Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-09-26

the last ligious development. The entire south
Is also contained but 100 negro Sunday
teth an. schools. and there were but three in.
n procla stitutions OF higher learning where
e exposi. negro could be trained for the minis
n 10000 try. There are now 26 theological
States. schools for negroes. Four large pub
exposition fishing houses devote their entire out.
the legis- put to the needs of negro churches.
ting the Education of negroes in the south has
commits shown similar gains. There were less
lbers, all than 100 schools for negro children
1000 for at the close of the war. Now nearly
/. While 100000 colored children enroll
Iicient to ed In public schools In the south, in
position care OF $4,000 colored teachers. High.
althy ne er education has increased CORE
country spondingly. In view Of these facts
no fail economic advances is to be expected.
lack of The average negro just before the
uth who war was salable at about $500. Now
d is said there are 5000 negroes in the profess
5000 has sions and 10000 engaged in business.
Irge con- including 81 negro banks. They own
wealthy wealth estimated at 500. 100000. 1t Is
er cities. estimated that free negro Is now
EXPOSITION worth $4,000 to his community, five
of prom. times his value to his former owner.
o mum.
portance The seventy-third annual Indiana
uste the conference OF the A. M. +. church
no, II he was held at Marion, Ind. recently,
| send a Bishop Benjamin Franklin Lee Of
black re- xenia, O.. had charge OF the confer
t was ence. The first annual conference in
arturo. A Indiana was held In little log school,
lingo is house on Blue river, in Rush county,
in 1910, Bishop Morris Brown OF
ria. washington presiding The lnterVen-
ing years have seen the conference
were 4 grow from few churches, scattered
q life be- over the state to nearly 500 churches.
passing OF which Bethel A. M. +. church OF
antations Indianapolis stands at the mead Inc
he place state is divided into three conference
en- after districts, namely. the Evansville. Rich
It'll they mond and Indianapolis with presiding
ily bury elders living in the latter city In
Occasion charge OF EACH The reports MADE
I'd cooks were encouraging.
service.
ID cooks A ten-year-old negro girl will pay
IS to So the largest income tax in Oklahoma.
lily fine Sarah Rector, who lives just west OF
in serv- Muskogee, is the girl. Her income
gets as now is more than $4,000 a year.
ees are 1t is the old story Of lucky allottee
n Of COL and the OIL we'll Saran Is the de-
higher scehdant of Creek freedman. She
ives find had nothing to do with the selection
from SIS of her allotment and probably has
to keep never seen 1t and does not know
r. where it is. But it is 100 acres of
land and upon It has been drilled the
anapolfs. biggest producing oil we'll in the mid
on The continent field near the town OF Cush
at Wash ing. The we'll Is producing over
d a SINH $4,000 day and Sarah gets one
ary Bap- eighth Of this as her share.
tal city.
b a view A pistol combined with the tiny
race to searchlight makes shooting In tho
kitchen dark sure and simple The light
he world projects pencil-like ray and the bull
she tells let will strike the object on which
It lesson. the light shines
tn $780,
sands o. In the opinion of an English scien.
tst the wear Of macadam roads is not
due to the suction of automobile tires
the Unit but almost entirely to the crushing ef
at about feet Of horseshoes and iron tired
90, rags wheels.
)0
In Russia the majority Of striker
s women in 1912 1,216, with $1,000 partici
II public pants) were due to politics. The 9TH
ntertain- er 7O2. with 172.052 participants, had
economic motives affecting them
are cher Breeding cattle and horses from
ers, and South Africa have ben sent to Cuba
which by an English ranch owner there
Tristan who will experiment with crossing
MS death them with American stock.
School lunches are served at
tics COW nominal cost to elementary school
man en- children in Al American cities, in 200
nizations English, $50 German and 1000 French
s. cover communities.
sexes
The stamps Of Persia show the lion
here has and the sun-the lion as a symbol o.
It resem- power and the sun as an emblem Of
which the ancient fire worship of the Per.
the trig- SLAMS.
More than 100000 grass hats
th arms we're exported to the United States
equently from the Dutch West Indies during
ore men the third quarter Of 1912.
in the -
Miss Viola Miller, policewoman in
Ottawa. ILL.,, has the distinction Of re.
financial forming that town in one month.
ption OF
tries OF suspension bridge with main
ratio to lspan z, 200 feet long :is proposed for
the Mersey river at Liverpool
60 miles School teachers in Cincinnati will
empties soon receive an increase of 10 per
cent in their salaries.
regions Boston has a woman that has won
,s and first prize in 40 vegetable shows dur
ing the past season.
maps of Iron ore mined IN 1917 IN the
100000 United States amounted to 55,150,1F
long tons
ted 1877 The graphite deposits Of Madagas.
all from car are to be exploited by French
company.
are at New York actresses are going TO
engines have club with billiard room ana
United q bar.
sri Japanese constitute Al per cent OF
ice, pro- the population of Hawaii.
, Of col. -