 51 Mrs. Alice Huston left Sunday morning for St. Louis for an indefinite visit. R. N. Hyde went to Chicago last night to attend the national convention. The Dramatic Art club will meet with Mrs. Harvey Brown on Tuesday afternoon. Editor J. L. Thompson left Monday night for Chicago to attend the national republican convention. Rev. Geo I. Holt will preach at the East Side A. M. E. church mission on Sunday morning for Rev. Perry. Mr. George Jones and wife and Mesdame Smith and Williams drove up Friday from Oskaloosa to do some shopping. Mr. Thos. Harris, who has been traveling all winter through the west, is in our city en route to his home in Marshalltown. Rev. and Mrs. Geo. I. Holt of Duluth, Minn., are in the city and are stopping with Mr. H. Gould. They will worship Sunday at St. Paul's A. M. E. church. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Wright of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, South America, who are visiting their parents in Marshalltown, were Sunday guests at the home of Mrs. S. Joe Brown. The Des Moines Suffrage club will meet with the president, Mrs. Harvey Brown, on Monday evening at 12:38 E Eighteenth street. All numbers requested to be present. Among the June graduates of Des Moines this year were Milded Griffin, Chas. Howard, Rev. Perry, Dora McComb of Eost High and Vivian Warrick and E. Beverly of West High. These students are to be congratulated. Miss Lucy Rhodes of Buxton, a recent graduate of Western college at Macon, Mo., arrived in the city Wednesday afternoon to attend the summer school at Des Moines college. While in the city she will be the guest of Mrs. S. Joe Brown. The Triple H club will meet Tuesday, June 13, with Mrs. S. B. Topson of 2849 Forest drive, at which time Mrs. Phil McGruder, superintendent of the canning department, will give a demonstration in canning asparagus and mustard greens by the cold packed method. North Star Masonic Temple association will hold its annual meeting Tuesday evening, June 13th, at Union Congregational church, Tenth and Park streets, at which tma directors for the ensuing year will be elected. All the stockholders are requested to be present. Miss Adah Hyde, who has finished a second term successfully teaching in t he high school at Marion, Ind., and who in company with her cousin, Mrs. Helen Thomas Gains, of Cincinnati, Ohio has been visiting in Vincennes and Indianapolis, Ind., has reached Chicago. Here she will be joined by Miss Lettles of Madison, who will accompany her to Des Moines for a visit. WANTED. Place for colored boy 13 years old to work during summer and go to school during winter. Write Mrs. Ella Lee, Buxton, Iowa. ESTHER DAY IN DES MOINES. One of the best and most largely attended Esther day programs yet held in Des Moines was that at the Maple Street Baptist church on last Sunday, under the auspices of Princess Oziel chapter, No. 9, assisted by Princess Zorah chapter, No. 10, Order of the Eastern Star. Nearly sixty members of the order were in full regalia, and listened to a splendid sermon by Rev. J. H. Reynolds, past grand chaplain of the order. Other addresses were delivered by Mrs. Izaiah Robinson, past matron of Oziel chapter; Miss Daisy Jacobs, associate matron of Zorah chapter, and Mr. J. H. Shearpard, past grand master of REMEMBER THE Pa'ace Sweet Cafe UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Is the best place to go for Good Home Cooking Everything First Class Red 1867 1012 Center Street Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson, Props. The Cutt Studio 220½ West 2nd St. Containing the original paintings. "Mother Knitting" "Tutt" "Maud" and many others. THE BYSTANDER Masons and presiding patron of Zorah chapter, and musical numbers were contributed by Medames F. P. Johnson, C. B. Woods, G. N. Nichols, Addie French, Chas. C. Johnson and Bertha Long. Mrs. Chas. Cousin, worthy matron of Oziel chapter, presided. REV. H. A. PERRY RETURNS TO CITY After the sad mission of burying his brother, Dr. O. M. O. Perry, at Tuskegee, Rev. Perry returns to resume his pastoral duties at the East Side A. M. E. church. He wishes to express his gratitude to Rev. C. Wright, who filled his pulpit while he was away. Rev. Perry witnessed the inauguration of Major Morton as principal of Tuskegee. He returned to the city by way of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York and Chicago. His entire trip was more than four thousand miles. N. A. A. C. P. At the meeting of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Monday evening final report was made by the legal reed and grievance committees on the recent fight against the "Birth of a Nation" film, which while it was not barred entirely, was compelled to close its engagement two weeks before the end of its contract on account of lack of attendance due largely to the sentiment created by the protest which was led by the branch and concurred in by the city council, the G A R. and a number of other organizations of the city. Hon. Jas. B. Weaver, Atty. J. B. Knuth and E. Merrick, quick former mayoralty candidate, were elected to membership in the branch, Mr. Douglass Miller's membership was renewed and Hon. T. W. Lincoln, a descendant of the martyred president, was voted a complimentary membership. The chairman of the feetings committee reported that plans were on foot for a membership mass meeting for some time the latter part of June, at which it is hoped to have addresses from Dr. E. A. Carter of Buxton and Hon. H. R. Wright of Marshalltown, who is spending a few days at home fhist his post as U. S. consul at Puerto Cabello Venezuela. South America, the exact date and place of which meeting will be announced later. KEOKUK ITEMS. Mr. George Kellis spent Tuesday of last week in Canton, Mo. Mrs. Maude Woods of Des Moines is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Johnson. Mr. C. J Jackson of Chicago is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Johnson. Mrs. M. Seymour of Des Moines is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Kellis, 1017 Fulton street. Monday evening, June 12th, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Freeman will entertain at a reception and dancing party in honor of the graduation of their daughter, Verna H. Beaman, at Gibbons opera house. Mrs. M. Brooks is ill at her home, 1127 Orleans avenue. A few of the members of the Six Hundred club enjoyed a supper on Tuesday of last week at their summer home. Those present were Misses Pearl Ashley, Beulah Anderson, Alice Buckner, Jonia Hawkins, Marie Lewis, Ruth Bland, Messrs. French Bland, Royal Wilson, Samuel Johnson, Reginald South, Arthur Robbins and Clyde Johnson. Mrs. L. Holt is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. Johnson. The Kookuk Alumni association will give their annual banquet Friday evening, June 16, at the Masonic hall. Mr. and Mrs. George Nelson Kellis announce the marriage of their daughter, Nellie Opal, to Mr. George Lemuel Maston on Wednesday evening, June 14, at the A. M. E. church, Lincoln, Neb. Mr. and Mrs. Maston will be at home after July 1st at 824 B street, Lincoln, Neb. The members of the A. M. E. church entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Johnson on Monday evening in honor of Miss Aurela Bland and Mr. Roy Handy. The members presented Miss Bland with a handsome piece of cut glass. Out of town guests were Mrs. Booker and Mr. C. J. Jackson. Mr. Jesse J. Johnson will give a dance Wednesday evening, June 14th, at Gibbons office house. Mrs. Lula Perkins of Croton, Iowa, spent Saturday and Sunday in this city. Mrs. Anna Alden entertained on Tuesday of this week at a tea in honor of Mrs. Booker. Guests were received by Mesames Booker, A. Harris, M. Johnson, C. E. Beckley, D. F. Dland and Miss Aurelia Bland. The following were in the dining room: Mesames George Asinhy, A. W. Draine, F. S. Johnson, G. Snoddy and Miss Alice Buckner, Blanche Kebo and Pearl Ashby. Mr. Ralph Teebau returned home from Howard university, Washington, D. C., on Thursday of last week. Forethought. People are learning that a little forethought often saves them a big expense. Here is an instance: E. W. Archer, aidw, Ohio, writes: "I do not believe that our family has been without Chamberlain's Colle, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy since we commenced keeping house, when we go on an obtained visit we take it with us". Obtainable every- SHAPING YOUNG LIVES. How the Sunday School Congress is Increasing Its Usefulness. By adding the department of education and industry and enlarging the sociological department the Sunday school congress, a forward movement convened in Vicksburg Miss. from Wednesday, June 14, to Monday June 19, has scored another big success. The need of this new department and the demand for the enlargement of the second were apparent to the Sunday school congress promoters several years ago, but it was not until 1910 that conductors conversant with conditions and capable of handling such a department could be secured. At the session held in Birmingham, Ala., the sociological department scored a big hit. The enthusiasm that was created in this one department was so high that the afternoons, in which the meetings were held, were declared too short, the auditorium too small, and the attendance far exceeded the expectations of the officials of the congress. In explaining the addition of the department of education and industry the congress officials, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., stated that this is but in keeping with the advanced idea of blending education and industry in such a way that the Sunday school people of the present day HENRY ALLEN BOYD. will be able to take them on. Practical study and physical application of education and industry are the aim and watchword of this new department of the Sunday school congress movement. Henry Allen Boyd, secretary of this national organization, in making announcement of the addition of these two departments stated further that the Bible study period and the teacher training department, with the two new departments added, would give to the university and the college presidents, professors and pupils a spendid opportunity to come in touch with the great and growing Sunday school forces of the youth of our race in this country. At Vickersburg it is estimated by secretary of the congress that fully 200 diplomas from the school training course, as well as those pursued this year, will be announced. In March last at Nashville alone fifty-five graduates received their certificates and diplomas. In speaking of the efforts of Mr. Boyd as secretary of the congress N. B. Dodson, president of the New England Baptist Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. convention, says: "The announcement of the departments of the congress does not surprise me in the least. Henry Allen Boyd is one of the most energetic and farseeing young business men of our race. He knows how to get the best results in any movement which he leads. We weak and in position nine years ago, have an infused strength and vigor into the membership of the Sunday school congress until at the present time its influence is nation wide and its work for religious education stands without a peer in the history of Sunday school progress among the members of our race in this country without regard to denomination." Thrifty School at Manassas, Va. The annual report of the Manassas (VA) Industrial school emphasizes the healthy growth of the institution along all lines of its work and the need of sufficient funds to meet the growing demands for a larger and better equipment for industrial work. The school was founded twenty-two years ago by Miss Jennie Dean. The school farm consists of 200 acres. Particular stress is laid upon the study of agriculture and the preparation of teachers for the rural schools of Virginia. Successful Work of Dr. Matilda Evans. The St. Lake hospital, Columbia, S.C., is the only institution of its kind in the United States owned by a woman physician who is also the chief practitioner. Dr. Matilda Evans of the above named institution bears this unique distinction and conducts the work with signal success. She employs twelve young men and women regularly and has recently secured and moved into larger quarters. Progressive Union of Young People. The Baptist Young People's union of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn is celebrating its thirty-sixth anniversary with a series of public meetings on Tuesday evenings during the month of April. The union has a membership of nearly 200 and is strong financially. R. Lincoln Powell is entering upon his eighteenth year of service as president of the union. CLINTON, IOWA. Quarterly meeting, the third for this conference year, is to be observed at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Miss Murda Beason will represent the local society A. C. E. League at the convention to be held at Davenport the latter part of this month. Mrs. Anna Williams of Buxton is visiting relatives and friends in Clinton. The sad intelligence comes this week to the friends of Rev. A. T. Hall in Clinton telling of his death at his home in Aurora, Ill., on May 17th. Deceased was a former well beloved pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church some years ago. Also the passing away of Clinton, son of Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Anderson of Chicago, on last Sunday. The sympathies of the many friends are extended to the bereaved families of the decedents. Rev. J. C. Anderson likewise is a former pastor of the A. M. E. church. Wm. Williams of Buxton, son of Rev. W. W. Williams, pastor of the A. M. E. church, has taken up his residence in Clinton. We are pleased to welcome him as a future citizen. The race will be becoming represented this week in the closing school scenes on Thursday evening. Miss Esther Culberson, Fred Slater and Curtis C. Bush will receive diplomas of graduation from the Clinton high school. Wednesday afternoon Miss Lorena Nott, Fredabel Aikens, Olive Judon and Edward Stewart will receive like honors in a class of 311 from junior high. Congratulations. The presiding elder's committee gave a supper on Saturday evening, June 3rd. Another will be given on June 11th. An entertainment will be given on June 17th by the home department of the Sunday school. Mrs. E. S. Heron will represent the A. M. E. Sunday school at Aurora, Ill. June 22 and 23. Children's day will be observed on the 18th with a program at night. The trustee rally was a success. When all reports are in the trustees feel assured that all indebtedness can be liquidated. The rally came to a satisfactory close on Sunday. Remember the Bystanders is abroad. FT. MADISON NOTES'3 FT. MADISON NOTES. Miss Edessa Toles of Battle Creek Mich., is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harper. Misses Jenile and Naomi Harper entertained a company of friends at their home Monday evening in honor of Miss Edessa Toles. Cards and dancing were the diversions of the evening. During which a dainty lunch was served. Mrs. Kathryn Winifred of St. Louis, Mo., is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. King. Mrs. A. Street of St. Louis, Mo., visited relatives and friends in the city several days last week. Mr. Floyd White of Hamilton, Ill., was a Fort Madison visitor last week. Mr. and Mrs. R. Goodwin and Miss Madge Goodwin were visiting in Keokuk last week. The A. M. E. Sunday school is preparing for Children's day. The members of the Baptist Sunday school will give a lawn social at Turner's park on Monday evening. Mr. R. H. Higginbotham, who has been confined to his hee with the smallpoppy, is able to be out again. Miss A. C. Harper, who has been teaching school in Levings, Ill., is expected home this week. Mr. and Mrs. S. Thomas of Kansas City, Mo., are in the city for a brief stay. To the Public "I have been using Chamberlain's Tablets for indigestion for the past six months, and it affords me pleasure to say I have never used a remedy that did me so much good."—Mrs. C. E. Riley, Illion, N. Y. Chamberlain's Tablets are obtainable everywhere. ALBIA NOTES. Mr. Percy Smith, who has resided in Albia for the past four years, and a promising young race man, a graduate of Albia high school, left Tuesday evening for New York. His many Albia friends wish him success in his new location. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church. The presiding elder, S. B. Moore, assisted Rev. M. Morgan. The K. of P. lodge of Albia and Hocking held a street carnival at the hof of Mrs. C. Washington at the home of Mrs. C. Washington on Thursday evening. The house and yard were brilliantly lighted. The American flag and red, white and blue colors were used for decoration. The decorations extended from the home of Mrs. Chas. Washington to that of Mr. John Allen, a half a block away. Music by the orchestra, and people from Buxton, Hiteman and Hocking and other ylaces were present. Mrs. Joe Robinson was a Knoxville, Iowa, visitor this week. Rev. Brown spent Sunday out of Albia in the interest of his church. Albia in the interest of his church, Master Floydo Bowman was a Des Moines visitor with his brother, Earl Bowman, Sunday. Mr. John Lewis went to St. Louis on Friday of this week. Mr. Walls of Mouton, Iowa, is in Albia visiting friends over Sunday. Those who attended services at the A. M. E. church Sunday from Hocking and Mrs. Walter Burns and fami- ties of the family and family and Miss Miae Yooam. Miss Virginia Craig is the guest of Mrs. Oscar Roper for a few weeks. Mr. and Mr. Chas. Carton of Hiteman attended services at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Mrs. Emma Smith visited in Ottumwa this week. this week. Mr. Arthur Estes of Ottumwa was in Albia one day this week. Quite a number of strangers in Albia the past week. OSKALOOSA, IOWA Miss Helen Mitchell left Monday afternoon for an extended visit among friends and relatives in Missouri, going by the way of Keokun, then taking the boat to Louisiana, Mo. Miss Ruth Kiner left Wednesday morning for Ottumwa to attend the district Sunday school convention, which convene in that place. Miss Kineses as a delegate from Shorten A. M. E. Sunday school. Rev J. D. Petersen attended the district conference this week in Ottumwa. Mrs. Arthur Brown is confined to her bed. Mrs. Tiffen is very sick. The Mothers' club met at the home of Mrs. Cora Jones on Thursday and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Cora Moore; vice president, Marguerite Brown; secretary, Cora Jones; treasurer, Lydia Hockaday; chaplain, Mollie Stewart; Biblical instructor, Julia Topp. KEWANEE, ILL. Miss Annie Colman, the treasurer of the A. M. E. Sunday school, won the first prize out of 341 scholars of the eighth grade for the best memorial essay. She is the only colored girl in the history of Kewanee public schools to have won such honors. The social and entertainment given by Mrs. Reynolds and Miss Lewis was a decided success financially. Mrs. Ethel Reynolds of Galesburg, Ill., kindly consented to come up and give us some choice selections of reading, which were enjoyed by a full house. Mrs. Stansberry read to the audience some parts of the address delivered by Mrs. Nora Taylor at the W. M. M. society as meeting in Philadelphia during the general conference in May. Mrs. Autha Watts and daughter, Jessie, visited Galesburg for a few last week. Mrs. Sue Brown has been sick, but is very much better at this writing. Little Miss Addie Smith gave her little might to the missionary society. Those out of town that attended the missionary social were Mrs. Jacob of Ottawa, Ill., and her two little sons, Mr. and Mrs. Harris and little son and daughter of Moberly, Mo. Miss Clo Guthrie and Miss Jeannetta Lewis are expecting to visit the Sunday school convention. Mrs. Henry Baily was called home to Keokuk, Iowa, on account of the serious illness of her son, who at this writing, we are informed, is much better. BURLINGTON IOWA Miss Olive Jones was awarded the prize for the best essay of the Eighth grade, Perkins school, to the Humane society at the Burlington high school auditorium. MACON, MO NEWS Commencement exercises of Western college closed May 26. A large number of visitors were present to witness the exercises. The commencement exercises were excellent during the entire week. There were well filled houses. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. G. harren and faculty deserve much credit for their loyalty and splendid work for the college during this scholastic year. The student body feels that they have been greatly benefited during the year's work. Rev. Young of Springfield, Mo., delivered two excellent sermons Sunday morning and evening at Vine and Broadway Baptist church. Misses Juanta Richardson, Lena Bryant Blanche Willioirst, Dora Bord and Messrs. Grane Greene, Samuel and Leroy Richardson were among the many who attended the commencement exercises of Western college. Mrs. Moletus Rhodes and Mrs. Arbuckle of Buxton, Iowa, attended the commencement exercises of Western college. Rev. G. W. Cross has returned from Philadelphia, where he attended the national convention. Misses Harry Bradley, Edith Harris, Hazel Williams, Idella Johnson, Alma McErloy and Lucille Harris spent Sunday morning in Bevier, Mo., to attend the K. of P. sermon. Messrs. Earnest Finney, F. T. Ancel, Alx McErloy and Henderson Jackson attended the annual sermon of the K. of P. Colie Dacis of Ottumwa, Iowa, is inviting in the city. Lona Jackson and Blanche Black are visiting in Bevier, Mo. Vine and Broadway Sunday school is moving along nicely under Mrs. M. E. Brookin as superintendent. The Macon Women's (she has elected Mrs. I. L. Garnett as a representative to the Missouri Women's Federation, which convenes at Kansas City in the, Marie Hogan White, grand lecturer of the Court of Calanthe, spent Friday in our city and gave a remarkable address to the sisters of Calanthe. While in the city she was the guest of Mrs. J. T. Ancell. the guest Mrs. M. J. A. Anceli, Mr. E. W. Lloyd, grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, spent a few days in our city to make arrangements for the grand lodge, which will convene in the city on Friday. Subscriptions to the Rustyland. Subscribe for the Bystander. Successor of Dr. Washington at Tuskegee is Principal Speaker at Annual Meeting of the State Teachers' Association Held in Birmingham. Let Us Follow Washington, He says. Major Robert R. Moton of Hampton institute, who is the principal elect of Tuskegee institute and successor to Dr. Booker T. Washington, made his first big Alabama address before the Colored State Teachers' association, which met in Birmingham the early part of April. Some 500 white people, including Governor Charles Henderson, were present. In his address Major Moton in part said: Booker T. Washington's educational program was not merely local, but it was national, worldwide in scope—industry, morality, decent homes, clean bodies and minds, better methods of farming—a kind of education which made a universal appeal was his. It was an education that helped farmers to do better farming, the carpenter to do better carpentering and the cook to do better cooking. He believed that education in the broadest sense should teach a farmer how to get more out of an acre by better methods; that a carpenter was receiving useful and very necessary instruction when taught how to build a better and more beautiful house at less cost, and that to keep clean, who cook how to keep clean, but that always expense was, in his opinion, an education of the most essential sort. You, no doubt, have often heard him say that a handsome mule or horse well groomed was fine to look at, but that a hungry, struggling community would soon tire of looking at him unless hitched to a plow, cart or wagon, or unless it was doing something that would help humanity. And, my friends, just so it is with education. Wearing fine clothes and presenting an attractive appearance does not mean anything to a struggling and hungry community, unless you set to work to perform some service for your fellow men. T. Washington was most persistent in his efforts that education, whether farmer, preacher or teacher, should be linked in a definite way to life, and the life of the lowly man and woman in particular, for he wanted to see each man and each woman live and do better in his daily vacation. This idea he worked out and put into practice in such a remarkable and convincing way as to command the respect and admiration of the entire world. The colored people of Alabama, as a rule, have been wise enough to follow Dr. Washington's course, and as a result the white people of the state are growing more interested in the Negro schools. If the white man sees that Negro education makes a more industrious community, if he sees better results on his farm, in his kitchen, in his school, in the streets in his life and conduct of the colored people of the community generally he will not only believe in and unreservedly approve of Negro education, but he will find some way to assist in giving for better schools. White people can usually find a way for anything they think is really worth while, but they must be convinced that it is so worth while, and nobody can do that better than the Negro teacher, and no one demonstrated this more conclusively, more effectively or more beautifully than the man in whose memory we are gathered tonight. We as teachers must first of all live clean, honest, industrious, unselfish lives. We are now living in an era when we are expected to practice what we preach. Let us take a firm stand for morality and set our faces like flint against the loafing, worthless element in any race. Let us follow Dr. Washington in teaching the members of our race the necessity of decent living, and teach them to be moral, for indeed we have more to fear from the lazy, shifty, ignorant criminal than from any race prejudice in Alabama. And let us remember that in the solution of the race problem a large measure depends upon us, and education will be one of our most forceful and helpful mediums for good. BUXTON, IOWA Mrs. Nannie B. Ferriee, who has been ill only a short time, died at her home Sunday night about ten minutes to 11 o'clock. Her son, Lawrence Ferriee, of Chicago arrived Monday evening, but too late to see his mother, alive. Funeral services were at St. John's A. M. E. church Wednesday orning at 10 o'clock. Presiding Elder Moore officiated. The remains were taken to Chicago. All City fighter sister ing saves. I at June F. W. ladies and accl tion. two Mrs. K. ing he ley, o her si was fu accor nberto a organ to you er par of M. W. Roe Bedfo ter, M. visit of Bl return with re a th umoon her si which coming t Iowa. Pay Boost and read the Bystander Dont borrow or read your neighbor, help make this a great paper Price Five Cents friends extend their deepest sympathy to Rev. Ferribe in his hours of bereavement and sadness. Mr. Robert Mays left Saturday for Chicago. Dr. E. A. Carter has returned from the hospital much improved. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Morris and left them a fine boy. Child and mother reported doing nicely. Messrs. Scott Mardis and Lonnie Carter were purchased a Seo auto. Miss Luey Rhodes, who completed her last year at Macon college, is home for a while. Mrs. Dr. E. A. Caarter's baby boy has been quite ill, but is some better. Mrs. Anna Johnson entertained the Organ club last riday. A dainty luncheon was served. One visitor present. Miss Minnie Mills has returned to the Capital City, after spending two weeks with parents and friends. Mrs. J. H. McGrew entertained the Ladies' Industrial club last week. Saturday was a big suffrage day in Buxton. Women, children and men came together and formed a big suffrage parade, headed by the Buxton concert band. After a long, enthusiastic arch they proceeded to the auditorium, where they were entertained by two able speakers, namely, Mrs. Clay of Kentucky and Mrs. Devitt of Oksalooa, assisted by home talent, Atty. Jas. Spears was master of ceremonies. ROCK ISLAND, ILL. Mrs. Marie Rice Asey died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rice, Ninth street and Cottage Grove avenue Rock Island Ill., May 18, 1916. Mrs. Asey was born July 3, 1893, in Springfield, Ill. She was united in marriage to Mr. Joseph W. Asey of Chicago four years ago at St. Thomas' church by Rev. Father Massiah. She is survived by her husband and parents, seven sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Winnie Lewis of Springfield, Ill., Mrs. Effie Jackson, Mrs. Della Garland, Mrs. Blanche Morton, Marguerite, Velma and Regin Rice, all of Rock Island, and Joseph W. Rise of Chicago and Harry and Robert Rice of Rock Island. Deceased was buried in the Chippianock cemetery Sunday, May 21. 1916 FUTURE EVENTS FORECAST THEIR SHADOWS. Every poured over it and garnished Republican national convention at Chicago on June 7th. National Negro Business League at Kansas City, Mo., August 20. National Negro Press Association at Kansas City, Mo., August 19. National Teachers' Association. National Bankers' Association at Kansas City, Mo., August 20. International Conference of Grand Master and P. G. M. and Grand Secretary 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 Chicago on August 21. General Conference of A. M. E. church at Philadelphia on May 4. Iowa Grand Masonic Lodge at Ottumwa on July 11. 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 Ruth at Colfax on August 21. Iowa Grand International Order of Twelve at Keokuk on August 1st. International Order of Daughters of Tabernacle at Keokuk on August 1 Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Association at Centerville on September 4. Iowa-Nebraska Sunday School Association at Des Moines. June 13. QMAHA. NEB The Willing Workers club of St. John's A. M. E. church have presented the church with a full communion set, consisting of two trays, eighty-four glasses. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Kellogg, 4125 Saratoga street, Friday, May 19. Mrs. J. R. Harrison, accompanied by her father, Daniel Banks, left for Fort Scott, Kans., Monday night to be present Memorial day to decorate the grave of mother and wife. Mrs. C. J. Bolden left Wednesday for Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. J. D. Winfield left last Saturday for twoweeks.coi xzffid day for a two week's visit in Iowa. Mrs Fay Robinson was married Saturday, May 27, to Mr. Clayton Annu of Valley, Neb. Reuber Moore, who underwent an operation at St. Joseph hospital, is steadily improving and hopes to be able to be at home in a few days. A shirt waist hop will be given Thursday; evening at Peterson's hall in honor of Mr. Roy Pettiford's birthday. Mrs. John of Kansas City, Kans., is in Omaha visiting Mrs. Phanxin and friends. William Dukes, an employee of James Bell's cafe, was killed Wednesday by a westbound Dodge car at Twelfth and Dodge. The body will be shipped by Jones & Chiles to his home in Kingfisher, Okla. Harry Coffee, living at Twenty-first and Charles streets, who was engineer at the University club die'd of heart failure Sunday evening his home. C Watch for the correspondent AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS --- "Houston has always been and will continue to be in an increasingly degree a sort of guide to other cities in a great many ways—educational and economical. Especially is this true with the status of the Negro population. This city is destined to become a great and growing metropolis. One quarter of its population is colored, and whatever good or bad comes to Houston, the Negroes to a degree are affected thereby." This was the outstanding feature of an address delivered in Houston, Tex., recently at the colored evening high school graduating exercises by I. M. Currell, president of the Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College. A college well educated Negro teachers in Houston have exposed these ringing words of the successful colored professor. They are calling these words an expression of their own sentiments. They are more desirous of insulting into their race a greater degree of eagerness for education than ever before. They are aware that educational training will, quicker than any other agency, lift their race higher. They are confident that educational training will in a measure tear off the shackles of crime and inspire them to labor for higher ideals and for attainments by which they can serve their community, and in so doing not only better their own standards of living but serve society in a more useful manner. While all the colored schools in Houston maintain courses of study of a high quality, especial attention is given to industrial art. There are 13 regular day schools, including one high school in the city and four night schools. The industrial arts are in these schools. These courses are not active, but every student is compelled to include one of the industrial arts or more in his or her course of study. There was an average total enrollment of 6,329 students in the colored schools during the past year. Of this number 754 were enrolled in the four night schools. In the night schools the students for the most part were of mature age, their ages ranging from fifteen to seventy years. The younger students of the night schools are enrolled in most instances with the object of learning something about the industrial arts in order to be of better service to the community, and to be more efficient for their own benefit. Most of the older and extremely old people have an entirely different object in mind, so that they are about ready to make their peace with their God. They want to be prepared for death. They want to read the Bible in their declining days. They want to be able to read it and interpret the meaning of the passages according to their own notions. Still another object of the older students is to learn to write so that they may correspond with their friends and relatives in other parts of the country. Tuskegee was not a one-man school, any more than Harvard was a one-man school when John Harvard was president. That Doctor Washington welded a great influence over the destinies of our people was due, first, to his native ability and keen insight, and, second, because Tuskegee was the first profitable experiment of the kind conducted wholly by Negroes. During the past year the farm of 600 acres connected with the Hampton institute, on which are 126 cows, 21 horses, 1,063 chickens and 142 pigs, has been strengthened by the addition of a poultry expert, and progress has been made in the growing of seed corn, in the breeding of hogs, and in improving the character of the dairy herd. Prominent place was given the school's exhibit at the Richmond fair, and extension work, in co-operation with the department of agriculture, has greatly increased. Practical work in the trade school included, last year, blacksmithing, bricklaying, cabinetmaking, carpentry, machine work, painting, printing, sheoaking, steamingft, tailoring, tinsmithing and wheelwrighting. The men not only work in the shops, but build houses on the grounds, install the plumbing and electric fixtures, and make the concrete walks. They build trucks and wagons, which are sold to railroad and steamship companies, and orders have been shipped to 34 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada. An increase of 16% shipped in the enrollment for this year over that of While digging stumps on the farm of Gen. A. R. Benson near Dover, Del, Negroes acquired a great quantity of gold, jewelry and other valuables. It is believed the articles comprised the loot of a robbery committed ten years ago. To give concrete columns for building wide foundations a German engineer has invented a method for blasting away the earth with dynamite, making a hole which soft concrete quickly fills. A Polish scientist is the inventor of a motion-picture camera which can be carried in the hand and which is operated by compressed air as long as a button is pressed. An inventor has provided the rail used for hanging robes in automobiles with movable jaws that can be locked to prevent theft. A handdraw invented by a Californian has two teeth at the end of the knife to prevent its slipping when used against a wall when idle. Doctor Washington's ability was recognized by every teacher and every employee and everyone of the thousands of students that have attended his school, as well as by all other men that have come in contact with him. But he himself was quick to discover and make use of the ability of any other man. He had gathered about him more than 250 instructors, scores of whom would be able to operate Tuskegee institute today if put in charge. There is Emmett J. Scott, his private secretary, not only one of the brainiest Negroes of today but one of the most conservative, and was maintained as Booker T. Washington's secretary because of his conservatism and because his very makeup was so much like Doctor Washington a himself and Doctor Warren a himself and Doctor Hewlett and lifelong coworker—another man to carry forward his work. Tuskegee as an institution will, of course, mourn the loss of Doctor Washington, but he has so built himself into the very bricks and mortar of the institution that it will go forward in the future as it has come forward in the past. But Booker Washington's work was not all at Tuskeguee, nor even the greater portion of it—it was being carried forward throughout the South with as much of a determined spirit as those who had caught the inspiration could muster. Here, at this institution, are 35 young men and young women teachers, most of whom have sat at his feet, who have gained from him inspiration and who have determined that the spirit of Booker T. Washington shall live through them and those with whom they come in contact. And not through this institution alone but the hosts of others: Denmark, C. S. Port, Centerville, Ala.; Denmark, S. C. Port, Centerville, Ala.; Topeka, Kan.; Fort, Ga.; Snow Hill, Ala., and a large number of other institutions that have sprung up from Tuskeguee will go forward for years, doing a telling work for the principles for which Booker T. Washington lived and died. Remarkable work among the Negroes was done by evangelists of the Southern Baptist church during the past year, according to the report made to the convention by the home mission board. There were 12,000 additions to the Negro churches, as against 500 during the first year of this work. The two evangelists have learned how to organize their forces for the best results, the board says. Better feeling between the races has been another tangible result of these meetings, according to the report. Evangelism made a gratifying advance during the year under the direction of Dr. Weston Bruner. As the result of the work of 28 evangelists there were 27,714 additions to the churches and 20,709 for haplims. Volunteers for the ministry number 1,386. Most effective work was done in Dallas and Washington. D. C., with 2,100 additions at the former place and 2,200 at the latter. Evangelical work was started in 1967 with five evangelists. The first year showed 1,047 additions. So that a window can be left open without danger of damage to a room when it rains a canvas trough has been invented that is intended to fasten to a window sill to catch the water. last, and of 61 over the year before, the total number being 905. Two hundred and sixty-two new students were admitted during the year. Hours of study and recitation and the number of schooldays in a week have been so increased as to add two months to the school year. The summer school enrollment of 445 was ten more than in the previous year. Encouraging reports are received from the Whittier Training school, where 488 boys and girls from Hampton and Phoebe receive instruction and the library, the museum, and the departments devoted to sewing, music, athletics and religious work have made good progress. Close communication with the graduates of Hampton has been maintained, and returns from Hampton's Indian students show that 891 of them are living. One hundred and twenty-five of them are graduates, and 34 received agriculture or trade certificates. They represented 61 tribes. Mr. Frissell recommends the celebration of Hampton's fifth anniversary, which will occur in 1918, and the employment of a competent person to write the school's history. Small gasoline engines for starting larger engines on seaplanes and airships are now being tried in England. The engine weighs only 23 pounds, develops more than four horse power, and operates at more than 4,000 revolutions a minute. A few years ago it would have been thought impossible to make a motor of any kind so powerful for its weight. Carelessly thrown away cigar and cigarette stubs are blamed for L.306 fires in New York city last year. The common skunk is fond of yellow-jackets. It catches these insects by sneaking its tail with a sticky saliva, which makes the bushy tail serve as fly-paper. The hours, halves and quarters are spoken by an English clock which has a phonograph with a very durable record as a part of its mechanism. MOUNTAIN BATTERY ARRIVING AT NAMIQUIPA Mountain battery, Company A of the Sixth infantry, coming in to headquarters near Namíquípa, Mexico, the line extending far across the sands. BRITAIN HAS BIG ARMY IN FRANCE New Battalions Have Completely Engulfed the Old Regular Force. HOLD 100 MILES OF FRONT Never Have There Been So Many German and Allied Troops on the Western Front—Doctora Help the Civilians. By FREDERICK PALMER. British Headquarters, France.—A correspondent who has been absent for six months from the British front is amazed upon his return at the increase in numbers of men, guns and equipment. The numerous battalions of the new army which have arrived have engulfed the old regular army. Not one officer in ten whom one meets has had any military service before the war. Now one must ride a hundred miles to pass the British front. Khaki is thick in the villages of the Somme country as well as in those of northern Belgium. The British hold the famous "Labyrinth" as well as Ypres and Loos. In the course of the taking over of a long section of the French line, which freed French troops for service, hundreds of miles of wire had to be laid, transport organized, headquarters moved, new corps and divisions created and commanders appointed. In the last few months new men have come into positions of responsibility. Men who entered the army as second lieutenants have become captains until yet being old enough to vote. Majors have become colonels and lieutenants. We do not know when the war will be over, but we do know that spring is here. say the soldiers. The second winter. In the trenches is finished. Its chill, wet monetary is over. Before another winter—well, what will happen this summer? The growth of the army and the sun drawing the moisture out of the mud emphasized the universal question. Face Big German Army. Never, so far as one can learn, have there been so many Germans and so many allied troops on the western front as at this time. Next to the Verdun region, the German concentration is heaviest in face of the British of any section from the North sea to Switzerland. No German troops have been drawn off from the British front as re-enforcements for the attack on Verdun. One side or the other demolishes a section of enemy trench by exploding mines or by artillery concentration. Then the infantry rushes the trench, gathers in some prisoners, does what damage it can and returns to its own trench. In the morasses of the Ypres salient, and the Loos region nothing more could be done, with a winter attack might be possible in a high country like that around Verdun. Much ingenuity has been shown by both sides in these trench raids. But no sooner has one side worked out a new trick than the other learns how to counter it. "Mud" was the reason given in a word by an officer why the British could not attack in winter to relieve the pressure on Verdun. It was the season the Germans would have chosen for us to attack" be added. Doctors Help Civilians. Recently a bundle of reports which throw interesting light on the work of peace the British army is doing in France was collected at headquarters. They came from army medical officers all the way from the fighting line back to the hospitals at the bases far from the zone of shell fire and told of the service which the army doctors have been rendering to the civil population. France itself has been depleted of doctors. The young ones who did not go to the front as medical officers or to the army hospitals, went to fight. In many villages any British army doctor who happened to be stationed there took the place of the local practitioner. These simple reports reveal the suffering and the sacrifice of the French population who have received free medical service from the allies. Surgeons go from the operating table to set the broken leg of a boy who has fallen out of a tree or to lance a felon; from the clearing station, where the white-bandaged wounded pass through, to look at the baby with But a Barrel of Whisky on One Ranch Makes Trouble and Lid is Put On. Keystone, Kan—Fulfilling his vow of early in the winter that he would spend the money received from the sale of hides of cattle that died on his ranch for whisky, a big ranchman living near the town ordered a thief of the loy producer. The cowboys on the ranch and the DAKOTA MAN HAS MANY ADVENTURES THE BYSTANDER BATTERY ARRIVING AT the Sixth infantry, coming in to headqu G ARMY IN FRANCE the colle in a neighboring peasant's cottage. There are many records of shell wounds both to women and children who have gone on living and working in the danger zone. His numerous patients became so fond of one British doctor, who refused to take any pay, as all do, that the children called him "Papa Anglais," and when he was transferred to another post they took up a subscription and made him a present. Wife, Aged Fourteen, Gets Divorce. Findlay, O.—Mrs. Rolland Chain, aged fourteen years, has obtained a divorce from her husband, who is seventeen years of age. They were married less than a year ago here. DAKOTA MAN HAS Billy Thorin Caps Career by Fighting in Legion After He's "Dead." TOOK YEAR TO GET THERE War Is Just One More Thrill to Wander—Shanghai to Chile When He Reaches Bordeaux—Chum Killed in Row. By PAUL ROCKWELL Paris, France.—A full chronicle of the adventures on land and sea of Billy Thorin, American legionnaire would fill columns which for absorb interest would rank with "Treasures island" or any of the widely read stories of adventure and romance. Billy was born on a wheat ranch, Cearton, S. D., and was christened Daniel, William Thorin. The peaceful occupation of following the plow or operating a steam thresher did not appeal to him, however, and at the age of fourteen years he ran away from home to see the world. The roving blood of hardy Viking ancestors mady in Billy's veins, calling him to the sea. Reach the coast and find the cabin boy on a tramp sailing vessel, and from that time on Billy followed the sea with fair regularity for fifteen years. Marine on Chinese Gunboat. Like all sailors, however, Billy had his spells of being tired of ordinary seafaring. Once he enlisted as a marine on a Chinese gunboat and fought with desperate yellow pirates and opium runners. He was a member of Price and Mosby's legion of soldiers of fortune which fought for first one Mexican pretender, then for another. That campaign was almost Billy's Gord W. Gould Eindland Corporal Richard Tannous of the Thirteenth cavalry who was wounded in the fight at Parral. Corporal Tannous with a squad of men was passing unobtrusively through Parral when a volley of shots fired by Mexicans whizzed past them. They quickened their pace by the Mexicans fired at them until they came in sight of the main division. Corporal Tannous was shot through the arm. ranchmen had a glorious celebration. Indeed, they had plenty in the fund, when it is considered that fifty cattle were lost on the ranch and hides are worth about $8 each. A United States revenue collector figured it out that a whole barrel of whiskey was worth tracing, and the antics of the celebrators became so conspicuous that the peace-loving people of the vicinity protested to District Judge Ruppenthal and the ban was placed on any more liquor shipments. HEROES' GROVE FOR GERMANS Such a Plan to Honor Soldier Dead Has Popular Appeal In Berlin.—"How shall we honor our dead?" is a question which is being widely discussed in the German press just now. The majority of German editors is averse to a repetition of the erection of innumerable "Krieger Denkmale," soldier monuments, such as were in vogue after the Franco-Prussian war. Nor does the plan to scatter throughout the empire monuments of the kaiser and the leading generals find any approval. The most popular proposal yet made for the commemoration of those who have fallen on the battlefield is the formation of a "Hain," or grove, to be called "Heidenhain," or Heroes' Grove. finish. In a guerrilla battle with a band of revolutionists Billy and a comrade decided to investigate a *small adobe hat* which stood in the low brush near a road. Billy started round one side of the house, his mate round the other. When Billy came to the front of the house the headless body of his comrade lay in the dust before the half open door. Billy "saw red" He put his hand on the door to push it open, and a Mexican lurking behind it cut the hand half with a machete. Somehow or other, Billy killed the Mexican with his bare hands. Then he heard firing and stepped out of the hut. A bullet passed through his face, from cheek to cheek, and Billy started to run. Just as he escaped him through the thigh and Billy pitched forward in the dust. When he recovered consciousness he was in a military hospital at Fort Roswell, N. M. After Billy recovered he went to Australia. He left that country in June, 1914, on an Italian vessel bound for Liverpool. When the ship reached its destination it was learned that the great war had broken out. Goes to Enlist, Shaighaed on Ship. Billy at once announced his intention of going to France and joining the foreign legion. Jack Hodge, an Australian sailor who had shipped along with Billy, decided to join the legion with him and the Italian captain offered to carry the two men to Bordeaux on his boat. At Bordeaux the two comrades helped load the boat with a cargo for Chile, then went into a cafe with the captain, who proposed a drink to their success. One drink was followed by another, and when the two would-be legionnaires recovered their senses they were far out on the ocean en route for South America. Some weeks later the ship sailed into the harbor of Arica, Chile. Before going ashore Billy and his mate gave the treacherous captain a thrashing that sent him into a hospital and them into a chilean prison for two months. After coming out of fall the two comrades had to wait around Arica for several months before they could get a ship back to France. There were many Germans in Arica, who did not relish the loudly proclaimed intention of Billy and Hodge of returning to France to join the legion. One night Billy and Hodge had been in a saloon together. Hodge stepped out alone, and, hearing a commotion, Billy rushed out after him. He found his mating死 in the street, a knife stuck in his back. "Dead" in Battle. Soon Recovers. The next morning Billy sailed, and in June, 1913, he reached Bordeaux, and was enrolled in the legion. He trained at Camp La Valonne, and went to the front with a detachment of re-enforcements just before the Champagne offensive in September. A few days after the legion's charge in the Bois Sabot, on September 28, I received this news in a letter from Paul Pavelka: "Early in the attack Billy Thorin was struck in the head by a piece of shrapnel. He refused to go to the rear, but kept on. A few minutes later he was again hit and toppled over. I knelt and looked at him, and he was stone dead." But Billy was not dead. He came to and crawled alone to a first-aid post, and later reached a hospital in the far south of France. Billy has just gone back to the front. The women of the Philippine islands make some of the finest lace in the world from a strong silk fiber obtained from pinnapple leaves. Prisoner Dying of Broken Heart Lafayette, Ind.-Sam Soris, a prisoner in the county jail, who is charged with shooting and attempting to kill James Shipley, foreman of the Monon railroad crew, is believed to be dying of a broken heart. He became sick and fell from a balcony to a stone floor, 12 feet below. Previously he had been mourning over the death of his prisoner who wished to die because he loved life and seven children and had disgraced them. The KITCHEN CABINET Only slaves die of workwork. Labor is neither cruel nor ungrateful: it restores the strong though we give it a humboldt and unlike it a creature of restraint; it what brings the capital. Put your soul into your work, and joy and health will be yours—Martin Luther. For those who are not able to get fresh fish, the canned flakes are easy to prepare and very good eating. Fish Flakes With Bacon—B boil potatoes in salted water until tender; add two cupfuls of canned fish flakes, a fourth of a teaspoonful of pepper and a beaten egg. Take up by the utensils in blenderpuff. Fish Flakes With Bacon—Bobot potatoes in salted water until tender; add two cupfuls of canned fish flakes, a fourth of a teapoonful of pepper and a beaten egg. Take up by the rounding tablespoonful, shape lightly and fry in deep fat to a delicate amber color. Roll slices of bacon into cylinders, run a toothpick through each to hold it in place and fry until well cooked. Serve a bacon roll with each fish flake. Fish Flakes on Toast—Make a white sauce by melting two tablespoonful of butter and when bubbling it add two tablespoonful of bacon, mr well and add a cupful of milk and add a cupful of cheese, a fourth of a teapoonful of pepper and two cupfuls of flakes. Turn ost on buttered toast and serve with grated hard-cooked egg sprinkled over the fish. Fish Flake Salad—Mix together three tablespoonfuls of olive oil, two of vinegar, a teaspoonful of grated onion, a half teaspoonful of parsika, and pour over two cupfuls of flaked fish; let stand an hour or two in a cool place. Turn upon a bed of crisp lettuce just before serving. Garish with slices of pickled beets cut in various forms. Fish Flakes Mexican Style—Simmer together one and a half cupful of tomatoes, half a green pepper, chopped, one slice of onion, and a fourth of a teapoonful of salt. Put through a sieve and add two cupfuls of fish flakes, a tablespoonful of butter and heat thoroughly. Serve with fish Casserole—Take a large can of fish flakes or two cupfuls of any cooked white fish, two small onions, sliced, two green peppers, shredded, a fourth of a cupful of melted butter, two cupfuls of boiled rice, a pint of tomato pulp, a teaspoonful and a quarter of salt, a fourth of a teaspoonful of pepper, combine and bake for fifty minutes. DIFFERENT EGG DISHES. Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings—Bishop Fallows. At this season of the year when eggs are plentiful no menu is complete without eggs scrived in some form. This is the time to revel in sponge cakes, angel foods, omelets and such dishes, using numbers of eggs which we have denied ourselves during the scarcity of eggs. The EASTER following dishes may prove suggestive. Lucanian Eggs—Prepare a cupful of cooked macaroni, a cupful and three eggs, a half cupful of grated cheese, a cupful of buttered crumbs and salt, paprika and onion juice to taste. Hard cook five eggs in the shell and when cool cut in eighths. Put a layer of macaroni in a buttered baking dish, add half of the white sauce, all of the cheese and a teaspoonful of onion juice, and half of the eggs, repeat with another layer of macaroni, eggs and white sauce and cover with the buttered crumbs. Bake until the crumbs are brown. To make the white sauce add three eggs, repeat with the three of flour, a half teaspoonful, salt, paprika to taste and one and three-fourths cupfuls of milk; cook until smooth and thick. Supper Dish—A simple and appetizing hot dish to serve for a supper dish is prepared by spreading slices of bread with butter, place in a baking dish and pour over a pint of milk, mixed with two beaten eggs, a dash of salt and red pepper and a half a cupful of grated cheese. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake until firm. Mexican Scrambled Eggs—Roast a dozen green peppers, peel, remove seeds and chop, then boil until tender in a very little water and season well with butter. Beat six eggs, add salt and the poppers and stir for a moment in hot butter. Serve hot. WORTH KNOWING China is said to be the only country besides America in which the alligator can be found. Scientists now tell us that it is not heat that causes sunstroke. They lay the blame to the sun's invisible rays rays. When the war began General de Castelnau, the French commander, had eight sons in the army. He has five left, the others having been killed in action. If you can't afford a new spring evercoat, cheer up! Joshua C. Nickerson of Pittfield, Mass., has one that he has worn for 55 years. A remarkable case of filial devotion is that of a man who has recently made good a treasurer in his father's accounts as a treasurer of St. Johns, New Brunswick. The shortage was discovered nearly 50 years ago, after the treasurer's death. The son, who has been a trusted employee of a life insurance company in New York city for many years, has now cleared his father's memory by sending the sum of $10,000 to the municipality. Learn to consume your own smoke. If you have misfortunes, pain, disasters, burns or bury them. Those who know you have them, will love and admire you infinitely more for your suppression. A lot of heartache and pain will be more than a match for all your troubles.-Orison Swett Marden. The best shortcakes are made without sweetening and without eggs. The dough should be handled as little and as lightly as possible. If made in one large cake they are split much easier if they are patted thin, brushed with melted butter and another thin layer placed on top. When baked dough should be made as little and as lightly as possible, and large cake they are quite much easier if they are patted thin, brushed with melted butter and another thin layer placed on top. When baked these layers separate without rough edges or are not as apt to soak when the berries are added. If liked as individual cakes cut out with a large biscuit cutter. These may be prepared as the larger ones were, or split and spread with butter and berries. A good recipe for shortcakes is the following: Take two cupfuls of four, one-half teaspoonful of salt, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, three tablespoons of lard and three of butter, half a cup of milk and sift the dry ingredients, then with two knives cut in the lard and butter, then add the milk and roll out lightly. Any fruit mixture makes a good filling. Crush a few strawberries, enough to make a good layer on top and between the crusts, then put a few whole or halved berries for a garnish on top. Serve with whipped cream. For a change sometime crush a cupful of berries and mix them with a cupful of cream, sweetened well; put on as usual and garnish with sliced berries. Pineapple Shortcake—Cut the pineapple in small cubes and stew until tender, with sugar to taste. Cool and chill on ice. Strain off the juice to use in pudding sauce, and to the fruit ad whipped cream. Pile between and on the top of the cakes and garnish with applied cheese or crumble. Raspberry and Currant Shortcake—These may be made of the canned variety, but are not nearly as good as the fresh. Mix with the berries, if fresh, a cupful of strained currant juice to a quart of the berries. If canned berries are used add a little currant juice or jelly to give a flavor. Garnish with whipped cream. PLEASING COMBINATIONS. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality, what we would appear to be all human. We must strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.-Socrates. There are such lovely colors in the fruits and vegetables which we put upon our tables that with a little taste and study of color combination many artisans suite must be obtained. We should be as careful about putting colors that clash, together in a dish of food, as we should in combinations of colors in wearing apparel. upon our tables that with a little taste and study of color combinations many artistic results may be obtained. We should be as careful about putting colors that clash, together in a dish of food, as we should in combinations of colors in wearing apparel. As the eye is an important organ to please in regard to food it is quite necessary that we prepare our food so that it appeals to the sight. Sameness and monotony are relieved by a touch of color in the garnish and dullness is relieved by contrast in the courses. Few cooks ever make the mistake of serving the same food repeated in some other form in the meal, for example serving tomato soup and tomato salad; this occurs, however, oftener than it should. A beet salad cut in small cubes, dressed with a boiled or a mayonnaise dressing that has been tinted with pink coloring, using some of the beet water or a little vegetable color, is a most pleasing and appetizing dish. A small crescent of lemon and a spray of parsley makes a most dainty garnish for a whitefish. For the fish course at dinner a crescent of potato rolled in chopped parsley furnishes the bit of vegetable that is always tasty with the fish. Another way to use lemon and parsley is to cut a thin slice, leaving on the colorful yellow peel and in the center of the slice heap a little finely minced parsley. Use these slices as a garnish on the platter with the fish. Nestie Maxwell The snowy top of Mount Everest in India is plainly visible to the unadied eye from points 107 miles distant At a voltage of 78,000 a Swedish hydroelectric company will transmit 150,000 horse power a distance of 150 miles. The production of tungsten ores in the United States during 1915 broke all records. It was equivalent to about 2,150 shorts of concentrates, carrying 60 per cent of tungsten trioxide, and was valued at more than $2,000-000. Commodore George Hayes, Liverpool's foremost sea captain, is dead at his home in Liverpool, aged eight. Commodore Hayes was called in shipping circles "the best-known man in South America." He had made 122 voyages to South American ports. For many years he was commodore of the Pacific Steam Navigation company's merchant fleet. He navigated his ships two and a half million miles, taking them 4,000 times into different ports. About 73 per cent of the world's copper per supply is produced on this hemisphere. SHIPS NOW BEING BUILT FOR UNCLE SAM'S NAVY Uncle Sam gives out the information, through the bureau of construction of the navy department, that he now has under construction seven battleships, thirteen destroyers, two fuel ships, one supply ship, one transport, and thirty-eight submarines. Of the battleships, three—the Arizona, New Mexico, and Tennessee—are being built in the New York navy yard; the California is under construction in the Mare Island navy yard, the Pennsylvania and Mississippi are being built by the Newport News Ship Building company, and the Idaho is being turned out in the yards of the New York Ship Building company. Of the thirteen destroyers under construction, seven have been named. They are the Wainwright, Sampson, Rowan, Davis, Allen, Wulkes, and Shaw. The fuel ships, which are being built at the Mare Island navy yard, are the Maumee and the Cuyama. The Bridge, a supply ship, is being built in the Boston navy yard, and the Henderson, a transport, is under construction in the Philadelphia navy yard. The thirty-eight submarines being built are all known by letters and numerals, with the exception of one, which has been named the Schley. The submarines are all being constructed in private plants, with the exception of two which, following the forfeiture of contracts, are being completed in the New York navy yard. UNCLE SAM ENTERS INTO FUR BUSINESS GROSS RECEIPTS ARE NOT LARGE, BUT NET PROFITS IN NEW VENTURE ARE BIG. Uncle Sam has gone into the fur business. He says the gross revenue is not yet as large as that which he obtains from his better-known business —that of selling postage stamps —but that the net profits are a whole lot bigger and, just as a side line, it's not bad at all. Uncle Sam was forced to go into the fur business because his official hunters were turning in so many skins of predatory wild animals that they threatened to clutter up all the government buildings in Washington. To relieve the situation the department of agriculture evolved a plan for selling at public auction all the pelts that are not required for scien- tific purposes. In four months 1,399 pelts useful for industry into furs, muffs, or rugs, were sold in four sales for $2,552, the last sale, yielding $1,155.65. The skins disposed of include those of the coyote, bobcat, skunk, badger, opossum, lynx, gray fox, kit fox, raccoon, civet cat and ring-tailed cat. All of these animals have been killed by employees of the biological survey in its various campaigns to rid different sections of the country of animals which are hurtful to live stock, cultivated crops or timber. As each of the official hunters is trained carefully in handling and preserving the skins of animals, the pelts reach the department in excellent shape. The bulk of the skins has been coyote, or prairie wolf, pelts resulting from the active active camouflage of determination against this animal. The wolf is indicating districts of the West. Those in charge of the sales report that the coyote pelt is growing in popularity as a fur, and as a result the prices offered for these skins at the auctions have steadily been increasing. The department reports that the needs of museums and other scientific institutions for specimens have largely been satisfied, so that practically all skins received at the department are now put on sale. SEEKING OVERSEA MARKETS Uncle Sam Sends Agents Into Four Corners of World to Make Investigation of Conditions. Uncle Sam is beginning the most extensive investigations into foreign market conditions ever undertaken at one time. The bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the department of commerce is sending its agents to the four corners of the globe in an effort to find new markets. Special attention can be made to the newer and more undeveloped markets, such as those in South America, China, India, Africa and Australia. In South America these agents will study and report especially on markets for construction material and machinery, fancy grocery, furniture, glass and glassware, jewelry and silverware, motor vehicles, paper and printing supplies, railway supplies and stationery and office supplies. In the Far East, Africa and Australia attention will be given particularly to the markets for boots and shoes, electrical goods, motor vehicles and railway supplies. The work of these agents abroad is expected to open up many new markets for American goods. The manufacturing industries of Birmingham, Ala., experienced a great growth between 1909 and 1914, according to a report of the bureau of the census. The number of establishments engaged in manufacturing increased 41.5 per cent during that time, while the number of persons engaged in manufactures increased 26.5 per cent. The amount of capital employed in manufactures increased from $23-718,000 to $655,844,000, a gain of 135.4 per cent, while the primary horse power employed showed an increase of 113.7 per cent. North Carolina Gold Output Uncle Sam reports that North Carolina easily retained first rank in gold output among the Eastern or Appalachian states in 1915. The total production of gold in 1915 amounted to 8,320.55 fine ounces, about 6,343.94 ounces in 1914. In 1915 the value of the North Carolina gold yield was slightly more than half of the total of the Eastern states. Chance for American Goods. New Zealand offers a splendid mark ket now for American battalion suits and footwear, say Uncle Sam. It is difficult to secure sufficient supplies from European countries and local factories are unable to supply the de ALASKAN MINERAL OUTPUT INCREASES PRODUCTION IN 1915 SHOWS BIG GAIN OVER THAT OF PREVIOUS YEAR. The wealth of Uncle Sam's territory of Alaska is shown by its mineral production in 1915, which amounted to $32,542,229—$13,788,563 more than the value in 1914, and far more than that of any previous annual output during the 36 years that mining has been carried on in the territory. The collection of mineral statistics of Alaska for 1915, just completed by Alfred H. Brooks of the United States geological survey, shows that the value of the gold produced during the year amounted to $16,702,144, copper $15,139,129, iron $43,433, antimony, marble, gold and small amount of petroleum and coal bring the total value of Alaska's mineral products to $32,542,229. Since 1880, when mining first began in Alaska, the territory has produced gold, silver, copper, tin, and other minerals to the value of $300,935,751, the gold production alone to the close of 1980. The total value of this gold, $186,192,992 worth was produced by the placers, the rest being derived from lode deposits. NOW LEADS IN SHIPBUILDING United States, for First Time in Many Years, Takes First Place Away From British Yards, The United States has become, tem- porally at least, the leading ship building country of the world, Uncle Sam reports. During the first three months of 1916 American shipyards for the first time in many years, took a slight lead over British yards. For the three months ended March 31, American yards launched 173 mer- chant vessels of 94,464 gross tons, while, according to Lloyd's shipbuilding returns, British yards launched 69 vessels of 80,561 gross tons. Merchant ships now building or under contract in American yards are approximating the British output for the future. In American yards 31 vessels between 8,000 and 12,000 gross tons are under contract, in British yards 26; in American yards 77 between 5,000 and 8,000 gross tons, in British yards 68; in American yards 39 between 3,000 and 5,000 gross tons, in British yards 74; in American yards 44 between 1,000 and 3,000 gross tons, in British yards 62. COTTON MILLS "HOMEMADE" More Than 90 Per Cent of Textile Machines in American Plants Manufactured in This Country Practically all of the equipment of the cotton mills of the United States is "homemade," says Uncle Sam. More than 90 per cent of the cotton spinning machinery now installed in American plants is of American manufacture. There was a time when American mills were almost wholly dependent upon foreign manufacturers for machinery but these conditions have changed in recent years. The increase in imports of cotton-spinning machinery since 1909 shows what great changes have been taking place in this industry. The number of cotton-textile machines imported *new* New York, Boston and Philadelphia decreased from 1,132 in 1909 to 275 in 1914. Heat Drawn From the Sun. The great German physicist Helmholtz was the first to explain satisfactorily what keeps the sun' hot. The sun is not burning; it is heated to the glowing point, like a piece of white hot iron. Helmholtz found that if we suppose the sun to be contracting by only 250 feet a year we would receive our present amount of heat. In other words, says the Popular Science Monthly, heat is being literally squeezed out of the sun. Professor Newcomb estimated that when the squeezing process has continued for about 7,000,000 years the sun will be one-half its present size. That it may be possible to make a serum that shall confer immunity to mumps seems likely as a result of experiments on cats at the Rockefeller institute by Doctor Wolstein. She inoculated them with the saliva of persons having mumps and found that they contracted the disease. She attenuated the infectious material with the serum of cats that had recovered and found a distinctly slight reaction. And reinoculation of animals that had recovered produced but little effect. Tennessee Output Doubles. The combined value of gold, silver, copper and zinc produced at mines in Tennessee in 1915 was twice that of the 1914 output, says Ursam Sam. MAT 101 LANDWATER & DEPARTMENT Field bakery in operation in the American camp near Namiquipa, Mexico. In the various field camps and headquarters of the American forces in Mexico bread is now being supplied direct from the army bakeries. In the early stages of the campaign food was carried from the border to the various camps and depots in motor trucks. The installation of the field bakeries releases these trucks for other important duties. REVIVES THOSE BELIEVED DEAD New Serum Discovered at Johns Hopkins Causes Heart to React WORKING ON A NEW THEORY Will Revolutionize the Treatment of Persons Apparently Dead From Drowning or Asphyxiation—After Effects Serious in Some Cases. Baltimore, Md.—A departure in medical science which, if successful, will revolutionize the treatment of persons apparently dead from drowning or asphyxiation is now being experimented with at the John Hopkins hospital. The new treatment will be the injection of a serum to stimulate the blood to such an extent as will form a reaction of the heart. This will keep the person alive until the appa- tatus performed some time ago to clear the blood to be put into use. The serum has been tried on a number of animals in the laboratories of the institution, and in a number of cases has proved successful. However, in most of the cases there have been after-effects such as high blood pressure or hardening of the arteries. According to the physicians, if the serum can be perfected, and there is every assurance at this time that it can, the serum can be infected in the person several hours after the accident and restore the persons to life. In one case, on an animal, the serum was injected four hours after the drowning took place and the animal was brought back to life, but died later in a bloody attack. The physician for more than three years have worked on the theory that the heart in drowned or asphyxated persons is still active, in a way, for TRAGIC BRIDE OF REBEL C Grace Gifford, the gentle-breed Irish girl who married Joseph Plunkett, the Sinn Fein rebellion leader who was among the first of the revolters to be executed, in the condemned cell just a few hours before he was shot as a traitor. The photograph is a copy from a beautiful portrait of the girlwife painted by William Orpen, A. R. A. SHE BROUGHT IN HER MAN Woman Proves Ability to Hold Her Job as Deputy Sheriff in Kentucky. Beattyville, Ky—Mrs. L. T. Flanery, wife of the high sheriff, who has been acting as office deputy ever since her husband has hold office, has always, by her businesslike methods and pleas- ant ways, proved to all who ever have business in the sheriff's office her ability to hold down the job. She has just turned a trick that is THE BYSTANDER AMIQUIPA, MEXICO American camp near Namiquipa, Mexico. Carters of the American forces in Mexico from the army bakeries. In the early carried from the border to the various The installation of the field bakeries ant duties. some time after the accident, and that if the organ can be kept in that state until the patient can be treated to clear the lungs hundreds of persons who are given up as dead can be saved. Restore Freezing Victims. Some time ago a New York physician claimed to have perfected a machine to be used in restoring life to persons frozen to death. The appearance of a number of cases in the Arctic regions and, according to the accounts, met with some success. It was only a short time after this that the physician at the Johnn Hopkins hospital invented a machine to restore to life those apparently dead from drowning. The machine proved successful on animals that could be put under treatment immediately after the accident. FEAR U. S. HEIRESS INVASION British Mother's Flustered Over Prospects for嫁娶 the Intransigible Daughter London.-English mothers of marriageable daughters are worrying over their daughters' prospects, according to a writer in the Liverpool Daily Post. Not only is the war decreasing the supply of eligible men, but fears are expressed that American girls with fortunes made in war stocks behind them, will come over after the war and carry off the titled prizes. "They are making pots of money in the states," the mother of a young nineteen million is asking, "and after that is the marriageable daughter of every new plutocrat will come over with her mamma just to buy an English husband. Think of the distinction, not only in New York but in St. Louis or Denver or Chicago, of importing a husband not only connected with our peerage but who has been under fire. Mamma will make a deal with someone in English society to introduce her daughter, adding the promise of a further big check on a graduated scale according to the rank of the man she marries. I believe it would pay me better to run an office than to speculate in rubber." The writer asks if it is possible to institute "Protection for Eligible English Girls." FEW STEEL HELMETS USED Type Selected by British Government Condemned as Unsuitable in Service. London.—Although it is quite a long time since the war office became convinced that steel helmets are perhaps the most useful detail in a soldier's equipment and, notwithstanding the French reported as the result of their experiences in the Champagne battles that these headpieces made a reduction in the casualties of almost ten per cent, comparatively few are in use by the British forces. The delay is due, so it is said, to the number of types with which the British war office has been experimenting. The fixed upon at the outset, which is still tilted, is condemned as unsuitable. It is too heavy and lacks the necessary leather lining of the French headgear, which is very serviceable, and also very handsome. It is light blue, to match the men's uniforms. Every officer and soldier in the French army wears the steel headpiece. In the Verdun fighting General Petain is never seen without his helmet. The German military authorities have been even more dilatory in providing this kind of protection for their men than the British. It has been furious in a few regiments, but the percentage of men using them is very small. Mother of 12 at 32 Annover, Ark.-The fourth set of twins has been born to Mr. and Mrs. George Davis here. Mrs. Davis, who is 32 years old, has now 12 children. The first twins died, one of the second set and both of the last two sets are living and in good health. new in the annals of Kentucky. When court circuit met a witness failed to show up and a warrant of arrest was issued. This witness lived about four miles in the country, and as the high sheriff and other deputies were all busy it devolved upon the office deputy to do the job. Rising to the occasion Mrs. Flanery mounted her horse and set out needless to say, she delivered the goods to the satisfaction of the court and all concerned. INDIAN WANTS CITY LAND Educed Pottawatomie Thinks He Has a Good Title to Prop- ease Elkhart, Ind.-It is reported here that Charles Harman, an attorney at Cassopolis, Mich., has been retained by an educated Pottawatomi Indian to prepare to claim property in the heart of Elkhart worth at least $1,000,000. Present owners of the property say they are not alarmed, declaring the court decided the case three-quarter of a century ago. Pierre Morain, otherwise known as Pershing, was allotted Section 5 of Concord township, and two other sections" by the treaty of Chicago. In 1826 he formally petitioned the president of the United States for permission to sell Section 5 to get means to improve his remaining land. President John Quincy Adams granted the petition. Certain technical steps in the transfer from Morain were not fully perfected, and in later years Morain attempted to recover the land. It is believed the Cassopolis report has reference to some descendants' desire to push this old claim. GOLFER HAS PRIVATE TUTOR Topping Employs Noted Professional at $2,500 a Year to Teach Him Game. New York.-Henry J. Topping purposes to make a clean-up on the links this summer and to attain this end he has engaged Macdonald Smith, a noted golf professional, as his private tutor at a salary believed to be $2,500 a year. Mr. Topping won the Ardsley tournament, defeating some of the best golfers in this country. Mr. Topping, like many other golfers, has his careless spells. It was to cure these and to speed up his game a little more that he recently hit on the idea of hiring a private tutor. He selected Macdonald Smith, a young star who won the Metropolitan championship at Scaraldale in 1914 in a new world's record for 72 holes. Mr. Topping has for several years appeared well in many of the lead Making Portadown Mint Henry J. Topping at the Finish of His Drive. ing golf meets. He first attracted attention from golfers when he defeated Chick Evans in a 19-hole match in the semifinal round for the North and South Championship at Pinehurst, N. C. in the spring of 1914 he accompanied Francis Ouimet, Jerry Travers, Chick Evans, Fred Herroshoff, Frasher Hale and Edward Knapp abroad for an invasion of the English links. Mr. Topping lasted longer in the British amateur championship than Travers, Ouimet, Hale and Knapp. "Hen" Topping, as he is familiarly called, married Miss Rhea Reid, only daughter of Daniel G. Reid, the Wall street magnate. The elder Mr. Topping, also a golf caddiest, presented the fifth hole with 400 to remake the fifteenth, a hole in the course he didn't like. Now the fifteenth is one of the best short holes in the country. MEN ARE REMADE FOR WAR Two Instances of Remarkable Mechanical Surgery Are Told—Improved Artificial Limbs. London.—One of the results of the war has been the enormously improved method in the manufacture of mechanical limbs both here and in France and Germany. According to Surgeon-Major Gamper of the Swiss army it is a fact that the Germans have devised remarkably ingenious arrangements for patching up disabled and crippled men. Lecturing at Bulach on cases that had actually come under his personal notice in Germany, Surgeon-Major Gamper declares that he has devised artificial legs of German invention that soldiers fitted with them were able to rejoin the cavalry for active service. They sat on their horses as well and as easily as if they still possessed a sound pair of legs and could do as quickly, smartly and thoroughly any feat required of a perfectly able-bodied man. A well-known case in England is that of Lord Lucas, who was wounded early in the war in Flanders, with the result that he lost a leg. An artificial limb was fitted so successfully that Lord Lucas was able to transfer his services to the Royal Flying corps and is now serving with that branch of the service as a fully qualified pilot somewhere in Egypt. Starve the Fly. Paterson, N. J. - Starving has been added to swapping in the anti-fly campaign here. The health department advises householders to wrap up all food so that the housefly will fall of sustenance. Heavyweight Offspring Stillwater, N. J.—One ton of sons and daughters helped Daniel Hoover celebrate his 71st birthday. The average weight of Hoover's seven sons and three daughters is 900 pounds. The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation THE MUSEUM Showing the Beauty of a Lawn Rightly Planted and Cared For. THE FLOWER BOX If You Desire a Participative Alternative Centerpiece for Occasions, Arrange a Flower in a Lower Flat Bowl, or Illustrated. BY E. VAN BENEW The question of whether to sod or seed is of primary importance. A sod greenward is immediately secured if we sod. The objections to sodding are many. Good sod is not always procurable. It requires an extra amount of labor to sod. If the grounds are very large it is not practical. If, however, sodding is decided upon, the ground should first be leveled and smoothed to the proper grade. The surface should then be stirred and pulverized to a depth of an inch or more and suitable fertilizers worked in. It is well to spread rich dirt from the creek bottom or woods over the surface. It will give the sod a quick start and give new life to the original soil. It is not essential to cut the sod more than an inch thick, or just deep enough to include all the underground stems, but the thicker the sod is the better It is not necessary in laying the sods to lay them flush against each other as grass will sprout from the sides and the spaces allow for expansion in settling and leveling. As soon as the sods are laid give the entire lawn a complete wetting, then go over the surface with a roller to level it. A good home-made pounder for the lawn can be made by nailing a board TABLE DECORATIONS BY L. M. BENNINGTON. We cannot all have flowers for the table if we are dependent on the greenhouses in our neighborhood for the supply. The cost is out of all proportion. But flowers we ought to have and can have at a very nominal cost in time and money if we are willing to take care of a few plants in the home. The best all-round plant for a decoration for the table is asparagus plumosus. Its foliage is dainter than any other fern. It can easily be made to grow in the bushy, compact form which a plant designed for use on the table should have. Pinch off the ends of the young fronds when they have made a growth of 12 or 18 inches. This causes the lower side branches to spread out broadly and thus breadth is secured where there would be little if the plant were allowed to train itself. Long stem flowers can be thrust through its filmy green foliage if added beauty is needed, but there are few ferns comparable to this filmy, lacy fern. This plant requires a soil of garden loam made light with sand. Water moderately. For its successful culture sunshine is not necessary. Keep the red spider from injuring it, and shower several times a week. Nip off the end of each shoot and make the plant spread out well. Pots of Roman hyacinths and lilies of the valley and narcissus make charming adjuncts to the breakfast table. Few plants can be kept on the table day after day without becoming unhealthy. Have a shelf in your window and give the flowers a change, using one only for a day or two and changing to something different. This gives them all a fair chance at the sunshine and light. Several types of begonia make successful plants for the table. The Globe de Lorraine, whose flowers literally a foot or two square to the bottom of a piece of 4 by 1-inch scantling. Place a handle at the top and go over the lawn pounding it down flat and even. You will not hurt the sods by pounding if the surface is thoroughly soft from a heavy rain or a thorough watering. A good lawn may be made from seedling. It takes much longer to produce a permanent grassy lawn. The seed must be sown thickly and worked thoroughly and evenly into the soil. It is a good idea, if trees and shrubs do not interfere, to plow and compact or spade it fine and compact before it is planted. Be sure the soil has been made rich with decomposed manure or very rich soil hauled in from some other place. Seed at intervals of about six weeks from early spring until late summer in the yard with open and tree sheltered spaces. Keep the surface mowed clean and short so that the young grass will have a chance to grow. After grass gets to be two or three inches high there is little danger of killing it by frequent mowing. If for no other reason than to keep down the weeds mowing is essential. Mowing also helps to level the lawn the mower acts as a light roller. The clippings from the lawn make a good surface for grass. No matter what the weather, wet or dry, do not neglect to mow your lawn if you wish it to be the thing of beauty it can be if cared for. pink make artificial light seems to make more, vivid. LITTLE GARDEN NOTES. Always plant the best—not the cheapest seed you can get for flowers or vegetables. The garden should be near the house and surrounded with a good, woven wire netting or a hedge of shrubbery, to keep out fowls and other garden pests. If the garden must of necessity be on a stiff, clayey soil mix all the coal ashes and sand obtainable with it; they will mellow it up wonderfully. Bonemeal is excellent for vines and fruit trees, and three or four ounces may be applied to the square yard. As soon as a crop of any kind appears above ground it needs cultivation, both to kill the weeds and to admit the air to the roots of the plants. In transplanting any plants, let it be done in the evening, if possible, or on a dark day. Press the soil firmly about the roots and water well. If after the water disappears, dry earth is covered over the wet, it will prevent baking of the soil about the roots when the sun comes out next day. FOR ROSE MILDEW. For rose mildew spraying with sulphide of potassium, using one ounce to three gallons of water, is much more effective than the old-fashioned method of dusting the foliage with flowers of sulphur. For Blight In Pansies Str lime and sulphur into the soil when blight attacks panies. Remove the affected plants and burn them. If the blight continues best make a new bed elsewhere. Spread lime and sulphur to the old bed and str it well into the soil. NORTHWESTERN FEDERATION. Mrs. J. B. Bush, secretary of the Northwestern Federation, and Mrs. Hase Bell, representative of the Dramatic Art club, will leave Monday night for Wichita to attend the first annual meeting of the Northwestern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. This Federation is composed of the states of the west and northwest. From all indications an exceedingly large delegation will attend. A splendid program has been arranged, representing the best brain of the west. Eighteen states are enrolled, together with applications from nearly fifty clubs, from California, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Michigan and others. This promises to be a great meeting. The club women of Iowa held a very interesting and instructive session last week at Buxton. It was largely attended and the sessions as a rule were harmonious. Many new women were seen here that have not been attending. Hon. E. R. Harlan (white), curator of the Iowa Historical society, spent a day with the Federation. He delivered an address and urged the ladies to have a painting by Tanner of the late Booker' T. Washington to be hung in the Iowa historical gallery. The home that the Federation is seeking to buy was reported and it seems to be doing well within a few years. N. A. A. C. P. At the educational meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last Thursday evening Hon. Jas. B. Weaver, son of the former presidential candidate of the same name, delivered one of his pleasing and instructive lectures on "The Philosophy of Life" and Dr. E. A. Carter of Buxton, a member of the Moines branch, was also present and made some instructive remarks. About twenty dollars was collected in medication fees and donations to the anti-segregation fight in Des Moines and Louisville Ky, at the conclusion of which Dr. A. J. Booker, the chairman, again made good his promised surprise by presenting to Attty, Geo. H. Woodson, who acted as chairman of the legal-redress committee during the "Birth of a Nation" fight, a handsomely engraved gold lined sterling silver loving cup as a token of the appreciation of the branch for his valuable services to the association and the race at large. Bowel Complaints in India In a lecture at one of the Des Moines, Iowa, churches a missionary from India told of going into the interior of India, where he was taken sick, that he had a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with him and believed that it saved his life. This remedy is used successfully in India both as a preventive and cure for cholera. You may know from this that it can be depended upon for the milder forms of bowel complaint that occur in this country. Obtainable everywhere. CENTERVILLE, IOWA, NEWS. Things around Centerville have been very, very quiet, as we haven't had an ayroport in the Bystander for the last week. No preaching at the church, but services have been well attended. The Mission Circle was entertained at the home of Mrs. A. L. Crittenden on Thursday evening, May 25. Quite a number were present and refreshments were served. Dgt. Mattie Brooks of Des Moines, D. G. H. P. of the International Order of Twelve, made her annual visit to the Golden Rule tabernacle, N.O. 81, lesday. May 23. While in the city she was the guest of Dgt. Emmia Martin. H. P. Mrs. J. H. Hicks and daughters, Edna and Grace, expect to leave the city soon for Minneapolis, Minn, where they will join Mr. J. H. Hicks and make that city their future home. Mrs. Stella Price is visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. L. D. Price, for a few days. Rev. J. E. Smith is very poorly at this writing. Mrs Davenport is very poorly at this writing. rMrs. Tripplet received the sad news that Wilbur Gordon, her brother, had bee mhot and killed some time Sunday. No details whatever; Everyone is waiting to learn more of the affair. The eighth grade graduation was held at the Drake Avenue theater on Thursday, May 25. Two of our colored young people graduated, Georgie Bolden, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bolden, and Lillian Baden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Bandy. We only hope that the young people will not only receive diplomas from the eighth grade, but also the high school. The much talked of "Birth of a Na- PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER A SUPPLEMENT FOR WHITENING SKIN ALL OVER THE U.S. AND CANADA BROOKLYN PARKWAY CO. WEST AITCH, GA. PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER 25c Delivered Clear and Bleaches the Complexion Makes Dark, Brown or Sallow Skin Whiter Good for Pimples and Rough Skin Get the Original and Genuine Made Only by JACOBS' PHARMACY ATLANTA, GA. AGENTS WANTED. Written For You. tion" will be shown in this city at the Majestic theater soon. The K. of P. will turn out in a body May 30th, Decoration day, to pay tribute to their deceased members. HEALTH HINTS. A. J. Booker. M. D. There are many scientific and superstitious reasons given for diseases and ailments. Some people think that the pestilences and pain are visitations of the Lord. There is one nearly universal ailment which has caused more tragedies, divorces and loss of friendships than all other causes in the world. Men have been killed, women multreated, roots started and holy things pro- caused more tragedies, divorces and loss of friendships than all other causes in the world. Men have been killed, women mutilated, roots started and holy things pro-faned because the perpetrator of all these outrages sugered from the invention of the devil, for no one could devise so ingenious a torture as corn. A man scts about to celebrate a solemn occasion and deckes himself out in a fine suit a gaudy necktie and a late creation in headgear. He indulges himself in loud socks and finally allows some grimming devil to put a lot of sick powder into a pair of shoes which look please. He saillens forth and the world is glorious to him for a few hours. Suddenly he imagines the weather is unsuited too his taste, his collar does not fit, his trousers feel tight he develops a thirst which neither water nor fire water quenches; finally, after he loses interest in his best friend, when he discovers that the girl is not one quarter so charming as he dreamed he begins to realize that his shoes are about three sizes too small. Never did the picture of hloom loom up so largely as now. The corn sends little the twinges of pain, then all the pavements get like boiling water, he acquires a mincing step and grows morose. He talks in monosyllables and inwardly swears at any one who makes him talk at all. Every barefoot boy is the picture of all the happiness in the world. The man is in a fine friendly and mentally conditioned to kill or curse. The wonder is that there are so few homicides under the circumstances. Saints become sinners, mild manned men are transformed into fire eating demons and there is an unpleasant memory associated with contact of such men. Pretty shoes have caused much trouble in the world. A man who wears a sharp pointed shoe could not have an opinion that was not modified by his feet. People see dainty little girls wearing a number two canvass oxford and they imagine that they will look cute in eights. Patent leather shoes on a nice warm day will make most people talk so that Job's curses sound like a peanuts of joey. In winter they are colden to icicles; no one wears them but an imbecile who lets the shoe clerk think for them. Corns are the consequence of folly in the selection of foot wear. The feet are as important as any other part of the body and we should select them with care, with, some idea of comfort, not fashion. The cure for corn is common sense, but so long as people are willing to sacrifice comfort for pride they will suffer and the whole world must be imposed upon. The next time you see a cross, crabid person do not get angry, but pity them and think that it is the corn and not their disposition. Free to color Women age 15+ Little Book We are the largest manufacturers of cutlery for women's hair, and in order to increase our goods we are sending free book, est, book, lap cup free, etc. styles for colored womenswear in latest hair dressing. ored woman should have one. We guarantee every article we sell or we guarantee stand combing and washing the same as your own. NEW COMB of solid brass, with extra heavy back, absolutely the best guaranteed. With each comb we sell at the low price of cans we give lap cups can be used for this straightening cotton today Madam M. Downs HAIR CULTURIST (Graduate Poro College of St. Louis) Subscribe for The Bystander. Creole Hair Straightine SCOTTISH RITE MASONS TO MEET IN INDIANAPOLIS Supreme Council to Open With Divine Service Sunday, May 7. Indianapolis, Ind.-The thirty-six annual session of the supreme council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of the northern Masonic jurisdiction will be held in this city from Sunday, May 7, to 9, inclusive. Male personnel organization embraces Masons who have taken the thirty-third degree, the highest degree in Masonry, and is the lawmaking body for the Scottish Rite in its jurisdiction. The organization has a large membership in each of the northern states. The coming session will be the second to be held away from the regular meeting place in Philadelphia, and it was only in deference to the increasingly large number of Masons in the far and middle west that this city was selected as the seat of the convocation for 1816. Constantine consistory is planning to entertain the organization in the royal fashion that always charmed the crowd of the Hoover capital. The regular business session will be interspersed with many interesting and enjoyable social features, including a banquet. $\textcircled{1}$ On Sunday, May 7, at 8 p.m., a special divine service will be held at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church, when the Rev. William H. Weaver, thirty-third degree, will deliver a sermon especially prepared for the occasion. The supreme council will attend this service, escorted by the Masonic bodies of Indianapolis. Monday, May 5, will mark the opening of the executive and business sessions, and the sermon will be throughout the day. At night the banquet by the Constantine consistory will be held Tuesday the supreme council will hear reports and wind up the routine affairs of the convocation, and at the close the body will be treated to a birdseye view of the numerous points of historic interest about Indianapolis, with a glance at the beautiful homes and beauty spots of the city and a survey of the business and industrial development shown by both races. On Wednesday, May 10, the members of the supreme council will visit Detroit, Mich., as the guests of the Wolverine consistory of that valley, a cordial invitation to make the journey having been accepted by the organization. Many prominent men from various portions of the country will be in attendance, among whom are J. F. Rickards of Detroit, moderator of the grand commission; William H. Miller of Philadelphia, grand secretary; Hon. W. F. Powell, former United States minister to Hawaii; U. G. Powell of Massachusetts, R. H. Weeks of Delaware; J. M. Morris of Minneapolis, Minn.; Richard E. Moore of Chicago and Illinois. Dr. Summer A. Furlais, grand minister of state in the supreme council, one of the best known and most popular physicians and public spirited citesens in the Hoosier commonwealth has active charge of the arrangements for the entertainment of the Scottish Rite visitors, which is in itself a guar ante that the work will be satisfac torly done. ACTIVE BUSINESS LEAGUE. Organization at Kansas City, Mo, to Entertain the National Body. Kansas City, Mo.—The local Business league of this city has commenced in earnest preparations to entertain the National Negro Business league, which meets here from Aug. 16 to 18 inclusive. A membership campaign is being conducted, from which it is hopped at least 1,000 new members may be added to the league. This membership campaign will be followed by the appointment of committees to complete the plans already outlined. Mr. and Mrs. Fortune J. Veaver are the leading men of the league; this will be joined by the leading men and women of Kansas City, Mo, and Kansas City, Kan., and all the surrounding towns will fall in line to forward the work. The Missouri people are determined to make this the greatest session of the league in its history and will give to the national body more members, annual and life, than any other place. All of this will be worked out in the program of preparation. Charles Stewart, A. M., the noted writer, was in the city early in March conferring with the local newspapers and other leaders here. The local league gave Dr. Stewart a banquet. He delivered several talks, including one at the Y. M. C. A., visited the schools and churches and talked with a number of the ministers. He was the guest of the young Kansas poet, Tilford Davils. From his talks the people received much information and inspiration. Professor J. R. E. Lee, principal of the Lincoln high school, who was connected with the Tuskegee institute for a number of years, will co-operate with the local committee. He is a valuable man in affairs of this kind. Hon. John M. Wright of Topeka, Kan., will be directly interested in the success of the league and will bring a large delegation from Topeka. The place for holding the sessions of the league will soon be announced, as well as many of the social functions, as well as many of the road to potato farm of Mr. Groves, the Negro "potato king." The farmers around Kansas City are getting together and will attend the sessions of the league in a body. It is about thirty minutes' ride from Kansas City on a street car to Mr. Groves' farm. BUXTON BRIEFS. Mrs. W. A. Brown, state president of the B. Y. P. U., gave a splendid lecture Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Subject, "Whispering and Its Bad Effects." Mrs. Lucy Wright of Des Moines was the guest of her niece, Mrs. Elnora Freeman, last week. Revival meetings have closed with an addition of fourteen to the church. The pastor, Rev. Roman, still extends the invitation to all to continue coming to church. SCARLET GERANIUMS We have a splendid lot of plants in our green houses ready to immediate planting. They are particularly colorful and varieties, and it is worth while for you to purchase your wants now before the stocks are high. OUT OF TOWN CUSTOMERS WRITE FOR CATALOGUE Main Store, 209-211 Walnut Street East Des Moines Branch, 416 East Locust St. Greenhouses, 31st and Crocker Sts. IOWA SEED CO. DES MOINES, IOWA THE BYSTANDEK Rev. L. G. Garrett and wife, accompanied by his brother, Joe, were called to Cherry, Ark., to attend the funeral of their mother. We extend them our sympathy. Mrs Iva Simmons of Marshalltown was the guest of her parents over Sunday, Rev, and Mrs. Roman. She was accompanied by Mrs. Sailers, also of Marshalltown. They returned to their home Tuesday. There will be a splendid program rendered Sunday evening, Children's day, at the church by the children, under the management of Mrs. Roman. Sore Nipples Any mother who has had experience with this distressing aliment will be pleased to know that a cure amy be affected by applying Chamberlain's Salve as soon as the child is done nursing. Wipe it off with a soft cloth before allowing the babe to nurse. Many trained nurses use this salve with best results. For sale by e1-aler WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. Leon Motia has gone to Chicago for a visit before returning to his home in Omaha. Mrs. Emma Black left Saturday for a visit in Oakaloa and to attend district conference and Sunday school convention at Ottumwa this week. Mr. Ollie Howard is going to Chicago soon to seek employment on the C. M. & St. P. R. R. Sorry to see the family leave Washington. On last Sunday night at the A. M. E. church there were ten persons taken in as full members of the church. A pretty sight it was, too. There is still two or three probationers yet to be taken in. Miss Nora Motts has returned to her hospital work at Cedar Rapids. These were in attendance at the conference and Sunday school convention at Otumwu: Rev. Boyd, W. I. Rhodes, A. L. Hall, Samuel Hall, Jr., and Miss Marie Whaley. Hayes Crayton succeeds Beebe Gwin at the C., R. I. & P. station, who has resigned and gone to Kansas City. Tuesday evening the young folks had a merry time at the W. H. Rhodes home in the country. Mrs. McGill of Fairwind visited at the Phil Rushing home last Sunday. Mrs. Phillips is getting along nicely and improving, getting so now she can move any part of her body at will. Watch out for the P. E. G. musical in the near future. Stomach Troubles. Many remarkable cures of stomach troubles have been ejected by Chamberlain's Tablets. One man who had spent over two thousand dollars for medicine and treatment was cured by Chamberlain's tablets of 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. 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