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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23
MINNEAPOLIS 1uDGETARIAN.

We are having beautiful weather at this
writing, Just like spring and there are no
complaints
The Pastors Aid Society OF St. Peters
church will serve dinner and supper on
the 21st at at 600 First Ave. South.
The Adelphi Art Club OF St. Paul enter
tanned at the Jean Martin Babies Home
at st. Anthony Park last Tuesday after
noon from two 10 tour in the Douglass
room which was iu, nished by the ealored
people Of MINI. at cost OF $4,000. A
most interesting programme was render
ed. Quotations were recited from Dun.
bar, an elegant lunch was served. there
were present forty ladies. Those invited
from Minneapolis were Mesdsmes Jennie
E. Watson, Matte r. Wade, Jone T..
Gibbs. Mary l.. Joyce and Mrs. A. G.
Oglesby Of Superior. Mrs. DR.. Turner,
President Of the club aud the other mem.
bers spared no pains in making the affair
most pleasant one. The home was well
filed with children, bat we are proud to
say not colored face was seer among
them. which speaks we'll for our mothers.
The home is one ofthe most beautiful in
any part of the country
Mrs. Geo. Wade entertained the M. +.
G. Art club Wednesday afternoon, light
refre shments were served Mrs. Oglesby
was guest Of honor.
Mrs. Mary Hatcher of St. Paul enter.
tanned at dinner last Friday Mesdames
Oglesby and Wade
Aliens dag was observed at 81. James
church Sunday evening, with an appro-
pirate programme. The choir rendered
special emusic.
The hour for the young peoples Sunday
Club has been changed from Goo to $3.50
P. NJ. at st. James next Sunday the me.
mortal services of Paul Laurence Dunbar
will be held. Every one invited, Mrs. L.
l.. johnson, President.
The Ladies' Court of Calanthe will give
a drama on the %, inst, DANA Hall on
Cedar Ave. .
Mrs lone r. Gibbs entertained at six
o'clock three course dinner Monday even.
ing in honor of Mrs. A. G. Oglesby, other
ladies present were Mesdames Merry L..
joyce, Jennie Watson and Matte Wade.
MIR. Blair was stricken with PAL alysis at
his home on Third Ave. last week.
A City Federation was organized In our
city last Friday afternoon at the residence
of Mrs. NJ. w. Withers. We will say
more concerning it later on. The re1t
meeting will be held with Mrs. Mary
Moss OF e. 18th street.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23
Homeseekers' Excursion Via the
Northwestern.

On Feb. 9Th and Goth round trip tick
cts will be sold to points in Colorado,
Nebraska, Wyoming and Black Hills
district South Dakota, at rs percent of
one way fare. Also same dates special
one way rates to these points at half
the one way rate plus 50 90. Round
trip tickets good for 81 days and allow
stop-overs in each direction in home
seekers territory.
For full Information apply G. & N.
w. ticket Office Fourth and Walnut, or
passenger station.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23
ALBA NEWS.

Several from Buxton have been attend.
ing the trial OF MIS-. Austin in town this
week.
Lawyer joe Brown and Woodscn at
tended court in Abba this week.
A. NJ. n. church members held an old
folks concert in the city hall on Monday
night.
Mr.. Ward OF Centerville lectured in
Abba Sunday afternoon upon moral, edu.
cation, virtue and truth.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

Cody Bryant Of Coyington, Ca,
is one of the richest colored farm
ers in the United States. He owns
unencumbered 1850 acres of the
most fertil land in middle Georgia.
He has thirty tenants and employs
twenty wage hands. Last year he
produced AIS bales Of cotton, 4 ,ooc
bushels of corn, 1000 bushels OF
wheat, 900 bushels Of oats, 1000
bushels Of potatoes, AIS bushels of
peas and 635 gallons of syrup. He
is said to be worth S1oo, 900.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23
Meeting National Butter Takers
Association.

d Z . .
The occasion of the meeting of the
National Butter Makers Association,
Chicago, February 9th to 25th, is to be
accompanied with an interesting dairy
show at the big Coliseum. The show
will include exhibits of dairy mschin-
eryy and dairy products of every de-
scription.
Everybody in the west is interested
In this industry, either directly or in
directly. For the benefit of those who
desire to attend, the Chicago s. North.
Wester Railway announces special low
rates February 18th to 22nd, inclusive,
concerning which full aparticulars can
be had on application to ticket agents.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

DR.. Andrew Lyman Paey, Ne.
gro physician of Kansas City, Kan.
at a recent examination before the
State Board of Examiners for GER
tifcate to practice medicine in the
state, ranked first in a class of thirty
all the remainder of whom were
white. He made the first 100 per
cent ever made therein bacteria.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23
French Users Of Tobacco.

IN France there are 5000. 600 smok.
ers, and of every fifteen there are
eight who smoke a I,lre. ave who
emoke cigars, and only two who uss
eigsrettes. Still the French consume
rors than 5000 900 siGlF ass = 3szf.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

Official paper of the NJ. w. U. Graud
Lodge Of Iowa. A. +. 8 A M, Iowa
State Federation Of Colosed Women
aud international Grand Congress OF
Heroines of Jericho of America.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

Fifteen hundred lumber dealers
met in Kansas City. Mo-, last week
and a jolly time was reported. OF
the fifteen hundred in attendance
IS were Afro-Americans and they
came from Indian Territory and
Oklahoma.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23
EVERYBODY

KNOWS THAT MUNGERS LAUN-
DRY is the best in the city. Try them
and be decided.
Maine Office 11oo-1111 Grand Ave.
Branc h Office 5O4MULBERRY ST.
Phone 579
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

Two leading residences owned
and occupied by Afro-Americans in
the South are those recently built by
Bishop Evans sTyree in Nashville,
Tenn, and Rev. James Jones, at
Pine Bluff, Ark.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad, has two colored
towermen, operating the block sig
nal. One is J. E. Dixon, stationed
at Elmwoed, r. I. and the other H.
G. Buchanan at Olneyville same
state,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

In the Library Of Congress there
are 1000 titles of works written by
Negroes and many of these books
are on the shelves and are frequent
ly called for.
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Remeber there is no better Journal
In the Middle West than the Bystand.
er. It ii regular, reliable and truth.
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tional lHotel where a beautiful ban
quet was served in five courses. Gov
ers being laid for tWenty-seven.
The. officers for the year are.
Royal Matron, Mrs. A. M. Jackson.
Royal Patron, Mr.tW. III. Milligan.
Assoc Matron, Mrs. M. p, @Lowery.
Treasurer, Mrs. w. D. Claybrook.
Secreatry, Mrs. wv. H.. Milligan.
Mr. l.. L. Brown OF, MarshalltoWn
was also member of the cltb.
Mr.. /. T.. Brown and Mr.. j. w.
Bright were the, guest; OF Mrs. W. H.
Thomas Lowery. Is Il,
Mrs L. r. Palmer and Mrs. P
Inghram were guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Raspberry while in the city.
Everybody should read the BY
stander, but don't borrow your neigh.
bors. to read SUBSCRIBE. j
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

HI. +. Wilson.an enterprising col
ored man has Z large laundry at
Glencoe, H., and gives employ
ment to ten or twelve women Of the
race.
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

After life Of nearly nine years,
the National Negro Academy has
twenty-nine members. 1t vas found.
ed by the late DR.. Alexander Cram
NELL.
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the Republican primaries.

the Republican primariea.
AL 9. Fisk.
Please announce my name as = cam
didste for Alderman of the Seventh
ward, subject to the Republican city
primaries T.. z Moon.
Please announce my name 90 can
didate for Alderman OF the First Ward
subject to city primaries.
O. B. Jackman.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23
RACE ECHOES.

A. Kirkland Sega, editor Of the
Izwai Labsntu, Of West London,
South Africa, expect to visit the
United States in the near future.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-23

III hereby announce my name as a
candidate for Alderman Of the Fourth
ward, subject to the Republican pri.
maries. Ream G. johnson.
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Please announce my pane as can
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subject to the Republican primaries.
WiliiamJ j. Van Dyke
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Please announce my name as car
didate for City Park Commissioner Of
West Des Moines, subje i to the Re
publican primaries. a. 3. AcGrsw.
L hereby announce my name asa
for City Auditor, subject TO
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didate for City Solicitor, subject to the
primaries.
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Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09
MOBBED BY BEES.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Bees abound in certain parts oil
Abyssinia, and, as the land is almost
waterless in the dry season, the in
sects suffer much from thirst. In The
Source of the Blue Nile is an interest
ing account of the manner in which,
on his journey, the author was mobbed
by bees, which were after his drinking
water.
Every drinking vessel was crowded
with them. Our boys drank from cal
,abashes, and when they were put upon
the ground, bees clustered OH the edges
and crawled toward the liquor. I'm
patient successors thronged upon the
first corners and pushed them into the
water, so that In a few minutes the sur
face was q mass of struggle for-ltf-
.ers." In spite of the heat we had to
keep moving; for when we settled so
did the bees-all over us.
We halted for luncheon In a small
ravine, and the bees did not find US
till we had nearly finished the meal.
We smoked them with cigarettes, ci-
CARS, and bonfire, to no purpose.
Then we shifted our quarters, but they
followed. All of US were stung. and
we were not quit of them till we
mounted our camels and outdistanced
the swarm.
They get their honey from the flow
ers of the mimosa-tree. We camped
that night among the mimosas, think
ing that we had been delivered from
the plague Of insects, but we were mis-
taken. host of the honey seekers
thronged and crawled on ones candle,
ones book, ones face and ones hands.
adding insult to injury by singing us.
1t was more than twenty-four hours
before we were free from them.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09

A happy solution Of the servant girl
question may evolve itself from the
manual training school. connected with
the New York Juvenile Asylum, the ma
jority Of whose charges are the chill
dren Of immigrants. In the dining
room some Of the OLDER girls wait on
the table, and young hands do the
work in the kitchen below. A descrip-
ton of the institution in the Metropoli-
tan Magazine contains the following
illustration of the wisdom of the young
pupils:
Each pupil is put through an exact
training In preparing the food and sery-
ing it. Lists of food classified accord
ing to diet value are memorized from
neat copy books IN which have been
entered tried receipts. The little maids
are greatly in demand, and are often
more proficient in culinary science than
their older mistresSeS.
One girl who was sent into the home
of family in the country was request
to prepare a certain dish for tea.
Il am afraid it would not be appro-
priate," the youthful Minerva of the
pots and kettles ventured. 1T is more
proper for breakfast, it requires such
awfully long Digestion
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Death of the Wife of the Confed
eracy's President.

Death of the Wife of the Confed-
eracy's President.
In the plot in beautiful Hollywood
cemetery, Richmond, Va, long since
set aside as her last resting place. the
remains of Mrs jefferson Davis have
been laid beside those of her distin-
guished husband. When the South, as
a final tribute to the leader of Its lost
cause. prepared a burial place for him
st Richmond, in 1898, it did not forget
the wife who had been his loyal and
inspiring helpmate through many years
Of vicissitudes as she had been the
proud companion of his years OF
achievement. Space was also set aside
for the children and beside them the
woman who had the affection Of the
Southland in quite as marked degree as
her famous husband now reposes.
Miss, May Z, 1926. daughter Of a SOL
der of the war of 1912 and grand
daughter of Gov. Richard Howell of
New Jersey. She was educated by pri-
vate teachers and at Philadelphia, and
Feb. %, 1915. married jefferson Davis,
then a widower, whose first wife was a
daughter of Gen. Zachary Taylor. Soon
thereafter Davis began his congress
sional career and from that time his
wife was notable figure in official So
ciety at the national capital. Her hus-
band was successiyely Representative,
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09
MINGLING OF THE RACES.
Human Life Much Like Plant Organ.
tzation, 1t Is Asserted.

Human Life Much Like Plant Organ
ixation, 1t Is Asserted.
In the course Of many years Of in
vestigation into the plant life of the
world, creating new forms, modifying
old ones. adapting others to new con-
ditions and blending still others, have
constantly been impressed with the
similarity between the organization
and development Of plant and human
life, says Luther Burbank in the Cen
fury.
While have never lost sight Of the
principle of the survival of the fittest
and all that it implies as an expIana-
ton of the development and progress
of plant life, l have come to find in
the crossing Of species and in selection.
wisely directed, great and powerful
instrument for the transformation of
the vegetable kingdom along lines that
lead constantly upward. The crossing
of species is to me paramount Upon
it, wisely directed and accompanied by
rigid selection of the best and as
the hope of all progress. The mere
crossing Of species, unaccompanied by
selection, wise supervision. intelligent
care and the utmost patience, is not
likely to result in marked good. and
may result in vast harm. Unorganized
effort is often most vicious in it's ten
derness.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09

God. He hadn't time to think about 1t; he was busy
loving his fellow men.
Did you notice in a family of children there is
be who will hustle around and keep trying to
will tell the others and persist
emily show off, and boast about what he has done But
the parent holds in her heart of hearts the child who
goes steadily doing little helpful things matter Of
course scarcely thinking it worth while to mention them
1t is puere and silly strive for good standing with
Cod for He knoweth frame He remembereth that we
are dust. Better much better, seek to please our
selves follow highest ideal to do the things
that feel easy with conscences no matter
what others may say for Ebert Hubbard somewhat II
reventy puts it. Let God shift for Himself"
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09
THIS COAST OF OURS SINKING.
Say Foot in 100 YearS-Some Day Miss
Liberty May Wet Her Feet.

The time is coming, slowly, it is true.
but none the less surely, when Coney
island will be part of the bed of the
Atlantic ocean and even the Statue of
Liberty will be submerged, according TO
the calculations of James Il. Sanborn.
one of the engineers of the new board of
water supply. Mr.. Sanborn, in report
submitted to the commissioner on tho
surveys aid geological examinations of
the country through which the addition
al water supplies for this city will be
brought from the Catskills, says:
The Hudson river is nayigable, as ev-
erybody knows, as far up as Albany
That means that the sea stretches back
inland for $50 miles, remarkable fea-
ture. which long ago lured Hendrix
Hudson onward through a fancied short
cut to the Arctic seas. Why does the
sea stray so far back between the noun
tains? Because the Atlantic coast is
sinking. Indeed, some say the sea floor
is sinking as well. Those who keep
watch of tide gauges along shore from
Boston TO Key West estimate the rate
of this settling at Il foot i'll hundred
years. We feel content that it is no
faster but just as surely will Coney is
land be drowned out some day and tho
Statue of Liberty entirely submerged.
Indeed, we are led to believe that
Manhattan was formerly n mountain
top, At least as high as the kaaterskill,
for the coast survey has made sOundings
which show the Hudson river not ending
at the Narrows, as the Staten Islanders
all think. but extending to Il submerged
gorge over thirty miles from land.
Strangest of all, this gorge reaches the
tremendous depth of 1000 feet, cut down
like II cash in the floor of the sea The
biologists say there is no doubt but
that this deep place was once stream
bed on the surface of the earth and has
simply been drowned i'll the very grad
ual settlement of the continental border.
So the tide has backed up the Hudson
and is felt inland as far as Albany
New York Sun.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09

1 was just thinking Of Stub" Will
liams. Remember him? He sat on the
front seat and was the dumbest thing
that ever went barefoot. About all he
could do when called upon to recite was
sweat and look as expressionless as a
pumpkin pie. He couldn't spell; he
could scarcely read; he knew nothing
about geography, and he always said
that grammar "ain't no use" His
father was another Stub and went
to law with the school authorities be-
cause they forced him to send his boy
to school, The old man is dead. Heard
Of the other Stub last week He
went through our town in his private
car. His grammar isn't much better,
but when he speaks the superintendent
of three big railroad systems take no.
tice, and he can sign his name so that
they can read it at the bank. You never
can tell-Cincinnati Post.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09

Mrs. Philip P. Wilcox, a slender lit
tie woman, weighing scarcely 100
pounds, Is the village blacksmith Of
College View, Neb. She learned her
somewhat unusual trade from her hus-
band.
| Having taken up the work at first
| for pleasure, Mrs. Wilcox found her
health steadily improved with the eX-
ercise, and decided to keep the little
Wilcox blacksmith shop open one
summer while her husband was away
working in the railroad shops. Her
success was so marked that she has
kept at the work ever since. She can
shoe a horse as we'll as any other
blacksmith in the country, though she
admits this is one part of the work
which Is a little distasteful to her.
| Mrs. Wilcox was a teacher before
! her marriage, and now holds teach
er's certificate. She said There is
more money in blacksmithing. If some
of those poor, overcrowded teachers
would try this business once they would
never go back to the school room again.
I'm bringing up my girls the same way.
/ The eldest is an expert bicycle repair
er now and the younger two are also
good at the business. The oldest girl
has a bank account that she earned
from bicycle repairing"
| One day a farmer led up a mettle-
some young horse to be shod. Mr.
! I'd 70 fob nb1
of the animal, but its owner shook his
head.
IF you don't mind, Phil" he said.
I'D rather Mrs. Wilcox would do this
Job. The colt seems to have q weak
ness for her. He nearly kicked the
| shop down when man tried to shoe
him down in Lincoln a few weeks ago.
but when Mrs. Wilcox did 1t before
he acted like a lamb. She charms
them some way. Maybe It's the way
she talks to them"
Mrs. Wilcox stroked the horse for q
moment on the nose, and, talking gent
ly to him all the time, began the work,
the animal offering no resistance what
ever, though he had laid back his ears
threateningly at Mr.. Wilcox's ap-
proach.
Noting the look of surprise caused
| by the ease with which she welded a
heavy hammer, Mrs. Wilcox smiled
Its not so much strength" she said,
though of course I'm a hundred Der
cent stronger than 1 was when 1 began
this work. It's more in knowing just
how, and, perhaps, in really enjoying
| it. You'd be surprised to know how
much genuine pleasure 1 get out of this
work"
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09
Tom Thumb at Cambridge University.

In March, 1916, the American dwarf,
Tom Thumb, was exhibited at Cam
bridge. He was shown in the morning
for half a crown, in the evening for a
shilling, the latter being for the towns
people, the former for the university,
who then, as now, We're supposed to roll
in wealth. But, 10 and behold, the exhi-
bition room was empty i'll the morning
and crowded at night by all the under
graduates. The burghers, indignant at
what they considered an invasion of
their rights, hustled the undergraduates,
who were not slow to retaliate. The
struggle from skirmish on the first
night became a battle on the second and
an organized riot on the third. Each
side claimed the victory, but the police
used their trunches 50 ruthlessly that
many undergraduates were seriously
wounded, so that it was commonly sup
posed that the town" triumphed.-We
minister Review.