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ADVERTISSE IN THIS PAPER The Best and only medium that reaches the colored people of the middle west. XXIII No.15 Mr. Enza Morgan, now located at Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has accepted a position playing in an orchestra in a winter resort. Mrs. Mattie Brooks has returned home from Cleveland, Ohio, after a month's vacation. Mr. and Mrs. J. Emanuel are the proud parents of a ten pound boy, born Monday evening. Mrs. Wm Hampton, 1009 12th street was taken to the Methodist hospai this week for an operation. Miss Lillian Neal left last Saturday for Decatur City, Iowa, to spend her vacation with her mother, Mrs. Amanda Morton. Mrs. W. H. McCree, who has been visiting for two months at her parental home in Boston, has returned home. Mr. C. C. Johnson, 1324 Day street, left Wednesday morning for N shville, Tenn., to enter Heavy Medical college from which he expects to graduate next spring. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Johnson entertained a number of friends Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs. Wm. Jackson and daughter, Olive, of Omaha, Neb. Mr. William Woods while working at the Securities building Tuesday morning slipped and fell from a tall step ladder, receiving some very painful and severe wounds. He is improving nicely. Mrs Miley Underwood of Muskegon Mich., is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. E. Roberts and her niece Mrs Tymonney 2242 Ingersoll. She will remain in the city for some time. Mrs. J. S. Randolph has returned to her home in Loriah, Ohio, after an extended visit with her sister in Rock Springs, Wyo., whom she had no seen in eighteen years, and her brother, M. E. Cassell, of this city. Miss Magnolia Sears entertained at a dancing party for Mr. Paul McCree who left Saturday to resume his studies at Fisk university. A large crowd of young people were present and all enjoyed the evening. On last Thursday evening Miss Rachel Eliott entertained the members of Lorial club and a few friends at the home of Mrs. John C. Coleman on 20th street. The affair was given complimentary to her cousin, Mrs. Nichols of Oakland, Cal. Rehearsals for the recital to be given by Mr. James Hill, tenor and Miss Joubournese Redmond, soprano, are under way and very encouraging. This will be the first of a number of high class concerts to be given the Negroes of Des Moines, provided you give us your patronage. The Sunday Afternoon Forum will meet at Corinthian Baptist Church Sunday at 4:30. Rev. J. M. Eaves will deliver an address, "Prepare mess." Rev. Eaves is an eloquent speaker and well informed upon the subject. Every body invited to attend. Social hour 5:30. Chas P. Howard, Pres. The Corinthian Baptist church is doing very nicely, though we have no pastor at present. Our receipts for the associational year was nearly $3,000.00 We are now putting on new strength and looking forward to do better under the direction of our official force. Visitors are invited to attend our services Sunday the 24th Rev W. A. Bowren, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist church of Kansas City, Kans., and vice president of the National Baptist convention, will preach for us. We hope to have a large attendance. Preaching at 11 a.m; Sunday School 12:15 p.m; B. Y. P. U. 6:30 p.m. and preaching at 8 p.m. You are welcome. F. J. Harris, clerk. TAXI SERVICE For Joy Rides and Auto Service in and out of city call Red 6589 511 W. 3rd St. Mrs. J. Smith Mr. James Hill VOICE CULTURE Cultivation and retention of the singing voice. Phone Drake 1865-W Walnut 2106 REMEMBER THE Palace Sweet Cafe UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Is the best place to go for Good Home Cooking Everything First Class Red 1867 1012 Center Street Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson Preps. THE BYSTANDER Miss Rachel Hill has returned from a month's visit in Colorado. Mrs. Tillie Lee made a business trip to Clarinda on Sunday. Mrs. Lee will move to Des Moines, residing at 909 Seventeenth street. Rev. W. H. Wheeler, D. S., of the Kansas City district, will hold the second quarterly meeting for the conference year at Asbury Chapel M. E. church Sunday, September 24th. All members and friends of the church are expected to be present and enjoy one or all three services. Do not miss the communion at 3 o'clock. THOMPSON HOTEL GUESTS Mr. A. C. Williams, Buxton; Mr and Mrs J E. Brown, Detroit; Mrs. Chas Carl, Lake Okoboji. DRAMATIC RRT CLUB The Dramatic Art club met Tuesday at the residence of Mrs. Warricke. The review of Antony and Cleopatra consisted of the following topics: "Antony," Mrs. C. W. Rogers; "Cleopatra," Mrs. H. Brown; "Caesar," Mrs. W. H. Warriocks; "Battle of Actium," Mrs. N. C. Marshall; "Cleopatra's Family,"rs. M. Hammitt; "Alexandra," Mrs. Timiny, "Egypt," Mrs. E. Mixon. The club will meet next Tuesday with Mrs. N. C. Marshall Lesson, Parliamentary Law. DES MOINES WOMEN ENTHUSI ASTIC OVER FEDERATION EXPOSITION. The largest and most enthusiastic committee meeting ever held in the city of Des Moines was the one on last Thursday evening at the residence of the general chairman, S. S. Joe Brown, 1058 Fifth street. More than fifty of the representative women of this city came together for the purpose of hearing reports and devising plans for the Iowa Federation Exposition, which is to be put on October 31st in the Crocker roller rink for the benefit of the Booker T. Washington memorial fund. Glowing reports were made by the various superintendents who will have charge of booths that afternoon and evening, and by Mrs. Brown, who recently made a tour through the east, bringing back with her a number of garments and useful articles of various kinds to be disposed of at this exposition. The following persons were appointed as assistant superintendents: Mesdames C. B. Woods, A. McGuire, C. C. Johnson, J. R. Drew, A. G. Coleman, A. M. White, J. Alvin Jefferson, Edw. Weeks, J. H. Brown, J. A. Wilson, Gw Watkins, W. H. Lowry and Sarah Wells. The next meeting will be held Thursday evening, October 26, for final arrangements. PROGRAM ISSUED FOR CONVEN TION AT VALLEY JUNCTION. Sunday School Workers Will Meet September 28, 29 and 30—Excellent Program of Capable Speakers—Invitation Is Given the Public. The 52nd annual Polk County Sunday School convention will be held in the city of Valley Junction, Iowa, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 28, 29 and 30. The indications are that it will be second in size only to the state convention held at Dubuque this year. Among the thirty-five capable speakers will be several who were on the state convention program and who are denominational leaders in Sunday school work, including: Rev. H. Jerome Leinbach, representative of the Reformed Church of the United States; Rev. Paul H. Heisey, boy scout expert, pastor Emmanuel Lutheran church, Des Moines; Mrs. W. D. Stem, teacher training superintendent for Iowa; Rev. Clarence N. Bigelow, assistant pastor University Church of Christ; Mrs. Jay A. Lapham, representative of the Baptist church; Rev. O. G. Orcutt, superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools of Iowa; Rev. James P. Burling, pastor Greenwood Congregational church, Des Moines, and Mr. W. D. Stem, general secretary of the Iowa State Sunday School association. Dr. C. W. Burt, mayor of Valley Junction, will give the address of welcome. There will be schools of methods for the elementary, secondary and adult divisions of the Sunday school. Every Sunday school worker in Polk county should send several delegates to attend the sessions regularly and return with condensed written reports for their "Echo meetings" later. Valley Junction cordially invites the public to attend the convention. Plan to go. OTTUMWA, IOWA. Miss Genevieve Searcy returned from Peoria, Ill., on Wednesday, September 13, after a few days at the home of her uncle, J. E. Thompson. Mr. Harold Gooch has returned to Mt. Pleasant, where he will begin his third year term at Iowa Wesleyan university. Mrs. Katherine Wagner has returned from Chicago with her son, Earl. Mr. Wagner recently underwent a critical operation for appendicitis. A few days later Mrs. Wagner and her daughter, Mrs. Joe Hemington, were called to Minnesota on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Wagner's daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Wall. A number of young ladies entertained them. Mrs. W. Thompson of Mk. and Mrs. W. Thomp- ington of Mk. Mary. Mary E. Taylor left for Chicago last Sunday to visit her children and grandchildren. Rev. W. A. Searcy left for conference last Wednesday. Miss Etta Searcy left for Mt. Pleasant, where she will begin her first year at the Iowa Wesleyan university. Mr. Geo. Downey of Chicago is visiting at the home of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Downey. Mr. Henry Casen of Midnapolis is making an indefinite stay in Ottumwa. Mrs. Luella Spicer entertained a few friends Sunday afternoon in home or office, Mr. Franklin, who stopped over for a short visit with his sister, on his way to Quindara college. Monday evening there was a fried chicken supper at the A. M. E. church. Mr. Geo. Bailey was the chef. It was a decided success. IOWA WOMAN MADE GOOD. Winning Her Way in the Lecture Field For Christian Organization. Miss Sidney J. Davis of Keokuk, Iowa, for twelve years general missionary of the foreign mission board of the National Baptist convention, formerly district secretary of the Western Baptist Convention and for two years corresponding secretary of its woman's auxiliary convention. She has also filled a successful term of special service as assistant superintendent of foreign missions of the Baptist State Foreign Mission Convention of Texas, and editor of "The Mission Field Call." Miss Davis, en route to the National Baptist convention in Savannah, Ga., a few days ago, made a flying trip to Centerville and spent two days in attendance at the Iowa Baptist association in session at that place. Miss Davis had been an ardent worker and held several prominent offices in this association in the days of her girlhood, and received an ovation upon her appearance at the gathering. The two addresses delivered by her before the woman's convention and the association were masterpieces and made a tremendous impression upon the dearest of all, please in welcoming one of their own who had made good in the great national field as well as at home. Miss Davis has consented to return in October and devote some time to assisting the local churches throughout the state by a lecture tour. EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS. In our last week's observations we forgot to give the names of the different automobile routes or trails (as they are called) that we traveled over. They were as follows: The Great White Way, River to River Road, the C. C. K, G, the Lincoln Highway, Black Diamond. These routes or trails are of immense value to autoists, as they silently mark the route to the next town and distance and also give you the danger zones. Oksalaokson, Iowa, being our first real stop Tuesday morning, September 5th. Here we found this quiet Quaker town moving along in its usual conservative course with her 300 colored people doing fairly well. Alex Clark, Jr. is still in the tonsorial business, with Mr. R. E. Moore assisting him. He is a graduate from the law department of Iowa State university. He was recently elected grand custodian of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. A. Hardy is still working at his business. He is a reliable citizen. His only daughter, Mrs. Hall, is visiting him from Minneapolis. Mr. Frank Allen is still in the building contracting business. He has a large amount of work and employs several helpers. He is a credit to any race. Mr. J. B. Wood, 903 D avenue West is a new man here, having only been here about two years. He is in the coal and ice business for himself and has built up an immense trade among the boys. He came from Keokuk and we bespoke for Mr. Wood a successful business man. He is a true race man. Go on, Mr. Woods. Mrs. Hannah Williams is still keeping rooms. Robt Johnson, the genial friend. His able wife is active in church and society work. Mrs. Cora Moore is our splendid correspondent from here. Mr. Robt Franklin is working for the same coal company and doing well. Mr. Ed. Moore is at the same place, as is also 1. Mitchell and Mr. Coleman, each of them are substantial citizens here and avoed working at the same place forilly a dozen years. Each own a nice one. Our good, able and highly educated divine, Rev. E. J. Pamay, has located here, pastoring the M. E. church, having first his love, Congregationalism, and has joined the M. E. brethren. We wish him success. H. J. Hockaday is still barbering, also is Mr. Lloyd. We next stopped in Muscatine. A. O. Manley is still working in town. He owns a valuable small farm one-half mile from town. Also I. P. Johnson owns a nice farm one-half mile from town. She had just returned from a visit, to Des Moines to visit his son and daughters there. I. P. is a fine man and a splendid race man. Frank A. Walker is still running the barber shop. His wife is real sick. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have moved in from their home in the suburbs and Mrs. Thompson is still running a first class hairdressing and manicuring parlor, while Mr. T. is learning the automobile business. Rev J. Whorton has charge of the A. M. E. church. The Greenways are still in the barbering business. Mr. Dew works in a cool office. We next landed in Davenport, where lives about 1,200 people. E. H. Haskins is still here. He has almost recovered from his accident on the railroad several years ago. W. H. Green is road well. Mrs. W. Carpinb has moved from Gains street to Ripley, where she is keeping room. C. F. Shepard is working at the same place. Mrs. Della Marshall is sick. Mr. Eugene Green is still in the transfer business and in doing well. Benj. F. Wyatt is still in the panatorium. B. N. Johnson, formerly a barber of Des Moines, is barbering here. L. M. Brown, formerly of Des Moines, who graduated in embalming, is located here and doing well. He is the undertaker in the tri-cities and we urge the colored people to support him. Dr. B. S. Taylor is the only physician here. He is doing well, a graduate of the Creighton medical school of Omaha, Neh. He is the Johnson still runs his florist shop and is doing well. Mrs. D. S. Johnson is still our live correspondent on this city. Mr. and Mrs. Shepard on Grand avenue are living in their beautiful home and doing as well as usual. Mr. and Mrs. Baker has worked a home out on Judson street and has moved out on Judson street and has moved two times, are doing well. Rev. T. W. Lewis is pastor of the A. M. E. church. He is a good minister. His wife, formerly Ann Hall of Des Moines, was materially poor. F. K. Nicholson is the manager of the Battist church. He is also a good man and has built on his church. Mr. Howard is still in the coal business and doing well. Mr. Wm. Bates is still running his shoe shining parlor, the finest in the city. He is in the heart of the city. He has about six to ten helping him. Mr. Buckneris employed by the city. He owns a nice home and an automobile, Mr. Enza Green, 114 Fountain street, is still in the pool and restaurant business. He has recently opened up a rooming house. They are fine people to meet. He and his wife are good, successful business people. See his adv in the Bystander. They serve good meals. Mrs. Douglass runs a rooming house, also Mrs. G. Jackson. Mr. John E. Bradford, our good friend, is still working for the City Electric Light Co. He is well liked by the company and is doing well, and he is one of the leading citizens of this city, active in all things that are good. Alex Roberts is city scavenger. Scott McGaw is working at the same place, also Mr. Fquau. Davenport looks rather odd not to see saloons in it. Mr. H. D. Williams is working at the same place. Next week we will begin in Rock Island. CLINTON, IOWA. The friends of Mrs. Art Brown were shocked to hear of her death, which took place unexpectedly on Wednesday of last week. Upon entering the home of a Mrs. Ocker she complained of not feeling well. Mrs. Ocker went for a glass of water and on returning she found her in a collapsed condition. While carrying her to a place of rest she passed away. She has been a resident of Clinton for a number of years. The funeral took place from Bethel A. M. E. church Friday at 3 o'clock, the Rev. W. W. Williams officiating. At the regular monthly meeting of the trustees of Bethel church the pastor, Rev. W. W. Williams, was presented with a check for $10 as a recognition of service rendered. Rev. L. W. Routt, a former resident of Clinton, stopped over in Clinton on Monday en route to the annual conference in Chicago. Wm. A. Richardson, who has been in poor health for some time, passed away at his home, 538 First Avenue, Monday morning at 8:30. Deceased was born in St. Louis in 1843. He has been a resident of Clinton for over twenty-five years. He was a veteran of the civil war, serving afterwards on the border as sergeant in Company F, Tenth regiment, U. S. cavalry, for ten years. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Gertrude, and a stepdaughter, Murda Beason, all at home. The funeral will be held from the Second Baptist church, of which he was a member, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30, in charge of G. Baker Post G. A. R., Rev. F. J. Nott officiating. Mrs. Sarah Bradley of Moline was the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. W. Cooper, a few days ago. She was accompanied by Mrs. Geo. Tarver, and the Misses Louise and Claudius Sutcliffe, also of Moline. Prof. C. W. Rockers of Des Moines will lecture at the Second Baptist State Capitol Blog Hist a leal about church Tuesday evening, September 10th. Mrs. Maude Brown of Chicago is a guest of Mrs. J. W. Cooper. The members of Bethel A. M. E. church were out in force Monday night to celebrate the success of the year in paying off all obligations, and to hear reports of the year which could be reopened at the annual conference. At 8:30 we wereated at a delightful dinner, which had been carefully prepared by a committee under the supervision of Mrs. Scott Robinson. At its conclusion an informal program of addresses was rendered by persons chosen from the several auxiliaries, A. A. Bush presiding. Attorney L. F. Sutton, a guest, gave an interesting address, complimenting the church on its success. Wm. Henderson and Scott Robinson fulfilled their promise that if all obligations were cancelled this year the former would stand on his head and the last jump the lizard, causing much fun. The reports lizard, $1,927.27 had been collected by the church this year. The climax of the evening came when the pastor was presented with a suit of clothes, gloves and a purse by Mrs. L. Wilder and Mrs. Hattie Henderson, in behalf of the members and friends, and a hat by Mrs. Holland Williams in behalf of the juvenile choir. Rev. L. W. Routt was a guest and gave an interesting talk. Rev. W. W. Williams and L. W. Routt left Tuesday for the annual conference. Prof. C. W. Rodgers of Des Moines lectured at the Second Baptist church Tuesday night. Mr. C. J. Wallace of Omaha, Neb, visited at the home of his father-naw, Rev. F. J. Nott, Friday and Saturday. He left for Chicago on Sunday morning. Mr. J. W. Porter left Sunday morning for Jefferson City, Mo., where he will put his son, Paul, in Lincoln Institute. Rev. G. W. Martin and family Rev. F. J. Nott spent the 17th on a fishing trip. Mr. Henry Judon spent Sunday at Savanna, Ill. Miss Edith Junkins is visiting relatives and friends in Bloomfield, Iowa. The entertainment given by the ladies of the Second Baptist church on Saturday, the 16th, was a success financially and otherwise. CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA Rev. Northcross has returned from Kalamazoo, Mich., where he was assisting in revival meetings. Miss Leona Steele has accepted the position as maid at the Boyen Grill. Miss Aurelia Clement leaves next week to attend school in Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. A. M. Boyd, who was indisposed for a day of leaves, is able to be out. posed for a few days, is able to be out. Mrs. Green and daughter of Toledo, who have been visiting relatives and friends, returned home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Jennie Robinson entertained at dinner Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Green and daughter of Toledo. Mrs. J. M. Richardson of Lexington, Ky, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Jackson, returned home Thursday. Rev. Northcross occupied the pulpit of Mt Zion Baptist church Sunday, the first time since the fourth Sunday in July. A splendid congregation attended both sessions and expressed very much pleasure in having him do. They will begin the remodeling of the church this week. Mrs. Claire entertained at dinner Monday in honor of Rev. R. Cato, who will leave Tuesday for conference to be held in Chicago. The J. S. Y. club will give an entertainment Thursday evening to raise the balance of the money for carpeting the A. M. E. church. The Killian Cao, from which the carpet was wought, kindly donated $10. Subscribers and others, please don't fail to call 3069 W. when having news for the Bystander. Best Treatment for a Burn If for no other reason, Chamberlain's Salve should be kept in every household on account of its great value in the treatment of burns. It allays the pain almost instantly, and unless the injury is a severe one, heals the parts without leaving a scar. This salve is also unequaled for chapped hands, sore nipples and diseases of the skin. Price, 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA Rev. J. P. Jackson, just returned from the Iowa and Nebraska association, which met with the Second Baptist church at Centerville, Iowa, made his report to the Tabernacle Baptist church and in it he spoke of the progress the association is making under the leadership of our broad and noble hearted moderator, Rev. Sam Bates, of Des Moines, and his cabinet. The members of the choir gave $9 they made in an effort to help the building fund and Mrs. Ward gave $5 on the building fund, making our collection all day $25.70. Mrs. Mixon and Mrs. Maton returned home from Des Moines, where they were spending two weeks' vacation. Mr. S. Field has been on the sick list. Mrs. Haggans is indisposed. Mrs. C. C. Davis and her little fan son are suffering from bad colds. Rev. Jackson and his officers are trying to lay some plans to begin the building as soon as possible. Rev. R. Z. Cage will take up the work to raise money about the first of October as state-wide financial agent for the Tabernacle Baptist church. Mrs. J. P. Jackson did the pastoral visiting while the pastor was away attending the association. We hope the Bystander Co. will give us Mrs. Andrew Lewis for its reporter and agent for Council Bluffs. Address 1531 Avenue A and she will get the message. Rev. E. R. Edward left Monday night for Chicago to attend the annual meeting. GALESBURG. ILL. er spent Sunday in Monmouth, Ill. Messra. H. Harmon and B. Mitchell left for a ten days visit with relatives and friends in Paris, Mo. Mr. L. Schoots of Canton, Ill., spent a few hours in our city Monday. Messra. James and Walter Hazel were shaking hands with old friends, called here by the death of their sister, Mrs. R. Wilder. Mrs. M. C. Malone of Canada, who has been visiting relatives and friends, departed Tuesday morning for Chicago, where she will attend conference before returning home. Rv. S. Moore and wife left Monday morning for Chicago to attend conference. Those on the sick list are Mrs. Garnet, Ill. Allen, Mr. H. Wilder, B. Harmon and 3. Alcon. Miss M. Allen departed Sunday evening for Fisk university for the winter. Mr. Charles Brown has purchased a home of Mr. Charles Anderson at 913 W. Berrie street. Mr. Charles Anderson has built a new up-to-date grocery store at 906 W. Berrie street. He is doing a nice business and wishes to meet more of his friends. Mrs. G. W. Berry of Brunswick, Mo., is visiting her children. MACON, MO. NEWS. Sunday was quarterly meeting day at the A. M. E. church. Two excellent sermons were preached by the bishop. Miss Ruth Perkins is visiting in Keetsville, Mo. Mrs. Cora Harris and granddaughter, Miss Lillian, are expected home soon from a visit in Rock Island and Quincy, Ill. Western college will open Monday, September 25. Mrs. John Green wishes to thank her many friends for the kindnesses during the illness and death of her little son. Rev. Clanton of Chicago was called to our city to accept the pulpit of the Vine and Broadway Baptist church. Mrs. Ed Harris and children will attend the fair in Callo, Mo. The Busy Bee club met Saturday at the home of Hortense Carter. The next meeting will be at the residence of Miss Harriet Bradley. Miss Julia Howard of our city was quietly married Thursday night to Mr. James Sands at the home of the bride. Miss Howard for a number of years has been teacher of the public schools of Bevier, while the groom is a successful farmer residing about twenty miles in the country. We wish for the young people much success during their married life. Rev. E. L. Scruggs of Monmouth, Ill., will arrive in our city Friday with his daughter, Miss Bernice, who will attend Western college. Rev. Scruggs recently married one of Macon's best girls, Miss Margaret Oliver, who for a number of years has been teacher of the public schools and also teacher of the class of the Sunday school department and organist of the night chair of the Vine and Broadway church. Rev. Scruggs while in our city will fill the pulpit Sunday. Louis Brown spent Saturday night in Moberly, Mo. Edith Nichols has returned From Monroe, Mo., where he was employed for the Davis Cleaven Poultry Co. Miss Rosa Johnson, one of the efficient teachers of the E. B. D. department of Western college, will arrive Sunday from her home in Palmyra, Mo., to resume her duties. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Garnett will take their departure soon for Chicago, where they will make their future home. Editor J. L. Thompson was in our city Saturday in the interest of the Bystander. Mr. C. A. Johnson, the colored barber of our city, remains better as we go to press. The Vine and Broadway Missionary Circle met Friday at the home of Mrs. M. Maupin. A delightful evening was enjoyed. Mrs. Beatrice Saunders of Omaha, Neb., having been called to our city by the death of her nephew, returned Saturday night. Mrs. M. Ferrall and daughter are visiting in the city. DAVENPORT ITEMS. Mrs. Sarah Davie is home, after a two week's visit with her daughter in Omaha, Neb. Miss Mary Brooks of Burlington, who has been here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brooks, returned home Saturday. Mrs. Mabilda Miller has returned from Lake Delevan, where she spent the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Baker entertained at dinner last week at Mary Mrs. Chisholm of Bok Island and Mrs. Vincia Willey of St. Louis, Mo. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Pay Boost and read the Dont borrow or read your neighbors, help make this a great paper The skating rink is drawing large crowds. Mrs. Alice Thompson and a friend from Muscatine were Sunday visitors and worshipped at Bethel A. M. E. church. Billa are out announcing a big celebration at Suburban Island, Davenport, September 22. Mr. Wm. Brooks is home from a week-end visit at his parental home in Burlington. Last Saturday Bethel A. M. E. church held the first tag day ever put on by our people in this city. Over $200 was realized. Rev. F. K. Nicholson, pastor of the Third Baptist church, and Mrs. Frank Huff are home from the association in Centerville. Mrs. Mary Garland of Chicago, who has been here visiting her sister, Mrs. Amanda Chesterfield, returned home last Saturday. Mr. Harry Brown was in Cedar Rapids a few days last week. Miss Mary Murry of Weldon spent last Sunday in this city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Johnson. Any one who failed to respond to the call of the collector may pay the agent at any time. Telephone 047 4 Y and the agent will call for the money. MONMOUTH, ILL. Rev. and Mrs. Eugene Thompson left Tuesday morning for Chicago, where they will attend conference and afterward visit with friends. Rabbi Gaines of Abbsyinia, Africa, spoke at the Calvary Baptist church while in the city. Prof. Huckins of Tuskegee Institute was here Sabbath last and gave a splendid address at the First Methodist church and the A. M. e. church. Mary Mary Lewis left Tuesday morning for Chicago and Indianapolis. Ind. While at Chicago she will attend conference. Mrs. Dayse Lash and Miss Alberta Merrill entertained the Royal House at the Lash home. A dainty three-course luncheon was served and an enjoyable time spent. Kerr will fill the pulpit of the St. James A. M. E. church Sabbath evening. The ladies of the A. M. E. church gave a social Monday evening. Rev. Thompson read his report, which showed that good work had been done this past year. Rev. and Mrs. Bell and daughter, Dorcas, of Burlington stopped here Monday on their way to Chicago. They visited at the home of Mr. J. T. Peppers. Mrs. Peppers trained a family of friends with a 6 o'clock dinner in their honor. OMAHA. NEB. Miss Cleote Thompson is improving at her residence rapidly. Miss Beulah Griffin of Denver, Colo., spent a fortnight with Mrs. Lonzeta Bideaux. She was returning home. The friends of Mrs. Green and the little playmates of Johnnie were very sorry to hear of his death. Miss Ethel Cox died Sunday night at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Georgia Robinson. Mrs. Lonzeta Bideaux and Mrs. Minnie Griffin entertained friends and relatives at dinner Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. Johnson of Perry, Okla. Mr. James Turmon of Kansas City is visiting his friends and aunt. Constipation the Father of Many Ills. Of the numerous ills that affect humanity a large share start with constipation. Keep your bowels regular and they may be avoided. When a laxative is needed take Chamberlain's Tablets. They not only move the bowels but improve the appetite and strengthen the digestion. Obtainable everywhere. CLARINDA, IOWA. (Special to the Bytlander.) Rev. D. W. Brown preached his last sermon Sunday night before he and his wife departed for conference, which convenes in Chicago. A large audience was out to hear him. Mrs. Tillie Lee of Des Moines is in town packing her household goods, getting ready to move there permanently. Mr. and Mrs. Smart of Marysville were the guests of Rev. W. Mitchell in Sunday. The Ladies' Crochet club met at the home of Mrs. Laura Jones on Monday and was organized with Mrs. Caddie Ferriver; president; Mrs. L. W. Williams, vice president; Mrs. Lillian Lane, secretary; Mrs. Della Johnson, treasurer; Mrs. Mettie Renfo, chaplain. Mrs. Mattie Renfo and Miss Helen Williams are visiting friends in Omaha, Neh. Mrs. Henry Ferrier and Mr. Noah Pemberton have sold their places for school grounds. SIOUX CITY, IOWA Mr. Harrison Gould of Des Moines, Iowa, and Rev. Brasco of Clarinda, Iowa, were in the city Friday and set up a K. P. lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Green have returned from Lake Okeobiji and will visit soon. Mrs. Phalia Pemberton of Clarinda, Iowa, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. F. Roberts. Mrs. J. D. Anthony has returned from Colorado Springs. Mrs. Rae Ackley is visiting in AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Thomas H. Taylor, secretary of the colored men's branch of the Young Men's Christian association, whose resignation was tendered some time ago, will become secretary of the New York branch, and left August 20 to take up his work there. F. E. DeFrantz, who has been physical director of the colored branch for the last three years, has been appointed acting secretary until the position can be filled permanently, reports the Indianapolis News. The branch in New York is in Fifty-third street and the property is valued at $75,000. The board of management recently bought a lot in One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, and work on a $110,000 building will be begun in November. Mr. Taylor's resignation has been deeply regretted by those interested in the success of the Y. M. C. A. branch here. He came here in 1905 when the association and its headquarters in rented property in North California street, and there were only 17 members. Doctor Hummens was president of the board of management when Mr. Taylor came here. During the 11 years Mr. Taylor has been secretary the membership reached 1,000. Mr. Taylor said he attributes much of the success of the association to the interest of George L. Knox, now president of the board of management. In speaking of the association here three years ago when the new building was dedicated, Booker T. Washington said its work was not surpassed by that of any like organization he knew of, and that it was filling one of the greatest needs in the community life of the city. Mr. Tayler said the relations of the Central Y. M. C. A. and the colored men's branch always have been friendly, and that too much cannot be said of the interest of A. H. Godward, secretary, whose advice has always been available and whose influence has been exerted in the interest of the colored work whenever it was needed. Mr. Taylor was born and reared in London, Canada, and for six years before coming to this city was a letter carrier there. He attended the first meeting called for boys by the Central association in London, and held many responsible positions in the boys' department, later becoming a member of the board of directors. --- The world's fastest runner will never race again, if physicians who are attending him are correct. Howard P. Drew, the colored athlete, who holds the world's record of 9-3-5 seconds for 100 yards and has equaled the mark of 21-1-5 seconds for 229 yards, is suffering from a stroke of paralysis at Los Angeles. His left side is infected and It was announced that he may recover partially, but that the affliction is certain to bar him from fast competition for the rest of his life. Drew is a Springfield, Mass. boy, and it was as a member of the high-school track team of that city that he gained fame. He was on the American team at the Stockholm Olympic contests and has retained the national championship for years. Drew completed in the Lake Front Olympic games at Chicago, and defended the best of the athletes in that city. For the past two years he has made his home on the coast, competing for a California school. He is married and has a family. Attention has been called before to the wide employment of electric pocket lamps by the fighting men of Europe. According to a recent statement in the Daily Mail, it is learned that two London firms have produced between them no less than 2,000,000 batteries during the last year. Prior to the war only about 50,000 such batteries were made in the entire United Kingdom. --- The annual encyclopedia of Negro progress issued at Tuskegee contains a list of towns and settlements in the United States populated and governed almost entirely by negroes. Most of these towns are small. Buxton, Ia. with 5,000 population, 1,000 of whom are whites, being the largest, and Boley, Okin. the next. It will be interesting to witness the results of this experiment. California has several fine sea-level highways. They skirt the shore of the Pacific and are built of concrete. Apparatus to sterilize air and medicate it for the use of invalids has been invented by a Pittsburgh man. A large industry in Christianity, Norway, has leased its idle land at a cheap rate to its employees, who will erect thereon individual suburban homes of their own. A new trap to he attached to a refrigerator drain pipe permits waste water to flow out, but prevents the entrance of warm air or vermilion. Mike Elisa Ward of Asbury, Md., has three sons and seven grandchildren in Company L, the Guildford unit of the First Maryland regiment. The "public farewell tendered by the committee of management of the colored Y. M. C. A., in the association room, in honor of Thomas E. Taylor, secretary who left for New York, where he is to become head of the New York branch, was evidence of the high regard in which Taylor is held by the colored citizens. The occasion was also a welcome to F. E. DeFrantz, former physical director, who is becoming acting secretary of the work there. Dr. J. H. Ward, for many years chairman of the membership committee, was master of ceremonies. A number of white and colored citizens participated in the program all of whom praised Taylor for his self-sacrificing spirit, his courage, faith and optimism. The belief was expressed that few men could have accomplished what Taylor had in the 11 years he has been connected with the colored branch. E. E. Stacy, state secretary of the Y. M. C. A., the first speaker on the program, spoke in the highest terms of what Tayler had accomplished in the state, referring to him as a pioneer in the Y. M. C. A. movement among the colored people of Indiana. He spoke of the genuine friendship existing between Taylor and all the Y. M. C. A. workers, how his enthusiasm and faith in the future of the colored branch had inspired workers of the central association and the field of workers to a larger interest in the success of the colored work—Indianapolis News. The 1916-1917 "Negro Year-Book" estimates that the colored race is now raising $1,500,000 yearly in this country for the support of schools—most of this probably going to denominational colleges and academies, but much being expended in rural districts upon primary schools. The Rosenwald fund for building country schoolhouses, for example, offers contributions only to communities which have themselves raised an equal amount. For private and higher schools for the Negro in 1704,115, the United States, the states and the cities spent $703,359. For colored public schools the 16 former slave states, the District of Columbia and Oklahoma spent $106,650, which is a little more than one-ninth the amount expended for white public schools. Making all schools and the country as a whole, to Negro education was given less than $15,000,000—as against nearly $20,000,000 spent for education of the whites. The combined budget of four or five of our largest universities would equal the amount spent on the separate education of our Negro population! The spectacle of a none too prosperous Negro population giving (for it) large sums ought to inspire more generosity among the whites—New York Post. Trainmen put off two young men who had boarded a boxcar at Weatherby, Mo. Between that place and Maysville the train had a wreck and that particular car was badly smashed. When the boys later walked into Maysville they hunted up the brakemen and thanked them for saving their lives. The harbor of Hamburg has been equipped with floating docks of two types, which permit them to raise from the water vessels longer than the docks themselves. Two blind men have started a basket-making business near Worcester, Mass. They are Axel Carlson and August Kellstrom, each of whom lost his sight two years ago. They are raising their own willows and have half an acre now about two feet tall, in the rear of their little workshop. An automobile built for the car can be converted into a motor sleigh by replacing the front wheels with runners and placing chains on the rear ones. The seven principal engineering societies of Germany have combined into a new association called the Deutscher Verneute. (German Association of Technical Scientific societies). All the steam railways in New Zealand are owned and operated by the government. There are about 3,000 miles of road in operation, and new lines are under construction. An opening extends through a new rubber hot-water bottle into which a glass bottle can be inserted to keep the contents of the latter warm. Three of the most enthusiastic motion picture fans in Atlanta, Ga., are sixty-five years of age and go to the movies in roller chairs. One of this trio is a woman. Pure food advocates in Japan recently discovered that much rice was adulterated with quartz sand to increase its weight. Turbulence among the mines in the South African gold fields has been reduced by the use of electricity for light. Japan obtains more than 2,000,000 horse power from its streams by nearly 400 hydroelectric plants. Experiments have indicated to Honduras that it may become an important cotton-rating nation. The desk clock and electric light have been combined in a new space-saving office convenience. A humming bird, when stripped of its feathers, is no longer than a bumblebee. INTERNED CREWS OF GERMAN SHIPS BUILD A VILLAGE Scarcely Six Months in the Making It Attracts Wide Attention. LITTLE GERMANY IN ITSELF Three Hundred Little Model Houses and Other Structures That Go to Make Up a Village Are Constructed From Scratch structed From Scrapa. Norfolk, Va.-At the Portsmouth navy yard, near Norfolk, Va., there is a village of almost a thousand persons that has been scarcely six months in the making, which is attracting attention throughout the country. Visitors to the yard vie with one another for the precious and somewhat rare passes which will admit one to the peculiar place, and thousands of post cards showing scenes within its limits are sold daily. The village is unincorporated and without legalized form of government. Its residents fill with civic pride in its intensity, are absolutely opposed to increasing the population. They toll and spin in the village only as it pleases them, yet they eat regularly, sleep regularly and are assured of a comfortable existence, at least, until the end of the great European war. And, now that war has been mentioned, you have the key to the identity of this strange municipality in the making. It is the village built by the internec crews of the Kronprinz Wilhelm and the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, German war vessels, which ran into the Virginia capes within 30 days of each other for safety, about a year ago, and since have been interbed by the United States government for the duration of the war. Build Wonder Village. Cost into the waters of a neutral country and realizing that their stay probably world be long, these sturdy, blond Teton sons did not sit on the decks and mourn their fate. Instead, they sprang upon the land, grabbed every scrap of wood and metal and cloth and leather and every drop of paint that came their way and began the construction of their wonder village. From scraps gathered from hither and you in the navy yard and out of it, more than 300 little model houses, a windmill, a chapel and other structures that go to make up the village have been constructed. They line pretty streets. They front yards bloom with flowers and their back yards are filled with garden truck. Nor is the end yet. Today you see a lot of old boxes or discarded ends of boards going into the village and tomorrow a new house, of which they will be a part, will be under construction. Building operations always are under way. The start of the village came with the granting of the use of the east end of the yard, near where the great interned ships lie, by the commandant to the intermed men. It is composed of several acres cut off from the remainder of the yard so completely that it seems a little Germany within itself. On one side is the Potomac river lie the two ships. Another side is bounded now by the immense United States collier O'Ryan, in the making. Green grass, a wood and some water form the other two sides. Must Have Pass. The village must be approached through guards from the O'Ryan collier side; so, unless you have a pass, there is little chance of seeing it. The executive officers of the intermed ship issue the passes, regular navy yard officers having nothing to do with them. As the village grew it became obvious that it was needed with indiscriminate skill. Not only were there houses and yards laid out, but even streets and parks were added. The owner of each piece of property was made to realize that he would be held strictly responsible for his place being kept neat and clean. When word of the building progress that was being made reached the outside world German sympathizers began to lend a hand. Contributions of various kinds poured in, and when a building was held, visiting crowds marveled at the wonders the intermed crews had worked with their poor material and few outside contributions. That opening day was a proud one for the residents. The band from the ship—and it is a good one—played the men marched and showed visitors about the village, and a regular carnival was staged. With all of the business acumen of Yankee horse traders, the Germans arrested persons for allying with the police and fined them before marigrates. All paid their fences willingly, for the money went to the German Red Cross fund for the benefit of blinded soldiers. Every prisoner was permitted to assess his own fine. Where fences were too low or the prisoner was good natured he was arrested again. All of the usual attractions of an amateur carnival were at hand. There were cold drinks, hot dogs and museums to soothe the palate and ease the nerves. Dorfschauze, would put a new bulletin on all bulletin boards, and immediately Kentuckian Finds That His Wife Has Divered Him and Daughters Are Married. Frankport, Ky.-Lister Grossfield walked out of his home in Louisville 15 years ago and never returned. His wife ultimately thought he was dead and taught his daughters, four and nine years old, to believe he was. Copyright Underwood & Underwood Count and Countess von Bornstorp, photographed at the time of the arrival of the countess in New York, after a stay of two years in Germany. Lines of care have been drawn in the face of the German ambassador since the outbreak of the war. Count and Countess von Bornstorp, photographed at the time of the arrival of the countess in New York, after a stay of two years in Germany. Lines of care have been drawn in the face of the German ambassador since the outbreak of the war. THE BYSTANDER COUNT AND COUNTY Copyright Underwood & Underwood Count and Countess von Bernstor rival of the countess in New York, a Lines of care have been drawn in th the outbreak of the war. the crowds would flock toward it and read with as much interest as if it had been the work of a regular mayor. The houses are occupied only in the daytime. When sundown comes the men board their ships for the night. During the daytime they enjoy themselves on land at will, drinking coffee, playing cards or reading within the houses. Besides killing time by improving the village, the men have a great number of pets, and they also indulge in athletic games. They have dogs, chickens, birds and cats which they treasure as children would. On the athletic field they hold turnoveres, boxing matches and athletic games, as well as swing Indian clubs and play medicine ball and football. All of the men are in splendid physical condition as a result of their outdoor play. If called upon to return to the sea tomorrow they would be none the worse off for their enforced vacation. Their Chief Interest. War news, of course, forms the greater part of their interest. They follow every detail closely, and whenever anything of great moment happens, or is reported to have happened, the folk of the tidewater country anxiously inquire for the German village view of it. And for persons interested as they are they have wonderful insight on coming events. Much gossip which one hears around the capes about things that are likely to HANDY MAN FALLS HEIR TO LEGACY Quaint Character in New York Village Gets $60,000 Legacy. IS STAGGERED BY THE NEWS Helped Perfect Invention Which Made Owner Wealthy and Latter Remembers Him in His Will—His Plans. Silver Creek, N. Y.—The greatest of all miracles has occurred right in this village. "Lew" Keith is worth a fortune. It is hard for people to believe it, but it is an actual fact. So far as he can recount, he has had more than five dollars at one time in his life, and now he is worth $80,000. "Lew" is the modern Rip Van Winkle. He is about sixty-five years of age. He was born here, but moved away soon after the war, with his folks, and passed a few years in Missouri, returning again to remain the rest of his life. A good many towns have characters like "Lew." He can recte Shakespeare by the week. He is a philosopher with a quintessence of expression which makes him highly entertaining. He has always made his living "tinkering." He can make a motor boat, a violin, a camer, a threshing machine—in fact, he can make anything or mend anything that anyone ever dreamed of. But he never tried to make any money. He never wanted any. But listen to what has befelt him: A few years ago John B. Webster, villainous not a letter from Sedalia, M. making it "Law" Keith were alive, and if so to furnish proofs of his identity. "Tell 'em I am alive, all right," was "Lew's" nonchalant comment. Mr. Webster did. Back a letter a letter from the vice president of a trust company in St. Louis. This is, in substance, what it said: In 1878 a man named Carter, living in Sedalia, was at work on a machine to separate zinc from ore. He was unable to perfect his device. "Lew" Keith, a young man, happened in and tinkered around till the machine was complete. "Lew" moved away. Mr. Carter patented the machine and made a fortune out of it. Many times during his life he started to hunt up "Lew" Keith, but never followed out the notion. When he died, Mr. Carter, a very and asked about his family. Wood told him his wife had remarried after getting a divorce, and his daughters were now Mrs. Wick Seabolt and Mrs. Forrest Wheeler, both of Fern Creek. After his disappearance Grosfeld enlisted in the army at St. Louis and was stationed in Manila and Japan. Wire in Cow's Heart. Hazleton, Pa.—A piece of barbed wire, Your inches long, was found in the heart of a cow of the herd of Harvey Frederick of Black Creek. happen in the war, and which comes true, frequently can be traced back to the village. When the Deutschland successfully eluded the allied cruisers recently the village celebrated. But it did not celebrate the decision in the Appam case which that return the captured vessel to their English owners. That Appam case recalls the statement previously made that the village has no desire for more inhabitants. There is some fear that the Appam crew may be added to the village, if it should be decided that it was the duty of the United States as a neutral to intern the men. And that is not desired by the Germans. Every man who passes into the village is one more lost to the German service during the war. Hence to gain in population, a thing ardently desired by most villages, means a loss to the fatherland, which is not to be desired now. Inside, the village is very, very German. They speak the German language, they sing the German songs, they follow the German customs. But if one tides of that, he soon can turn to things that are American. For instance, just outside the village there is a long row of as fine sunflowers as are growing anywhere in the state of Kansas, and running in and out of the navy yard there are some taxicab drivers who surely are direct descendants of some of our pioneer American road agents. wealthy man, provided in his will that $60,000 should be set aside to provide an income for life for "Lew" Keith, in case he could be found. The receipt of this information caused some comment and surprise in Silver Creek. It didn't bother "Lew" much. One day he was observed wending a somewhat unsteady course from one hotel to another, and he was asked wherefore. "Nothin', only I've been somewhat staggered by the news," he said. It's all true. Lew says he was in Sedalia in 1878. He says he worked for Mr. Carter and helped him with the machine. "It wasn't anything to worry over, though," he says. "All Carter needed was a suggestion or two, and I had the suggestions—that's all there was to it." A few days ago a check came from the St. Louis trust company, and with it a letter asking that "Lew" journey to Sedalia to establish himself permanently in his new income. "Lew" has gone. Word has come back that "everything is right." The fund provides an income at the rate of six per cent or $3,000 a year. This is roughly $8 a week. Considering that "Lew" has never earned more than ten or ifteen—although mightly have earned many times that if he had applied his ingenuity, this weekly provision is worth mentioning. "I shall build a bungeet myself," said "Lew" the other day. "I shall have it lined with shelves. One shifl will contain a demljohn so visitors shall not depart unrefreshed. The others will contain books, and I will spend my time reading. I'll read my head off. There is one observation I would have given him. One never knows how many friends he has till he forgets tune left to him. I have received ten invitations to dinner already from people who hadn't spoken to me in thirty years. It all proves that virtue is its own reward." SUNFLOWER ON DEAD LIMB Plant Thrives While Vegetation on Earth Perishes for Lack of Moisture. Petersburg, Ind.—J. W. Wilson, an attorney of this town, has a dead South Carolina poplar tree in the back of his law office. Several months ago he noticed a sprig of green sprouting from one of the limbs. He knew the tree was dead and watched the sprout until now it has grown into a large sunflower bush that will be ready to bloom. He saw that the bush had moisture to the sunwheel, and the limb is less than two inches in diameter, yet it has withstood the drought while vegetation on the earth has perished. Bluebird Steals Letters Nashville, Ind.—John Sweater, living near Elkhaven, Brown county, is a patron of a rural route and has a mail box for the reception of mail. A few weeks ago he deposited a letter in the box, but the carrier failed to find it. The second time he mailed a letter and again it was missing. Again he deposited a letter, and this time he kept watch. To his amazement he saw a bluebird light on the mail box, hop inside, come out, with the letter in the bill and away. The KITCHEN CABINET There is no use arguing with the inevitable, the only argument with the east wind is to put on our overcoat.—Lowell. An example is worth a thousand arguments.—Wm. Gladstone. Cantaloupes are delicous when served in any form if they are chilled. One of the pretty ways to serve them is to cut them in quarters and garnish with three candy or mint cherries in each quarter. This method may be used as a dessert or as a beginning to the meal. Peach Pie (Pennsylvania Dutch)—Line a pie plate with rich crust and fill with sliced peaches, either fresh or canned may be used; sprinkle with sugar and fill the crust with sour cream. Cover with tart strips and bake. Bake very slowly; this is simply delicious. A pretty way to serve peaches is to poke them, halve them and fill the center with chopped nuts and cover with whipped cream. On each serving place half a walnut. Tart apples cooked with onions and a little salt pork fat; season with sugar, salt and pepper if liked. A most tasty dish to serve with meat as a vegetable. Maple Apples—Pare, halve and core half a dozen cooking apples and put into a kettle with two cupfuls of water and one cupful of maple sirup. Let simmer until they are tender, gently turning them with a fork when the edges begin to look clear. Serve cold with whipped cream. Yellow Tomato and Chestnut Salad. —Pare 12 yellow tomatoes after dipping in scalding water, cut in halves and let stand in French dressing for half an hour. Blanch the chestnuts and chill some celery. Take a fourth of a cupful of sliced chestnuts and diced celery, mix with mayonnaise. Form nests of cress and lay chestnuts in a bowl. Shake the shapes of a mixture then place a spoonful of the celery and chestnut mixture in the center on each serving. Pour over the dressing that has been drained from the tomatoes and serve with cream cheese sandwiches. Apple Jelly made from the Red Astracanuts, using the peeling to give it color, makes a most beautiful jelly. Strawberry juice added to apple juice makes a delicious jelly both to see and taste. If you want to wedge you must toll for it if you know you must sell for it. Toll is law. Please come through toll and not by self-indulgence and in-affirmation. You must sell for his life is a happy one-Ruskin. To remove fresh tea and coffee stains. Place the stained linen over a large bowl and pour through it boiling water from a teakettle held at a height to insure force. If the stains are obliterated soak with peroxide after they are hung on the line. Old tea and coffee stains; soak in cold water first, then use boiling water as above. To remove cocoa and chocolate stains use cold, then boiling, water. Pour boiling water on fruit stains, arranging the stained surface over a bowl. Blood stains, soak in cold water, then wash in hot soapsuds, and bleach in the sun! Wine stains, cover the stains with salt; let stand a few minutes then rinse in cold water. To remove ink spots from gingham —Wet the spots with milk and cover them with salt. Let stand some hours then rinse in several waters. To remove ink spots from white fabric—Put one or two drops of oxalic acid on the spot, rinse in several waters and finally in ammonia. To remove grass stains—Allow the spots to remain saturated with alcohol for a little time, then wash in clear water. Another method—rub with molasses, then wash in hot soapsuds, or a little lard, to loosen the grass fiber, is rubbed well into the cloth, and is then washed out in hot suds; is usually effective. To remove mildew—Use lemon juice and sunshine, or if deep-seated, soak in a solution of one tablespoonful of chloride of lime in four quarts of cold water until the mildew disappears. 'Rinse several times in clear water. To remove rust stains—Lemon juice and salt or salts of lemon are the most valuable removers. Moisten the salts with water and molsten the spot; let it lie in the sun until the spot disappears. A second application may be needed. When all other means fail, smoke stains over a funnel placed over a bit of burning sulphur, confining the fumes as much as possible to the spot needing treatment, then wash thoroughly as the sulphur rots the thread. Usually two or three treatments of peroxide in the sunshine will take out stains on table linen. Nellie Maxwell Paris has opened an exposition of materials and methods of reconstructing damaged buildings, farms, highways, bridges, villages, etc. Driven by a kerosene motor, a motorcycle has been invented that carries four persons seated ahead of one another and is controlled by the mas on the back seat. There are more than 100,000 acres of nipe palms in the Philippines, and they are used to produce of clean sugar and alcohol from their sap. We are all imperfect and the two things that make it possible for imperfect people to live together in peace and joy are forgiving and forgetting. FOR DAINTY APPETITES. Cut an unpeeled eggplant in one-fourth-inch slices, salt each; put them together again and press under a heavy weight an hour or more. Cut them into equal lengths a fourth of an inch wide, rejecting the skin, dry them and roll them in flour and corneline mixed; season with salt, pepper, and a dash of nutmeg. Drop a few at a time into hot olive oil under a heavy weight an hour or more. Cut them into equal lengths a fourth of an inch, wide, rejecting the skin, dry them and roll them in four and corneal mixed; season with salt, pepper, and a dash of nutmeg. Drop a few at a time into hot olive oil and fry until a delicate brown. Drain on soft paper and serve at once. Macaroni Savery—Take a quart of cooked macaroni, two green peppers, two onions, chop the vegetables and fry 15 minutes in olive oil, tossing them constantly; add one cupful of tomatoes and a half cupful of grated cheese. Masked Sweetbreads—Remove the pipes and skin from a pound of blanched sweetbreads, then put through the meat grinder with two slices of salt pork. Form into cutlets and roll them in cheese to keep their shape. Place on ice to become firm. After an hour or two saute them on one side, only using butter; then place them in a buttered baking sheet, baked side up. Cover them with the following mixture: Scald a small onion in water five minutes, drain and slice it and cook in a tablespoonful of butter until it is slightly brown; add one cupful of stock and cook until tender; press through a sieve with the stock. Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter; add a third of a cupful of half a teaspoonful of salt, and a little paprika. Add enough cream to the onion and stock mixture to make one and a third cupful; add this to the mixture in the pan; when cooked, add one large egg, cook for a moment, then add a dash of cayenne and nutmeg. Cover the sweetbreads about a fourth of an inch with this. Cool, then cover with bread crumbs, mixed in melted butter. Place a whole mushroom, cooked in butter, on each cutlet, and garnish with strips of truffle or red and green peppers. Bake ten minutes. Serve with a brown mushroom sauce around the edge of the plate with a mound of fried eggplant straws in the center. Chestnut Soup—Boll four dozen large chestnuts for 15 minutes; let cool and peel them. Cook the chestnuts in three tablespoonfuls of melted butter for a few minutes, not letting them brown. Add to this three pints of chicken stock that has been well seasoned and let cook slowly until the chestnuts are soft. Pat nuts through a sieve and return to the stock. Serve with croutons. Who bides his time and day by day Face detest full patiently. And lift his hand away. However poor his fortunes to be. He will not fall in any qualm. Will envy the petty dime It will envy the palm. Who bides his time. CHOICE, COOL DISHES. troubles are not caused ne food usually, but from too great an amount and too great a variety. ```markdown ``` Salmon Mayonnaise—Set a can of the best salmon into a saucepan of boiling water and cook for 15 minutes. Open and turn it out on the platter without breaking the mold. The finest salmon contains nothing that need be removed. Four over it a half pint of mayonnaise dressing, containing a tablespoonful of horseradish. Garnish with driches of hard-boiled egg and serve with Saratoga potato pancakes. Boiled Cucumbers—Pare and cut the cucumbers in halves, lengthwise, and boll in salted water until tender, but still firm, then drain. Make a sauce of one tablespoon each of butter and flour and one cupful of the water in which the cucumbers were cooked; add salt, pepper and the juice of half a lemon; when thick and smooth, add one half a plumto, shredred, and one tablespoonful of cooked peas. Lay the cucumber on strips of toast and pour the sauce over them. Green Peppers in Tomato Sauce—Cut up two quartz of fresh tomatoes, add one teaspoonful of salt, and boll over a quick fire for half an hour, stirring occasionally; then strain. There should be a pint or more. Put half a cupful of oil in a casserole, and when hot add two cloves of garlic finely minced, try these until brown. Now add the strained tomatoes, a tablespoonful of minced parsley and three basil or bay leaves. Boll ten minutes. Cut ten green peppers in strips, removing the seeds and stems, add them to the tomato sauce and cook half an hour, Serve hot. Stuffed Peppers—Cut off, the stem end of four sweet peppers and fill with rice, chicken, celery, onion juice, salt and pepper to taste. Moisten with olive oil and a little tomato. Sprinkle lightly with cheese and bake 40 minutes. The warfare is spreading against the prairie dog. In Texas alone they annually eat enough grass to feed 1,622,600 cows. WAYS TO TREAT FRUIT. One of the pretty ways to serve them is to cut them in quarters and garnish with three candied or mint cherries in each quarter. This method is much as a dessert or as a beginning to the meal. TO REMOVE STAINS a large bowl and pour through it boiling water from a teakettle held at a height to insure force. If the stains are obliterated soak with peroxide after they are hung on the line. Old tea and coffee stains; soak in cold water first, then use boiling water as above. To remove UNCLE SAM, LAND AGENT, BUSY MAN Real Estate Business of Government Has Increased in Recent Years. WESTERNER DIRECTS AFFAIRS Clay Tallman, Chief of Federal General Land Office, Believes Greatest Achievement Has Been in Lessening Delays. In spite of the fact that millions upon millions of acres of the public domain have been, settled by home-seekers under the federal homestead act and it has been generally supposed that the greater part of the public lands have been occupied, Uncle Sam's real estate business continues to be quite active. In fact, it has grown steadily during the past few years, according to reports which recently have been made public. As there is still left more than a quarter of a billion acres in the public domain, it is not expected that the government will go out of the real estate business for some time to come. The manager of Uncle Sam's real estate business is Clay Tallman of Nevada, who was made chief of the C HARRIS & EWING Clay Tallman. general land office by Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, who has general supervision over the land office. Mr. Tallman has instituted many reforms in the administration of the land office, the most important of which, he believes, is that which has reduced the delays in acting upon homestead final proofs and applications for surveys. The lessening of these delays, it is believed, has been partly responsible for the increased amount of business handled by the land office in the past two years. Review of Year's Work. In the belief that few people have any idea of what the general, land office has to do or how extensive its field of operations is, the department has given out a review of the work done by the land office during the fiscal year 1915. According to this review, the land office has done these things during the year: Patented 13,025,427 acres, as against 12,678,076 acres in 1913 and 10,135,475 acres in 1912. Issued 2,711 patents on desert-land entries, embracing 448,752 acres, as against 2,127 patents embracing 346,794 acres during the year previous, 2,209 patents embracing 356,474 acres in 1913, and 2,285 patents embracing 364,728 acres in 1912. Issued 1,609 patents in fee to indians, relieving 202,050 acres from restrictions against alienation, and rendering such acreage subject to taxation, as against 986 patents, embracing 122,452 acres in 1913, and 1,051 patents, embracing 137,267 acres in 1912. Patented 146,070 acres under the Carey act, as against 4,244 acres the year before and 35,170 acres in 1912-1913. Patented and certified under railroad and wagon-road grants 1,624,142 acres, as against 828,911 acres in 1914, 1,340,968 acres in 1913, and 20,975 acres in 1912. Allowed entries of public and Indian lands for 16,861,214 acres, as against 16,522,852 acres in 1914, 15,867,222 acres in 1913, and 14,574,638 acres in 1912. Approved and accepted original surveys covering 11,988,387 acres, and 2350,962 acres of resurveys, an acreage largely in excess of accepted surveys in any year during the last two decades. Opened Up "Lake" Lands. Surveyed and opened to entry 27,416 acres of Arkansas lands heretofore erroneously shown on the plats of survey as lake or sunk lands. Rejected 600 applications for Indian allotments, for the reason that it was ascertained, through new methods of investigation, the applicants were not entitled thereto, thus rendering 85,000 acres of land subject to other disposition. Bald 889 tracts of land surveyed as villa sites, fronting on Flathead lake, Montana, for $125,000, some tracts selling for $300 per acre. First sale of the kind in the disposition of public lands. Settled and disposed of a long-standing controversy involving the exchange of over 400,000 acres of land in the Navajo and Moquil Indi reservation, Arizona, for lands outside of said reservations. Restored to settlement and entry after special investigation in the Feld. 7,805 acres in the Imperial valley, California. Surveyed in the fields under the Alaska coal leasing act of October 20, 1914, the coal lands in the Mantasuka, Bering river and Nenana coal fields, organizing therefor 15 separate field parties. Surveyed within railroad grants, during 1914 and 1915, 4,008,000 acres, as against 1,620,000 acres in 1912 and 1913. NATION'S MERCHANT MARINE SHOWS THE GREATEST GAIN Increase in Tonnage in Two Years Nearly as Large as That of All Other Nations Combined. The American merchant marine made a larger gain than that of any other country in the world during the two years following the outbreak of the European war. In fact, the gain of American ships is nearly as great as that of all other nations combined. These figures, contained in the annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for the year ending June 30, 1916, are accepted by Uncle Sam as authoritative. The American merchant marine has increased from 3,174 ships with a gross tonnage of 5,368,194 in 1914 to 3,245 ships with a gross tonnage of 6,148,861 in 1916. Results of the changes wrought by two years of world warfare are perhaps less marked than has been generally supposed. The world's merchant shipping is less by 406,416 gross tons than at the outbreak of the war, while during the two years just before the war merchant shipping increased from 44,600,677 tons in 1912 to 49,089,552 tons in 1914. Since the outbreak of the war the shipping of neutral nations has gained 827,019 tons; and the shipping of the allies has gained 269,740 tons, while shipping under German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish flags is 1,503,215 tons less. The increase in American tonnage is mainly due to the ship-registry act of August, 1914, which permitted American owners of ships under foreign flags to obtain the American flag and register. To this act is also attributable part of the losses of the British, German, and all other foreign shipping, as by that act 350,000 tons of shipping under the British flag, 150,000 tons under the German flag, and 125,000 tons under other foreign flags, owned by Americans, secured American registry, British tonnage thus transferred is greater than the net British loss during the war. The German merchant marine is the heaviest loser, 1,807,744 tons, almost wholly through the transfer to other flags, either under our registry law or through capture by the allied powers. Very few German merchant vessels, except auxiliary cruisers sunk by gunfire in battle, have been destroyed. OUTPUT WORTH OVER BILLION Uncle Sam's Census Figures Show Iron and Steel Business of Country Has Reached Great Proportions. The United States produces normally more than a billion dollars worth of steel and iron annually. These figures are shown by Uncle Sam as a result of the census of 1914, in which year the value of the products amounted to $119,527,244. The statistics for 1914 covered a period of marked depression, unofficial figures estimating the output in 1914 to have been 25 percent less than in 1913. The output in 1900, the last previous year covered by the census reports was valued at $992,349,573. These figures are taken to indicate that the normal output now is well above the billion-dollar mark. The reductions in the output from 1090 to 1141 were greater in railway steel, because of the absence of extensive railroad building or rebuilding in 1914. The output of rails in 1914 not including roiled or renewed rails, was only 1,842,411 tons, valued at $4,000,918, as compared with 2,858,500 tons, valued at $81,128,251 in 1909, a decrease of 35.6 per cent in tonnage and 83.4 per cent in value. The production of armor plate, gun forge and ordinance showed a big increase in 1914, the value of the output increasing 87.3 per cent, as compared with the output of 1909. EAST TO HAVE BIG FOREST Uncle Sam Already Has Purchased 1, 396,367 Acres in White Mountains and Appalachian Regions. Uncle Sam already has purchased or approved for purchase 1,396,367 acres of land on the headwaters of navigable streams in the White Mountains and Appalachian regions to be included in the great national forest which is being created in the East under the provisions of what is known as the Weeks law, which was passed by congress in 1011. The government has practically completed its purchase in the northern portion of the White Mountains. With the land recently purchased, a total of 608,036 acres in the White Mountains has been acquired. Congress recently reappropriated the $3,000,000 of the original fund which was not spent in the beginning of the work and which consequently reverted to the treasury. This money, according to the officials in charge, will be used mostly to round out the lands already acquired, so that they may be easily and economically administered. In making future purchases it is stated that the policy will be to select those tracts which block in with lands already purchased and which are offered at the most reasonable prices. Industries Show Big Gain A great increase in the extent of its manufacturing industries is shown by the report of the census bureau for Jersey City, N. J. This report shows that the amount paid out in salaries in 1914 was 62.2 per cent larger than in 1900 while the total amount paid in salaries and wages in 1914 was $25,829,000, an increase of 41.5 per cent over 1909. The value of the city's products in 1914 was $164,529,000, as compared with $123,775,000 in 1909. SPEEDING OF THE GUNS IS HOT WORK This shows one of the smaller guns in action during the British offensive on the western front. There is not a minute's let-up in the work of the smaller guns. It is a hot job for a summer day. LIGHT RAYS NEW AID IN WARFARE Englishman Invents Remarkable Engine of War Called "Light-o-Mine." IS USED IN FRENCH ATTACKS Mines Laid in Captured Trenches Are Set Off by Ray of Light When Reoccupied by the Enemy, Paris.—Light as an adjunct and aid of modern warfare is the newest ally of the allies, summoned to aid in the campaign against the central powers by H. Grindell Matthews, an Englishman. Grindell Matthews' engine of war is called a "light-o-mine," and comprises an electro-clockwork arrangement that is attached to a series of bombs and which is set off by a ray of light. The new form of trench fighting, the raiding tactics first carried out by the British and now being engaged in to a great extent by the Russian troops on the French front and by the pollus themselves, avails itself largely of the use of this "light-o-mine." The apparatus itself is about a yard long and four inches square. It consists of a lens at one end, open and resembling a pocket flash lamp. Inside is a dry battery, a sensitized plate and a clockwork, and from that lead wires. When a raid is made on an enemy trench, this apparatus is carried, and with it a line of trench bombs. Now a line of trench bombs consists merely of 20 or 50 or 100 or 200 yards of ordinary iron piping, a little larger, for instance, than gas piping. The piping is cut in suitable lengths—say 10 or 15 feet long each. From each of the ends protrude two bits of wire, the positive and the negative, for the current to be transmitted to detonate the bombs. The piping is packed tightly with alternate chambers of T N T, as the allies' standard high explosive trinitrotoluol is called, and shrapnel, bits of iron nails and slugs of metal. Mines Are Planted. The raiding party carrying this equipment and preceded by a wave of grenade throwers, raids the enemy trench after a short but intense bombardment. They buyonet or blow up with grenades the survivors in the trench, then hastily lay this mine of piping, all connected up with the wires, in the bottom of the trench, covering it over, with a few spadefuls of earth. The end of the long pipe-line of bombs is attached by wires to the "light-o-mine" apparatus, and this is hidden in the enemy trench, leaving the bull's-eye lens exposed and pointing back at some object in the Franco-British lines. About this time the German batteries in the rear have been advised that an enemy detachment is occupying a front trench section at that point and a few shells begin to drop in. That is the signal for the raiders to clear out and return to their own positions. Cautiously the enemy reconnoiters forward when he hears nothing and no shots are fired from the lost trench. Finally he approaches and finds it deserted. The first thing he does is to chamber over the parapet and look for wires leading across the No Man's Land to the raiding party's positions, and finding none, has no suspicion that a mine has been placed in his trench. Troops are sent forward to reoccupy the trench, and just when it is comfortably held by the Germans again, a star shell is sent up from the Franco-British position in a line following that toward which the lens of the "light-o-mine" is pointed. The light serves to set off the long line of piping, full of T N T and shrapnel, and the Germans are blown out of the trench. It would not be feasible to detonate the mines by wireless on the principle used by John Hayes Hammond, Jr., in guiding his manless boat, as in the first place it would thus be necessary to place nails above the German trenches after a mine were laid and the enemy would notice the uprights SPEEDING UP THE This shows one of the smaller guns on the western front. There is not smaller guns. It is a hot job for a su COWS HAVE THEIR HOPES Should Be Fed in Courses Like Humans is Assertion of Michigan Senator. Marquetta, Mich.—"Cows have their hopes and ambitions like human beings, and when they go to their meals they should be fed in courses, with a cocktail as an appetizer and a dessert for the finish." This is the intention of State Senator Alton T. Roberts or this city, who is looking after the wal- at once. In the second place the activity of the wireless apparatus of both allied and German machines overhead, signaling directions to batteries, would "jam" the connection necessary to fire the mine by activity. Italian Works Fake. Some years ago an Italian naval officer named Valatli announced that he had invaded a contrivance for detonating explosives at some distance off by wireless rays. Tests were made at Ostin, (harbor of Rome.) and on one occasion he apparently exploded a mine buried on the far side of one of the hills surrounding the harbor. He flashed the rays from an Italian warship. Investigation indicated, however, that he used fake mines, prepared automatically so they would explode after a certain time had elapsed. Grinnell Matthews' proposition is quite different, however, the actual starting of the contrivance for setting off the bomb being begun by the effect of the ray of light entering the eye of the lens, and thence being carried out by the electric battery and the clockwork. The mines can be set off in daylight, ordinary light having no effect on the lens. Only if the lens were directed squerely at the sun would it produce the required effect. M. William G. Sharp is he appears after having served as ambassador in the French capital during the larger part of the European war. He is now in this country on leave of absence. WEDDED IN WAR BY WIRE Private in Washington National Guard on Border is Married by Telegraph. Calexico, Cal., L. P. Cryster, a private of the Washington National Guard, on duty here, and Miss Florence Sweeney of Duquesne, Pa., were united in marriage by telegraph n few days ago. It was stated here. Ministers and witnesses, it was said, participated in the ceremony here and at Duquesne. Chaplain S. C. Sulliger of Vancouver, Wash., officiated at Calexico. The entire wedding ceremony was repeated by the telegraph between the soldier and his bride in Pennsylvania. The couple, it was stated, had been friends for years. Crystal's sister was married recently to Miss Sweeney's brother and Miss Sweeney then renewed her acquaintance with her brother-in-law. A proposal by mail, followed by a reply of acceptance, was said to have led to the telegraphic marriage. GUNS IS HOT WORK as in action during the British offensive a minute's let-up in the work of the summer day. fare of a fancy dairy. "Several years ago one of my men tried phonographic music as a means of inducing the cows to give more and better milk. For a time the soothing toned brought results, but after a while the cows became tired of the music and we began to experiment on other things." The senator is not feeding alcohol to his cattle. Instead he is using the red table best as an appetiser. The civil service lists of the United States may become a TICKL SH WORK CN NIGHT PATROL British Officer Writes of Thrilling Adventure Between the Lines. GETS INTO CLOSE QUARTERS Finds Germans Building Redoubt and Returns to Give Range for Machine Guns—Then Watched Stretcher-Bearers at Work. London—A British officer writing nome tens of a thrilling patrol adventure between the hostile lines at night. He says: "The moon was not due to rise till about 11 that night, so I decided to go out at nine. The company sergeant major asked if he could come, so I arranged to take him and one platoon scout from each platoon. Getting out onto No Man's Land marks a distinct epoch in a man's training for trench warfare. We each carried a couple of bombs, the men had knobkeries (spiked clubs) and I had a revolver and dagger, to be on the safe side. But we were out for information, not scrapping. "It was beautifully dark, and, starting from a saphear, clear of our own wire, we crossed the open very quickly, hardly so much as stoppling till we were close to the German wires. Now, when we began crawling through the wire I made the sort of mistake one does make until experience teaches. I occupied myself far too with what was under my nose and too little with what hay ahead—and too little with my compass. A Little Bit Close. "Suddenly I ran my face against the side of a giant gooseberry with peculiarly virulent prongs, and in that moment a bullet whizzed low over my head—and—here's the point—the bolt of the rifle from which that bullet came was pulled back and jammed home for the next shot—as it seemed, right in my ear. We all lay perfectly flat and still. "Very slowly and quietly I raised my head enough to look around the side of that giant gooseberry, and instinct made me look over my right shoulder. We were less than ten paces from the German parapet. I turned my face left, so we to look down at the sergeant's major over my left shoulder. 'Why, we're on top of them!' he breathed to me. I whispered to him 'Pretty good for a start—a fine place, sergeant major. But we'll manage to get a bit nearer before we leave 'em, won't we.' "It worked like a charm. It was as though his mind were all lighted up, and I could see the thoughts at work here. 'Oh, come; so it's all right, after all. My officer's quite pleased. He knew all about it, and it's just what he wanted; so that's all right." "Those were the thoughts. And from that moment he began to regard the whole thing as a rather creditable lark. "And the wonderful thing was—there must be something in telepathy, you know—that this change seemed to communicate itself almost instantly to the men crouched round about behind. I no time to think of the grimness of it. The thought in my mind was: 'I've brought these fellows here in carelessness. I'll get 'em back with whole skins. What He Wanted to Know. "I whispered to the sorgeant major, and very slowly and silently we began to back away. The sentry must have been half asleep, I fancy. My compass showed me we must have been forty or fifty yards left of the point in the German line we wanted; so as soon as we were far enough back we worked slowly up right. And then we found all we'd hoped for. It was a regular redoubt the German was building, and he had nearly a hundred men at work. "That was good enough for me. All I wanted now was to get my men back safely. I knew the O. C. (officer commanding) had two machine guns trained precisely on the redoubt. All I wanted was to make sure their fire was a shade to the left, and every bullet would tell. We should be firing fairly into them, because the little cross-communication trench we had watched them working in was no more than waist deep; just a short cut for convenience in night work only. We had 'em. The stationmaster told me the men wanted to bomb 'em from where we were. But that was not my game at all. I saw the last man into our sap, and found the O. C. waiting there for me. I'd no sooner given him my news than he was at the guns. We had twenty or thirty rifles leveled on the same mark, too, and at the O. C.'s signal they all spoke at once. "The men were wildly delighted. They had seen the target, lain and watched it, under order not to make a sound. Listening now, the German guns have ceased fire, our sentries could plainly hear grouning and mounding opposite, and see the lights reflected on the German parades moving to and fro as their stretcher-bearers went about their work." Youth Can't Smile or Flirt Ever New York—Mugistrate Krotel sentenced Philip Levine, eighteen years old, never to smile or flirt with any girl in the city as long as he lives. Levine, had been arrested on complaint of Dorn Rubinowitz, who alleged he smiled at her and blew smoke at her in an elevated train. Woman Landa Big Bass. Rochester, Ind.-Probably the largest black bass ever taken by a woman from Lake Manitou was caught recently by Mrs. Frank Eneverick of Indianapolis when she hooked and landed a large mouth bass weighing 74 pounds. Another View. "I heard Bill was taking money so fast that he had to give it up for a long rest." "You're it already." Moe in the THE WAY Vincent Aster's Place on the Hudson. FALL WORK INTERESTING By ELIZABETH VAN BENTHUYGEN In the cheery October days—the days of brown ale and invigorating atmosphere—the garden comes fully into its own. There is not only the fascination of working among the plants and flowers, but there is preparation for the spring. If the autumn is neglected there will be no realization of any spring hopes. Planning and forestight are essential to garden success, and the man who had the most pleasure in his October work will reap the greatest reward when the springtime comes. Perennials must be transplanted. Good, safe places are to be found for them, with a good covering of leaves to keep away the chill of cold days. Transplanting is real work. A rainy day helps lighten the task because there is no need for watering or shading the plants. A trowelful of manure under each plant will lead the neighbors next spring to wonder why your foxgloves send up spires five feet high instead of mere three feet that less carefully handled plants attain. Don't let the perennials crowd each other. Where the clumps have grown so closely as to crowd, cut them in divisions with a sharp spade and reset them in good, rich soil. In October the perennials will be ripening their seed, which process they begin in September. The seed can be saved in separate colors if the flower stalks were marked while they were in bloom. It is worth the while to save the seed, even though it has to be mixed. The mixed seed can be sown in out-of-the-way places. Hollyhocks, foxgloves, poppies, Canterbury Bells, willows William and Coreopsis will produce large envelopes of seed. It must not be forgotten that a supply of dead leaves has to be laid in when leaves begin to fall. They are the natural blankets that are provided for the tucking away of the children of the garden in the winter beds. A little addition to the leaf supply, carefully packed away each day in sacks or barrels instead of wasterly burning them will save many flowers and pay a dividend in pleasure and profit. Among the wealthy folk of the East the fall is being used for general garden work. Vincent Astor is having a remarkable lot of work done at his country place, Rhinecliffe, on the Hudson river. He found that the roads and walks were in many cases badly laid out. They were crooked and lacked symmetry in keeping with the estate. So he has had his roads straightened and put in order. JAPANESE TABLE TREE There are some curious old trees in Japan that have just the opposite qualities to those which are found in the United States. Out in our great forest country, when a tree has reached the dignity of 100 years of undisputed residence in any one community, it rears its proud old head and stands as a landmark and a leading citizen of the forest. Japan supplies some very strange specimens that live to be 100 years of age without ever getting off an ordinary table. They are stunted, gnurled THE BONSAY BASE little groomes of trees, made to dwell all their lives in the prison of a bawl, where water is placed to give a tiny, landscape effect and miniature house are built under the shade of the stunted, miserable little semblance of a forest giant. In the picture one sees how the Japanese use the dwarfed trees for home decorative effect. As all things are really relative, the tree preserves its dignity by being as much larger than the miniature house than a real tree would loom above a sure-enough dwelling. But it is a dwarf, nevertheless, and the idea can be used for home or garden decoration when one finds a stunted tree that, like Peter Pan, never will grow up. SOMETHING ABOUT DAHLIAS If you want dahlia roots for next year, plant them in small pots and let them remain all summer. Keep them over winter like old roots; and start them again in the spring. I do not say this is absolute, but it is one of the best ways I know to raise dahlia successfully. It is the claim of dahlia growers that in dividing the roots almost all the varieties will degenerate. This is the reason we have so few good flowers. A good dahlia should bloom from July until frost; and if it does not it is not worth keeping. There are dahlia that will. Dahlias can be grown from seeds. They grow stronger than from cuttings and roots, but it is difficult to find good seeds. Many believe that a cutting will not flower and make roots and keep over winter, but that is not true. That is the way they are raised all over the continent. The mode of planting has much to do with the final results of the beauty of dahlias. SOME GARDEN HINTS Has your greenhouse been repaired and cleaned? Sow seeds for basket plants and window garden now. If it has not there isn't much time left for attending to this very essential task. Look over the heater and see that any bars which were burned out have been replaced. Watch the pipe connections carefully. The use of electric lights will hasten the blooming of plants, but it is a costly scheme that does not promise any commercial profit. Madison, N. J., florists use five 115-volt mal lamps strung on a board, 12 inches apart. Suspended directly over the chrysanthemums for a flower exhibit, the lights were kept going a week. The plants finished a week ahead of their neighbors and took a prize at the show. Leave as many native trees and as much shrubbery as possible standing. The best gardener cannot improve on the work of the Master Gardener. Grape protecting bags, made teclasp about the fruit, are being offered by dealers. They protect from insects. The Sewing Circle club met at the home of Mm. Joe Jamerson on Monday afternoon. Mr. Grant Buckner who has been ill at the Cramer House for several weeks was taken to Oakloak this week by his daughter. Mr. Buckner had been employed as head cook at the Cramer House for several years. All week quite a number of Hiteman people have been coming to Albia to attend the carnival at Urban Park. Mrs Chas Carrbon, Miss Carry Randolph, and Mr. Luke Moely were Sunday visitors in Albia. Mr. Perry Smith has returned from the east and entered the State university at Iowa City; leaving Albia Sunday morning. Rev Morgan left Albia for the annual conference in Chicago on Sunday evening. The Stewards of the A M. E. church gave a social at the church for the benefit of the pastor on monday evening. Each club and church society made the pastor a donation of from $1 to $5. MT. PLEASANT. IOWA. The Stewartess of the A M. E. church gave a social for the benefit of the pastor, B. F. Hubbard, at the home of Mrs. Clay Reed Thursday evening. A neat sum was realized. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes and Mr. and Mrs. Summers of Keokuk motored to Mt. Pleasant Sunday in their car, and visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Reed. WATERLOO, IOWA. Mrs. Jannie Thornton who has been visiting relatives in the south has returned. Mrs. A. L. Whitfield has accepted the agency to handle goods for the firm of J. E. McBrady of Chicago and is doing a big business. Mrs. S. Perrey of Watervalley, Miss, has returned and will spend some time in Waterloo. Mrs. Duke of Kansas is visiting her daughter, Mrs. K. Sanders. Invitations are out for a reception to be given Rev. and Mrs. I. W. Bess on Friday evening, Sept. 15th. Rev. Bess has pasted the A. M. E. church for three years, starting with nothing; the congregation now has a large modern building. Rev. Bess leaves for conference next week, which convenes in Chicago. Mrs. I. W. Bess who has been visiting for the past four week in and near Colorado Springs, has returned and reports a fine trip. St. John's lodge No. 35 will give an Emancipation program Sept. 22. Rev. I. W. Bess went to Ft. Dodge the 13th. Mrs. Bessie Clayton was called to Waterloo on account of the illness of her son who is up again. Mrs. G. B. Chatham of Dubuque attended the reception to Rev. and Mrs. I. W. Bess and spoke on the program. We are always glad to have Mrs. Cheatham with us, as she was a former resident of Waterloo. Mr. and Mrs. R. Garland had the misfortune of loosing their home by fire. How to Give Good Advice. The best way to give good advice is to set a good example. When others see how quickly you get over your cold by taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy they are likely to follow your example. This remedy has been in use for many years andenjoys an excellent reputation. Obtainable everywhere. KEOKK ITEMS Mrs. L. B. Porter left on Tuesday of this week to attend the A. M. E. conference in Chicago. Mrs. John Nelson Gay Long left on Saturday of last week to join her husband in Kansas City, Mo. Rev. D. E. Butler is attending the A. M. E. conference in Chicago this week. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Kelles returner on Saturday of last week from a pleasant visit in Mönmouth, Ill. Mrs. Margaret Starnes of Kansas City, Mo., left on Monday of this week after a few daws visit with relatives. Mrs. Emery Johnson's little daughter and sister Mabel Bland returned on Saturday after a month's visit in St Paul, Minn. Mrs. William Morton and daughter Louise returned Sunday from Chicago. Miss Elizabeth Gross left on Friday of last week for Iowa City to enter the university. Mrs. Mary Holt is seriously ill in one of the local hospitals. Any one having clothes to dispose of please notify the president of the Phyllis Whestly Rescue club, Mrs. M. E. Dixon, and a committee will call. Clothes will be geathered up on Friday, September 29th. 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 Good for Billionaires. "I take two of Chamberlain's Tables half night, and I feel fifty per cent better than I have for weeks, says J. J. Flintstone of Allegan, Mich." "They are certainly a fine article for billiounes." For sale by all dealers. HEALTH HINTS. Did you know? That "True worth is in being, not in seeming. In doing each day that goes by, Some little good, not in dreaming, Or great things to do by and by." That after you are well known, few people would want to be like you unless you are kind, considerate and do not incessantly complain. That there are millions of people who never saw an electric light, who never talked through a telephone, nor heard of a movie, nor rode on a trolley car, yet you think little of these things. 1 That money does not bring happiness, but happiness is independent upon your heart being right and your conscience clear. That the person who tells you the most unsavory news has a filthy mind, or they would not allow themselves to be made the purvors of the village filth That the reason you meet with so many good people is because you are good, and the nobleness, which lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own." That it is a mistake about like not meeting like? for "birds of a feather flock together." That many people do not believe in the goodness they preach, for if they did they would not dare do things they d. That many folks who do not live up to your standard of morals have better dispositions, which often covers a multitude of faults. That many a man who has license to preach, or doctor, or practice medicine is a crook and could not get by save for his colossal nerve. That many people think that you believe everything they say because you do not dispute them. That you are a good as any man if you have the sense to be considerate and pay your bills and have an interest in your work, which makes you superior to the job. That the difference in men is not so much in ability as in the way they spend their time and the things they dream of in their hearts. That half the worry and debts of ordinary people are not due to what they need but are caused by what people want; usually to keep up with some other equally foolishly miserable neighbor or friend. That you do not need to fear the devil as much as you need to watch yourself; for all of us are part devil and part divine. That you had as well work in one place as the other, if you really want to work, and the results will be about the same no matter where you are. That it is better to be good and honest and frank than it is to be a hypocit. Free We are the largest man-made colored women’s hair, and we are to introduce our goods we have designed free our latest book styles for colored women, in the latest hair dressing. Every colored woman should have one. We guarantee our prices and money refunded. All hair will positively stand combing and washing the hair. We manufacture a STRAIGHTENING COBSE of solid brass, with ex-works and most serviceable and most serviceable, fully guaranteed. With each comb we sell at the low price of 29 cents we give for this straightening comb today. Send two copies of book today. AGENTS WANTED. MURSIA HAIR CARE. 181-187 Park Bow, New York. Dept. 61 MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA. Mr. Harry Flippings has returned home, after a five weeks' trip in Illinois. He visited Springfield, Rock island, Bloomington and Peoria and Normal. He reports a very good time and expects to return. Mr. Flippings drove from Marshalltown to Springfield, stopping a few days in Ottumwa. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. The church is having revival meetings. The pastor, Rev. Roman, extends a hearty invitation to every one to visit the meetings. Mr. Sam Burkett, who has been on the sick list for some time, is reported to be improving nicely. Olive Branch Tent will give a social Saturday evening, September 28, at No. 26 East Tenth street. Please come out and assist the children. Mrs. Iva Simmons took her departure Monday for Clinton, Iowa, where she will make her future home with her sister, Mrs. Renfro. Those attending the association held at Centerville, Iowa, were Rev. and Mrs. Joe Roman, Mrs. Sallie Darden and Mrs. Martha Grimes. They report a very pleasant session. Mrs. Hattie Johnson of Gladbrook, Iowa, and Mrs. Ola Simmons, accompanied by her husband from Des Moines, Iowa, were the guests of their mother, Mrs. Roman, last week. Rev. Briggs of Fort Dodge filled the pulpit Sunday morning and evening, September 19th, in the absence of the pastor. Do not accept imitations. Sold by drug- gists or sent direct postpaid anywhere in the United States for 25c. Remember the name, Dr. Palmer's Skin Whitener. Made only by Jacobs' Pharmacy, Atlanta, Ga. P Mme. M. Beard Hair Grower It removes dandruff, stops itching of the scalp and makes it grow long, soft and beautiful. Price 50c a box. Send stamp for pamphlet. 519 So 16th St. St. Joseph, Mo. E. A. LONDON Pool and Billiards Barber Shop, Cleaning and Pressing Soft Drinks, Tobacco and Cigars. Your Patronage Solicited ET MADISON NOTES Rev. Butler of Keokuk was a Fort Madison visitor Tuesday. The Tom Thumb wedding given at the A. M. E. church last Thursday night was a grand success in every respect. Mrs. Geo. Harper and daughter, Miss Jennie, who have been visiting friends and relatives in Kansas, returned home Monday morning. They report an enjoyable time. Mrs. Geo. Harper entertained Revs. Butler and J. F. Augustus at 1 o'clock luncheon Tuesday. The members and friends of the A. M. E. church will hold a basket meeting at the Ivanhoe park Sunday, September 17th. Messrs. Russell Johnson, John, Arthur and Orville Woods spent Tuesday in Keokuk. The young ladies of the A. M. E church will tender Rev. J. F. Augustus and wife a reception in the parlor of the A. M. E church next Tuesday evening. The public schools of this place have opened for the year. We are very sorry that there are only three colled students in high school this year Our boys and girls do not seem to know the need of a higher education When in Hannibal Missouri go to The Holland House Good Rooms and Meals Mrs. Viney Holland, Prop. 312 Center St. Hannibal, Mo. The Bystander collector will be in your city in 4 fev. days. Please see and pay him your subscription. ROBERTS 35 DROPS A POSITIVE CURE FOR Rheumatism, Catarrh, Scrofula, Tetter, Syphilis, Eczema and all Diseases from Impure and Infected Blood. Fifty Cents the Bottle MAILED ANYWHERE FOR 50£ DR. PALM SKI WHITE 25c Postpaid Whitens and Clears dark and brown, skin. Bleaches sallow or dark complexion, causing it to grow whiter. Get the original. Dr. Palmer's Skin Do not accept imitations, gists or sent direct postpaid United States for 25c. Reme Dr. Palmer's Skin Whitener. Jacobs' Pharmacy, At AGENTS WA WRITE FOR TE THE BYSTANDE Rev. W. Mitchell returned home from Centerville, where he has been attending association. He reports a splendid meeting. Mrs. L. W. Williams returned home Wednesday evening, after attending state fair in Des Moines. Mr. Ural Montgomery, Harvey McNeal and Henry Able all went to Omaha to work for the winter. Misses Cattie and Lydia Montgomery and Miss Mildred Griggs, accompanied by Paul Lindrod, spent the Sabbath in Creston, Iowa, with friends. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Cook and niece, Mattie Renfro, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ferrier are enjoying a week's outing camping and eating plenty of fish and wild game. The school bell rang Monday morning with plenty of our girls and boys ready to start to school again. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Fields, a sweet baby girl. Mr. Ray Turner of Nebraska City will return home Monday, after a pleasant visit with his cousin, Master Russell Moss. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Montgomery, Mrs. Cordia Long and Mrs. Gertrude Montgomery all expect to start to Greenfield, Mo., on a two weeks' visit with friends and old acquaintances. Mrs. Phalia Pemberton expects to start Thursday for Sioux City to visit her mother, Mrs. Roberson. Mr. Forbes of Shenandoah is visiting friends in the city Sunday for a few hours. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Cook and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ferrier entertained twenty-one to dinner Sunday at their camp. They were all served in good camp style. There were so many good things to eat. You will have to ask them. Several more intended on going down to camp dinner, but rain interfered. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and son, Fred, of Gravity were out of town visitors at camp. A jolly good social time was had by all present. All hope they will go to camp again soon. Miss Irene Pemberton returned home Saturday, after a pleasant visit in Kansas City, Greenfield, Mo., and Springfield, Mo. She was accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. Lydia Thomas. Mrs. Welch and Mrs. Davis of Omaha are visiting at the home of their sister, Mrs. Thomas Dunn. Mrs. Eva Davis and Mrs. Mamie Bolen are visiting with friends in Omaha. Mr. Ray Oldham is rapidly improving. Buxton Cafe 135 E Grand Ave. A Good, Restaurant and Rooming House H. D. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. (Knqn as Hustler William.) DES MOINES, IOWA Also has a Confectionary and Bar ber Shrp at Carney. OTTUMWA, IOWA. Mrs. B. M. 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During her sickness she experienced religion and said she was willing to die. Last Tuesday she called Rev. Stark to her bedside, asking Him to read a chapter in the Bible and pray with her and the family. He selected the 14th chapter of St. John. After reading the Rev. offered prayer for the sick sister and the family and the children that are left without a mother. Sister Ewing's life had its clouds as well as its sunshine, but she spoke more of the sunshine than of the clouds. She was a woman of strong character, but of sweet and winsome personality. She had the ability to accomplish what she undertook. God has removed the tender mother, the affectionate wife, the inestimable friend of all. She leaves to mourn her loss an aged mother, a sister and three children and a host of friends. God's will be done. FAIRFIELD, IOWA. The A. M. E. church held its fourth quarterly meeting and conference. The quarterly conference was held Saturday night, at which time the various reports were made. The trustees, through the aid of Mr. E. Greenup, with the white friends, raised $450.50 and the choir raised $185.33, making a grand total of $635.83. Iowa Phone 778 Rates $1 per day Automatic 3852 Tenth Avenue Hotel 1 block from C. & N. W Ry. All Rooms are Warm. Restaurant and Lunch Room SPECIATIES Chop Suey Chill Con Carne Yorkeme Oysters in Season Special attention given to Theatrical People Barber Shop in connection F. F JACKSON, PROP. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Clinton, Iowa PORO MARK oro College Co., 3100 Pine S Please mention name of POBU HAND CROWDER oro College Co., 3100 Pine Street, Dept Q. St. Louis, Mo. Please mention name of this paper when writing. HARRISON'S LUNCH "QUICK'SERVICE" Special Bill of Fare. 3515 State Street, Chicago AVE YOU BEAUTIFUL HAIR WE are the only Importers and Manufacturers of Real Colored People's Hair. Also Wavy Hair. We absolutely guarantee our hair to stand combing and washing and to retain its color and crimp. 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(Continued from Page 1.) Washington, D. C., and Providence Rhode Island. Mrs. Etta Grant will return from St. Paul, Minn., this week. Mr. S. Bryant, 1611 Hamilton street, is remodeling his home. Mrs. Mate Saunders, proprietors of the Up-To-Date cafe, 505 Douglas street, has bought a beautiful home of West Sixth street. Dr. R. A. Dobson went to Chicago on Thursday and was married. They have returned and are at home at West Seventh street. We wish the much success and happiness. COLORED BUSINESS MEN HOL Fort Dodge, Iowa, Sept. 23.—La Sunday the championship double were played on Riverside courts b etween Messrs. Frank Perkins and Geo Walden vs. Ollie Buckner and Geo. I Perkins. Perkins and Walden prove the winners by a heavy margin, the results being 6-2, 3-6, 6-4. This being the opening of the tournament a large crowd of spectators gathered. The prizes for the winners were given by Mr. S. H. Hudson of the Central Dreel club. After the games a dainty lunch eon was served at the residence of Mrs. Geo. E. Perkins. Mesdames Colem man and Perkins hostesses. Thursday, September 21, the women will play for honors in doubles and singles. The prizes for the winners in the doubles are offered by Mr. Emerson Wright, restaurant manager of this city. Prizes for the single being given by Mr. Frank Hill, pro- prietor of the Fort Dodge billiard par- lors for colored. On Sunday, September 24th, the winup will come in the men's singles. The prize for this contest is offered by Mr. D. A. Dishman, barber shop manager. Plans for the coming season are being perfected. A greater season is predicted. Are You Looking Old? Old age comes quick enough without inviting it. Some look old as forty. That is because they neglect the liver and bowel. Keep your bowels regular and your liver healthy and you will not only feel younger but look younger. When troubled with constipation or biliousness take Chamberlain's Tablets. 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