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nstances Of Negro Success EIGTTHH YEAR. Instances of Negro Success," a con- tion to the Milwaukee Sentinel in the pen of Frederick J. Haskin, January 21, is upon the whole a fair, table article, its main blemish being gratuitous affront, if not an insult, found in this reflection of the er. "It ought to cause us to en- rage the Negro to go to work and to do something for himself in- d of brooding over the cheerless- s of his lot." to work—do somethin gfor him— Why bless our dear friend's soul it be know the Negro is a race of ers, despite the fact that the unfair it of the age has closed thousands venues of toil against him because colored his skin different from also there are thousands upon thou- s of Negroes, beside the "glittering our white friend has called ation to, who have and are daily do- something worthy for themselves. all Negro men and women can be ker Washingtons or Edmonia Lew- no more than all white men and men can be Theodore Roosevelts or Addamses. I read his article, we publish it attim, thanks to The Sentinel, save reference to Gans. This paper does believe Negro prize fighters are credit to the race, hence have no e to boost them. he trouble with the Negro soldiers Brownsville, Tex., and race distances elsewhere, have caused so in feeling that one wonders what is come of the whole sorry business. worst side of Negro character has a thorough airing; the faults and cremings of the black man have laid bae to the bone. Can any be said of him? Is he doing any commendable? Without attoting to arise the ace question, or be it for any particular community it may be an issue. I offer here a collection of specific instances Negro success. It ought to cause to encourage the Negro to go to and try to do something for him instead of brooding over the endlessness of his lot. T. T. Washington and Tuskegee.oker T. Washington is the fore-Negro in America. He stands at head of his race as an educator holder of thought. He believes in using the hands as well as the brain. --- and to train hands and brain together. When Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute he had no money, and the school had none. During the first year he was its only teacher, and the thirty pupils were given instruction in an old church and a dilapidated shanty, loaned by the colored people of the neighborhood. The institute now owns 2,000 acres of land, eighty-three buildings, dwellings, dormitories, classrooms, shops, and barns, live stock, farm implements, etc., all valued at $75,000. This does not include 22,000 acres of public lands granted by congress, valued at $135,000, nor the endowment fund of $1,275,000. The institute now has over 1,800 pupils in all its departments, and is growing every year. This is the quarter of a century record of a Negro who believes in improving his race by teaching the honorableness of wok. Hnery O. Tanner is a Negro artist, who has gaine dan international reputation. He studied in Philadelphia, and later in Paris. His picture, "Daniel in the Lion's Den," was bought by the Pennsylvania Academy," and later "The Raising of Lazarus" was purchased by the French government, and now hangs on the walls of the Luxembourg. Another work of his, "The Two Disciples of the Tomb," was purchased for the art collection of the Museum of Chicago. He has ben awarded both the Walter Lippincott prize offered by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Harris prize for the best exhibit shown in the Chicago Art Institute. Negress as a Sculptress. Edmonia Lewis, the colored sculptress, who lived abroad so long that many people do not know that she was born in the vicinity of Albany, N. Y. She is quite an old woman now, her first exhibition having been made in Boston in 1865. Her statue, "The Freedwoman," was completed prior to her departure for Rome. Upon her arrival in the eternal city her work gave so much evidence of genuine talent that she was befriended by Hariel Hosmer, Charlotte Cushman, and others. Two of the finest specimens of her work are "The Marriage of Hiawatha," owned in New York, and the portrait bust of Abraham Lincoln, which is in San Jose, Cal. Filipino Band Leader. WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, FEB. 2, 1907. Cole and Johnson are not only successful actors, but composers of popular alrs as well. They wrote "The Mississippi Belle," which was sung by May Irwin, and many othe well known pieces, such as "Under the Bamboo Tree." "The Congo Love Song," "The Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes," "Floating Down the Nile," "Lindy," and others. The publishers have sold over 1,000,000 copies of their different songs, and the authors received a royalty of 5 cents on each copy sold. Cole and Johnson wrote all the music of "Humpty Dumpty," the big extravaganza brought out by Klaw & Erlanger. Other Negroes who have been successful on the stage are Black Patti, the singer, and Williams and Walker, the comedians. Sings of J. P. Morgan. Harry Durleigh, aside from being a concert singer and composer of a higher class of msuic than produced by Cole and Johnson, ( is the solo baritone at St. George's church in New York, which is the place where Pierpont Morgan goes to worship. Burleigh is a thoroughly trained, all-round musician for whose ability the white members of his poession have only words of compliment and praise. Successful Lawyer in Chicago. Edward H. Morris of Chicago, is probably the most successful lawyer of the Negro race. He was originally from Kentucky, and made a reputation a few years ago by winning a suit in which Cook county and the City of Chicago were involved. Another important case which he won was one concerning the question of taxing the pany. Morris is said to have a practice worth $20,000 a year. Most Accomplished Negress. Mary Church Terrill is doubtless the most accomplished Negro woman in America. She was the first woman appointed on the board of education in the District of Columbia, and not long ago when she went to Berlin to attend the meeting of the International Association for the Advancement of Women, she surprised the entire assemblage by being able to deliver her address in three languages. She was formerly from Memphis. She now devotes much time to lecturing on subjects concerning the welfare of the Negro race. First to Sew Up Man's Heart Several years ago when a fight occurred in Chicago, one of the combatants received a stab wound in the heart. The fist physician to reach the apparently doomed man was Dr. Daniel H. Williams, a Nego practitioner, who succeeded in saving up the man's heart. This was the first time any such operation was ever reported in the history of medicine. At the ast account the patient in this remarkable case was still alive. Dr. Williams has since served on the Illinois state board of health. Architect Started at Tuskegee. The plans for the handsome building which will contain the Negro exhibit at the Jamestown exposition next summer were drawn by W. Sydney Pittman, a Negro architect who started in to learn the trade of wheelwright at Tuskegee. His unusual ability in making accurate estimates of the cost of production attracted the attention of his teachers, who advised him to begin the study of architectural drawing. He drew the design for the Collis P. Huntington memorial building at Tuskegee, which has forty-one classrooms, and is the largest building on the ground. A Successful Inventor. A Successful Inventor. The most successful inventor of the Negro race is sad to be Granville T. Wood, the electrician, who has patented thirty-five different mechanical devices. These include a steam boiler furnace, four kinds of electrical apparatus, four electric railway improvements, two electrical brakes, and a telephone system. The latter is used by the Bell Telephone company, and one of his electrical devices is in use on the elevated railway in New York. Champion Cotton Raiser. The champion cotton raise of Oklahoma is a colored man named Alfred Smith. He has not only taken all the premiums offered in that state for the first and best cotton, but his product has received the blue ribbon at the World's fair, and first prize in England. Smith was born near Atlanta, and says that when Sherman marched through he was ploughing nearby with an old gray mule. Another colored farmer who has become noted in his state is Junius G. Groves, of Kansas, who owns 500 acres of fine land in the Kaw valley. Groves raises about 75,000 bushels of potatoes every year, which is considerably more than is produced by any other individual grower in the NEWS OF THE WEEK NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered from All parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Personal. Col. R. W. Blue, prominent for many years in Kansas politics died of heart disease at his home in Bartlesville, I. T. W. F. Martin, Jr., convicted at Muskogee, I. T., of stealing a Creek Indian roll and sentenced to serve one year in the federal prison and pay a fine of $10,000. The department of commerce and labor has began an investigation of the harvester trust. Lee McGill for a number of years past, the associate editor and owner of the Independent at Oswego, Kan., has been declared of unsound mind by a jury in the probate court. Mrs. John Ade died at Kentland, Ind., of heart failure. Six children survive her, one of whom is George Ade, the writer and playwright. Rev. Dr. Henry N. Field, last of the famous Field brothers, Cyrus W. Stephen J., and David Dudley, died in Stockbridge, Mass. E. A. Sterling, formerly assistant forester in the department of agriculture, has been appointed forester for the Pennsylvania Railroad company. Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, the last of the children of Rev. Lyman Beecher, died recently in Hartford, Conn. Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of the Isthmian Canal commission was the guest of honor at the January dinner of the Kansas City Knife and Fork club. John Mitchell has been reelected president of the United Mine Workers of America, receiving 71,000 votes. The legislature of South Carolina has elected Benjamin R. Tillman as United States senator. Robert L. Taylor has been elected United States senator from Tennessee. Charles E. Wolcott, director of the geological survey, has been elected secretary of the Smithsonian Institute. Chief Justice Fitzpatrick, of the supreme court of Canada, and Mrs. Fitzpatrick were among the guests at a white house dinner given in honor of the United States supreme court. United States Senator Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, died suddenly of heart disease recently at his residence in Washington. Both houses of congress adjourned for the day as a mark of respect. Congressional. The president has sent a message to congress urging the desirability of legislation to help American shipping by encouraging the building and running of lines of steamers to South America and the Orient. A bill has been introduced in the house providing for the election of United States supreme court judges by direct vote of the people. By a vote of 53 to 21 the senate has agreed to the house proposition to increase the salaries of senators and representatives to $7,500 a year. Under the new law the vice president, speaker of the house and cabinet members will receive $12,000 annually. An appropriation of $95,000,000 is provided for in the naval appropriation bill recently agreed upon by the house. A report of the investigation of the oil industry sent to congress states that a distinct part of the policy of the Standard Oil company has been the ruin of its competitors. The joint postal commission, authorized at the last session of congress to investigate and report on the effect of existing laws relating to second class postal rates has submitted its report. The house has adopted an amendment to the pension bill abolishing NO.46 The Japanese government has made an appropriation of $300,000 to cover the expense of representatives of the army and navy who will participate in the exposition at Jamestown, Va. The losses of cattle and sheep in the northwest owing to the extreme cold and heavy snows will exceed $1,100,000. Four men were killed and 16 others seriously injured by the explosion of an ice machine in the packing plant of Armour & Co., in Chicago. A terrific squall broke over Hong Kong and in the space of ten minutes sank over 50 Chinese craft in the harbor, more than 100 natives being drowned. The plant of the Phelps Publishing company at Springfield, Mass., publishers of several prominent agricultural periodicals has burned causing a loss of $1,000,000. Fire damp explosion in a mine near Saarbruck, Prussia, in which 600 miners were working caused the death of at least 200 of the men. Eighty-four inmates of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., were released in one day, being the largest number ever freed at one time. Following a conference at the White house it was stated that W. D. Oliver, who with A. M. Bangs was the lowest bidder for the completion of the Panama canal, would be given ten days in which to associate with him self one or more responsible contractors, when he would be awarded the contract at the price named in his bid. The Southwestern deserts and the forest reserves of that region are to be restocked with antelope, to be brought from Africa. A letter from the Metal Dealers' association to Attorney General Bonaparte in relation to the alleged copper combine asserts that more than 30,200 tons of copper are being secretly held to create a fictious scarcity and increased price. Several cargoes of coal from the Orient will soon be received on Puget sound to relieve the fuel famine at Tacoma and Seattle. This is the first time coal has ever been imported from the Orient there. George C. Hale, former chief of the Kansas City, Mo., fire department has received a contract to furnish the city of Panama with modern fire protection equipment. An investigation of public land frauds has begun at Pueblo, Col., at which sensational disclosures are expected to be made. The inquiry will probably last for two months. Twenty miners were recently entombed in a coal mine at Primero, Col., as the result of an explosion caused by a windy blast. After an extended conference at the White house it was decided to reject the bid of Oliver and Baugs for the construction of the Panama canal, insofar as A. M. Baugs, of New York, is concerned. If Mr. Oliver can get a new partner he will be given the contract. The next annual convention of the National Educational association will be held in Los Angeles, Cal., during the first week in July. The Spanish cabinet has again resigned. Officials of the Southern Express company at Mobile, Ala., have been arrested on a charge of accepting for transportation prize lists and tickets of the Honduras Lottery company. A smallpox epidemic has broken out in the jail at Guthrie which is situated in the basement of the building where the Oklahoma constitutional convention is being held. The damage to shipping in Buffalo harbor alone is $1,500,000. Five great lake steamers are ground tell that part of the story. Thirteen others making brave attempts to ride out the storm may add to it. The government won a decisive victory in the recent general election for members of the new German Reichstag. Judge Oscar Hallam, in the district court at St. Paul has issued an order enjoining the officials of the Great Northern Railway company from making the proposed increase of $60,000,000 in the capital stock of the company during the pending litigation. The trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White has begun in New York. The entire first day was consumed in securing two jurymen. AGE 2 THE SEARCHLIGHT, W. N. MILLER.....Editor Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mail).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mail).....75 Three Months (By Mail).....50 Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. Notice.—All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wednesday to reach publication in the current issue. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will not be published in the current issue. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to another give both the ned and the old. 4th. No new name will be placed on our books unless the money accompanies the name. Write plain. 5th. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 N. Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. "To Live and Let Live" Is Our Motto. ARKANSAS CITY. The young people of the B. Y. P. U. rendered a splendid program at the Second Baptist church Sunday evening. Rev. B. R. Guy preached a soul stirring sermon Sunday evening to a large audience at the St. James A. M. E. church. Mrs. T. G. Banks, of Wichita, was visiting friends here a few days ago. Mrs. B. R. Guy and Mrs. Thos. G. Banks are visiting friends in Kansas City. Miss Ethel Savoyer left hee Thursday morning for Bangor, Michigan. Miss Grace Roberts has returned from visiting her sister. Mrs. Allie Johnson at Chillocco, Oklahoma. P. B. Andrews is suffering from a very bad cold. E. A. Mitchell is confined to his house for several days. ALLIANCE, NEB. The Daughters of Star of the West Tabernacle No. 33, held a meeting January 22 to pay their dues. They are unable to rent a hall so they can have their regular monthly meeting but they are trying to keep in touch with business until they can get a hall. At present all the members are well. The weather is fair. On February 1 Daughter Cobbs gave a luncheon at her house for the benefit of Tabernacle. On Friday evening a number of ladies and gentlemen met at the home of Mrs. C. M. Bowlin. After all had gathered they went over the rolling prairies and across the ice stream up to the home of Mrs. C. H. Murphy, and surprised her. It was a real surprise to her. The evening was spent in music and a spelling bee. Mr. Johnson presided at the piano. At about eleven o'clock the ladies passed lunch which had been prepared by the ladies after their arrival. Mrs. Adams and Mr. Taylor proved to be the champion spellers of the evening. Those present were: Mrs. H. D. Johnson, Mrs. N. B. Harrison, Mrs. J. Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. N. Taylor and son Clark, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Adams, Mrs. Fanny Carneal, Mrs. C. M. Bowlin, Mrs. Anna Dornell, Mrs. W. M. Akins, Mrs. W. M. Washington and son Roland. At 12 o'clock all left wishing Mrs. C. H. Murphy a happy good-night, and to dream sweet dreams of the pleasant evening spent with her friends. TO BROTHER'S MEMORY. brother, W. H. Wilkins.) Our dear brother from us has gone— The voice we oved is stilled. His place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. God, in His wisdom, has recalled The boon His love had given, And though his-body moulder here His soul is safe in heaven. MRS. WILLIAM HALLUM, Seattle, Wash. THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. Dr. A. J. Jordan, PHYSICIAN AND SUOGEON Diseases of Women A Specialty 601 North Main St. New Phone 1944 GRAND CONCERT. New Hope Baptist Church Monday Evening, February 11, 1907. Evening, February 11, 1907. Mrs. Dora Tipps and C. C. Hickerson, better known as "Bud" Hickerson, are making great preparations for a big concert at New Hope on Monday night, February 11th. They are preparing an ideal program and all those who attend this concert will be very highly pleased. Both Mrs. Tipps and Mr. Hickerson have wide experiences in this line and all may look forward for something fine from them. Go down to New Hope Baptist church Monday night, February 11, 1907. RALLY! RALLY! RALLY! Everyone should bear in mind the big rally which is scheduled to come off at the A. M. E. church, Sunday, February 17th, under the auspices of the Trustee and Steward Boards of the church. Those who have cards should get them filled and ready to turn in February 17th. Lay aside a piece of money for this rally and be there. WANTED—Gentleman or lady to travel for Mercantile House of large capital. Territory at home or abroad to suit. If desirable the home may be used as headquarters. Weekly salary of $1,000 per year and expenses. Address Jos. A. Alexander, Wichita, Kan. CARD OF THANKS. I wish to return my heartfelt thanks to the many kind friends who so willingly extended their kind offices and assistance during the recent illness and death of my beloved wife, Fannie A. Smith, and also for the beautiful floral offerings. A shall always hold the memory of each dear Sincerely. Do You Want Long Hair? 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. Walker uses in making the hair grow. Office at 634 North Wabash Ave., For Full Particulars Rev. James Tipps is able to be out again after an attack of that miserable "grip." Jas. J. Olden and seevral other colored men who are enthuastic over buying land are making preparation to organize a company to buy up land. Lest you forget, we are still in the printing business. Self respect cannot be bought. However, you will amount to nothing unless it is yours. R. E. Smith will take up his regular run on the Missouri Pacific Railway on February 1st. Miss Mabelle A. Taylor returned Saturday morning from Leavenworth, where she was called on account of the illness of her father. She reports her father improving nicely. IS ACQUITTED. A jury in the district court brought in a verdict Saturday night acquitting Miss Corinne Miller of the charge of murder. Miss Miller was tried for killing William Morrow, a young colored man, last year. Search for the best things. Be sure to seek some mission in life's services. W. M. I 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. Nolley's Grand Rapids Furniture PRICES TO PLEASE ALL Come early and get your selec- tion before the rush. Rockers $1.25 up. Children Rockers 25c. Dining Chairs 75c. PRICES LESS 118-120 North Main Street John E. Lewis, G. C., returned this week from Garden City, Kan., where he put a new Knights of Pythias lodge in working order. This section is still experiencing many and varied changes in the weather. Inconvenience and hardships count nothing to the individual who is on the upward move in life. You Want the best, don't you? Then Buy RED STAR FLOUR Purest, Whitest, Sweetest, Best Ask your grocer for it Made in Wichita RED STAR MILL & ELEVATOR CO. STRONG CITY NEWS. Rev. Harrison of Kansas City, Mo., is conducting revival services at the Second Baptist church this week. N. Pennington, who came down to be installed as W. C. of the local Odd Fellows lodge returned home on Monday. Miss Cornelia Blackwell has accepted a position at Cottonwood Falls. With but a few exceptions all the colored children attending the High School passed the half term examinations. Maud and Myrtle Young, of Emporia, will be the guest of Etta and Revena Blackwell in the near future. Those attending church on Monday night were treated to a wonderful sermon by Rev. Harrison, subject, "Seven reasons why sinners should make heaven their home." Household of Ruth No. 1697 will initiate a candidate on February 5. Rev. J. H. Raimey, of Great Bend, is expected here the middle of next month. The newly elected officers of Mt. Hermon Lodge No. 4652 G. U. O of O. F., was installed on the 26th. After the ceremony refreshments was served which was enjoyed by all. Phil Burks is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Anna Blackwell will visit in Emporia next week. PRATT (KAN.) ITEMS. Chas. Tumbleson had quite a surprise on his wife last Tuesday. She went to Pratt. hen she came back home she found he had purchased a fine new range stove. Mrs. Marion Fleming has returned home last Friday from a visit to parents and relatives, in Oklahoma. She also found a $76.00 new range stove in the kitchen waiting for the new cook. Birdie James was over 50 see his sweetheart last Sunday. From the way that it looks that team of mules that goes to see the young lady. Miss Mitchell, we think he will sure win him a companion. Sam Greene last Sunday started to see his sweetheart but on account of the bad weather he had to turn around and come back. Will James, of Pratt, Kan., a well-to-do farmer, is getting ready to shell his 3,000 bushels of corn. F. E. Fleming is shipping out several carloads of cattle to Kansas City, hoping to receive top price. Mr. J. T. Russell, better known as "Bill Heck," is on the road to recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Hue Rusell was out to see their sick brother, J. T. Russell, who is on the road to recovery. W. M. Dunson, 302 W. Murdock Ave., Wichita F IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? DEATH OF SIR KNIGHT HENRY FULGHAM Sir Knight Fulgham was born in Mississippi, December 25, 1866, died in Kansas City, Kan., January 25, 1907, age 40 years, one month. Sir Knight Fulgham came to Kansas City, Kansas, from New Orleans in the spring of 1900. He entered the grocery business in the fall of 1900, and from that time on has been a progressive and successful merchant. In May, 1904, he became a member of Washington Temple, oN. 25, of Kansas City, Kan., and as in business he has always been for the upbuilding of the Temple, a man who stood for the progress of his race first, last, and always. He was always striving to do something for the uplift of his fellowman, a literary benefactor and instructor for the right. In our opinion not only is his one of the few immortal names that were not born to die, but his is one of the still fewer names that are entitled to immortality upon earth. He is not only one of the immortals, but he is one of them by right. Sir Fulgham was not for an age, but all times a sturdy character, peerless in its strength, a simple character, modest in every station, pure in every personal expression, the incarnation of bravery in every attribute, with firmness in the right, as God gave him to see the right. Whereas, On Friday, January 25, at 2:30 o'clock n the afternoon God, in Hs all-wise judgment saw fit to call from the stage of aceton Sir Knight Fulgham, and Whereas, Sir Fulgham was such an energetic straightforward business man, that the men of that sphere have lost one of their brightest stars in the commercial line, since by his career the ambitious may know how greatness is achieved adn how fame is won. For in him we find that character which goes to make the annals of mankind subject of research, by which nations are saved and are led with equal success, along the delightful paths abundance, prosperity and peace., and Whereas, The links have been broken in Washington Temple. Be It Therefore. Resolved. That the business men with the Sir Knights extend their heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family, and throw an arm of protection around them, pointing them to God for safekeeping, and to whom they might go when all else seems dark and gloomy. Be It Also Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions be submitted to the family; also to the official organ for publication. J. W. Owens Shoe Repairing WORK DONE WHILE YOU WAIT 2nd Shoes Bought and Sold 392 N. Main Street Wishta, Kan. Whereas, in the death of Mrs. Fannie A. Smith, we, the B. T. W. club, have lost a beloved member, whom we admired. Resolved, That as an nonorary member we, the club, deeply mourn her loss, but we bow our heads to the heads to the inevitable for our loss is heaven's gain. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Searchlight, and a copy spread upon the minutes. SONG SERVICES. A special program has been prepared for the song services at the A. M. E. church for Sunday night, February 3rd. The following program will be rendered aside from the regular exercises: Paper—Miss Ida Hill. Instrumental Solo—Miss Irma Clark. Paper—Mrs. Dora Harris. Cornet Solo—Prof. Jeff Smith. The song service will open at :30 p. m. All are asked to be prompt at that hour. Bring a friend with you. Mrs. Ed Smith arrived in the city from Eldorado to join her husband here. They will make this their future home. A. F. WILSON, ARCHIE WILLIAMS, Committee. MRS. BOWERS, MRS. THOMPSON, MRS. BUTLER, Committee GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As SNOW-TRY IT- Otto WEISS, Agent I have a full line of fresh and wholesome Fancy and Staple Groceries, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Sugar, Flour, Meal, Vegetables, Canned Goods Brooms, Butter, Eggs, Coal Oil, Gasoline, Stationary, and in fact, anything and everything you may want in the Grocery Line. Your Trade Solicited Court House Grocery 601 N. Main St. --- ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco ... Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. --- Best Way to Furnish and Decorate the Bedroom—American Cooks Not Alive to the Value of Chives—Recipes. A simple bedroom is most desirable, and the most comfortable. Large closets are a great convenience. Under one of the windows a box can be built in which shirtwaists may be kept, and also serve as a seat. Mirrors may be set into the walls, framed to match the woodwork. If the walls are in good condition it is better to have them painted a delicate tint, though it gives a room a cold appearance. Nothing, however, is as sanitary or economical. If the walls are painted, the hangings and furniture coverings should be figured. If flowered or figured paper is used then the material for draperies and coverings should be plain. In some bedrooms both wall paper and hangings are of the same design. The floors, of course, should be of hardwood or be painted. It is possible then by removing the rugs and wiping up the floor with a damp cloth occasionally to keep the room free from dust. The rugs rugs now so popular are desirable for bedrooms, for they can be washed without much trouble. "The Making of a Housewife," says that few American housekeepers know the value of chives. English and French cooks do. If you are lucky enough to find a bunch in the market, carry it home and put it in a pot of earth. It will keep verdant all winter in a sunny window, as parsley does. At a first glance you might imagine it was grass, but each tiny blade is a tube, like an onion top. Chives, although more delicate, belong to the onion family. A tablespoonful chopped fine is a delicious addition to a potato, lettuce or endive salad; it also gives a pleasant taste to soups or hashed brown potatoes. As soon as it is cut it springs up again. One bunch of chives, well watered, will give you a winter's flavoring. The following is another recipe for scones: Sift one quart of flour; add one-half teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of lard, one beaten egg, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, one of soda, and one pint of sweet milk. Mix to a thick batter, drop in squares on a very hot greased griddle, and bake brown on both sides. Serve with butter, maple syrup or honey. For chestnut stuffing, peel, skin, and cook tender enough chestnuts to make half a pound when they are chopped fine. Add to the chestnuts four ounces of butter, three ounces of bread crumbs and a little grated lemon peel and powdered mace, salt and a pinch of cayenne. To this mixture add the beaten yolks of three eggs. 1. dinner is to be served at one o'clock, the dressing may be put in the fowl the night before. COOKING WITH SOUR MILK. Vigorous Beating Necessary to Make It Mix Smoothly. Some cooks decry the use of sour milk cookery, because of the difficulty of mixing it smoothly with other ingredients, and a bit of sour curd is a decidedly unpleasant thing to meet in a corn cake or muffin. This is obviated by a few vigorous whirls of the egg beater in the bowl or pitcher which contains the sour milk. The curds and whey are thus smoothly mixed, and the thick milk can be poured from one dish to another as easily as cream. The proper proportion of soda is one-half of a level teaspoonful to each culprit of thick sour milk. As gas begins to escape as soon as the acid meets the soda, the latter should not be dissolved in the milk, but like baking powder should be sifted with the flour. Useful Table Heaters Table heaters are useful in keeping food hot when it must come from a considerable distance. Many hotels use them, but they are also a great convenience in private houses that have basement kitchens. The heaters are constructed with a nickel or iron frame, on top of which sets a nickel tray large enough to hold an ordinary sized meat plate or one or two smaller dishes. Underneath is an alcohol lamp. The heaters are low, of ornamental designs. For Cleaning Kid Gloves. This recipe may be applied to the most delicate tints and there is no odor; it is more desirable than naphtha or gasoline. Put the gloves on the hand and then take a piece of white flannel and moisten it very slightly with sweet milk. Rub on gently a little piece of castile soap and carefully go over the soiled gloves until clean. Then rub with dry flannel cloth. Cranberry Pot Pie Put one quart of cranberries into a saucepan, add two cups of water and one and one-half cups of sugar, then lay on the top some squares from a rich biscuit dough rolled half an inch thick. Cover closely and let cook 15 minutes without removing the cover. The crust will be very light, and served with the cranberries and a liquid sauce it will make an excellent dessert. Latest Kansas Events. "There is some excuse," says William Allen White, "for every bird, or beast in the heavens or the earth or the waters beneath the earth, some reason for the being of every critter that flies or crawls or hops or rolls, some reason for every bacteria, insect, microbe - save and excepting the mulligrib. The mulligrib is more useless than the bedbug, more annoying than the chigger, and more unavailing noisy than the whang-doodle. He won't drown in whisky and he won't choke in fire damp, and he lives and grows fat on all kinds of 'pizen.' But sunshine will kill him - clean, bracing Kansas sunshine makes the mulligrib curl up like a potato chip in a hot skillet. Therefore, men and brethren, if the mulligrubs infest your soul get into the glorious sunshine; let it soak into you; souse yourselves in it; get it in your hair and your eyes and if the trouble persists, get your back teeth afloat with it." More Rain Less Wind. Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, will have to back up his claim that the climate in Kansas has not changed in the recent years. A few days ago he declared that there was no more rainfall in Kansas now than 30 or 40 years ago, and that there was just as much wind as ever. The Kansas university has run a weather bureau for the past 34 years. The records show that the average annual blow of wind for the last 17 years was 15,000 miles less than the average annual blow of the previous 17 years. The records also show that the average rainfall for the last 17 years was three inches greater than the average annual rainfall of the first 17 years. Ex-Chancellor Snow declares that the wind had so moderated in recent years that the old Dutch windmill near the State university, one of the old landmarks of Kansas, had to quit business. A Concrete Stack 172 Feet in Height. The work of building the concrete smoke stack for the Pittsburg shops, which has been watched with considerable interest during the past month has been completed. The stack was finished at 172 feet from the foundation and is 40 feet higher than any stack in the city. Nearly a carload of cement has been used in its construction. The stack has a thickness of its walls of one foot until about 50 feet is reached. The remainder of the distance has walls of about six inches in thickness, strengthened by steel rods running from the bottom to the top. Does An Orchard Pay? The Anthony Republican gives the question, "Does an orchard pay?" an affirmative answer. It gives this instance: "Caleb Gard told some farmer friends in town recently that from 150 trees, which would occupy about three acres, he had sold 400 bushels of apples at an average price of 90 cents per bushel, on on hand 200 gallons of vinegar worth 20 cents a gallon and is saving 25 bushels of apples for his own eating. Where is there another three acres in Harper county which has netted $130 an acre for one crop?" Pumping Natural Gas. The National Gas company's big pumping plant at Petrolia, is now running full blast. The last of the six big 1,000 horse power engines has been started and now a pressure of 250 pounds is maintained in two sixteen-inch mains to Ottawa, and an enormous pressure is maintained at Kansas City, the end of the line. Millions of cubic feet of gas are sent through these mammoth pipes every day and supply thousands of homes in Kansas City, Topeka, Lawrence, Ottawa, Baldwin and in fact all of the towns along the line, with fuel. Value of Good Roads. The farmers who live on the good roads around Fort Scott have a practical corner on the hay market. Those farmers who live on the improved highways get to town without inconvenience to market their produce, while those who live off the good roads can not get to town at all with loads. Will Draft Commission Bill. The legislative committee of the Emporia Business Men's Association and City Attorney Frith and Attorney W. L. Higgins will draft a bill under which cities of the second class can be governed by a commission, similar to the one introduced in the legis statute concerning cities of the first class. Big Coal Vein in Lyon County. A 12-foot vein of bituminous coal has been struck at Madison, in a well in which it was hoped to find gas or oil. The coal is free and clean and contains a large percentage of oil. It was found at a depth of 2,000 feet To Rid Marshall County of Gophers. The county commissioners of Marshall county have decided to rid the county of the gopher pest and at their last meeting offered a bounty of 10 cents each for their scalps. Object to Moore's Predictions. The Dodge City Commercial club took emphatic exception to the article of Willis L. Moore, chief of the United States weather bureau, published in recent dailies, predicting periodical drouths and setbacks for western Kansas and telegraphed Mr. Moore the following message: "Our commercial club has noted your comments on climatic conditions in this section of country as published in daily papers. We believe that irrigation, settlement of country, breaking of sod, the avoidance of prainie fires, different vegetation and more thorough cultivation and other causes have changed climatic conditions permanently. The high authority and the publicity of articles ascribed to you wrong us and we respectfully and urgently invite you to our city and investigate the real facts which have made this a reliable farming country. We assure you cordial reception and send you this by unanimous request of club. Hose Too Much for Him. J. J. Clark, convicted of highway robbery, resisted the attempt of sheriff Steed at Olathe to take him from the county jail to be sentenced. He procured an iron bar and declared he would kill any person who entered his cell. The sheriff turned the hose on him but Clark grimly endured the soaking for several hours. Finally the fire department was called to the jail and a good sized stream from a fire nozzle was the means of persuading the prisoner to give up and consent to go into court. He was given an indeterminate sentence of from ten to 20 years in the penitentiary. The Earliest Settler. The earliest Kansas settler is still living in Atchison, according to a writer in the Globe signing himself G. J. R. He says: "Grandma Early, as she is familiarly called, arrived at the famous old Shawnee mission in what is now Johnson county, in 1839. Mrs. Early is one of the most interesting personages in Kansas, and the writer believes there is not now living another person who came to what is now Kansas as early as 1839." Blind Chaplain Dead. The Rev. A. C. Pyle, known as the blind chaplain, died at the Soldiers' Home hospital. He was a native of Illinois and was 86 years old. He was chaplain of the Kansas house of representatives of 1903 and was a candidate for chaplain of the present house. He was taken ill while electioneering in the lobby of the Copeland hotel and returned home with an illness from which he did not recover. Was a Carnegie Pensioner. William Bruce, a veteran of the Mexican war and an engineer on the Pennsylvania Central or "Old Portage" route for 20 years, died at his home in Leavenworth. He drew a pension from Andrew Carnegie for faithful service while with the Pennsylvania Central. He was employed from 1869 to 1874 as an engineer on the Union Pacific railway in Kansas. Shot While Hunting: Arthur Edwards, a prominent farmer near Home City, was accidentally shot and probably fatally injured. He had started hunting and as he stepped on the front porch of his home his feet slipped on the ice and in trying to catch himself he dropped his gun. The hammer struck the porch causing the gun to discharge, the load entering his bowels. McPherson Salt Is Good. The salt discovered at McPherson is pronounced the purest found in the state and lies 390 feet below the surface and the salt bed is 100 feet thick overlaid with a thick stone roof. The salt company will organize at once and the prospecting for gas or oil will continue. Mrs. Newton Williams, whose father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, died at Ottawa. Mrs. Williams had immediate relatives in the war of 1812. She made a Union flag and hung it in the streets of Hannibal, Mo., while a resident of that town at the beginning of the Civil war, to defy her secessionist neighbors. For Divorce Suit Statistics. George V. Newlon, a special agent of the census bureau, visited Leavenworth looking up data regarding divorce suits filed in the district court. He is obtaining information to be used in a movement for a uniform national divorce law. Cash Prizes For The Best Spellers, The TriCounty Teachers' Association, which meets at Abilene in March, will make a specialty of good spelling Prizes of money will be offered to the pupils of the counties in the association. Dickinson, Morris, Marion, for the best spelling. Unwritten Law Failed Him. A strong appeal to the unwritten law failed to save W. A. Dawson of Humboldt from legal consequences for the shooting of Frank Lindsey, October 28. Lindsey died from his injuries. Dawson was found guilty at Iola of manslaughter in the fourth degree. The shooting was admitted, but while ostensibly making and insanity defense, Dawson's attorney devoted their pleadings to an appeal to the unwritten law. Much evidence was introduced to prove that Lindsey had ruined Dawson's home. WOMAN'S SPHERE Dainty Feminine Night Robe Too Few Women Sit Properly --- FLANNELETTE GARMENT PRETTY AND COMFORTABLE. Can Easily Be Made at Home In an Attractive Design—Comparatively Little and Inexpensive Material Called For. There is no doubt that the flannelette nightgown of the past was rather a thing to shudder at from the appearance point of view, but now it is a recognized fact that the warmest of stuffs mays be worked up into just as dainty a garment as its summer cousin of lawn and lace. The flannelette gown is especially suited for home-making, but the design should be attractive. This really pretty gown requires only five yards of material, four yards of insertion and two yards of wide spaced beading, with some soft wash ribbon for the neck. All bulky and fussy decorations are quite out of place in any such gown as this; so that there is entire absence of small delicacies and intricate details in the picture. This lessens the work so that one could make three of these gowns in the space of time it would take to manufacture one dainty summer one The insertion is formed into a square yoke, both back and front, and from it the material hangs with five rather big tucks each side. Straps of the insertion are laid down over the shoulders, with excellent effect, and it appears again, as a border to the frills on the sleeves. There is more skill than appears to the casual glance, in these sleeves, for any gathering orfulness so out of place with flannel, is quite avoided. The beading is used to cover where the frill cuff joins the Well Adapted Perfect Results Can Be Attained In Hemstitching. There is no other handwork that can be imitated on the machine quite so successfully as hemsitching, says the Montreal Herald. In fact, unless the work is very carefully done by an expert, the machine work is to be preferred to hand work, being absolutely even and smooth. After the threads are drawn in the usual manner, fold the hem over almost to the upper edge of the drawn threads, and baste evenly. Have a fine needle in the machine and use No. 100 thread for ordinary work, and up to No. 200 for very fine goods. Have both tensions very tight, and the stitch of medium length. Then stitch on the wrong side just as near the edge of Too Few Wom Frequently Neither Rest Nor Grace in Attitudes Assumed. The average woman wastes a great deal of her strength because she does not sit properly. Suppose she has done a hard morning's work and sits down to write a letter or do a bit of sewing, she is pretty sure to perch on the edge of her chair, so that there is an undue strain upon the muscles of her back, her legs and her feet and so, instead of being a rest, a tax upon her already tired muscles. Again, notice women in their homes, in the street cars, in church and so on. BC4TH USEFUL AND PRETTY. Dainty Cretonne Covered Cabinets Are Deservedly Popular. Cretonne covered cabinets, with their white enameled frames, are CABINET Among the dainty things in furnishings that are sought, because they are both useful and pretty. They do not sleeve, also the 'inside edge of the yoke, where the ribbon runs through and lies in a real bow. The same effect is given with the beading on the sleeves. Now, allowing for the fact that this is a garment especially made for warmth, the pattern will be found to be arranged for the yoke like insertion to be laid over the flannel. This method has a double advantage, for not only does it increase the warmth but it makes the width of the trimming used a matter of not overwhelming importance. If one fancies, the flam- THE LADY IN A LONG DRESS Flanelette Nightgown. nel can be cut away and a transparent yoke left. Buttons and button holes placed near together complete an attractive and warm night-robe. the hem as possible. After removing the basting threads, take the under portion of the hem in one hand and the cloth above the hem in the other, and carefully draw the hem down to the bottom of the drawn threads. Hem-stitched tucks are made in precisely the same way, and the two make a beautiful finish for white dresses, skirts, aprons and underwear, and save a world of time in the making of dainty baby clothes. A corded effect is sometimes tucked on heavy linen, and it can be produced by stitching a second time, just below the drawn threads, after the hem or tuck has been pulled into place. It can also be made the basis of simple drawn work designs, hem-stitching both edges by machine, and then putting in one or more threads of hand-work through the center. Not one in 20 sits as she should. The lower part of the back ought to be pushed firmly against the back of the chair or the pew, or the seat, then the spine holds itself up, the chest is expanded and the position is a normal and healthful one. But as a rule it is the middle of the back which comes against the back of the seat, consequently the spine takes a curved position, the chest is depressed so that the lungs do not act properly and the strain comes upon muscles which were never intended to bear it. It may be difficult to overcome the habit, but it is well worth the effort. take up much room, as they stand from four to five feet high and they prove the most desirable of repositories for veils, gloves, handkerchiefs and collars. A variation of the familiar chiffonier style here shown is the one illustrated, with doors and containing five sliding trays for dress accessories of all sorts. Cabinets of this sort are fitted up for shoes, and likewise as receptacles for hats, the latter being equipped with shelves and movable pegs. This development of the cabinet is a foreign iden, but the cretonne and enamel chiffonier has been a favorite here for some time. Eurs Harmonize with Frocks. It is quite noticeable how many people are choosing pointed foxskins, and, indeed, they who can afford them, silver foxskins, for it is unmistakable that no other fur quite so well harmonizes with any and every color of frock as these particular white flecked browny black foxskins. Pointed foxskins harmonize with any and every frock and tailor suit. These pointed foxskins are real fox; it is only that the little white hairs are inserted in the pointed foxskin, but born there in the real silver fox. Taffeta and foxskin are peculiarly charming in cooperation, another argument this for the taffeta frock.—The Gentlewoman. PROPER WAY OF COOKING FAVOR ITE DISHES. Rice Soup Without Meat—Fried Liver a la Lyonnaise—Right Way to Pre- pare Okra Soup—Delectable Ham Souffle. RICE SOUP WITHOUT MEAT.— One cup of rice, yolks of four eggs, three quarts of water, one spoonful of butter, one pint of milk, pepper and salt. Wash the rice thoroughly, rubbing dry. Put it in a saucepan with one pint of cold water; when swelled add one pint of boiling water, and when it begins to get very tender add the remaining pint of boiling water. Add the pepper and salt. Beat up the yolks of the eggs with a few tablespoonfuls of cream. When quite smooth stir in carefully a few spoonfuls of the boiling rice water, and then pour the eggs and cream into the saucepan, stirring very briskly. Draw aside and stir for two or three minutes, but do not allow the soup to boil after the eggs and cream have been poured in. FRIED LIVER A LA LYONNAISE. —One pound of beef liver, one tablespoonful of butter, two large onions, salt and pepper to taste. Slice the onions nicely. Put one tablespoonful of butter into the fryingpan and add the onions. When brown take the liver, which you have cut into slices about three inches in length and one-half inch in thickness, and season well with salt and pepper, and lay it over the onions. Stir well. Cover and let it fry for about three minutes, and then turn over and let it cook for three minutes more. Pour a teaspoonful of vinegar on top and season again to taste. Let it simmer three or four minutes longer and serve hot. Liver does not require long to cook. OKRA SOUP.—Two pounds of beef without fat or bone, two cups of okra chopped fine, one-quarter pound of butter, four quarts of cold water, one onion sliced and chopped, salt and pepper. Cut the beef into small pieces and season well with pepper and salt. Fry it in the soup kettle with the onion and butter until very brown. Then add the cold water and let it simmer for an hour and a half. Add the okra and let it simmer gently for three or four hours. HAM SOUFFLE.—One cup of minced ham, three eggs beaten with white and yolks separate, one teaspoonful of finely chopped parsley, pepper to taste. Mix together the chopped ham, parsley and yolks of eggs, and beat all very hard until it becomes light. Then add the whites of eggs, which have been beaten to a froth. Beat together sufficiently to mix well. Fill a dish and bake in the oven for eight or ten minutes, and serve with a cream sauce.—New York World. Breakfast Bacon. Perhaps bacon is best cooked in the following manner: Cut it into thin slices and place them on a wire broiler over a dripping pan. Let them bake in a very hot oven until brown and crisp. When cooked in this way bacon is especially adapted to dyspeptics, as all superfluous grease has dripped into the pan beneath. Bacon is also delicious served with cream sauce. Pour the grease in the dripping pan into a bowl, to use later for frying purposes, and add a little flour and milk to the few drippings that remain. Cook the sauce on top of the stove and pour it over the bacon. Kartoffel Glace. Mash potatoes while still hot, season with plenty of butter, a little milk, one egg, salt and pepper to taste and just a little flour, enough to hold the mixture together. Beat until very light. Have ready a kettle of boiling, salted water. Test by throwing in a little cake of the mixture. If it rises at once holding together, and light and delicate, it is all right. Throw in five or six of the little balls at a time. They will cook in just a few moments and may then be taken out with a skimmer. If any are left over they are nice sliced when cold and fried for luncheon. To Wash Handkerchiefs. To keep handkerchiefs a good color, instead of damping them in the usual way before ironing, proceed as follows: Put two quarts of tepid water, with five drops of blue and a small piece of lump starch, into a basin and into this mixture dip each handkerchief separately, thoroughly wetting it, and then squeezing it as dry as possible. When all the handkerchiefs have been treated in this way, spread them out smoothly on a clean cloth or towel until they can be ironed. Apple Cake Beat one egg and the yolk of another; add one cup of sugar and two tablespoons of melted butter, one-half cup of milk and two cups of flour sifted with three level teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in two large layers and spread apple filling between. For the filling grate one large, sour apple, heat with one cup of powdered sugar and the white of one egg until light. To Make Your Own Linoleum Tack lightly to your kitchen floor and old carpet. Rag carpet is the best. Spread thickly over this a thick paste of flour and water. When dry, add another thick layer. Then paint it some dark color. This can be scrubbed and will wear a lifetime. Invigorate the Digestion. To invigorate the digestion and stimulate the torpid liver and bowels there is nothing so good as that old family remedy, Brandreth Pills, which has been in use for over a century. They cleanse the blood and impart new vigor to the body. One or two every night for a week will usually be all that is required. For Constipation or Dyspepsia, one or two taken every night will afford great relief. Brandreth's Pills are the same fine laxative tonic pill your grandparents used and being purely vegetable are adapted to every system. Sold in every drug and medicine store, either plain or sugar-coated. Woman's Power. When the dream of women advanced in thought and trained by experience enough to realize the value of cooperation shall come true, some of the greatest curses of modern times shall be swept away, and the country will be happy in possession of a prosperous middle class, sans monopolies, sans the trusts, sans sweaters and sweated, sans the great unemployed, if not the unemployable. And all this revolution might be quietly effected by women acting intelligently from their own homes.—Woman. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. Disease and Injustice. The sin which is termed dishonesty is the same evil as that which is called disease in living bodies or blight in the seasons; and in cities and governments has another name, which is injustice.—Plato. MAYOR OF SUNBURY Says Pe-ru-na Is a Good Medicine. Hon. C. C. Brooks, Mayor of Sunbury, Ohio, also Attorney for Farmers' Bank and Sunbury Building and Loan Co., writes: "I have the utmost confidence in the virtue of Peruna. It is a great medicine. I have used it and I have known many of my friends who have obtained beneficial results from its use. I cannot praise Peruna too highly." HON. G. C. BROOKS THERE are a host of petty ailments which are the direct result of the weather. This is more true of the excessive heat of summer and the intense cold of winter, but is partly true of all seasons of the year. Whether it be a cold or a cough, catarr of the head or bowl complaint, whether the liver be affected or the kidneys, the cause is very liable to be the same. The weather slightly deranges the mucous membranes of the organs and the result is some functional disease. Peruna has become a standby in thousands of homes for minor ailments of this sort. r Druggist for Free Peruna Almagasc for 1907. Canadian Government 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Over 200,000 American farmers who have settled in Canada during the past few years testes in Canada, is beyond question and in the world. of wheat from the harvest of 1906 means good money to the farmers of Western Canada when farming and Mixed Farming are also profitable callings. Coal, wood and water in abundance, crushable and convenient; markets easy of access. Taxes low. For advice and information address the Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or any authorized Canadian Government Agent. J. S. CRAWFORD, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. PATENTS THERE'S MONEY IN SMALL INVENTIONS as well as large. Send for free booklet. Washington, D. C. Branches at Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. Established 1864. NO PATENT, NO FEE FOR OUR SERVICES EIGHTY WERE KILLED MINERS MEET A TERRIBLE DEATH IN MINE. Lives Snuffed Out Instantly by Ex tory of State in Lives Lost. Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 30. — With a detonation heard for miles and hurling debris hundreds of feet in the air, dust in the Stuart mine near Fayetteville exploded this afternoon, bringing a terrible death to eight or more men who were at work 500 feet below the surface. There is no chance that any will be taken out alive, for it is thought that the terrific force of the explosion snuffed out their lives instantly. It will not be possible for rescuers to reach the bottom of the shaft for forty-eight hours. The disaster is perhaps the worst in the number of killed in the history of this state. Most of the men were Americans and many of them were married and had large families. There were a dozen or more colored men and about twenty allens among the victims. The rescue work was begun as soon as the shaft house could be repaired. About two hours after the explosion three men were lowered into the shaft in an improvised bucket. Before descending sixty feet two were overcome and the third was barely able to give the signal to hoist. Further attempts were abandoned. Air was supplied to the mine by several large fans, but the mechanism was damaged and the fans were idle about two hours. The fans have been started again, and if the men were not all killed it may be that they will have air enough to survive until the rescuers reach them. The Stuart mine has only one opening, although an entry has been driven to connect with a parallel mine a short distance away. The shaft has three compartments, two for the cages and one for air. Smoke and dust poured into the air shaft for hundreds of feet, and it was wrecked. It is stated that nearly all the men were at work in the entries near the bottom of the shaft. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE LOSS Baldwin Locomotive Works Are the Sufferers. Philadelphia, Jan. 30.—Fire which started with an explosion in the paint shop, destroyed an entire section of the big Baldwin Locomotive Works, entailing a loss of $1,000,000. The destroyed building was about 175 feet long by 150 feet deep, immediately adjoining the main office at Broadway and Spring Garden streets and the erecting shops, Smith's shops and foundaries. These buildings were threatened, as were other departments along Spring Garden street and on Fifteenth street. The entire fire department was called out. About 1,000 men were employed in the burned building, which was five stories high. The fire was discovered in the east end of the building a few minutes before 6 o'clock, when the workmen were preparing to leave. Though the flames spread quickly, all were able to get out safely. Shortly after the fire started the upper portion of the wall on Spring Garden street fell, and one fireman and three workmen were caught by the falling bricks, but fortunately received only slight injuries. The firemen, with the assistance of the fire patrol from the plant, succeeded in getting the flames under control within an hour after the fire was discovered. The Baldwin Locomotive Works is the largest industrial plant in the United States, and employs 18,000 men in this city and nearly 10,000 in departments at Lewiston and other places. The fire will not greatly hinder the work, as the departments destroyed are duplicated in other parts of the plant. FAMILY WAS MURDERED Washington, Jan. 30.—At 2 o'clock this morning the police arrested M. Copeley, a clerk in the census office, on suspicion of having murdered his wife, Amanda Copeley, and his two children-Raymond, 2 years old, and Ruth, 3 months old. The Copeleys had a quarrel last night before retiring, and shortly after midnight Copeley called in a physician, saying his wife had committed suicide. The physician notified the police and on investigation it was found that the two children had been killed, but were concealed under the bed clothing. The Copeleys reside at 1921 Rhode Island avenue, one of the most fashionable sections of the city, and persons living in that vicinity reported to the police that they heard two pistol shots before midnight. According to the story Copeley told the police, his wife and the children retired at 11 o'clock and within an hour he heard the report of two pistol shots. He declared that he immediately called a physician. He denies that he shot his wife and children. He is now held at the Ninth precinct police station pending an investigation. FIND OIL NEAR SHAWNEE. Flow Not Yet Struck — Will Drill Deeper Shawnee, Okla., Jan. 30.—The company which has been drilling the well north of the city for the Pennsylvania Oil Company has been asked to submit a proposition for sinking the well from 200 to 500 feet deeper. The well is down 2,003 feet and the terms of the original contract are fulfilled. Traces of oil were found and th company is anxious to make the test complete. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. Price $1.00. retail. EFFECTIVE REMEDY SIMPLE FORMULA WILL BREAK A COLD OVER NIGHT. Prescribed by Well-Known Specialist in the Cure of Consumption—Can Be Prepared by Anyone. Here is a simple and effective remedy for coughs and colds.: Mix a half ounce of the Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) with two ounces of glycerine and a half pint of good whisky. Shake well and take in teaspoon doses every four hours. This formula is said to be very effective, being the prescription of an eminent authority. It will break up a cold in 24 hours, and cure any cough that is curable. The ingredients for this prescription can be found at any good drug store, but care should be taken that only the pure Virgin Oil of Pine should be used. This is put up only in half-ounce vials for dispensing, securely sealed in a round wooden case with engraved wrapper, having the name—Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure), prepared only by Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, O.—plainly printed thereon. The cheaper oils and those sold in bulk only create nausea and have no effect whatever upon the bronchial tubes. PETS FOR LITTLE PARISIANS. All Kinds of Animals as Playmates for the Children. Children play a great role in French society, as all those who have read Gyp's infinitable "P'tit Bob" will readily admit, and now the small Parisienne insists on receiving on her fete day and at the New Year a live pet, instead of a costly doll or a mechanical toy. The demand has been creating a supply, and a lively trade is being done, not only in puppies and kittens, in tiny monkeys and in lambs, but also in tigers and leopards. Up to a certain age, these small felines are quite harmless, and, of course, as soon as they begin, so to speak, to show their teeth and sharpen their claws, they are sent off to one of the two magnificent "Zoos" with which the Gay City is provided. TWO SISTERS HAD ECZEMA. Cuticura Cured Scalp Troubles of Two Illinois Girls—Another Sister Took Cuticura Pills. "I must give much praise to all the Cuticura Remedies. I used but one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment, as that was all that was required to cure my disease. I was very much troubled with eczema of the head, and a friend of mine told me to use the Cuticura Remedies, which I did, and am glad to say that they cured my eczema entirely. Since then we have always kept the soap on hand at all times. My sister was also cured of eczema of the head by using the Cuticura Remedies. Another sister has used Cuticura Resolvent and Pills and thinks they are a splendid tonic. I cannot say exactly how long I suffered, but I think about six months. Miss Edith Hammer, R. F. D. No. 6, Morrison, Ill., Oct. 3, 1906." Long and Remarkable Life. Suffold tells us of a remarkable record of an old man of his acquaintance employed by Mr. William Lodge, of Gorleston-on-Sea. This old gentleman began his working life as a farm laborer 71 years ago, before Queen Victoria came to the throne, and at 81 he can still drive a plow as well as most men of half his years. Almost more remarkable is the fact that although he has spent practically all his long life within sight of the sea he has never been on it, nor has he ever been inside a train—Tit-Bits. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies, such as the use of a mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is infamed you have a rumbling sound or inference of the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by the mucous lining, nothing else. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Cataract. F. J. CHENEY $\bullet$ TOtoelo, O. Sold by Druglets, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Sweep's Curious Find. An Atherington (Eng.) sweep, named Joshua Folland, was sweeping the chimney of a house which had been unoccupied for some little time at High Beckington, when, to his great surprise, he swept down seven full-grown, live wild rabbits, which he bagged. With a smooth iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt-waist just as well at home as the steam laundry can; it will have the proper stiffness and finish, there will be less wear and tear of the goods, and it will be a positive pleasure to use a Starch that does not stick to the iron. Still Behind the Times. New York city transportation facilities are as inadequate as they were before the subways were built, although these underground highways carried 45,000,000 passengers in 1906. AWFUL ATTACKS OF PAIN. A Most Dreadful Case of Kidney Trouble and How It Was Cured. Thomas N. McCullough, 321 South Weber St., Colorado Springs, Colo. says: "For twelve or fifteen years I was suffering frequent attacks of pain in the back and kidneys that lasted for three weeks at a time. I would be unable to turn in bed. The urine was in a terrible condition, at times a complete stoppage oc- says: "For twelve or fifteen years I was suffering frequent attacks of pain in the back and kidneys that lasted for three weeks at a time. I would be unable to turn in bed. The urine was in a terrible condition, at times a complete stoppage occurring. I began with Doan's Kidney Pills, and soon felt better. Keeping on, I found complete freedom from kidney trouble. The cure has been permanent. I owe my good health to Doan's Kidney Pills." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Has Cinch on Position: Various authorities have passed on a letter received at the post office department a short time ago and it has finally been sent to the postmaster general. The letter came from a western postmaster at a small office and read: "In accordance with the rules of the department, I write you to inform you that on next Saturday I will close the post office for one day, as I am going on a bear hunt. I am not asking your permission to close up and you can discharge me if you want to. But I will advise you now that I am the only man in the county who can read and write." It is not likely that the postmaster will be discharged. Clover & Grass Seeds. We are known as the largest growers of Grasses, Clovers, Oats, Barley, Corn, Potatoes and Farm Seeds in America. Operate over 5,000 acres. **FREE** Our mammoth 185-creep catalog is mailed free to all intending buyers; or send SO IN STAMPS and receive sample of "perfect balance ration grass seed," together with Fodder Plants, Clover, etc., etc., and big Plant and Seed Catalog free. John A. Salzer Seed Co., Box W, La John A. Salzer Seed Co., Box W, La Crosse, Wis. In the Matter of Tips. The man who tips the highest gets the best service and the most ostentatious deference. "Give this to the cook," said a St. Louis parvenue, handing one dollar to the waiter with his order, "and tell him to cook it my way." "Give this to the cook," said a scribe at the next table, handing a two dollar bill to the waiter with his order, "and tell him to cook it his own way, for he is a better cook than I am." We will not be outshine. We will not shrink in any man's shadow. At the same time the pace is too hot and fast for most of us.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Soaps that Are Guaranteed. So much skin trouble results from the use of impure adulterated toilet soaps, that the proprietors of Buchan's Toilet Soaps have filed a guarantee with the U S. Government guaranteeing the absolute purity of their soaps, and they are the only ones so guaranteed. There are three brands: Antiseptic Soap, Tar Soap, and Sulphur Soap; not only cleanses but soothes and protects the skin against disease. If your dealer does not keep them send 18 cents with his name and address to Buchan's Soap Corporation, New York, and they will send you a full-size cake. Sweet Amenities. "I hope you won't be disappointed, dear, for I know everybody thought George was paying attention to you. But as a matter of fact, he asked me last night to marry him." "He has then carried out his threat, poor fellow!" "What threat?" "He declared to me the last time I refused him that he would take some desperate step." The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Now an Elenphant Farm. The latest addition to the list of "freak farms" is an elephant farm, which, it is claimed, will be established near Pasadena, Cal. The plans are for maintaining a herd of 300 animals. Encourage Building Erection. Loans are freely made by the Philippine commission to the various provinces for the erection of public buildings in the islands. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OLIMNIS is guaranteed to cure any case of itching. Blistering or Proluding Piles in 8 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. Every noble activity makes room for itself—Emerson. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is an honest, tried and true remedy of unquestionable therapeutic value. During its record of more than thirty years, its long list of actual cures of those serious ills peculiar to women, entitles Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to the respect and confidence of every fair minded person and every thinking woman. When women are troubled with irregular or painful functions, weakness, displacements, ulceration or inflammation, backache, flatulency, general debility, indigestion or nervous prostration, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. No other remedy in the country has such a record of cures of female ills, and thousands of women residing in every part of the United States bear willing testimony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable compound and what it has done for them. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. For twenty-five years she has been advising sick women free of charge. She is the daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and as her assistant for years before her decease advised under her immediate direction. Address, Lynn, Mass. PILES: NO MONEY TILL CURED. SEND FOR FREE JAIL. TRUSTEES ON DECEASED DEATHS WITH MUNICIPAL PROGNOSIS NEW CHRISTIAN DRS. THORNTON & MINOR-1030 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY. MO. (BANK OFFICE AT 31 ST. LOUIS) SICK HEADACHE CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness, Indigestion and Too Hearty Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTERS'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. LEWIS'S SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5 CIGAR You Pay 10c. for Cigars Not so Good. F.P. LEWIS Peoria, Ill DEFIANCE STARCH never sticks to the iron. SECRET suffering is endured by many modest women, who object to talking about all their symptoms with a doctor. To such women, a pure medicine, with specific power over woman's diseases, like WINE OF CARDUIR WOMAN'S RELIEF is very welcome. By means of this wonderfully successful medicine, over a million suffering women have been benefited during the past 50 years. It relieves periodical pains, regulates irregular functions, and cures the diseases peculiar to women. Try it. At all Druggists C23 WRITE for Free Advice, stating age and describing your symptoms, to Ladies Advisory Dept. Chattanooga Medicine Co. Chattanooga, Tenn. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 5, 1907. PUNAM FADELESS DVES, are fact to light and washing and color more goods than others. 100 per package. It's just as easy to be pleasant as otherwise—and it pays better. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, shields pain, curves what colo. 20 bottle. The man who is on pleasure bent is apt to find himself broke in due time. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY LAKAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablet. Drugs refund money if it fails to cure. E.W GROVES signature is on each box. 20c. If all a man's real wants are gratified he has no excuse for being unhappy. Garfield Tea (Guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Law) regulates a sluggish liver, overcomes constipation, purifies the blood and eradicates disease. It is made of Herbs. Hath any wronged thee? Be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work's begun; forgive it, and 'tis finished. He is below himself that is not above an injury.—Quarles. Defiance Starch is the latest invention in that line and an improvement on all other makes; it is more economical, does better work, takes less time. Get it from any grocer. Record of Forty Years. Rev. Edward Everett Hale has been attending White House receptions since 1862. On the latest occasion he presented one of his grandchildren. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, in safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the signature of Charles H. Stitters in Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Marriage at a Discount All the conditions of modern life are such as to discourage men and women from marrying, and if they do so to make them discontented. Divorce has rushed from the extreme of being considered a disgrace which never should be mentioned to that of being regarded as a standard joke in the comic papers, a fit subject to be worked up in stage comedy and hilariously received by large audiences.—N. Y. Independent. NATURE PROVIDES FOR SICK WOMEN a more potent remedy in the roots and herbs of the field than was ever produced from drugs. In the good old-fashioned days of our grandmothers few drugs were used in medicines and Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., in her study of roots and herbs and their power over disease discovered and gave to the women of the world a remedy for their peculiar ills more potent and efficacious than any combination of drugs. Lydia E. Pinkham's W is an honest, tried and true remedy o During its record of more than 4 cures of those serious ills peculiar to Vegetable Compound to the respect of person and every thinking woman. When women are troubled wit weakness, displacements, ulcerative fatulency, general debility, indiges should remember there is one tried ham's Vegetable Compound. No other remedy in the countr HEALTH AND SPIRITS Are Restored by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in Cases of Debility and Despondency. General debility is caused by mental or physical overwork with impaired assimilation of nourishment, or by some acute disease from which the vital forces have been prostrated and the entire organism weakened so as not to easily rally. To restore health it is necessary that the blood should be purified and made new. The case of Mrs. E. M. Spears, of 92 Mt. Pleasant street, Athol, Mass., is a common one and is given here in order that others may be benefited by her experience. She says: "I had been sick for a year from indigestion and general debility brought on by overwork and worry. I had tried many remedies, but found no relief. I sub fered from swelling of the limbs, loss of appetite and dizzy spells, which became so severe towards night, that I sometimes fainted away. I was billed and my hands and arms would go to sleep for an hour or two at a time. I was so sleepy all the time that I could hardly keep awake. I had frequent cramps in my limbs and severe pains at the base of my head and in my back. My blood was im poverished. I was afraid, to give up and go to bed fearing that I would never get well. "About this time Dr. William's Pink Pills were recommended to me by a friend in South Vernon, Vt. I felt better soon after beginning the treatment and continued until I was entirely cured. I consider Dr. William's Pink Pills a grand medicine for weak women." Dr. William's Pink Pills are sold by all drugstores, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price 50 cents per box, six boxes $2.50, by the Dr. William's Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. A Positive CURE FOR CATARRH Ely's Cream Balm ELY'S CREAM BALM CINNAMON CYRUS COLD BREAD HAY-FEVER DISTILLER 50 CTS. TAPE WAREHOUSE ELY BROS NEW YORK It cleanses, soothes, heals and protects the diseased membrane. It cures Catarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Full size 50 cts. at Druggists or by mail. Trial size 10 cts. by mail. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New York LYDIA E. PINKHAM Corner Of: 3rd & Main IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Banner Mills CUSTOM GRINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED A N. Main St. PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 282 SERVER. & SONS. Prags. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. W M Dunson Music Teacher Of Mandolin and Guitar Lessons At Reasonable Prices 302 West Murdock Ave Send the children -- Hours 6 to 9 p. m. G. J. Jones, REAL ESTATE INSURANCE and LOANS CHATTLE : MORTGAGES 429 Kansas Avenue TOPEKA, KANSAS 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS COPYRIGHTS & COPIES TRADE MARKS DESIGNS Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an individual is entitled to communications strictly confidential. MANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patent. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $5 a year; four months. $1. Sold by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 361Broadway, New York Branch Office, & 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. Home Grown, Fresh Dug the best You Know It Make your own selection - See what you buy and be satisfied..... Who will tell you anything to make sales Call at 21st. and Lawrence Ave., NEWS OF GREAT BEND. Brother James heeler is able to be out again. Mrs. Anna Bynmun left for Wichita Sunday morning. The sick who were reported in last week's issue, are all better. Miss Luellen Wells left for Empor'a, Kan., last Sunday night. The meeting of the A. M. E. church is still in progress. The choir of the First Baptist church was reorganized last Tuesday evening with Mrs. Green Stephen as manager. Queen Esther Circle held her monthly annual reception last Friday afternoon from 2 till 5 at the parsonage with Rev. Mrs. Raimey, Mrs. Green Stephens, Mrs. Wesley Brisco, Mrs. Alfred Johnson, Mrs. Henry Sellers, Jr., acting as hostess, besides the members of the circle. The following guests were present: Mrs. Henry Sellers, Sr., Mrs. George Smith, Mrs. Horace Sellers, Mrs. C. W. Ervin, Mrs. Geo. Chiles, Mrs. Henry Hockins, Mrs. Samuel Sanders, Mrs. D. Webb, Mss Luellen Wells, Miss isom of Kansas City, Mrs. Isaac Gower, Miss Ada Armstrong, Bro. James Wheeler, Mr. Robert Calmore, Mr. E. C. Rucker, Mr. Alfred Joshlin. Regular business being suspended, Mrs. Alfred Johnson introduced the president, Mrs. Rev. Raimey, to the guests. The program as follows, was rendered: Chorus, by the Circle; invocation, Rev. J. H. Ralmey; piano solo, Miss Ethel Stephens; select reading, Mrs. Alfred Johnson; recitation, Mrs. Millie Calmore; solo, Mrs. Wesley Brisco; recitation, Mrs. Emma Geen; select reading, Rev. Mrs. Ralmey; recitation, Mrs. Charley Smith; duet, Mrs. Alfred Joshlin, Rev. Mrs. Ralmey; scripture reading, Mrs. John Smith; recitation, Mrs. Anna Bynmun; duet, Mrs. Moses Johnson, Mrs. Green Stephens; recitation, Mrs. Henry Sellers, Jr.; remarks, pastor, Rev. J. H. Ralmey; chorus by the Circle. The president then instructed the secretary to call the roll. A neat little sum was netted. The hostess then served the guest and members with a delicious four-course luncheon in progress of the luncheon. Miss Ethiol Stephen presided at the piano. All present enjoyed themselves greatly and look forward for Queen Esther's next annual reception. Mr. and Mrs. John Smith entertained Rev. and Mrs. Ralney at dinner Sunday. NEWTON (KAN.) NEWS. Mrs. Ella Underwood is reported quite ill. Remember the revival meeting at Second Baptist church. Mrs. John McClain is reported quite ill. Mrs. Hayes Petree left the city for a visit of several weeks in Chicako, Ill., visiting relatives and friends. George Brown made a flying trip to alley Center, Kan. Sunday he returns reporting a pleasant time. Mrs. S. Frame and son Lee, who have been visiting in Muskogee, O. T., have returned, reporting a pleasant time. Robt. Brown is reported some better at this writing. FT. SCOTT NEWS. Mrs. T. R. B. Copeland has been on the sick list for two weeks. J. Loveman has been sick for a week with pneumonia, was a little better Sunday. Mrs. Lillian Partee was reported in a critical condition. She has been sick for some time, but two weeks ago took a relapse. Miss Helen Thomas is up and doing nicely. She has been sick several months and it is hoped that she will still continue to improve. Charlie White, of Kansas City, is here visiting friends and relatives. He left here about six years ago and his hade Trees spring the best You Know It The Nursery — See what you buy ke Foreign Local Agents Mrs. Whitfield lectured at the Shiloh Baptist church last Tuesday. She lectured to the women and girls at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and at night to men, women and children. The house was crowded both day and night. She was introduced to the audience by Mrs. Drake of this city. Everyone was well pleased with her talk and a liberal collection was given. After the lecture was over a grand banquet was given in honor of Mrs. Whitfield. Everyone reported a fine time and would like for her to come again. ARKANSAS CITY ITEMS. Rev. Coplin is now actively engaged in his field of labo at the Second Baptist church. Rev. B. R. Guy is pushing forward the revival work at the St. James A. M. E. church. Mrs. Bell Douglas, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. B. R. Guy, and her friend Mrs. Nettie Davis, are visiting here. Miss Laura, who is attending High School at Wellington, passed through here Friday on her way home in Summer county, to visit her parents. Mrs. Garrett Banks is visiting friends in Kansas City and Topeka. Mrs. B. R. Guy returned Thursday from visiting her son in Kansas City. Mr. G. W. Austin has returned from visiting his family at Paris, Tex. Willis West, of Oklahoma, is visiting family in this city. Mrs.P. F. Alston is on the sick list many friends are glad to welcome him home. Mrs. Theo, Kennedy is in Kingfisher, Okla., where she has been for over a week with her mother who was reported seriously ill. Mrs. S. Frame passed through the city Friday from Muskogee, I. T., enroute to her home in Newton. While in the city she was the guest of Mrs. V. Covington. The Ladies of the G. L. A. club met with Mrs. J. E. Lewis Tuesday afternoon. They will meet next week with Mrs. W. A. Bettis. Word has been received from Mr. and Mrs. H. Hansboro, formerly of this city, but now of Langston, Okla., that they are well pleased in their new location. Mrs. Mary Anderson has been on the sie klist for several days. A novel and new entertainment will be the "weighing social" given on next Monday evening, February 4th, at the A. M. E. church. All most cordially invited to come out and have a pleasant time. Don't forget to attend the "weighing social" Monday\evening. "Tis something new. A. M. E. church. Before we look after somebody else's affairs, see that our business is straight, and that we are above criticism. The B. T. W. club met with Mrs. H. W. James, with good attendance. After transacting business a dainty lunch was served. All departed, declaring Mrs. James an ideal hostess. Will meet with Mrs. C. A. Glocer next Thursday evening, February at 7 o'clock. The Alsbie club met at the residence of Mrs. Morton Grinstad, Thursday afternoon. After the usual routine of business was transacted, a delightful luncheon was served. The club will meet with Mrs. J. C. Coffee, 1455 N. Mosley next Thursday afternoon. An urgent request for all members to be present. FAGGOT PARTY The G. L. A. club will entertain with a Faggot party, February 14th. This promises to be one of the most entertaining features of the season. Mrs. W. N. Miller was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. McKelly Thursday afternoon. When an individual can't get to the pie counter you may naturally expect something to turn up. Phedges like the average plaster parish religion, come to naught for the want of sincerity. Hence, so many forfeit their obligations and veneered words of truth. Your deceptions, like your sins, will surely find you out. Sound doctrine is what our people need now-a-days instead of hot air. Have your Star well fixed before you begin to deal with the Stars. Never mind about far-off uncertain ties; grasp the realities of today. Let everybody get busy and begin to boast of the Wichita Searchlight, which is without a peer. BUY LUMBER FROM METZ. BUY LUMBER FROM METZ. We call the attention of our many readers who desire to buy lumber to the Metz Lumber Co., 3rd 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. "It is no benefit to have given me something, but it is a benefit to have enabled me to obtain something for myself."—Emerson. Rev. Paul L. Giles, P. P. of Light of the West Palatium No. 1, and also G. P. P., is doing good work in his Palatium and is sending letters to all C. M. advising them to organize Palatiums in their cities, Address. Do you Read the Searchlight? Do you Pay for the Searchlight? If not—Why not? IF IT EVER HAPPENED IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. Mr. Wilson Loses. Washington, Jan. 8.—The case of Wilson versus the secretary of the treasury in which Wilson challenged the right of the secretary to pay the money necessary to secure the title of the French company to the Panama Canal property was decided by the supreme court of the United Statse Monday adversely to Wilson's contentions. Father and Son Drowned. Perry, Ok., Jan. 8.—Jasper Montue, a negro, aged 50, and his 11-year-old boy were drowned Sunday below town in Cow creek. They started across a footlog wren the lad fell in, and the father jumping in after him. The boy held on to the father, who sank, the boy following him. Almena, Kan.. Scorched. Almena, Kan., Jan. 8.—An early morning fire destroyed six buildings and damaged others. Included in the loss was the First State Bank, two drug stores, a grocery store and an empty building. The amount of the loss is not known, though quite heavy. There was partial insurance. New Mexico Convention. Santa Fe, N. M., Jan. 8.—The New Mexico constitutional convention, consisting of delegates elected at the November election, convened Monday to draft a constitution to submit to congress, with a plea for immediate admission to statehood. Wyoming Banker Killed Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 8.—News has reached here that W. Dean Hayes, a well known banker of Meeteeetse Wyo. was shot and killed at that place by W. L. Smitheen, an attorney. The cause of the shooting is un known. Both men have been prominent in politics. MOTTO. Excellence Counts..... THEN USE..... "U - KNEAD - IT" FLOUR It excels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. WICHITA, KANSAS DEAM ABSTRACT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors Let us try your next order In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 102 E. Douglas Pone 357 L. S. NAFTGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE, Cashier Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L Holmes, S. B. Amidon, B. F. Me Lean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftxor, E. H. Middlexauff, O. Z. Smith. A. General Banking Business Tranacted CHITA NSAS Dr.J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" so STRAIGHTENS The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. None genuine without my signature Charles Ford Past 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. H. Wells and J. Rucker of Topeka are in the city. Order Early If you order early in the day you will get better service, for we often have something going your way The men will get in early at night, thus you will be doing them a kindnes. If you order a day or so before you are out, you will make Turner, the coal man, happy. We Have Plenty of CenOn Cify Lump & Kub HONOR PHONE 496 J. H. TURNER J33 to J47 WEST DOUGLAS EOLA Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Ten Houses. Prices in reach of all. Write for particulars TO-DAY. Red Front RACKET The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes We have just received a large invoice of Men's, Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies' and Miss' Fine Shoes, Oxfords and Slippers all styles and kinds. Tapp & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N. Mala The cloak of selfishness can never be substituted for the mantel of charity; yet some endeavor to do so with the idea that they can play the dual act. In doing this, the old landmarks are trampled upon and the traditions of the fathers lost sight of, in the duties of responsibilities in keeping sacred and inviolate the strong ties of our time-honored institutions. The door must be guarded if we would maintain our high standard and adhere to right principles. Anything to the contrary means retrogression. Let us see that none come if they are not duly and truly prepared and are well qualified. Where you can get your Silk Waist Woolen Skirt or Coat or Husband's Suit cleaned and pressed, or your faded goods Dyed, and get the best work done by improved appliances and skilled workmen. THE OLD & CLEANING WORKS Fine Dry Cleaning Steam Cleaning Steam Dyeing & Repairing. White Plumes Cleaned Properly Bleached and Curled. O. K. DYE Stock of Ladies' and Gents second hand Clothing for sale very cheap, at retail or in job lots. Goods called for and delivered promptly E. G. HANSON, Prop., 330 N. Main Street. Phone 2003. Schicks, W. Va.—A miners' union has been organized here. Heretofore this has been a nonunion stronghold. Indianapolis.—The strike of the Wabash railroad boilersmiths, machinists and blacksmiths was terminated by the granting of an increase in wages. Montreal, Canada.—The bootblacks of this city are organizing with a view of improving their condition and enforcing a general charge of 10 cents a shine. New York.—The Amalgamated Leather Workers' Union of America has reaffirmed the idea of high dues and adopted a resolution in favor of the nine-hour day. Baltimore, Md.—Trainmen, engineer and yardmen of the Western Maryland railroad received an advance in wages, beginning on January 1. About 2,000 employees are affected. Boston.—One of the best known clothing dealers of the city has been brought into the courts by the United Garment Workers to answer to a charge of putting union labels on nonunion goods. London.—John Burns, the newly appointed labor member of the British cabinet, in opening his campaign, declared his object to be fewer workhouses, smaller charities, larger wages, more pleasure and less drink. Deadwood, S. D.—Three hundred members of Terry Peak miners' union met here and voted unanimously to strike if the operators do not grant them an eight-hour workday. It is said that 400 miners will go out. Washington.—Congress has 12 members who are devoted and pledged to the advancement of organized labor. They come from widely divergent parts of the country and they show a gain of nearly 50 per cent in labor's growth. Providence, R. I.—A reduction in the hours of labor in the rubber factories of the city has been granted. Hereafter the employees will work nine hours a day instead of ten, without a reduction of pay. About 10,000 persons are involved. Washington. — Frank P. Sargent, commissioner of immigration, has returned from Honolulu, where he spent three weeks studying immigration matters and labor conditions of the islands. The result of his observations will be embodied in a special report to the president. Chicago.—An advance in wages approximating $190,000 annually was announced by 40 sash and door factories in Chicago. The new schedule went into effect January 1, and benefited 2,000 woodworking employees. The agreement entered into provides for another substantial increase in pay in 1908, provided the woodworkers' union, with which the contract is signed, is still in existence. New York.—There will be no tie-up of the railroads entering the over river terminals, for the representatives of the 3,000 New York, harbor yardmen employed on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Erie, Lehigh Valley and Central Railroad of New Jersey agreed after a conference lasting into the evening that the matter of the advance of 1 cent an hour for which the men have been contending for the last three weeks be settled by arbitration. New York.—The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America has reached the 200,000 mark in membership. It has $200,000 in its treasury. All of this was accumulated within the past four or five years. The union paid $380,000 death and disability claims during the past year, according to Treasurer Thomas Neale. This shows an increase of $63,000 over the previous two years. Expenses in strikes and lockouts were $127,813. The receipts of the organization were $888,698. The expenditures were $861,439. New York.—The Pullman company announced to its employees a plan by which it will make voluntary contributions to the benefit organization of the conductors and office men. Pullman employees are forbidden to join any labor organization of any kind. The conductors and office men, however, have had an organization which they call the "volunteer subscription fund for Pullman conductors and office men," the object of the association being to pay a death benefit to families of deceased members. President Phillips of the subscription fund has received notification that in future upon the death of a member of the association the company would donate an amount equal to the amount subscribed by the numbers Salem, Mass.—An increase of five per cent in wages was announced in the mills of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company, of this city, going into effect on December 31, and applies to about 1,500 employees. Louisville, Ky.—A "peaceful boycott" has been declared legal by Judge Kirby in the chancery division of the circuit court. The case came up on complaint of an employing butcher who sought to have the members of the butchers' union restrained from circulating notices that his plant was hostile to the interests of organized labor. Washington.—The undue prevalence of tuberculosis among workingmen, which has led pretty nearly every national union in the American Federation of Labor to consider plans for the establishment of homes for their consumptive members similar to that maintained by the printers, is illustrated in the quarterly report of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes just issued. The mortality record for the past three months showed that one-third of the entire 60 deaths was due to the great while plague. Washington.—Conditions throughout the country in the trades unions are generally good, according to reports received at the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor. Among the national organizations sending in reports are the asbestos workers, billposters, brushmakers, carriage workers, cigarmakers, horse-shoers and hotel employees. In the last named nine new unions have recently been organized and $1,500 paid out in death benefits. Lace curtain operatives in Philadelphia have secured a 43-hour week for shift workers and 50 hours for day workers after a four week's strike. Chicago.—Announcement was made to 13,000 employees of the Illinois Steel company that they would receive a 10 per cent wage increase. The same rates of advance are to apply at the plants of the company on the North Side and at Joliet and Milwaukee. It is expected also that the increase will be extended to all the plants of the United States Steel corporation. Washington.—Reports of the state labor bureaus show that capital and labor in many important industries are working in closer harmony and that trade agreements have in numerous instances supplanted the strike and lock-out methods of settling industrial disputes. Chicago.—President Roosevelt anti-race-suicide theories are to receive the hearty endorsement of Chicago's union labor. An organization is being perfected which will place a premium on child birth. One hundred dollars is to be paid to the wife of each member of the association at the birth of a child. Should the stork leave twins at the home of the union man the premium will be raised to $50, and $500 will be paid cheerfully in the event of triplets. There is a twofold purpose in the object of the proposed beneficiary organization, one of which is to insure the father and mother of a stated sum at the time when it is greatly needed, and the other is one which has back of it purely union principles—to remove women from the field of labor and place her where she rightfully belongs, in the home. Boston.—President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor has received an appeal from the workingmen of Porto Rico asking aid in stopping the abuses suffered by them. It is stated that while the invasion of the American Federation of Labor into that country has secured for the workingmen many improvements in labor conditions it is necessary for the American authorities to take a hand. The employers in that island, according to the statement, hold the laborers in little esteem. There is a contempt for their work and thereby the economic and political power of the workingmen is extremely limited. The employers, it is charged, maintain a benevolent despotism over the laborers. New York.—The Bookbinders' International union, is arranging for the establishment of the eight-hour day. The employers, however, are combining to contest the move. International President Robert Glocking has sent warning letters to all local unions informing them to be on their guard. General Labor News. International Lathers' union has 201 locals in the United States and Canada. The wages of San Francisco (Cal.) marine painters has been increased 50 cents daily. 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 Number. 1 Mrs. S. Williams, 1309 N 10th St., Kansas City, Kansas. 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 South Chestnut St., Iola, Kan. QUEEN MOTHERS KAN Miss Jannie Alea 948 Penn. Lawrens Lillie Hardin, 00 enue, N. Topeka, H Hester Cornish, 9 N. Topeka, Kansas Jennie Sellers, 1 street, Omaha, Ne Eliza Robinson, 1 Topeka, Kansas. Mollie Spencer, ison, Kansas. Maggie Robinson enue, Kansas City, Louise Verder, 85 4 Mrs. Laura Williams, 625 4th St. Cherryvale, Kansas. 6. Mrs. Addie Glasphe, 128 Mulberry street, Ottawa, 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. Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Arkansas street, Lawrence, Kansas. 11. Mrs. Paulina Woodfork, 823 Freeman Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. 12. Mrs. C. March, 515 Nebraska Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. 14. Mrs. May R. Freeman, 105 S. Locust St., Pittsburg, Kansas. 15. Mrs. S. S. Furlough, box 405, Weir City, Kansas. 20. Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kansas. 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 716 S. 15th St., Parsons, Kansas. 29 Mrs. Percilia Lee, 720 Cheyenne St., Leavenworth, Kansas. 30 Mrs. Eliza Scott, 3rd ave. south, Leavenworth, Kansas. 32 Mrs. Adda Birthright, 114 West Broadwav, Butte, Montana. 33 Mrs. Phannie Corneal, Box 384, Alliance, Neb. 34 Mrs. Mattie Miller, 335 West 15th, Wichita, Kan. 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 104 South 2nd street, Aichion, Kansas. 63. Mrs. Lizzie Stone, 1147 Ann ave. Kansas City, Kansas 89. Mrs. Blanche E. Alston, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb. 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 310 North 12th St., Omaha, Nebraska. 92. Mrs. Alice Grant, 401 South 8th street, Lincoln, Nebraska. 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 Western Ave, N. Topeka, Kan. TEMPLES 1 William M. Watkins, box 2062, Weir City, Kansas. 2 Thomas Henry, Coffeyville, Kans. 3 Mr. William H. Barnes, 819 L St., Atchison, Kan. 4 Andrew Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb. 6 M. E. Bird, 2014 Hewett, Everett, Kansas City, Kan. 7 J. C. Coffee, 1455 N. Mosley, Wichita, Kansas. 8. Rev. M. Wooten, 416 W. Third st., Ft. Scott, Kansas. 10 Frank Smith, 420 3rd Ave., Leavenworth, Kansas. 16. E. W. Garvice, North 1st street, Salina, Kansas. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th St. S. Omahs, Nen. Coffeyville, Kansas. 17. Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th st. 18 James Thomas, 218 W 1st, South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. 19. C. Paris, 948 Penn. street, Lawrence, Kansas. 25 Edward Henderson, 1917 N. 3rd St., Kansas City, Kan. 59. S. W. Pasker, 1156 Buchanan Tcpeka, Kan. 60 James Scott, 1404 Van Buren Tcpeka, Kan. 71 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 10th St. Lincoln, Neb. 536 Albert Graves, 90 Charles St., Deadwood, South Dakota. NOTICE.—Send your news in the early part of the week, which will insure its publication. The earlier the better.—Editor. Let the colored people get together and stay together for their own material good. FOR SALE—Furnished rooming house in Kansas City, fine location. For particulars see Mrs. M. Ivory, 132 South Mosely avenue, Wichita, Kan. Number. QUEEN MOTHERS OF TENTS IN KANSAS. Miss Jannie Alexander, G. Q. M., 948 Penn, Lawrence, Kansas. Lillie Hardin, 006 South Fifth avenue, N. Topeka, Kansas. Hester Cornish, 911 Western avenue, N. Topeka, Kansas. Jennie Sellers, 1438 N. Eighteenth street, Omaha, Neb. Eliza Robinson, 1801 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kansas. Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Louise Verder, 813 Jersey, Lawrence, Kansas. Mary Bison, 325 Miss., Lawrence, Kansas. Charlotte Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kansas City, Kansas. A. O. Murrell, 451 S. Fourth street, Salina, Kansas. Mary Hopkins, 903 West E, North Topeka, Kansas. H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Kansas. Lettie Hill, 429 N. Wichita street, Wichita, Kansas. Amy Lane, 1422 E. Appleton street, Parsons, Kansas. Annie Edwards, 944 Everett, Kansas City, Kansas. Laura Smith, 308 E. Eleventh, Coffeville, Kansas. enworth, Kansas. CALLED TO LAWRENCE. Rev. W. H. Burrill, one of the most able ministers in the Baptist connection of Kansas has been called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of Lawrence, Kansas, and will take up his duties Sunday, February 3rd. Rev. Burrill is an able minister and a God-fearing gentleman and has the best wishes of all the citizens of Wichita for unbounded success in his new work. Rev. G. M. Hunter, 915 N. Wichita Mrs. E. E. Whitfield, field secretary of the Woman's National Baptist Convention, spoke in the Shiloh Baptist church last Tuesday, at 3 p. m., to the women and girls only. At 8 p. m. she was greeted with another large audience, who listened with intense earnestness to a most nethusiastic and helpful address. She entertained both the Shiloh Baptist and Mt. Zion mission circles, who in turn entertained her with a most elaborate reception at the home of Dr. and Mrs. M. G. Brookins, which was served in five courses during which Mrs. Brookins entertained the large crowd with excellent music. The visit of Mrs. Whitfield will be long remembered because of the earnest talk on the practical side of life. The church gave her for mission work. $22.30. Pastor Matt S. Jones attended the State Executive Board at Leavenworth, Kan. He reports a very good meeting. The missionary pastors were looked after and some new ones were appointed. The A. M. E. church are preparing for a grand rally next Sunday, February 3. Friends are kindly invited to assist them. Rev. J. L. Dudley has returned from Kansas City where he has been assisting Rev. J. R. Richardson in a meeting. There were fourteen additions. While there he visited his daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Johnson. Rev. Dudley has been called for full time at the Mt. Zion Baptist church. Mr. Richard Turner was taken seriously ill Monday. Mrs. Wort Moore is suffering with an attack of acute rheumatism. Mrs. Harris, of Chickasaw Nation, is visiting her father, Rev. Wm. Garrett, who has been ill for some months. Mrs. P. Newlin is again visiting her son, Rev. Matt S. Jones. She will spend the winter here. Mr. John Johnson is convalesening from an attack of pneumonia. Mr. Lewis-James, the leading bartone in the Moody-Manners Opera company, a noted English organization, has had an interesting history. He was born in Aberdare, South Wales, and went to work in a coal pit when he was 12 years old. He sang in local concerts and competitions which are popular among the Welsh, and eventually achieved such prestige in his home neighborhood that he was urged to study music seriously. This he did for two years, while continuing his work as a coal miner. Then the Carl Rosa company visited Cardiff, and Mr. James sang privately for the director, who engaged him at once for three years, and afterward he joined the Moody-Manners company. One of the scientists says there will be no blondes 600 years from now. But why worry over a future that is 600 years distant? Prof. Cox is in London, but do not think for a moment that he has gone abroad to lay in a line of imported weather. FORT SCOTT. HER CHALLENGE The Spur mountains belonged to the Macdonalds, and the Lonnon mountains to the McAllisters. The valley between them was no man's land, for they were too busy fighting over it to keep out the thieves from the hills. Neither boasted long of advantage, till the days when Robert McAllister, seventh of the name, grew old. Then an ill time happened to the clan. His son slipped over a crag and was killed. Since Robert McAllister was too old for arms, the name of the clan grew small, and the more daring of the tribesmen took service under the king of France, for Mary McAllister had the spirit of a man, but only the body of a maid. Alan, the young chief of the Macdonalds, had won great renown in arms, and he had the way of leading men; and those who are born for leading never lack men to lead. He drove the McAllisters from the valley, and built little fortresses there to hold it, and when he had held it for a full year he sent a message to Robert McAllister, saying: "From Alan macdonald to Robert McAllister, most courteous greetings. "The fortune of war has given us advantage which you cannot resist. When strife is useless, strife should cease. If you will own that the valley is mine I shall be honored by your using it. It is said that good foes make good friends, and I am wishful to try, for there is none who honor your name more than I." Robert McAllister, being a wise old man, was minded to consent. "It is a generous offer from a gallant enemy," he said. But his daughter pleaded with him in her dead brother's name and prevailed. So he made answer thus: "Robert McAllister sends all courteous greetings to Alan Macdonald. The fortunes of the moment changes. For those who come after, I hold to what I have held, and my forefathers before me. If our numbers are lessened our courage is not." Then came another message from Alan Macdonald. "If you rely on courage, let one of your tribe meet me in single combat, the valley to belong to the victor's clan. Alan Macdonald." Many of the McAllisters volunteered for the fight, but there was no great man of arms among them, and the elders would not consent. "It were giving Macdonald the land," they declared. "There is no man in Scotland who can stand before him." So they sent no answer at all, and Mary McAllister locked herself in her room for two days, and brooded over the dishonor of her clan. Presently she made a deep plan, as women will, and rode out ~ the gray dawn to the castle on the Spur mountains; and when Macdonald's outposts challenged her in the valley, she answered: "I am Mary McAllister, and I have come to answer the challenge of your chief." Then they sent a guide to conduct her the easiest way to the castle, and when the chief warder came to the gate and asked her pleasure, she made him the same answer as before. "I bring to you an equal challenge." She looked him straight in the eyes. "If your challenge is such as a man may accept," he answered steadily, "I accept it unheard." She put her hand in her bosom and drew out two quaint phials of colored glass, with stoppers of dull wrought gold. "Will you drink a toast with me?" she asked. "Surely," he answered, "if it is such as a man may." But he looked at the strange vessels and liked them not. "It is an innocent toast enough, and harmless—if you drink the one." "And if I drink the other?" "It is only death!" "There are worse things," he told her. She pushed the phials smilingly towards him. "Choose. I will drain the other." "And then?" "One of us will gain the valley, and the other will feel no loss." He took up the phials and held them in the sunlight that streamed through an open casement on to the floor. It was awesome, he thought, that death should come in such a guise; and he was angry with himself, because he feared that he feared. "Dare you not?" she asked, tauntingly. "Aye," he said. "I dare. Give me which you will." "I should give you death," she answered. "For I know." Alan Macdonald looked hard at her, and saw that truly she was passing fair. "Give me death, if you will." "I take no odds," she said. "Neither would I have the death of so generous a foe on my soul. For your honor, Alan Macdonald, choose." He bowed and looked at the philas once more. One was green and one was pink, and either flashed in the sun. And before any could stay him he had drained the green phil. "Your health, madam!" Mary McAllister rose steadily and put out her hand for the pink vessel. "Your health, sir," she pledged him. "You have won." "You are a very brave man, Alan Macdonald," she told him, in a slow, hushed voice. "Suffer me now to go." ```markdown ``` Joseph B. Bowles.) So he led her to the gateway in silence, and held her foot when she mounted. "Friend or foe?" he asked under his breath. She looked down at him with her great blue eyes. "Foe," she whispered hoarsely, "but—I honor you greatly." Then she rode away into the mist that hung over the valley below, and he gazed after her till she was lost to view. "There was never her like in all Scotland," he vowed. "She would have drunk her death." "Aye," said a sage, who was standing near him. "She would have taken it, and—perchance she has more of the poison at home!" The young chief stared at him for a moment, then gave a great shout. "My horse! Bring my horse!" He ran to meet them as they came A woman sits under a tree, writing in a book. She is surrounded by a landscape of mountains and trees. "I Love You." leaped on his great black charger and rode down into the mist as if his senses were not in him. From the foot of the mountain to the castle high above, the bridle path runs a long way round; and between bend and bend lies a great ravine that neither man nor beast had crossed. 40 feet at the narrowest from side to side. The edges overhang so that the bottom is not seen; and when a stone falls one grows tired of listening for the distant crash below. Alan Macdonald rode straight for the ravine. When he came to the edge he looked till he found a plot of level grass, and there he rested his horse for a moment, and patted his neck and whispered in his ear. "Now, boy, now," he cried. The horse sprang forward over the even ground, gathered himself together on the edge of the abyss and flew into the air. "Live together or die together," said Alan Macdonald under his breath. Then he saw his horse falling short of the black rock—felt him strike against it—was hurled forward with a crash—clutched at something hanging from above and held dazedly to it—caught the sound of a woman's cry —clung mechanically to something, he knew not what—heard a dull thud. When he found the world again he was lying in some long grass, he thought, and there was something yet softer under his head. Then a woman's face hung over him, framed in the mist—the face of Mary MacAllister. "You must not move," said a very gentle voice. "You are badly hurt, very badly, I fear." "I do not fear for myself," he answered, "only—are you Mary McAllister?" "Yes." He tried to look round at her. "Only be still," she entreated. "I have sent for men to carry you. They will come soon." "How—did it—happen?" "You were hanging by a deal branch. I—I lifted you here." "I owe my life to you." He smiled as if the thought pleased him. "My foe!" "I do not think," she whispered, "we are foes any more. You must not move." "You saved my life." "You had saved mine." "You were not going to take the poison at home?" "Yes," she said, "I was." "You will not now?—for the love of Heaven, dear lady?" "Why did you take the leap?" He smiled faintly. "For you." She looked right into his eyes. "Why do you care so much for my life?" Because he was dazed, the fine speeches that he had tried to fashion would not shape themselves to an end. So he said simply, "I love you." "Then," she said, "since you won my life, keep it, and do with it as you will;" and he turned to look up at her without a moan at the pain. And because he was so helpless and his eyes pleaded with her so, she bent down her head and let him kiss her red lips. "To live together or die together," she vowed. And when Alan Macdonald was recovered, the clans went down from the mountains, with white favors in their bonnets, and married them in the valley between.