Wichita Searchlight

Praise for American Women. The opinion of the editor of the new paper printed in English in India, "American womanhood totally the finest, the very best, well and intellectually, of all the hood of the world." Making the Best of $. You don't mean to say you a present of that $10 to Bor- l Merchant—I had to do it to my own self-respect. Ascum to you mean? I thought you to him. Merchant—So I did, growing any better. But now I want anybody to think I was well enough to expect it back. adulphia Press. What's in a Namc? old merchant of New York city he is himself phrases it, has the trune to be named Guiteau, was going to his country home on the when he was approached by ranger who had observed the on his handbag, "Excuse me, began the unknown, curiosity population blending in his tone, are you—are you a—brother of gentleman who—er—er—had a lit- tle difficulty with President Garfield?" peets can be colored on the floor PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. every is a good friend of the under- don't get the biggest and best own own fault. Defiance Starch is in every where and there is posi- nothing to equal it in quality or laugh at a girl with a pug you can tell what may turn up. You Druggist for Allan's Foot-Ease. And ALLEN'S Foot-EASE recently just bought another supply. It is my corns, and the hot, burning sensation in my feet which was unstable and could not be withdrawn. J. Wakeen Camden, sold by all Druggists, 25c. Nurural headaches are not in it with untreated kind. How's This? One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case that cannot be cured by Hall's Catsuit or O'Malley or O'Malley and engraved, have known F.J. Cheney for 10 years, and believe him perfectly honorable pursues transactions and financially able to buy or stock. Warehouse Drumsticks, Toledo, O. Nunn, KNUNN & MARVIN, Wholesale Drugs. Care is taken internally, acting upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the Testimonials sent free. Price 75 per Family Fills are the best. Barber isn't necessarily a snob because he cuts an acquaintance. Never hear any one complaint of "Delliance Starch." There is to equal it in quality and quantity of 10 cents. Try it now save your money. Maude, dear; a clock cannot hide in its hands. How silly of you! VASELINE. everybody knows the great value of this paper in the household, but everybody not know that the imitations of it, with some second class druggists dishonor pain off on their customers, have no value. That should be underlined, that is, the comparison of comparative value between Dusine and the imitations, but that the imitations do not effect the wonderful benefits of the world renowned "Vaseline" and that they are not the same thing made in the same way. Besides this, the Vaseline is harmful, irritant and not safe to use, while true Vaseline is perfectly harmless. Perfect safety therefore lies in buying prefabricated bottles and other packages put by the Caucasoborough Manufacturing Co.otion is called to their Capsicum Vaseline-based in another column. Figures may not lie but estimates must be misleading. TRY ONE PACKAGE. If "Dienance Starch" does not please you return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. M. Mrs. Rosa Adams, niece of the late General Roger Hanson, G.S.A., wants every woman to know of the wonders accomplished by Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I cannot tell you with pen and ink what good India E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for me, suffering from the ills peculiar to the sex, extreme instinct and that all gone feeling. I would rise from my bed in the morning feeling more tired than when I went to bed, but before I used two bottles of India E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, I began to feel the buoyancy of my younger days returning, become regular, could do more work and not feel tired than I had ever been able to do before, so I continued to use it until I was restored to perfect health. It is indeed a boon to sick women and I heartily recommend it. Youts very nicely. Mrs. RUSS ADAMS, 819 12th St. Louisville, Ky." — $5000 fortnil of original letter pretending cannot be produced. FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN. Don't hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkham. She will understand your case perfectly, and will treat you with kindness. Her advice is free, and the address is Lynn, Mass. No woman ever regretted having written her, and she has helped thousands. According to a recent census there are upward of 600 Chinese in Johannesburg, of whom 180 are in business. All are reported as doing well. Famous Wine Flagon. The wine flagon of Admiral Bruce, captured by Lord Nelson and given by him to Lady Hamilton, was recently sold in a London auction room. The flagon is engraved on one side. "Nelson to Emma. In commemoration of the victory of the Nile, Vanguard, September 29, 1798. My fortieth birthday." Change in British Navy Writing of British naval progress, Mr. Archibald Hurd says: "At last the officers and men are to be trained for a mechanical navy. Up to the present they have been fitted for a fleet of sailing ships, and have learned an immense amount of lore of an art which has ceased to have any bearing on the conduct of war affec." Musician's Gracious Rebuke Czar Nicholas of Russia once asked Liszt to play in his presence, but during the performance started a conversation with an aid-de-camp. Liszt stopped playing at once. The czar sent to ask what was the matter. "When the emperor speaks," said Liszt, "everyone must be silent." The czar smilingly took the hint and the playing proceeded. His Gentle Rebuke. A medley of young literary • men were once gathered to meet Robert Brownning. The most aggressively literary of the group was first introduced and at once began to pour out his personal delight and admiration with so unceasing a flow that the other literary young men starved. At last Brownning put his hand almost affectionately on the egotist's shoulder and said: "But I am monopolizing you." Uncle Reuben Says: "Ize bim thinkin' de matter ober a good deal, an' I can't skassly say dat I prefer a too honest man. If yo' lend dat sort of a man a dollar yo' know he will repay it jess when he agrees to; if yo' take de half-an' half man yo' hev a chance to worry for a week or two as to whether he will repay or not, an' if he don't pay 'tall den yo' have one mo' argument to put for'd agin de deceit of mankind." The Doctor's Statement St. John, Kan., Nov. 16.—This town has a genuine sensation in the case of a little boy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William McBride. Dr. Limes, the attending physician, says: "Scarlet Fever of a very malignant type brought this child very near to death and when the fever left him he was semi-paralyzed in the right leg and right arm. He also lost hearing in his right ear, and his mind was much affected. "His parents tried another treatment for a time and when I was recalled I found that he was having spells very like Epilepsy and was very bad and gradually growing worse. I advised the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills and in a short time the child began to improve. Inside of a week the nervous spasms or epileptic seizures ceased altogether." Mr. and Mrs. McBride have made a sworn statement of the facts and Dr. Jesse L. Limes has added his sworn statement saying that Dodd's Kidney Pills and nothing else cured the fits. Strap-Hangers Pay. Few street cars, other than the double-deckers, which seat forty persons inside and sixty on top, are used in English cities. The American "strap-hanger" is the most profitable of passengers to the railway company. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One third more starch for same money. Some men take what is in sight and hustle for more. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup For children teething, sottens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. The clothes that some men wear speak louder than either actions or words. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. One way to keep a woman's love is to return it. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. It's an ill wind that doesn't blow at all. Try me just once and I am sure to come again. Defiance Starch. Lots of the young doctors look like perfect pills. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. Some good people are spoiled for want of good works. Double-Docked Street Cars. Double-deck street cars are universal in Europe. In some instances the upper deck is roofed over, in others left open. This deck is almost uniformly divided longitudinally with seats for two on each side of the aisle. The upper deck is reached by a semi-circular stairway, and in -pleasant weather is the most sought. Labor in South Africa. "The question of labor is really assuming a serious aspect," says Lord Alfred Milner, governor of the British South African colonies, in urging the importation of 10,000 coolies from India to be placed upon public works in the Transvaal. British labor unions will probably prevent this use of alien labor. DARK AND BRIGHT PICTURES DARK AND BRIGHT PICTURES Universal Strike Threatened Yet Both Sides Seek Peace. WAR DECLARED, PEACE SOUGHT Chicago, Nov. 19.—Chicago is on the eve of what is feared may be the greatest strike in its history. Almost simultaneously with the announcement by an officer of the Chicago Employers' association that the Chicago City Railway company is in a determined fight to break the striking street car men came a declaration from a labor leader that organized labor of the entire country is back of the street railway men and will fight their cause to the finish. The company's answer to the propositions of the state board of arbitration for conciliation or arbitration of the points in dispute seems almost certain to be a refusal. The storing of the company's barns with cots and provisions is an indication of the preparations for a prolonged struggle. John Fitzsimmons, a member of the executive board, said: "We find that we are being fought not by the Chicago City Railway alone, as we supposed, but the whole Manufacturers' association is arrayed against us and is determined to fight to the finish. "We have heard talk of ordering out the militia. If the militia is called out there will be no street cars moved in Cook county. Capital, a small army, but with enormous resources, is arrayed on one side, and organized labor, overwhelming in point of numbers, but without as great resources, on the other. We must stand together if we want to win, and overwhelm them with numbers. This is war, and you know that war is hell. The little flame started at our headquarters then has grown into a great fire and it will continue to burn brightly until we have won." THE BRIGHT PICTURE. Chicago. — Peace negotiations looking to an amicable settlement of the struggle between the management of the Chicago City railway and its striking employees are begun and the indications are that both sides to the controversy will agree to submit their differences to arbitration. President Mahon of the Amudgamated Association of Street Railway employees and his legal advisers took part. Mayor Harrison declared that the outlook for a settlement of the strike by arbitration was decidedly favorable. Rates Are Unreasonable. Washington, Nov. 17. — The interstate commerce commission, in decisions just announced in the three cases brought by the city of Wichita, Kan., against the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Rock Island and other roads in that local territory declared that both the export rates on grain from Wichita to Gaiveston and the lumber rates from west of the Mississippi river points in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas to Wichita are unreasonable and should be reduced. The city of Wichita is allowed until January 1, 1904, to apply for leave to submit further testimony on the reasonableness of the coal rates to Wichita. May be Bribed. Oswego, Kas., Nov. 18.—Judge Flannelly in deciding the case against D. F. Campbell, a member of the Kansas legislature, said: "I think that the motion to squash should be sustained on both grounds. I take it that there is nothing in the laws of this state which prevent a member of the legislature from accepting money after the vote has been cast. Such would be more in the nature of a gratuity than a bribe." The defense argued that it was no offense under the Kansas law for a member of the legislature to solicit a bribe, and that the crime could not be committed after the vote had been cast. Finances Assured Kansas City, Nov. 18.—There was an important meeting of the executive committee of the Independent Paedicing Company held in this city. Letters were received from the cattlemen of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and a portion of the great Northwest, showing that general interest is being taken in the enterprise and assuring financial support. Guns For The Navy. Washington, Nov. 18.—Arrangements have been made for the manufacture at the army arsenal at Watervleit, N. Y., of twenty-four eight-inch and twenty-four seven-inch guns for the navy. The naval gun factory in this city is overtaxed with work and it, therefore, became necessary for the navy to call on the war department for assistance in this matter. A Strike Settled. Boston, Mass., Nov. 17.—The strike of messenger boys at the Harvard square office of the Western Union Telegraph company was settled when the company conceded the demands of the boys. Free of Duty. New York, Nov. 17.—Scientific apparatus and instruments made for and imported by the university of Kansas will be admitted free, according to a decision by the board of classification, United States appraisers. Beware of Sweet Breakfast Foods Many of the breakfast foods upon the market are sweetened with gluside, a drug substitute for sugar. The direct interference with the gastric digestion and the assimilation of food caused the French Government to prohibit its use as a dietetic substitute for sugar. Children love it because it is sweet, hence the danger. In selecting foods for daily use DR. PRICE'S is the one that will be found free from all injurious substances—sale for the children—for all, sick or well. Prepared by a physician and chemist whose name on any article is a positive guarantee of its purity and healthfulness. Served hot or cold. Dr. Price, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts. A cook book containing 76 excellent receipts for using the Food mailed free to any address. Prepared by PRICE CEREAL FOOD CO., 34 Cass Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. RED GROSS BALL BLUE Used every washday will make your clothes white as snow and as beautiful as when new. The most competent housekeepers in the country use Red Cross Ball Blue and no other. Just try it once and you will see the difference. All grocers sell it. Large package 25c. If angels fear to tread where fools rush in they should use their wings. It is a waste of time to advertise for lost time. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package. 5 cents. In the swell cafe there's many a tip twixt the cup and the lip. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Flirta and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100 page nips, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cared by our mild method, none paid a cent fill-cured—we furnish their names on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR, 1030 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. WITH NERVES UNSTRUNG AND HEADS THAT ACHE Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all Drugstiffs, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Lsted, R.N.Y. Fasting for Health. Thousands of years before it was practiced as a religious rite fasting was practiced as a health measure in Egypt, India and China. Contemporary to Clecro was Asclepiades, a Greek physician, who strongly advocated this idea, and 1,000 years after his day ibon Sina, philosopher and medical sage, argued the virtues of temporary abstinence on the ground that it came easier than constant moderation. Many Cigar Boxes Used. There are something like 15,000,000 cigar boxes used in the United States annually, and about nine-tenths of that number are made in this city. The material out of which the best quality of cigar boxes are made comes principally from Cuba and is known as Spanish cedar. A peculiarity about this wood is that it always retains the flavor, and the reason given for this contention is that it grows in the same localities as the finest Havana tobacco—New York Times. A. True Fish Story. Freddie L——, known to all his friends as an enthusiastic angler, took a day off this week for the purpose of enjoying his favorite sport. He invested $2 in bait, tackle, liniment, etc., rose at 3 a. m., sloshed around with a party of friends in the down river district until 5 p. m., returning to his home at 11:30 the same night. Next morning he found the net results were: An empty bottle, a swelled head and a small fish 4½ inches long. —Detroit Tribune. AN OLD TIMER. Has Had Experiences. A woman who has used Postum Food Coffee since it came upon the market eight years ago knows from experience the necessity of using Postum in place of coffee if one values health and a steady brain. She says: "At the time Postum was first put on the market I was suffering from nervous dyspepsia and my physician had repeatedly told me not to use tea or coffee. Finally I decided to take his advice and try Postum and got a sample and had it carefully prepared, finding it delicious to the taste. So I continued its use and very soon its beneficial effects convinced me of its value, for I got well of my nervousness and dyspepsia. "My husband had been drinking coffee all his life until it had affected his nerves terribly. I persuaded him to shift to Postum and it was easy to get him to make the change for the Postum is so delicious. It certainly worked wonders for him. "We soon learned that Postum does not exhilarate or depress and does not stimulate, but steadily and honestly strengthens the nerves and the stomach. To make a long story short our entire family have now used Postum for eight years with completely satisfying results as shown in our fine condition of health, and we have noticed a rather unexpected improvement in brain and nerve power." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Increased brain and nerve power always follow the use of Postum in place of coffee, sometimes in a very marked manner. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." NO MONEY TILL CURED, 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED! WEEP FREE and noaadau n 200 page treatise on Piles, Flattsia and Diseases of the Rectum. Browse 100 page iuis, treatise on Piles, Flattsia and Diseases of the Rectum. Dryness of the rectum is caused by the failure of four of these treatises. DRS. THORNTON & TINONI, 1030 Gak EL., Kansas City, Mo. WITH NERVES UNSTRUNG AND HEADS THAT ACHE WINCHESTER It's not sentiment — it's not the price — that makes the most intelligent and successful shots shoot Winchester Factory Loaded Shotgun Shells. It's the results they give. It's their entire reliability, evenness of pattern and uniform shooting. Winchester "Leader" shells, loaded with smokeless powder, are the best loaded shells on the market. Winchester "Repeater" shells loaded with smokeless powder are cheap in price but not in quality. Try either of these brands and you will be well pleased. Be sure to get Winchester Factory Loaded shells. THE SHELLS THE CHAMPIONS SHOOT. FOOD from all injurious substances—safe for and chemist whose name on any article rity and healthfulness. Served hot or co- ious—Easy of Digestion a Dr. V.C. Price of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder and Delic- ing 76 excellent receipts for using the Food mailed FOOD CO., 34 Cass Street, ROSS BAIL es white as snow and as beautiful when new. other. Just try it once and you will see the differen- DRS. THORNTON PILES NO MONEY TIME We send FREE and postpaid a 24 Rectum; also 100 page nius. treat by our mild method, none paid a DRS. THORNTON WITH NERVES UNSTRE THAT A WISE W BROMO-S TAP TRIAL BOTTLE WINCH Factory Loaded Smoke It's not sentiment—it's not the most intelligent and successful Factory Loaded Shotgun Shake give. It's their entire reliability uniform shooting. Winchester ed with smokeless powder, are the market. Winchester "Rep smokeless powder are cheap in Try either of these brands and Ee sure to get Winchester THE SHELLS THE CH OUR HOLIDAY PRICES on Jewelry and Watches save you 25%. Send for FREE Catalogue and secure a bargain for: yourself and friends. CARBON FLAMEND CO., Syracuse, N.Y. WET WEATHER COMFORT There is no satisfaction keener than being dry and comfortable when out in the hardest storm. YOU ARE SURE OF THIS IF YOU WEAR TOWERS FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING MADE IN BLACK OR YELLOW AND BACKED BY OUR GUARANTEE. TOWERS GARDEN COLLISION TOWERS CAN. ASK YOUR DEALER. Send for our free catalogue of garments and hats. Don't Worry No use to make yourself miserable worrying about what to eat or when to eat it. Dr. Caldwell's (LAXATIVE) Syrup Pepsin aids digestion, keeps the stomach and bowels in perfect condition. Ask your druggist. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, III. RAIN Cannot Penetrate SAWYER'S EXCELSIOR BRAND Oiled Clothing and Slickers Warranted Waterproof. Made to stand hard wear. Look for trammack. If your dealer don't have them send for catalogue. H. H. SAWYER'S BOR Sole Mira. East Cambridge, Hare. Crippen's Compound for Rheumatism NEVER FAILS TO CURE! 204-868 N. Main. The Crippen Medicine Co. Wichita, Kens. A substitute for your CALLLED TURNS skirt, a delicate form that will not dribble or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain-alaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve headache and sciatica. We recommend it as the best option for pain relief, as an external remedy for pain in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be, by inhalation, the best of all your preparations.* Price 16 cents, at all dragons or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send you a tube by mail. No article should be accrued for this purpose, as the same covers our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHEESBROUGH MEG, CO. EVERY SHOOTER WHO SHOOTS U.M.C. AMMUNITION has a feeling of confidence in his cartridges. They don't misfire and always shoot where you aim. Tell your dealer U. M. C. when he asks "What kind?" Send for catalog. The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. Bridgeport, Conn. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Nov. 21, '03 There isn't any fun in kissing when the wires are burned out. Little Willie declares that the "tan that won't come off" is the rattan. The barber who committed suicide with bay rum certainly stuck to his last. Patt! is here on a farewell trip that means farewell to our dollars, at least. A woman who throws herself at a man's head usually falls to aim straight. Lord Bute has just married a pretty actress, who is now presumably a veritable Bute. A woman never marries her first love unless she is quite sure that he is also her last. One game of football makes more work for the hospital than all of the army maneuvers. To a man up in a balloon it must look as though the air were clogged with flying machines. Jealousy is a sleight-of-hand artist which easily turns the most innocent actions into suspicious ones. With the battleship Missouri and the Missouri mule, what nation can beat us at the game of war? The man who started the Mary Ann question is named Warbeck, and he lives in Jersey City. Now go for him! Sometimes the man who proudly wears a campaign button in his coat lapel has to fasten his suspender with a nail. A man can find fault and lose his temper simultaneously, thus demonstrating his ability to do two things at once. Moving as fast as he does Dan Patch finds it easy to do an important day's work in considerably less than two minutes. In the growth of a son a mother loses ever so many children. Every step in his progress represents something she has lost. The powers of Europe are evidently preparing for a grand concert, at which the menu served after the performance will be Turkey. The Standard Oil Company has be- gen to operate in Japan. This settles it. The Japanese needn't be afraid that Russia will get them. A Philadelphia pup the other day mistook a stick of dynamite for a bone. He succeeded in making Philadelphia wide awake for a second or two. A Kansas farmer is authority for the statement that a full-grown and able-bodied cyclone will lift everything on the place except the mortgage. Football cannot be as bloody a pastime as some persons think it is. Frequently you hear of the players stopping a game in order to indulge in a real fight. Greater New York has a population of nearly 4,000,000. In that number of people Col. Watterson believes that there ought to be more than "400" worth speaking to. Lieut. Peary might convince Sir Thomas Lipton that it is easier to lift the pole than it is to lift the cup, and seek no further for means of financing his expedition. Sir Thomas Lipton failed to carry any substantial reward back with him but that other great promoter of Anglo-Saxon amity, Sir Henry Irving, may be relied on to even up the score. Another insanitary feature of sleeping car life which the doctors overlooked is the dangerous practice of descending from the upper berth by the stepladder when the stepladder is not there. As football coaches have reached the conclusion that too close application to the game makes the players stale, some of the men are said to be finding an hour or two a day to devote to their studies. President Castro of Venezuela finds that wars may be threatened in the Balkans and the far East and be put off from day to day for months and perhaps for years, but where he is the revolutions go on forever. The co-eds of the Northwestern university of Chicago have been forbidden to whistle, perhaps because when they got their lips pursed up in the preparatory packer they looked just too tempting for their fellow students to resist. As recent events show, it was a master stroke of sagacity and fore sight that led the Alaskan boundary commissioners to hold the speech making dinners and the display of lo-American alliance enthusiasm the award instead of after it. Oh, mothers in homes that are happy, And Thanksgiving laden with cheer. Where the children are dreaming already Of the merriest day in the year. As you gather your darlings around you And tell them the "story of old," Remember the homes that are dear, Remember the homes that are good. And thanking the love that has dowered you With all that is dearest and best, Give freely, that from your abundance some sure little life may be blessed. NATHAN MARTIN'S THANKSGIVING "Else—Ens—taster!" I beside the channel, along which ended I thought it might please Nathan and These were words of Nathan Martin to his horse, Fen. He was urging her forward over the freshly fallen November snow. In contrast with the 'whiteness' of the snow was the road. Through the break in the firs at the right could be seen a building. From its roof was rolling a cloud of smoke. It was not Nathan Martin's mill as owner, but he had hired it, had put new machinery into it, and was expecting to run it. The owner was Mrs. Paulina Gregory, the widow of Solomon Gregory. "Oh Fan faster!" he yelled. "Nobody in sight, and there's my mill burning! I can see the flames all over the roof. Nobody round, and it's just a bonfire that nobody cares about. Nathan Martin's hopes all turning into ashes. To-morrow's Thanksgiving day. Don't believe I'll play my violin in the choir. Oh, dear!" Fan had now arrived at the mill. Nathan jumped out of his pung and walked around the crimson, smoldering heap. He could not enter the building, for there was no building to be entered. Luckily, no corn had been stored there, and he had not brought any account books as yet. In anticipation, though, of business coming, there was $100 worth of new machinery that Nathan had put in. He waited until the ashes sank lower, then he turned, and this thought was in his heart: "I wonder if it wouldn't be a good plan to step up and tell the bad news to the widow. Guess her seat will be empty, too, in the meeting house to-morrow." The Widow Gregory, as it was the day before Thanksgiving, had gone to her table and was making preparation for the cooking of an extensive batch of pies. She was a very good-looking woman, but her daughter Kitty's good looks threw her mother's quite into the shade. Kitty Gregory has made this confession to herself: "Poor follow! He's going to have a dreadfully lonely time down in that old mill. He is too fine a fellow to be shut up there. If a young woman had ever an idea of marrying anyone it would be safe to accept him. If that young man is really going to that lonely, old mill, I wonder if I could do anything to cheer him up." She thought a moment—then she smiled—then she burst out laughing, "I'll do it!" she exclaimed. "I'll get one of mother's mince pies and take it down there to night. Tuesday. I know how to get into the mill and I leave the pie in what he calls his office. There, won't that make him happy! I'll get mother to let me have a pie before it is baked and I'll mark a K on the cover—that will set him to wondering—there are lots of Kitties in town." That evening a solitary figure stole up to a little side door of the mill. Nathan had often said he must have A woman in a dress stands on a wooden porch, holding a plate in her hand. She is facing a wooden chair with a plate on it. The background features a wooden cabin with a window. "I'll put the pie on the chair." a lock put on that door; it had never been done. Kitty Gregory stole through that unfastened door. In one hand was a very palatable mince pie, marked with candle and matches. She scratched her matches and lighted the candle. "I'll drop these matches down that crack in the floor, said Kitty; "the water must be running down below there, and the matches can't set the water on fire." The matches, though, fell into a heap of refuse lumber that had accumulated during recent repairs beside the channel along which speed the water to the sea. If Kitty had thrown her matches a loot farther away they would have fallen where she expected them to fall—into a batch of cold, smothering sea water. Kitty, though, was not thinking of anything under the mill floor, but of that nook up stairs that Nathan laughingly had told her would be his office. "He hasn't any desk in it" thought Kitty, "for he didn't want to run in debt, which mother thought showed a very good quality in a young man; but he has one chair, for he said he might have a customer and he would like to give him a seat, and I'll put the pie in the chair." She left her pie and went down through the mill to the side door. "Phew! do I smell smoke?" thought Kitty. She finally decided it was nothing. Next morning the fire in the rubbish heap, after smoldering all night, broke A woman is greeting a man at the door. "I am very sorry to be the bearer of bad news." out into the most lively and fatal activity. And to think that the widow Gregory, up to the middle of the forenoon, had not seen that fire from her window by the cooking table! But her mind, like that of any good worker, was on the work in hand, not on scenery half a mile away. She was thinking of that subject so absorbing to house-keepers the day before Thanksgiving—pie-making. She did finally glance down the road leading to the mill. "Why," she said, "what makes it so smoky down by the mill, and who is this man—looks like a trump—coming up to the door?" Kitty ran to the window which was close by the outside door "That old mill," she exclaimed. "Oh, I don't think I'd be willing to marry the man that ran our mill," she added in her thoughts, "unless, perhaps, it were—Nathan Martin." Her sentence was interrupted by the opening of the outside door. The man that entered heard a cheerful, vigorous voice saying: "Oh, I don't think I'd be willing to marry the man that ran our mill." The man groaned, but said to himself: "I suppose I must face the music." In the miserable, tramp-like being that stood before them, Kitty and her mother saw Nathan Martin—he was opening a package. "I am very very sorry, Mrs. Gregory and Kitty, to be the bearer of bad news. I'd have given anything if I could have helped it, but I did not know anything about it till a boy came and told me my mill was afire. I think I know how it started. I found, near the door, the fragment of a chair that stood in which I called my 'office.' I think a tramp got in there, stayed all night and started a fire. Here, I think, is a part of what he had for breakfast. Mrs. Gregory, I am very sorry. I don't suppose you will feel like going to Thanksgiving tomorrow morning, I don't." "Why not? Why shouldn't I go?" asked Mrs. Gregory. "I have something left, and haven't you?" "Well." said he, "I shall think it over. How much is left to me?" "We'll leave it this way, Nathan. If you'll come along in your pung tomorrow morning, I shall see you, and you let me and Kitty get in." Kitty Gregory was overwhelmed with confusion, and was unable to say a word, but she had been thinking at express-train speed. The moment Nathan had gone, she ran up to the package he had left and began to examine it. "Oh, mother;" she exclaimed. "I must tell you, I'm not going to keep anything from you. I thought it might please Nathan, and I took up a pie to the mill that he might have a pleasant surprise finding it. Now, this will prove it. What is that letter on the pie? "S," said her mother. "No," said Kitty, "it is K. You know what K stands for, I hope? K is for Kitty, and it was dreadfully silly in me," said the girl, whose sorrowful eyes were like violets in the dew. "I am afraid my matches, dropped through a crack where I thought they would fall into the water, must have lighted on something else! Oh, I am sorry, mother! You have lost your mill!" "But I haven't lost you, dear. You are left," said the mother, giving Kitty a warm embrace. "I toid Nathan Martin to think of what was left, and I am going to do it." Poor Nathan Martin! He went down the road saying, "Mrs. Gregory told me to think of what I had left. Now, she has Kitty." But what did I bear Kitty say when I opened the door—I won't marry the man—it was something like that, "that runs our mill."" Looking out of the kitchen window a little before meeting time, Kitty's mother saw a horse and sleigh in the yard. The occupant of the sleigh had left it. Mrs. Gregory could hear his coming footstep. She knew who it was, for she could see a violin box projecting from the sleigh. "I have called for you and Kitty," said Nathan. "If you say so, we'll all go to meeting. I have been thinking it over, and I feel that there is much left." "Nathan," said Kitty's mother, laying her hand on the young man's shoulder, "there is much left. You've got a friend in me. You've got a friend in yourself. You've got a friend in God." It was a wonderful service that day, so Nathan Martin always thought. The service over, the people separated to their homes and their beautiful dinners. "We want you to take dinner with us, Nathan," said Mrs. Gregory, and of course there could be no resistance to that invitation. Kitty was busy with preparations for the feast, but she told Nathan she wanted to see him in the fore room just as soon as she had a spare moment. There, in a frank and pitiful way, she held out the supposed tramp's breakfast and told Nathan she was the incendiary. Nathan wouldn't hear of it, but Kitty seemed to take satisfaction in insisting upon her explanation, and then Nathan's power as a comforter was called in play. "I don't think you did it. Kitty, I'm afraid you don't have confidence in my opinion." "But I do," said Kitty, "I think a great deal of you." When Kitty opened such a door, what wonder that Nathan entered. He recalled what he heard her say the day before, and then Kitty had to confess what he did not hear—her un- A "You know I am your friend, and you have my blessing." spoken admission that he was the exceptional miller. "Where are those young people!" wondered the Widow Gregory. She went to different rooms. A knock at the fore room door was successful. "Come right in," said Nathan. "We want your blessing, mother." "What?" she asked, wonderingly. "You know I am your friend and you have my blessing." "Yes, I knew I had the mother. Now I have the daughter." Kansas City. NATIVE STEEERS..... $ 3 00 @ $ 5 15 HOYA-Choose to heavy..... 4 40 @ 4 75 WHEAT-No. 2 hard..... 72 @ 73 CORN-No. 2 White..... — @ 36 CORN-No. 2 White..... — @ 36 GUTTER..... 19 @ 20 EGGS..... — @ 24 Chicago Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIME STEEERS $ 5 00 @ $ 5 60 STOCKERS & FEDERS..... 42 @ 515 TEXAS FED STEEERS... 2 75 @ 3 50 HOGS..... 4 50 @ 4 65 Chicago Grain. WHEAT-No. 2 Hard ..... $ 80 @ $ 81 CORN-No. 2..... 42 @ 42% CATS-No. 2..... — @ 31 St. Louis Live Stock. BEEVES..... $ 3 55 @ $ 5 15 HEIFERS..... 2 25 @ 4 50 TEXAS STEEERS..... 2 25 @ 3 50 Cotton. Mulligan? LIVERPOOL..... 6 133 — NEW YORK..... 11.33 — GALVESTON..... — 10% Chicago Futures. Open High Low Today Close Close Yday WHEAT- Dec..... 78 79% 77%73 79-77%73 Jan..... 78 78% 77%73 77%73 Dec..... 41% 42% 41%42 41%42 Jan..... 41% 42% 41%42 41%42 OATS- Dec..... 23% 31% 23% 34% 33% Jan..... 34%35% 35% 35% 35% Wichita Live Stock. HOGS..... $ 4 40 @ $ 4 63% CATTI-5-STOCKERS..... @ 3 00 COWS..... 1 00 @ 2 00 HEIFERS..... @ — STEERS..... @ — LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. The Montana storm turned out to be a fearful blizzard. The citizens of Colombia unite in the ery "Death to Americans." New York city has given $25,000 to make an exhibit at St. Louis. The yellow fever condition in Texas has been made better by frosts. The latest Austro-Russian note to Turkey is exceedingly peremptory. The United States supreme court adjourned for two weeks on November 16. The Nelson Morris Packing company of St. Louis has suffered a $100,000 fire. The second day of the Chicago street car strike was quieter than the first day. There is a demand from Denver upon the coal market at Kansas City. Quotations for trainloads are asked for. The coal miners of Utah have been granted a ten per cent increase of wages which raises their pay to $2.75 a day. The recent heavy rains in London cleaned the streets and washed out the sewers, which has improved health and reduced the death rate. The teachers of Greater New York have formed an organization which has been asked to unite with the Central Federated Labor Union. The growth of the National Grange has been rapid this year. National Master Jones urges the extension of nature teaching in tile public schools. The St. Joseph, Mo., Gazette, the oldest paper there, has been sold for $85,000, and it is to be changed from a Democratic morning paper to Republican. The grand lodge of Massachusetts of the A. O. U. W., has voted to sever its connection with the supreme lodge of the United States on account of the assessment plan. Laboratories are to be established in New York, Boston, New Orleans and San Francisco, by the secretary of agriculture, for testing imported food products. The American Sugar Company, of Brooklyn, is charged with stealing city water by means of hidden subterranean connections; millions of gallons a day being taken, without report or compensation. Resolutions were introduced in the Federation Labor convention at Boston to the effect that the so-called open shop policy, "whether under private or government management," cannot be recognized by organized labor. The largest congressional seed distribution has begun. Over 1,000 tons of garden and field seeds will be distributed at a cost of $270,000. The seeds will amount to 45,000,000 packages. Three engineers and three firemen were killed in a freight collision in a fog, near Newhope, Ky. One of the trains was a double-header. Five union men boarded different cars during the Chicago strike, and paid their fares for a chance to use their influence to avoid violence. The Overland cotton mills of Denver have closed because of lack of coal. Four hundred persons are thrown out of employment. A fire in a mail car of the St. Petersburg-Moscow mail train is said to have desurgeval valuables estimated at $3,500,000. Spontaneous combustion is supposed to be the cause. The Mexican Central road, a Rockefeller property, is building an extension south to Guatemala. The route selected follows closely the survey made by the Pan-American commission. Gov. 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Department competent factory work guaranteed. opportunity to serve you. Music Co., Douglas Ave. While the bill proposes a general investigation of the laws of the various states under which elections of presidential electors, members of congress and members of the state legislatures are held, it is no doubt intended mainly to bring about a searching scrutiny of the statutes by which the states of the South have disfranchised the Negro. The passage of the measure will, for this reason, be obstinately and bitterly opposed by the statesmen from the South. It will also be objected to by large numbers of people in all sections who dislike to think of the revival of sectonal and racial antipathies which the proposed investigation might cause. There are not a few Americans who would rather see the Negro race peamantly deprived of suffrage and the constitution and laws of the country tranpled under foot than to face the storm which would be raised if a serious attempt were made to protect the Negroe's rights. Few Northern people criticise the whites of the South for adopting constitutional provisions fixing educational and property qualification for voters. They had both a legal and moral right to do this. What they are condemned for is the denying of the suffrage to Negroes while they grant it to all whites, regardless to their ignorance and poverty. Such a coarse is plainlp in violation to the fifteenth amendment. Furthermore, since the Southerners have themselaes reduced the number of their voters, it is wholly unreasonable and unjust for them to insist that they shall be 0ermitted to retain the same representation in congress that they had when their voting population was much larger. The constitution expressly commands congress to reduce the representation of states whose voting population has been diminished, and congress is guilty of grave neglect of dnty as long as it fails to obey the command. Did you ask the merchant with whom you trade, whether he "ads" in our paper? If not, why not? Insist upon it that he "ads" with us. WICHITA. KANSAS. NOV 21 1908. --- Buy your Fresh meat at the Packing House meat market and save money. Remember the place--Market at the Gate of the Dold Pack ing House. The talk about town is, Thanksgiving Night at DUNBAR HAJ.L. STORE. A Negro department store has been established on Broad street in Richmond, Va. by J, J. Miller, formerly of Columbia, S. C. Miller is rated by Dunn and Brad street, and is said to be worth $100,000, the result of thrift and industry. Five drivers of carriages, employed by the Youngstown Transfer Co., struck at a funeral the other day, leaving their vehicles standing unhitched. They objected to having a colored "boss". Polide arrested the drivers for leauing their horses unhitched, and the funeral proceeded without further interruption. ALL LIKE IT "Talk about the Searchlight, why of course, they all like to read it." said a colored gentleman recently. "Why," he continued, "I have been in this town for 19 years and it is the only colored paper that he's ever survived from one campaign to the other. I take it, read it and like it, too. It is doing wonders for the colored people here if they would only see it. Miss M. C. Hannibal. FINE MILLINERY We solicit trabe on the basis of Quality at the Lowest Prices. 135 N. Main St. Wichita, Ks TO PROTECT THE NEGRO. Now that Congress is in session all eyes are now on Washington. One of the main questions which "should" be considered is that of reducing the representation of those states that have illegally disfranchised the Negro voter. From a birdseye view of the situation the following is a foreshadow of what congress will do in the interest of Negro protection: OOOOOOOOooooooo. HAM Captain Harry McKinley, a cousin of the late President William McKinley, was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail at Kalamazoo, Mich. on Nov. 11, for jumping a board bill at a hotel in that city two months ago. Evidence was introduced by the defendant's attorneys to prove that McKinley intended to return and pay the bill. The prosecuting attorney, however, furnished counter proof that such was not his intention. The jury was out three hours and fifteen minutes and brought in a verdict of guilty. The judge imposed a straight jail sentence, refusing to allow the alternative of a fine. When leaving the prisoner's dock for jail McKinley broke down and said: "My God, why did I do it! I have shamed the name of the dead president." MOTHER OF 22 CHILDREN. A colored woman by the name of Mrs. Marie Deransbourg, of New Orleans, La., has just died at the age of 114 years. In life she had given birth to 22 children. The old woman had never known any severe illness, and oad only been confined to her bed two weeks before her death. Prior to this event she was perfectly sound, and could move about without assistance. Her hearing and sight were almost perfect. Brailschis 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Always Reliable Get a Searchlight, if you want the news. BIG THANKSGIVING EVENT ADMIT ONLY - 15c. SOLDIERS AND PENSIONS. Pension Commissioner Ware reports that 703,456 surviving soldiers of the civil war ars redeiving pensions. He estimates that 200,000 surviving soldiers have not applied for pensions. If the estimate is correct there are still living 900,000 of the 2,772,-408 soldiers who enlisten in the Union army. Of the 2,772,408 men on the army rolls 61,362 were killed in battle, 34,773 died soon after receiving wounds in battle and 183,287 died of disease during the war. Before the war ended 223,535 men had been discharged as disabled by wounds or disease. Of the 280,000 men wounded in action, one-half probably were partially disabled. Of those who returned sick or were released from prisons in the last year of the war, many died before the muster out of the army. On these figures it is safe to assume that nearly one-half the Union soldiers able for duty in June, 1865, are still alive. The pensioners include all classes of disabled or partially disabled officers and enlisted men. The list now includes thousands of men who in the last few years have found wounds, regarded trifling at first, or infirmities born of army exposure, too heavy for advancing age, and have applied for the service pension. The list is to be enlarged in the future if enlarged at all from the 200,000 soldiers who have never contemplated possibilities that would make them applicants for pensions. At most only a few thousand of these are likely to apply even for the service pension. Therefore, it may be assumed that in the next few years there will be a marked decrease in the pension list. Mistake Somewhere. "Sleep," remarked the poet, "is fired nature's bath." "Such being the case," rejoined the prosaic person, "it strikes me that tramps ought be cleaner than they are." VII. in vs. Scoundrel. She—Is there any difference between a villain and a scoundrel? NO 26 The poor peacemaker is more often cussed than blessed. There is no need for the owner of Dan Patch to e late at his meals. It's bad luck to break a mirror, if it happens to be a plate glass one worth $50. Wos y Gil? We don't know what it means, but it looks as though he was. "Our lady of the snows" has been getting pretty hot under her snowy collar. Mark Twain has sailed for Italy. May heaven guard this innocent abroad! By the way, did you collect posters a few years ago? Where is your collection now? Popocatapetl is for sale for $5,000.-000. Mt. Pelee could probably be bought for less. Now that Jim Jeffries has taken to smoking cigarettes any one, of course, can see his finish. No one should expect King Peter to pay old debts when his life insurance premiums are so high. A man always tells his second sweetheart that he only thought he loved the other girl, anyway. Canada should stop making faces and try to find how old Ann is. She will soon forget the Alaskan boundary. E. L. Wentz, a Philadelphia millionaire, has disappeared, and now his friends are asking whence Wentz went. Colombia has a deficit of 30,000,000 pesos, Colombian money. That must be almost as much as 30 cents in real money. Many a girl thinks she would like to be a man, but, on further consideration, decides that she would prefer to be a man's. Would a poem by Rudyard Kipling on the Alaska boundary decision soothe Canadian feeling or arouse still greater irritation? Life in Servia is very cheap. The highest sum paid to any of the assassins of King Alexander and Queen Draga was only $10,000. Nobody seems to have taken the trouble to ask the people of Manchuria what their personal preferences in the matter are. Resigned. Willie—Papa is going to let you marry sister. Featherstone—How do you know? Willie—He said that it was better than nothing, aft all—Household Ledger. "Yo' nebbah had eny experience wid wives, did yo', bruddah?" asked henpecked Remus. "No, sah," replied Sam, "but Ah've raised mules." a THE SEARCHLIGHT, —__ womrra, - - - KANS. ————————— ‘W. N. MILLER, Editor. pea Entered at the Post Office at Wichita Kansas, as Second - Class Mai) Matter. 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Wri tt plain and on one side of the paper only. 5th No Name will be placed on our book: without the money, So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. th Address all communications to “ The Wichita Searchlight ” Wichita, Kansas. th Any erroncous reflection upon the eharacter, standing or reputation of any per eon which may appéar in this paper, will be Gladly corrected if brought to the Editor, “To Live and Let Live,” is UR Motto. ——_ VICTIM OF RACE PREJUDICE. A plain case of race prejudice on the part of white laborers at the United Sash & Door Factory has come to light this week in the case where Mr. W. A. Wright was fored out of his job by the ‘white men who work at that plant. For several years Mr. Wright had been a trusted and compe- tent employee of the Crescent Sash & Door Co. of Winfield, Ks., and when, that company moved its plant to Wichita abont one year ago they brought Mr. Wright with themas their shipping clerk. He coneinued to fill that position with perfect safisfaction. About seven months ago the Crescent Sash & Door Co. sold its stock to the United Sash & Door Co. The United Sash & Door Co. left Mr. , Wright in charge of the stock on hand of the Cresent Co., and it is said to have been generally un- derstood that when this stock was sold out, that Mr. Wright would be transferred to the plant of the United Sash & Door Co. But when this stock of the Cres: cent Co. was sold and the time came to make the change a com- mittee from the white meh whe work at the United Sash & Door Co. waited on the management of that company and informed them, so itis said, that if that “nigger” was sent to that plant they would all quit. The man- agement therefore discharged Mr. Wright. Thisis a dirty shame to cut a man’s livelihood and chance to feed his family off right in the dead of winter. Such ac- tion is enough to make the black people’s hair stand on ends. Of course, Mr. Wright was power- less and all he could do was to submitto this harsh treatment. “No fault at all could be found about him or with his work; but simply because he is a colored man he must lose his job to please a set of white men. ‘The colored people of Wichita do some building in thls city every year and they use just such material as is made by the United Sash & Door Co, While we donot blame the company, yet we think the colored people who may have oc casion to buildin the future should refuse to buy any doors, sashes or other goods in that liné which are made by the men at that plant who refuse to work witha “‘nigger’’, as they put it. While they refuse to work with a “‘nigger’’ they do not refuse to reach out and get the money, in wages, which the colored people who build pay for the goods which they make. We are always sor- ry to hear of such infernal cases; but it is simply a lesson to show the colored people what the race really needs. ‘The Kink That Won’t Come Back. You can make your hair just as straight and smooth as you want to by using the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, and the kink that was there before -will not come back. The Ozonized Ox Marrow also keeps hair from falling out, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow, It never fails. One bottle does it. Sold over forty years to ladies of re- finement all over tne country, giving perfect satisfaction. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. CHURCH DIRECTORY St.Paul A. M. E. B21 N. Water St. 7 11 am preaching. 4 pe: Sunday school, =r ‘T pm Song Service, 8 pm Preaching, Rev, P. D. Yochnm, Pastor, Residence Sul N, Water, New Hope Baptist, ‘North Mead ave. 11 am Preaching. 1pm Sunday School. , 8 pm Preaching. Rev H. P. Frazier, Pastor 239 New York ave, Second Baptist, 521 N, Wichita. 11 am Preaching, 3 pm Sunday School, 8 pm Preaching, Rev. S. M. Hall, Pastor Tabernacle Baptist 834 N. Water, Lam Preaching, 1 pm Sunday School. 8 pm Preaching, Rev. A. Hl. Mayo, Pastor ILLINOIS MEAT MARKET Fresh ; Salt Meats J.T, FITZSIMONS, Prop. Phone 1091 612 E, Douglas ‘The Negro professional man who so far forgets his position as to attempt to “ down ” any Negro enterprise should be very careful of his ground. He should remem- ber that though he may flourish in his opposition for a season—yet he is doomed. No Negro professional man can profit by thus doing. And when the tray does turn, as it sure ly will, he should not complain— he is simply reaping what he has sown, Exchange WORLD WONDER. Mrs. Pauline S. Johnson (col- ored), of Topeka was before the State Board of Pharmacy Wed- nesday and passed avery credit- able examination. She has the very distinctive distinction of be- ing the only lady, white or color- ed, who hasever passed the ex- amination in Kansas. Mrs. John- son is said to have attained a higher grade than any of the oth- er candidates. She isa graduate of the Mahara Medical College (colored) of Nashville, Tenn. SAY BILL, will you meet me at Dunbar hall "ankegivies Niemi? Locals and Personals Mrs. W. E. Whitted, pean Hair Goods, Breids, Switetes, stc., sto _ ers Proms Deere. 500 North Water St. EEK KKK EK KS KKK Ee ES Mrs. J. H. Branson, of 641 N, Wichita, left Friday for a visit among relatives and friendsin K. C. Mo, and St. Joe, Mo,” She will spend Thanksgiving in Kensas City and willjthen go to St. Joe, where she will visit her brother, Richard McBride, She will be absent about three weeks. There will bo a Thanksgiving din \ner given at the Second Bap tist church by cleb V ”. Tneze will +e) obea very interesting program at night, Mrs. Wm. Bowers is pres- ident and Mrs. Alien Austin, is secretary of this club. Bill of Fare Ham and Cabbage ‘Corn Bread ‘Purkey and cranberries Chicken Celery Pomatoes Creamad Potatoes Sweet Potatoes Punkin Pie Ice Cream Cake Hot Coffee Tea Admission 103, SS THANKSGIVING IN WICHITA 1903. ig be at Thanksgiving Day. In the morning the usual Thanksgiving sermons will be preached as all th ehure .es—A. M. E. Church by Rev P.D. Yoohum, the Sud Baptist by Rev, S. M. Hail, the New Hope bj Rey. H, F. Frazier, andthe Taber aacle by Rev. A. H. Mayo. At6p m. Rev. Hall will deliver his sec- ond Thanksgiving Day sermon at \the Zad Baptist Church. At night jthere will be an entertainment at the 2nd Baptist Church given by Club“V". The A. M. E. Obureh will hold forth at Peerfess Hall with the “Old Maid’s Convention”. At the Dunbar Hall, 233 N. Main st. the Search] ght will entertain with aliserary wrogram from 8 to 9:15 and dadoing beginning at 9:30 with a big grand maroh ted by Mr. J. B. H, Fray, tho popular dancing mas- ter, ‘Phere will be no, excuse for one not to find enjoyment at some these amusements, | “Mrs Pauline S, M. Johnson, o | Topeke, and Henry Hale, of Wiot- jis were the only colored persons to take the pharmacy examination on Wednesday in this city, TheG. L. A. olub will meet at the residence of Mrs. Lee Anderson, | St Francis, next week. ‘A certain lady's fingers were {frozen Tueeday night. Oan yo jguess whose fingers they were’ You can’t? Weil!!! Warden E. B. Jewett, of the Kansas Penitentiary, was in the o”. iy Teesday on business and meet ing his mang friends of this city He is looking fiine. Mp. S. W. Lea bas been appoint- ed special policeman for the 2n¢ Baptist and the A, M EK, churches | He will make a good man. The Golden and Silver Loa | Shingle Ciubs will give a Thanks. latvia dloner and supper at Peer- les8 Hall Thussday, Nov. 26. The spinsters’ Convention giver || by the ladies of the A. M. E. churet | promises to be the best concert giv- ‘en this season. Don’t fail to see th old maids traneformed into young girls at Peerlees Hall Nov. 26th, | - The B. T. W. was royally enter tained by Miss Madge Yochun Wodnesday afternoon. The nex! meeting will be at Mrs. Lucy An. derson’s, on N, Wichita st. On next Thursday night, Nov 26th., Thanksgiving night, on of the grandest events of the sea son will take place at Dun ba: hall, 233 North Main st,, wher the Searchlight will throw wid open the deor for its friends. Every effort willbe put fort sto royally entertain all who come There will be a Literary progran from 8 to 9:15 after whieh t h« hall will be turned over to the lov ers of mirth and music under the management of Mr. J. B. H, Fra; ehhh USE IM BODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR,, BREAKFAST FOOD —and yon will Love good eating — AT YOUR aes: Rete DEsDDEN MILLING 0, MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW S 5 ; & y Select your FaLL and WINTER 7 jea2 N SUIT, OVERCOATS and TROUSERS at Cy Ze > the PEERLESS TAILOR’S. \Y yy Oar stock comprises the latest y A) | whe! nove'ties in FCREIGN and DoMEs"c H ee Woolens. H a See me before placing your order. IN ve The Peerless Tail r i Z)) x) we 508 H. Douglas Ave. . ig & ) (4 102 F i 1 J. E. ALLEN, co wpe | MONEY © 70 ¢LOAN /CHATTELS” 151 N. MAIN WICHITA : ; ; A FREE game inside : each package of Li C ff 60 different games. Probate Judge, appointed, E. E. Enoch, has appointed C a p t. J.B. Fishback as his deputy and Milton Barringer, clerk. Capt. Fishback is an old soldier and is a strong republican. Mr. Barrin- ger is Stenographer for the Young Men’s Republican club. Judge Thos. C. Wilson has ap- pointed C. D. Fazell, court ste- nographer. Rev. S. M. Hall, pastor of the 2d Baptist church left Monday fora few days visit to Yale and Pittsburg, Rev. Flintroy.of Guthrie, Okle., was in tte city Wednesday, and preaeied at the New Hope Baptist ehurch Wednesday night. Mrs, Alpha Heck bas been quite siek aa her home 355 N. Market for the past two weeks, but is much better now. Mrs. J. H, Vanlue bas been suff- ering with pacumonia for the past few days but she is improving. Sam Anderson was off from work Wednesday and Thursday on ac- count of being sick. Louis Jackeon who has been sick at the Ceutropolis hotel is improv- ing. Littte -Munell McDougall is on the sick tist this week. ‘The little baby Sanders is Im— proving. Mrs, R. M.Countee who Bas ‘been sick is on the mend. EER TEA AUD Best 7 puree. — a : ‘Brdilscls ¢ > 120 B. Dougias Aver, > _ FOOTWEAR ¢ Is Up-to-the-Miny KANSAS OITY, Kays. One of the swollest events df season was the bisth-day pay e0 Noy. 12th., by Mr. sni Andrew Wilhiams at their beanil residence 1628 North Fourth st, Misées E. Mao and Ophelis fi redeived with the hostess, The th decosations were beautiful; fi ehrysantheums adorned the pi where the guests were we'cowel Chrysantheums, pink and ribbon wera used in the dinigl room and here the puneb war ed. ‘Phe evening was spent io m and recitation, Mrs, Williams r ceived many handsome precest Miss Nora Sexton, of It, Scott svi Mrs. J. Ewing, 1626 N* 4th Mr. and Mra, M. Phillips, Mrs. WJ inson and little Ethel Aldridge beve © a trp through the South, Miss D'Ella Borden came sown £1 Parksville to visit Miss Ophelia Mile Thos, A. Ross hag returned from | Ark. where he visited his moiher | Miss Estella Graham on the sick is | Mr. and Mes. Micheal were down Spring Hill Saturday. Mrs, John McLain is still very scl Rev. J. M. Moppins, pastor of the © E, church contemplates a trip tv Alsi Mrs, Jane Halaway died at her late} ‘on North Sixth street. Mra. Vina Doman is sick week. KINGMAN, KAN Tuesday of last week Mrs. Robi. De aud Mrs. W. N, Miller, of Wichita. drone five miles in the country to the comforil home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Siahks whe they were served toa fine dinner. Mr. B Banks has 180 acres of fine farm land # many head of stock. He is doing vel! ™ ladies had a royal time Mrs, Rubt. Davis rerved 6 'd# dinner lust Wednesday in 0 4 Mrs, W. N. Miller, of Wichite. Qa! a nice time was had. ‘Those prt Mesdames M. E. Wood, Floydd, 4 ! Banks; Misses Florence Banks ® Etta Floydd. | ©, P, Johnson, ww, R. Jobssa Pres. Ser. 8TH C P. Johnson C0» Live Stock Commission Merchants Money Always On Hand To Los ‘Po Responsible Partiet Your Business Solicted Wichita Stock ards Phose PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St Banner Mills + CUSTOM GRINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISCH BROS, PROPS. 022 N. Main St. Phone 530 When in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the lowest prices at KERNAN'S 102 E. Donnelley Ave. 'Phone 857 ROWLEE Hardware Store 823 N. Main St. Cheapest Hardware and Stove house in Wichita; because we pay no rent and have light expenses SEE!! H. H. Hess & Co Bicycles, Guns, Ammunition, Fishing Tackle and General Sporting Goods. 209 N. Main Phone 444 CALL AT The ELITE Restaurant When You Want A GOOD MEAL Always The Best, and Cooked Well — MEALS 15cts — C. L. KINER, Prop. 48 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. Dr.J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 936. Go to ISRAEL BROS. For Real Estate. F.W. Israel. 123 N. Market Wichita. J. B. My whole attention to Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines, Music Boxes, Gramaphones, Piano players supplies, etc., etc. I can make better prices than ordinary dealers on anything. THOS. SHAW, 132 North Main Street B. F. McLEAN, LUMBER YARDS AT Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. CHAS. A. SC Real Estate, and Insurance NOTARY MYRON A. Groceries, Fru and I 815 N.-D SECOND NUMBER = DEAL S AT Bearwater, Peck, Key, Kansas. 408 W. HAS. A. SCHWENDIGER Real Estate, Rental, Lo Insurance Agent, NOTARY PUBLIC LUMBER = DEALER YARDS AT Phone 134 Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kausas. 408 W. Douglas CHAS. A. SCHWENDIGER, Real Estate, Rental, Loans and Insurance Agent, NOTARY PUBLIC MYRON A. DEAN veeties, Fruits, Vegetable and Feed. 315 N. MAIN ST. 101-Both Phones SECOND TO NONE MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. We trade Ranches, Farms, J. F. Belle Real Estate & I Homes So Installment Pla Western Lands and Ranges A Oklahoma and Colorado Patronage Office 110 N. Ma Trade Ranches, Farms, City Property and Mer F. Bellew & Co. Estate & Imigration Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Lands and RangesA Specialty. Dealers in, K Ohoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Lands Atronage Solicited Office 110 N. Main, wichita, Kane We trade Ranches, Farms, City Property and Merchandise J. F. Bellew & Co., Real Estate & Imigration Agts Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Western Lands and RangesA Specialty. Dealers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Lands. Patronage Solicited= Office 110 N. Main, wichita, Kansas. The greatest event of the Season will be the big Thanksgiving Offering at DUNBAR hall, 238 N. Main st., to be given under the auspices of the Searchlight. TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Some of our correspondents are very irregular in sending in their communications. It should be remembered to create an interest in a community it is essential to be prompt. Friends in the various cities and towns could assist their representatives by handing in items for their column. We hope our correspondents will all bestir themselves and send in the news of the doings of our people. Do not wait for something to "turn up", but turn something up. Our Correspondents did nicely this week in response to the above request. Good!" Keep it up. —Editor AGAINST LYNCH LAW. Chief Justice Lore of the Delaware Supreme court recently delivered a strong charge to the grand jury which was considering the criminal work of the county courts. After reciting the details of murder on June 15 of Helen Bishop by George White = DEALER Phone 134 408 W. Douglas SHWENDIGER, Rental, Loans Agent, Y. PUBLIC Over 117 N. Market—Phone 773. A. DEAN fruits, Vegetables Feed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 TO NONE OTTO WEISS, Agent. City Property and Merchandise ew & Co., Immigration Agts Sold On Ann. Easy Terms. Specialty. Dealers in, Kansas, Farms and Ranch Lands. Solicited= tain, wichita, Kansas. and the subsequent lynching of White by a mob, Justice Lore said: "For the first time the lawless and revolting crime of lynching has invaded this state. Lynching is a crime against the law of both God and man. Every wilful participant in such an act is a murderer. No man has a right to commit the crime because he believes or hears that some other person who is entrusted with the execution of the law will fail or has failed in the performance of his duty. "Under the law we know what are, and in the main, we find that they are fairly attained and en—forced. No human laws or human institutions are perfect. This no reasonable man will expect. "Lynching and mob law, their promoters and encouragers, whether they be of high or low degree, should receive no favors at the hands of thoughtful und patriotic men. There must be government or non government. The line of cleavage is clear. All history teaches that the prevalence of mob law if the end of free government. Obedienceto lrw is the life breath of our repub ic "To you the people look for the faithful, fearless and honest dis- charge of your duty. They ask nothing more and expect nothing less. Officer Jeff Thompson is acquitting himself in a most creditible manner. He is a good officer. The Searchlight received many compliments on its last week's issue. Thanks, we'll try to keep that up! One of Wichita's prominent colored men is Mr. Jas. L. Harper. Mr. Harper is a man of much weight in social and political circles and has many friends. He is a man who means what he says and says what he means and can thus be relied upon. Mr. Pat Durfrey has been conducting the dining hall at the stock yards for a number of years and is a man who owns somethin in this city. He is a man of few words but much business. He owns several gook properties in this city: Quiet, unassuming and perfect genteel tell the daily walk of Mr. Jno. S. Howell, one of Wichita's goto. the front colored men. Mr. Howell owns two very fine pieces of property on N. Water. Mr. Joe Phillips is one of our up to date young colored men. He is in charge of the Elks' room on east Douglass, where he has been for several years. He has a host of friends among the Elks and among his own people. He is "Ok". Mr. W. H. Grant is one of our colored property owners. He is at present employed by the city. California $25.00 One Way Cylonist During Nov. ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM Homeseekers' Excursion to Texas Nov. 24th. $15.00 Down and Back. C. E. Bascom, C. P. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Glauberg, the popular priced milliner, 407 East Douglas, does both wholesale and retail. He has one of the largest and most complete stock of millinery goods, at lowest prices. Read the Searchlight every week. ODDS AND ENDS. More than 90 per cent of the vessels using the Suez canal navigate by night. Foronto got $12,754.25 for its share of the street railway earnings for September The potato forms nearly 14 per cent of the total food of the people of this country. A new emigration law in Italy confines departures to Naples, Genoa and Palermo. $7.50 Trimmed Hats at ..... $5.00 $9.00 Trimmed Hats at ..... $5.00 $12.00 Trimmed Hats at ..... $5.00 $15.00 Trimmed Hats at ..... $5.00 $7.50 Trimmed Hats at.....$5.00 $9.00 Trimmed Hats at.....$5.00 $12.00 Trimmed Hats at.....$5.00 $15.00 Trimmed Hats at.....$5.00 Gaulberg's 407 East Douglas THE TRAVELER'S FAVORITE FRISCO SYSTEM THROUGH SERVICE Between St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Birmingham, Paris, Fort Fort Smith, Wichita, Oklahoma City And Points in Minot, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tou- klahoma and Indian Territories, Indiana and Illinois. Information as to train service and rates, also illustrated descriptive matter, promptly furni- application to B.F. DUNN DIV. PARS. AGENT Wichita, KS. Receipt Book FREE Call UNION MILL and Recei- by the Thursday Afternoon Cooking Club, Mrs. B Campbell, Pres. You can use any brand of flour these receipts, but PEERLESS PRINCESS "- the cake" and suits every lover of good cooking. The Wichita Union Mill Co, JOB WORK IS OUR HOME Let us try your next ord Good Things to Eat THE ITS FAVORITE BISCO SYSTEM H SERVICE Mumbils, Birmingham, Paris, Fort Worth, Whitna, Oklahoma City Kansasas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Mortorities, Indiana and Illinois. Illustrated descriptive matter, promptly furnished upon DUNN BOS. AGENT Whitna, Ks. book FREE N MILL and get a Receipt Book In Cooking Club, Mrs. B H. use any brand of flour with LESS PRINCESS "takes lover of good cooking. Union Mill Co, K OUR HOBBY. our next order ings to Eat THE TRAVELER'S FAVORITE FRISCO SYSTEM THROUGH SERVICE Between St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Birmingham, Paris, Fort Worth, Fort Smith, Wichita, Oklahoma City And Points in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territories, Indiana and Illinois. Information as to train service and rates, also illustrated descriptive matter, promptly furnished upon application to B.F. DUNN DIV. PASS. AGENT Wichita, Ks. Call UNION MILL and get a Receipt Book by the Thursday Afternoon Cooking Club, Mrs. B H. Campbell, Pres. You can use any brand of flour with these receipts, but PEERLESS PRINCESS "takes the cake" and suits every lover of good cooking. Good Things to Eat Home made Bread, Pies, Cakes and all kinds of Pastries. Our Home made Candies cannot be equalled anywhere. They are made fresh every day. Bissant WICHITA KANSAS Phone 98 306 East Douglas Phone J. L. FRANCIS, J. H. J. L. Francis & Co. STEARN'S PAINT The Paint That Holds Wallpaper, Paint and Glaze 407 East Douglas Wick ncis & Co., PAINT The Paint That Holds paint and Glass Wichita, Kan. Nice Furnished ROOMS- By the night or week Translent a Specialty J. L. Francis & Co. STEARN'S PAINT The Paint That Holds Wallpaper, Paint and Glass 107 East Douglas Wichita, Kan. Mrs. R. Heck, Prop. 244 North Water St. W. M. Dunson, Painter All Kinds of Fine ARTISTIC PAINTING The Only Colored Painter the City. Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N. Main Phone 936 For Society and Working People Bread J. L. FRANCIS, Red Front Racket The People's Economy Store. We have just received a large in voice of Men's Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies and Misses Fine Dress Shoes, Oxford and Slippers, all styles and all kinds AT WHOLESALE PRICES You'll find an excellent line of "Colonials" the proper thing and latest fad, in our regular stock, at $2 TAPR BROTHERS & HANSHAW Phone 257. 255-257 N. Main 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. J. H. TURNER LIVE STOCK Adulturers of Stock Pee. In an address to Wisconsin farmers, Prof. W. A. Henry said: We have already referred to unground weed seeds in bran. Often they are ground and introduced into the bran. They may possess considerable feeding value, but bran should not be called pure bran in which such material is found. Another class of adulterants may be illustrated by the oat hulls and other by-products from the oatmeal factories. With the large increase in the use of oatmeal for human food, great quantities of oat hulls—hundreds of train loads—result annually. Then the oat grains are carefully cleaned at the mills and the fine pencil of hairs found at the end of the grain is removed and these hairs constitute the major portion of a material known as oat dust. Finally there are particles of the oat grain itself possessing considerable nutriment not used in the manufacture of human foods, which go in with the waste. These materials separately and variously intermixed are properly enough placed on the market for the feeding of live stock. Sold for what they are, no one should find fault with them. There is a tendency, however, with feed dealers and others to mix oat hulls and other by-products of the oatmeal factories with higher priced feeding stuffs, and get as much as possible for the mixture. In the worst cases oat hulls are added to cornmeal and the mixture sold for ground corn and oats. The unsuspicious buyer taking some of the material in his hand sees the oat hulls and supposes of course that the kernels, which naturally go with the hulls, are likewise present. The deception is a rank fraud and the selling of such material is contrary to the Wisconsin feeding stuffs law. A still lower grade of adulterating material is made by grinding up corn stalks. There has come about the use of corn pith for various purposes. The portion of the stalk remaining after the removal of the pith, consisting mostly of the shell of the stalk, together with the leaves and husk, is ground to a fine dust-like powder, sometimes called "Marsden Feed." Great things have been claimed for this material, but it cannot have a very high feeding value, and should never rank with concentrated feeding stuffs. This material, of a yellowish-brown color and dust-like, is sometimes used for adulterating stock foods. One sample of dried brewers' grains from Illinois shows this material mixed with it as an adulterant. Another adulterant consists of ground-up corn cobs. In the recent issue of the trade journal name, "Flour and Feed," the statement is made that a corn cob meal factory in Indiana runs night and day. This factory grinds up corn cobs into a meal-like substance, evidently for the sole purpose cf selling it to feed dealers for adulterating feeding stuffs. ```markdown ``` Digesting Hay and Oats One of the most interesting of the lines of investigation followed in an extended series of experiments, carried on under the direction of Professor Zuntz at the Agricultural High School in Berlin, was the determination of the energy required to chew and digest different foods. The experiments were complicated and too extended to describe here except in very general terms. They showed that the respiratory quotient, l. e., the ratio of the carbon dioxide excreted in the breath to the oxygen consumed from the air, is a very delicate index of the changes which take place in the body. It was found that the internal muscular work expended in chewing, swallowing and digesting food could be determined by the variations in the respiratory quotient and in the amount of carbon dioxide excreted when this kind of work was performed, as compared with the amount when the animal rested. Different feeding stuffs modified the respiratory quotient in different ways, and it was evident that some required more labor for digestion and assimilation than others. This is a matter of considerable importance, for it is evident that if two feeding stuffs of practically the same composition are digested with equal thoroughness, but one requires for digestion and assimilation the expenditure of more internal muscular work than the other, it is really less valuable; in other words, the two may contain the same amount of digestible nutrients, but one causes the body more labor to assimilate than the other. On the basis of Zuntz's average figures of composition and digestibility, 1 pound of hay furnishes 0.391 pound of total nutrients, and 1 pound of oats 0.615 pound of nutrients. As regards nutritive value, hay and oats are therefore commonly said to be to each other as 400 : 600. As shown by the experiments referred to, 0.213 pound, or 20 per cent of the total nutritive material present in one pound of oats is expended in the labor of chewing and digesting them. In the case of 1 pound of hay, 0.192 pound, or 49 per cent of the total nutritive material, is required for the same purpose. Therefore hay and oats stand really in the proportion of 290 : 490. In other words, oats surpass hay in feeding value two and one-half times instead of one-half time, as they are ordinarily assumed to do—Prof C. F. Langworthy in Government Report. Select miscellany in the guise mince pie is about due. NOV. 25th the Date Club "G" of the 2nk Baptist church, of which Miss. S. E. Patton, is president, will render the following program at the church, Wednesday night, Nov. 25th. PROGRAM 1— Opening Chorus 2— Mandolin and Guitar. 3 Ree ..... Mrs, Lucy Anderson 4 Solo ..... Miss Mary Alexander 5 Rec. ..... Mrs, H. W, James 6 Pi no Solo. Mi s Corine Miller 7 Solo ..... Miss Carrie Bradford 8 Rec. ..... Mrs. S. C. Collins 9 Solo ..... Mrs. R. Braden 10 Instrumental 11 Solo ..... : Mrs. Thos. Fines 12 Solo ..... Mrs. Alexander 13 Instrumental Duett 14 Chorus by Company 15 Solo ..... Eveline Estel Great is the Wichita Searchlight this week. Are You a Subscriber? Sir Thomas Lipton got back to London just in time to give the Canadian commissioners a few sorely-needed lessons in the art of losing gracefully. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone will probably have more peace of mind if he skips his Canadian exchanges and reads only American papers for a while. A man who wants to buy human bodies is offering $5 each for them. The departed may have to form a trust to get the price up to what they are worth. "If smitten upon the right cheek," said the philosopher, "one should turn the left, but it is safer to wait until after you have knocked the man down before doing it." An effort is to be made to put a stop to swearing among the sailors in the navy. Their profanity has been noticeably worse since their allowance of grog was shut off. London has produced the custom of pelting the newly-married couple with rose leaves instead of rice. Poetic, of course, but rose leaves are not so easy to get as rice, and rice is easier to sweep up. Dr Greth of San Francisco says that there are three kinds of flying machines, so called. Popular observation has discovered only two—those that will fly a little and those that won't fly at all. Now that Santos-Dumont has had the pleasure of taking up two charming American girls as companions in his airship, Prof. Langley must realize more bitterly than ever how much he has missed. They want more women at Seattle, Wash., where a good many men who would be willing to get married can't find wives. Let the Massachusetts school ma'ams take the hint now or else forever hereafter hold their peace. According to the Mississippi Valley Medical association's estimate the last Fourth of July celebration cost the nation 400 lives. The American public can now defy the world to produce another nation which pays such a price for its "patriotism." the cruiser Variag of the Russian navy, like some others of the best warships of both nations, were built in the, United States, and yet it cannot be said that Uncle Sam doesn't care who in the world makes war, so long as he can make the battleships. The Salvation Army is reported invading the mountains of East Tennessee. This, we believe, is the locality which has been described by Bob Taylor as reaching so close to the skies that one can stand on the mountain tops and tickle the toes of the angels. It ought to be a congenial spot for the Salvationists. A Paris statistician has figured out that the Czar of Russia receives as "wages" $81 a minute. But it is probably worth that to put in twenty-four hours a day side-stepping nihilists. --- KINGMAN, KANS. M. E. Woods has been on the sick list. Miss Etta Floyd had the misfortune of spraining her right arm. Dhe is getting along alright under the care of Dr. Cheney. Mrs. W. N. Miller, of Wichita, was in the city last week the guest of Mrs. Robt Davis. Chester, a son of Charley Floyd was kicked by a colt in the forehead, cutting a gash about two inches long. It is the thought he will be out in a short time. Joseph Banks made his wife a present of a new steel range. la s t week. ARKANSAS CITY, KAS Rev. S. S. Bandy spent Sunday in this city. Miss Blanche Alexander, of Wichita, spent a few days in the city. The Misses Jones entertained at nine o'clock breakfast Saturday morning. All report a fine time. Miss Nola Keller entertained last Friday evening at her home on N. Ast. A pleasant time was bad. King Taylor and Mrs. Mamie Miller were wed last Wednesday. The W. T. V. Club is preparing for a swell affair in the near future. The band boys will give a grand entertainment Thursday night. NEWTON, KANS. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Paige have returned home. Mrs. Sam Halt is able to be out again after a few week's illness. Miss Josephine Falkner has returned to her home in Newton. Miss North returned to her home in K. C. last Thursday. presiding Elder Rivers left Wednesday for Emporio to attend the quarterly conference. Mrs. T. H. White and daughter, who have been visiting Mrs. Vinnie Anderson, left Tuesday for Ratoon, N. Mex. Mrs. Nina Fox has returned to her home in Great Bend. William Turner is here visiting his mother. Mr. Hunter and ank Fred Paige have returned from Guthrie, Okla. Miss Ophelia Brown entertained quits a number of her young friends at her home on E. 6th st. Friday. The ladies of the 2nd Baptist Church are preparing an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner. All are invited to attend. Miss Isene Knowles entertained a number of her friends last eve. Miss Anderson, of Hntehinson, gave an excellent lecture at the 2nd Baptist church Tuesday evening. She is a very able and instructive speaker. The ladies of the C. M. E. church sewing circle met at the residence of Mrs. Silas Frame. After the transaction of business and an hour of needlework, the hostess served her guests to the choicest of delicacies ABELINE, KAN. W. F. Warder was called to Oklahoma by telegram stating that his aunt, Mrs. A. Warder was sick. Misses Hattie Pattman and Bessie Williams left Wednesday for their home in Nebraska. Rev. Hampton has begun a revival meeting in Clay Center. Misses Hettie Warder and Mammie Simpson sends their greetings from the Institute in Topeka to the C, L, S. and their many friends. The Ladies' Home and Foreign Mission Circle is doing good work. Miss Bell left Monday for Hutchinson where she v.sits friends. Mrs. D. Simpson and little daughter, Dorothy, have returnen from Concordia. "UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL." Fred Douglass camp No. 3 gave a grand social at 6th st. hall Tuesday night. The Loyal Legions gave a quilting at the A. M. E. church Nov. 13. A prize was awarded to the one doing the most and the neatest work, Mrs. Wilson receiving the 1st prize and Mrs. Johnson the second. Oddie Huddleston returned home from Chicago last week. Miss Jessie Smith returned home last week from Jefferson City, where she has been attending school. Mrs. Miller, of Denver, is in the city the guest of Mrs. C. W. Maloney. Mrs. Rase Butler, who has been spending about two years in Colo., returned recently to her home in Kentucky. Miss Norine Curter has gone to attend the State Industrial School at Topeka, Kans. Quite a number of young folks met at the home of Mrs. C. Powell, 1412 E. 4th st.. last Wednesday in honor of Master N. Powell's birthday. Quite a number of presents were received by the little fellow. Dainty refreshments were served. Those present were: Masters Earl O Thomas, Johnny Taylor, E. Harrison, C. Maloney, M. Grigsby, L. Ashby, Shirley Moore, Carlus and Norman Powell. Mr. Gomaz, of Cheyenne, Wyo. was in the city last week. The many friends of Mrs. Merrill were shocked to hear of the death of hea dawgher, Miss Geneva, in Nashville, Tenn, where she had gone to attend the Fisk University. Miss Merrill succumbed to the effect of typhoid fever. Alorzo Williams is on the sick list. Mrs. J. A. Jones has been suffering with neuralgia. Rev. Branan preached an impressive sermon Sunday morning at the 8th st Baptist church. Mrs' Powell entertained the sewing circle last Friday. Mesdamer W. B. Townsend and E. C. Thompson spent Friday af- ternoon with Mrs. J. A Jones. Misses H. Trailer, J. Huddleston and R. Bowers were entertained at dinner Sunday by A. Summers. The wedking bells will soon ring again in Pueblo. Mrs. A. G. Wilkerson is able to be out again The art club was royally entertained last Friday by Mrs. E. Mathews ai the esidence of Mrs. Mar- shall. Mrs. Wilkerson went to Canon City last week. Kwilki Sakkar, the Hotentot, at St. John church Tuesday night. He was accompanied by his friend, Mr. Jackson. 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