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ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER The Best and only medium that reaches the colored people of the middle west. XXIII No. 16 by the Boy by the Company, De- teenth in Chem- ine and Mulu- s, alunt 899. W. U. W. Gru- d & A. M. and Congress of of America, Association. Miss Carrie Watkins, the daughter of Mrs. Mollie Watkins, left Wednesday for Mt. Bayou, Mississippi, to teach school this school year. Mr. M. J. Bradford, the proprietor of the pool hall at 757 W. Ninth street, is sick at his home, 944 Fourteenth Street Place. a. display ads b. insert insertions, c. contracts, if d. advertising e. insertions, f. a line. For societies where one-half of of sales. For pre-announcements, e. terms, etc. on. All ad advance. do first class prices. All ad. Mrs. C. C. Johnson, one of Des Moines' most accomplished pianists, will be the accompanist for the Hill-Redmond recital. Mr. Louis Reed and Miss Julia Calway were quietly married Wednesday by Rev. Henry McCravens. These young parties are citizens of our city and we wish them well. Des Moines Women Suffrage club will meet Monday evening with Miss Marie Bell. Topic for discussion "National Amendment." All members requested to be present. Prof. Albert S. Collins of Kansas City, Mo., a teacher, passed through our city last week en route from Washington, D.C., where he had been attending the educational conference. While here he stopped with Mr. and Mrs. S. Bales, 2516 Onawa avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McDowell of Chicago, Ill., will arrive in the city in a few days for a short visit with their brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McDowell, 909 Eighth street. Mr. McDowell is a heavy real estate owner in Chicago and a successful railroad man of years of experience. The Intellectual Improvement club met Friday S.pt. 22nd with Mrs Mollie Wakins, Thompson Hotel. Principal program number was an interesting paper on "Greater Predominance & Good or Evil in the World," by Mrs. J. L. Edwards. The South Des Moines Crochet club met at Mrs Mardin Jamming, Mrs. Sadie亮琳 was elected President and Mrs Jamning, Secretary, A dainty lunch was served. The next meeting will be at Mrs. Alien Moore. Young lady attendants will be in service at the Hill-Redmond recital, taking the name and address of each patron, as a call will be made within the next fifteen days for one hundred voices to begin rehearsal for the beautiful sacred cantata, "Queen Esther." Quite a number of white music lovers have spoken for tickets to the recital given by our two excellent young artists, Mr. James Hill and Miss Joubournese Redmond. This should be an evening of pride and appreciation to every Negro of Des Moines. The Marchabell Embroidery club met at Mrs Addie Dorsely, 821 Small street, Sent. 27. A two course luncheon was served. Club adjourned to meet O.t. 4th, at the home of Mrs Daiza Hammitt, 3116 North Union street. The Triple H club was delightfully entertained last Tuesday p. m. at the home of Mrs. Wm. McGruder and very helpful instructions were given in the art of dressmaking. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Louis Avery of Eleventh street, at which time the club will begin the study of the Negro, by Prof. Dubois. The members of the Mite Missionary society are requested to meet Tuesday, October 3, at 3:30 at the paragon. The president wishes a full attendance, as she desires to organize a missionary study class. All desiring to become members come prepared to get books. Mrs. S. L. Birt, president; Mrs. A. Allcn, corresponding secretary. N. A. A. C. P. The October meeting of the executive committee of the Des Moines Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will be held Monday evening Oct. 2nd at the residence of the chairman, 1038 5th St. All officers are urged to attend, by order, S Joe Brown, Candman. Mrs. Wm. Mash, formerly of this city, but now of Spokane, Wash, arrived in our city Monday to visit her father, Mr. George Curtley, and her sister, Mrs. L. E. Hanger. She is looking fine and says the state TAXI SERVICE For Joy Rides and Auto Service in and out of city call Red 6589 511 W. 3rd St. Mrs. J. Smith 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, proprietors. THE BYSTANDER of Washington is fast settling up with people from every state. She spent several weeks in Kansas City and Liberty, Mo. Mr. Mash is also expected here ere long. A. M. E. CHURCH CONFERENCE. Held in Chicago, September 25th Well Attended. The annual conference of the Chicago district of the A. M. E. church was held last week in Chicago. The attendance was good and much interest taken. The new bishop presided for his first time in this district with dignity and ability. Below we publish a list of assignments of churches: Chicago district, R. E. Wilson, presiding elder. Quinn Chapel, J. C. Anderson. Bethel, W. D. Cook. St. James, Chicago, C. H. Fountain, Chicago Heights, G. W. Richardson, Turner Mission, J. M. McDowell, St. Paul district, James Higgins, presiding elder. St. James, St. Paul, Minn., J. M. Henderson. Evanston, H. E. Stewart. St. Peter, Minneapolis, E. T. Bovall. St. James, Minneapolis, I. W. Bess Milwaukee, J. S. Woods. Elgin and Batavia, J. L. Wharton. Duluth, G. I. Holt. Madison, L. J. Phillips. Beloit and Delavan, J. S. Mitchel Glencoe, C. T. Devlin. Botel Mission, St. Paul, Rev. Strong. Lake Forest, H. E. Johnson. Superior, Rev. Majors. Transfers:— C. H. Thomas to the Michigan conference. D. E. Butler, conference missionary. H. P. Jones to the Pittsburg conference. F. G. Hurd to the Michigan conference. W. A. Searcy to the Illinois conference. Keokuk district, N. J. McCracken, presiding elder. St. Stephens, Chicago, B. U. Taylor. Keokuk, S. B. Moore. Galesburg, J. H. Garrison. Davenport, C. R. Waters. Monmouth, E. Thompson. Moline, Ill., T. W. Lewis. Burlington, J. H. Bell. Aurora, L. H. Owens. Clinton, W. W. Williams. Rock Island, A. Boyd. La Grange, J. A. Viney. Maywood, R. B. Manley. Fort Madison, L. W. Routt. Kewanee, J. O. Moreley. Dubaque, J. F. Augustus. Des Moines district, J. H. Ferribee, presiding elder. Des Moines, S. L. Birt. Buxton, to be supplied. Ottumwa, R. H. Cato. Oskalaosa, J. H. Wood. Clarinda, D. W. Brown. Albia, J. W. Dowden. Council Bluffs, F. J. Peterson. Sioux City, E. R. Edwards. Boone circuit, G. W. Mayes. East Des Moines circuit, Rev. Perry. M. Pleasant, B. F. Hubbard. Washington, R. M. Morgan. Muscatine, R. C. Campbell. Cedar Rapids, P. J. Sims. Carnay, P. S. Ervin. Newton circuit, W. J. Festimun. Yankton, S.W. Stansbury. Fort Dodge, Rev. Rhonenee. Marshalltown, O. L. Coleman. H. P. Jones, Sec'y. THE NEGPO YEAR BOOK FOR 1816-1917. The Negro Year Book for 1916-1917, the fourth annual edition, has been enlarged and improved. There are 60 more pages of matter than in the 1914-1915 edition, which contained 417 pages. This new edition has over 100 pages of new matter. The information contained in previous volumes has been revised and brought down to date, 75 pages are devoted to a review of the events of 1914-15 as they affect the interests and indicate the progress of the race. The success of the previous editions has encouraged the publishers to believe that the Negro Year Book is filling the need of a publication which impartially gives areview of current events as they relate to the Negro and at the same time provides a compact but comprehensive statement of historical and statistical facts arranged for ready reference. In its 475 pages one finds in a succinct form not only the important facts of the history of the Negro, but also a great mass of detailed information concerning present conditions and the progress of the race. It is now the standard authority on matters pertaining to the Negro. Price 35 cents postpaid. Address The Negro Year Book Co., Tuskegee Institute, Ala. CLARINDA, IOWA. (Special to Bystander.) Mrs. Tillie Lee of Dos Moines, who has been here on business, returned to her home Saturday morning. DES MOINES, 10WA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1916. Mr. Henry Johnson of Gravity was visiting friends here Sunday. The ladies of the O. E. S. will give an entertainment at their hall on Saturday night. Everyone come out and eat a bountiful supper and help the good ladies along. Mrs. Lottie Williams returned from Omaha on Friday, accompanied by her daughter, Helen, and Mrs. Renrof. Mrs. Louis Montgomery and wife Mrs. Catherine Spates all returned from Greenfield, Mo., after a pleasant visit. Mrs. Cora Montgomery and Mr. George Jones were married in St. Joe last Monday by the pastor of the A. M. E. church. We wish them success. They were met at the train by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of Gravity and escorted to their home. Miss Mabel Johnson has returned from St. Louis, where she has been at Majors college learning the hair culture work. have several people at the name. Passing down to Moline. Here we found a city of about 15,000 people, of which 500 are colored. Many of them work in the large factories and workshops in this town, and it is known as the town of factories. Rev. A. Boyd has charge of the A. M. E. church and is doing nicely. Rev. Jaw Whitfield has charge of the Baptist church. He is a very bright man and is succeeding nicely. S. P. Walker is still janitor at the school house. Mr. Colquitt still works at the department store. He owns a nice piece of property at 1029 Thirteenth avenue. Mr. P. N. Tarver is still working for the Moline Carriage company. H. W. Harding, formerly of Rock Island, has moved to this city. He is still stenographer at the arsenal, and is doing nicely. There are no colored people in business in this town to my knowledge, either professionally or commercial. It seems to me it would be a Monday. Miss Fern O. Angeles, Cal., was a guerrilla. Mrs. Nobird Hopkins will thirst night. Mrs. Bettie Page after a short illness. Mrs. Willard Tayle new home in Chicago or regret losing Mrs. Tayl. Mrs. W. B. Coleman cally ill. Lincoln school is pretty. They will enjoy a day this week to attend anniversary celebration. Mrs. James Brown at Bridgewater were marmor night at the home of the departed Thursday to honeymoon in Chicago. Next Sunday will be her last Sunday beforeference. If we do not wish we wish him in his REPUBLICANS MUST WIN. It is our ardent hope and should be the desire of at least every colored voter that the republican party should elect not only Judge Hughes and Fairbanks, but that both branches of the American congress should be republican. There are many reasons why all of our national republican ticket should be elected. First, because we are tired of democratic hard times, starvation and stagnation. Second, because of democratic incompetency to successfully manage this great government. Third, because President Wilson and his party, through the Underwood free trade bill, took our protective tariff law and gave us a sectional free trade. What I mean by sectional free trade was that the Underwood free trade bill took the protective duty off of twenty products of the north, such as oats, wheat, wool, meats, dairy products, hay, potatoes, etc, and it left the tariff duties on southern products, such as rice, cotton, tobacco, angora hair, etc. Fourth, because Wilson was mediated in the present European war and came nearly plunging this country into war against Germany. Fifth, because of his weak, vassalizing policy with the so-called rulers of Mexico. Sixth, because of his shamful and weak foreign policies and his cowardly stand for manhood rights. Sixth, because he has not uttered his voice against lynching nor done anything to protect innocent American citizens from being shot down, killed and murdered. Seventh, because he has lowered the dignity of a president or even a statesman to stoop so low as to segregate, discriminate and draw the color line in public offices in Washington against a class of Americans on account of color. Only his rebel instincts and southern blood will not allow him to render justice. In fact we think that he has disgraced, dishonored the high ideals that America stood for, liberty, justice and equality. That he ought to resign. At any rate we 2,000,000 Negro voters ought to snow rebellion and democracy so deep next November that they will never thaw out for fifty years more. EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS. Across the "Father of Waters" into Rock Island, Illinois, we landed. This state is one of the wealthiest, one of the most intelligent and progressive, as well as one of the best commercial states in our great sisterhood of states in America. What we have said of the state applies to her great citizenship, which is composed of all nationalities of the world. In Rock Island. Upon the island is located the great U. S. sarsen, where hundreds of people are employed. We have a colored population of about 900, two colored churches, the McKinley Baptist and the A. M. E. church. Rev. G. E. Saunders is the pastor of the Baptist church, formerly of Iowa. He is doing well. Mr. and Mrs. Golden the first class hairdressing parlor in the down town office. They are doing well and have been in business for many years. Dr. A. H. Stith is the new dentist who recently located here. He has a down town office and is doing fairly well. Dr. S. C. Davis is the only physician here and is quite sick at his home. He is up-to-date, progressive physician. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Liggions are living at the same place and are working at the same place. Also is J. H. Slaughter, one of the old and highly respected citizens. J. L. King is at the Harms hotel. Mr. D. G. Patterson, our old friend, who formerly lived in our city, is in the grocery business, and had located in Rock Island, and has a nice grocery store. He has the only colored grocery store here and is enjoying a good trade from the three cities. We had the pleasure of taking dinner with him. Rev. B. R. Penn is still in the employ of the railroad. W. H. Moore is also employed by the same company. He has a very nice home on Thirty-ninth street. Mrs. Windsor has a beautiful modern home on Thirty-first street and has a son who graduated from the high school, who has matriculated to the Iowa State university. Mrs. S. J. Dangerfield, one of the most skilled settlers here, is still working at her husband's 219th Street. Masonic home is moving along in Masonic way. J. E. King is the business manager of the home. He succeeded the late H. E. Burris. They MODEL DRUG'S FALL ANNOUNCEMENT We have just received the largest supply of Hair Goods, Face Creams, Powders and Bleaches in our history. We are also agents for the Kirkwood Floral Co., and are prepared to supply flowers and designs for parties, weddings, alter guilds and funerals. Out of town orders for drugs, toilet articles and flowers promptly filled and mailed Parcel Post. (In order to avoid delay send postal or express money order.) PHONE WALNUT 1485 Washington, DC, Ph. 212-745-7100 Prescriptions carefully compounded as your physician directs. 11th and Center Sts. Younker Brothers Nothing like it has ever before taken place in Des Moines. It will interest everyone for miles around. Watch for it! Watch for it! have several people at the nome. Passing down to Moline. Here we found a city of about 15,000 people, of which 500 are colored. Many of them are working in the large factories and workshops in this town, and it is known as the town of factories. Rev. A. Boyd has charge of the A. M. E. church and is doing nicely. Rev. Jas. Whitfield has charge of the Baptist church. He is a very bright man and is succeeding nicely. S. P. Walker is still janitor at the school house. Mr. Caird still works at the department store. He owns a nice piece of property at 1029 Thirteen avenue. Mr. P. N. Tarver is still working for the Moline Carriage company. H. W. Harding, formerly of Rock Island, has moved to this city. He is a stenographer at the arsenal, and is doing nicely. There are no colored people in business in this town to my knowledge, either professionally or commercial. It seems to me it would be a good opportunity for business of various kinds here. We next moved to Ill., Ill., the county seat of Warren county, and found colored people doing as well as could be expected in democratic hard times. Those who are in business are holding their own, and hoping for better times. I told them they could assist in bringing about better times by changing the administration. Mr. S. Cox is a contract carpenter and is meeting with success. He has all the work he can do. He owns a nice seven passenger car and a beautiful home. J. T. Wallace is still in business, running a soft drink parlor. He owns a small truck farm near the city limits. Old man Richmond is still in the grocery business, having a good trade. He is reported to be one of the wealthiest men in this county. Mrs. L. B. Catlin still operates her hairdressing parlor in the Searles building. She has one of the most expensive fitted and up-to-date parlor that I have seen, and is enjoying a good trade. Her husband also has a barber shop in the same building, but on a different floor. In this building the elevator is in. In this building the elevator is in. A colored girl, which is a very unusual thing in this section of the country. In fact I do not recall another instance where this is found. She has been here several years. Mr. G. W. Jones, with whom I stepped, is still the house doctor for this part of the state. He is doing nicely, and is well posted upon the different literature of the day, perhaps taking more colored papers and magazines than any other man in this section of the state. He informed me that there was about fourteen families who have automobiles in this town, which breaks the record of any town of this size in the northwest. Mr. Jones is an independent man in politics and in thought. D. D. Starr is in the auto business, repairing and fixing autos. He has a good trade. Miss Bernice Metlock will still chronicle thenews for this town. Mr. and Mrs. Peoplees are working at the same place. Mrs. Peoplees is quite prominent in church and club work. They recently gave a reception in honor of the eight grade and high school and college graduates since 1891. Below we run the names only of the high school and college graduates. High school: Misses Barbery Boyd, Laura Smith, Florence Brown, Clara Reed (deceased), Marie Saunders, Minnie Tinnell, Nettie Mellie Nee little, William Wallace, Mayo Williams, Roy Reed, James Murphy, Guy Williams (deceased), Carl McWilliams. College: Miss Ida Wallace. MOBERLY, MO., ITEMS. Mrs. Clyde Kizer entertained Mrs. Willard Taylor at 9 o'clock breakfast State Capitol Blog Hist stock MBER 29, 1916. Monday. Miss Fern Calloway of Los Angeles, Cal., was an out of town guest. Mrs. Nobird Hopkins entertained at whist Thursday night. Mrs. Bettie Page is recovering, after a short illness. Mrs. Willard Taylor left for her new home in Chicago on Monday. We regret losing Mrs. Taylor. Mrs. W. B. Coleman remains critically ill. Mrs. Lincoln school is progressing nicely. They will enjoy a two days' holiday this week to attend the fiftieth anniversary celebration. Mr. James Brown and Miss Lucille Bridgewater were married Wednesday night at the home of the bride. They departed Thursday to spend their honeymon in Chicago. Next Sunday will be Rev. J. K. Ponder's last Sunday before going to conference. If we do not get him again we wish him well in his new location. Rev. W. H. Hill, former pastor of the Second Baptist church of this city, but now of Atchison, Kans., is visiting in this city with his wife and two children. Little Howard Williams had the misfortune to be run over by a wagon Saturday at play. Happily he was not seriously injured. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Williams entertained Rev. and Mrs. Hill Tuesday at 6 o'clock dinner. Mr. D. P. Tymony is on the sick list. We are hoping for a speedy recovery. Mrs. Luther Holiday died suddenly of heart failure Tuesday. Mrs. Holiday leaves a husband and three children and other relatives to mourn her sad death. Mr. Boone, Missouri's talented musician, entertained a large and appreciative audience Friday night. Rev. Hill and Rev. Downey were guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Tymony on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wells entertained Mrs. Lydia Taylor on Friday night. An interesting program was rendered at the Second Baptist church on the 22nd, commemorating Emancipation day. The pastor wishes to extend his appreciation to the members of the A. M. E. church for services rendered, which assisted in making the affair a success. Mr. Edward Carter, after an illness of several weeks, passed away Friday night at 8 o'clock at the home of his brother-in-law, Joe Robinson, on Third street. Funeral services were held from the home Sunday afternoon at 2:30, the Rev. F. J. Nott officiating. The remains were taken to Huntsville, Mo., at 5 o'clock for interment. Mr. W. Judon filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church Sunday, in the absence of the pastor. Subscribe for The Bystander, the only race paper in Iowa. The funeral of W. A. Richardson was held on last Wednesday from the Second Baptist church. The Rev. F. J. Nott officiated. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. Interment was made in Springdale cemetery, where the impressive service of the G A. R. was given. Mr. Fred Slater left some days ago for Iowa City, where he will enter the University of Iowa. His sister, Florence, has also gone to a student in Wilberforce. The members and friends of the A. M. E. church welcome Rev. W. W. Williams as pastor for another year. J. B. Easley, who went to the conference in Chicago, was appointed to the Racine, Wis., charge. His friends are glad of his success. ALL ANNOUNCEMENT best supply of Hair Goods, Face Bleaches in our history. The Kirkwood Floral Co., and ers and designs for parties, funerals. articles and flowers promptly filled avoid delay send postal or express descriptions carefully compounded as your physician directs. 11th and Center Sts. Des Moines, Iowa. CLINTON, IOWA. There are some who have not paid their subscriptions as agreed. CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. Subscribers who failed to pay the Byatander collector may pay the agent, Mrs. C. P. Harrison, 819 South Sixth street. Call 3069 W and she will get the money. The skating rink opened the 16th. There was a good crowd and good order. Edgar Metlock was married to Miss Mattie Brown on Saturday, September 23rd. Mr. Metlock is a Rock Island train porter. Mr. Silas Louden accompanied the Shriners to Mason City and Cedar Falls last week. Ask Harry Horne if Si is a Shriner. Mr. W. H. Lavell, president of Bethle Brotherhood, entertained them at a three-course luncheon Sunday afternoon. The Brotherhood will meet at the home of Walter Bowlin, 821 Tenth avenue, Sunday, October 1. Mrs. Hettie Calder has returned from a visit with her husband's relatives in Lexington, Ky. There was fine services at Mt. Zion church Sunday. The pastor, Rev. W. M. J. Northcross, preached both morning and evening. He reports his wife has many friends hope she will be home soon. Mrs. Eva Owens of Des Moines is in the city to set up an order of the Court of Calanthe on Tuesday, the 26th. Mrs. Julia McGee has returned from Chicago, where she visited friends. Mrs. G. Allcon and Mrs. Edwards were called to Peoria by the serious illness of their brother, Mr. W. Harper. Messrs. J. Schoots, A. Allen and A. Ashby attended the Emancipation ball in St. David. All report a fine time. Fifteen colored students entered the Galesburg high school. Syncopaced orchestra furnished the music for the Emancipation ball in St. David, Ill. It is rumored that the wedding bells will be ringing soon. The ladies of the A. L. C. were entertained at the home of Mrs. C. Anderson. The next meeting will be at Mrs. J. McGill's. Miss H. Wilson entertained a number of friends Thursday evening in honor of Mr. Grigsby and Mr. Allen of Colafx, Iowa. The evening was spent in playing whist. Mr. S. Harper returned home Wednesday morning, called to Peoria by the illness of his brother, Mr. W. Harper. Those on the sick list are Mrs. Bell Love. Miss I. Allen is much improved at this writing. Mrs. E. Tonlee of Muscatine, Iowa, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. B. Harris. Mrs. S. Anderson departed Sunday morning for Chicago, Ill. Mr. B. E. Richardson was called to Gary, Indiana, by the serious illness of his son-in-law, A. Freeze. The Thimble Circle was entertained at the home of Mrs. J. Wagoner. The Modern Priscilla club was entertained at the home of Mrs. G. Lewis on Friday afternoon. A two-course luncheon was served. Mr. H. Harmon, who has been visiting with relatives and friends in Paris, Mo., returned home Saturday evening. Messrs. John Webb and son, Roy Anderson and Fred Barnet motored from Monmouth to Galesburg, on Sunday evening. They were the guests at supper with Mr. C. Anderson. Mr. Moore of Monmouth, Ill., was a Galesburg visitor Sunday. Mr. Coleman of Paris, Mo., who has been visiting with his son, returned home Sunday morning. Miss L. Butler of Paris, Mo., who has been visiting Miss C. Hall, returned home Sunday morning. The M. M. society of the Methodist church has had a very successful year. They closed the work with $64.35 in the treasury. They surprised the pastor, Rev. H. P. Jones, September 16 and presented him with a satin watch fob with a gold cross. When wishing to put in news call Bell 539, New 2604 White. 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. SIOUX CITY, IOWA The members and friends of Malone A. M. e. church gave a most pleasing but touching reception Monday evening, September 18th, in honor of Rev. J. H. Garrison. Rev. R. Knight. Rev. Dowden, Dr. J. W. Morris, Mr. C. Gordon and other splendid speakers paid glowing tribute to Rev. Garrison. The addresses were indeed magnificent. Mrs. M. Toumy and Mrs. C. E. Stubberfield sang a beautiful duet. Dr. R. A. Dobson, master of ceremonies, in a few well chosen words presented Rev. Garrison with a handsome traveling bag and a purse of money on behalf of the members and friends. Rev. Garrison received the tokens and charmed his audience as he gave his response in his own inimitable manner. Mrs. Frank Roberts and Mrs. Margery Dickerson presided at a beauti- GALESBURG, ILL. Pay Boost and read the Dont borrow or read your neighbors, help make this a great paper Price Five Cents fully arranged party Thursday evening, September 22nd, in honor of their daughter and sister, Mrs. Phalia Pemberton of Clarinda, Iowa. Cards and dancing furnished the evening's pleasure, after which alovely two-course luncheon was served. The guests departed, wishing Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Dickerson many more pleasant evenings. Rev. R. Knight filled the Malone A. M. E. church pulp Sunday. Mrs. Morton of Des Moines is visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Hackley. Messrs. Louie Smith and J. Bentley of Yankton, S. D., attended the state fair here last week. Mr. Clay of Des Moines passed through the city last week and visited with Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield Askew. Mrs. Katie Askew will leave Washington, D. C., this week for Richmond, Virginia. Mrs. Phalia Pemberton has returned to her home in Clarinda, Iowa. KEOKUK ITEMS Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Kelles attended the celebration in Fort Madison on Friday, September 22. Mesdames W. A. Frye, W. L. Green, L. Wilson and F. D. Bland attended the celebration in Fort Madison on Friday of last week. Mr. Ralph Teebau left on Monday of this week to resume his studies at Howard university, Washington, D. C. This is Mr. Teebau's last year at the university. Mesdames J. Freeman and G. L. Coleman and the latter's daughters, Madah and Marie Lewis, attended the celebration in Fort Madison on Friday of last week. Mr. Leah Johnson is home, after an extended visit in Chicago. Messrs. W. A. Frye and Charles Owens will give a dance at Cameron's hall Thursday, October 5th. Miss Ruth E. Bland will leave on Sunday to attend the Iowa State Teachers' college at Cedar Falls, Iowa. Reliance Lodge, No. 1859, and Household of Ruth, 177, held a joint meeting in behalf of the delegates. Refreshments were served. BUXTON, IOWA. Rev. Roman made a business trip to Marshalltown last week and returned to his home Saturday. Revival meetings are still going on and are nicely attended. Prof. Rogers of Des Moines, field secretary of the Western Convention, gave a very interesting lecture Sunday at the church. Subject, "Watch." The lecture was appreciated by all that were present. Mrs. Edenberg, who has been on the sick list, is much better at this writing. The many friends are glad to have Mr. Wm. Brooks and Mr. Alex Tate to visit again, as they have been absent from the city for a few weeks. The work they completed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Burkett on Wednesday morning and brought them a little daughter. Mother and child are getting along nicely. When in town and want splendid meals call at the Cottage restaurant, East Tenth street. Mr. Edenberg, proprietor. Mrs. Priscilla Turner of Des Moines is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Sallie Bryant. During the revival meetings Rev. F. B. Woodard preached Tuesday and Thursday evenings two good sermons. Rev. L. G. Garrett preached Monday evening and Bro. Wm. Dickson on Friday evening. No Murray has published an edite which applies to all parts of Afghanistan, providing the impart into the country of all kinds of gold lace, including shredded buttons lintels and decorated shoes. The amuse is identically caused by a degree to brave his subjects from spending their hard earned money on show dress. It is the poorer classes who are notoriously addicted to this extravagance which his mastery has decided to check. The gold laid coat of the Afghan is decidedly handmade, and although the amuse has acted wisely in bringing into general use clothing less costly, his mastery's orders will doubtless be received by his subjects with rather mixed feelings. Proper Restoration of Charity. Dickens: There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the vounties of pleasure in thence; and hence it is that disease sympathy and compassion are every day extended on out-of-the way objects, when only too many demands upon the lethicty of exercise of the same viruses in a healthy state are constantly within the sight and hearing of the most unobservant person alive. In short, charity must have its romances, as the novella, or the pain might must have life. 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 always 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, scars nipples and diseases of the skin. Price: 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS When Booker: Washington published his account of his own life 15 years ago, at the moment the National Negro business league had just been launched, before the library at Tuskegee for which Carnegie partly paid had been built, and before the famous lunch with President Roosevelt, his education took was in full tide. It was possible that his labors as a whole and in perspective, as well as to give him credit for plushments that with natural modesty he himself attributed largely to circumstances or to others. The main facts in Booker Washington's career are well known: How he was born in a slave hurt in a remote part of western Virginia, a year or two before the Civil war broke out; how after the war his stepfather and mother (his father is unknown) removed to Malden, W. Va., to work there in salt and coal mines; how he back by his step-parent but encouraged by his mother, he learned to read and attended night school; how in 1872 he walked, begged, and worked his way to Hampton institute; and how after his graduation from Hampton, the path of opportunity opened before him when in 1881 he was appointed organizer and teacher of a Newegro normal at Tuskegee. Many not know the most important history in his later years was that which he delivered an address at 603 at the Atlanta and Cotton States International exposition—one for which President Cleveland sent a letter of thanks. A few doubtless know that the last ten years of his work were done with a body and nervous system worn out by incessant labor, so that repeatedly he was on the point of breaking down. This is told in a recent publication with all the detail which is possible in a volume of 300 pages, and in a manner not skilked. The marshaling of facts is effective, though there is some repetition; and if the style is undistinguished and sometimes awkward, and the general paragraphs or chapters on "the times" of Washington vague and clumsily interpolated in the articles at his book. He feels, though he cannot fully express, the touch of the epie in this first great Negro leader's career. The steady advance of the American Negro is a conspicuous proof of the principle that progress can be had by peaceful methods. Year by year Tuskegee institutes issue a "Negro Year Book," which is a sort of log of the forward movement of the race. The 1916 edition has just been issued. At the particular moment the jitter is one of unusual national importance because of the new migration which is sending Negroes from the South to the northern and western states. The European war seems to be opening doors to the race. With the opening of immigration and the actual dearth of labor in some fields fresh opportunities have come to the farm workers of the South. Negroes are replacing allens from many nations. This industrial migration will doubtless have far-flung effects. If it advances sufficiently it may lessen the tension of the race problem in the South. At the same time the greater educative facilities of the North and West are likely to play a powerful part in making the southern Negro something different. Altogether the unconscious turn of More than 1,000 kinds of sausages are known in Germany. Kern county, Cal., contains 55,842 acres of proved oil lands. An enamel to glaze pottery without the use of heat is a German invention. The government of India has prohibited the importation of sulphur matches. The Russian government controls the prices charged for medical prescriptions. The Chilean government has appointed a commission to make a study of the water power available for hydroelectric development. A dredge built in Holland for the government of Uruguay crossed the Atlantic ocean under its own steam. A recently patented combined typewriter table and chair fold together to form a cover for a machine and to economize floor space. Of English invention is a new lubricant for cutting screw threads in aluminum more satisfactorily than here-tofore possible. Several types of compressed air operated hoisting machines have been designed for use in places where the fire hazard is great. A machine has been perfected in luxory that embroider designs upon three dozen pairs of stockings at once, a battery of needles making 288 switches simultaneously. Mechanism whereby the music of a piano and phonograph can be combined has been patented by a New Jersey inventor. A newspaper in a Brazilian town 2,000 miles from the mouth of the Amazon gets all its telegraphic news by wireless. By pulling out a pin a new spring by for screen doors can be disabled without leaving the spring and the parts left where they be- come the rear reaction of a door again. events has opened a new chapter in the history of the American Negro, a chapter more fateful than any written since the great reaction of apathy settled upon the nation after reconstruction days. Once more the Negro is becoming a vital problem. The most impressive development of the last few days so far as the Negro is concerned is the moral fulture with which white people have viewed him. For a long time the country traveled on the moral momentum generated by the abolitionists and by the political results of the Civil War. That no longer exists. Outside of a small group of relatively dumb reformers, nobody cares seriously. Disfranchisement is an accepted principle in the South. Christian laws no longer require. Segregation is growing, South West and North. The most frequent feeling on the part of whites is one of helpless, hopeless acquiescence in forces which they feel unable to challenge. The old belief in equality is dominant. Orators will not admit it, no one whose political faith must be on parade can afford to admit it, but the truth is that race prejudice was never stronger. Not even the Christian brotherhood of man is a powerful enough motive to wield together different races belonging to the same religious denomination. Until the European war shot off immigration and forced American industry to surrender the workers of the South segregation of all kinds appeared destined to grow greatly. The movement was from below. Largely it lacked leaders. But it swept on. The same ruthless instincts and the same moral fatigue exist today. Yet industrial necessity has brought forward new factors. In the factory, shop and construction camp another future is opening—John Vance Cheyre, in the Chicago Herald. --- With commemorative exercises of dignity and obequence the little boy cabin that was Lincoln's birthplace has been set apart as a shrine. One lesson of the great life of the enunciator, a lesson for two men and for all mankind, has been that the humble origin need not prove a mortaline to check the will to rise. The Southern Workman tells the story of one who came "up from slavery" in an Alabama town. The father of John Guss Frazier was a freedman. The son went from the farm to town and entered the service of a tailoring establishment. He was paid 30 cents a day for errands and old jobs. He watched the others press clothes, and soon he had an iron in his hand and was earning a dollar. Finally he bought the business. Then, with one chair, he started a barber shop. He bought and sold cattle. He purchased a cement-block machine, made his own blocks and built a three-story building to hold the barber shop, a store, a lodge room for rental and an undertaking establishment. He built a house for himself and beside it a cottage hotel. The buildings are all of them erected on the very ground where his father once worked as a slave. Yet there are engraves who hold that a man who is born to a lovely lot in life must hold his hands in the coeli acceptance of a providential disposition, and deny to the world the inspiring pattern of "toil unseemed from tranquility." As a mineral producer Alabama ranks first among the southern states. More than 27,000 tons of honey are produced annually by the American bee. Lightning is more frequent in Illinois and Florida than in any other states. A sanitary guard has been invented to prevent persons handling spigot outlets. Skins of the damson plums are being utilized in England to produce a blue dye. In times of peace London contains 16 embassies and legations representative of foreign countries. Pilers have been patented by an Illinois inventor to split insulation and remove it from wires neatly. As a race, the tallest people in the world are the Bororos, of the southwest of Brazil. They average six feet four inches in height. Several French lighthouses have been equipped with lenses that enable their lights to be seen from fifty to sixty miles at sea. Numerous economies are claimed for a new automobile that can be run by gasoline or electricity or a combination of the two. British aviators have found that horsehair cushions provide enough elasticity to counteract the vibration of aeprolans and make the use of magnetic compasses possible. For use in blasting a combined fuse cutting, cap crimping and fuse slitting tool has been invented by a Wisconsin man. Pasteboard boxes with sanitary, insect-poor openings have been invented for containing sugar and other food in similar form. A German medical authority maintains that 15 minutes exposure to the sun's rays during an aeroplane flight at high altitudes will kill all the tuberculosis germs in a man's system PAYING HOMAGE TO VON HINDENBURG JOHN H. HARRIS German soldiers hammering nails into the gigantic wooden statue of General von Hindenburg, newly appointed chief of staff of the German army, which stands in one of the principal squares in Berlin. For every nail a donation is made to the Red Cross fund. BRITISH PILE UP SHELLS AT BASRA End German Dream of Proposed Terminus of Berlin-Bagdad Railway Line. CAPTURED SHIPS IN TIGRIS Simple Possession of the River Tigris is Sufficient to Control the Population for Many Miles General Headquarters Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, Basra.—The culmination of Germany's immediate eastern aspirations was the creation of Basra as the Persian gulf terminus of the Berlin-Badragad railway system, writes Lois Edgar Browne in the Chicago News. The Germans in their wildest dreams could hardly have imagined Basra as it is today. It is the headquarters and main base for British operations in Mesopotamia. The term "base" has come to mean a place where thousands of troops are encamped in glistening white tents, carefully arranged in rows and blocks with military precision; mountains of food stores for the men and fodder for the animals; hospitals and headquarters and dispatch riders dashing about as though the angel of death were after them. Basra is all that and more. Never was there a more unique campaign than this one, where there is every contrast between east and west. The Tigris is all important in the campaign. It is fickleness personified. It floods, subsides and spreads cholera with absolute impartiality. Hardly two engagements out of all the furious encounters that have marked the steady progress of British troops up the river have occurred more than eight miles from its banks. The British objective has been to take possession of the river. The Turks have tried only to hold it. Simple possession of the river is sufficient to control the population for many miles inland. British Ships Everywhere. One treads in the army commander's pier and realizes that Britain does control the seas. As far as one can see, either up or down the river, there are ocean-going ships tugging at anchor chains drawn taut as bow strings by the swift current. The ships are anchored one behind the other in a long column. They hall from many corners of the earth and among their cargoes one may find everything from a big howitzer shell to a skein of embroidery for some Arab haren. The ships are nearly all British. They fly one of the varied designs of the British flag. It may be the white ensign of the merchant fleet or the blue ensign with India's rising sun or the Australian flag with its four stars depicting the southern cross. Every day a few ships draw into midstream and with half exposed propellers thrash their way toward the sea. They have before them a terrible tossing about by the Arabian sea monsoon, but even at that they must be thankful to the depths of their souls. Bursa is all that is vile. The very air one breathes is rank poison. The temperature runs up to 118 degrees on PAYING HOMAGE TO German soldiers hammering nails oral von Hindenburg, newly appoint which stands in one of the principal donation is made to the Red Cross fun San Francisco—Qualified to enter high school one year ago, when only seven years old, Beatrice Ruth Willard, whose intellectual progress has been the marvel of educators, is to extend her education further by a tour of the Orient. Before her return she may circumnavigate the globe, with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Willard, and with her brother Tenen Toyo for Japan. They are considering a return by way of Europe and provided for that possibility THE BYSTANDER the river. It will go higher. The shore is a snapping swamp where dangerous mosquitoes breed by billions. Heat apoplexy hangs over every man's head like a sword suspended by a thread. Cholera comes in the night. Tried to Block Channel. A tunnel funnel, a jumple of topnets and a few shreds of loose cordage snapping in the breeze gave evidence that Turkish attempts to block the river. British monitors were pressing close upon the retreating Turkish army, hurling high explosive shells into its rear guard. The Turkish admiral hurriedly threw three ships across the river and scuttled them. The middle ship was a fine German liner containing cargo. The British contemplate salvaging her. The others were smaller ships—one a light ship and the other a small steamer. The plan was admirable, but it was engineered with characteristic Turkish inefficiency, and the small steamer on the right swung clear of the channel on the right side of the river before she burst. The Turks are a bit superstitious about the Tigris and they declare the river foliated their plans because it did not wish to bore through the river bank to form a new channel, which it would have done but the admiral been successful. Anchored in the stream is a great black ship, with a golden star and the letters "P, S, S," painted on her funnel. The letters translate "prize steamship." I have seen so many prize steamships in the East that it seems as though British captures of Germany's mercantile marine must compensate largely for her losses through Germany's submarine campaign. The Navy must probably for the purpose of identification, although they fly the red ensign and are operated by government crews. HOBO'S VEST HELD FORTUNE Discarded Garment Snatched From Furnace in a Pennsylvania Hotel Just in Time. Bedford, Pa.—Twelve thousand three hundred and six dollars, the savings of a lifetime, which Tony Colombo of the East side, New York, had sewed in his vest, was saved from a blazing furnace in a local hotel by a narrow margin. George Regoveri, cellist in the orchestra at the hotel, while motoring noticed a hobo pick a piece of bread from the ground where a picnic had been held several days ago. Regoveri took the man in his car and carried him back to the hotel. In the servant's quarters he was bathed, given a new suit of clothing and then a meal. Later he started on his way to New York. He had been zone only a short time when he returned hastily, crying that his lifetime were sewed in the old wett which he had discarded, and which the management of the hotel had ordered consigned to the furnace. A hastily search was made and the money was found, as Colombo said, ELOPERS GO WITHOUT FOOD Fearing Wrath of Girl's Parents, Maryland Couple Drive 160 Miles to Marry. Frederick, Mil.-Fearing the wrath of the girl's parents, more especially the mother, and egged on by the remembrance of an interrupted marriage in Washington in June, Lacy H. Fitzgerald, twenty-one years old, and Cecile B. Steel, seventeen years old, of Vesuvius, Va., drove 160 miles into D VON HINDENBURG into the gigantic wooden statue of Gen- ed chief of staff of the German army, squares in Berlin. For every nail a and. by obtaining the necessary passports before leaving here. Equipped with a portable typewriter, Miss Bentrice will write of her experiences and observations as her journey progresses. She is four weeks past eight years old now. Liberal With Her Views. "Mrs. Flubbdub says she loves to exchange views with intellectual people." "Works on a liberal basis of exchange, too. She will give you ten of hers for one you." THE KITCHEN CABINET The cruellest lines are often told in silence. The man may say, "I'll put my opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a dislaborable or a catmullator." R. L. Stevenage. A dainty dish for a luncheon is prepared as follows: Boll two pairs of sweetthreads in salted water till tender. Remove and drop in ice water, take off all the skins and gristle and dice them; add a can of diced mushrooms or an equal quantity of fresh ones; melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan and stir smoothly into it one tablespoonful of flour. To this add one cupful of stock or a cupful of scalded cream. Allow to boil and then put in the meat and mushrooms. Cook a minute or two then add two well heaten egg yolks. Set away to cool, then form into rolls, dip in egg and crumbs and fry a delicate brown. Serve in nests of watercress. A thin slice of cheese placed on thin sliced buttered bread in the form of a sandwich and sautéed in a little olive oil is a good sandwich to serve hot with a salad. Breast of Chicken With Virginia Ham—Take two slices of uncooked chicken breast, two thin slices of ham, six tablespoonfuls of butter, one cupful of cream with peprika and salt. Place the chicken in a hot chilling dish or an omelet pan with two tablespoonfuls of butter and a little cream. When partly cooked turn them over and place on the top of each a slice of ham, add another tablespoonful of butter and a little more cream. When this is partially cooked, turn them over again, still keeping the ham on top; add the remaining butter and cream with a generous seasoning of salt and paprika to until well cooked, always keeping the ham on top. When well done serve a piece of chicken and a piece of ham to each person. Increase the amount for any number of people. Serve with sweet potatoes. John Chinaman will tell you that you have never tasted really flavorful chicken until you have seasoned it with ginseng, just a bit of the expensive root is sufficient, giving the meat a delightfully different taste. Tomatoes Stuffed With Ripe Olives. —Scoop out the tomatoes and fill with stuffed olives that have been stoned, a few tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Fry a small onion until brown; add the pulp of the tomatoes, the bread crumbs and olives; fill the tomatoes and bake. Cover with buttered crumbs to brown and serve hot. Friends in this world of hurry, And work and sudden end, If a thought comes quick, of doing A kindness to a friend, Do it very moment, Don't put it off, don't wait, What's the use of doing a kindness If you do it a day too late? To prepare peaches for canning or preserving, or in fact almost any dish, remove the skin by plunging them in a wire basket into boiling water for two minutes, then the skins will come off easily. Sweet Pickled Peaches. - To seven pounds of peaches allow 3¼ pounds of white sugar, one quart of not too sharp vinegar, two ounces of cloves and two ounces of stick cinnamon. - Peel the peaches and insert one or two cloves in each. Boil the sugar and vinegar with the cinnamon for five minutes, then put in the peaches. When the fruit is tender, remove it carefully from the stirrup and put it into jars. Boil the sirup until reduced to nearly half and pour over the peaches. An old-fashioned method of preserving peaches was to fill the jars with the whole fruit, peeled and covered with sugar; bury three feet in the ground below the frost. Spiced Peaches—For six pounds of fruit use three pounds of granulated sugar and one pint of vinegar. Into each peach insert two cloves. Put into the sugar and vinegar one ounce of cinnamon, which should be in a cheesecloth bag, and boil. When the mixture is boiling hot, place the peeled fruit in it and cook until tender. Put into jars and seal at once. Peach Marmalade—This may be made from the imperfect fruit, using three-fourths the weight of the fruit in sugar and half a pint of water to each pound of sugar. Make a sip of peaches cut in small pieces. Doll up the mixture is thick, for about three-quarters of an hour. Put in jars or tumblers. Canned Peaches—Peel and halve the peaches, removing the pits. For four quarts of peaches use three pints of water and a pint of sugar. When the fruit is ready, drop into the boiling sirup and cook gently for ten minutes; seal at once. Peaches canned whole have a richer flavor than those with the pits removed, yet many prefer them so. --- An old shoe has been unearthed in the J. P. Dorman garden in Centralia, Kan. It had probably laid there fifty years. T. B. Thompson of Huntingdon, Pa. has a stalk of rhubarb with a leaf 35 inches long and 36 inches wide. Plants have been established in both Scotland and Sweden to manufacture a steel said to be equal to the best crucible steel by an open-hearth process. C CORRESPONDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY These four French soldiers have kindly consented to make a human ladder, in order to show the depth of a hole one of the French big guns digs. The picture was taken in captured German lines. Frederick, and stopped their machine only when the courthouse was reached. The couple had traveled without food in an effort to obtain a marriage license and marry before the mother of the bride stopped the marriage. "Did," sighed the girl. "I'm so hungry." "Let's get married first; we can eat," suggested Fitzgerald, and the couple left the clerk's office. They were married by Rev. L. H. Nunnelbaugh, pastor of the United Brethren church. TO SAVE "OLD MAN'S" HEAD Rock in Franconia Notch Immortalized by the Titans Losing Its Contour. Concord, N. H.—"The Old Man of the Mountain," as the profile rock in Franconia Notch has been known for years, is losing its head and Gov. Roland H. Spaulding and his council were engaged recently in considering means of repairing the loss. Through Rev. Gay Roberts of Whitefield the governor's attention was called to the fact that winter storms had moved the stone, which forms the forehead of "The Great Stone Face," the name by which the rock was immortalized by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The great stone, which is in danger of toppling over, would carry with it the rock masses forming the nose and chin. A return of the forehead stone to its original position and the construction of a buckle arrangement to bind it firmly to the head is proposed. ARGENTINE CHIEF IS HERMIT New President Is Not Likely to Become Huge Success Specially. Buenos Aires—Hipolito Iríguez, the new president of Argentine, may prove to be a political success, but there is no indication that he will be a success socially. The Argentineans expect their presidents-elect, their presidents and expresidents to show themselves in aristocratic circles, to give big balls and receptions and generally to add to the gaiety of the capital. President-elect Irigoyen has been a disappointment in this respect. But for one short visit to Buenos Aires in July, he has remained shut up like a hermit in his ranch house in the country ever since his election. The people of Buenos Aires have no picture of him have been printed but everyone knows they are fakes because there isn't a picture of Irigoyen in existence. STORK IS VERY GENEROUS Leaves Three Sets of Twins Within Few Days in One Indiana County. Lawrenceburg, Ind.—The stork has been working overtime in Dearborn county the last few days, having left twin girls at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Kolb in Logan township, twin boys at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Hines in Harrison township and twins, a son and a daughter, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Heaton in Centre township. The Kolb twins born to Mrs. Kolb, and the firstborn to Mrs. Kolb, who is the daughter of Frank J. Barber, county commissioner. The Hines twins are also the first children in the family. Their mother is a daughter of Dr. Charles S. Bauer, a physician, and the Heaton babies are the third pair of twins born to Mrs. Heaton. They now have six children, three sons and three daughters. Slaughter Songsters. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—When residents claimed that the clamor of starlings and blackbirds murdered their sleep, Mayor Wylur Wilbur hired 12 expert marksmen, whose guns are eliminating the "sleep-killers." *Snake on Sleeping Woman.* Indiana, Pa.—Awakened by pressure on her chest, Mrs. Charles Shaum of West Mahoning township the other night clutched a four-foot blacksnake which had curled up on her. Her husband killed the reptile. *Asks Match; Finda Brother.* Bayonne, N. J.—Alexander Cruze approached a stranger in the Seamans home to ask for a match. The stranger turned out to be his brother Albert, whom he had not heard from in ten years. Both are sailors. It is not enough to believe what you maintain, you must maintain what you believe; and maintain it because you believe it.—Whatly. A dalty preserve to use with meats in winter or as a sauce for ice cream is: - Preserved Watermelon Rind. - Peel the rind from half a melon, rejecting all the pink. Chop it fine or put it through the meat grinder. Place it in a bowl over night, sprinkling with salt over each layer. In the morning draw off the liquid and frozen with cold water; washing it two or three times. Place in a preserving kettle with an equal measure of sugar and let it cook slowly for three hours. Fruit Preserve - Peel and cut into small pieces apples, pears and plums, equal parts; use a pound of sugar for each pound of fruit and cook until of a marmalade consistency. Take from the fire and add a half cup of blanched and shredded almonds. Pickled Plums or Pears.—Take nine pounds of fruit and six pounds of sugar, two quarts of vinegar and an ounce of cinnamon. Boil the vinegar and spice together, pour it over the fruit, which has been previously placed in a large crock or bowl, and let it stand for 24 hours. Pour it back over the fruit in the bowl, repeat the process for five mornings, the last time cooking the fruit about 15 minutes. Put into the jars and cover while hot. Tomato Honey.—Select ripe yellow tomatoes, the small pear-shaped ones are preferred; weigh the tomatoes after scalding and peeling them; cut them in pieces and put into a gravelly yellow rind of one lemon; cook for 20 minutes, press through a fine sieve, then strain. Measure the liquor and to each plant add one pound of sugar, and four tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Boil a moment and seal. Tomato Figs—Select six pounds of perfect pear tomato, rice, smooth and yellow. Weigh three pounds of sugar and sprinkle the sugar in layers over the carefully peeled fruit. Stew very gently until the sugar is absorbed, then lift them carefully to dry on plates in the sun; sprinkle with sugar several times while drying. When perfectly dry pack into jars with a layer of sugar between each layer of figs. Anyone who is prepared for defeat must be half defended before he commenced—Admiral Farragut. Can anything be so elegant as to thank anyone who was and to serve them oneself—Emerson. One tires of vanilla and lemon for flavoring, and anything new or a variety is always welcomed. For those who do not enjoy a almond flavoring alone the combination of one teaspoonful of almond extract to six of lemon is a good combination. When using the mixture, shake well and use the teaspoonful, or a few drops, depending upon the dish. Mapleen is a flavor well liked; so is caramel and coffee flavor. The mochacuramel flavoring is a combination of the two. It is prepared as follows: Put a cupful of granulated or light brown sugar into an iron frying pan, stir until it begins to melt, then lower the heat and continue cooking until it is a rich brown in color, but be careful not to burn it; then add a half cupful of hot, very strong coffee, stir for a moment until dissolved; when cool, put it in a bottle. It will keep for weeks. This may be used for any number of dishes. For frosting for cake mix powdered sugar with cream until quite stiff, then add enough of the mocha caramel to color well, and a pinch of salt. Mocha-Caramel Butter—Wash the salt from half a cupful of butter, cream it and add one and a quarter cupful of confectioner's sugar, then cream again. Beat in one beaten egg, two tablespoons of mocha-caramel and one or two tablespoons of strong coffee. To make this, use cold coffee instead of water. Put this butter in a glass jar and set on ice. Small sponge cakes may be hollowed on with this butter, garnishing the top of each with a candied cherry; put on the lid and peel if so desired, or serve with fresh fruit, plain. Hot waffles with mocha butter is a delicious combination. There will be any number of ways of using this good flavor. Any white cooky mixture may be made most tasty by adding a little cooked fruit of dates, prunes or figs on the center of a cooky' place another on top and bake. These are especially well liked by the young folk. Fried chicken or pressed chicken, bolled tongue, roast beef, are all meals that are well liked for outdoor meals. Nellie Maxwell Cyprus has revived its former native tobacco industry, producing tobacco suitable for cigarettes of Turkish and Egyptian types. A group of French scientists who have been investigating have decided that smaller insects, in proportion to their size, are stronger than larger ones. As a life-saving precaution, a French inventor would have all seen-giving vests furnished with beds equipped with a nonsinkable mattress he has patented. FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS. sweetbreads in saturated water till tender. Remove and drop in ice water, take off all the skins and gristle and dice them; and a can of diced mushrooms or an equal quantity of fresh ones; melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan and stir smoothly into it one tablespoonful of remove the skin by plunging them in a wire basket into boiling water for two minutes, then the skins will come off easily. Sweet Pickled Peaches—To seven pounds of peaches all over 34.5 pounds FROM ALL OVER Bonsai PERFECT PRESERVES. Preserved Watermelon Rind. - Peel the rind from half a melon, rejecting all the pink Chop it and put it through the meat grinder. Place it in a bowl over night, sprinkling FOR THE EPICURE. ety is always welcomed. For those who do not enjoy almond flavoring alone the combination of one teaspoonful of almond extract to six of lemon is a good combination. When using the mixture, shake well and use the teaspoonful, or a few drops, depending upon the dish. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS When Booker- Washington published his account of his own life 15 years ago, at the moment the National Negro Business league had just been launched, before the library at Tuskegee for which Carnegie partly paid had been built, and before the famous lunch with President Roosevelt, his education was in full tide. It was possible his labors as a whole and in perspective, as well as to give him credit for inventions plushments that with natural modesty he himself attributed largely to circumstances or to others. The main facts in Booker Washington's career are well known: How he was born in a slave hut in a remote part of western Virginia, a year or two before the Civil war broke out; how after the war his stepfather and mother (his father is unknown) removed to Malden, W. Va., to work there in salt and coal mines; how back by his stepparent but encouraged by his mother, he learned to read and attended night school; how in 1872 he walked, begged, and worked his way to Hampton institute; and how after his graduation from Hampton, the path of opportunity opened before him when in 1881 he was appointed organizer and teacher of a Newegro normal school at Tuskegee. Many may not know that the most important day in his career was that on which he delivered his thesis at the Atlanta and Cotton States International expedition—due for which President Cleveland sent a letter of thanks. A few doubtless know that the last ten years of his work were done with a body and nervous system worn out by incessant labor, so that repeatedly he was on the point of breaking down. This is told in a recent publication with all the detail which is possible in a volume of 300 pages, and in a manner not unskilled. The marshalling of facts is effective, though there is some repetition; and if the style is undistinguished and sometimes awkward, and the general paragraphs or chapters on "the times" of Washington vague and clumsily interpolated, the writer atones for this by the manifest enthusiasm he brings to his book. He feels, though he cannot fully express, the touch of the epie in this first great Negro leader's career. The steady advance of the American Negro is a conspicuous proof of the principle that progress can be had by peaceful methods. Year by year Tuskegee institute issues a "Negro Year Book," which is a sort of log of the forward movement of the race. The 1916 edition has just been issued. At the particular moment the butter is one of unusual national importance because of the new migration which is sending Negroes from the South to the northern and western states. The European war seems to be opening closed doors to the race. With the stoppage of immigration and the loss of labor in some fields fresh opportunities have come to the farm workers of the South. Negroes are replacing aliens from many nations. This industrial migration will doubtless have far-flung effects. If it advances sufficiently it may lessen the tension of the race problem in the South. At the same time the greater educative facilities of the North and West are likely to play a powerful part in making the southern Negro something different. Altogether the unconscious turn of More than 1,000 kinds of sausages are known in Germany. Kern county, Cal., contains 55,842 acres of proved oil lands. An enamel to glaze pottery without the use of heat is a German invention. The government of India has prohibited the importation of sulphur matches. The Russian government controls the prices charged for medical prescriptions. The Chilean government has appointed a commission to make a study of the water power available for hydroelectric development. A dredge built in Holland for the government of Uruguay crossed the Atlantic ocean under its own steam. A recently patented combined typewriter table and chair fold together to form a cover for a machine and to economize floor space. Of English invention is a new lubricant for cutting screw threads in aluminium more satisfactorily than heretofore possible. Several types of compressed air operated boating machines have been designed for use in places where the fire hazard is great. A machine has been perfected in laxony that embroider designs upon three dozen pairs of stockings at once, a battery of needles making 288 stitches simultaneously. Mechanism whereby the music of a piano and phonograph can be combined has been patented by a New Jersey inventor. A newspaper in a Brazilian town 2,000 miles from the mouth of the Amazon gets all its telegraph news by wireless. By pulling out a pin a new spring Place for screen doors can be depleted without losing the spring and with the press left where they be the rear section of a door again. events has opened a new chapter in the history of the American Negro, a chapter more fateful than any written since the great reaction of apathy settled upon the nation after reconstruction days. Once more the Negro is becoming a vital problem. The most impressive development of the last few days so far as the Negro is concerned is the moral fatigue with which white people have viewed him. For a long time the country traveled on the moral momentum generated by the abolitionists and by the political results of the Civil War. That no longer exists. Outside of a small group of relatively dumb reformers, nobody愈 seriously. Disfranchisement is an accepted principle in the South. The laws have no longer arrests. Segregation is growing, South West and North. The most frequent feeling on the part of whites is one of helpless, hopeless acquiescence in forces which they feel unable to challenge. The old belief in equality is dormant. Orators will not admit it. no one whose political faith must be on parade can afford to admit it, but the truth is that race prejudice was never stronger. Not even the Christian brotherhood of man is a powerful enough motive to wield together different races belonging to the same religious denomination. Until the European war shut off immigration and forced American industry to surrender the workers of the South segregation of all kinds appeared destined to grow greatly. The movement was from below. Largely it lacked leaders. But it swept on. The same ruthless instincts and the same moral failure exist today. Yet industrial necessity has brought forward new factors. In the factory, shop and construction camp another future is opening—John Vance Cheery, in the Chicago Herald. --- As a mineral producer Alabama ranks first among the southern states. More than 27,000 tons of honey are produced annually by the American bee. Lightning is more frequent in Illinois and Florida than in any other states. A sanitary guard has been invented to prevent persons handling spigot outlets. Skins of the damson plums are being utilized in England to produce a blue dye. In times of peace London contains 16 embassies and legations representative of foreign countries. Piliers have been patented by an Illinois inventor to split insulation and remove it from wires neatly. As a race, the tallest people in the world are the Bororos, of the southwest of Brazil. They average six feet four inches in height. Several French lighthouses have been equipped with lenses that enable their lights to be seen from fifty to sixty miles at sea. Numerous economies are claimed for a new automobile that can be run by gasoline or electricity or a combination of the two. British aviators have found that horsehair cushions provide enough elasticity to counteract the vibration of aplanes and make the use of magnetic compasses possible. For use in blasting a combined fuse cutting, cap crimping and fuse sifting tool has been invented by a Wisconsin man. Pasteboard boxes with sanitary, insect-poor openings have been invented for containing sugar and other food in similar form. A German medical authority maintains that 15 minutes exposure to the sun's rays during an aeroplane flight at high altitudes will kill all the tuberculosis germs in a man's system. PAYING HOMAGE TO VON HINDENBURG A German soldiers hammering nails into the gigantic wooden statue of General von Hindenburg, newly appointed chief of staff of the German army, which stands in one of the principal squares in Berlin. For every nail a donation is made to the Red Cross fund. BRITISH PILE UP SHELLS AT BASRA End German Dream of Proposed Terminus of Berlin-Bagdad Railway Line. CAPTURED SHIPS IN TIGRIS Simple Possession of the River Tigris Is Sufficient to Control the Population for Many Miles Inland. General Headquarters Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. Basra.—The culmination of Germany's midwestern aspirations was the creation of Basra as the Persian gulf terminus of the Berlin-Badagd railway system, writes Louis Edgar Browne in the Chicago News. The Germans in their wildest dreams could hardly have imagined Basr as it is today. It is the headquarters and main base for British operations in Mesopotamia. The term "base" has come to mean a place where thousands of troops are encamped in glistening white tents, carefully arranged in rows and blocks with willow-pipelines mounting of food stores for the men and folder for the animals; hospitals and headquarters and dispatch riders dashing about as though the angel of death were after them. Basra is all that and more. Never was there a more unique campaign than this one, where there is every contrast between east and west. The Tigris is all important in the campaign. It isickness personified. It floods, subsides and spreads cholera with absolute impartiality. Hardly two engagements out of all the furious encounters that have marked the steady progress of British troops up the river have occurred more than eight miles from its banks. The British objective has been to take possession of the river. The Turks have tried only to hold it. Simple possession of the river is sufficient to control the population for many miles inland. British Shipa Everywhere. One tands on the army commander's pier and realizes that Britain does control the seas. As far as one can see, either up or down the river, there are ocean-going ships tugging at anchor chains drawn taut as bow strings by the swift current. The ships are anchored one behind the other in a long column. They hall from many corners of the earth and among their cargoes one may find everything from a big howitzer shell to a skein of embroidery for some Arab hems. The ships are nearly all British. They fly one of the varied designs of the Brit. navy, a white cowl of the royal navy or the red ensign of the mercantile fleet or the blue ensign with India's rising sun or the Australian flag with its four stars depicting the southern cross. Every day a few ships draw into midstream and with half exposed propellers thrash their way toward the sea. They have before them a terrible tossing about by the Arabian sea monsoon, but even at that they must be thankful to the depths of their souls. Basra is all that is vile. The very air one breathes is rank polson. The temperature runs up to 118 degrees on PAYING HOMAGE TO German soldiers hammering nails eral von Hindenburg, newly appointe which stands in one of the principal donation is made to the Red Cross fun San Francisco—Qualified to enter high school one year ago, when only seven years old, Beatrice Ruth Willard, whose intellectual progress has been the marvel of educators, is to extend her education further by a tour of the Orient. Before her return she may circumvent the learning curve by taking the Leon Willard, she sailed on the steamer Tenoya Maru for Japan. They are considering a return by way of Europe and provided for that possibility THE BYSTANDER the river. It will go higher. The shore is a small swamp where dangerous mosquitoes breed by billions. Heat apoplexy hangs over every man's head like a sword suspended by a thread. Cholera comes in the night. Tried to Block Channel. A funnel top, a jumble of topnets and a few shreds of loose coarse snapping in the breeze bear mute evidence of the way the Turks attempted to block the river. British monitors were pressing close upon the retreating Turkish army, hurling high explosive shells into its rear guard. The Turkish admiral hurriedly threw three ships across the river and scutted them. The middle ship was a fine German liner containing cargo. The British contemplate salvaging her. The others were smaller ships—one a light ship and the other a small steamer. The plan was admirable, but it was engineered with characteristic Turkish inefficiency, and the small steamer on the right swing clear of the channel for the liner and the liner before the Turks. The Turks are a bit superstitious about the Tigris and they declare the river foiled their plans because it did not wish to bore through the river bank to form a new channel, which it would have done and the admiral been successful. Archored in the stream is a great black ship, with a golden star and the letters "P. S. S." painted on her funnel. The letters translate "prize steamship." I have seen so many prize steamships in the East that it seems as though British captures of Germany's mercantile marine must compensate largely for her losses through Germany's submarine campaign. The ship is well equipped, probably for the purpose of identification, although they fly the red ensign and are operated by government crews. HOBO'S VEST HELD FORTUNE Discarded Garment Snatched From Furnace in Virginia Hotel, Discarded Garment Snatched Just In Time Bedford, Pa.—Twelve thousand three hundred and six dollars, the savings of a lifetime, which Tony Colombo of the East side, New York, had sewed in his vest, was saved from a blazing furnace in a local hotel by a narrow margin. George Regoveri, "cellist in the orchestra at the hotel, while motoring noticed a hobo pick a piece of bread from the ground where a picnic had been held days ago. Regoveri took the man in his car and carried him back to the hotel. In the servant's quarters he was bathed, given a new suit of clothing and then a meal. He started on his way to New York. He had been gone only a short time when he returned hastily, crying that his savings of a lifetime were sewed in the old vest which he had discarded, and which the management of the hotel had ordered consigned to the furnace. A hasty search was made and the money was found, as Colombo said, ELOPERS GO WITHOUT FOOD Fearing Wrath of Girl's Parents, Maryland Couple Drive 160 Miles to Marry. Frederick, Md.—Fearing the wrath of the girl's parents, more especially the mother, and egged on by the remembrance of an interrupted marriage in Washington in June, Lacy H. Fitzgerald, twenty-one years old, and Cecile B. Steel, seventeen years old, of Vesuvius, Va. drove 160 miles into into the gigantic wooden statue of Gen- ed chief of staff of the German army. I squares in Berlin. For every nail a head. by obtaining the necessary passports before leaving here. Equipped with a portable typewriter, Miss Bentricle will write of her experiences and observed as her journey progresses. She is four weeks past eight years old now. Liberal With Her Views "Mrs. Flubbus she loves to exchange views with intellectual people." "Works on a liberal basis of exchange for her," she says, "ten of her for one of your." THE KITCHEN CABINET The cruelest lesties are often told in the silence. The man has opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a dislike friend or a caluminator. R. L. Walker A dainty dish for a lunchroom is prepared as follows: Boll two pairs of sweetbreads in salted water till tender. Remove and drop in ice water, take off all the skins and gristle and dice them; add a can of diced mushrooms or an equal quantity of fresh ones; melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan and stir smoothly into it one tablespoonful of flour. To this add one cupful of stock or a cupful of scalded cream. Allow to boll and then put in the meat and mushrooms. Cook a minute or two then add two well heaten egg yolks. Set away to cool, then form into rolls, dip in egg and crumbs and fry a delicate brown. Serve in nests of watercress. A thin slice of cheese placed on thin sliced buttered bread in the form of a sandwich and sautéed in a little olive oil is a good sandwich to serve hot with a salad. Breast of Chicken With Virginia Ham.-Take two slices of uncooked chicken breast, two thin slices of ham, six tablespoons of butter, one cupful of cream with paprika and salt. Place the chicken in a hot chilling dish or an omelet pan with two tablespoons of butter and a little cream. When partly cooked turn them over and place on the top of each a slice of ham, add another tablespoon of butter and a little more cream. When this is partially cooked, turn them over again, still keeping the ham on top; add the remaining butter and cream with a generous seasoning of salt and paprika; turn until well cooked, always keeping the ham on top. When well done serve a piece of chicken and a piece of ham to each person. Increase the amount for any number of people. Serve with sweet potatoes. John Chnman will tell you that you have never tasted really fine flavored chicken until you have seasoned it with ginseng, just a bit of the expensive root is sufficient, giving the meat a delicious different taste. Tomatoes Stuffed With Ripe Olives. —Scoop out the tomatoes and fill with stuffed olives that have been stoned, a few tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Fry a small onion until brown; add the pulp of the tomatoes, the bread crumbs and olives; fill the tomatoes and bake. Cover with buttered crumbs to brown and serve hot. Friends in this world of hurry, And work and sudden end, If you can do, of doing A kindness to a friend. Do it that very moment. Don't put it off, don't wait. What's the use of doing a kindness If you do it a day too late? —Charles Kingsley. To prepare peaches for canning or preserving, or in fact almost any dish, remove the skin by plunging them in a wire basket into boiling water for two minutes, then the skins will come off easily. **Sweet Pickled Peaches.** —To seven pounds of peaches allow 3½ pounds of white sugar, one quart of not too sharp vinegar, two ounces of cloves and two ounces of stick cinnamon. Peel the peaches and insert one or two cloves in each. Boil the sugar and vinegar with the cinnamon for five minutes, then put in the peaches. When the fruit is tender, remove it carefully from the stirrup and put it into jars. When the stirrup until reduced to nearly half and pour over the peaches. An old-fashioned method of preserving peaches was to fill the jars with the whole fruit, peeled and covered with sugar; bury three feet in the ground below the frost. Siped Peaches—For six pounds of fruit use three pounds of granulated sugar and one pint of vinegar. Into each peach insert two cloves. Put into the sugar and vinegar one ounce of cinnamon, which should be in a cheesecloth bag, and boll. When the mixture is boiling hot, place the peeled fruit in it and cook until tender. Put into jars and seal at once. Peach Marmalade—This may be made from the imperfect fruit, using three-fourths the weight of the fruit in sugar and half a pint of water to each pound of sugar. Make a sirop and the peaches cut in small piles. Poll until the mixture is thick, pour three-thirds of an hour. Put in jars and tumblers. Canned Peaches—Remel and halve the peaches, removing the pits. For four quarts of peaches three plums of water and a plint of sugar. When the fruit is ready, drop into the bulging sirop and cook gently for ten minutes; seal at once. Peaches canned whole have a richer flavor than those with the pits removed, yet many prefer them so. An old shoe has been unearthed in the J. P. Dorman garden in Centralia, Kan. It had probably lain there fifty years. T. B. Thompson of Huntington, Pa. has a stalk of rhubarb with a leaf 35 inches long and 36 inches wide. Plants have been established in both Scotland and Sweden to manufacture a steel said to be equal to the best crucible steel by an open-hearth process. C These four French soldiers have kindly consecuted to make a human ladder, in order to show the depth of a hole one of the French big guns digs. The picture was taken in captured German lines. Frederickk, and stopped their machine only when the courthouse was reached. The couple had traveled without food in an effort to obtain a marriage license and marry before the mother of the bride sighed the marriage. "And" sighed the girl, "I'm so humorous." "Let's get married first; we can outafter," suggested Fitzgerald, and the couple left the clerk's office. They were married by Rev. L. H. Nummel-baugh, pastor of the United Breden church. TO SAVE "OLD MAN'S" HEAD Rock in Franconia Notch Immortalized by Hawthorne Losing Its Contour. Concord, N. H.—"The Old Man of the Mountain," as the profile rock in Francoina Notch has been known for years, is losing its head and Gov. Roland H. Spaulding and his council were engaged recently in considering means of repairing the loss. Through Rev. Guy Roberts of Whitefield, the governor's attention was called to the fact that winter storms had moved the stone, which forms the forehead of "The Great Stone Face," the name by which the rock was immortalized by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The great stone, which is in danger of toppling over, would carry with it the rock masses forming the nose and chin. A return of the forehead stone to its original position and the construction of a buckle arrangement to bind it firmly to the head is proposed. ARGENTINE CHIEF IS HERMIT New President Is Not Likely to be Come Huge Success Go Buenos Aires.—Hipolito Iriyeng, the new president of Argentine, may prove to be a political success, but there is no indication that he will be a success socially. The Argentinians expect their presidents-elect, their presidents and expeditors to show themselves in aristocratic circles, to give big balls and receptions and generally to add to the galley of the capital. President-elect Iriyeng has been a disappointment in this respect. But for one short visit to Buenos Aires in July, he has remained shut up like a hermit in his ranch house in the country ever since his election. The people are anxious to see him. Pictures of him have been printed but everyone knows they are fakes because there isn't a picture of Iriyeng in existence. STORK IS VERY GENEROUS Leaves Three Sets of Twins Within Few Days in One Indiana County. Lawrenceburg, Ind.-The stork has been working overtime in Dearborn county the last few days, having left twin girls at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Kob in Logan township, twin boys at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Hines in Harrison township and twins, a son and a daughter, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Henton in Centre township. The Kob child is heaped 12% pounds and are the first children in the family who is the daughter of Frank J. Barber, county commissioner. The Hines twins are also the first children in the family. Their mother is a daughter of Dr. Charles S. Bauer, a physician, and the Heaton babies are the third pair of twins born to Mrs. Henton. They now have six children, three sons and three daughters. Slaughter Songstera Ponghiecepse, N. Y.—When residents claimed that the clamor of starlings and blackbirds murdered their sleep, Mayor Wurlibur hired 12 expert markmen, whose guns are eliminating the "sleep-killers." - Snake on Sleeping Woman Indiana, Pa.—Awakened by pressure on her chest, Mrs. Charles Shum of West Mahoning township the other night clutched a four-foot blacksnake which had curled up on her. Her husband killed the creep. Asks Match: Finds Brother Bayonne, N. J.-Alexander Cruze approached a stranger in the Seamans home to ask for a match. The stranger turned out to be his brother Albert, whom he had not heard from in ten years. Both are sailors. It is not enough to believe what you maintain, you must maintain what you believe; and maintain it because you believe it.—Whatley. A dainty preserve to use with meats in winter or as a sauce for ice cream is: **Preserve Watermelon Rind.** - Peel the rind from half a melon, rejecting all the pink. Chop it fine or put it through the meat grinder. Place it in a bowl over night, sprinkling with salt over each layer. In the morning draw off the liquid and freshen with cold water; washing it two or three times. Place in a preserving kettle with an equal measure of sugar and let it cook slowly for three hours. **Fruit Preserve.** - Peel and cut into small pieces apples, pears and plums, equal parts; use a pound of sugar for each pound of fruit and cook until a marmalade consistency. Take from the fire and add a half cup of blanched and shredded almonds. Pickled Plums or Pearls—Take nine pounds of fruit and six pounds of sugar, two quarts of vinegar and an ounce of cinnamon. Boll the vinegar and spice together, pour it over the fruit, which has been previously placed in a large crock or bowl, and let it stand for 24 hours. Pour it back over the fruit in the bowl, repeat the process for five mornings, the last time cooking the fruit about 15 minutes. Put into the jars and cover while hot. Tomato Honey—Select ripe yellow tomatoes, the small pear-shaped ones are preferred; weigh the tomatoes after scalding and peeling them; cut them in pieces and put into a preservative bottle with the grated yellow skin; cook for 20 minutes; press through a fine sieve, then strain. Measure the liquor and to each plant add one pound of sugar, and four tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Boll a seal and seal. Tomato Figs—Select six pounds of perfect pear tomatoes, rice, smooth and yellow. Weigh three pounds of sugar and sprinkle the sugar in layers over the carefully peeled fruit. Stew very gently until the sugar is absorbed, then lift them carefully to dry on plates in the sun; sprinkle with sugar several times while drying. When perfectly dry pack into jars with a layer of sugar between each layer of figs. Anyone who is prepared for defeat would be half defeated before he commenced.-Admiral Farragut. Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them oneself.-Emerson. One tires of vanilla and lemon for flavoring, and anything new or a variety is always welcomed. For those who do not enjoy a almond flavoring alone the combination of one teaspoonful of almond extract to six of lemon is a good combination. When using the mixture, shake well and use the teaspoonful, or a few drops, depending upon the dish. Mapleen is a flavor well liked; so caramel and coffee flavor. The mocha-caramel flavoring is a combination of the two. It is prepared as follows: Put a cupful of granulated or light brown sugar into an iron frying pan, stir until it begins to melt, then lower the heat and continue cooking until it is a rich brown in color, but be careful not to burn it; then add a half cupful of hot, very strong coffee, stir for a moment until dissolved; when cool, put it in a bottle. It will keep for weeks. This may be used for any number of dishes. For frosting for cake mix powdered sugar with cream until quite stiff, then add enough of the mocha caramel to color well, and a pinch of salt. Mocha-Caramel Butter.—Wash the salt from half a cupful of butter, cream it and add one and a quarter cupful of confectioner's sugar, then cream again. Beat in one benton egg, two tablespoons of mocha-caramel and one or two tablespoons of strong coffee. To make this, use cold coffee in water. Put this butter in a glass jar and set on ice. Small sponge cookies may be hollowed out and filled with this butter, grinding the top of each with a coiled cherry; put on the lid and frost, if so desired, or serve with fresh fruit, plain. Hot waffles with mocha butter is a delicious combination. There will be any number of ways of using this good flavor. Any white cooky mixture may be made most tasty by adding a little cooked fruit of dates, prunes or figs on the center of a cooky place another on top and bake. These are especially well liked by the young folk. Fried chicken or pressed chicken. bolled tongue, roast beef, are all meats that are well liked for outdoor meals. Cyprus has revived its former native tobacco industry, producing tobacco suitable for cigarettes of Turkish and Egyptian types. A group of French scientists who have been investigating have decided that smaller insects, in proportion to their size, are stronger than larger ones. As a life-saving precaution, a French inventor would have all seu-giving vases furnished with beds equipped with a nonsimikable muffler he has patented. FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS. sweetheads in salted water till tender. Remove and drop in ice water, take off all the skins and gristle and dice them; add a can of diced mushrooms or an equal quantity of fresh ones; melt two tablespoons of butter in a saucepan and stir smoothly into it one tablespoonful of remove the skin by in a wire basket in a wire basket into boiling water for two minutes, then the skins will come off easily. Sweet Pickled Peaches. —To seven pounds of peaches all over. FROM ALL OVER 茶 PERFECT PRESERVES. Preserved Watermelon Rind. - Peel the rind from half a melon, rejecting all the pink Chop it or put it through the meat grind. Place it in a baw over night, sprinkling FOR THE EPICURE city is always welcomed. For those who do not enjoy almond flavoring alone the combination of one teaspoonful of almond extract to six of lemon is a good combination. When using the mixture, shake well and use the teaspoonful, or a few drops, depending upon the dish. si Nal . a e wep Pa ar 1 pr 7 i (we a. SECRET SERVICE WATCHES THE SPIES FROM EUROPE ere eae Many Foreign Agents Are Now st ds.” on mang he Active in the United coaged yao uentent se Hila sograced ‘t's Wont oe, Interested in. Blottere COULD BE QUICKLY STOPPED er tit Yo tut ota ost adie “ino pu tw youre oesaration of War Would Cause tne] "awile Tm 00 Ht Sour Der? . Wart of” | thas 6 she tab Cadet ist “Simran te | gets tacular, Butte Wonderful | "stro the vay” ad the ‘ew Tork.—A few days ago the fo wring dispatch was printed In th Yew York newspapers, showing th ‘eer navy Is awake to the possibiliti ‘agents on shore co-operating wit a bestile fleet attackiug us: a highly Important development 1 fhe war guime was announced by Rea Aaairal Benson, chief of naval oper tires, who sald that sples working fo fie invaders had set fire to all th exl plers at Norfolic. Thin means that theoretically thi feportant baso of supplles was let waguurded and could have been d meoyed. ‘The navy yards are all par f the great war game, and the firs Wow against the protection of th ‘east occurred at Norfolk. Word It mediately went forward to arrang far evaling ships of the defending flee lw the vicinity of Norfolk by othe emergency means, How this will bi eae has not yet been reported.” For the first time In the war ma aeorers of the na¥y account has beet taken of the possibility of hostile sple: werking In our navy yards and coal puckets. Rear Admiral Benson bas yot his finger on the spot which has long been declared weak by secret tervice men and certain members of coozress who have been endeavoring 'w procure an Increased appropriation {for a secret service which more close y approximates the Intelligence de partment of European and Asiatic no. tions, saya the New York Herald. Many Spies in United States. Jest how realistic are the condi- fuons. hypothesized. by Rear Aduniral Benson in the recent war game {s shown by the statement of a man bigh liz the United States secret service that there are scores of known forelsn spies In the United States. If war should be declared on the united States today by any one of four European or one Asiatic power, the telegraph Instruments in the office J the secret service, Washington, frould click out a message that would cause the arrest of more than me hundred men and women known to be working in the interest of for- ign governments. ‘The work of the secret service ts not neular, Few reallze to what ex- Sr tt eng cried on," Oeste: lly Chief Flynn's men make a sen- setlonul rald on a band of counter- (eters, and for a few days the secret service fs talked about. Many persons eve, that running down counterfeit- Is the sole activity of Chief Flynn's yreau. ‘They do not know that bis atives—men known only to him, i not even to one another—are con- intly watching clandestine enemies 0 the very heart of our government. ‘The Investigation bureau of the de- tment of justice, under A. Bruce iaskl, once in a while attracts at- tion because of the exposure of in- raal revenue frauds, but thousands readers are unaware that Mr. Blel- 's men have under surveillance of splex whom they allow to thelr way within circumscribed in order that they may, to a ter extent, betray the workings of ir system. ‘Against most of these workers no ree enn be brought which would fy on arrest. They have not v- ated any law. The only possible se open to Uncle Sam's secret tchers 18 to dog their footsteps and the way If they begin to nose out tant informatfon, Fighting One Another, At present, owing to the war in Eu- not only are these European les operating against the United tates, but they ure fighting one an- ther. In general they work some- ing ke this: ‘There 1s one man or man In charge of a certain piece of rk. Under him are many other per- He knows thom all, but they hot, a8 a rule, know one another. ‘A certain government official or the resentative of another nation 1s Ppesed to have tnformation wanted the agent of some power. His men seattered about Washington so t the object of thelr Interest is al- t continually under the eyes of the nization. One man acts as a walt- |n the hotel or restaurant where object of Interest eats, Another & position In the barber shop re he Ig shaved, A woman act: ‘2 munteurist. Still another seeks personal uequitntance through bs oF social functions. No one of these gecret agents may ‘out very much, but each reports ‘Ms chief, for whom the varlous reads weave a perfectly legible Some time ago-n line officer of the ry made some Improvements {n the with which he’ was fanfliar veh commanding vessels at sen. night when this offleer finished he burned all the scraps of pa- ‘on which ho had scribbled code als, signs or other symbols dur- RNS FOE INTO A TORCH jeans, Back From Verdun, Tell of New War invention of Prussians. New York.—Just back from the thick the fighting in tho Verdun sector, Ambulance drivers belonging to rd) (“Daredevil Dick") Norton's (eam. Volunteer Motor Aigbulance . were among the passe}gers om the Br. Louie of tho, Ameriend which arrived tast’ it tipm Liv. areas st ight tipi Le PANU LUNUT pa Ee fog the day. One moruing when ie caine to work an old mallee who wee sued as an attendant in tis oe ‘pprocched ‘ut Wiha, wormed ne and salt: Interested in Blotters, “Sr, there Is something golng on here that you ought to know about You burn your papers every night, but whut do you dosh your bates “Why.” sald the ofteer "I leave {hems on the desk und you throw then away, T presume “Yes, I throw them away” auld the ld han, “hit T ould sell them eau for a good price, oo. ‘That's what 1 tMougit sou ought to Kaw abut The ofc turwal pale “Have you one of those used blot ters about?” he asked, ‘The seaman handed the oMeer a blotter he ind Tete on Mis desk the previous evening and wile the tlt ful fellow had saved because. of his aspclons ‘The officer snatched It ani held It before i sinll ileror. “The inverted signs wide by the bloithag were thus Feneredlxibie. "by. heaves? be exclaimed; “tll me about thle offer for the sed blotters!" TE seems that the night Uefore @ rather shabbily dressed wat had stopped the sailor on, Ble way frou Work aol naked itn if he would be Willing to minke a few cents extra cae wee hy selling the waste blotng pa. per. He declared that attendants ts ofces where a uumber of clerks were employed were dolng the same thing, He offered to pay $2 4 week for the blotters from the afice In whieh the aged sailor worked, ‘This seemed 10 big a price for te extremely few blot. ters used, although the stranger sad he wanted them for a. new process of making ornaments of a sort of papier mache What did you tell him?" asked the otter Secret Service on Jos. 1 suid 1 would give him an answer soon," the seninan replied, “but he geced in a Dig Hurry and left 10 a telephone number, insisting that I call nn today" ‘The’ cer sent a messenger to the secret service bureal and eperutives vere at once put on the case. In matter of minutes a. device hed been tached. to. the. telephone. wire. rune ning to the number the man had glv- in and an operative could wear every word that pessed over the tive with out any Interference with the connec. 0D. erything being In readiness, the attendant as seat ont to telephone he auspected man that he could have he blotters, Meanwhile It had been earaed that what the stranger sald bout buying sed blotters from the orks! oflées Woo trae. and 18 noth ng of importance could bave been earned from these It began to look though rraions of & lot were fnfounded. "Sul Yhere was a poesibl- ty thet this had been Gove ooly a3 2 Hind. The secret service operative at the ecelver of the wiretapping device heard the aged man call the suspect rnd ‘tell bit he eould have the blot ers. A ttle while later this. man alled a number and a woman's volce “Any success?” she asked, “Tean tet you have some of th very pest ‘old blotting. paper” he. replied. "Daily deliveries €. 0. De Its only weed slightly and yoa can reclaim & air percentage, I believe To the secret service operative “C 0. De" iment code, "Very best” meant navy, as the navy code Is recognized is the very best in existence, nnd the jealnder of the sentence meant that 3 the Blotters were not badly suicared mith ink they ought to yleld.w few MISS OWEN LLOYD-GEORGE an ec oe hua => JAifi~* 1g. A ek AS % einen | ‘The engagement of Miss Owen ‘Lioyd-George and Capt. ©. 'T. Carey Bvans was announced recently, and thelr marrluge 1s expected to be eele- brated early in the autumn, ‘Miss Lloyd-George Is the elder of Lloyd-George’s two daugliters. Cap- tain Evans Is In the Indian medleal service, He won the military cross in Gallipolt and subsequently went to Mesopotamia. Newport, R. [, and B, ©. Johnson of Rochester, N. 'Y., and have returzed home on leave of absetice. Descriptions of the latest Teutonic bomb, which fs ased for searching out Ustening posté: and patrols at night, were given by the young men. Tt;con: sists of,a light metallic shell, 20 thin that even a slight Jar will ruptare tt. This 1s filled with: a phosphorescent substance. When it hits an object the shell is broken and the lqula contents, Igaited by. combustion with the Sy throws out a.brilliant light. Ifa bomb facts eweh day. It t# @ recognized fact that in almost all codes If a few signs are known the whole system can be evolved by experts, They Went Away. A inan was at once assigned to Watch the house of the woman In the case, und that evening a taxicab stopped In front of her residence and she Joined a man inside, ‘They were driven toa fashionable cafe, and when the man left the taxicab he was recog- uilzed as a banger-on of one of the em- bassles. Of course, the couple were shadowed, and the walter who served them heard the wowmn tell ber’ com- Danlon that the blotters were obtaln- able, ‘Now, at the embassy in question all knowledge of these activities was de- nied and probably with perfect trath. All embasstes have a certain number of more or less disreputable hangers- on who are more of an embarrassment than anything else, ‘except when they actually accomplish something. Por instance, in this ense had the foreign govermnent been able to obtaln a copy of the nayy code It probably would have paid well for it, Yet it was not under their orders. that the attempt was made and they could very justly repudiate It. ‘The three would-be villains in this little drama tmmediately left Washing- ton. The secret service could ‘not ar- rest them, but the elilef of the bureau could tell, If he would, just exactly what was sald to them that persuaded them the ellmate of the District of Co- lumbla was anything but healthful. © FOOD JAR SKUNK TRAP 9 6 Winsted, Conn.Skunks 2 J Eo caping from u skuak farm in & Lovely street caused residents 3 In that section no lttle trouble. 3 E Recently several entered Dantel E Ryan's cellar and pushed aside 9 fa heavy cover from a stone far E and ate the foodstuffs in it. ‘A miscalculation In this ma- 3 B neuver, however, resulted in a B skunk falling into a crock and 9 the cover slid back Into place, S imprisoning the animal, Ryan will not apply for a patent on the 3 skunk trap, Anyone is privileged to use It, he says. IS THE RICHEST NEGRO BOY Lad te Helr to Land Allotments in Rich Oll Field in Okia- ‘thcuuae ‘Tulsa, Okla,—Adam Manuel, a Creek freedman, died in Colorado recently, nnd already there isa race on among some of the residents of Muskoxee ‘county to get the appointment of guar- ian for his children, ‘There are five of the children living, and the elder Manuel {nherited the allotments of two who are dead, but the guardianship Ia sought because of Luther Manuel, a minor son,. who Is believed to be the richest negro boy in the world. When the allotments were made for the Manuel family, those of Luther, thirteen, and Rafleld, his younger brother, were In a locality where the Innd was worthless for farming pur- ‘poses. , Thelr father complained that the land was valueless, but he was unable to have any change made. It turned out that the allotment of Luther, believed to be worthless, was In the heart of the Cushing ofl fleld. Since that field was developed nearly six years ago, his income from it has amounted to from $20,000 to $25,000 a month. ‘The allotment of Rafleld Manuel is not so valuable, ‘The al- lotments of the other children are good for agricultural purposes only. ‘Sarah Rector has been considered the mgst fortunate of all those among the Greek freedmen who took allot: ments In that section of country, but her fortune ts far less than that of Luther Sfanuel. RELATIVES FIND HIS GRAVE After Search of Seventy-Elght Years Marker Is Djscovered on Resting Stans of Tenmensieats Danville, M.—After a search of 78 years by near rolutives, the body of Elijah Brown, who lett Nashville, Tenn,, In 1838 for Tilinols, was found recently near Allerton, TI, Brown was a well-known Baptist preacher In Tennessee at that time and started overland to northern Tinots with his wife and seven children, but died en route and his body was buried by the wayside, ‘A marker was innde for the grave, but the place was forgotten. The mar- ble slab was broken, hut the name and date of death in 1838 made identifiea- tion possible.” Confesses Old Crime. Smith Centre, Kan—A mystery of 26 years was cleared up when C. G. Ray of Downs, near here, recelved a letter from a man in Omaha, who confessed to setting fire to. the Ray barn In September, 1803. ‘The writer then was a boy six years old. His ex. cuse for confessing the crime at this late date is that he “had no Inek” at anything he undertook, and hé fiually deelded that things would change If he confessed the wrong done so many years ago. Canadians Pull Stumps to Music. ‘Toronto—To the musle of thelr brass bands, four battalions of Cana- dian soldiers uprooted stumps from their enmp area near Toronto, From the sandy ground the stumps were eas- ily pulled, piled in heaps and fired, The flames could be seen for miles can Shay’ ohataes ak wlatiks strikes a man at a listening post ot fone of the members of a patrol, the man becomes a glowing torch and ma. chine guns are turned on him, Traveled 16,000 Miles to Wed; Failed. ‘Roanoke, Va—Thomas Gilbert, a youthful Briton who left homé in Syd- ney, Australia, several weeks ago and a ce aes tomar is erie a Nance,’ hay: Just reachad hla ae tlon tpifind that his sweetheart recenb ly ‘hia uncle, Jacod: Havers.’ 2 THE BYSTANDER MAKE MONEY AT HOME Children Reap Good Profits From Back-Yard Gardens, Many Cities Throughout the Country ‘Are Now Adopting the Plan Pro- geeed ty sels Can, ‘Uncle Saim is obtiining good results im the movement for the establishment ‘of home gardens under direction of the public schools so that there may be erented productive occupation for school children, especially those {n ‘monufacturidg towns and mill villuges. By creating such productive occupa- ton outside of school hours children ‘are enabled to mnke about as much money from thetr home gurdens ux If they were employed In factories. "This plan of home gardentug direct- ‘ed by the sehool hus been adopted by ‘about one hundged eitles. Fifty thou- Sand children are cultivating back-yard gardens under school supervision In ‘these elttes, some of the children mak- Ing as high as $150 from their gardens for one season, The elty of Chattu- ‘nooga, Tenn, which hay ndopted the government plan, now has 11 gardep teachers Iu churge of this work. aq inilen surveys” to deteriine the adaptability of conditions for home garden work, have been made by the ‘United States burea of education In San Francisco, Cal, Riehiond, nd. Nashville, Tenn, and several otner elties, ‘The survey of Richmond showed that even In a elty of this size 85 per cent of the ehildren were without om- ployment during the summer, but that they bud suflicient gurden spuce avall- uble to produce at least $85,000 worth of vegetables every season, ‘Phe bureau's plan provides for a teacher, trained nnd skilled In gurden- Ing, for each elementary city school with its two or three hundred chil- dren; for an intensive system of gar- dening, and for the application of business methods, intelligent direction ed: cease supervision. FIRST-AID MEASURES TO PREVENT IVY POISONING Unete Sam Finds Time to letue Warn. ing Agsinet Danger That May Be Encountered in the Woods, Unete Sem, ainong all is-other ac- tivities uy found tae to-make a It testy ofthe pols Ivy and to ene ie ‘ A aes > ey RY) YER NY fu a ah Vid A ‘ oy, ‘aah i - Ey Jy Ua heat f yaa POET ST Ue Pe) } weiss ive) some first-aid Instructions for the benefit of those who may come In eon- tact with the plunt while wandering through the woods. He urges. those who do not know what polson Ivy looks Uke to become frnillar with Its up- pearance and then keep as far away from it a8 possible. ‘The leaves of the plant are irregular, oval pointed and course toothed. ‘They are always tn groups of three. ‘The plant, which sometimes takes the form of w low shrub, sometimes a graceful vine and ‘again sends out torizontul branches Uke a tree, has clusters of small green- ish white berries. ‘The polson is contained In an olt secreted by the plant and which does ‘ot penetrate the ski rapidly. If one thinks he has been exposed he should wash the exposed parts with salt wa- ter or hot water and soap, and after- wards bathe thoroughly with alcohol or listerine, If uo soup fat hand, the hands may be given a good scrubbing with sand or mud in the first stream encountered. ‘This muy wash off the oll before It hus had tine to get through the natural protective coating of the skin, If polsoning develops, the following formula is recommended by Uncle Sam ag a remedy: Carbolic acld....seeseseeeese 2 rams Resorcin ....c.ssseseveeeeee 2 SFAINS Bisiauth subgallate, .........4 grams Equal parts water and limewa- Yer to MAKE... ees eeo+-+ 1-200. €, ‘This solution may be dabbed on the afiected parts several thnes a day. a heey ee ee aacalis oo ellie within the Hits of five nes on ether Wide of the center line of the cama}, fa | ‘cluding land and water, but not Includ- tne the area wlthia fe Uireevalle Hint from the Atlantic and Pucitie ends, Is 441.5, made up of: Land area, 332.35 ‘square miles; Gatun Inke, 106.4; Mira- fires take, 29; and the area of the Chaonets from the coust to Gatun and MiraloresTocks, O89 square tll. I Ruding att the wuters of Gatun lake, Sher whieh the Panera enna hus ab Solute control, the total aren of the Sanat gone, recording to. te ‘Canal Record, ts 6025 squre miles, scrape Yield Big Sum. tmne value of the copher, lend, zinc, tis, aluminum and anthony recovered invene United States from strap met ais, skimmings and drosses In 1915, was $114,904,980, against $67,039,706 in 3014, a 100 per cent Increase, nceord- tng to statatis preparad by the Unit ed siates geotogteal survey. Buy Waterworks Plant in.U..8. reports to Uasle Sam trom Giiayagal Erundor, thatthe fret onded fof mie: ehinery for the: city. water ee Guedes, Hcuador, bau bes afcatoa. 3 | | New York fe foe ZOO MAGE, when at he present fate of Hahunae PLANS GREAT NEW INDUSTRY INU. S Unole Sam Seeks to Promote Manufacture of Linen in This Country. HOME PRODUCT IN DISFAVOR Uncle Sain fs planning to estublish great new industry in the United States. It Is proposed, If possible, to ‘crente a real linen Industry here, Inus- much ug this country Is the greatest consumer of linen In the world. ‘The high price of linen and the flax Aber feom whieh linen ts mude hus centered attention on the project recently. ‘There seem to be two big problems which must be solved before success ix assured. One Is to tind somg artificlal method of preparing the tnx straw for the splnuer, thus relieving the flux grower of this task, aud the other fs to conviuce the American public that Just because un article is made ubroud it Is not necessarily any better than one mude at home, ‘These and other winor problems are discussed In @ re- port by W. A. Graham Clark, Just pub- lished by the bureau of domestic und foreign commerce. ‘The only country. in which the pro~ duction of ax tber has Increased con- sisteutly In recent years ix Russia, the report states, In the British Isles and tn France the production has decreased {in spite of all efforts to keep the Indus try growing, und in Austria-Hungary, Belgtum and Be Netherlands the in- dustry has nof been able to hold its ‘own, ‘The American production has never been of linportance. Thanks to Uberal government ald and to cheap labor, the Russians had xeadually been getting n monopoly of the business up to the time the war broke out. Flax Raised Here for Seed. In the United Stutes flax has been raixed almost entirely for the seed, which Is used to make the well-known Unsced olf so necessary for the produc- tion of good paiuts and varnishes. Of ‘some 3,000,000 neres of flax ratsed Io this country in 1915, the department of agriculture estimates that only 2,000 ‘neres Were devoted to flax for Ober. ‘The bulk of the straw from the seed- bearing plants is burned and used for fertilizer, It should be borne In mlud, however, that sux growing for seed and Max growing for fber are separate aud distinet industries, Some flax is grown for both seed and fiber, but a decision must be’made as to whieh is to be the more finportant product. In Europe the farmer not only raises the flax, but prepaces the fiber for the spinner. ‘This preparation requires several proceases, one of which, known as “retting,” requires considerable cheap labor and wuch the and is in addition a most disngreeuble process for the workmen, ‘The proviem In this country Is to find some chemical proc- ess of retting that can be carried out at a factory sind thus allow the farmer to confine his nttention to the agricul tural end of the Industry, ‘This Is the only condition on which the American farmer will take to growing flax for the fiber, Mr. Cluric thinks, Some prog- regs Is already belng made In chemical retting, and at least two concerns are now buying lax suilks from the grow- ers for further treatment, Chemical processes Lave been tried before with: ‘out much success, but one of the new coucerus Ia now selling chemleally ret- ted fiber to Europe und the other 1 making course linens for use in cloth- ing and for curtains, ‘Must Create Home Market. Even If a good ull-American tinen 1s produced in Uils country, however, there still remains the great problem of finding a market for it, ‘hut means that time and effort will be required to. persuade the consumer to buy, the do- ineatie product Instead of the Import. ed. Many people invariably choose the imported article when It Is displayed alongside of domestic produets, almost regardless of quality. ‘The president of a mill now making dyed and bleached dress linens from American flax has found Uuit, small as is hls product. there is difficulty In getting the Jobbers and department stores to handle it, ‘The tendency ts to assume that, even though It Is apparently of excellent quality, It cannot equal the old established Mnens from ubroud. ‘There will never be x better thme than the present to popularize the domestle product, for the huported article Is searce and high-priced. In normal times our imports of linen goods vary from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000, and the demand had been steadily Inereasing | FERTILIZER. OUTPUT GROWS er ee neta nema 1 Pana in too ei isaac: dene see ean aie ee ree eee taken in 1914, just made public, show: ee bak ania a ented prea rary Pern err ges ae ee Sle ake peter Weis depaed Go a, mises se OO a tas tot ae Bie ocunsial Wau of atta: dae eee es eel harmonizing with the notable consump- : eee eee mat eee ee the 1,124 establishments engaged in tho Industry, 208° were “located in Georgia, 108 nut Benoa le ar a ay ng BJ ON aa Ka, Yay a a ee wee pres 2" ig@brs and Shnbbee pe CS) Their Care and Cultivation, Gia? | — b 4 \o Oe Ge es ~~ ER ALA y % any ae ay ae , o RN a eae eas amy i 2) : i mN 3 aia Bob) beer oS ng ay eal Ry Sag fea | eat et grader: cas SE i Dep AUe tear Pe " Pe hh ee ae die Tas eos aca a ae sige Ns st a eget Ree ey Rk a eG, ee es Bae jah ae i A Driveway Made Beautiful With @ Fine Effect of Massed Planting. | Eee A | oiled | (oe i atts fi fs Kea es TG Re: ae ! i i ath ~ yo ss bs A od 2 6 Fh Wik a) peel geeees : cee a ay - ia fy EGA Tasha ate ae -— a ee a A : . 7 aE eee os Daisey “ond ih Masaod Tooethor ‘acm 6 Feceroim Mat EFFECTS IN MASSING > LL me BERNINGTON, Two recent photographs showing hhandsowe California homes, ue at Berkeley, and the other the Smith home at Oakland, ustrate nicely one of the principles of art that the maker of n garden will do well to study. It Ja the general scheme producing an ef fect with masses of plants, and with follage thrown daringly into back- ground or foreground with little ap- Parent thought for the Individual plant. It follows the tea of the litte Garky who came home one day with a crude drawing made In school, The ttle boy held up proudly the product fand sald: “See, niammy, here am what T done arawed today.” “What dat?" inquired the mother “Hits er cow,” sald the little fel low. “Yas, hits er cow, all right,” sald the mother, “but whar am de tall?" “De teacher she done tole me,” re sponded the child, “dat so long as de general effect am good, neber mind de tall" ‘That ts the theory shown striking ly by these two Callfornia pleturen. In one ts found a heavy massing of green effects in the background, with the ‘same general scheme of mass belng ap plled to the plants and gensses border {ng the driveway. Not a single one of the trees or plants stands out individ ually, but they all blend into a gen: eral purpose. In the second pleture the mass ts transferred from background to fore ground, leaving the house Itself. te ftand Yoldlyforinngatnst the skyline Jn diréttly opposite ways the pletures show effects of mass arrangement. Tt belongs to its school of art, and ta art as applted to the garden, us clearly fon the same theory has place in paint ng in olls. ‘And it must be rememMered that 1 tnkes more real work to get effect from a seemingly disordered mast than It does to care for striking, in ‘dvdual end leclated Cleiente, AMONG THE FLOWERS Cut flowers of annuals that seed freely and prolong the senson of bloom. If allowed to mature seeds, they cease to bloom. Don't neglect the potted planta; wa- ter well, and shude from the after- noon sunshine. When shade ts recommended, dark- ness or dense shade are not meant. AIL plants require « good ght. For potted plants thut must finve ‘eunshine, set the pots In a jardiniern ‘oF set in a box with a packing of mons ‘around them to encourage moisture. ‘Many planta. will bear strong. aky light that would be badly damaged (f set In strong sunabine. ‘oot gerantum slips now, if you want winter Bloomers. Keep grt thrifttly, pinching “oft all buds enti late September. ‘To root hardwood, shrubbery plants, cat just ‘below the joint, as all slips send out roots from the Joint, whether soft or hardwood. Do not make the mistake of rooting fof winter bloomers plants that bloom only in the summer. Some gerantumnn bloom more freely than others. Evaporation ts rapid; if showers are few, the plants will become stunted from thirst; If too much rain, weeds must not be allowed to choke the plants. All shrubby pot plants should be set tn a sheltered place, out of doors, with {good light, but some shade during the ot season, where sing winds cana ‘rack them, -/-—=-~2: <—e _, Prune older, weaker branches frou shrubs and roses that are dane bows Ing, and muleh roots. Gut and pile sod for pot coupoat later. Weather seldom affects weeds ad- versely. Heavy shade 1s often worse than strong sunlight. ‘FALL SOWING OF ANNUALS ‘The following lst of annuals muy be sown {n the fall: Alyssum, popptes, bachelor’s buttons, Inpins, coreopsls. aretotis, larkspurs, marigolds, moralm: glories,” wild cucumbers, sweet peas sunflowers and California poppies. "There “is any nomber of omnis which flower earller from fall-sown seeds and’bloom two weeks aliead of thelr spring-eown sisters. ‘After the Orat frost dig up dahlivs, cut off the tops, and after a few hours Grying, store the tubers in « box of dry sand and coal ashes, where they ‘will not freeze oF have heat enough tb Eprout the eyes. Do uot divide the clumps until spring. ‘Lilfum Candidum shovld be trans- planted In September, its natural sen- son of rest, To Keep Plants Fresh. There ts a simple way to water ferns and flowérs whlch will be of ta~ terest to one: who must leave thent for n time without eare. ‘Taken wash Ing tub and place three or four bricio, tn It and put about :wo laches of water tn the tub. Place @he flowers on these bricks ‘and piace the tub where they ean get the morning sun SECRET SERVICE WATCHES THE SPIES FROM EUROPE Many Foreign Agents Are Now Active in the United States. COULD BE QUICKLY STOPPED Declaration of War Would Cause Instant Arrest of Scores—Work of Chief Flynn's Bureau Not Spectacular, But Is Wonderfully Efficient. New York—A few days ago the following dispatch was printed in the New York newspapers, showing that our navy is on shore co-opting with a bottle fleet attacking us: "A highly important development in the war game was announced by Rear Admiral Benson, chief of naval operations, who said that spies working for the invaders had set fire to all the sailors at Norfolk. "This means that theoretically this important base of supplies was left guarded and could have been destroyed. The navy yards are all part of the great war game, and the first blow against the protection of the coast occurred at Norfolk. Word immediately went forward to arrange for cooling ships of the defending fleet in the vicinity of Norfolk by other emergency means. How this will be done has not yet been reported." For the first time in the war managers of the navy account has been taken of the possibility of hostile spies working in our navy yards and coal pockets. Rear Admiral Benson has put his finger on the spot which has long been declared weak by secret service men and certain members of congress who have been endearing to procure an increased appropriation for a secret service which more closely approximates the intelligence department of European and Aslatic nations, says the New York Herald. Many Spies in United States. Just how realistic are the conditions hypothesized, by Rear Admiral Benson in the recent war game is shown by the statement of a man high in the United States secret service that there are scores of known foreign spies in the United States. If war should be declared on the United States today by any one of four European or one Asian power, the telegraph instruments in the office of the secret service, Washington, would be more expensive than would cause the arrest of more than one hundred men and women known to be working in the interest of foreign governments. The work of the secret service is not spectacular. Few realize to what extent it is being carried on. Occasionally Chief Flynn's men make a sensational raid on a band of counterfeiters, and for a few days the secret service is talked about. Many persons believe, that running down counterfeiters is the sole activity of Chief Flynn's bureau. They do not know that his operatives—men known only to him, and not even to one another—are constantly watching clandestine enemies in the very heart of our government. The investigation bureau of the department of justice, under A. Bruce Bielskiel, once in a while attracts attention because of the exposure of internal frauds, but thousands of readers are unaware that Mr. Bielskiel's men have under surveillance scores of spies whom they allow to their way within circumscribed fields in order that they may, to a greater extent, betray the workings of their system. Against most of these workers no charge can be brought which would justify an arrest. They have not violated any law. The only possible course open to Uncle Sam's secret catchers is to dog their footsteps and ar the way if they begin to nose out important information. Fighting One Another. At present, owing to the war in Europe, not only are these European operatives against the United States, but they are fighting one another. In general they work something like this: There is one man or woman in charge of a certain piece of work. Under him are many other persons. He knows them all, but they do not, as a rule, know one another. A certain government official or the representative of another nation is supposed to have information wanted by the agent of some power. His men scattered about Washington so that the object of their interest is almost entirely under the eyes of the organization. One man acts as a waiter in the hotel or as a guard where the object of interest eats. Another acts a position in the barber shop where he is shaved. A woman acts as a manicurist. Still another seeks is personal acquaintance throughubs or social functions. No one of these secret agents may and out very much, but each reports to his chief, for whom the various breeds weave a perfectly legible way. Some time ago *n* line officer of the made sure some improvements in the device, with which was familiar through commanding vessels at sea. very night when this officer finished ork he burned all the scraps of paper on which he had scribbled code meralers, signs or other symbols dur- TURNS FOE INTO A TORCH Americans, Back From Verdun, Tell of New War Invention of Prussians. New York.—Just back from the thick fight in the Verdun sector, no ambulance drivers belonging to leard ("Daredevil Dick") Norton's American Volunteer Motor Ambulance ops, were among the passengers on and the St. Louis of the American St, which arrived last night from Lilcoal. They were C. B. Sander of fig the day. One morning when he to work an old sailor who was as as an attendant in his office approach him with a worried and sald; Interested in Biottere "Sir, there is something going on here that you ought to know about. You burn your papers every night, but what do you do with your blotters?" "Why," said the officer, "I leave them on the desk and you throw them away, I presume." "Yes, I throw them away," said the old man, "but I could sell them—and for a good price, too. That's what I thought you ought to know about." The officer turned pale. "Have you one of those used blotters about?" he asked. The seaman handed the officer a blotter he lmd on his desk the previous evening and the faithful fellow had saved because of his suspicions. The officer smatched It and held it before a small mirror. The inverted signs made by the blotting were thus rendered legible. "By heavens!" he exclaimed; "tell me about this offer for the used blotters!" It seems that the night before a rather shabby dressed man had stopped the sailor on his way from work and asked him if he would be willing to make a few cents extra each week by selling the waste blotting paper. He declared that attendants in offices where a number of clerks were employed were doing the same thing. He offered to pay $2 a week for the blotters from the office in which the aged sailor worked. This seemed too a price for the extremely few blotters paid by the stranger said he wanted them for a new process of making ornaments of a sort of papier mache. "What did you tell him?" asked the officer. Secret Service on Job. "I said I would give him an answer soon," the seaman replied, "but he seemed in a big hurry and left me a telephone number, insisting that I call him today." The flicker sent a messenger to the secret service bureau and operatives were at once put on the case. In a matter of minutes a device had been attached to the telephone wire running to the number the man had given and an operative could hear every word that passed over the line without any interference with the connection. Everything being in readiness, the attendant was sent out to telephone the suspected man that he could have the blotters. Meanwhile it had been learned that what the stranger said about buying used blotters from the clerks' offices was true, and as nothing of importance could have been learned from these it began to look as though suspicions of a plot were unfounded. Still there was a possibility that this had been done only as a blind. The secret service operative at the receiver of the wire-tapping device heard the aged man call the suspect and tell him he could have the blotters. A little while later this man called a number and a woman's voice answered. "Any success?" she asked. "I can let you have some of the very best old blotting paper," he replied. "Daily deliveries C. O. D. It's only used slightly and you can reclaim a fair percentage, I believe." To the secret service operative "C. O. D." meant code, "Very best" meant navy, as the navy code is recognized as the very best in existence, and the remainder of the sentence meant that as the blotters were not badly smeared with ink they ought to yield a few MISS OWEN LLOYD-GEORGE M. The engagement of Miss Owen Lloyd-George and Capt. C. T. Carey Evans was announced recently, and their marriage is expected to be celebrated early in the autumn. Miss Lloyd-George is the elder of Lloyd-George's two daughters, Captain Evans is in the Indian medical service. He won the military cross in Gallipoli and subsequently went to Mesopotamia. Newport, R. I., and E. C. Johnson of Rochester, N. Y., and have returned home on leave of absence. Descriptions of the latest Teutonic bomb, which is designed for searching out listening posts and patrols at night, were given by the young men. It consists of a light metallic shell, so thin that even a slight jar will rupture it. This is filled with a phosphorescent substance. When it hits an object the shell is broken and the liquid contents, ignited by combustion with the air, throws out a brilliant light. If a bomb facts each day. It is a recognized fact that in almost all codes if a few signs are known the whole system can be evolved by experts. They Went Away. A man was at once assigned to watch the house of the woman in the case, and that evening a taxicab stopped in front of her residence and she joined a man inside. They were driven to a fashionable cafe, and when the man left the taxicab he was recognized as a hanger-on of one of the embassies. Of course, the couple were shadowed, and the waiter who served them heard the woman tell her companion that the blotters were obtainable. Now, at the embassy in question all knowledge of these activities was denied and probably with perfect truth. All embassies have a certain number of more or less disreputable hangerons who are more of an embarrassment than anything else, except when they actually accomplish something. For instance, in this case had the foreign government been able to obtain a copy of the navy code it probably would have been issued to it under their orders that the attempt was made and they could very justly renunciate it. The three would be villains in this little drama immediately left Washington. The secret service could not arrest them, but the chief of the bureau could tell, if he would, just exactly what was said to them that persuaded them the climate of the District of Columbia was anything but healthful. FOOD JAR SKUNK TRAP Winsted, Conn.--Skunks escaping from a skunk farm in Lovely street caused residents in that section no little trouble. Recently several entered Daniel Ryan's cellar and pushed inside a heavy cover from a stone jar and ate the foodstuffs in it. In the mannever, however, resulted in a skunk falling into a crock and the cover slid back into place, imprisoning the animal. Ryan will not apply for a patient on the skunk trap. Anyone is privileged to use it, he says. IS THE RICHEST NEGRO BOY Lad Is Hair to Land Allotments in Rich Oil Field in Oklahoma. Tulsa, Okla.—Adam Manuel, a Creek freedman, died in Colorado recently, and already there is a race on among some of the residents of Muskogee county to get the appointment of guardian for his children. There are five of the children living, and the elder Manuel inherited the allotments of two who are dead, but the guardianship is sought because of Luther Manuel, a minor son, who is believed to be the richest negro boy in the world. When the allotments were made for the Manuel family, those of Luther, thirteen, and Raffel, his younger brother, were in a locality where the land was worthless for farming purposes. Their father complained that the land was valueless, but he was unable to have any change made. It turned out that the allotment of Luther, believed to be worthless, was in the heart of the Cushing oil field. Since that field was developed nearly six years ago, his income from it has amounted to from $20,000 to $25,000 a month. The allotment of Rafael Manuel is not so valuable. The allotments of the other children are good for agricultural purposes only. Sarah Rector has been considered the most fortunate of all those among the Greek freedmen who took allotments in that section of country, but her fortune is far less than that of Luther Manuel. RELATIVES FIND HIS GRAVE After Search of Seventy-Eight Year Markers in the Mississippi Establishing Place of Tennessee. Daville, III.—After a search of 78 years by near relatives, the body of Elijah Brown, who left Nashville, Tenn., in 1838 for Illinois, was found recently near Allerton, Ill. Brown was a well-known Baptist preacher in Tennessee at that time and started overland to northern Illinois with his wife and seven children, but died en route and his body was buried by the wayside. A marker was made for the grave, but the place was forgotten. The mable slab was broken, but the name and date of death in 1838 made identification possible. Confesses Old Crime. Smith Centre, Kan.—A mystery of 26 years was cleared up when C. G. Ray of Downs, near here, received a letter from a man in Omaha, who confessed to setting fire to the Ray barn in September, 1803. The writer then was a boy six years old. His excuse for confessing the crime at this late date is that he "had no lick" at anything he undertook, and he finally decided that things would change if he confessed the wrong done so many years ago. Canadians Pull Stumps to Music. Toronto—To the music of their brass bands, four battalions of Canadian soldiers uprooted stumps from their cmp area near Toronto. From the sand ground the stumps were easily pulled, in heaps and fired. The flames could be seen for miles over the plains at night. strikes a man at a listening post or one of the members of a patrol, the man becomes a glowing torch and machine guns are turned on him. Travelled 15,000 Miles to Wed; Failed. Roanoke, Va.-Thomas Gilbert, a youthful Button who left home in Syrdale, Ga., traveled 15,000 miles to Roanoke, Va. to marry his fances, Mrs. Hattie R. Nance, has just reached his destination to find that his sweetheart recently married his uncle, Jacob Havay. THE BYSTANDER MAKE MONEY AT HOME Children Reap Good Profits From Back-Yard Gardens. Many Cities Throughout the Country Are Now Adopting the Plan Proposed by Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is obtaining good results in the movement for the establishment of home gardens under direction of the public schools so that there may be created productive occupation for school children, especially those in manufacturing towns and null villages. By creating such productive occupation outside of school hours children are enabled to make about as much money from their home gardens as if they were employed in factories. This plan of home gardening directed by the school has been adopted by about one hundred cities. Fifty thousand children are cultivating backyard gardens. In these cities, some of the children making as high as $150 from their gardens for one season. The City of Chattanooga, Tenn., which has adopted the government plan, now has 11 garden teachers in charge of this work. "Garden surveys," to determine the adaptability of conditions for home garden work, have been made by the United States bureau of education in San Francisco, Cal., Richmond, Ind., Nashville, Tenn., and several other cities. The survey of Richmond showed that even in a city of this size 85 percent of the children were without employment during the summer, but that they had sufficient garden space available to produce at least $85,000 worth of vegetables every season. They provided for a teacher, trained and skilled in gardening, for each elementary city school with its two or three hundred children; for an intensive system of gardening, and for the application of business methods, intelligent direction and close supervision. FIRST-AID MEASURES TO PREVENT IVY POISONING Uncle Sam Finds Time to Issue Warning Against Danger That May Be Encountered in the Woods. Uncle Sam, among all his other activities, has found time to make a little study of the poison ivy and to issue Poison Ivy. some first-aid instructions for the benefit of those who may come in contact with the plant while wandering through the woods. He urges those who do not know what poison Ivy looks like to become familiar with its appearance and then keep as far away from it as possible. The leaves of the plant are irregular, oval pointed and course toothed. They are always in groups of three. The plant, which sometimes takes the form of a low shrub, some small vine and grain, sends out horizontal branches like a tree, has clusters of small greenish white berries. The poison is contained in an oil secreted by the plant and which does not penetrate the skin rapidly. If one thinks he has been exposed he should wash the exposed parts with salt water or hot water and soap, and afterwards thoroughly with alcohol or listerine. If no soap is at hand, the hands may be given a good scrubbing with sand or mud in the first stream encountered. This may wash off the oil before it has had time to get through the natural protective coating of the skin. If poisoning develops, the following formula is recommended by Uclec Sam as a remedy: Carbolic acid.....2 grams Resorcin.....2 grams Bismuth subgallate.....4 grams Equal parts water and limewater to make.....250 c. c. This solution may be dabbed on the affected parts several times a day. Area of Canal Zone. The area of the Panama Canal zone within the limits of five miles on either side of the center line of the canal, including land and water, but not including the area within the three-mile limit from the Atlantic and Pacific ends, is 441.5, made up of: Land area, 382.25 square miles; Gatun lake, 106.4; Mirrofores lake, 1.9; and the area of the channels from the coast to Gatun and Mirrofores locks, 0.85 square mile. Including all the waters of Gatun lake, over which the Panama canal has subsolute control, the total area of the Canal zone, according to the Canal Record, is 502.5 square miles. Scraps Yield Big Sum. The value of the copper, lead, zinc, tin, aluminum and antimony recovered in the United States from scrap metals, skimmings and drosses in 1915, was $114,304,960, against $57,093,706 in 1914, a 100 per cent increase, according to statistics prepared by the United States geological survey. Buy Waterworks Plant in U. 8. Consul General Frederic W. Goding reports to Uncle Sam from Guayagua, Ecuador, that the first order for machinery for the city waterworks of Guinea, Ecuador, has been acquired by a New York firm for $2,000 surplus which at the present rate of exchange equals $11,500. PLANS GREAT NEW INDUSTRY IN U.S. Uncle Sam Seeks to Promote Manufacture of Linen in This Country. HOME PRODUCT IN DISEAVOR One of Big Problems is to Convince American Public That Goods Made Abroad Are Not necessarily of Better Grade. Uncle Sam is planning to establish a great new industry in the United States. It is proposed, if possible, to create a real linen industry here, inasmuch as this country is the greatest consumer of linen in the world. The high price of linen and the flax fiber from which linen is made has centered attention on the project recently. There seem to be two big problems which must be solved before success is assured. One is to find soap artificial method of preparing the flax straw for the spinner, thus relieving the flax grower of this task, and the other is to convince the American public that just because an article is made abroad it is not necessarily any better than one made at home. These and other minor problems are discussed in a report by W. A. Graham Clark, just published by the bureau of domestic and foreign commerce. The only country in which the production of fax liber has increased consistently in recent years is Russia, the report states. In the British Isles and in France the production has decreased in spite of all efforts to keep the industry growing, and in Austria-Hungary, Belgium and the Netherlands the industry has not been able to hold its pace. The Russians have never been of importance. Thanks to liberal government aid and to cheap labor, the Russians had gradually been getting a monopoly of the business up to the time the war broke out. Flax Raised Here for Seed. In the United States flax has been raised almost entirely for the seed, which is used to make the well-known linsen oil so necessary for the production of good paints and varnishes. Of all the crops grown in this country in 1915, the department of agriculture estimates that only 2,000 acres were devoted to flax for fiber. The bulk of the straw from the seed-bearing plants is burned and used for fertilizer. It should be borne in mind, however, that flax growing for seed and flax growing for fiber are separate and distinct industries. Some flax is grown for both seed and fiber, but a decision must be made as to which is to be the more important product. In Europe the farmer not only raises the flax, but presses the fiber for the spinner. This preparation requires several processes, one of which, known as "retting", requires considerable cheap labor and much time and is in addition a most disagreeable process for the workman. The problem in this process is the lack of success of retting that can be carried out at a factory and thus allow the farmer to confine his attention to the agricultural end of the industry. This is the only condition on which the American farmer will take to growing flax for the fiber, Mr. Clark thinks. Some progress is already being made in chemical retting, and at least two concerns are now buying flax stalks from the growers for further treatment. Chemical processes have been tried before with success, but the other concern is now selling chemically retted fiber to Europe and the other is making coarse linens for use in clothing and for curtains. Even a good all-American linen is produced in the country, however, there still remains the problem of finding a market for it. That means that time and effort will be required to persuade the consumer to buy the domestic product instead of the imported. Many people invariably choose the imported article when it is displayed alongside of domestic products, almost regardless of quality. The president of a mill now making dyed and bleached dress lines from American flax has found that, small as is his product, there is difficulty in getting the jobbers and department stores to handle it. The tendency is to assume that, even though it is apparently of excellent quality, it cannot equal the old established linens from abroad. There will never be a better time than the present to popularize the domestic product, for the imported article is scarce and high-priced. In normal times our imports of linen goods vary from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000, and the demand had been steadily increasing up to the time of the war. FERTILIZER. OUTPUT GROWS Big Increase is Shown in Production in United States—Largest Number of Plants in South. Few industries in the United States have shown as big a growth in the past few years as has the manufacture of fertilizers. Uncle Sam's figures, based upon the census of manufactures taken in 1914, just made public, show that the output of fertilizers in this country increased 49.8 per cent in quantity and 50.5 per cent in value in the five-year period between 1909 and 1914. The number of establishments primarily devoted to this industry grew from 550 in 1909 to 784 in 1914. The geographical location of the industry is predominantly in the South, harmonizing with the notable consumption of the 1,124 establishments section. Of the 1,124 establishments employed in the industry, 283 were located in Georgia, 188 in Alabama, 56 in South Carolina, 69 in North Carolina, 66 in Pennsylvania, 61 in Virginia, 56 in Maryland, 61 in Ohio, and 50 in New Jersey. Other states contain less than 20 plants. THE LIGHTHOUSE A Driveway Made Beautiful With a Fine Effect of Massed Planting Daisies and Palms Massed Together Form a Foreground of Beauty on the Home Setting. EFFECTS IN MASSING Bv. I. M. BENNINGTON. BY L. M. BENNINGTON. Two recent photographs showing handsome California homes, one at Berkeley, and the other the Smith home at Oakland, illustrate nicely one of the principles of art that the maker of a garden will do well to study. It is the general scheme producing an effect with masses of plants, and with foliage thrown daringly into background or foreground with little apparent thought for the individual plant. It follows the idea of the little darky who came home one day with a crude drawing made in school. The little boy held up proudly the product and said: "See, nimmy, here an what I done drawn today." "What dat?" inquired the mother, "Hits er cow," said the little fellow. "Yas, hits er cow, all right," said the mother, "but whor am die tall?" That is the theory shown strikingly by these two California pictures. In one is found a heavy massing of green effects in the background, with the same general scheme of mass being applied to the plants and grasses bordering the driveway. Not a single one of the trees or plants stands out individually, but they all blend into a general purpose. In the second picture the mass is transferred from background to foreground, leaving the house itself to stand boldly forth against the skyline. In directly opposite ways the pictures show effects of mass arrangement. It belongs to its school of art, and to stand boldly forth to the garden, as clearly as the same theory hns place in painting in oils. And it must be remembered that it takes more real work to get effect from a seemingly disordered mass than it does to care for striking, individual and isolated elements. AMONG THE FLOWERS Cut flowers of annuals that seed freely and prolong the season of bloom. If allowed to mature seeds, they cease to bloom. Don't neglect the potted plants; water well, and shade from the afternoon sunshine. When shade is recommended, darkness or dense shade are not meant. All plants require a good light. For potted plants that must have sunshine, set the pots in a birdcage. ```markdown ``` or set in a box with a packing of moss around them to encourage moisture. Many plants will bear strong sky light that would be badly damaged if set in strong sunshine. Root keranium slips now, if you want winter bloomers. Keep growing thrifty, pinching off all buds until late September. To root hardwood, shrubbery plants, cut just below the joint, as all slips send out roots from the joint, whether soft or hardwood. Do not make the mistake of rooting for winter bloomers plants that bloom only in the summer. Some geranium blooms more than others. Exposure is rapid; if showers are few, the plants will become stunted from thirst; if too much rain, weeds must not be allowed to choke the plants. All shrubby pot plants should be set in a sheltered place, out of doors, with good light, but some shade during the hot season, where strong winds cannot rack them. Prune older, weaker branches from shrubs and roses that are done blooming, and mulch roots. Cut and pile sod for pot compost later. Wettest seldom affects weeds adversely. Heavy shade is often worse than strong sunlight. FALL SOWING OF ANNUALS The following list of annuals may be sown in the fall: Alyssum, poppies, bachelor's buttons, lupins, coreopsis, arctolus, larkspurs, marigolds, morning glories, wild cucumbers, sweet peas sunflowers and California poppies. There is any number of annuals which flower earlier from fall-sown seeds and bloom two weeks ahead of their spring-sown sisters. After the first frost dig up dahlias, cut off the tops, and after a few hours drying, store the tubers in a box of dry sand and coal ashes, where they will not freeze or have heat enough to sprout the eyes. Do not divide the clumps until spring. Lilium Candidum should be transplanted in September, its natural season of rest. To Keep Plants Fresh There is a simple way to water ferns and flowers which will be of interest to one who must leave them for a time without care. Take a washing tub and place three or four bricks in it and put about two inches of water in the tub. Place the flowers on these bricks and place the tub where they can get the morning sunshine. : Sane a i SUE SRamaaer \ , ‘ : i SR tee I ie SN ‘OSRALGODSA IOWA. > erate Uertaficld of Des Moines Wesliee visitor'in town Mondoy anh easy” Ho w ‘@jruest of Mr. — Mir he le Thoripson. Mimal® Crowder came down from Grinnell Mibueday~ toroing to vist at the’ parental Crowder home and to take in the Fair, Mrs. Ethel\Biglds who came here woek or ten days ago with her father, Grant Bucknar from Albia, left Wed- nesday foy Des Moines. Mra. Irene Davis died Friday at the city hospital, “Fanerai services were held from the St. Mary Catholic church and interment in the Catholic cemetery Father Loftus officiated. Theodore R. Penney, probation officer juvenile division Municipal court of Philadelphia, “Penn., and Earnest of Rock Island, Til. were guests of their parents, Rey. and Mri, E J. Penney. MrT, Re Petey will tecture Tues- day nightiat- Weslyn Chapel church, Oct. Srd, Under the auspices of the Mother's’ club = Everybody invited. ‘Admission free. Mrs. Geo Young of Des Moines is the guest of Mra, Ed. Jones on North Sth street) 7 In an @ffort to save her dog from being ran over by a M. & St. L. engine Mrs. Anns Hobbs was run over. Her right leg, left fout and right arm was crushed, mangled and broken, The right ‘leg ‘was ‘amputated below the knee. “Atthistime the patient is suff- ering much paio, Mr, Udall Lawis of Peoria was shak- ing hands with friends on the street Wednesday, © f ieee Ive Good Advice. ‘The best way to give good advice is ta sete Boed ttarnple. “When oihers see how you get over your oid cae Cough Rema ee likely to follow your ‘This remedy has been in use for many years andenjoys an ex- callent ‘reputation. Obtainable every- where. 27 - mit MARSHALLTOWN NEWS. ‘Mr, ZL. Sumner Suter left Monday hight for Washington, D, C., where he will enter the dental college of Howard university. ‘He will spend a few days in Chieago where be will join Ralph ‘Tebeau’ of Keokuk, a senior ‘‘dent” at Howard. Mr.’tod Mre, Thomas Harris enter. tainéd’« few friends ut a card party in honor of MF. L. Su'er, who left to begin work in Huward university. Mr Harry. Flippings has returned ‘home from a few weeks visit at vari- ous pointain Towa and Illinois. Gari T. Hrown spent a day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. IL. Brown. ‘Mr. Al Walker has announced his purchase Of a new Ford automobile. Everybody get M#iy to take a rive. ae ee Party will be given at the A. A. UL W. hail Thursday evening. Rev: J, W. Roman of Buxton was in our city all of last week. : Miss Jessie Walker is on the invalid fist, but is contemp!ating a trip to New York as soon as she is able. ALBIA NEWS. Miss Alberte Robinson of Hocking took dinner’at the home of Mrs. G. A. Davis Sunday. Anumbet of Buxton people autocd to Albiaand about the town Sunday Mrs. Granison of Buxton visited with Me. Tom Wislisms in this city this week, Mra. Jim Corthon from No. 3- mines was fo Albia'this week, Mr. Roy Grayson and family of Hock ing No, 3 wis in Albia over Sunday, ‘Mr, Luke” Mosely of Hiteman has aceepted work in Albia this week with Mr. Lou Frankin. ‘Mr. Harris Bates of Hiteman was in Albia thie week. Master Fay Gravely was an Ottumws visitor over Sunday. ‘Mrs, Ors Anderson and son of Brook- tin, .N. ¥., and Mr. Udell Lewis of Galesburg, Ill., are visiting at the parental 8 T. Lewis home this wees. MT. PLEASANT, IOWA. “Rev. and Mrs. B F. Hubbard and Mr, Harry Burnaugh left ‘Yhursday aipht for Ghicogo to attend the con- ference.” > Miss Etta Searcy of Ottumwa is attending Weslyn college this year. Rev. Thomas of Keokuk preached at the Second Haptist church Sunday. He preached three sterling sermons andthe church became much révived hearing the word of God so beautifully ‘preached. Little Mazon Burnangh who has been qiiite rick is improving nicely. ©“ Messrs. John-on, Buckner and How- ‘ard motored over from Keosauqua Sun- day ‘Miss Anna Perkins of Farmington is visiting relatives and friends, 4 Mr. Wy Greenup is indisposed. Mir, Rogers lectured at ‘the Second Baptist church Friday night. 4 Mra, Lovise Bedford and _ tittle ‘nephew of Peoria, Iil,, are visiting at the McNeil home. . PLE Banger 4 2) NEW eens BS if Blite Restaurant Af New Reliable Place to Eat Be iteais tse nd up ff Lanclies or Shore Orders Served Ge 304 W. Grand Ave. Benes Pe Moines + ows = — S2The Pystanccr collier will be ie your city in a fer; days. Plesse andipey him yes vobesription, HEALTH HINTS, A. J. Booker, M. Dy “It a man die, bow shall he live agsin,”” The anawer in'ss simple as can be; by his deeds. All of our deeds live on and on. What a welcome it would be if all the influences and results termina’ed when an act was completed. But it is not so.and many people are directly affected by a deed whether it be good or evil Ifa mancanmake his family happy after they have done the customary re days of mourning % he is a benefactor totherace. There tg is no woman liv- : ing, no matter oa } how dissatisfied ? she may appear to va you, but hes had y more than one dp- =. BM) portunity to mar- re When vou die jand leave her pennilews you could not | blame her if she secretely wishes the jhad married the other fellow, unless jhe is a worse specimen of humanity | than yourself, then she-might wish she j had stayed single, | ‘The more a man claims to love a wo- }man the more anxious he should be | that she shall be happy after he is dead [Whether she is happy or not, we all | should want our wives to be comforta- ‘ble. There is one certain way for the | man wh has not a great bank account, (to see that his widow is allowed to mourn in peace and that is by giving her a good check on the bank of money ‘and happiness, and that way is to get her ‘a good life insurance on yourself. Aman who claims to love her and refuses to take out a life insurance, if he can get it, ourht to be called a short ugly word with descriptive adjectives. Love is unsalih, love ie kind, ove is thoughtful, love is protective. Noth- ing #0 protects a° woman as the sense of her security from want, nothing is so seductive as want. All ‘men have more respect for widows# who are well off; they treat ‘them with more courtesy. Life insurance makes a man more independent, it makes him fear death and disease less, at the same time it paradoxically makes him more a lover of life because he wants to beat the insurance company. ‘The more jealcus a man is of his wife the more insurance he ought leave her, for the better off she is the less likely she is to.mzrry the first feliow who comes siong. If she is giddy enough to marry somé feilow and give him some of your money it will make you hezpy to know that you have left an rctractive widow. You will at least have been u contributor tothe world’s happiness, One cun create a fine estate in no other way sq quickly as by taking out life insurance, Every girl ought insist upon aman having at least « thousand dollars before they are mar- tied, this will be a sort of certificate of health, if he cant get a-life insurance he ought not be ullowed to get a mar- ringe certificate. A life insurance which merely covers the funeral expenres is primarily in favor of the undertaker and leaves the widow to get along the best way che can, Women do not kill their husbands for life insurance, and the man who dodges belind such childish excuses shows poor wisdom in living with a woman whom he suspects of low tricks. The man who cannot afford life insur- ance usually affords pretty good clothes and generally likes a pretty gogd ime; summing him up generally he ie a sel- fish cuss who gets what he wants first and lets his wife come in afterwards. It is the cheapest investment a man can make and the protection is a feat- ure which makes it safer than money in the bank, which a teliow can draw out. Ifa man really loves his wife he will see that she is provided for after he is gone, Ii ne does not think enough of her ne will let her slave for him while he lives, and be a slave for herself after he isdead. A man lives so long as he has power, and under the present circumstances, money is power. DAVENPORT ITEMS. Sunday was another glorious day. Rey, M, Carrington preached two ‘ex- ceilent sermons. Quite number at- ‘tended both services. Rev. Carrington preached at the First Baptist church of Mystic at 2:30 o'clock. | Miss Christica Catenin was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Elwood Brown to dinner Sunday. The entertainment given by.the pag- ing committee was a grand success. Mrs. Anna Oliver, chairman. ‘The Mission Circle met Tuesday even ing, and delegates made their report from the Women’s conveniton. The [Circle will be entertained Tuesday ‘evening by Mrs. Shelby Noah and Mire. | Anna Olivers Mr, Harry Grant, left this morning for Macon, Mo, fot anindefinite stay. Mrs, Joshua Price of Chicago passed ‘through enroute to Buxton, We lewrn that Mr. and Mrs. Eugene ‘Reed expect to leave soon for Ft. Dodge where they, will make their future home. We hate to loose Mr Reed and also hig wife, sister and daughter. Centervilie’s loss will te Ft, Dodge's gain, Best wishes gors with Mr. and Mrs, Reed’to their new home, Mr. Ceary'lioldew ‘returned to Rock Island to resume work. (ast Week.) Sunday wus a besutifal day. Two soul stirring sermons were prerchid by our pastor and Rev. M. Carringtin which was enjoyed by all. \ Mins. Nellie’ Buckner of Davenport, spent, Sunday.jn the city enroute ty Yekaloose, 5 “Mr, Conry fldlden and Percy Taslir #6 Home fdr afew. days fron Rock ei sikh mek: i aan ga Bormto Mr and Mrs. Albert Jackson an 84 Ib, boy. Mother and baby doing nicely. Mrs, Cora M Brown of Myatic was visiting in Centerville Monday! Mrs. Eugene Reed's mother has been visiting her for a few days. Little Aldine Jones has been suffer- ing for a few days with a severe cold Mrs, Anna Oliver was quite indis- posed for a few days Bro. HW. Tompkins has been sick for a few days, Look for the collector in a few days. es yes. Be oe ae a, oe er ame a a3 ore lf pee ae aN CS Caer .& ri Pts Peete Pe Woman's Crowning Glory is Her Halt Why not grow your hair by using 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. MME. M. BEARD 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 229 W. 3rd Street When in Hannibal, Missouri go to The Holland House Good Rooms and Meals Mrs Viney Holland, Prop. 315 Center St. Hannibak Mo, ——— EE OSKALOOSA, IOWA. (Last Week.) Miss Marie Buckner left Friday night for Albia und returned home Suturday with her brother Grant who is very sick, His daughter Mrs, Ethel Fields ‘of Des Moines secompained them. The Mother's club met Thursday at the home of Mrs. Cora Moore, and much business was transacted. Next meeting Thursday at the home of airs, Estelly Penny. Rev. J. D. Peterson left ‘Thursday morning for Chicazo to attend the an- nual conference of the A. M. E. chureh. Homer Johnson !-ft Monday after- noon for Rushne!l, Hl, where he wil visit a week with friends, From there he will go to Chicago, Il,, to study chiropodv. Aunt Kansas Clark died Wednesday Sept 20th and the funeral was held ‘Thuesday the Mist; Riv. E. J. Penny officiating. Interment in White’s cemetery. Mrs, Mollie Stewart and brother Lor- zo Adams le{t Thursday morning for Excelsior Springs, Mo., called by the serious illness of their brother William. Grant Buckner remains about the same Mrs Irene Davis is seriously ill with pneumonia at the city hospital. gag PEC Bi.c. Be ary the . Bieatnttt - sea ese Ce oe SM aes nt eS 22 Sac. . Befeere ne Be ve s Bosiae Ree geet ib She Set Leia! men, in the eee SoS ios ryt woman. anouabava ent? We Baca te Nees an ot Sane etal Kha paa TRAD? alan nh ad raltad Sige ayaa oe Fe lilt » ermasamran eis goles of ad Sean: Ei nGery bate abe, Tt toa "aeat, “Seite age tt HebBitee SUMS ces Seca ERIS ia oP eae eee for Ble Tassie onl aah” ay p Bent ponpsid fer 894. VA, TOPE, EDD of Hate Brothas rise Rad Foe ean aes Rats bout fr ins aso S558 SSERt Sap tor nook toa Seta ap (angen tty ¢1-187 Park Bow. New York, Dept., 61 ~-Good.for Biliousness. “I.took twoof Chamberlain's Tab- leta last night, and I feel fifty per cent etter than I'haye for weeks, says J. J, Firestone of Allegan, Mirhi~""They. are certainly « fine article for bilious- ness.” For sale by all dealers. | MONMOUTH, ILL. Robert Catlin was in Burlington Sun- day Mrs. J, T. Peoples entertained a few friends with a six o’clock dinner, Mrs, Reeves of Davenport, In., is visiting here with Mrs. Richard Wal- lace. Mr. and Mrs, Isaac Marahalland Mrs. Whitney and children returned Sundey from a visit with friends in Ft. Madi- son. |, Georae Goff left Thursday for Cali fornia. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Catlin visited Mrs. Mae Catlin Groen in Galesburg Saturday. Mra Henry Grant and Mrs, Jenn’e Saunders visited a few days in Burling- ton with Mrs, Mary Mdwards, Mr. and Mrs, Emmitt are visiting in Missouri; making the trip in their new auto, Messrs. John Peorles, Lewis Strange and Lorenzo Early had quite an excit- ing trip to Chicago and back on ninety cents. Ask them. Messrs Nathan and Andrew Goodloe of Washington, D, C., were here visit- ing their sister, Mrs, C. B, Catlin, ‘They were on their way home from St. Louis, Mo. AGENTS WANTED For our new book, Progrsn and Achievements of tae OclerdPasps. Showing the wonderful doings and new opportunities of our race, low pele, many pictoren, Mghtolng. seller, $10.00 perday, ask for term, write qotck, Auth Sakae ow Bth St, Washington, D.C, Buxton Cafe 135 E Grand Ave, A Good Restaurant and Rooming House HL D. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. 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