Iowa State Bystander

ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER The Best and only medium that reaches the colored people of the middle west. XXIII No.11 Mrs. Watkins entertained a dancing party in honor of Mr. Clyde Glass. Mrs. Ella Coleman left this week for Minneapolis for a few weeks visit. Mr. M. Askew fas an over Sunday guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Johnson. Dr. O. L. Bledsoe will arrive in the city from Marshall, Texas, as the guest of Miss Letta Carey. Mrs. L. P. Berry of Jersey City will arrive next week as the house guest of Mrs. Mayme Gould. Mr. Archie Alexander motored to Kansas City, Mo., Sunday morning to attend the Business Men's League. Mrs. J. D. Davis entertained a family dinner last Sunday in honor of Miss Woods of Texas. Mrs. S. S. Suggn of Hiawatha, Kansas, is here visiting her sister and family, Mrs. G. W. Brown, 1516 Illinois street. Some of our state fair visitors are Messrs. Albert Miles, T. Jordan, Harve Bartlett and Noble Boyd, all of Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Flossie Fristoe and her sister, Mrs. Rhue Clay of Kansas City, Mo., left Saturday for a week's visit with their brother in Omaha. Miss Sallie M. Nixon of Kansas City is visiting Miss Carrie Watson and Mrs. Shelton. She will remain throughout the summer. Mrs. Watkins entertained at a breakfast for her house guest, Miss Malina Wilson of Chicago, also Mr. Clyde Glass, Miss Letta Carey and Miss Nixon. Mesdames R. N. Hyde and R. E. Patten entertained last week in honor of Miss Octavia Woods of Marshall, Texas. Mrs. Patten gave a one o'clock lunchon and Mrs. Hyde a six o'clock dinner. Mr. R. N. Hyde delegate from Hawkeye lodge, left Friday to attend the Elks convention in Philadelphia. Mr. Hyde will visit in his old home, Virginia, and also in Washington. Rev. S. L. Birt, pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. church of this city, has been selected by Bishop L. J. Coppin to preach the annual sermon of the Chicago conference at Chicago on September 20th at the seat of conference. Dr. Jno. Gregg of Jacksonville, Fla., president of Edward Waters' college, will give an illustrated lecture at the skating rink August 29th, showing the progress of the Negro in the south. This lecture will be known as the other side of the Birth of a Nation. Every Negro should see this. The entertainment given by the Beautiful Light Household of Ruth under the leadership of Mrs. Gus Nichols at the Maple Street Baptist church was quite a success, $73 being realized. The winners of the contest were: Mrs. Wm. Mining, first prize, a beautiful pin with a sheath of wheat; Mrs Nichols, second prize, three links and a sheath of wheat. Mrs. W. H. Birney entertained last Friday to about forty of her friends at cards in honor of Miss Letta Carey, Mrs. Clyde Glass and Mrs. Jno. Young. Prizes awarded were: First ladies' prize, Mrs Nixon of Kansas City; second ladies' prize, Mr. Lowery; first gentleman's prize, Mr. Oa Smith, and booby prize, Miss Margaret Roberts. Mr. M. Askew, district deputy grand master of Odd Fellows, and Mr. Horace Green, delegate of Sioux City lodge. No. 4655, passed through our city Monday en route to the grand lodge of Odd Fellows at Colfax. While in our city they made the Bystander office a pleasant call. Monday, Avuust 28th, Mr. James Hill will begin to enroll pupils for his class in voice culture. Pupils entering now will be heard in the first series of recitals the latter part of November. A limited number of pupils will be taken for the first term. Mr. Hill is widely known as a teacher and solist. For information regarding terms and appointments call Walnut 2106. Bro. W. M. Lewis, the noted gospel singer of Texas, has had splendid success each night this week in a revival meeting at the Corinthian Baptist church. Meetings will continue on Wednesday evening, August 30th, which will be the farewell service. Sunday, August 27th, from 3 until 4 o'clock will be a "nail service." Everyone attended is requested to REMEMBER THE Palace Sweet Cafe UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Is the best place to go for Good Home Cooking Everything First Class Red 1367 1012 Center Street Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson, Props. THE BYSTANDER bring a nail. Come and see what this man will do with this nail. A model B. Y. P. U. will be conducted from 6 until 7 o'clock. Do not fail to see this model B. Y. P. U. Rev. W. W. Ewing of Des Moines was ordained last Wednesday for the Bedford Baptist church by the following council at Maple Street Baptist church, Des Moines, Iowa: Rev. S. Bates as moderator, Rev. Woodward of Buxton, Rev. Burton of Keokuk, Rev. Boling of Enterprise, Rev. Childs, Greene and Rev. White of Des Moines, Deacons Henry and Warfield as escorts. After the ordination sermon Mrs. Ewing served the council to a three-course supper. Mrs. Ewing was assisted by Mrs. S. Bates. Quite a unique social event was the reception given by the Misses McDowell and Dickey at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McDowell. The house was beautifully decorated with cut flowers and ferns, the university colors being suspended from the chandeliers of the library room. Quite a number of young people were present, the student body ranging from the freshmen to the dignified seniors. The music was furnished by those who were artists in this regard, and various kinds of games made up the amusements for the evening. Delicious refreshments were served, after which he guests departed, declaring they had spent an enjoyable evening. ODD FELLOWS GRAND SESSION. The district grand lodge, No. 30, G, U. O. of F. O. of the state of Iowa meet in Colfax this week and elected the following officers: District grand master, M. Askew of Sioux City. D. D. G. master, I. Hammitt of Des Moines. District treasurer, W. D. Miller of Enterprise. District secretary, S. A. Spencer of Colfax. District G. director, A. G. Rhoades of Buxon. District G. A. G. H. Woodson. Organizer, J. W. Holmes. Mr. M. Askew went to Chicago on business after attending the grand session in Colfax. ROYAL ARCH MASONS AND KNIGHTS TEMPLAR HOLD ANNUAL SESSIONS. As a preface to the International Conferences being held in Chicago this week the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the grand commandery of the Illinois-Iowa jurisdiction held their annual sessions in that city on Friday and Saturday of last week. As the time for the sessions were quite limited little business was was transacted other than the election of officers, which resulted as follows: Deputy grand high priest, Frank Coleman, Chicago. Grand king, A. R. Lee, Champaign. Grand scribe, G. G. Fletcher, Galesburg. Grand treasurer, J. H. Washington, Galesburg. Grand secretary, John W. Smith, Chicago. Grand lecturer, Fred Harding, Chicago. Grand captain of the host, C. H. Stevenson, Bloomington. Grand principal sojourner, L. W. Dickerson, Chicago. Grand Royal Arch captain, S. Daup, Chicago. Grand master first vail, J.A. Wilson, Des Moines, Iowa. Grand master second vail, R. T. Lane, Chicago. Grand master third vail, A. M. Greer, Chicago. Grand sentinel, C. T. Berry, Chi- cago. For the grand commander: Grand commander, Sir Harry Young, Chicago. Deputy grand commander, Sir L. W. Dickerson. Grand generalissimo, Sir E. T. Banks, Des Moines, Iowa. Grand captain general, Sir J. D. Reynolds, Chicago. Grand prelate, Sir J. B. Foster, Chicago. Grand senior warder, Sir C. T. Berry, Chicago. Grand junior warder, Sir J. A. Young, Springfield. Grand warder, Sir Samuel Caine, Rock Island. Grand sword bearer, Sir John Walker, Springfield. Grand standard bearer, Sir P. W. Walburg, Peoria. Grand captain of guard, Sir C. H. Brazzleton, Chicago. After a spirited controversy between Galesburg, Ill., and Des Moines, Iowa, the grand chapter and grand commandery both decided to meet next year at Galesburg, Ill., the second Tuesday in August. King Solomon commandery, No. 6, of this city took a delegation of six sir knights and received the public commendation of the grand commander for the splendid showing they made. What is Best For Indigestion. Mr. A. Robinson of Drumquin, Ontario, has been troubled for years with indigestion, and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets as "the best medicine I ever used." If troubled with indigestion or constipation give them a trial. They are certain to prove beneficial. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price, 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1916. NEGRO GRAND MASONS IN CON- FERENCE. The second session of the International Conference of Grand Masters and Grand Secretaries opened in the auditorium of the Wabash Avenue Branch Y. M. C. A. building, Thirty-eighth and Wabash, at 9 o'clock by Hon. John L. Thompson, P. G. M., of Iowa, president. The call of the roll of states showed the following states represented: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, District of Columbia, Virginia, Kentucky and Georgia. The following were elected officers for the ensuing year: President, John L. Thompson, Des Moines, Iowa. First vice president, W. T. Woods, Mobile, Ala. Second vice president, E. A. Turpin, Camden, N. J. Secretary, W. H. Mayo, Frankfort, Ky. Assistant secretary, N. E. Weatherless, Washington, D. C. Treasurer, A. L. McCoo, Chicago. Sergeant-at-arms, J. E. Hawkins, Fort Scott, Kan. Chaplain, Rev. J. M. Henderson, Ky. Executive board—A. W. Dungey, Lansing, Mich, Wm. O. Payne, New York, N. Y. J. F. Richards, Chatham, Ontario, T. A. Harris, Los Angeles, Cal. A. A. Mintauro, Cairo, Ill.; Jos. P. Evans, Baltimore, Md., S. M. Strayhorne, Martin, Tenn., Cory Adams, Findley, Ohio, H. R. Butler, Atlanta, Go. Next meeting will be at Louisville, Ky., in August, 1917. Among the most distinguished past grand masters present were: Wm. T. Boyd, Cleveland, Ohio, for more than sixty-five years a member and present correspondent of Ohio; Wm. H. Miller of Philadelpia, for more than fifty-one years a member of the frenzy and present secretary of the university; A. A. Bland of Kookuk, Iowa, for more than fifty years a member of the fraternity, all of whom were given seats of honor. The largest number of grand masters present were from Iowa, which was represented by present Grand Master Brown, with the assistance of Past Grand Masters Bland, Banks and Thompson, the latter of whom is the presiding officer of the conference, whose annual address was the principal address of the morning session. Committee on uniformity reported recommending the adoption of the official ritual of Ohio in cipher, which minimally adopted by the conference. GOOD ROADS EXHIBIT. The question of improved highway is a paramount one today in Iowa. It has been knocking at the door of public opinion for some years, of late so very insistently that it can no longer be elbowed to one side. The State Highway Commission for pursuing investigations concerning this problem and will doubtless help many individuals to reach a logical conclusion. The Highway Commission's exhibit will present a number of completed sections of roadway, gravel, concrete, asphalt, brick, etc. Methods of construction are discussed with all kinds of roadmaking implements and road building machinery. MUSIC AT THE STATE FAIR. There will be no lack of musical entertainment at the Iowa State Fair this year. The celebrated Liberat Concert Band and Grand Opera Singers has been secured to entertain visitors every day and evening of the Fair. This organization needs no introduction to Iowa music lovers, having visited the state a number of times in the past and established an enviable reputation. The band of honour, Fischer's Concert Band of Burlington, the Girls' Band of Knoxville are all under contract to furnish music for the occasion. COW TEST EXHIBIT FOR STATE FAIR Arrangements have been made to conduct a cow test exhibit at the Iowa State Fair. This will prove a novel feature and one quite as practical as novel, an innovation in the world of fairs. It will be under the management of the Iowa State Dairy Association, working in conjunction with the officials of the Dairy Department of the Iowa College of Agriculture. This demonstration will hold a world of interest for the man engaged in dairying or the one who is contemplating embarking in the business. In this exhibit a group of ten cows will be used, cows that have taken part in a cow test experiment conducted the past year by a local association. The entire plan of procedure will be demonstrated; individual records will be presented showing just what each cow consumed in the year and how it was incorporated in the way of milk and butter fat. It will all be presented in such a way that the lessons will be impressed. To the man contemplating the addition of dairying to his activities this demonstration will be well worth a trip across the state to see. It will be staged in a commodious tent with ample room and accommodations for visitors. ALBIA NEWS. Mrs. Adams of Oakland县 has been visiting at the home of Mr. Bert Alem this week. Seal and Gravine Seal of Lovilla visited at the home of Mrs. Andrew Smith over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hill of Buxton visited at the home of Mrs. Tom Williams on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Graves of Buxton were the guests of Mrs. Oscar Roper this week. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Edmond of Hocking have a baby girl a few weeks old. They were in Albia on Sunday at the home of Mrs. Andrew Smith. Death of the small child of Dr. Carter of Buxton brought many Buxton people to Albia on Tuesday. They were all in automobiles. The child was buried in Oak View cemetery. Rev. R. B. Morgan held his last quarterly meeting in Albia for this conference year on Sunday, August 20th. The presiding elder, S. B. Moore, was with him, giving three of his fine and instructive sermons during the day and closing with quarterly conference on Monday night, with financial and spiritual success. The $10 for quarterly support for the presiding elder. A fair amount of dollar money collected and Rev. R. B. Morgan satisfied with his yearly salary outcome. Rev. Farribee passed through Albia on Monday on his way to Chicago. While waiting between trains he was the guest of Rev. Morgan. Miss Mildred Lewis, who has been confined to her home for over a year, is ableto drive out every few days with her father or some one this summer. Mrs. Andrew Smith has purchased a Ford automobile. CLARINDA, IOWA. Miss Mabel Johnson of Gravity is expected home in a few days from St. Louis, Mo., where she has been at Mr. Major's college. She will return with her diploma ready todo all kinds of work in hair goods. Let every one patronize this bright, young, industrious lady of our race. We wish her success. Mr. Dick Johnson is over attending lodge. Mrs. Jane Jackson died at her home last Thursday. Obituary will appear in next week's paper. Mrs. Mattie Renfro of Mt. Vernon, Mo., is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. E. B. Cook. Mr. F. H. Johnson of Gravity, the mail carrier. Has purchased the latest 85 Overland car from C. L. Oswalt. They drove it back from Omaha on Thursday evening. He was also accompanied by H. C. Lyon and W. D. Estle. Mrs. E. B. Cook expects to spend Thursday in Shenandoah, Iowa, to spend the day with her husband, who is traveling with the Yankee Robinson estate. Mr. Fred Johnson took the week in Chillicothe, the St. Joe and Kansas City, Mo. He is a member of the National Business League. He was theguest of J. Weaver and Mr. R. Lockharts while in Kansas City. Mrs. Lucy Parker of Platte City, Mo, and daughter, Nannie May, are visiting with her sister, Mrs. E. Wilkerson. Cure for Cholera Morbus "When our little boy, now seven years old, was a baby he was cured of cholera morbus by Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy," writes Mrs. Sidney Simmons, Fair Haven, N. Y. "Since then other members of my family have used this valuable medicine for colic and bowe' troubles with good satisfaction and I gladly endorse it as a remedy of exceptional merit." Obtainable everywhere. The Horn of Plenty THE one feature of the Iowa exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition that attracted universal comment and unbounded admiration was the giant Horn of Plenty, from which flowed a mighty river of golden Iowa. This great Horn of Plenty will be reproduced at the Iowa State Fair exactly as it stood at the Exposition. No detail will be omitted. It was so heroic in proportions that some changes had to be made in the interior of the Agricultural Building to accommodate it. It will be completed in all its golden glory when the fair opens Aug. 23, a guest but convincing testimonial of Iowa's high position in the list of corn growing states. CENTERVILLE, IOWA, NEWS. Sunday was another glorious day at the Second Baptist church. Rev. Carrington preached to a large congregation morning and evening. Rev. Carrington preached at Mystic, Iowa, Sunday afternoon, accompanied by Mr. Clary Noah. Sunday, August 27th, the Mission church will hold its annual thanksgiving sermon at the church and sermon preached by Rev. Carrington. The entertainment given by the committees under the auspices of Mrs. A L. Crittenden for the purpose of assisting Rev. Carrington to get his family here from Fort Dodge, Iowa, was a success. Rev. Carrington will hold property on East Wilson street. His family will be expected to be here later. Mrs H. W. Trumpkins has been elected president of the Home Mission Circle. Mr. Herbert and Clyde Robinson of Fairfield, Iowa, visited one day in the city at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Nash. Miss Myrtle Westly and aunt, Mrs. Jones, visited in Buxton, Iowa, for a few days with relatives and friends. They returned Monday evening. Mrs. Mildred Mayfield, who went on the excursion to Minneapolis, Minn., Saturday, August 12th, returned Wednesday morning. As work has been so dull here quite a number of men have left for Fort Dodge, Minneapolis and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where they will take up various work. Mrs. J. W. Martin has been made home agent for the High Brown McBrady firm. Miss Cornelia M. Smith has been made traveling agent for the High Brown McBrady firm. Mrs. H. W. Thompkins is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. H. W. Thompkins is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. J. L. Nash had the misfortune of falling with a boiler of hot water, burning her face quite severely, but is improving from it very nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ridings are the proud parents of a baby girl. Mrs. Charles Best and Mrs. L. Hughes of Mystic, Iowa, visited at the home of Mrs. Thomas Ridings. Mr. A. Olliver is able to be at his work at the Hotel Continental, after a two months' illness. Mrs. Susie Williams left for Chicago, Ill., where she will spend a month there visiting. Mr. Samuel Lee and son, Theodore, left Saturday night for Warresburg, Mo., where they will spend a week visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Lucy Bey has moved from Eastucy Creek and is nicely located on East Jackson street. Everyone seems very busy in preparing for the association, which will convene here in September. FORT MADISON, IOWA. (Spectacular by the bystander) Mrs. B. Brissaw, who has been visiting Mrs. Wm. Stewart and friends returned to her home in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday. Mrs. Ambrose Jackson, who was visiting in Monmouth, Ill., was called home on account of the serious illness of her husband. She was accompanied by her niece, Miss Helen Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Roberson of Marshalltown are visiting their sister and mother, Mrs. C. W. Eubanks, and Mrs. A. Williams. Mr. Ambrose Jackson, who has been somewhat indisposed, is improving. On Thursday evening at her residence, 1214 Third street, Mrs. C. W. Eubanks entertained informally in honor of the entertainer of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Mrs. L. Bradshaw of Kansas City, Mo. The house decorations were beautiful. Color scheme, pink and green. The evening was spent in vocal and State Capitol Blug Historical instrumental music and social conversation. Light refreshments were served, after which all departed to their homes, pronouncing Mrs. Eubanks an agreeable hostess. The open air concert given by the A. M. E. church was a grand success. The Basilian, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, gave a soul-stirring sermon Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Robertson returned to their home in Marshalltown, Iowa, on Saturday. CLINTON, IOWA. Geo. Robinson has returned from a vacation visit in Huntsville, Mo. Miss Luba Gwinn of Washington, Iowa, has been the guest of Miss Esther Culberson. Sunday, September 3d, will mark the fourth and last quarterly meeting service for this conference year. Rev. Williams is making an effort to get the year's work outlined so that all will be in shape for the annual conference. A good work has been done under his leadership. His return as pastor is earnestly hoped for. Miss Anna Culberson has returned from a several weeks' visit in Davenport. Mrs. Ezra Carter is again identified as a subscriber to the Bystander. Harvey Mitchell, Jr., of Sioux Falls, S. D., visited his father, Harvey Mitchell, in Fulton last week. The members and families of Bethel A. M. E. church will enjoy an evening together on Monday evening, September 18th, in honor of the financial success of the year, the trustee indebtedness having been completely wiped out two months ago. At a stated hour every one will be seated at a 'dinner, for which there will be no charge. A program will be rendered and reports of the year's work will be given. Miss Esther Culberson last week for Chicago. After a visit there with relatives she will go to Washington, D. C., where she intends to take up the studies of a nurse. Miss Luba Gwinn accompanied her to Chicago. Mrs. Holland Williams entertained a number of her friends on the evening of the 11th complimentary to Miss Luba Gwinn of Washington, Iowa. The members of the Second Baptist church will picnic at Union park on Labor day. Speaking and amusements of all kinds will be the order of the day's program, together with a big dinner. There are still a few who have not paid their Bystander obligation. The traveling representative is headed this way and may arrive at any time. The local representative is making final visits on all delinquents, so be prepared to meet him when he calls. Chas. Thompson left for Ottumwa last week on his vacation. On his return he will be accompanied by his wife and daughter, who have been visiting relatives and friends. RED OAK IOWA G. W. Duncan, a tensorial artist of this city, died Monday, August 14. He came to Red Oak about twenty-five years ago, and was united in marriage to Mrs. Henry Jones of that city. He also has a daughter buried there by his wife in Omaha, who died a few years before he moved to Red Oak. Mr. Duncan was a very smart man, with a wonderful memory and was quite a talker both in politics and religion. Funeral was held Thursday, August 17th, with a large attendance of both white and colored people, who called to take their last look upon their departing friend. OTTUMWA NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Jackson entertained about twenty-five friends. Light refreshments were served. Mrs. Graves of St. Paul, Minn., was an out of town guests. After having spent a very pleasant evening they departed at a late hour. The Benevolent society of the Baptist church held their annual picnic. Each member came with well filled baskets, which they shared with the visitors. Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McGill entertained alarge company of friends. Light refreshments were served. Guests from a distance were Mrs. Graves of St. Paul and Mrs. Chas. Thompson of Clinton. Mrs. Luella Spicer has returned from Minneapolis, after a very pleasant visit. Miss Aline Johnson has returned home, after a week's visit in Moberly, Mr. Master Thurling Johnson has gone to Cedar Rapids to visit. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Thompson and daughter visited at the home of Mr. Thompson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Thompson, this past week. Mrs. Nelson Foster has returned home, after a month's visit at the home of her sister in Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Arthur Esters left for a visit with her sister, Mrs. W. Bennings, in Albia. She will be joined by Mr. Esters and they will then go to Des Moines, where they expect to make their future home. We are very sorry to have such a pleasant family go from among us. SIOUX CITY, IOWA. Miss Arabelle Dowdy departed Saturday evening for St. Louis, Mo., to visit her sister, Miss Byrdie E. Dowdy. Mrs. Louis Maxey anticipates leaving this week for an extended visit in Chicago, IL. Kannan ally, Mo., and Little Rock, Arkansas. Pay Boost and read the Bystander Dont borrow or read your neighbors, help make this a great paper Mrs. Sam Bryant will leave this week for a visit in Chicago. Ill. Miss Ida Craig of Kansas City arrived in the city Saturday and is the house guest of her sisters, Mrs. J. H. Wilkinson, 1417 Virginia street. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Morgan were visitors in the city Sunday. They were en route to Yankton, S.D., from Kansas City, Mo. The Ladies' Aid of Mt. Zion Baptist church will meet Thursday evening at the church. The Sunday school children of Mt. Zion Baptist church will give a play next week. BURLINGTON, IOWA. Mrs. A. Rideout is visiting her mother in Jacksonville, Ill. Mississippi, IA. Mrs. W. S. Brooks, president of the City Federation of Davenport, Iowa is visiting relatives in the city. Mrs. Ella Hughes, who was operated on, is getting alone nicely. The ladies' popular contest which was held at the St. John's A. M. E church was a decided success. They cleared $41.95. Mrs. Haynes received first prize, which was a gold bracelet She brought in $2.10. Mrs. Cole received second prize, which was a gold headed parasol. She brought in $14.85. George King of the high school manual training took second prize or a table at the state-stair frame. Hugh Manley of Missouri is visiting relatives and friends in the city. Mrs. A. L. Cook has returned home from visiting her mother in Natcha Miss. Mr. Henry Irving, who underwent an operation at Mercy hospital, is im proving. Mrs. Alden, Mrs. Beckley, Mrs Jones and three grandchildren of Koo kuk, Iowa, and Mrs. Tannel of Jeefer son City, Mo., were in the thecity Tusson and took lunch with Mrs. Pete King. J. N. Wheathers of Monmouth, Ill is plastering on the C. and E. building. Mrs. John Shunn, Etat Watkin Clem Welch and little Elsie Williams who have been sick, are all better. Miss Emma Brown, one of Daver port's sweetest singers, is visiting the city. Louie Nelson died Monday a. m. 3 o'clock at his home, 1801 S. Fighteenth street. He leaves a wife an eight children to mourn his death. DAVENPORT, IOWA. The delegates who attended the grand session of the U. B. of F. and S. M. F. A. have returned, bringing with the some of the grand honors. Mr. Ror Santuels was elected to the office of G. J. M. The delegates report splendid session and a delightful time Mrs. Katie Green, G. M. N. G. the Household of Ruth of Iowa jurisdiction, and Mrs. Della Warric M. N. G. of M. N. G. of Morning Glory HousebooR, left this morning for Colf to attend their grand session, who convened there Wednesday. In the list of those who entertain for Mrs. Nannie Suminil of Chicago the names of Mesdames Clara Sheard, Francis Baker and Ella Fugl should have appeared. Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Johnson entained a company of young last Thursday to meet Miss Lu Gwinn of Washington. Mr. John L. Thompson and fam spent last Friday in the city en row to Chicago in their car. Mr. Thomson is president of the international Grand Masters' Council, which convenes in Chicago this week. Mrs. Basker most roys entertained the Violet club on lain at her home last Wednesday a sermon. There were a large numb of members and visitors present. Mr. Young of Macon City, Mo., and M. Luba Gwinn of Washington were of town guests. Mrs. B. Calloway has been suffiting with neuralgia for several days. Mrs. Marie Buckner and daugh of Oskalaos are guests of Mr. Mrs. John Gordon. Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mord of Moline, Ill., and Mrs. M. Watson of St. Louis, Mo., were dri ing and Mrs. Wm. Bem. last Sunday. KEOKUK, IOWA. Mrs. Leone Reeder is visiting rives in Mt. Pleasant. Mrs. Anna Weldon and son, W. liam are visiting relatives in Pleasant. Mrs. C. D. Bland is attending a cial Bill Posters' convention in Moines, Iowa, this week. Mrs. G. L. Coleman and daug returned on Saturday of last w from a tendays' visit in Kansas G. Mo. Miss Clara Parnell is the gues Mr. and Mrs. William Alden. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Bland are w ing in Chicago. Mrs. Jennie Freeman attended W. B. F. and S. M. T. grand sesic Macon, Mo. last week. The Misses Harper of Ft. Mad Iowa, are the guests of Mr. and Thomas Freeman. Mrs. Emma Tobeau attended U. B. F. and S. M. T. grand ses in Quincy, Ill. last week. On Wednesday of last week members of the Jolly club enjoy dancing party at the Masonic the party was chaperoned by dames W. W. Gross and George by. Miss Marie Lewis returned S day from a three weeks' visit in alcal and Kansas City, Mo. (Continued on Page 4.) AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Nashville, Teen, affords an instance of race co-operation that is most encouraging. A section of the city inhabited by poor people of both the white and colored races was swept by fire last spring. Over 2,000 people were left homeless. A section of trade was first to take vicious measures for relief. It gave its support to Dr. George E. Haynes, who established headquarters in the strenuous neighborhood, and with a band of volunteer workers from the colored population of the city began at once to organize temporary and permanent aid for the sufferers. White citizens opened similar headquarters across the street. The two agencies met daily in their milestones and the citizens were so impressed the official minister said that they invited it to join forces with them and centralize the work. The invitation was accepted. The immediate task being more effectively accomplished by this co-operation, the workers were encouraged to plan for larger things. A call was issued for the organization of a permanent league to deal with social problems. The response was most gratifying and the Public Welfare league came into existence on a basis that obliterates the color line. As a matter of fact, there is more democracy among the colored people than among the whites. People of good character and intelligence who may be serving in some ordinary capacity are. more generally recyceld by their well-to-do colored brothers and sisters than among the whites. The highly educated colored person is not nearly so unhappy as you picture him, and he does not lack for desirable associates. In the best circles may be found people who are the intellectual equals of any other race. In these circles may be found retired capitalist, ministers, lawyers, doctors, business men, professors, editors, teachers, etc.-men and women who have had the best training America and Europe could give. There are so many of them that there are several "seta." A number of new commercial enterprises have recently been undertaken in northeast Siberia. Many iodine works have been established in the neighborhood of Vladivostok, on the shore of the Japanese sea, the iodine being made from seaweed found there in abundance. An interesting distillery for ether has been opened, the bulk of the ingredient being violets and Lilia blesses from the Ussert countryside. A good deal of amber is collected from the beach along the coast of the Premorsk and many new salt workings have been opened in the government of Irkutsk and in the Lena hinter and in the vicinity of Viluik. The chestnut blight has already done damage estimated as close to $50,000,000. The disease attacks both American and European species, but does little damage to those from Japan and China. Plant breeders by crossing Japanese chestnut and native chinquapin have produced resistant trees. Some of the Chinese chestnuts are said to grow 100 feet high in their home forests. It is a mighty effective dun that collects the average man's thoughts. To the gossip the breath of scandal is as the breath of life. In his presidential address at the last meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, R. T. A. Innes called attention to the large number of astronomical observatories, which are admirably equipped, which are doing little or no work, beyond, perhaps, maintaining a time service or meteorological service of local importance. He stated that "at least two of the observatories possess exceptionally large refracting telescopes have not contributed one month's work from them in the last 20 years." At least 38 per cent of the observatories listed in the British nautical almanac publish nothing. Take dissolved gum arabic and stir in enough plaster of plaster to make a soft paste. This is almost colorless and acts excellently as cement for china. In repairing very delicate china or porcelain, tie the pieces carefully in place with tape. It is then put into a saucepan of milk and the latter is very gradually brought to boiling point. Remove the saucepan from the fire, but leave the china in it for about six minutes. Lift out carefully and place on a shelf to dry. In a world where nations grow and decay, where forces change and populations become cramped, it is not possible or desirable to maintain the status quo forever. Peace is to be preserved, nations must learn to accept unfavorable alterations of the map without feeling that they must first be defeated in war, or that in yielding they incur a humiliation. Bertrand Russell in Atlantic Month. The country church is the only power that co-ordinates forces into a working whole. W. J. Trench of Mentone, Cal., a year ago left his overalls hanging on a peg. In one pocket was a valuable key with a string attached to it. When Mr. Trench returned he found his overalls, but no key. He has just found the string and the key in a wren's nest. To make cough sirup take a table-spoonful of molasses and stir it thick with ground cloves. Make a small bowl of water and it will just pour well. Take a tablespoonful, or as needed. The importation of natives from South Africa, in order to relieve the shortage of agricultural labor in England, is proposed by A. J. Fuller of the South African senate, who is now in London. His scheme is to choose carefully selected individuals, who would be accompanied by trusted leaders of their own, and he is confident that if men belonging to widely known families and holding responsible positions were chosen, the experiment would be successful. He also proposes that colonists who know the natives and can superintend them shall accompany them from South Africa. Mr. Fuller speaks with knowledge of the South African natives, having represented a constituency with one of the largest black populations in the country—London Globe. If you are a farmer do you happen to know how many kinds of grasses there are? Five thousand! But out of this great number man uses only 10 varieties, as a rule, and only five of those are extensively cultivated. It is a curious fact that while practically every other farm crop has undergone great changes under cultivation, grasses are almost the same now as when man first began to use them as a wild plant. Passions and excitements move the dusky soldier easily. it is true. To devotion to his affections, nevertheless, he adds interest in the service, ready to participate in the drill and a perfect willingness to follow where he is led. To ridicule, as a reproof, he is most sensitive. To the power of example he is keenly susceptible. To none of his white comrades is the appeal so effective as to him to perform for the honor of his race. The same childish simplicity which impels to the bursting into song leads to an overwhelming respect for the men in command. Discipline once instituted comes to stay in a negro regiment. Moreover, the rank and file carries so far its trust in its officers that the captain of a company is quite apt to be the banker for men, saving them from losses in camp gambling games. According to the Akademische Rundschau, no less than 84 per cent of the students of the University of Peking berg have gone to the front. The percentages from other universities are Heldberg, 60; Munich, 58; Berlin, 54; Frankfurt, 11. The Technische Hochschule of Danzig has sent 90 per cent of its students to war. German professors and students killed up to the end of May numbered 1,911, of whom 266 were from the University of Leipzig. Diplomacy would be more successful if it were more truthful and frank. The way some diplomats treat one another they don't get any nearer to real, helpful intercourse than the two celebrities did. Two celebrities, one a stutterer and the other deaf, were introduced at a tea. After the tea the stuttering celebrity was asked how he and the deaf one had got on. "Oh, we got on fine," he answered. "I couldn't talk and he couldn't hear me." Those who have had experience with him under arms testify that the American negro takes most readily and efficiently to soldiering. The limit of the carrying power of thunder is about fifteen miles, while twice that number of miles is not considered any great distance for the sounds of battle to travel. Happiness and the light heart are among the general characteristics of the black soldier. He goes about his business singing. It is related that during the Spanish war the colored cavalrymen had hardly dug their trenches at Santiago before their smuggled musical instruments were out and the camp was a medie place of tunefulness. And there was a white colonel of the Twenty-fifth who was wont to boast of the chorus singing which he had made almost a part of the regimental drill. It is not true that the highly educated colored man has a contempt for the ordinary activities of his race any more than it is true of the white race. There is no grosser form of materialism than when a country community prospers and then forgets Christ. Seventy-six out of eighty-seven cases of typhoid fever which occurred in a recent outbreak have been traced by the United States public health service to infected milk. Had the first cases been reported to a trained health officer the outbreak could have been stamped out promptly. When will we learn that disease prevention is sure and cheap? United States Public Health Bulletin. When the world would bewider thy mind, look up to the eternal heavens where the stars never stray. - Huckert. Mechanical devices for repeating prayers are familiar in the East, but they are outdone, in saving of labor, by the "prayer flags" of Thibet. These as described by J. C. White, in the National Geographic Magazine, are suspended on long lines, sometimes reaching across a river. As long as they are moving in the breeze they are supposed to be recording prayers for the benefit of those who put them up. The original dome of the capitol in Washington was made of wood, covered with conder. CHILDREN INVEST IN BRISTOL CHURCH In nearly every school in England the children are being taught the value of saving money. The boys and girls are encouraged to invest in the government war loan. The photograph shows how the pennies are collected. In most cases the puddmaster of the school makes the collection. The little ones line up, and first the girls and then the boys turn in their money. NOBILITY HEROES ON HONOR ROLL Aristocrats Who Have Died for Their Country in Strife of Battle. IS AN INSPIRING CHAPTER Nearly Fifty British Peers Have 1 lost Sons Who Would Have Succeed Them in the Places They Now Hold. London.—When the full story of the war is written it will have no more inspiring chapter than that which describes the magnificent part the sons of our noble houses have played in it—their devotion, their heroism, their splendid deaths from land and they love, says a writer in London Answers. Already, although the war has barely reached its turning point, the list of these heroes to coronets they will wear is appallingly long. Since the master of Burleigh, eldest son of Lord Bafour of Burleigh, as gallant a soldier as ever bore the historic name of Bruce, perished in the first month of the war, nearly 50 peers have lost the sons who ought to have succeeded to their honors. These heroes have come from all grades of our peerage. One of them was heir to a dukedom, who, if he had lived, would have been premier duke, marquis and earl of Ireland. Four were sons of marquises, five had earls for their fathers, seven were heirs to viscounts and 29 were successors to baronies. Six of them were the last heirs to the family honors, and the peergues which should have been theirs are now extinct. The marquis of Lincolnshire, Lords A man in a hat and mask is working on a horse's head. He is holding a pair of scissors and a hammer. There are tools on the ground below him. This woman is but one of the many thousands of Englishwomen who are today doing every kind of labor owing to the absence of their men folk who have joined the army and are fighting on foreign soil. All the employees of a Peterborough blacksmith having joined the army and it being impossible to secure any local assistance, the lady of the house, the master of the band in his work and fits a shoe to a nicety. The photograph shows Mrs. Pogson, wife of the blacksmith, shooting a horse. Germany Expects Surplus If Feeding to Cattle Is Prohibited Immediately. The Hague.—The prospect for this year's sugar beet crop in Germany, according to a report in the Hanover Courier, justifies the expectation of a surplus if the use of beets as fodder for cattle is prohibited immediately. The estimated production of sugar beets for 1918 is 88,000,000 hundred- THE BYSTANDER IN INVEST IN BRITISH WAR the children are being taught the value of moment war loan. The photograph shows the collection. The little one Kninesborough, Plafyfeire, Gibbdesbate, Rosmead and Stinford have now no heirs to follow them, their sacrifices have not been so great as that of Lord Desborough, who has lost two successive heirs in the war within nine weeks of each other. Win Places on Roll of Honor. In this roll of honor, so far, there are comparatively few names that have won fame in old-time battles, such as Stanley, Percy, Clifford and Moncholondley—names that recall long-dend generations of warriors. There is little, if any, martial strain in the blood of a Gossecon and Killis, but there are generations; but the beaches of these and many another historic name have fought as gallantly and died as heroically as any armored knight of the age of civilization. Young Lord Weymouth, a boy of twenty, who died so bravely a few weeks ago, had plenty of fighting blood in his veins and proved himself a worthy descendant of his ancestor. Sir John Thyne, who won his knightly spurs so vailantly on the field of Musselburgh more than three centuries ago. Lord Bridgeport's heir, who gave up his one and a half of his blood of England's hero, Lord Nelson, and also of that grand old sea dog, Sir Samuel Hood, admiral of the Blue. Lord Spencer Douglas Compton, son of the marquis of Northampton, who died a year ago, could look back to a long array of fighting ancestors. Generation after generation, the Comptons were among the doughtiest warriors of England. There was a Compton in every battle in the Civil war, including the third car, who was likewise for their king at Edgehill and Sandbury and in many another battle. Lord Arthur Hay, heir to his brother, the marquis of Tweedale, who died in the second month of the war, had one ancestor who fell on Flodden field, and another who commanded a regiment at Marston Moor and Preston; and Viscouse Templetown's heir, who died on May 9, 1915, had many a warrior among his forefathers, including that Upton who covered himself with glory at the siege of Limerick under the standard of our third William Lord Desmond Fitzgerald. But among all these brave young nobles who have given their lives for their king and country there were none braver than Lord Desmond Fitzgerald, heir to the brother, the sixth earl of Leinster, whose death a few weeks ago is so widely deplored. Dying at the age of two years, Leinster Lodge large in the animals of the gallant Irish guards. In the severe fighting in the retreat from Mons he bore himself most bravely among the brave, and in all the inter fighting his courage and his reckless contempt of danger amazed and inspired the ranks. He was twice severely wounded but he laughed at his wounds and longed only for a day when he could return to his men, and it was a cruel stroke of the gun. The explosion of a bomb at Calais, ended a life so full of achievement and promise. OPIUM BAN BOOMS TRADE Persia's Exports Increase Sixfold Since Prohibition Law Went Into Effect in China. Rotterdam.—The prohibition of the import of opium in China has been responsible for a big expansion of Persia's trade with the Dutch East Indies. According to the report for 1915 drawn up by the Persian consul at Rotterdam, that country's exports to the Dutch colonies in 1913-14 increased from $15,000 to $115,000, from some $135,000 to $118,000. Persian opium is now exported to the Netherlands East Indies, being thence re-exported to Formosa, making up practically the whole of the total figure mentioned. OWNER OF BEES IS SUED Neighbor of Indiana Man Says a Number of Them Stung Stock and Children. Vallparnso, Ind.-E. S. Miller, n member of the National Association of Beekeepers and owner of several hundred stands of bees in this county, has The consumption of sugar beets, which was 28,000,000 hundredweight annually before the war, is now much higher owing to the requirements of the army and because sugar is now used instead of butter and other fats. Nevertheless, it is calculated the present per capita ration may be doubled with safety. Numerous Dutch farm hands have gone across the boxer into Germany for the harvesting season. They are been sued because, it is alleged, some of his bees flew to the home of faymond Austin, a farmer nearby, and stung the live stock, poultry and children in addition to usurping a water tank. It is asserted in the complaint that if the bees had been properly cared for they would not have done this. Austin asks for rescuing the poultry. Milton keeps the bees so near to the former's farm. Dauanges of $200 also are asked. WOULD END DEATH PENALTY Argentinians Urge Change in Law After Execution of Two Women Buenos Aires.—The execution of two confessed murderers here, the first in sixteen years, has caused such a widespread and insistent demand for the abolition of the death penalty in Argentina that two bills have been introduced in congress providing for such abolition. Deputy Bonifacio has presented a bill to lower the house abolishing the death penalty for any and all crimes, and Senator Derebuenca has presented a similar measure in the senate, but extending the abolition to include military offenses. MORGAN JR. HAS $126,833,000 Doubles His Father's Wealth in British Munition Orders and War Loans. New York—J. P. Morgan, from figures learned by the appraisal of his father's estate, has made as much money during the last two years as the old head of the house made during his entire career. The elder Morgan's estate was appraised last week at $73,140,000, of which $38,644,000 went to the present J. P. Morgan. Nearly all the amount made by the present Morgan was earned through munition orders and commissions on loans, the Morgan firm having received a commission of 2 per cent on all munitions and supplies purchased by the British government. BLOWN FAR BY BIG BLAST Copyright Underwood & Underwood Peter Racetta, captain of a Moran lighter, sitting up in bed in the Jersey City hospital. Peter was asleep in his cabin, the be t being one of the many vessels towed away from the burning piers of Black Tom Island, Jersey City. When about fifty feet from the Statue of Liberty in New York bay there came the big communication explosion. The captain says he was thrown in the water straight from his bunk. He started swimming and found himself under one of the burning docks with fanning vessels, cars and buildings around him. He swam across the water to the Liberty Statue and when he had gained "sufficient strength he swam back to one of the piers near the scene of the explosion and was pulled out of the water and rushed to the Jersey City hospital. attracted by the high wages, which are $18 a week, plus board and lodging. $350 Returned to Town. Darlington, S. C.—Mayor Cox was astonished the other morning when he opened a special delivery letter which contained a brief note and $350 in gold certificates. The note, which bore neither date nor signature and was penciled in a nervous hand, read: "Have discovered that, owing to a mistake made long ago, $350 belongs to the town. The KITCHEN CABINET We can always stand a little more Always do a little more, Always try a little more Than we really think. Effort out of weariness, Striving out of care, We can always do a little more Than we really think our share, We can really think our share. FOR A DAY'S OUTING. With a package of paper picnic dishes and paper napkins the dish problem is solved as well as the lessening of weight in the picnic basket. The coffee may be mixed and put into cheesecloth sacks and an ordinary water pail with a wired handle will serve for a coffee pot so that need not be carried. Frankforts may be roasted in the coals under the cof- as the lessening of weight in the picnic basket. The coffee may be mixed and put into cheesecloth sacks and an ordinary water pail with a wire handle will serve for a coffee pot so that need not be carried. Frankforts may be roasted in the coals under the coffee pail and potatoes and corn as well. The salad may be carried in a mason jar for convenience and the lemon sirup for lemonade for the young folk may be all ready for the water. That, too, is in a sealed mason jar. If other meats are desired beefsteak may be braised or pan broiled on a heavy sheet of sheet iron, which is always a convenient picnic utensil, as it may be used as a stove top for frying potatoes, griddle cakes or, in fact, any number of useful purposes will be found for it. As every pound counts on a long tramp, make the basket as light as possible, and carry no more than will be eaten by sharp appetites. Pepper and salt may be mixed to carry, and only such pickles and relishes taken as are indispensable. Spoons, knives and forks for all, sandwiches and cake, if desired, with the other foods mentioned, will surely be a meal of variety and sufficiently satisfying even after a long walk. A thermos bottle may be carried with an leed drink for those who cannot wait for the end of the journey, and it is a most comforting friend in need as often good drinking water is hard to get. Newspapers should be carried in abundance to put on the ground for any of the party might be rheumatic and light wraps which are easily carried are often useful. Fasteboard boxes that may be burned are best to carry the lunch, and the silver may be rolled in a paper to carry and the camping grounds left free from any rubbish. Chicken and fresh green corn is another most delightful combination worth trying if it has never been enjoyed. Use plenty of cream, butter and corn around the chicken, allowing three-quarters of an hour for the baking after the corn is added. We can always lift a little more. Always lift a little more. Always foll a little more. Than we thought we could PEACHES FOR WINTER. There are few who can resist the spicy pickled pich which is so de- who can resist the ch which is so delicous served with the meat course. Pickled Peaches. —There are any number of good recipes, but we must be careful about the vinegar. It should be strong enough to preserve the meat course. Pickled Peaches. —There are any number of good recipes, but we must be careful about the vinegar. It should be strong enough to preserve and give flavor, but too acid a vinegar will spoil the fruit. Usually, a little water added to the vinegar to dilute it, using the amount of liquid required, will improve it. Take two pounds of brown sugar, a pint of mild vinegar and a tablespoonful each of cinnamon and cloves, then mix the music bag cook 20 minutes, then drop in the peaches (that have been rubbed with a coarse towel to remove the fuzz). a few at a time and cook until soft; drop into the crock and continue until all are covered. Cover with the vinegar leaving the spice bag in the jar. Peach Jam.-This is especially fine flavored, as the steam is not allowed to escape, carrying with it much of the fruit. Pare the peaches and mash them to a pulp, and two cupfuls of sugar to three of the pulp and mix well; pack into pint jars and screw down the top lightly; place in a steamer or any convenience for canning and cook until all the juice is absorbed by the fruit. Place in the sun for a day or two and then it will be ready to put away. Peaches for canning should be firm but ripe, placed in the cans and covered with a hot shrimp, then put into an oven of boiling water and allowed to stand fully covered until the fruit will keep well and be of fine flavor and color. A fireless cooker is a good convenience to use for a small number of cans. The cans and covers should be thoroughly sterilized and the rubbers dipped into boiling water before being used. Peach Jelly—Save all the parings from the washed peaches, add a few apples and cook together, then drain and prepare as usual. The apples will supply the pectin which is lacking in the apple and the peaches will When It Comes to Kicks. Bill—I see according to the scientists a bee, weight for weight, is at least 30 times as strong as a horse. Jill—All the same, when it comes to being kicked we'll take the bee every time. Always the Way. Mr. Flatbush—Has the new girl come yet? Mrs. Flatbush—Certainly, she's come. Can't you smell something burning in the kitchen? supply the flavor which is so much enjoyed. Power to think for oneself, power to understand those one does not agree with—these two things and assume self-knowledge and cooperation in a self-educating and self-governing community.—Lyman Abbott. COUPE, A POPULAR ICE. Coupes have been called nothing but inverted college icees. But this most popular frozen dish lends itself to any series of combinations so that one,may by the exercise of taste have a variety. Cooking To arrange a coupe, line a bowl-shaped sherbet cup with ice cream, then add a garnish of fruit and finish the structure with piped or plain whipped cream. For the ice any flavor may be chosen and the fruit is also a matter of taste, always choosing that suitable. The cream is either put through a pastry tube or dropped by a tablespoon. Strawberry ice cream is especially good for a foundation; fill the glass three-quarters full of strawberry ice cream, on this place large fine berries, in halves and covered with sugar for an hour or more. Then top the coupe with sweetened and flavored cream. A few dripped lemon and almond makes a good flavor. Or a half a cup syrup that has been soaked in vanilla syrup for a time may be plied on the strawberry ice and finished as before. The flavor of peaches is especially good as it is so delicate and yet so suggestive that it pervades the whole dish. Peaches and Bar-le-duc currents or marrons preserved in vanilla sirup make a fine combination. Coffee ice cream is another well liked foundation for a coupe. Line the sheerb cup with coffee ice cream, then use strawberries or raspberries as the next step, let them stand in sugar for an hour and follow with the whipped cream garnished with a large fresh berry. Chestnuts or marrons preserved in various sirups are always good with the coffee flavor or in combination with almost any fruit. A lemon sirup is good with them and they may be prepared at home and bottled for use. The cone which starts with peach ice cream may use peaches or plain pie ice cream, which is lightly flavored with a singer sirup in which they may be lightly cooked are pleasingly used with peach ice cream. Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplish anything and never can. They always lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong emotions lead to fear and fear creep in—James Allen. THE COSMOPOLITAN MINT. Mint is easily grown in the garden and will grow in window gardens n window gardens even in crowded cities. It is refreshing used in lemonade, as a flavoring for flavoring for candies and ice. Before the frost comes to destroy the plants be sure cities. It is refreshing used in lemonade, as sauce for meats, flavoring for candies and ice. Before the frost comes to destroy the plants be sure to make some mint vinegar. Wash a bunch and place it in a pint of vinegar, lingering in the strain, and bottle for winter use. This vinegar may be used to flavor fish sauce, and various dishes. Candied Mint Leaves—Take fresh perfect mint leaves, wash and shake dry. Pick the leaves from the stalks and lay on a cloth to dry. Put a cupful of sugar and a half cupful of water on to boil, let it boil without stirring for four minutes from the time it bells. Let it cool slightly, then dip the leaves one by one and lay them on a waxed paper; after all have been dipped begin with the first ones and dip again. dust with granulated sugar, shaking off all that does not adhere; spread out to dry. Spread the sugar on a plate and draw the leaves gently through the sugar. Mint Jelly—This is jelly well liked to serve with meals. Prepare apples for jelly and drop in a bunch of mint while cooking. Then as each glass is filled, and a small sprig of mint to burden in the felly. Mint Sherbet.—A cupful of mint leaves dropped into a quart of water, and a pint of sugar when boiling hot, let the stirp boll for five minutes, then remove the mint, add a cupful of lemon juice, two tablespoonfuls of softened gelatin, add to the mixture and when thoroughly dissolved, freeze. Serve in sherbet cups with a sprig of mint to garnish each. Ginger ale served with a sprig of mint, well chilled, makes a delightful drink. Serve with small ginger cookies. Mint should be dried for winter use if there is no window garden in which to grow it. A few drops of peppermint will take the place of the fresh mint in making candies. Nellie Maxwell Those Panama Sides. Church—It is said the world's present potato crop is approximately large enough to fill two-thirds of the Panama canal. Gotham—What's the matter? Aren't those "silders" doing it quick enough? Quicker Fate. "Isn't it awful to be eaten alive by sharks?" "Oh, not after you've been spending some time in camping in the woods without screens." BUILDING ROAD TO "OPEN UP ALASKA" Uncle Sam's Engineers Hard at Work on Big Job in the Far North. WILL DEVELOP VAST RICHES Steel Highway Will Provide Access to Mineral and Agricultural Lands Now Reached With Difficulty. With no blare of trussapets but working quietly away on their task, Uncle Sam's engineers are beastly engaged in the big job of building or railroad that is to "open up Alaska." The government's Alaskan railroad will not, as has been sometimes supposed, take one "the farthest north by rail." In Alaska now, running from Nome to Shelton, there is a little narrow-gauge line, which penetrates a good farther north than Fairbanks; and from Fairbanks another narrow-gauge line goes 46 miles north into the Chatanika mining district. The old Russian line from Petrogru or Archangel runs farther north than the Nome-Shelton line, and the new Russian road from Petrogru to Ekaterina beats the America's farthest-north-by-rail still more. Nor, as an engineering proposition will the Alaskan railroad set new records. Numerous pieces of railway construction in the United States, Canada and South America, will continue to rate as much more noteworthy. Still it is "some job," with peculiar and interesting problems. Along Tungatunga Arm, right at sea level, the shores are precipitous. For miles the roadbed has to be blasted out of solid rock. The northerly descent into Fairbanks will follow Nenana river will have narrow and precipitous canyon. You can amazing difficulties were encountered in the railway survey. Engineers and surveying parties were compelled to swim the ice waters of the glacial streams many times and hang by ropes over high preciples. Will "Open Up Alaska." The really big thing is the fact that the railroad will "open up Alaska"; and there are no words to exaggerate the bigness of Alaska and its promise of wealth and sustenance for the people of the United States. From Seward, which is to be the winter port and southern terminus of the line, the old Alaskan Northern railroad crosses the Kenai peninsula to Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet. The Alaskan Northern has fallen into disuse. It has been purchased by the government and kept put in first-class condition. This will result in a large development of gold quartz and copper mining in the Kenai mountains within a few miles of the coast. At the upper end of Knik Arm, a branch will run up the Matanushka river 38 miles to the famous Matanushka coal fields. This branch, it is thought, will be open within a year. Here lies an apparently inexhaustible field of subbituminous coal, the equal of West Virginia steaming coal and will provide cheap fuel to the United States navy, to the industries of south Alaska and the entire Pacific coast. To the north, the road will open the Nenana coal fields to consumption in Fairbanks. Farms to Follow Road. The lower Sustina, too, runs through an alluvial valley, rich in agricultural possibilities. Here the railroad eventually will pass a succession of farms which will supply grain, vegetables and meat staples for the mining industry. In the region of the summit or divide between the watersheds of the Yukon river and the Gulf of Alaska, that is to say, in the mountain section—the railroad will make possible development of low-grade quartz gold which are similar to lodes which have proved enormously productive and profitable in the United States. is a question wholly of costs of transportation of the gold, the opening of the railroad both to the gold and coal fields, smelting facilities are expected to be quickly provided. Large interests are already planning to locate smelters on Prince William sound, within convenient rail-and-water access of ores and coal. Fifty miles west of the Nennaa down which the railroad will pass, are the headwaters of the Kantishna mining district, which is now taking out only $50,000 of gold a year, but in which recent explorations have indicated big possibilities of quartz mining. Edes Gulding Genlus. The guiding brain of the big organization that is building this railroad is William C. Edes, chairman of the Alaskan Engineering commission. His chief aides are Thomas Riggs, Jr., formerly an officer of the Coast and Geodetic survey, and later chief of the Alaskan boundary survey, and Lieut. Frederick Mears, U. S. A., a trusted aid of Olehon Goethals in the building of the Panama canal. Riggs is building from one end and Mears from the other. Three or four years hence, the two engineers will meet somewhere midway in Alaska fast-paced which will cease to flow unless building takes place. Chairman Eden has been associated with some of the greatest feats of railroad-building in the United States, Mr. Harriman chose him to locate the two lines across the Sierra and the Siskiyou mountains. However, let any piece of railroad construction be as picturesque as may be involving trestles at dizzy heights and mountain-climbing loops that are well-nigh spiral, and Edes says, "Tumph! It'll take so many cubic yards of excavation and so many millions of dollars, and that's all there to it." Edes has the complete philosophy of the active man whose retrospect includes many an achievement accomplished and whose enthrallment, HARRIS & EWING William C. Edes. therefore, are somewhat dampened. Edes doesn't bubble over at all with the poetry of the "Alaskan job;" he just works. Forest Notes (From U. S. Forest Service.) There are 538 consumers of tannin in the United States who use annually, 625,000 cords of hewnock bark, 290,000 cords of oak bark, and 380,000 cords of chestnut wood. Experts of the forest service estimate that the farm wood lots of the United States contain from 200 to 300 billion board feet of lumber and from one to one and a half billion cords of wood. All of the 28 counties of Utah contain portions of national forests, and consequently all share in the 25 percent of the national forest receipts which is paid over to the road and school funds. This is true of no other state. One hundred thirty thousand maps of the national forests have been distributed to tourists this summer. These maps show the best camp sites, good hunting and fishing grounds, roads, trails and telephone lines, and give directions to reach points of interest. LAGS IN VITAL STATISTICS United States Far Behind More Progressive Foreign Countries in System of Preserving Records. The United States has lagged far behind the more progressive foreign countries in the matter of maintaining reliable records of births, deaths and slackness, says Uncle Sam. However, there has been in recent years a marked increase in the interest taken by state and municipal authorities in the recording of vital statistics. The greatest difficulty in obtaining anything like a uniform system has been the difficulty of obtaining the registration of vital records must be left to the individual state governments. "The difficulty in obtaining proper registration of vital statistics is not in most cases due so much to absolute lack of legislative provision for registration as to the inadequacy of the laws or the failure to enforce them," says a bulletin of the bureau of the census. "Much progress, however, has been made in recent years. In 1900 no two states employed uniform blank for recording either deaths or births; but at present what is known as the standard death certificate has been adopted or approved by states representing nearly 93 per cent, and the standard birth certificate by states representing approximately 85 per cent, of the total population of the country. "Those who view with apprehension the decline if the American birth rate may take comfort from the fact that the births in this country are still far in excess of the deaths. The excess is probably as great as 50 per cent, and may be even more, but its not possible yet to estimate it with any degree of precision. The calculation of the death rate, therefore, now a healthy increase from decade to decade, if the present birth and death rates were to remain substantially unchanged, even though immigration should cease entirely." Marines Give Women Tip on How to Wash Clothes. Because they use too much water and too little soap, women do not get the same dazzling whiteness in their washed clothes as do the United States marines, Sergt. Clarence D. Rhodes of the Marine corps told a party of society women visiting the battleship Utah. "The eye-painting brilliance of our white clothes is due to the fact that our head is covered with our hands, and so do soap do its proper share of the work. Just enough water to thoroughly wet the wash is sufficient," the sergeant continued, "and the less water and more soap one uses the whiter the washing will turn out. The fair visitors seemed great- The fair visitors seemed greatly impressed with the lesson. --- Blister Rust Endanger Forests. The white-pine blister rust has reached a stage where according to specialist advice, it is to be managed, agriculture, energetic action imperative if the disease is to be controlled. INTERPALABRA MILITARIA DE ESPAÑA An official photograph from the British on the western front showing a British Tommie giving a wounded German, made captive, a drunk his canteen. TELLS OF DEEDS OF DARING ON FRONT AT YSER American Motorcyclist Relates the Dangers of Carrying Dispatches. DIDER WINS VICTORIA CROSS Six Killed in One Instance Before Seventh Deliveries Message—Trench Pools Made Up Before, Divided After Action. London.—The Daily Express publishes the following: William J. Robinson was born and lived the first six years of his life at sea. You will have realized that he is an American. He landed in England on September 10, 1014. He had been here before. He was still a young man. A year after he landed he found himself without a job. A few days later he saw a trooper in the Fifth Dragon Guards. He had done no solitary before. He could not ride a horse. He spent a few days in a riding school at Aldershot, and by way of stopping chaff at his expense in barracks went up to a "big chap" (who, he found out award, had been heavyweight champion of the army) and began a fight by hitting him in the face. That made them friends. On October 8 he landed at Ostend, and on the afternoon of the third day came under fire at Roulers. He had been in the army just over a month. He spent 14 months at the front as motorcar driver, motorcycle dispatch rider and motor machine gun driver, and has written the story of his adventures and escapes in a very readable volume. "My Fourteen Months at the Front," by William J. Robinson. "Hellfire Corner." Soon after he reached the front, Private Robinson became temporary driver to Lieut. Gen. Sir Julian Byng, and he was in Ypres when the first shelling began. From that he was switched off to armored cars, and then to motor machine guns, with which he fought in ditches at "Hellfire Corner", on the Menin road. It was while he was on this job that he saw a motorcyclist win the Victoria Cross. He describes the incident thus: "Volunteer dispatch riders for danger work" were called for. About eighteen of our chaps offered themselves, and, of course, all were accepted. A dispatch had to be carried about two miles along the road which was the bank of the Yser canal. The road was constantly swept by German machine gun and rifle fire. The dispatch was to be handed to a French commander who was waiting for it. "The first man started and was soon out of sight. They waited in vain a certain length of time for a signal that he had arrived and then called 'No. 2'. These signals are made by hylograph, but while they are good for this kind of work, the Germans can see the signal as well as we can. 'No. 2' started out, but we saw him go down before he had gone a hundred yards. "Then 'No. 2' started. It was pitiful to watch those poor chaps. When a man knew it was his turn next, I could see the poor fellow nervously working on his machine. He'd prime the engine, then he'd open and close the throttle quickly several times—anything, in fact, to keep himself busy. "Six of these fellows went down in less than half an hour. 'No. 7' was a FERRETS MAKE HIS LIVING Grimley Takes Them Around to Rid Farms in Oklahoma of Rata. Kildare, Okla.—A. Grimley of this city has several ferrets and he makes Ms living by taking these small animals to some farm and ridding the place of rats at five cents a head. His six ferrets killed 118 rats on one farm in 40 minutes a few days THE BYSTANDER FOUNDED PRISONER INTERMEDIATE FILM No. 100 brush on the western front showing a rman, made captive, a drink from his young follow whose name I don't know. I wish I did, for he was certainly the nerviest man I ever saw. "No. 7" was hardly out of the officer's mouth before he had his dispatch and was on his way. About five minutes later the signal came that the dispatch had been delivered. "My officer told me afterward that the French general to whom he had handed the dispatch had taken the Medaille Millière off his own breast and pinned it on that of this young dispatch rider. He was also later awarded the Victoria Cross and given a commission. It is things like this that make one proud to belong to such an army." Sniping a Sniper. After spending Christmas, 1914, in the Thep trynes, Robinson helped a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers to snipe a German sniper on the Dickebusch-Hollebeklead. As they rode over a wooden bridge a bullet whistled. Neither spoke, but on the way back, three hours later, the officer said: "That blasted sniper potted in the road." Well, the road here and sneak down opposite the hedge under cover of the trees." Tethering their horses, they crept near the bridge, waited until a wagon passed and heard the sniper's shot, from behind. They crawled a hundred yards and waited. So soon they heard the riffle crack again, not far away. Creeping a little further, they waited again, watching the trees. They care so close to the sniper, without seeing him, that next time he fired they heard the ejector fly back and the bolt snap. Then they spotted him. He was well up a tree, with his riffle fitted on a tripod, so that whenever he heard anyone on the wooden brids; he had only to pull the trigger. But he had ended his sniping. The lieutenant and Private Robinson fired together, and "Mr. Sulper came down like a thousand of bricks." "The British Tommy" of those days, according to William J., was a "great ganaler" as well as a great fighter. One of his forms of gambling was a kind of tintite, known as a "trench pool." About ten fellows got together, and each put ten frames in a pool just before they went into action. They left this money with someone behind the lines, for they would be in action anywhere from stz days to three weeks. The idea the team had to do was to get back would take the money and split it evenly among themselves. If only one lived he would have the whole lot. Daredevil Officer. The Tommies kept cannies, rats, mice, dogs, cats, goats, and even pigs, as pets, and would go hungry before the pet hungered. "The biggest daredevil" that Robinson heard of was known as the "Mad Major"—an artillery officer who kept his own airplane for range finding purposes. When he wanted to correct a range he just flew over and dropped smoke bombs on the particular spot he wanted his guns to hit. Then he went back and set the guns to work. One day, being annoyed with a German 17-inch howitzer, he flew over with a 100-pound bomb, nose dived to within 400 feet, dropped the bomb and blew the howitzer to atoms. He returned with his planes riddled with bullets. Mr. Robinson indicates in a few words what happened to two men, a woman and two children when a Taube dropped a bomb in the square at Poperinghe. It is enough here to say that they were killed, and that the bicycle one of the men was riding was found twisted and bent on a lamppost of fifty yards away. He also describes briefly the killing of two officers in a motorcar by a German 15-inch shell on the road going into Ypres. The driver escaped, but was sent nearly and by the shock. His nerve was gone and he had to be discharged. This was during the second battle of Ypres, when the city was being destroyed by shell fire and the houses were burning. ago and are trained to put the rats in a pile outside the building when they catch them. Mr. Grimley has been following this occupation for several months now and is planning to make trips all over the United States with his animals. Street to Be Named for Galleni. Paris—The municipal council of Paris has charged one of its committees with the mission of choosing a street or square to be named after the late General Galleni. PATHETIC SCENES AMONG WOUNDED Procession of Mangled Men Through German Hospital on Verdun Front. ON THEIR WAY TO FATHERLAND Rear of Guns Punctures the Groans of Pain-Wracked Soldiers—Mutilated Men Think Only of the Enemy. Berlin.—A German correspondent with the army of the crown prince near Vernut sends a graphic description to his newspaper of scenes in a little French village where the wounded are brought in and taken care of. "The songs of the German soldiers who are on leave in this village," he writes, "become softer as the gray hospital wagon appears in the dusty street. The men are severely wounded and are unable to sit up. They are lying on their narrow stretcherers. Some are ill and others are only slightly wounded and they are the bindings of their wounds. They tell of their sufferings. One of them was wounded by shrapnel during an attack by the enemy. He was able to crawl to the rear, and while his wounds were being dressed a shell exploded nearby and he was wounded a second time. But now we are all moving to the rear—to Germany. Wounded Hobble In. "It is getting quite dark. The croaking of frogs comes from a pond not far away. The rour of guns is no longer defending. The hospital wagon slowly moves up the street and stops before the barracks. Those who are able at once alight. One, who received a rite ball in his leg, hips to the ground with his good leg and hobbies off. Another takes an ill soldier on his back and carries him to the barracks. The physician meets us, glances at our papers and asks us to sit on the nearest bench while the severely wounded are at once taken care of by other physclans. All around the room are beds occupied by wounded soldiers who are in no condition to be sent back to Germany for the present. One bed lies a man whose head is all tied up; another has his arm amputated, another his leg. All are asleep, and some are snilling, laughing and talking in their dreams—what sweet dreams they must be—golden dreams. The man has a broken arm and is so softly. The physician says that he had the worst wounds that he has yet seen during the war. It was a question whether he could live, but the physclans brought him around all right, and today, when the wounded man asked for something to eat, they were so delighted they treated everyone with cigars. "We are waiting for the automobile which is to take us to the nearest field hospital. No one says a word. The guns are again roaring. Looking out of the window we can see the clear starlight blue sky now and then vividly illuminated by the fierce glare from exploding shells. Here and there is seen the searchlight on the watch for hostile aviators. One of the wounded remarks: "It would just be my luck to have some aviator drop a bomb on me now after all I have gone through." "The door is opened suddenly, and a soldier stumbles in. He is holding his head with both hands and the blood is streaming down his face. He quietly tells the physician that he would like to have his wounds dressed. He adds that he was driving an ammunition wagon when he was wounded. As the attendant examines his wounds the soldier remarks that he has not much time to spure, as the ammunition wagon is awaiting outside and it is his duty to deliver the ammunition promptly. He tells the physician simply to wash his wounds and let him be off. The physician tells him quietly and firmly that is impossible. He must remain; his wounds are more serious than he imagines. "Everything is quiet again and nothing is heard except the deep breathing of the sleeping wounded. Near me one man awakens and sits up in his bed. He looks at me with two staring, feverish eyes: "How is it with the French? he asks me. I notice that his wounds are in the chest. "What a question to ask, I sad to myself. Here is a man seriously wounded, and from a deep sleep he suddenly awakens and all he asks is his mother or his home, not a word of complaint about his sufferings. "The French are worse off than we are." I answered him. "That seemed to satisfy him, and then he asked for a drink of water. "Just then the automobile stops in front of the door and those of us not severely injured by the car outside inside in the machine. Adieu!" And the automobile starts on its journey to that bloomed place where clean beds and loving hands await to nurse us." Will Make Sure About Their Eggs. New York. After September 1 the people of New York may be reasonably certain as to the state of preservation of the eggs they buy. After that date the law requires the labeling of cold storage eggs on the shell in letters at least one-eighth of an inch high. Cure Man With Broken Neck. Duluth, Minn.-Reported to be the only case of its kind successfully trented here as that of J. R. Johnson of Colbyville, Minn., who suffered a broken neck less than two weeks age and who was discharged from a hospital as practically cured. Johnson, who is farm superintendent for E. S. Kempton, treasurer of the Duluth, Missabe & Northern railroad, was thrown from a load of hay to the ground, sustaining what was termed a complete fracture of the The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation Keep Weeds Out of the Lawn. If one gets a good set of grass in the beginning and keeps the ground fertilized by a coating of stable manure or commercial fertilizer every spring there will be little trouble with weeds if the lawn is kept properly mowed. Some claim that there are weeds that cannot be clipped with the lawn mower. We have found this complaint true where the revolving mower was used, for it will bend and not cut wiry stems, as of crab grass and some other troublesome plants. The only way of getting these is by clipping off with a mower that has a sickle similar to a hay mower. The guards of these machines raise up the stems and the sickle cuts them off without mashing down or piling. There is no need of using the hook so one is careful when getting a mower, to get one that cuts ahead of the wheels, and as wide as the extreme distance apart of the outside of the wheels. This will not leave the strip along the borders that is mashed down by the wheels. Moles do a great deal of damage, but may be run out by frequent rolling, or may be trapped. These may be destroyed by pouring in fire, or by tablespoonful of carbon bisulphur, stopping the hole so the fumes are confined. ARTISTIC ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWERS IN HOME By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN. Dark corners of a room need lighting up, and light-colored, brilliant flowers never look so well as when standing out against a half light. Yellow is an exquisite bit of color for such a corner. Let all the flowers and foliage for home decoration be fresh, and however simple their form, they are lovely, not only as graceful objects but as suggestive of something more beautiful. Avoid fantastic colored or shaped vases. The simple beauty of the flowers is lost in such a holder. Clear glass and the soft greens of Bohemian make are most useful receptacles. Let the lines of the vase or bowls be simple and flowing and however cheap the substance of which the vase is made we shall not err. Strive to produce the effect of the flower when growing, and the error of cutting off the lovely gray-green stalks of daffodil, daffodil, or putting a handful of violets in a tube specimen glass will be impossible. There are many little contrivances nowadays that help wonderfully in the attractive arrangement of flowers. The little Japanese frogs with holes in their backs that sit flat in the bottom of a bowl and hold out primly and gracefully a few precious stalks of lily are to be had for a few cents and are well worth all their cost. With such an arrangement three or four daffodils with their golden glow can bring a bit of sunshine into a dreary room and add a beauty that an armful of exquisite roses crammed into an ugly vase could never give. Color harmony in flower arrangement should be well thought out, not only with regard to the relative position of one flower with another, but weak and spindling fruit bunches, and then give the strong ones a chance to grow. Weeds going to seed right along now. Get very busy with the scythe, the mower, the hoe and everything else that will put them out of that detestable weed burdock. It flowers once every two years, and if the plant is cut off below ground after the flowering stalk appears, it will trouble you no more. Get rid of your old barbed-wire fences juts as soon as possible. They are too dangerous. During very dry weather, and when seedlings are first set out, water frequently. THE GARDEN also with the room in which the vase is to have place. Colors that blend out of doors, because of the gradations in shade caused by atmospheric effects and the relieving sprays of green, would produce discord when massed in a room, but inharmonious effects can be avoided by observing a few general rules. Now that flowers can be secured the year round, the problem having been solved by the gardeners, after years of probing, some sort of bloom should have daily place in the house. The intimate association with such loveliness gladdens the heart and quickens the senses and inspires all that is best within us. BIRD OF PARADISE A unique specimen is the bird of paradise. It is also called strelitzia, named after the wife of King George III, Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a patron of botany. Family sotinamaceae, South African genus of four or five species of perennial herbs. Species reginae. The upper leaves of the flower are orange. The pencil-like middle portion is blue-purple, and the large lower portion light green. it has much the appearance of a tropical bird. The bunches of cobwebs on the trees come before you know it. They are the work of the fall web worm and the torch is the remedy. Mosquitoes bad? Take a look around to see if there is not a pool of stagnant water or a rain barrel near the house. The pests breed in such places. Go over the vines and pinch off the weak and spindling fruit bunches, and then give the strong ones a chance to grow. Weeds going to seed right along now. Get very busy with the scythe, the mower, the hoe and everything else that will put them out of that detestable weed burdock. It flowers once every two years, and if the plant is cut off below ground after the flowering stalk appears, it will trouble you no more. Get rid of your old barbed-wire fences juts as soon as possible. They are too dangerous. During very dry weather, and when seedlings are first set out, water frequently. Bird of Paradise. BITS OF THINGS COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. A free enunciation celebration was the attraction in Council Bluffs last Friday, August 4th. All the attractions were worthy. Rev. Jackson was asked to speak in the afternoon and backed down for some reason known to himself. The Tabernacle Baptist church held a splendid business meeting Friday evening, setting forth some plans for building. Mr. Edy Turner departed this life Sunday night at 12 o'clock. He left mother, father and four brothers and three sisters-in-law to mourn his death and friends and relatives. His funeral was held at the Tabernacle Baptist church Wednesday evening at 2 p.m. Rev. J. P. Jackson preached a fine funeral sermon. Mr. Edy Turner departed very young, only 20 years and 25 days old. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 13, 1896. Deacon K. M. Nord is under the care of the eye specialist in Omaha, Neb. Mrs. K. E. Moore of 1810 Eighth avenue is taking her vacation in Kansas City, Mo., for a few weeks. We are having lots of colored people coming to Council Bluffs now and all can find work to do. We are glad to say this. Mrs. C. H. Hall is up again from her illness. The officers and pastor, Rev. J. P. Jackson, were appointed to meet the contractor next Thursday evening to come to an agreement. It seems that the Baptists will get in their new building if something new or unseen does not block the way. Mr. Morton will give an entertainment, known as the Tom Thumb wedding, August 17th at the Tabernacle church, under the auspices of the Dorcas Sewing club. Mrs. D. H. Mixtin chairman of the committee. The subject was of the text My set will be taken and tomorrow you will miss me. Sam 20th and 16th verses. Mrs. Cage and husband are on the sick list. "About two years ago I had a severe attack of diarrhoea, which lasted over a week." writes W. C. Jones, Buford, N. D. "I became so weak that I could not stand upright. A druggist recommended Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The first dose relieved me and within two days I was as well as ever." Many druggists recommend this remedy because they know that it is reliable Obtainable everywhere. BUXTON, IOWA Tabernacle Baptist Church Items. The church is progressing along the line of attendance, spiritually and financially. Mrs. Mary Edmond of Foster, Iowa, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. White, of Buxton, accompanied by her niece, Miss Viola Edmond, and also her daughter, Thelma. Mr. W. M. Brooks, who has been absent from the city a few weeks, returned home Sunday and spent a few days with his family, who were glad to see him back. We regret very much that Mr. James Grimes will soon take his departure to make his home elsewhere. Rev. Woods of Detroit, Mich., gave a very interesting lecture Monday night, August 14th. Subject, "The Secret of Success to the B. T. Washington Literary." The entertainment given Monday evening by the P. P. club proved to be quite a success. Miss Louise Ward of Des Moines is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Virginia Wade. Mr. Modest also gave an interesting lecture to the B. T. Washington Literary on Monday night. Subject, "The Duty of Boys." Saturday, August 12th, being the annual birthday of the International Order of Twelve, a number of sir knights and daughters, maids and pages assembled in the park for the purpose of having a celebration, but the rain came in showers and the crowds were forced to leave the park and go to the home of Mrs. Mary Baker, where she opened wide her doors and made everyone welcome and the picnic plans were carried out. The Sunday school union met with the Tabernacle Baptist church Sunday. The Best Laxative. To keep the bowels regular the best laxative is outdoor exercise. Drink a full glass of water half an hour before breakfast and eat an abundance of fruit and vegetables, also establish a regular habit and be sure that your bowels move once each day. When a medicine is needed take Chamberlain's Tablets. They are pleasant to take and mild and gentle in effect. Obtainable everywhere. L. E. Hanger NEW Elite Restaurant New Reliable Place to Eat Meals 15c and up Lunches or Short Orders Served 304 W. Grand Ave. Des Moines Iowa Iowa Phone 778 Rates $1 per day Automatte 3952 Tenth Avenue Hotel 1 block from C. & N. W. Ry. All Rooms are Warm. Restaurant and Lunch Room SPECIALIES Chop Suey Chili Con Carne Yockem- Oysters in Season Special attention given to Theatrical People Barber Shop in connection F. F. JACKSON, PROF. OPEN DAY NIGHT Clinton, Iowa HEALTH HINTS. A. J. Booker, M. D. With the school sessions about to begin it is highly important that older people take as much interest as children. In most communities there are several children who are going ahead to prepare themselves for life with scant, or no encouragement from those who are older. These are matters of community interest, or should be. In kindergarten there is not much of social distinction; as the years go on the matter of race and intimate social relations become more strained, so that in high school and college it is a matter of real courage and heroism for most of the young people to race and intimate social relations become more strained, so that in high school and college it is a matter of real courage and heroism for most of the young people to continue. Other people find it necessary to make life pleasant for their school children, to show them that they are interested, to make them know that there is a helpful sympathy for them, to aid them in their problems because later these same children are going to be the leaders and representatives of any race. It is not the fault of the young people that there is not a closer bond between them and the older folks, the negligence and fault is just the other way round. It is the lack of interest which the community exhibits. When something is attempted it usually is along the line of some almost purely selfish ideas, with no thought of real helpful, recursive and amusing hours for the students. Children, for all students are that and are glad to be so considered, are likely to care less for lectures, especially by people who are apt to know less about the subject than they, than they do about some means of meeting and socializing under the proper conditions, to get their bearings in crowds and learn to know people not as they can appear on said occasions, but when they are free and easy. There is too much of posing by the grownups and too little of frankness. The young person has your number all the time and is disgusted with appearances and hypocacy. They are less interested in what you pretend than they are in what you are and your striving. It would take very little of the community purse and not much time to give the young folks a little send off party with good wishes and an assured interest, which latter can be proven by a mid-term dinner. All the time the community is spending on students is safe time; it is money invested in futures; it is the certainty of these young people infusing new blood and a guarantee that they will help those who then will occupy the places they now do. Every moment spent with students will teach you something and is seed which will bring forth rich, wholesome fruit in the way of race loyalty and pride. It is time that we awakened to these facts. We must know that young people do not stray from the fold, rather they are driven from us by our apparent austere, superior and unsympathetic attitude. If we foster them and cheer us we bind them by chains of love and interests. Liver Trouble "I am bothered with liver trouble about twice a year," writes Joe Dingman, Webster City, Iowa. 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Brown's Tennessee Minstrel show was here Saturday, August 12th and 1906, the following described real estate, towit: The nw 1-2 of lot 5, block "D." in Des Moines Co.'s addition to Polk City, Madison township, was sold to E. J. Boynton for the payment of the taxes for the year 1907, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by E. C. Worthington. LET FREEDOM LOUDLY RING. (Special to Bystander.) O, could I but write stories For moving picture plays, I would write one from history Of cruel slavery days. It would tell how the black man These many years ago Was lured by the white traders From his own country's shore. It would show the trading ship With the Dutch in command; I'd give a view of Jamestown, The place the old ships land. I would show those white planters, Without regret or shame, Enslaving the poor Negroes For their greed of gold to gain. 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How comes the mulatto child, A cruel white man's lust? Tom Dixon and Griffith's fame, A renegade—their Gus. Our country called the whites arms, The black man's left on guard, Gus did not rape his mistress, There's no black child in her yard They called the Negro soldiers, With bayonet and guns, To the war they bravely marched, Fought hard, their freedom won. Then comes reconstruction days; These coward Ku-Klux-Klan I would expose their vengeance, Wreaked on the poor Negro man. PORO Hair Grower Satisfaction Guaranteed Office Des Moines 310½ W. Grand Ava. Iowa H Pure Cream Good Coffee THE BYSTANDEs Country Butter Choice Meats Have a Box of ORO Sent by Ar Iowa Paying More Attention to Sheep NOTICEABLE gain in the number of sheep upon Iowa farms in the last five year period is evidence that the farmers recognize the value of sheep to the land and their well known profit turning tendencies. The sheep show at the coming state fair this year promises to be a record breaker, one in keeping with the progress the state is making in the production of mutton and wool and one that will be a credit to the splendid new sheep pavilion erected in 1915 and occupied for the first time at last year's fair. The picture here presented shows the main entrance of the building upon Rock Island avenue. The structure is of dark maroon pressed brick and steel, with trimmings of dull blue and cream terra cotta work, making a very artistic color combination. The building is the largest of the kind, up to the minute in matters of sanitation, comfort and convenience. Last year ten different breeds of sheep were exhibited, representing about as many different states. FORT DODGE, IOWA. (Special.) at this writing. oro College Co., 3100 Pine Street, Dept Q. St. Louis, Mo. Please mention name of this paper when writing. Iowa Paying More Attention to Sheep SHEER BARN NOTICEABLE gain in the number of sheep upon Iowa farms in the last five year period is evidence that the farmers recognize the value of sheep to the land and their well known profit turning tendencies. The sheep show at the coming state fair this year promises to be a record breaker, one in keeping with the progress the state is making in the production of mutton and wool and one that will be a credit to the splendid new sheep pavilion erected in 1915 and occupied for the first time at last year's fair. The picture here presented shows the main entrance of the building upon Rock Island avenue. The structure is of dark maroon pressed brick and steel, with trimmings of dull blue and cream terra cotta work, making a very artistic color combination. The building is the largest of the kind, up to the minute in matters of sanitation, comfort and convenience. Last year ten different breeds of sheep were exhibited, representing about as many different states. FORT DODGE, IOWA (Special.) at this writing KEOKUK ITEMS. Mr. Benjamin Walker of Fort Dodge, who is employed at the U. S. gypsum mills, was seriously hurt by a steam boiler, which exploded. He was badly burned in the face and on the arms, but is somewhat improved (Continued from Page 1.1) Lewis was the guest of Miss Clara Robinson in Hannibal, Mo. Messrs. Wm. Brooks, Walter Gross, Arthur Robins, Ralph Tebeau, Regin- 10 Acres of Richest Farm Lands and Town Lots for $500 Just Opened a Magnificent New Town-Site in the Most Beautiful and Fertile Valley in America, Located at TASTIOTA, MEXICO on the west coast, in the state of Sonora, a few hours ride by rail or automobile from Tuscan, Arizona. This is a wonderful rich agricultural district, having a mild climate the year round and destined to be a second California. 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