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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Colored Men Get Nothing he Colored Men who Worked So Hard For The Democrats During The Last Campaign Are Completely SNURBED By The New Democratic County Officials Negroes Need Not Apply Democratic Watch-word EIGTHTH YEAR. Colored Me Get The Colored Me So Hard For T During The L Are Comple By The Democratic C Negroes Ne Democratic during the recent political campaign Sedgwick county we heard much of many good things which the Democratic party and its candidates were going to do" for the colored people this county if the colored people did only join hands with them and be the much needed balance to de- the Republican party and its candidates. In the heated excitement brought on matters over which the candidates the Republican ticket had no con- many colored men fell pell-mell in the Democratic trap and did help elect the Democratic ticket and to in the Republican candidates down defeat. now that the Democratic officers had have assumed their respective ties and have made their various intentions we look in vain to find are the colored voters of Sedgwick they have gained anything or gotting for the help which they gave Democratic ticket in being successful at the polls. in all we have been able to find of all the appointive offices par- out by the Democratic officers, not one place was given a col- man or a colored woman. True the past record of the eDmocratic by they again most forcibly prove "the Democratic party once in her has nothing for the colored her to do"—then may we most appropriately ask in the language of message "What fools we mortals be." the republican party may not have all which we may have thought should have done for the colored—but what it has and does do is sands in excess of the nothing with the Democrats do do. we are not resorting to personali- or individualities but to proven when we say that the past and sent policy of the Democratic par- --- ty is not one most beneficial or wholesome to the interest of the colored man and according to past facts, every time the colored men have joined hands with the Democratic party and helped put them in power the colored man has always got the old "hoss laugh" for his pay and the present time is no exception. The action of the Democratic county officers elect should be plain enough to the colored people of this county that they may never be guilty of the same act again. JUST THINK OF IT for the working, talking and voting of some colored men in the interest of the Democratic ticket before and on the day of election, after election not a colored man is given a smell. You could hear prominent Democrats extoll the Democratic friendship for the colored brother before the election—we ask earnestly—where, Oh, where, has that great friendship vanished? With all the faults of the Republican party, they have always proven the friend to the colored man in every instance and their acts of friendship stand forth as a gigantic mountain when compared with the shown enmity of the Democratic party. Let the colored men consider well and Join hands with their friend the Republican party and do all within their power to redeem Sedgwick county. The aggitation over the Brownsville episode still continues. Texas will prove her case against the colored soldiers no matter how many lies are necessary. t is strange now howImany "sworn affidavits by eye-witnessess" can now be produced. It has been said that to go to Texas is akin to going to hell—and the present statues bears out the statement. In the shuffle the Sedgwick county democrats dealt the "colored brother" a bad hand. They still have some dangerous cards up their sleeves—better look out Mr. Colored Man. WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, JAN. 19, 1907. NINA KIMBERLEY WITH "PETT PAKE" POUFE." ACTORS GAY OFF THE STAGE. Are Light-Hearted as a Rule Even Though They Play Comedy Roles. Louis James and Robert Mantell in public play comedy as well as tragedy. They are addicted to practical joking and it is hard to tell which surpasses the other. Each wears a toupee in lieu of the hair that would and did come off, and once in a hotel dining room in Texas upon meeting with each other for the first time in many moons they greeted each other by removing the toupee as one would a hat. Frank Daniels, albeit he is one of the closest figurers in the theatrical business, and wears upon occasion a face as grave as any of them, can be a cutup off the stage when he likes. Nat Goodwin and he are great friends and one of the feats of which Daniels is most fond is to disturb the Goodwin dignity whenever possible. Goodwin himself looks saturnine enough off the stage, although he is a prince of story tellers and has no private griefs that he airs as some actors do. Louis Mann, who on the stage is one of the funniest of comedians off the stage has business on the brain. He will talk business and baseball until eight o'clock in the morning. Nobody will go farther to see a baseball game or to save a dollar. Sam Bernard, who has plenty of friends among the sporting men, never got them by his open hearted generosity. He is economical to a fault, but when he can produce fun off the stage without spending money so to do, he is in for it. Lew Dockstader is just about as funny off the stage as he is on. In his company is Neil O'Brien, who has been with him for years and the business manager of the organization is Jean Havez, a great comedian himself, who among other claims to recognition is the man who wrote "Everybody Works but Father." Dockstader, whose wife accompanies him upon his trips, seldom is downcast, and then only because the business is not big enough to please. As this seldom happens he generally is sunny. Montgomery and Stone, who have scored a big success this year in "The Red Mill," have no excess baggage tax to pay upon their dignity, and unlike some other actors, do not worry themselves or others about appearing profound. This looking heavy is one of the faults of some actors, although among the comedians most of them are light hearted enough off the stage, for humor is not a garment that can be taken off or put on at will, but it really belongs to an actor's personality; if he has it at all it is with him most of the time. CHARLEY CASE'S STRING. He Didn't Want His Old Friend to See His Disgrace. "I have had a number of inquiries relative to the string I twist during my monologue," said Charlie Case, the vaudevillian. "I don't believe many people know just how the habit started. "It was this way. I used to wear black gloves instead of blacking my hands to match my face, but I found that continual fussing soon frayed them, so I wore one glove, blackened the bare hand, and carried the other glove. Playing with the extra glove nervously running it through the hands as I talked soon reduced it to little more than a frazzle. Then I conceived the idea of using a string instead of a glove, and have done so ever since. "But stringing, that is joking, aside, that's the true story of my string. However, I have had worse experiences than forgetting my string. Yes, I have delivered my monologue in Canada. Imagine telling 15 minutes' worth of what you think is humor and never getting a laugh. I tell you being a joker is no joke sometimes. "I remember on one occasion I was booked for a week in a little New York town by Jules Delmar. I talked to the Monday afternoon crowd in that town and I felt as if I was a disease they were afraid of catching. Well, after the matinee I hurried to the dressing-room, packed my grip, and was just about to escape to the depot when Delmar stopped me. After a long argument I was persuaded to stay, and every time I faced an audience that week I felt I could hear them say, 'You can't make us laugh. Go on and try.' "I knew they had me beat. I couldn't make them laugh, and I felt so ashamed that I left the string in my pocket. I didn't want my old friend to see my disgrace." Ambitions of Stage Folk. In an interview with the representative of the Theater Magazine, Edna May said: "My ambition is to have a home, a husband, and children." Her ideal husband is a man of at least 40, one who has plenty of brains and never gives in to his wife's whims, but kindly and firmly his own way. Margaret Anglin once was asked if she wished to become a Bernhardt, but at that time she had no great ambition to be famous as a great actress, but said that she had gone on the stage because she had to do something, and decided on a theatrical career. Having won the name of our foremost actor, Richard Mansfield would like to play abroad and challenge comparison with the best actors of Europe. W. T. Vernon In Kentucky Louisville, Ky., Jan. 12. William Tecumseh Vernon, Register of the United States Treasury, said to be the first full-blooded Negro who has ever held that position, spoke in Louisville to a large crowd of representative members of his race, who met at the Fifth Street Baptist church, to observe the forty-third anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in America. The meeting was well attended and enthusiastic. Register Vernon, who is of medium height and blacker than the average Negro, urged his people to higher things, declaring that they should be educated, and that the leaders of the race should lend their efforts to help those whose course has not been upward. "Rectitude of conduct," he said, "industry, sobriety and a struggle for the higher things of life, will bring us the favorable consideration of the best people of America." An interesting program, including the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, preceded the address. Register Vernon, introduced by the Rev. L. G. Jordan, secretary of the Afro-American Council, said in part: More Negroes Than Irish or Jews. "There are more Negroes in the United States than there are Irish in the world," he said, "and there are as many Negroes as Jews. These people have had their oppression and got out, and now they have the respect of the world. They have won their way by industry, frugality and consecration of effort. The Negro can do likewise." He said the progress of the Negro in America since the emancipation is without parallel in the history of the world. The spirit of the Anglo-Saxon for progress along all lines has been well exhibited by his former slaves, and the manhood and indestructible worth which these former slaves have exhibited should appeal for fair treatment to the manhood of every true American. To argue that education should be denied him, he said, is to argue against the best interest of the Government. Our best citizenship is that which knows its rights and is accorded them, which knows its duty and performs it. "Ignorance in a country such as ours", the speaker declared, "cannot be made the mother of devotion, which non in Kentucky in Blue Grass State is another name for patriotism, upon which rests the safety of the public. In war and in peace our record is one of which we need not be ashamed. "Let us not be content with out past accomplishments for race security; let our accomplishments of the past be a guarantee of our future efforts. "Unity of purpose and unity of effort have always meant much in the lives of nations. The strongest of the race should help the weakest of the race. Those who see the light should We should seek to reform those of the race whose tendencies has been other than upward. To go among these with the spirit of Christ, showing them their weaknesses, convincing them of their errors, is not only a duty to them, but a duty to ourselves. "These weights that are about us must be changed to instruments of helpfulness, and we who call ourselves leaders must labor for the masses. As was said in the holy writ, righteousness exalteth a nation. So rectitude of conduct, industry, sobriety and a struggle for the higher things of life will bring us the favorable consideration of the best people of America." WHEN MEN ACCUMULATE A SUR- PLUS. "Very few persons realize that nineteen out of every twenty persons living at the age of sixty are dependent upon their daily earnings or on their relatives or friends," said an attorney who is familiar with all classes of people and who studies statistics. "I know the young man will scout the idea that he will ever be dependent upon any one in his old age, but the plain fact is that the chances are all against him. "A man's accumulating periot is between the ages of thirty and forty-five years. If he fails to improve those fifteen years and lay aside a competency to sustain him in his declining ears, he will have to live on his friends or public charity, or work every day. A man ought to be able to retire when he reaches sixty years of age and rest for the remainder of his days. "It is startling but true that nearly all men at the age of forty have either failed to lay aside a sum for the inevitable 'rainy day' or have lost their accumulations through speculation or disaster. If a man arrives at fifty years without having saved any money to take care of him the rest of the days, there is only one chance in five thousand that he will ever get on his feet again financially. "The best years of a man's life are between the ages of thirty and forty. His earning capacity is greater in that decade than at any period in his life. His most valuable five years are those between thirty-five and forty years. The sage who said that a man never learns any sense until he is thirty-five did not vary far from the truth. It is at that age the man fully appreciates for the first time that he is being passed on in the race of life, and that if he expects to be anywhere near the front at the finish he will have to get a hustle on himself."—Contemporary. AED ne ee Coca , Be haere <a mate cans, Aces W. N. MILLER...............+-Editor | Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 , North Mair Street. 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Muin Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th, Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in thio paper will be gladly corrected "if brought to the attention of the editor. “To Live and Let Live” Is Our Motto. REPUBLICAN HARMONY NEEDED. fices Monday can very safely be at- tributed to only on cause—and that— disaffection in the Republican party. the old time majority. . ty as it has proven detrimental to other parties. “The will of the peo- Republicans of Sedgwick county and Wichita are broad enough to find a we see it and from the standpoint of one interested in the success of thel NLGRO UNITY If the colored people could once fully realize the great strength which the race could exert in a united effort there would be a mighty rush of the members of the race to united. Like the elephant and the horse— the colored race are not mindful of Its own strength and thus the race is jostled from pillar to post and are tnade and kept the “newers of wood and drawers of water” for other races. With a united Negro race, all work- ing with one accord, their power would be impregnant, their strength invincible. ‘ Gixe me a united Negro race and in Jess than three years I would tear out every discriminating, disfranchising and insulting act against the Ameri- can Negro, ard place the Negro in the fullness of his manhood. What man could leab the elephant first this way then that with a small hook if the elephant knew his own strength? Or what man could make him kneel, if the elephant had aunlted mind? Just as these illustrations would show the mastery of the elephant so would be ‘the mastery of the Negro be if the race was united. It has been oftimes demonstrated and daily too, that the Negro is a big intellectual man, cap- able of any duiy thrust upor him, his only opstacle is a lack of race enmity, race action. Find me aman of any ‘other race who Js a scholar, and I place by his side a Negro who is a scholar— find me a man of any other race who }'s a mechanie and 1 place by his side 'a Negro who is a mechanic—find me @ man of any other race wwho is a renowned jurist, apd r place by his side a Negro who is a renowned purist [—fioa me a man of any. other. race who is a learned doctor, and I place Iby his side a Negro who is his equal in medicine. So it goes through every known Intelect—this showing the Negroe's capability. The only effect ig the Negro lacks a united people. ‘The Negro, however, is not alto- gether to blame for this. Like the trainer of the elephant or horse—the trainer always exerts his own im- portance—his own strength and keeps hid from the animal the animal's strength as this Illustrates—just so are these designing imen in other races who are dally working to keep hid from the Negro the Negroe's own strength The only plausible and logical ex- cuse which Is tenable as to why the Negro bears his American afflictions fs that the Negro is’not fully cogni- zant of hig own racial strength, But sooner or later the Negro will realize his strength and then lUkke cramped up steam he will burst forth in the fullness of his manhood and woman- hood might and sweep their oppres- sors like the wind sweeping chaff, “Like gegets lke” is true, And spiteful, mean and inhuman treatment accorded the Negro is bound to ge- get the same. No man can rationals expect to kick, mistreat, abuse an¢ spitefully use another man because he ean and then expect his victim to love, honor and respect him, An¢ what is true of an individual in thi case Is true with a race. ‘That th Negro is human—with a conseience mind, soul and body as other peopk is to well established to need asserting here—and that mistreatment, abusi and ill-use of the Negro will rais in the brbast of the Negro a spirit o revenge is as true with the Negro ai with other people. ‘Then it can b Mittle less expected that the Negrc will in time sek his revenge as hi oppressors now seek his day | While these are conditions whicl Jonly come from an excessive anc abusive use of power by the one to. ward the other—yet all pray that long before this day that Negro may realtz his strength—seck—find—and obtali his place among men as peacefully a: he Hows bears his American afflictions Ben Tillman of South Carolina is still telling the world about how the Democrats treat the Negro. Can't the Nogro take a hint? NOT ANSWERED. ‘The question asked these days is “Who is to be the next mayor of this burg?" So far no one has been able to answer. Do You Want Long Hair? IF SO, SEE Mrs. Geo. McDonald, Sole Agent For MME. C. J. WALKER’S Wonderful Hair Grower Mrs. McDonald is the Sole Agent and uses the same process which Mme. Wal- ker uses in making the hair grow. Office at 634 North Wabash Ave., For Full Particulars MOTTO. “It is no benefit to have given me something, but it is a benefit to have snabled me to obtain something for myself,"—Emerson. YOUR JOB WORK. : In these days we hear so much about “race pride,” Lest you forget let us ask you for that job of printing. We do it just as cheap as the cheapest— just as good as the best—what more? We are at 601 N. Main street. Phone 2046. ‘Phos. Gtover has been appointed as door-keeper in the House of Repre- seritatives In Topeka, so we are In- formed, He is now at his post of auty. _ Will L, Herman received an appoint- ment a Assistant Sargeant at Arms in the Senate in Topeka. He is at his post for the session. Mrs. Ada Barton has been appoint-| ed to have charge of the ladies’ cloak room of the House. She is at her nome: | THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT LOCALS W. M. I —_—___ Painter and Pap —THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK— All Work G $$$ _____— 7 Seng your news notes and local |302 W. Murdock A oppenings tc 601 North Main Street. TESTTTTITTTITI ST. PAUL'S A. M. E. CHURCH NEWS ‘The services during the Sabbath were well attended. Brother Thos. Glover was missed from the song services. ‘The young people have decided to hav. a special program each Sabbath evening: Spec- fal features for Sunday, January 20, will be: | Violin Duet—W. H. A, Clatk, E. Lan- aram, | Veal Solo—Miss Myrtle Fleming. Instrumental Solo—Miss Eliza Bran- aon, Vocal Duet—Miss Pearl Hackley and Miss Bettle May Hall. : Voeal Solo—Verna Hall. Brother Wr, Hincher is on the sick ist ‘The official board and the trustee board met Monday evening. Several members were absent, BUY LUMBER FROM METZ. We call the attention of our many readers who desire to buy lumber to the Metz Lumber Co,, 8rd and Main. ‘They want your trade, will treat you right, give you bargains and serve you like people. Buy your lumber from them, Both phones 196. Nolley’s Grand Rapids Furniture aIPRICES TO PLEASE ALL Come early and get your selec- tion before the rush. _ Roekers $1.25 up. Children Rockers 25c. Dining Chairs (5c. PRICES LESS 118—120 North Main Street OER OPE EE a You Want tHe best, don’t you ? Then Buy RED STAR FLO Usk- Purest, Whitest, Sweetest, Best Ask your grocer for it Made in Wichita RED STAR MILL & ELEVATOR CO-, Rev. J. H. Van Leu left Saturday Ee rat cele cose the rest. Mrs. Lottie Hill was on the sick list a few days this week. THE POPULAR AND CRITICAL BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA, is being of- fered to the people of Wichita, and those who want a new up-to-date and full Bible Help, should take this op- portunity to get the work. It pronounces every Bible term: gives each word in the original lan- guage with English pronunciation; de~ fines the term, and then gives the facts about it, from the Bible, Science, History, Geography, Manners and Cus- toms of Ancient people and recent dis- eovery. Presents both sides of controverted Doctrines by authorities. Contributed to by leading scholars of Burope and America, Contains Bible Atlas and the Lite of Christ in the order m which it took place. Beautifully illustrated. Sold on easy terms. We have had the pleasure to ex- amine this work’ and know it to be good and a book which should be in every home. The terms of sale are such that it places the work within easy reach of everyone. BIG INITIATION. ‘The Daughters of Wichita Taber- nacle No. 34, will have a big initia~ tion next ‘Thursday night, Jan. 24th. ‘They have a big list of candidates. All expect to have a fine time. All mem- bers are requested to be present on ‘Thursday night; Jan, 24th, 1907. FOR SALE—A BARGAIN. A lé-room house and two corner lots for sale at a big bargain. Write Mrs Henrietta Simpson, Watonga, Okie. W. M. Dunson, | Painter and Paper Hanger, . All Work Guaranteed 302 W. Murdock Ave., Wichita TESTTTTVTTTTTITTTATTTTTTTS F IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? ceeeneeccesencececcecceces FLAGS PRESENTED. ‘The Women's Relief Corps of the G. A. R. presented each of the four rooms of the Park school used as a colored school, a flag, @he presenta- tion speech was made by President Hatfield of the school board and re- sponse on part of the school by Prof. ‘A. M. Wilson, principal, J. W. Owens, s Pees Shoe Repairing WORK DDNE WHILE YOU WEIT 2ndEF Saoes Bought and Sold 382 M. Main Street Wichita, Kea. SCHOOL CASE. ‘The separate school case has been set for hearing in the Supreme Court In June. No certain day has yet been assigned the case, but it will no doubt be reached by the last week in June or the first week in July. PAY WHAT YOU OWE. We have a collector out among our Wichita subseribers and we ask our ‘patrons whom he eadls to see to pay him what they owe us, If you can- not pay ll, pay as much as you can. We have performed faithfully our part and we will appreciate it very much if you will do yours. Pay for your colored paper like you do for the pa- [per published by white men, W. M. Dent left Friday for Reese, Kan, on a hunting trip for a few days. ‘ EARTHQUAKE. ‘A disasivous and devastating earth- quake visited Jamaica, West Indes Is- land this week killing thousands and destroying milions of dollars worth of property. Congress still continues to peg away on that Brownville affair, The Ladies Aid Society will meet Thursday at the residence of Mrs. Sherrill, 911 W. Murdock. Any lady is weleome to attend at 4p. m, Mrs, C. W. Giles who has been on the sick list is now able to be out again, Mrs, R. FB. Smith is still very dan- gerously Sl'at her home, 422 Steven. Miss Minnie Madison. who has been very ill for the past few Weeks is slowly improving. | Listen for the wedding bells, ‘The wedding that was to have occurred at io" a. BE opaten epnany eben Haein cay eer fiatant ©. Wright of EtDorado spent several days in the city this week. | MEETING POSTPONED. On account of the very inclement weather the B. T. W. club postponed thelr meeting ‘Thursday until next Thursday, Jan. 24th, wnen they will meet at the residence of Mrs, Thos. W. Fine, 1204 N, 5th, All the mem- bers are requested to be present. ! MOSES DICKSON TENT MEETS THURSDAY. Moses Dickson ‘Tent No. 5 wil meet next Thursday afternoon at 4:30. Im- portant business, Mothers are re- quested to see tha’ their children are present. | MRS. LOTTIE HILL, { Queen Mother The ladies of the G. L. A. club were entertained Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. M. Carr. They will) meet next week with Mrs. Thos. Cox. Sc a 66 99 “Second to None PLEASES ALL } GOOD BREAD MAKERS & It Is White As SNOW—TRY IT— ' Oro Weiss, Agent I Have Recently Purchased —THE—— Court House Grocery 1 have a full line of fresh and wholesome Fan- cy and Staple Groceries, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Sugar, Flour, Meal, Vegetables, Canned Goods Brooms, Butter, Eggs, Coal Oil, Gasoline, Sta- tionary, and in fact, anything and everything you may wantin the Grocery Line. Your Trade Solicited T. C. BOYD, Proprietor NEW PHONE 2046 Court House Grocery 601 N. 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What does the Kaiser know about good cooking, anyhow? He has no fond memories of the kind mother used to make. "Man is a plain necessity," says one of the women writers. Oh, well, he wouldn't be so plain if he "fixed up" the way woman does. Of languages which so widely differ among themselves as to be incomprehensible without particular study the number readily exceeds 1000. James Bryce, the new British ambassador to this country, has declined to receive a title. He need not expect to become popular with our beetresses. A wealthy American girl is going to marry a baseball player. This is certainly an indication that the tastes of the girls have been elevated since the days when they used to pick out dukes and counts. It has just been discovered that Gashavant G. Pandit, a very wealthy high-caste Hindu and a protege of the Gaskwar of Baroda, is working as a common laborer in an acid factory at Roscoe, N. D. Pandit, though said to be worth millions, works and lives as the other laborers do. Industrial conditions in India are in a deplorable state, he declares, and it is his intention to take part in the task of revolutionizing them in his native land. Judge Addison, a well-known jurist of London, recently retired, was in the habit of indulging in the oddest observations while trying cases. On one occasion opposing lawyers were wrangling over the question, "When an egg become stale?" The Judge, who had vivid recollections of a close election contest in which he figured, declared that the real test of an egg's staleness was the moment it became fit for use at a contested election. "At no period, perhaps, has the spirit of reform exerted itself more arrogantly than in our own time, but this has been not because we are pessimistic, says the Boston Globe, but because we are distinctly optimistic. The pessimist accomplishes no reforms; he leans back and sneers at those evils which he thinks hopeless of correction. It is the optimist who achieves improvements, because his indignation is fresh and hopes are high. General Nogi, the Japanese commander who captured Port Arthur, the Russian stronghold, has been seriously hurt by being thrown from his horse. It seems like the irony of fate, after escaping the perils of a great war, to meet with so comparatively common-place an accident. The incident recalls the annoying experience of one of the famous fighters in our own civil war who, having gone through that famous conflict, later lost a leg as the result of a mule kick. New regulations of the steamboat inspection service restrict the use of strenues and other steam-whistles in New York, Philadelphia and Boston. Only fire-boats and government vessels are to be allowed to sound the hair-raising siren. The improved regulations are in considerable measure due to the persistent work of one woman, although she has been assisted by many other vigorous pleaders. We are willing to endure the necesary noises of life, but good health demands that we shall be spared an unnecessary shocks to the nervous system through the delicate ear. A striking appeal to the well-to-do owner of a motor car who exceeds the speed limit was made recently by the police commissioner of Boston. The number of policemen is limited. When they are detailed to watch motor car drivers they are withdrawn from their proper duty of guarding homes and preventing disorder. Business men and professional men rich enough to own motor cars, have property which needs police protection. They sacrifice part of this protection, says Youth's Companion, by keeping some of the police on the watch for their offenses against the road laws. One group of government employees, at least, must be admitted to do their work at small expense. The engineers of the land office during the last fiscal year surveyed 8,500,000 acres of public land at an average cost of four and one-half cents an acre. Even this is an increase over the expense in previous years, which has been three and one-half and four and one-third cents. The reason is that most of the level, accessible and easily surveyed land has been disposed of. That which has to be surveyed now is mountainous or inaccessible, and consequently the cost is greater. Ben Sheldon, veteran county clerk of Lander, Wyo., was defeated for re-election by a big majority. He was opposed by young women, who resented his action in discharging a girl employed in his office because she insisted on wearing a peek-a-hoo waist. Hicks, the miner who was entombed for fifteen days at Bakersfield, Cal., says there were some moments when he enjoyed his imprisonment. He was not bothered by book agents or insurance solicitors and it didn't cost him a cent for coal or grocerie. A SIMPLE FORMULA PRESCRIPTION OF AN EMINENT SPECIALIST IS GIVEN. Necessary Ingredients Cost Little and Can Be Secured at Any Good Drug Store—Will Break a Cold Quickly. Mix half ounce of the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine with two ounces of glycerine and half a pint of good whisky; shake well and use in teaspoonful doses. A noted authority on diseases of the throat and lungs who established a camp for consumptives in the pine woods of Maine, declares that the above formula will heal the lungs and cure any cough that is curable. It will break up a cold in twenty-four hours. The ingredients can be secured from any good prescription druggist at small cost. Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is put up only in half-ounce vials for dispensing; each vial is securely sealed in a round wooden case with engraved wrapper, showing the name—Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) prepared only by Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, D—plainly printed thereon. There are many rank imitations of Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure), which are put our under various names, such as Concentrated Oil of Pine, Pine Balsam, etc. Never accept these as a substitute for the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine, as they will invariably produce nausea and never effect the desired result. Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is also said to be a perfect neutralizing agent for uric acid. French President's "Double." M. Fallieres was, until recently, believed to be the only president of the French republic who had no double, but his counterpart, has been found. The man who most resembles him physically is a respectable merchant of the Rue Saint Honore, who plays his part with decorum and dignity. He wears exactly the same kind of blue butterfly necktie with white dots as the president, the same kind of hat and exactly so oddly cut a beard. And on his promenades he is always accompanied by a friend who could easily be taken for the president's private secretary. Dignified and with measured steps, the enviable double walks through the Faubourg Saint Konore and feels overjoyed at being saluted on all sides. SCALY ERUPTION ON BODY. Doctors and Remedies Fruitless—Su- fered 10 Years — Completely Cured by Cuticura. "When I was about nine years old small sores appeared on each of my lower limbs. I scratched them with a brass pin and shortly afterwards both of those limbs became so sore that I could scarcely walk. When I had been suffering for about a month the sores began to heal, but small scaly eruptions appeared where the sores had been. From that time onward I was troubled by such severe itching that, until I became accustomed to it, I would scratch the sores until the blood began to flow. This would stop the itching for a few days, but scaly places would appear again and the itching would accompany them. After I suffered about ten years I made a renewed effort to effect a cure. The eruptions by this time had appeared on every part of my body except my face and hands. The best doctors in my native country advised me to use arsenic in small doses and a salve. I then used to bathe the sores in a mixture which gave almost intolerable pain. In addition I used other remedies, such as iodine, sulphur, zinc salve, —' Salve, — Ointment, and in fact I was continually giving some remedy a fair trial, never using less than one or two boxes or bottles. All this was fruitless. Finally my hair began to fall out and I was rapidly becoming bald. I used —'s — but it did no good. A few months after, having used almost everything else, I thought I would try Cuticura Ointment, having previously used Cuticura Soap and being pleased with it. After using three boxes I was completely cured, and my hair was restored, after fourteen years of suffering and an expenditure of at least $50 or $60 in vainly endeavoring to find a cure. I shall be glad to write to any one who may be interested in my cure. B. Hiram Mattingly, Vermilion, S. Dak., Aug. 18, 1906." Can You Answer? If you have a friend who thinks he knows it all ask him to explain the difference between an Alexandrine and a woman of Alexandria; a masher and a mashie; adenoids and aneroids; six of one and a half dozen of the other; neoplatonism and platonic friendship; macaronic, macaroni, and Marconi; a referendum and a reference: fireligion and birreligion; the jungle and Port Sunlight; Arminians and Armenians; a carpet knight and a rug headed kern—Chicago Tribune. Transformation in New Mexico "Three seasons of rainfall have transformed New Mexico from an expanse of unproductive territory into a country of bountiful crops, running streams and happy, prosperous people," is the report which E. W. Fox, register of the government land office at Clayton, N. M., brought to Washington.—Washington Post. History, the evidence of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the directress of life, the herald of antiquity, committed to immortality.—Cicero. NEW SENATORS ELECTED Nebraska, Colorado and Delaware Choose New Men For Upper House. MILLARD SUCCEED BY NOBRI BROWN Simon Guggenheim Will Succeed Senator Patterson from Colorado and Richardson Gets Allee's Seat from Delaware—No Serious Contests in Either of the Legislatures. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 16.—The legislature of Nebraska Tuesday expressed its preference for Norris Brown, of Kearney, for United States senator, to succeed Senator J. H. Millard, of Omaha, and Mr. Brown will be formally selected at a joint session of the legislature Wednesday. In the house of representatives the vote was 67 for Brown to 31 for W. H. Thompson, of Grand Island, and in the senate the vote was 28 for Brown to five for Thompson. The latter is a democrat and the two candidates polled straight party votes. Mr. Brown was born in Iowa in 1863 and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1883. He practiced law at Perry, Ia., until 1888, when he moved to Kearney, Neb., where he has since lived. He was elected county attorney, of Buffalo county in 1893 and served until 1897. In 1901 he was appointed deputy attorney general of Nebraska and was elected to the office of attorney general four years later, serving one term. His campaign for the senate was made on reform issues and he is pledged to the support of direct primary, anti-pass and rigid corporation laws. Denver, Jan. 16.—Simon Guggenheim, republican, was elected United States senator to succeed Thomas M. Patterson, democrat, by the Colorado legislature at noon Tuesday. He received a large majority of the votes in both senate and house in separate session. All the republican members present voted for Guggenheim except Representative L. D. Vincent. Simon Guggenheim, who was born in Philadelphia, December 30, 1807, is next to the youngest of the seven sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim, doing business in New York under the firm name of M. Guggenheim's Sons and having extensive mining and smelting interests. He has been a resident of Colorado 18 years and is a member of the executive board of the American Smelting & Refining company. Dover, Del., Jan. 16.—Henry A. Richarddson, republican) was Tues day formally elected United States senator to succeed J. Frank Allee, both houses of the legislature ballot ed separately at noon. TO RECLAIM SWAMP LAND. Senate Committee to Consider a Bill For Establishing a Permanent "Drainage Fund." Washington, Jan. 16.—An extension plan for reclamation of swamp and overflowed lands will soon be considered at an early meeting of the senate committee on public lands. The scheme is advanced in a bill introduced by Senator Clapp, which provides for establishment of a "drainage fund" from all money received from the sale of public lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin, except the five percent set aside by law for educational and other purposes. Under the bill the secretary of the interior is directed to make examinations and surveys for construction of works for the drainage of swamp lands, and to report to congress on or before July 1 each year as to, the results. The reports are to include estimates of all contemplated works, the quantity and the location of the lands which can be reclaimed, and all facts relative to the practicability of the proposed projects. Heavy Rains in Kentucky. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 16—Heavy rains have been falling over Kentucky for four days and reports Tuesday show that every river and prominent stream is at flood tide. In Eastern Kentucky thousands of logs are being swept away, and railroad bridges are being washed out. Two wrecks have occurred on the Cheaspeake & Ohio railroad, and all through eastbound trains are being sent via Cincinnati over the Louisville & Nashville railroad. Bryan In a Runaway Seattle, Wash., Jan. 16—W. J. Bryan and President R. A. Bryan of the Washington State college, were thrown into a snowbank at Pullman Monday. The team drawing them from the college to the depot ran away and the sleigh was upset. Neither was hurt, but their clothing was stuffed with snow when they were rescued and both were severely chilled. Three Killed on Rock Island. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 16—Rock Island passenger train No. 226 collided head-on with Rock Island freight train No. 1095 at Waldron, Mo. Monday night and three persons were killed. Ten passengers were injured, none badly. UTTERLY WORN OUT. Vitality Sapped by Years of Suffering with Kidney Trouble. Capt. J. W. Hogun, former postmaster of Indianola, now living at Austin. former postmast- living at Austin. Tex, writes: "I was afflicted for years with pains across the inches and in the hips and shoulders. I had headache also and neural- gia. My right eye, from pain, was of little use to me for years. Tex, writes: "I was afflicted for years with pains across the loins and in the hips and shoulders. I had headache also and neuralgia. My right eye, from pain, was of little use to me for years. The constant flow of urine kept my system depleted, causing nervous chills and night sweats. After trying seven different climates and using all kinds of medicine I had the good fortune to hear of Doan's Kidney Pills. This remedy has cured me. I am as well to-day as I was twenty years ago, and my eyesight is perfect." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. NOT DOOMED TO SECLUSION. Austrian Nuns of Noble Blood Lead Pleasant Lives. The "first lady" in the Austro-Hungarian court is now the abbess of the Theresian Convent of the Noble Ladies in Prague, a position which is always held by an archduchess. The Archduchess Maria Annunciata, the present abbess, who is a niece of the emperor, has succeeded to the position of first lady through the widowhood of the Archduchess Maria Josefa, wife of the late Archduke Otto. The noble nuns of Prague live a very different life from what is the usual conception of convent life. They play a leading part in the society of the city and are not even compelled to live in the abbey, where each is provided with two rooms and service. Handsome carriages with liveried servants are also provided for their use, and they have a box in the opera. Each noble lady is paid $500 a year, while the abbess has a salary of $10,000. When they attend court balls they must wear black evening dress with a ribbon of light blue. Always to Be Depended Upon When a person gets up in the morning with a dull headache and a tired, stretchy feeling, it's an almost certain indication that the Liver, or bowels, or both, are decidedly out of order. At such times Nature, the wisest and best of doctors, takes this means to give warning that she needs the help and gentle assistance which can best be obtained from that old family remedy, Brandreth's Pills, which has been in use for over a century. They are the same fine laxative tonic pill your grandparents used when doctors were few and far between, and when people had to have a remedy that could absolutely be depended upon. Brandreth's Pills can be depended upon, and are sold in every drug and medicine store, plain or sugar-coated. American Idealism. Since my first arrival in America I have held that the real spirit is idealistic and that the average individual American is controlled by idealistic impulses. Those who may contradict me can not have sounded the depths of the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, or studied the life and read the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, and considered their far-reaching effect on the American people. In Lincoln's great character nothing can be more striking than the way in which he combined reality and the loftiest ideal, with a thoroughly practical capacity to achieve that ideal by practical methods. This faculty seemed to give him a far-sighted, almost superhuman vision, which enabled him to pierce the clouds obscuring the sight of the keenest statesmen and thinkers of his age—Baron Speck von Sternburg, in Forum. 'Way Up in Malne. "Well, no," said the cross-roads storkkeeper up in the Androscoggins-kigginnemphremagogkattawamp region. "I ain't got them articles in stock at present, but I guess yew can find the olive lie at the post office and the canned tomaters at the barber shop. So yew shot a moose, did yew? Well, that's reel fine, but I kind o' hoped if yew was goin' to have an accident yew'd shoot Hen Pussley, yewr guide. I ain't vindictive, or anything of the kind, but he's been owin' me five shillin's for I dknow how long, and I kind o' think I c'd uc'l c it easier out o' his estate than I can out o' Hen."—Smart Set. COSTLY PRESSURE. Heart and Nerves Fail on Coffee. A resident of a great western state puts the case regarding stimulants with a comprehensive brevity that is addurable. He says: "I am 56 years old and have had considerable experience with stimulants. They are all alike—a mortgage on reserved energy at ruinous interest. At the whip stimulates but does not strengthen the horse, so do stimulants act upon the human system. Feeling this way, I gave up coffee and all other stimulants and began the use of Postum Food coffee some months ago. The beneficial results have been apparent from the first. The rheumatism that I used to suffer from has left me. I sleep sounder, my nerves are steadier and my brain clearer. And I bear testimony also to the food value of Postum—something that is lacking in coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read "The Road to Wellville," the quaint little book in pkgs. MITCHELL TO THE MINERS Annual Address of the President of the United Mine Workers of America. LAST YEAR EVENTFUL TO ORGAN ZATION Large Decrease in Membership Shown on Records—Practically Free From Strikes Now—Apathy in Anthracite Field—Well Satisfied With Last Years Struggle. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 16.—In his annual address to the United Mine Workers of America, President John Mitchell said the past year had been most eventful with its suspension of work to enforce the restoration of the wage scale of 1903, and he believed the policy adopted had been for the best. While the membership showed a decrease of 38,910 on the records on account of exoneration from dues of many members who had been on strike there had in reality been an increase. The anthr.cte fields showed a decrease of 32,220 members and the president insisted upon increased activity in organization. Unless other wise instructed, he said, he would put a number of organizers in that field. For the first time in years the organization was practically free from strikes. Less money was being expended by Union for idle men than at any previous tife. The address urges the re-establishment of the interstate conference and recommended that the executive committee negotiate with the operators of the central competitive field during the present year for an inter-state meeting prior to April, 1908. To show the importance of machine mining the address stated that last year 14 percent of the bituminous production was machine mine4. Attention was called to an increasing number of casualties in mines. Legislation was asked for providing for an examination of persons permitted to be employed in mines. Speaking of the apathy in the anthracite field which has reduced the membership so materially, the address said: "This indifference upon the part of the miners cannot be attributed to failure on the part of the organization to secure improvements for them; their wages have been advanced to a considerable extent; their hours have been reduced, the conditions of life and labor have been greatly ameliorated, and in addition thereto, a relation has been established between them and their employers that was inconceivable even to the most optimistic a few years ago." The strike of last year with the preceding conference with the operators and the succeeding restoration of the advance in wages demanded was reviewed by Mr. Mitchell, and speaking of the effect of the action taken by the miners in their last national convention, which permitted signing a scale by districts and locally, the address said: "Taking a retrospective view of the whole struggle in the anthracite and bituminous felts from its inception to its close, I am consrained to the belief that, all things considered, the wisest policy was pursued and the best results obtained that could be secured under the circumstances. I am, of course, not unmindful of the fact that there were many disappointments that in s. me sections members were forced to yield conditions which they regarded as essential to their welfare, in order that the interests of the whole number might be preserved and promised. When it is considered, however, that more than 400,000 employees were involved, representing a population of approximately 2,000,000 directly dependent upon them, and that we entered the contest with only $400,000 in the treasury. I feel that we can well forget our vexations, join in a renewed effort to regain our comparatively small losses, and struggle on with untiring zeal for a larger and still larger share of the wealth that we produce." Vice-President T. L. Lewis in his report, deplored the action of the last national convention of miners in adopting the policy of permitting the signing of a wage scale by districts and locally. He insisted that the organization must maintain a national character and claimed that as a result of the action of last year the membership of the organization has decreased 50,000. Investigating Metropolitan Life. Investigating the Metropolitan Life. New York, Jan. 16.—An investigation into the arrangements of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company similar to that into the New York Life, which resulted in the indictment of George W. Perkins and Charles S. Fairuhlid, has been begun by the district attorney. President John R. Hegeman of the Metropolitan has been asked to appear personally at the criminal court building. Trial of Young Dyer Begun. St. Louis, Jan. 16.—The trial of David P. Dwyer, jr., the suspended teller of the United States sub-treasury who is charged with the embezzlement of $61,200 of government funds, was begun Tuesday in the United States district court before Judge John E. Carlin of South Dakota, sitting in place of Judge Fineinburg, who disqualified himself. THE FIRST TWINGE Of Rheumatism Calls for Dr. Williams Pink Pills If You Would Be Easily Cured. Mr. Frank Little, a well known citizen of Portland, Ionia Co., Mich., was cured of a severe case of rheumatism by Dr. Williams's Pink Pills. In speaking about it recently, he said: "My body was run down and in no condition to withstand disease and about five years ago I began to feel rheumatic pains in my arms and across my back. My arms and I grew numb and the rheumatism seemed to settle in every joint so that I could hardly move, while my arms were useless at times. I was unable to sleep or rest well and my heart pained me so terribly I could hardly stand it. My stomach became sour and bloated after eating and this grew so bad that I had inflammation of the stomach. I was extremely nervous and could not bear the least noise or excitement. One whole side of my body became paralyzed. "As I said before, I had been suffering about five years and seemed to be able to get no relief from my doctors, when a friend here in Portland told me how Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured him of neuralgia in the face, even after the pain had drawn it to one side. I decided to try the pills and began to see some improvement soon after using them. This encouraged me to keep on until I was entirely cured. I have never had a return of the rheumatism or of the paralysis. The pills are for sale by all drugists or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenected, N. Y. Newspapers for the Blind. The announcement that the London Daily Mail is about to issue a weekly edition for the blind, draws attention to the other British journals published in Braille type, which have had a long and useful career, though they have seldom been seen by the general public. The first weekly newspaper for the blind was published on June 1, 1892, and called the Weekly Summary. It has always been issued below cost price, and its promoters derive no benefit from its publication. Another was started only last year, called the Braille Weekly, and issued from Edinburgh. Alcohol From Sweet Potatoes. Sweet potatoes are principally used in the Azores to make alcohol, the yield being ten to 11 per cent. The present price is about 13 cents (United States currency) per liter (1.0567 quarts). DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHTT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKMACHE This product discontinued has used or quitted from use. The public may rely on these products of imitations. Sold only in Boston. ELY'S CREAM BALM DURES COLD ROSE CARD HAY-FEVER DRINKS WARNINGS SO CTS. TRAD LINES ELY BROS NEW YORK In all its stages. Ely's Cream Balm cleanses, soothes and heals the diseased membrane. It cures cataract and drives away a cold in the head quickly. Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, spreads over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is im- mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Drug- gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. CARTERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature BrewWood REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. 5,000 additional miles of railway this way largely increased territory to the progressive Canada and the Government of the Dominion continue to give every settler a DOWN AND to every settler. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE J. S. CRAWFORD, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. LIEUTENANT BOWMAN. IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS PE-RU-NA CURED HIM. Chas. W. Bowman, 1st Lieut. and Adjt. 4th M. S. M. Cav. Vols., writes from Lanham, Md., as follows: "Though somewhat averse to patient medicines, and still more averse to becoming a professional affidavit man, it seems only a plain duty in the present instance to add my experience to the columns already written concerning the curative powers of Peruna. "I have been particularly benefited by its use for colds in the head and throat. I have been able to fully cure myself of a most severe attack in forty-eight hours by its use according to directions. I use it as a preventive whenever threatened with an attack. "Members of my family also use it for like aiments. We are recommending it to our friends." —Chas. W. Bowman. Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1907. PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS Washington, D. C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U. S. Pension Bureau. Sixty Years a Timothy Boldra, who has died at Yarmouth, England, at the age of 82 years, had been in the service of the local gas company more than 60 years, and before that, as a youth, was employed to light the street oil lamps with a flint and steel. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Thousands of men do not know what is good for them, but you might as well remember that the majority of them do not want to be told—John A. Howland. THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILROAD AND WESTERN CANADA. Will Open Up Immense Area of Free Homestead Lands. The railway facilities of Western Canada have been taxed to the utermost in recent years to transfer the surplus grain crop to the eastern markets and the seaboard. The large influx of settlers and the additional area put under crop have added largely to the grain product, and notwithstanding the increased railway facilities that have been placed at the disposal of the public, the question of transportation has proved to be a serious one. It will, therefore, be good news to everyone interested in Western Canada to know that an authoritative statement has been given out by C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, that railway will do its share towards moving the crop of 1907 from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to tide water, and thus assist in removing a serious obstacle which has faced the settlers during recent years. Mr. Hays, who has just completed a trip from Portage la Prairie to Edmonton in a prairie schooner, a distance of 735 miles, which was covered in eighteen days, is enthusiastic about the country. This will be gratifying to settlers in the Canadian West, even if Mr. Hays declines to be bound to a time limit with the exactitude of a stop-watch. The Grand Trunk Pacific road will be in a position to take part in the transportation of the crop of 1907, and that will be satisfactory to the settlers in that country when the harvest is garnered. The wheat crop of 1906 in Western Canada was about 90,000,000 bushels, and, with the increased acreage which is confidently expected to be put under crop next year, it is safely calculated that fully 125,000,000 bushels will be harvested in 1907. The necessity for increased transportation facilities are, therefore, apparent, and the statement made by Mr. Hays will bring encouragement to the farmers of the Canadian West, new and old. The opening up of additional thousands of free homesteads is thus assured by the agent of the Canadian Government, whose address appears elsewhere. REPORTS FROM JAMAICA EX CEED FIRST ESTIMATES. LOSS AMOUNTS TO $10,000,000 Ninty Thousand People Are Rendered Homless — Provisions Needed — All Warned to Keep Away From City—Stench Awful. St. Thomas, D. W. I., Jan. 17.—Reports received here from Jamaica say it is estimated that 1,000 persons have been killed by the earthquake. The damage to Kingston alone is placed at fully $10,000,000. Advices received from Jamaica declare that all people have been warned to keep away from Kingston. The stench is described as awful. Money is useless. The banks have been burned, but the vaults are supposed to be safe. The misery on all sides is indescribable. Rich and poor alike are homeless. Provisions of all kinds are urgently needed. It is impossible to say where anybody can be found. Sir James Ferguson, vice-chairman of the Royal Mail Steamship company, is among the killed. The dead are being buried under the smouldering ruins. The mercantile community suffered most severely, warehouses falling on them. Many professional men are dead or injured. The negroes are looting. Ghastly scenes are being witnessed. All the shops have been destroyed and the buildings in and around Kingston are in ruins. Very few of them are safe to live in. The governor and his party are safe. It is reported that an extinct volcano in the parish of Portland is showing signs of activity, but this has not been verified. No news has yet been received from other parts of Jamaica. The contradictory and scant character of the news which thus far has reached London from Jamaica renders it difficult to estimate the extent of the calamity caused by the earthquake and subsequent conflagration. Messages received by various steamship and cable companies, however, indicate that while the early reports of the destruction of Kingston and great loss of life were exaggerated, the disaster was still of a grave character. Ruin and desolation are said to stretch for miles outside the city of Kingston. The shocks were felt fifty to sixty miles away and one dispatch from the temporary cable station at Bull Bay says that not a single house between there and Kingston escaped damage. No estimate of the loss of life from official sources has as yet come through, but the camp hospital appears to have been in the center of the visitation, as no less than forty negro soldiers were killed there. There were isolated fatalities among the Europeans at Kingston, but apparently the advantage of the white victims is small. The distance between the buildings known to have been destroyed is taken to indicate that the total loss of property will be great. According to the latest dispatches, slight earthquake shocks continue to be felt at Kingston. The West India committee of the admiralty and the private concerns having interests in Jamaica are taking all the steps possible to alleviate the distress in Kingston itself. It transpires that the Hall Caine mentioned as being among the members of the party of visitors at Kingston headed by Sir Alfred Jones, president of the British Cotton, Growing Association, and president of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, is William Hall Caine, brother of the English novelist. The latter called at the colonial office this morning and was assured that the members of President Alfred Jones' party were safe. The West Indian and Panama Cable company's office at Bull Bay cables that all the people in Kingston are camping in the open and that the earthquake extended as far as Holland Bay, where the West India and Panama Cable company's station is seriously damaged. "Between Bull Bay and Kingston," the message adds, "there is not a safe house. Ruin and desolation are everywhere." Tried to Thaw Dynamite. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 17.—Julius Tutheld and his son were blown to atoms, and a nephew of Tutheld seriously injured in a dynamite explosion near Seneca, Kan., tonight. Tutheld had been using the dynamite while straightening a creek on his farm. It had frozen and he had placed it near the stove in the house to thaw out. His nephew, although terribly torn, crawled to a neighboring farm house, nearly half a mile distant, to secure assistance. He cannot recover. Economy is the road to wealth. PUTNAM FADELESS DYE is the road to economy. 10c per package. Many a man smacks of freshness, but freshness gets no smacks. PILES CURSED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 1 to 14 days or money refunded. 60c Many a citizen who trades on margins wouldn't think of buying a gold brick. To recover quickly from bilious attacks, sick-headache, indigestion or colds, take Garfield Tea, the mild laxative. Guaranteed under the Pure Food Law. Workingmen engaged in diverting a roadway at Welwyn, Herts, Wales, unearthed seven Roman urns in a good state of preservation, a Roman spur, two drinking bowls six inches high, one smaller cup, a bowl, some bronze plate, an iron standard and a small urn six inches high. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy the sease of smell and completely derange the whole system when it comes in contact with it. The medicines should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they cause to the human body is not from them. Halls's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and does not contain the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In addition, Catarrh Cure, you can get the genuine. It is not internally innervated in Toledo, Ohio by F. J. Cheney & Co. *Testimonial free.* You can have Kalea Family Plus for constipation. Autocratic Revivalists. 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Sold by all news dealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway. New York Branch Office. 55 F. St. Washington, D.C. Use Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salve Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spices These Goods Have No Epual They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 303 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita - - Kansas Why not subscribe and pay for the Wichita Searchlight. It is more honorable than "spunging" on your neighbor. We will send you a copy to your door every week for only $1.00 per year. Do say and get what the race is doing IF IT EVER HAPPENED PRATT ITEMS. John Gamble of Hiawatha is here visiting. He is thinking of locating here if he can purchase some land. Noble Taylor o fLyons, Kansas, is here working for Robert Williams. Miss Ethel Emery is here from St. John visiting Mrs. Mable Bright. Miss Mitchell of Michigan is here visiting Miss Bright's family. Sam Green has made a business trip to Pratt. J. T. Russell is on the sick list this week. The weather is cold and snowy. STRON CITY NEWS. The manw friends of Mrs. DeVan are glad to see her out again after an illness of several days. Mrs. Gertrude Jackson has a position at the Bank Hote'. Miss Woods will visit at Council Grove next week. Mrs. Whitfield lectured at the Second Baptist church on the night of the 8th. She told the boys to be gentlement in every sense of the ward, to the girls she advised them to stop wearing wigs as it was unbecoming, and they were laughed at by the white people. She told us to get a good education as without it the rase could never hope for advancement. While in the city she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. Lovell, Sr. The ladies of the W. M. S. will serve meals in conjunction with the fair at Masonic hall. Rev. W. S. Blake of Emporia administered the Lord's Supper at the Second Baptist church on the 13th. Among the old soldiers here who sympathize with their comrades of the 25th infantry are G. Cox, R. Lovell, So., N. Pennington and D. Cox. The members of the C. M. E. church organized a Sunday school on the 13th. Look wise, boys, for Mrs. Meens will preside at the supper table on Wednesday night. Miss Revana Blackwell was elected clerk of the Second Baptist church on the evening of the 12th. Miss Mable Pennington will spend a week with relatives at Hymer. Rev. Harrison of Kansas City, Mo., is expected here on the 20th. At this writing baby Bentley is much improved. Oysters a la Strong City, will be a specialty on Wednesday night. Miss Lulu Blackwell have given up the idea of going to Abilene. Very good idea, my dear. Look out girls, Jack the Hugger, is around again. Mrs. Derby will go to Kansas City in the near future. EL.DORADO NEWS. The Sopourners of Truth H. and F. Mission Society of the Second Baptist church of ElDorado were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Campbell Monday evening, January 7th. After regular business a fine literary program was rendered and the guests were served to a fine luncheon. CLEARWATER NEWS. Mr. George Barton was in Clearwater last week on business. C. R. Wifley was in Wichita last week on business with Dyal Bros. Mrs. C. R. Wifley and sons Noble and Clarence have been in with very bad colds. John Banks and W. Sander the Clearwater bachelors are fat like a possum in a hollow tree. A Clearwater white man who has become famous since getting a good job with the M. O. P. is wanting all colored people to call him Mr. Hanks. Hurrah for Hanks. Miss Ethel Barton returned to Quindaro College after her visit with parents for two weeks. A. White is busy shucking corn. He has a nice cron. PRETTY PRAIRIE NEWS. We are having bad weather at present. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and babies Sundayed at Mr. and Mrs. Joe Banks. Nelie Banks, who was taken so seriously ill while over to Wichita during Xmas holidays is improving rapidly. Charlie Porter visited last week at Joe Bank's. Florence and Pearl Banks visited in Partridge last Sunday returning home the same evening. Mr. and Mrs. Carter spent last week at the home of Mr. Smith. We hear that Ernest Porter is at home in Kingman, sick. Halle Floyd visited Mabel Banks last week. The people in their neighborhood are preparing for something in the near future. Possibly we will find out later. --- THE WICH TA SEARCHLIGHT Fred and Pearl Banks sold som eafat hogs last week. Charlie Floyd of Kingman, has returned to Pratt after visiting with home folks. Florence Banks received a handsome present from Wichita a short time ago. We do not know whether she calls it an Xmas present or not. Randle Smith has purchased a brand new red-wheel buggy. He can now be seen quite often going over the country. But he wil soon be seen flying around in Coffeyville. REBECCA TABERNACLE NO .11. Kansas City, Kansas Held a Glorious New Year Meeting—Pushing Forward. W. N. Miller, Editors: Searchlight. Dear Sir Knight:—Rebecca Saba Meroe No. 11, held their usual monthly meeting on Monday, January 7, 1907. The meeting was officiate by Dtr. Paulina Woodford, H. P. The one whom we all love so well. The New Year's Greetings from our G. H. P. was gladly received and as per con- stitution all business was finished. The remaining part of the afternoon was given to devotional exercises, and please state that like a rushing, mighty wind came the Holy Ghost down from Heaven giving life to everyone and purging out all the old leaven. The meeting then adjourned, the Daughters going down feeling better, nearer and dearer to one and the other. So by the help of Almighty God our Great Leader, the Leader of Leaders, we are having the best of results. Yours. JENNIE SMITH, Corresponding Sec. 1849 N. 7th St. K. C. K LAWRENCE (KAN.) NEWS. St. Marie Tabernacle No. 10 held their regular meeting on Wednesday, January 9, 1907. After general business was finished the meeting was changed to a speaking meeting for the advancement of the order. All enjoyed a good meeting. The members were found in good standing—a few members on the sick list. Adjourned after a happy New Year meeting, to hold regular meeting Jan. 23. The Viola Tent No. 11 met Jan. 12, 1907, in their regular meeting. To their number five new members were added. A very good program was rendered. The children were equa to the occasion. The Past Queen Mother read an excellent paper on "The Progress of the Order." GREAT BEND NEWS. Miss Blanch Joshlin is better at this writing. Mrs. N. Harding is very sick at her home on Kansas avenue. Mr. Will Franklin gave a dinner party to a number of his friends. All reported a nice time. Queen Esther's circle was royally entertained at the parsonage with Mrs. James Wheeler and Mrs. Wm. Sellers acting as hostesses. The circle is making preparations for an Easter bazaar. After business the hostess served a two-course luncheon. Mrs. Bynmun, of Wichita, was in the city last week. Bro. B. F. Hampton has returned from an extended visit in Pueblo, Colo. The B. Y. P. U. of the First Baptist church is getting along fine under the direction of Mrs. Alfred Johnson as president. ARKANSAS CITY. A large number of young people will soon appear in a drama entitled "The Midnight Maurader." Rev. Guy and members are engaged in a series of meetings. Miss Francis Andrews entertained the Twentieth Century Club at her home Friday evening. Miss Nola Keller is under the doctor's care. Mr. N. Oldham is still suffering from asthma. Mr. and Mrs. Burns are both ill at their home on North A St. Mrs. B. R. Guy entertained the Olive Leaf Club at her home Friday afternoon. Miss Virginia Singlet n of Winfield was visiting in the city over Sunday. F. L. West is employed at the State House. Rutheford Work is at the State House. Mr. G. W. Smothers is in Topeka on business. Mr. Willis Jones left Monday for Hutchinson on a business trip. Mr. D. W. Austin leaves Tuesday to visit his family in Paris, Texas. Rev. L. M. Coplin, Baptist minister, will assume his new field of labor next Sunday. NOTICE—All items for this column must be left at 719 N. 5th Street, by Monday evening of each week. E. A. MITCHELL. Some people never get out of the world of pennies into the world of dollars. FOR THE IDEAL PIE TOOTHSOME DELICACY THAT IS BELOVED BY ALL. Requisites for Success Are Simple. But They Must Be Carefully Remembered—Knack of the Thing Is What Counts. The pie belt is not restricted to New England alone. Ask the miner "baching it," in his lonely camp in the Rockies or Sierras, the soldier and sailor boys in distant posts or alien waters, the storm-stayed traveler, 20 miles from a lemon or anything else eatable, what they want most for their dinner, and ten chances to one "a big piece of mother's home-made pie" heads the list of mouth-watering possibilities. But there are pies and pies, ranging from gutta percha crusts with vapid, tasteless interiors, to a delicate, flaky, melt-in-your-mouth pexterior, clasping in tender embrace ambrosia. Which are yours? Pie makers are born, but they can also be made. The first requisite is brains, then a light, quick touch and judgment in seasoning. In the evolution of the idel pie no great array of implements is required. Glass and marble boards are all right, but just as excellent results may be achieved with a fine hardwood molding board, a thick canvas dredged with flour or even a clean, smooth sheet of manila paper spread smoothly on an ordinary kitchen table. So also with the rolling pin. It is the touch and knack of handling that count—whether the pin be of glass, hardwood or a tall, smooth bottle. For the shortening half butter from which the buttermilk has been well worked out, and lard that has been melted and tried out in the old-fashioned way, instead of being pressed, is considered best, though clarified drippings of beef, chicken, or pork can all be utilized. In making the plain, every-day crust, allow for each pie one cup-sifted flour (heaped), a scant half-cup shortening, a saltspoonful each salt and baking powder and cold water to mix stiff. Measure lard and butter and set in a cold place until hard. Mix flour, salt and baking powder, then cut in the lard. Wet with cold water to a stiff dough, toss on the floured board and pat down to about half an inch in thickness. Roll out, put the butter on the paste in little dabs here and there; dredge lightly with flour; roll over and over; turn half round; pat out and roll again. Then roll over and over like a jelly roll and divide in the middle. Turn each piece over on end, so that the rings of pastry are on top, and if there is time set in the ice chest until hard and chilled. Roll to fit the plate with an inch to spare, as paste shrinks when taken from the board. Fold the crust over, lift up quickly and lay in the tin. Press down in the center so there need be no air bubbles, and let the edge of the crust come just to the edge of the plate. Brush the rim with cold water, and if the pie is a fruit or very juicy compound, the white of an egg brushed over the under crust will prevent soaking. Roll out some of the paste into a strip a good half inch in width and place on the edge. Add the filling and wet the rim again before putting on the upper crust, which should be a little larger than the plate, and have a cut in the center to allow for the escape of steam. Press closely but lightly together and push the two crusts away from the edge of the plate, which gives them a chance to expand. Success in Ironing Shirts. Success in ironing shirts. Any of the following named substances when put into boiled starch will help to make the garment iron smoothly and take a gloss: Borax, sugar, salt, wax, lard, turpentine, spermaceti. The shirt front is starched with hot boiled starch in which there has been mixed one or more of the above ingredients. It is dried, and then dipped in thin, raw starch. After a few hours it it ironed. A thin piece of muslin is placed between the starched surface and the iron. After the shirt front has been ironed smooth it is rubbed with a damp cloth, and then polished with an iron specially made for this purpose. There must be a great deal of pressure used on the polishing iron, and practice is required to do this work well. Place a hard, smooth board under the shirt-front when polishing. Many men object to the highly-polished surface, preferring the dull one. Hard Sauce. Put into a warm bowl one-quarter cup butter and one-half cup powdered sugar. Mix with a wooden spoon or spatula, beating hard for 15 minutes. Flavor with one-half tablespoonful lemon, vanilla or a little nutmeg or powdered mace, as preferred, beat a little longer, pack smoothly on a small plate or pile lightly in a fancy dish, and set on the ice until very hard. A pleasing change is to add a tablespoonful currant jelly after creaming the butter and sugar, then beat light. Diamond Window Panes. Many people who live in the modern antique style of house find it difficult to effectually clean and polish the diamond window panes. The following method of doing so will be found to answer. 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The idea is to ask 60 subscribers are to be called Besides the founders men, with an initiation fee associate membership will While the $1,000 subs vancing the sport in this cat is proposed to give son about 110 of the 200 acres Add to this five acres for be more than 100 acres le It is therefore possi ground in fee simple. The an acre in the vicinity of WINNER AT A CAT SHOP Sparkles recently won hall of fame. Officials of sent fervid messages about nearly upset and a cat an uproar. Sparkles is a cat with and was raffled at a bazaar Astoria by the Little Moth Charles A. Anderson, who plained that the gems we had a pinchbeck pedigree that the animal had been Mrs. Anderson compla which gave the fair, and whole history of this rei an ash-barrel past, was pla Sparkles had come from o dy soul to the Bide-a-Wee This cat had no idea Anita Brooks, who likes made arrangements with the affair at the Waldorf- that she did not intend to of the creature, the attend That was how Sparkles Waldorf-Astoria. Reports of the dissat women who manage Bide said that she never would and that it all was owing She sent the superintend Anderson, and Sparkles, pital. Mrs. Kibbe said it wi not know what Mrs. Bro Sparkles had a badly influ porter balanced in it, or a agement emphatically der cat now is being treated at Aid society. It is the nearest land to New York city where the contour of the surface make it possible to be other land within 80 miles of New York is it pos. This particular land has over a mile of contiguous dunes similar to those abroad. A modern inn is being built which will be our first tee, offering first-class accommodations. The land purchased is on what is known as north of Shinnecock Hills station. It is practiced by Bull's Head bay, Peconic bay and Cold Springs. Golfers conversant with the courses abroad, country, which are generally conceded to be the club, Myopia Hunt club and the Chicago Golf club has no links comparable with the classic co. Ireland. It is the object of the organizers of the course. The idea is to ask 60 men to subscribe $1,00 subscribers are to be called the founders. Besides the founders there is to be an as men, with an initiation fee of $100 to $200 and an associate membership will build the necessary golf. While the $1,000 subscription is expected to advance the sport in this country and not as an it is proposed to give something for the outlay, about 110 of the 200 acres will be needed to lay. Add to this five acres for a clubhouse and access be more than 100 acres left. It is therefore possible to give each subc ground in fee simple. This ground in itself we an acre in the vicinity of a golf course of this c. WINNER AT A CAT SHOW CAUSES TROUBLE Sparkles recently won her place in the feline hall of fame. Officials of two women's societies sent fervid messages about her, a great hotel was nearly upset and a cat and oog hospital was in an uproar. Sparkles is a cat with diamonds in her ear and was raffled at a bazaar given at the Waldorf Astoria by the Little Mothers' Aid society. Mrs. Charles A. Anderson, who drew the prize, complained that the gems were paste and the feline had a pinchbeck pedigree. It also was noticed that the animal had been stepped on in places. Mrs. Anderson complained to the organization which gave the fair, and as a consequence the whole history of this remarkable cat, including an ash-barrel past, was placed under the limelight. Sparkles had come from over toward Eldenth avenue soul to the Bide-a-Wee shelter for animals in New York. This cat had no idea of becoming famous. Anita Brooks, who likes to give cats jewelry and made arrangements with the Bide-a-Wee to have the affair at the Waldorf-Astoria, but at the last, that she did not intend to be personally responsible of the creature, the attendant thought that Sparkles that was how Sparkles made her appearance at Waldorf-Astoria. Reports of the dissatisfaction of Mrs. Ander women who manage Bide-a-Wee. Mrs. Harry U. said that she never would have consented to have and that it all was owing to a mistake of a new She sent the superintendent and a veterinary S. Anderson, and Sparkles, minus the imitation seapital. Mrs. Kibbe said it was a shame to pierce a not know what Mrs. Brooks meant by doing Sparkles had a badly inflamed foot, where either porter balanced in it, or a trunk had fallen on it agement emphatically deny that anyone there seapat now is being treated at the expense of the prn Aid society. It is the nearest land to New York city where the nature of the soil and the contour of the surface make it possible to build an ideal course. On no other land within 80 miles of New York is it possible to build such a course. This particular land has over a mile of contiguous sea frontage, with sand dunes similar to those abroad. A modern inn is being built which will be within 200 or 300 yards of the first tee, offering first-class accommodations. The land purchased is on what is known as Sebonac neck and to the north of Shinnecock Hills station. It is practically bounded on three sides by Bull's Head bay, Peconic bay and Cold Spring bay. Golfers conversant with the courses abroad as well as the best in this country, which are generally conceded to be those of the Garden City Golf club, Myopia Hunt club and the Chicago Golf club, realize that as yet America has no links comparable with the classic courses in Great Britain and Ireland. It is the object of the organizers of the new movement to build such a course. The idea is to ask 60 men to subscribe $1,000 for this purpose. These subscribers are to be called the founders. Besides the founders there is to be an associate membership of 200 men, with an initiation fee of $100 to $200 and annual dues of $30 to $40. The associate membership will build the necessary golf clubhouse. While the $1,000 subscription is expected to be made in the spirit of advancing the sport in this country and not as an investment, at the same time it is proposed to give something for the outlay. As a matter of fact, only about 110 of the 200 acres will be needed to lay out the golf course proper. Add to this five acres for a clubhouse and accessories and there would still be more than 100 acres left. It is therefore possible to give each subscriber an acre and a half of ground in fee simple. This ground in itself would probably be worth $500 an acre in the vicinity of a golf course of this character. WINNER AT A CAT SHOW CAUSES TROUBLE. Sparkles recently won her place in the feline hall of fame. Officials of two women's societies sent fervid messages about her, a great hotel was nearly upset and a cat and oog hospital was in an uproar. Sparkles is a cat with diamonds in her ears and was raffled at a bazaar given at the Waldorf-Astoria by the Little Mothers' Aid society. Mrs. Charles A. Anderson, who drew the prize, complained that the gems were paste and the feline had a pinchbeck pedigree. It also was noticed that the animal had been stepped on in places. Mrs. Anderson complained to the organization which gave the fair, and as a consequence the whole history of this remarkable cat, including an ash-barrel past, was placed under the limelight. Sparkles had come from over toward Eighth avenue and was taken by a kindly soul to the Bide-a-Wee shelter for animals in West Thirty-eighth street. This cat had no idea of becoming famous. She had a wan look. Mrs. Anita Brooks, who likes to give cats jewelry and to have them pose, had made arrangements with the Bide-a-Wee to have a fine maltese animal for the affair at the Waldorf-Astoria, but at the last moment, when it was found that she did not intend to be personally responsible for the home influences of the creature, the attendant thought that Sparkles was plenty good enough. That was how Sparkles made her appearance among the splendors of the Waldorf-Astoria. Reports of the dissatisfaction of Mrs. Anderson aroused the ire of the women who manage Bide-a-Wee. Mrs. Harry Ulysses Kilbe, the president, said that she never would have consented to have Sparkles go to the bazaar and that it all was owing to a mistake of a new attendant that it happened. She sent the superintendent and a veterinary surgeon to the house of Mrs. Anderson, and Sparkles, minus the imitation jewels, was taken to the hospital. Mrs. Kibbe said it was a shame to pierce a cat's ears and that she did not know what Mrs. Brooks meant by doing so. It also was found that Sparkles had a badly inflamed foot, where either a large shoe, with a hotel porter balanced in it, or a trunk had fallen on it. The Waldorf-Astoria management emphatically deny that anyone there stepped on pussy's foot. The cat now is being treated at the expense of the president of the Little Mothers' Aid society. GREAT SUMS SPENT TO HASTEN TRANSIT. Is New York tunnel microbe lurking in the suity with a desire for untain it is that never best of gold been poured fort rowings. On three sides of the madly digging at new tun almost staggering, reachin dreds of millions. The cost $125,000,000. Then street tunnel, on which appended; the Morton street 000; the Battery tunnel. $ Is New York tunnel-mad? Has some new microbe lurking in the subway infected the whole city with a desire for underground travel? Certain it is that never before has such a stream of gold been poured forth for underground burrowings. On three sides of the city human moles are mainly digging at new tunnels at a cost which almost staggering, reaching not millions, but hundreds of millions. The Pennsylvania bores will cost $125,000,000. Then there is the Cortland street tunnel, on which $10,000,000 will be expended; the Morton street tunnel, posting $16,000,000; the Battery tunnel, $8,000,000 and the Stei Is New York tunnel-mad? Has some new microbe lurking in the subway infected the whole city with a desire for underground travel? Certain it is that never before has such a stream of gold been poured forth for underground burrowings. On three sides of the city human moles are mainly digging at new tunnels at a cost which is almost staggering, reaching not millions, but hundreds of millions. The Pennsylvania bores will cost $125,000,000. Then there is the Cortland street tunnel, on which $10,000,000 will be expended; the Morton street tunnel, costing $16,000,000; the Battery tunnel, $8,000,000 and the Steinway tunnel $5,500,000. In fact, taere should be tunnels enough for all at prices to meet any pock- etbook. When all these are completed New York will lay claim to the title of the greatest tunnel city in the world. But it is not only in underground work that the city is spending millions. Altogether $1,000,000,000 is being invested in improvements, a fact which naturally causes Father Knickerbocker to be deeply interested in things financial. The General Electric company is spending $20,000,000 on an extension, the New Haven railroad $10,000,000 for electrification, the New York Central $10,000,000 on various improvements, including the rebuilding of the Grand Central station, and the Western Union $10,000,000. More millions invested in improvements in near-by territory swell the total to the $1,000,000,000 mark at which point even New York will have to stop for breath. NEW YORK—The millionaires' golf course, the pet dream of Charles M. MacDonald, is to be a reality. He announced that after a year's search and study he had finally purchased 200 acres of land in the Shinnecock hills for $40,000. Although work will be started at once, the course will not be ready for play for two years. The links will be the finest in the world. Walter J. Travis, Mr. Emmet, H. J. Whigham and Mr. MacDonald will constitute the committee to lay out the course. Three months have been allotted for that part of the work. Then a miniature model of the links will be made, including exact reproductions of many famous holes that are to be copied. --- A and was taken by a kindest Thirty-eighth street. She had a wan look. Mrs. had to have them pose, had a fine maltese animal for moment, when it was found able for the home influences was plenty good enough among the splendors of the Jason aroused the ire of the yssies Kibbe, the president. Sparkles go to the bazaar attendant that it happened. Mergeon to the house of Mrs. Wells, was taken to the hos- cat's ears and that she did. It also was found that a large shoe, with a hotel The Waldorf-Astoria man-apped on pussy's foot. The incident of the Little Mothers' FATHER MINCERBOXOR x will lay claim to the title the city is spending millions, improvements, a fact which deeply interested in things sending $20,000,000 on an ex- electrification, the New York building the rebuilding of the $10,000,000. More millions the total to the $10,000,000. KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. Tabernacles. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 943 Everett, Kansas City, Kas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. Miss Jennie Alexander, G. Q. M. 918 Penn, St., Lawrence, Kansas QUEEN MOTHER KAN Miss Jannie Al 948 Penn, Lawreire Lillie Hardin, 0 enue, N. Topeka, Hester Cornish, N. Topeka, Kansas Jennie Sellers, street, Omaha, N. Number. 1 Mrs. S. Williams, 1309 N 10th St. Kansas City, Kansas. 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 South Chestnut St. Iola, Kan. 3. Mrs. Carrie Douglass, 1722 Sixth avenue, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 4 Mrs. Laura Williams, 625 4th St., Cherryvale, Kansas. 5. Mrs. Mary Burdett, 819 N. 1st. street, Atchison, Kansas. 6. Mrs. Addie Glaspie, 128 Mulberry street, Ottowa, Kansas. 7. Mrs. Lillian Shobe, 336 Santa Fe street, Salina, Kansas. 8. Mrs. Nancy Fax, 505 N. Santa Fe St., Foffeyville, Kansas. 9. Mrs. Sarah H. Harrison, 1321 Van Buren, st., Topeka, Kansas. 10. 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Eliza Robinson, 1801 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kansas. Mollie Spencer, 502 V street, Atchl ison, Kansas. Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Louise Verder, 813 Jersey, Lawrence, Kansas. Charlotte Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kansas City, Kansas. A. O. Murrell, 451 S. Fourth street Salina, Kansas. Mary Hopkins, 903 West B, North Topeka, Kansas. Amy Lane, 1422 E. Appleton street, Parsons, Kansas. Annie Edwards, 944 Everett, Kansas City, Kansas. Laura Smith, 308 E. Eleventh, Coffeyville, Kansas. enworth, Kansas. Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Cof- Ella McKinnie, 217 Sherman, Leav- Contrasting Shades Necessary for Most Perfect Effects. Never at any time choose a lunch-on table with entirely white decorations. If you choose white carnations and Roman hyacinths and ferns or graceful drooping white lilacs, at least have pink roses at each place, and pink candle shades and bonbons and icings on fancy cakes. If violets are used, or pansies, or purple iris, combine them with just the right shade of light blue for decoration; the blending of violet and blue is very charming when well done. In the south or wherever the large violets grow well a violet luncheon can be given, with whole clumps of violets transferred to large deep dishes and platters, and bunches of cut violets tied with ribbons for every guest. At one large fete a table was wreathed with a border of violets. Of course, violets look best by daylight and not by artificial light, which makes them appear so dark. Old-Fashioned Molasses Candy Old-Fashioned Molasses Candy. Into a kettle holding about four times the amount of molasses to be used put the quantity of molasses required, and boil about one-half hour over rather slow fire, stirring all the time and taking off the kettle if there is any danger of contents running over, and be careful and not let the candy burn. When a little dropped into cold water becomes hard and brittle (boiled long enough for this to occur after trying) add a teaspoon of common baking soda free from lumps to every two quarts of the boiled molasses, stir quietly to mix and pour on platter greased with butter to cool. When sufficiently cool pull back and forth (greasing the hands beforehand with butter) until the candy is a yellowish brown color, add flavoring if wished. A pretty and practical case for dusters is always acceptable. One that fulfills both conditions is made of green and white cretonne in a graceful vase form. The bottom is $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches square and the sides are nine inches in height. Stitch the sections together on the right side, binding the seams with bias strips of white cambric. Insert or work two eyelets (metal ones are preferable) in each section two inches below the top. Through these run drawing strings of ribbon or silk cord and within the case $tuck$ a cheesecloth duster, bordered with feather-stitching in green floss. Balls for Extracting Grease. Dry cloth balls for extracting grease may be made by taking half a pound of dry fuller's earth and moistening it with a little lemon juice. Then add half an ounce of finely pulverized pearlash and work into a thick paste. Roll into small balls and set them in the sun or a little distance from the fire to dry. In a few hours they will be ready for use. When required the stained cloth should be moistened with warm water and rubbed with the balls. Place in the sun to dry and then brush off the powder or wash it out if necessary. How to Tend Bronzes. Before wetting any sort of brie-a-brac, and especially bronzes, remove all the dust possible. The less dust water finds about the lines and cranies the less it can leave there. After dusting, wash well in strong white soapsuds and ammonia, rinse clean, polish with just a suspicion of oil and rotten stone, and rub off afterward every trace of the oil. Never let acid touch a bronze surface unless to eat and pit it for antique effects. Potato Omelet. Mash sufficient hot potatoes to make a pint. Beat three eggs until light, season with salt and pepper and mix with the potatoes. Melt a tablespoon of butter in the frying pan, pour in the mixture and turn, from side to side to brown evenly. When the bottom is colored fold carefully and serve at A. Duster Case. Potato Omelet. HEARTH BOUDOIR Still Whisper Old, Sweet Story Soft Slippers for the Bedroom White Fur Cleansed at Home LOVE STILL HAS ITS PLACE IN THE WORLD. Marriages of Affection Are as Numerous as Ever, Despite Woman's Entry Into the Cares of Modern Business. Is sweethearting on the wane? Is sweethearting on the wane: It all depends whom you ask, of course. The grumpy old bachelor, who has forgotten that he was ever young, and that at least one sweet woman might have loved him, and who smokes a lonely pipe by his ill-kept hearth, will tell you that the foolery is out of date, that all the marriages of to-day are arranged on a basis of pecuniary consideration, that the young men are looking for heiresses and the girls for settlements. He will give you statistics to prove that love is well lost out of the world, and this sphere will be a perfect place when every infant is a ward of the state. The spinster who has diligently spent the last 20 years in trying to get lierself married will doubtless agree with him. But she is a woman, and she knows that the little maid in her kitchen is a happy lass just because her lad is waiting for her at the corner of the lane. Sweethearting! The good old word! It speaks to you of the days of brocade and slippers! it tells of illac and the May. I am told that in our big towns young men complain that they have not the opportunity of meeting girls who would make them suitable wives, says a writer in the Los Angeles Herald. It reminds me of a story of my grandmother. A lady was complaining to her that, owing to restricted means, her daughters could not go into society, and that in consequence possible husbands did not come knocking at the gate. "My dear," she said, "I should have got married if I'd lived in an oven." There is something in it; even with sweethearting the old adage holds good, "Where there's a will there's a way." Useful and Comfortable in Gray Eiderdown. These are made of blue and gray eiderdown cut out the length required and shaped like a stocking. It takes two pieces of the blue for the inside and the same of the gray for the outside to make one slipper. Seam the two gray pieces all the way around, leaving the top and two and one-half inches in the front open, then turn. This makes a boot. The inside is made just the same, but a little more seam should be taken in on the blue; these are not turned, but slipped inside of the gray ones, the boot tops turned over and bound with blue ribbon that can be feather stitched or hemmed around and a bow tied in front; it requires one-third of a yard of each color of the eiderdown a yard wide and three and one-half yards of a small pair, which are real cute for a child. These are inexpensive and Process Is Long and Tedious, but Economical. Keeping white furs clean is like keeping linens looking fresh, for both need much attention and frequent cleansings. Of course, if women can afford to have furriers do this work they need not be so particular about preventing their muffs, collatteries or capes from getting soiled, but when the cleansing must be done at home, too much care can not be taken to keep them clean, for the process of cleaning ermine, coney, angora or any of the white furs, real or imitation, is a long, tedious one, that takes much strength. To begin with, they must be put out on a line and well sunned and aired for a day or two, then they must be whipped gently yet firmly with a ratan stick, until no dust flies when they are pounded. When the loose dirt is out the furs may again be hung on a line in the INFORMAL TALKS The Parisian fad for shawl-like draperies has brought out some exquisite shawl scarfs in crepe, in soft silk and in lace, the crepe and silk scarfs being elaborately embroidered. Heavy coarse net gorgeously embroidered with gold thread in Egyptian fashion is made in wide bands which are inset most effectively in cloth. Tartan plaids are finding much favor as trimming and appear in pipings, girdles, belts, buckles, buttons, etc. Colored gloves have supplanted It must at the same time be admitted that the day has gone past when any marriage for a woman was considered better than none. No reproach attaches to the unmarried woman today who has shown by her business capacity or her adequate income a capacity or her talent that she is able to provide herself with an adequate income, and can take her place as a good servant of the community side by side with any man. But to such a woman love, when it comes, is deep and real—it must be to be worth the sacrifice of her freedom—and any monetary advantage she may gain is amply balanced by all she gives up. She marries because she loves, and for no other reason at all. We hear it on all sides. Life is admittedly more difficult than when our grandmothers were young. Then, girls married at 21; now, though her granddaughter may be engaged at 19, the engagement stretches over years. Strephon cannot earn enough for the housekeeping, so Phyllis goes out to business, too. She saves money, and so does he, and surely the courting days are the happiest after all. Life is fresh and fair, Phyllis and Strephon are newly acquainted. The years that pass before their marriage give them many happy memories of pleasures shared, because each found in the other some new taste. A happy engagement is the prelude to a happy marriage. Sweethearts like these have nothing to fear when the candle of life burns low. It is, then, surely only the sentimentalist who is dead. From the ashes of an inflated romance has arisen love deep and abiding, the sweet, true sentiment of the world that lifts the hearts of men higher. Then let not the laggard lover lament the lack of opportunity for the telling of his tale. Love that is real will always find a method of expression, and who that has seen an entirely contented pair in happy solitude on the top of a broken-down motor-bus, from which all the other passengers have fled, can ask themselves the question, "Is sweet-hearting on the wane?" make a useful present and the children are delighted with slippers like sunshine, while a bath of white sand and furrier's sawdust, mixed half and half, is heated in an oven. When hot, the pieces must be put into this cleanser and the sand and sawdust rubbed well into the fur. The sand when hot loosens the grease and dirt from the fur and the sawdust absorbs it. If after one such rubbing the fur does not look as clean as is desired, the process should be repeated. When the dirt is out the garment or muff must again be pounded with a rattian stick to get out the sand and sawdust. Following this beating the fur should be placed in a pan filled with cornstarch or plaster of paris, which must be rubbed thoroughly into it. After either whitener has been worked well into the pieces the furs must again be put out of doors and whipped with a stick to get out the white dust, for it not shaken or beaten the plaster of paris or cornstarch will rub off on the clothing, which is unpleasant. white ones in Parisian favor and tan, gray or black long gloves are the correct thing for street wear. Silk crochet buttons are revived and are to be had in all the fashionable colors. Soutache braiding is used on nets and chiffons as well as upon cloth and velvet. Foolish Extreme in Fashion A novel hat described by a Paris correspondent is simply a big white pheasant, with a black head, that sits on the hair with widely outstretched wings, and looks at you with a vague expression in its amber eyes. "Troubling as the Sphinx," was said of it; but admitting this, it is also atrociously bad art. "There is no manner of sense," remarks its describer, "in a woman having a bird use her hair as a nest."