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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
Tin Grows Scarce.

With regard to the future use of tin,
1t may be said that we are dealing
with the one metal whose known ore
reserves are entirely inadequate to
even the present demands, and that
unless some new source Of supply is
developed very soon we may expect
to find that tin is very scarce metal
indeed. OF the present sources of
tin supply, most are either stationary
or receding in output, Bolivia being
the only one which gives promise of
permanency and of future growth.
Under these conditions the question of
substitute metals becomes of impor-
lance and aluminium, zinc and steel
all have some possibilities in this d.
rection in one way or another.-En.
cheering Magazine.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
Would Unite Denmark and Sweden

Would Unite Denmark and Sweden.
Plans are being made by the gov
ernments of Denmark and Sweden for
a tunnel under the narrow channel
that separates these countries. Al
though this it not nearly as big a job
as the proposed tunnel under the Eng.
lish channel, it would be like it in one
respect, as the stratum through which
it will be driven Is the same kind Of
impervious gray chalk that underlies
the English channel. The greatest
depth below the sea will be about one
hundred feet. It is estimated that the
tunnel will cost about twenty-five
million dollars, and that it will re-
quire five years to complete it.-Pop.
ular Mechanics.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
HobbIe Skirt's Dire Result

Someone said that the hobble skirt
had made all the women here knock.
kneed. OF course, the fair ones We
hement4y denied the impeachment and
we had to be satisfied with it. But muir.
der will out. The short skirt and
white spats, SO much in vogue now,
have reve lied to all that the person
who madr the accusation must have
had an x FAY sight. Knock-kneedness
is not the only defect visible. There
were so many pigeon-toed women in
a Fifth avenue parlor the other day
that it was difficult for those who fol.
lowed in their wake to tell whether
they were intending to cross the street
or steer into the nearby store.-Pitts.
burgh Dispatch.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

vestiges Of pleasure travel. The only
travellers to cross the channel or the
Atlantic now are business men who
are occupied with war contracts and
relief administrators. Officers going
to England on leave are compelled tc
travel on military transports alone
Even English people on the way to
France to visit wounded relatives
have postponed their trips.
The only Americans travelling IN Eu
rope Just now are summarized as
Journalists, Red Cross people aud
fcontraband agents sSS3i335 1. /
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
WOMAN OF 40 mo CHANCE"
That's Ohioan's Plant In Breach Of
Promise suIt-kept Company
Seventeen Years,

Norwalk, O.-Miss Lillian West has
brought suit for $4,000 for alleged
breach of promise against Frank At
water. Both reside in Belleville.
Miss West, who is forty, declares
she has been keeping company with
Atwater for seventeen years, that she
became engaged to him in 1906, and
that Atwater has constantly put of
marrying.
Miss West also says she has suf-
fered financial loss. has been terribly
inundated and that she had little or
no chance Of marrying at her age.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
Z Home To-. con.un, ntlxe..

A home for consumptive actors ID
under construction in Albuquerque, N.
NJ, by the showfolks colony, accord.
Ing to the New York Dramatic Mir
ror. The organization appeals to the
profession for benefits that will help
~ completing the cottages and equip.
ping them. The colony announces
that this is the only organization o.
lite kind In the United States.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
FOX HOUNDS TO HAUL FOOD
Lardsr Empty, Horses Unshod, Dogs
Il FIJI the Gap for Tennessee
Farmer.

Camden, Tenn.John Hundley, q
farmer, awoke one morning recently
to be advised BY his wife Of a serious
deficit in the pantry neither -four nor
meal. Hundley 's-horses were not shod,
the sleet and Ice were too rough for
the animals, the family's strong box.
wAs empty. and the farmer resided Six
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07


weghem church with tower, fiat top
with ten yards square; splendid OBJ
servation station.
Belfry at Bruges Noted.
"Bruges to Courtrai belfry at
Bruges.
"Ghent to Antwerp. All windmills
and churches. Lokeren church tower,
four miles panorama all round. st.
Nicholas church Tin Grande place..
panorama all round. St. Martin 1.-TWO
miles southeast Of Nieuwekerken'
Waes), tower, three miles view in all
directions.
"Lokeren to Termonde. Church
tower in Zele.
'Lokeren to Antwerp. Waesmun-
ster level crossing and church tower,
view all round.
Client to Zele. Overmeire church,
view as far as Zele.
"Massemen to Malines. Wetteren
church steeple, extensive view to
northeast to west.
"Tournai-C ourtrai-Ghent (a) Tour
mai belfry. (b) Mont St. ALBERT church; ;
view east to Mellen. Mourcourt and
Velaines. (c) Pecq church tower.
(d) Coyghem church tower, four
mile view north and south. (e) Belle
CHEM church tower, view six miles
to west, five miles to east. (f Cour-
trail church tower view four miles all
round.
"St. Armand to Journal. Maulde
church, view to St. Armand and for
~ miles in all other directions.
"View to All Surrounding Heights"
"Enghien to Alost (a) Enghien
church tower, view to all surrounding
heights. (b) Dendewindem, view from
church tower for two miles (c) Mi
move, view from church tower for
three miles in all directions.
"Enghien to Riviere. (a) Enghien
church tower, view all round. (b)
Soignies church tower, view for four
miles all round.
"Ath to Godinne. (a) Chievres
church. CO. Church tower at Bauffe.
(c) Lens church tower. (d) Jurbise
church tower.
Rance to Philippeville. Philippe
vile church.
"Marcinelle to Silenrieux. (a) Haies
church. (b) Nalennes church. (c) Wal
court church.
"Chaulet to Givet. Good view from
church towers.
"Philippeville to Magee. Chapelle
de HERMITAGE.
"Wepion to St. Gerard. The church
towers of Bots de Villers, Lesves and
st. Gerard.
Convent Clock Tower May Be Used.
"Valenciennes to Leuze. (a) Fresnes
church tower, view for two miles in
all directions. (b) Bon Secours; moth
ing can be seen from the ground at
this place, but from the top of the
church tower IL is said that good
view can be obtained. (c) The square
clock tower of convent on the right
side opposite Vieux Leuze church Zone
mile south of Leuze) should make a
good observation point; there are
stairs up to it.
"Maubeuge to Hal. Bettignies
church tower.
"Dinant to Eupen. (a) Achene
church. (b) Maize church.
"Dinant to Pessoux. SOVIET church.
"Blemont to Celles. Achene church.
"Namur to st. Hubert. Chapel on
crag at Rochefort
"Andenne to Champion. Obey
church.
brussels to Louvain. Cortenberg
church steeple.
Brussels to Wavre. Notre Dame
au-Bois church.
Hal to Andreghem. (a) Hal church.
90 Alsenberg church."
May Quarter Troops in Churches.
Concerning the quartering of SOL
diers in churches, both in Bels. I'm and
France, the reports say:
Churches should be avoided, but II
space is restricted the municipal au.
thorities will probably not object to
churches being used"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
Making Il Easy for Goldsmith.

A letter was sent a few days ago to
Oliver Goldsmith in care of certain
New York publishers who recently is.
sued a gift edition of "The Vicar Of
Wakefield" The epistle was from a
, clipping bureau and contained several
printed notices. 1t suggested that the
author would probably desire to learn
everything the newspapers said about
him and his work. The bureau would
on its account be glad to furnish the
writer with information concerning
the progress his new book was max.
Ing In public favor, and the prospec-
tive reception that any further pro.
auctions of his would receive.-Chris.
tian Advocate. r..
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

miles from town. But John met the
emergency. He constructed large
sled, hitched nine fox hounds to it,
loaded on five bushels of stock peas,
and hit the trail for Camden. After a
couple Of, hours rest, Hundley re-
turned home. the dogs pulling bag of
meal and barrel Of -four through the
snow. -
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

The hrst funds for the Manassas
Industrial School for Colored Youth
were collected in and around Marion
MASS. during the summer OF 1891.
Jennie Dean obtained work as COOK
IN . boarding house In Marion. and
when her days work was over. she
went about talking Of her school IN
churches or to any one that would
listen to her. She also went to Wash
inEton. where she managed to interest
IN her scheme several prominent men
and women, who formed board OF d.
roctors to promote the work. Miss
Dean then went to Boston with let
tefs to DR.. Edward Everett Hale, who
helped her by sending out an appeal
for funds from his own Office, with the
result that Jennie Dean returned to
Manassas in the following spring with
the necessary amount.
Since the early days Of the single
frame scho0lhouse to its present state
OF number Of substantial buildings,
there have been desperately hard
roads to travel, and the end has not
been reached yet. Through all these
years there has always been the same
cry for more funds to carry on the
work, for the cause of Negro education
does not always call forth the largest
contributions. Through all Miss
Deans untiring efforts and struggles.
up to the time had the fullest SYM
pathy Of the Negroes Of her section
Of Virginia. Many of them were too
poor to give money. but there were
few who did not give in some form,
varying from barrel Of apples to a
days labor.
There could never be moments
question OF the real need of an insti-
tuition Of this sort, the natural out
growth Of deep and fervent desire
OF . people fully appreciative of their
lack Of all that would make them Of
value to the white mans world, of
which they were now part. The in
terest Of the Negroes of this district
in the school has increased year by
year. and while their contributions are
Of necessity very small, they manage
to raise annually something over
thousand dollars toward an endow.
ment fund through personal gifts,
church entertainments, picnics. and
frequent church collections.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
Soldiers May Smoke Good cloar,.

The German soldier is being pro-
vided with Smokes" the German Red
Cross society having placed boxes in
prominent places Of the country's big
cities into which those who wish can
drop cigars for the boys at the front.
The boxes are labeled "Cigarren fur
unsere krieger." Thousands are said
to be collected daily. They are I'm
mediately shipped to the battlefields
and the trenches to comfort the men
who fight H.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
HUNTER uses Gals
Says They Are Valuable as Wei
Trained Dogs.
Mississippi Man Declares hs NJ
Trained Them to Point and Re-
trieve Small Game In q Per.
feet Manner.

Ever go hunting with domestic
cats? This question is mean. sen
ously. T. G. Nimmo Of sturgis, MIs,
hunter Of much renown In his stat
does this very thing-and says It Il
great sport. He has trained his cat
until they trail, point and retrieve
small game as wen as any dog, Al
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

When consider the cost of this
war: when / think of the blood that
has been shed; of the property that
has been destroyed and the misery
that has been caused-I am sometimes
inclined to thank God that am not a
member Of superior race. Rather
am disposed to thank God that l be.
long to q people that cannot hope and
does not desire to prosper at the cost
OF any other race.
There Is q certain advantage in be-
longing to a race that has to make its
way peacefully through the world; a
race that prospers, II 1t prospers at all,
because it has made friends rather
than enemies of the people by whom
1t 10 surrounded. There is a certain
satisfaction, also, in belonging to a
race whose hope of success in the
world consists of making itself USE
.ful to the world. and it Is not wholly
disadvantage to the Negro that. though
De should fight in every war as he has
n this, It ID not to maintain his own
superiority, but that Of some other
race that he nghts.-Booker T. Wash
ington IN the North American Review.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
Bio Woman Filled Hack.

Alton, Mich.-Mrs. Claude Barker of
Oklahoma City, Okla, was the only
occupant Of carriage which con-
veyed her at the funeral Of her hus.
band, which was held at st. Patricks
church recently. She weighs 635
pounds, and In show was called the
largest woman in America. She took
up so much space in the carriage that
no one else could get in. -;
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
Pie asure travel Cut on.

s3s Paris Hotel and tourist agencies
admit that the German submarine
threat has eliminated the remaining
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

At Baldwin Farms, some dozen
miles from Tuskegee, a few northern
capitalists have secured possession of
1000 acres or more Of land. which
they are selling in small lots on rea.
sonable terms to ambitious home
steaders, helping them build the initial
cottage. lending them a little money
with which to get started. Here col.
lege graduates and city bred young
husbands and wives are settling down
contentedly to the task Of making
homes on the farm.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

On the McMasters farm in Rich.
mond, Me-, there are two families of
tame foxes, numbering 10 in ali. They
were brought up on bottle and have
become pets of the family.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

hours no pupae were to be found, and
in s4S hours only few small larvae
survived. - - >-,-S& -.
while the other birds, fish, spiders,
batrachians, arthropods and reptiles
are all enemies OF the mosquito, none
OF them has the wide geographical
range and the capacity of devouring
large numbers of the larvae and
pupae on land and water as has the
duck"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

& In every 1000 marriages solemnized
in Great Britain 81 are between first
cousins Among the nobility the rate
10 much higher. amounting to AZ in
1000. 5.s
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

No institution of learning Is now
complete without its extension de-
partment, and a recent exhibit in
this direction was varied, dramatic and
full of that humor that borders on
pathos. Two men at Tuskegee were
brought in from the adjoining country
to tell how they acquired land and
were now tilling their own farms, trac-
ing their inspirations, of course. to
the, farmer conferences and to the ra-
dating influences of Tuskegee. One
woman told of how she secured bet
ter schoolhouse for the "chillun." Egg
selling, chicken raising, and many 9th
er ways too we'll known to the women
Of the North, which often indicate an
obscure selfishness and hidden pc
nuriousness, here became high general
ship and splendid courage. But more
eloquent than the farmer parsons or
the soliciting schoolhouse builders was
the stern Angelolike countenance of
the wife who said to the preacher,
you 60 to school and will take care
of the blowing and the children" She
said not word. She received no
plaudits, but she. not the parson,
moved the silent depths of the soul.
One slip of girl, from the honor
three months" Of required cadeting in
country school, told how she not
only washed up the schoolhouse but
cleaned up the homes in which she
boarded. brought in the cook stove
that was all right except that i. had
lost one leg, and taught them how
to enlarge their dietary list. The ex-
tension department OF Tuskegee goes
far afield and there were thrilling sto-
ries Of achievements in South Carolina
and other adjoining states.-Exchange
Rev. H. H. Dunn of New Orleans In
a sermon has outlined the progress
of the colored people of New Orleans
for the last year. The first public
playground for colored children was
opened; $500 was raised by the COL
ored citizens for it, and white citi-
zens contributed $4,000 in addition;
white and colored physicians met to-
gether to discuss Negro health; public
library for Negroes has been start.
ed; the city council has purchased
a site at cost of $4,000 and appro.
priated $4,000 annually for mainte-
nance; a building valued at $4,000
is nearing completion. The public
school system still lacks high school,
but there are S,164 pupils enrolled and
1856 public school teachers, of whom
eight are white. One new school
building has been opened. The eighth
grade has been restored in three
schools, and will be started in an.
other this month. There are a mum.
Der Of patrons and parents clubs.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

When Waterloo was fought both M.
poleon and Wellington were forty
seven years old. Wellington's Prus.
sian ally. Butcher. was seventy-three.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

In the Australian savings fund there
are, on the average. 80 deposited for
each mar. woman and child IN thu
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

Recently there was erected at the
/ Hampton institute two-story brick
building to be used az social center
! for the boys. Contracts were award
"a to the trade school departments
and student tradesmen did the con-
stfuction work. Today the building
stands completed. It is know1 as
Clarke hall. II is used by the, Young
Mems ChHstias association. ITO ap-
preciate the meaning Of these three
examples Of construction work done
BY the Hampton tradesmen, one must
80 the completed structures and real
Ire the building problems which the
young Negro and Indian tradesmen
met AMI successfully solved.
While construction work calls for
ability to read working drawings and
follow detailed specifications, the de-
mands made by repair problems are in
many instances even more taxing To
make repair quickly, skillfully and
economically. requires unusual abil.
ity. Hampton institute is indeed an
industrial village in which there is
constant demand for men who can
do good repair and construction work.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07
TOR misinformation concerning any
Incident apply to q bystander.

II incident apply to Q bystander.
Next to the search for a good time,
that Of striving for comfort is the
most marked human characteristic
4 Sim Heckle has q cushion on his
wheslbarrov. ..
IA man goes back to his old home
y town and discovers that the girl he
mistakes for the one he, used to know
\ 10 her granddaughter.
II you are not particular about the
way You get It. : good living can be
4 made on those whom the doctors
h have failed to cure.
Humor finds tn expression In vari.
~ ways, Elxa Bernhart. who 10 nix
eeet four Inches IN height. has been
called Short. ever since he was !
4 ~ q s#
Hon. Mortimer c. Littson u 70 good
nakured that he viii stand for any
Al t1lng fEom his friends except praise
so1 another man.
" man learns 4 lot % he goes
Y Ioag But hs never realizes that ne
IN anoant II any thing and insvsr
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

So long a. his mother lives there
II no probability thsf anyone in our
town will be permit I'D to forget that
LAfe Swisegood has a good Job in
New York.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-05-07

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-05
THE REFINING PLANT.

The Ardmore Refining company is
handling 1000 barrels each day of
the Healdton crude. o. h. Males who
came here to supernteud the con
struction OF the plant is still here
and is delighted with the manner in
which the machinery is operating.
The oil refining business is new to
the people OF this section, and Mr..
Males has been very patient in eX-
planning to visitors how oil is re
fined
Crude oil is brought from the field
through a pipe line and stored in
25,O00-barrel steel tank From this
tank il is run into still that holds
1000 barrels. Ii requires 81 hours
TO work off the one still and men
work day and night Residuum is
used for fuel under the still. and the
fire is kept burning about Is hours
out of each day.
The first vapor that rises from the
ell as steam rises from water, is
conveyed by pipes into a cooling
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-05

sion work and of getting for the
state the full benefits offered by the
terms of the congressional act known
as the SmithLever act, was passed
by the committee of the whole just
as it came from the house.
Engrossed House Bill No. 30 by
Lemon is the measure that has be-
come known to the lawmakers as
the pet of the consolidated school
districts of the state and it was pass
ed in the committee of the whole
without amendment. 1t changes the
act of the Fourth legislature on this
subject so as to provide means of
transportation for children to and
from school when their place of res
!dence is more than one and one
half miles from the schoolhouse and
provides that the driver must be a
competent person of good moral
character" Under the existing law
the distance is two miles and the
driver must be "an adult person."
The bill now under consideration
also provides that by a majority vote
any consolidated school district may
eliminate the question of distance and
provide for the transportation of all
children under the age of 10 years.
Three Senate Bills Up.
This cleaned up all house bills now
on the senate calendar and notwith-
standing the fact that Thursday is
one of the days specially set apart
for house work, three senate bills
were taken up and disposed of before
the committee of the whole decided
that it was ready to rise and report !
The Chase Harrison bill requiring
county, city and school district treas
urers to make time deposits of all
sinking funds on hand on the first
day of January and July of each year
and fixing the rate of interest to be
PAID thereon at not less than IL
per cent, and further requiring the
treasurers to advertise and secure a
larger rate of interest if the same
could be done under competitive bids,
was considered at length and met
with strenuous opposition. Senator
Chase made a strong plea for his
measure and said it would be worth
thousands of dollars to his county
alone.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-05

A restraining order has been is
sued in the district court here in the
case Of Ardmill OIL and Gas company
against Claud Bell ana c. A. Coakley
The defendants are restrained from
entering upon the property of the
company and from filing any more
suits against the company, but are
granted the right to prosecute the
suit already filed in Marshall county
The Ardmill people drilled the well in
HOB near the town of Oakland, in
Marshall county.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-05

McMan- Corsicana companies are
starting two wells on a twenty acre
block in the northeast quarter of
6-4-3. No. . will spud in today and
No. 10 will spud next Monday These
wells are on the Il. T. Richards lease.
For the reason that there is no suit
able market for the oil the com
panies hope they will not have to
drill the wells in but Gunsburg &
Forman and the Gilmer company are
taking oil from sands in that sec
tion of the field. and the wells are
being drilled to protect the lease and
the owner of the royalty.