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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT OF THE FOUNDING OF Taborian Temple No.11 KNIGHTS OF TABOR WILL BE CELEBRATED AT NINETH YEAR. The 2nd. A OF THE FO Taborian T KNIGHTS WILL BE CELI Redman Thursda MAY Grand Program We'll Treat GENERAL ADMISSION When Theodore Roosevelt became president of these United States we heard much from the president about his denunciations of the "political rockers," the "political bosses" and the like. But as soon as the president had diverted the attention of the public from himself to "the other fellow" he began to swing his "EIG STICK" and to build up a "political ring" and become its "political boss" himself, and to see the magnitude with which the president has built his gigantic organization one has but to look at the whole working and discover the Roosevelt touch in the fight in the contest between Senator Joseph E. Foraker and the president's own Secretary of War, Mr. W. H. Taft. No man who has before had the high honor, the grace, the chief executive's chair in and "Big I." attitude as has President Roosevelt. His loud demands for a square deal" for every man and "all men up and NO MAN down," has seemingly been forgotten by him in its effort to give Ohio to Taft. If our president, stands on his former enunciation of "political basses" he would readily see the propriety of getting the Ohio contest alone. But Roosevelt dare not do so. He must down Senator Foraker in Ohio for no other purpose han to attempt to prove that the "people" are with him and not with Senator Foraker in his contest in criminally discharging the Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry without judge or jury. This is the Roosevelt style, but it won't work any more. It's too thin. Every Negro in Ohio ought to stand teeth and toe all for Senator Foraker and the Negroes all over America ought to stand by Senator Foraker and ought to denounce in stinging tones any Negro whether a government job holder or not who will have the temerity to go --- against Senator Foraker for Taft. It is time that the Negroes were showing that they are capable of properly resenting a gigantic national insult thrown in the face of the race even though if it comes from the executive office. By this insult coming as it does from the nation's president, is the more reason why the Negro should vehemently denounce it and should show their displeasure by publicly hissing and rotten-egging any Negro who will so far forget his duty to the race as to espouse the cause of the insulters and oppressors of the race. No Negro, job or no job, can justly find an excuse which should be permitted to blind him against the present interest of the race. If the Negroes do not recept the insult flung at them by President Roosevelt they might as well pack their grip and get ready to go. Why should be have Negroes who ride into office on the representations of the Negroes of this nation and then have not the manliness and hardihood to defend their race on account of some job. Better a thousand time that the Negro have no national representation if he must permit such representatives to place some job for personal gain above the interest of the race. Let every Negro give his moral, financial, religious and full racial aid to Senator Foraker in the Ohio contest and encourage his brothers in Ohio to stand pat for Foraker. One more term of Rooseveltism in this country and the Negro is a small potato. Taft is simply Roosevelt in another name. Even though Taft should by the aid of the president succeed in Ohio the Negro need not let the mater rest there. The Negro should vote against every interest of Theodore Roosevelt in the political side of our republic. He has proven untrue to the great trust and confidence reposed in him by the Ne- groes and his every defeat should be the delight and aim of every Negro. The Negro race needs men who will dare to stand up for right and the race and to show proper appreciation of the unsolicited friendship of a benefactor of the whole race. Did we hear you say that some of the colored men are already kicking about the amount of political pie handed out to them by Mayor Graham? It is easily seen now why President Roosevelt has been flirting so cutely in south and has taken so many out-of-the-way chances to throw a few bouquets southward. He wants to make the next president—and the funny thing about it is he is not much particular whether it is Theodore Roosevelt, Willie Taft, or Theodore Roosevelt-named—just so, it seems, that it is not Senator Foraker—the one man in the senate who had the manhood to demand that the president put some of the president's own hhot air about a "square deal" into play. Foraker has the satisfaction to know that he is right whether he ever becomes president. Can the president say as much, and show it? GRAND MASTER THOS. Glover Goes On His Visits to the Odd Fellow Lodges. Ft. Scott, Kan.—May 16th. Iola, Kan., May 17th. Kansas City, Kan. (two days)— May 18th, 20th. Atchison, Kan (two days)—May 21st, 22nd. Lawrence, Kan.—May 23rd. Topeka, Kan. (two days)—May 24th, 25th. Abilene, Kan.—May 27th. Salina, Kan.—May 28th. Nicodemus, Kan.—May 30th. Emporia, Kan.—May 31st. Strong City, Kan.—June 1st. Newton, Kan.—June 3rd. Hutchinson, Kan.—June 4th. Great Bend, Kan.—June 5th. BISHOP SHAFFER SAYS SALVATION OF NEGRO DEPENDS ON HIS EMERGENCY. When He Realizes Civic Responsibility and Enters Business Pursuit He Will Succeed. The salvation of the Negro race and a fundamental solution of the race problem depends upon the energy of the Negro in forcing himself into the industries, trades and commercial pursuits of the nation, according to Bishop C. T. Shaffer, Chicago, who supplied the pulpit of St. Marks African Methodist church. "When the Negro realizes his civic responsibility and forces his way into the substantial business pursuits he will gain recognition and the race problem will no longer be a question," said Bishop Shaffer. "We need Negro groceres, dry goods merchants, bankers and craftsmen. The Negro is fully as capable and able when he is provided with the sam eeduction and environment as the white man. "Today the Negro is shifting about and he has not yet learned the value of remaining in one community. In time he will realize better his civic duty and he will develop a closer family life." Bishop Shaffer believes that the negro has greater opportunity in the south, where all the trades are open to him, than in the north, where his efforts to advance are met with op- cure the scientific refraction required and the skilled fitting of proper spectacles should furnish such poor children with these helps, absolutely necessary in order to enable them to carry out the school work required by the law. The "accommodation" function of our eyes is their power to focus equally clearly the images of objects at a distance and those near the face. Its mechanism is the crystalline lens, controlled by the ciliary muscle. The lens has an innate and spotaneous elasticity which gives it the ability to increase its refractive power required as an object is brought nearer the eye. This increased refraction is incited by the contraction of the ciliary muscle. This act is called accommodation. As has been said, it is little exercised in myopia, and hence there is little pain or "eyestrain" in purely myoptic defects or nearsightedness. In the condition called emmetropia, or optical normality (only approximately existing), it is called into use, and increasingly with every increase of nearness of the object looked at, until its extreme is reached when the object is so near the eyes that it is not clearly seen—that is, with accurate focus or clear photographic definition. Although the medical textbooks give little or no hint of this, it is true, as thousands of good physicians and patients well know, that headaches, 90 per cent, at least, are due to eyestrain. Many observant physicians believe that the so-called "paroxysmal neuroses," periodic headaches, migraine, epilepsy, asthma, etc., as well as hysteria, neurasthenia, "brainfag," "nervous breakdown," are very frequently caused by years of morbid ocular struggle. Mental diseases follow; weariness alternating with hyperexcitability, an amazing need of walking, truancy (escaping from ocular labor), morbid introspection, nameless torments and self-tormentings, diseased habits, hopelessness, melancholia, manias, incipient and functional insanities, and indirectly occupational failure, crime, and many other errant trends. enwell Gaol. I was trying to keep a man straight who had been a burglar, a drunkard, and a gambler. "I can leave off burgling," he said to me one day, "I can leave off drink, but I can't leave off betting." The ignoble and unbrotherly desire to make money without giving anything in return for it is, in my opinion, the chief consideration which should deter people, and especially young men, from gambling. It is to my mind immoral for one to take money in that way. This point came out strikingly in the evidence I gave before the royal commission on betting which was appointed to inquire into the subject some years ago. When I said that a man had no right to bet, one of the peers sitting on the commission remarked that it was too sweeping an assertion, for the remark did not apply to a man like himself, who could afford to lose. "That is where you are wrong," I replied. "You can't afford to lose. With men in your position it is a case of noblesse oblige. It is for you to set an example to the people in a lower class of life. You may be able to afford to lose the money, but you are not able to afford to lose the influence of your example." The suffering which falls on the wives and children of married men who gamble must be seen to be believed. I remember on one occasion going to two cottages which stood side by side. They were both tenanted by married men. Their wives were in rags and their children half starved. One of the men was a drunkard, while the other, though quite sober and always in work, was perpetually having his resources drained away through betting. Although he saw the misery to which his wife and children were reduced, he kept on, always hoping against hope that he would make a coup and recover himself, instead of pulling up at once, when his hard work would soon have told and he would have been able to extricate his wife, his children, and him- able to extricate his wily, his children, self from the terrible condition in which they lived. Undoubtedly gambling is increasing. You have only to look at the increased number of betting papers and compare them with what they were a certain number of years ago to understand that this is the case; if they did not succeed they would not be published. The way in which betting is invading sport after sport is terrible, for this is making it well-nigh impossible for decent people to follow them. "In the south the Negro has made greater advances because of his numbers. Large communities of Negroes have had to unite for their common interests. The northern Negro remains individualistic and the race has not united for social and civic betterment." Bishop Shaffer has been in the ministry for almost fifty years. He is a man of education, a graduate in medicine of Jefferson college, Philadelphia, and for a number of years he presided over the African conference district. He was stationed for four years in Sierra Leone and later spent some time in Liberia. Students Prejudice—Will Go Without Diplomas Says Faculty. Pittsburg, Pa.—A race war is on in the high school at Oakdale, fifteen miles from here. Ray Woole, a Negro member of the graduating class, making the highest percentage, has been named valedictorian. The other graduates, all whites, announce that they will not take part in the exercises if the Negro is allowed to speak. The faculty, however, declares that those not taking part will go without a diploma. The above report was sent out by the Associated Press, and we were really surprised that any disturbances occurred at Oakdale public schools over the fact that a young Colored boy had outstripped all the white puppies in learning, for we have always been taught to believe that in every respect all white boys and girls are far superior to Colored boys and girls. REMEMBER! You will pass this way only once. Make the trip as pleasant as possible, not only for yourself but others. Because "you" don't like a person, is no reason why everybody must feel as you do. That white men and white women love white men and white women better than they do Negroes. The Negro is the only living object in the animal kingdom, that feeds others and starves his own. You can't have everything you imagine that you need. The baby cries for the bright, keen 'edged razor; almost all of us are but babies. That a bank account is one of the best friends you can have. It doesn't run around telling about it helped you. It helps without saying a word. That "God," "Himself" can't use a disunited, divided people; and as a last resort He bruises them. Disunion and the Graves are fit companions. That Samson was strong, but Dellah bound him. Boast not of your strength, intellectual or financial. That at one time in Christ's troubles, every "man" deserted.—St. Luke Herald. Where Webster Drew the Line. In the New York Times "W. C. B." of Newton, Masa., says that in his library is the following letter from Daniel Webster in answer to a request that he take a certain case for a contingent fee: "I do not desire employment in professional matters, although I do sometimes engage in them. But I never engage on contingencies merely, for that would make me a mere party to a lawsuit. D. W." Reads So "Easy." A French mariner thinks advantage may be taken of the favorable winds at the edge of a cyclone for facilitating navigation. By means of observations with the barometer and other instruments, he would ascertain the direction in which the storm is going and so shape the course of the ship that it would be carried along by the sweep of the atmosphere without becoming involved in the dangerous center of the storm. Wooden Leg as Memento. A woman applied to the Eton Union guardians in England recently for the wooden leg which was worn for years by her uncle, who died in the workhouse. Her request was granted and the woman took the leg home with her. T has been demonstrated by scientific examinations that from 30 to 60 per cent. of school children have ocular defects requiring the use of spectacles in order to enable them to preserve their eyes, to maintain their general health, and to keep up with their fellows who have good eyes. As a matter of pedagogics of school efficiency, of the preservation of eyesight, and of general health, the public is vitally interested in having these ocularly deficient and handicapped children supplied with spectacles. The public school system therefore insistly demands that those children too poor to pro- I The Folly of Gambling By REV. CANON J. W. HORSLEY, ```markdown ``` NO.9 It is more easy to get a man to leave off drink than to leave off betting. I recall a striking confession of the power that gambling wields over the life of anyone in its clutches. It happened during the time I was prison chaplain at Clerk- t who had been a burglar, bargling," he said to me one betting." take money without giving chief consideration which from gambling. It is to at way. This point came royal commission on bet- ject some years ago. t, one of the peers sitting keeping an assertion, for the who could afford to lose. can't afford to lose. With age. It is for you to set an You may be able to afford to lose the influence of children of married men remember on one occasion They were both tenanted and their children half the other, though quite bring his resources drained misery to which his wife hoping against hope that head of pulling up at once, and he would have been him- they u have papers certain is the oe pub- g sport all-nigh AGE2 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. All matters addressed to the Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. 4h matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wednesday to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. 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We publish curp paper on Friday, mail them out Friday night and every one ought to receive them Saturday. If you do not receive your paper on Saturday please notify me. W. N. MILLER, Editor, 601 N Main, phone 2046. PAUL JONES COMING. Will Lecture at New Hope Thursday Night, May 23rd. Hon. Paul Jones, former deputy auditor of state, will lecture at the New Hope Baptist church Thursday night, May 23rd. The subject of his lecture will be, "The Constitutional and Civic Rights of the American Negro." Mr. Jones is touring Kansas in the interest of the Negro under the auspices of the National Constitutional League. He is a fine speaker, and handtits the Negro question in a pleasing manner. Do not miss hearing his address Thursday night. Admission 15 cents. QUEEN MOTHERS TAKE NOTICE. To the Queen Mothers of the Kansas- Nebraska Jurisdiction. Dear Daughters:—As our present Taborian, year is fast drawing to a close please send in your quarterly reports on time, the 1st of June, as I desire to make up my yearly report preparatory for the Grand Session. Trusting your prompt compliance, I remain, yours in the work. MISS JENNIE ALEXANDER, Grand Queen Mother, Lawrence, Kansas. There never was a heart strong enough to suffer alone. Love weaves fits own shroud if left to solitary gloom. Its strongest evidence is when it instinctively shares the sorrow of its very own. To refuse is but to deny its existence. Like the tidal waves it takes on strength and beauty when nursed by the mountain storms. I never pass a young man on the street without having come to me again the far-away vision: It's the form of a beautiful young woman hovering over the cradle of her first born. And she's dreaming, too—dreaming of the far-off years when her slumbering baby shall be a man. And I wonder if it's only a dream that comes to her. What do you owe the Searchlight??? Pay up!!! Pay up! Pay up!! Office 601 N. Main street. Clean Clothes? Most,people do. We clean, repair, and press clothes. We have a clean shop and oblidging attendants which is the keynote of our success The Paris City Cleaning Works has done a successful business for the past two years in Wishita and is better prepared to accommodate its customers than ever before. Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention In connection we have a Hat Cleaning Works—the best in the city. Paris City Cleaning Works J. A. Jackson, Prop. 3151 N. Main St. SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES. TABERNACLE. The Tabernacle Baptist church has had a spiritual feast during the past week in a real live revival meeting with Rev. John R. Richardson of Kansas City, Rev. J. H. Van Leu, state missionary, Rev. Wm. Willis of Mississippi and Rev. Wm. Turner of Pratt. Much good has been done for the Master's cause. The meeting will continue all day Sunday. All are invited to come out and take part. A. M. E. CHURCH. May 19th, at the A. M. E. church the pastor, Rev. J. F. C. Taylor, will speak in the morning from the subject, "The Pilgrims' Abiding Friend." In the evening from the subject, "Zacheus the Publican." Sunday school at the usual hour. Song service at 6:30. NEW HOPE. Usual Sunday services at New Hope. Pastor Wilson will fill the pulpit morning and evening. Sunday school at usual hour. All are invited. "Come and we will do thee good." MUSICAL CLUB Frank Garrett is organizing a Musical club among the children. He has a nice class of young folks now, and after school is out will increase it. At a very small cost he will teach them mandolin and guitar. All parents should take an interest and give their children an opportunity to learn music. For full particulars call to see Frank Garrett, 708 N. Market. Call at the Searchlight office and have your job work done. Prices to suit all. All our work is fully guaranteed. Phone 2046. NEWTON SENDS HER PRAISE. Newton, Kan., May 14, 1907. Bro. W. N. Miller, Editor Searchlight. On behalf of Flower of the West lodge No. 3005 and Household Ruth No. 2277 of Newton, I wish to express our great satisfaction for the most enjoyable time which we spent in Wichita last Sunday as the guest of our mother lodge Home of the West No. 2906, and Household Ruth No. 612. We are frank to admit that we received America has assumed so monarchial royal entertainment while in Wichita on last Sunday. We will always cherish a fond remembrance of the Thanksgiving spent in Wichita. It was, indeed, befitting of the welcome of parents to children, and we highly appreciate the same. We found the homes of all the people of Wichita open to receive us with open arms, and all vied with each other in their efforts to bestow on us their hospitality. May Wichita ever prosper. Yours sincerely in F. L. & T.. Mrs. John Thurman of Kansas City, Mo., is in the city the guest of Mrs. Geo. W. Orr, So., at the Orr residence $88 E. 13th street. Mrs. J. G. Galnes after a week's illness is again able to be out. Sam Brazille has returned from a trip to Kingman. MAY DAY BALL. Frank Garret offers to the lovers of mirth and music a grand May day ball at Redman hall. Tuesday night May 14th. They are having some fine times at the hall and you are very cordially invited to attend. Come out next Tuesday night and see for yourself. G. H. Young left Thursday for St. Joe, Mo., to visit his daughter a few days. LOCAL S THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local headings to 601 North Main Street. SECOND ANNIVERSARY. Taborian Temple No. 11 will celebrate the second anniversary of its organization with a grand public entertainment at Redman Hall, Thursday night, May 23rd. All are invited. The ladies of the G.A. their meeting on Tuesday the home of Mrs. W pleasant social time with nice luncheon served. The flower girls, me are requested to meet noon at the A. M. E. hearsal of the Cantata the Queen O' May." The W. T. Vernon club met with Mrs. E. D. Roach. The club was opened by the president, with prayer by the chaplain. The roll was called and each member responded with a quotation. Three applications for membership were received. After an hour spent in needlework lunch was served and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. A. Griggs, 901 North Wichita. Mrs. Daisy Grinstead and Mrs. Joe Bell are in the city from Coffeville. Go to the Grand May Musicale at Redmen's hall, Thursdayl night, the 16th. DIED—Miss Cora Cunning, the 16-year-old daughter of Mrs. Kate Cuming, at 343 N. Main, Wednesday night. The deceased died a Christian. Funeral at New Hope Baptist church Thursday, Rev. Joseph Wilson officiating. Thursday night Hon. Paul Jones of Topeka will lecture at the New Hope Baptist church, subject, "The Constitutional and Civil Rights of the Negro." Hear Mr. Jones. Mr. J. G. Gaines is preparing to attend the Grand Court H. of J. session which will be held in Kansas City early in June. Rev. Wm. Turner has returned to this charge in Pratt where he will begin a series of meetings Sunday. Dr. E. Harrison has moved his office up stairs over 601 N. Main next door to the Searchlight office where he will be pleased to meet all his patients new and old. Rev. P. D. Skinner of Coffeyville arrived in the city Thursday to assist in the revival at the Tarnacle Baptist church. Rev. Skinner will remain over Sunday. Everybody is invited and urged to be present at the closing of the Queen O' contest Monday evening, May the 20th, at the A. M. E. church. The election returns will be read every half hour, closing at 11 o'clock p. m. There will be music, refreshments and other entertaining features. Admission free. Rev. P. D. Yochum filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church Sunday and delivered two excellent sermons. Rev. Yochum was formerly pastor of this church. The T. B. A. club met with Miss Beatrice Miller Saturday evening and after an hour of needle work a dainty lunch was served. The club adjourned to meet next Saturday, May 18th with W. L. Madison. Don't forget the Grand Spring Carnival and Cantata. The crowning of the Queen o' May. Mrs. F. C. Childs, Mrs. S. Dickerson, Mrs. Geo. E. Payne, of Newton, Kan. m. and Mrs. G. H. Young and Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Wallace for six o'clock dinner Sunday. Rev. John R. Richardson, the farfamed divine of Kansas City, Kan., will preach at the Tabernacle Baptist church Sunday night. Go out to hear Rev. Richardson while he is here. Officer W. L. Herman is in possession of his new uniform and had it on for the first time Tuesday night. He is now fully uniformed. Rev. J. H. Van Leu and Rev. Wm. Turner both returned to the city this week to attend the ten days' meeting at the Tabernacle Baptist church. NOTICE. The ladies of the G. L. A. club held their meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. A. Bettis. A pleasant social time was spent and a nice luncheon served. The flower girls, members and choir are requested to meet Monday afternoon at the A. M. E. church for rehearsal of the Cantata, "Crowning of the Queen O'May." THE SEASON'S SWELLEST AF. FAIR. The reception tendered Mrs. B. S. Smith of Kansas City, Kansas, by Mrs. J. G. Gaines and Mrs. W. H. Jones at Young's hall Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 5 was, indeed, one of the sweltest functions ever witnessed in Wichita colored society. The hall was pleasantly and agreeably decorated and everything was to a queen's taste. The ladies gathered in their nearest evening costumes and the honor paid Mrs. Smith by the ladies of Wichita, was befitting of the grandest. At a reasonable hour lunch was served by Miss Della Gaines, Miss Winnifred Ray and Miss Lizzle Whitted who were the waitresses for the occasion. The following ladies were present according to their cards: Mesdames W. H. Jones, T. W. Fine, Ed. Landrum, H. T. Baker, L. Madison, H. H. Neely, J. W. Thompson, Jno. Rowles, Chas. A. Reed, M. E. Banks, M. W. Madison, Jno. T. Chinneth, W. N. Miller, R. B. Brown, L. F. Madison, Thos. Glover, A. M. Morris, C. A. Glover, Cella McBride, W. B. Barker, J. W. Kimberling, M. A. Hodge, J. T. Sanford, W. Gibbs, Geo. Daniels, A. Adams, J. S. Harwell, V. Covington, M. A. Young, M. A. Bettis, A. T. Glover, G. W. White, M. Roach, A. Griggs, and the following Misses: Alice Thompson, Blanche Alexander, L. A. Covington, Luela Williams, Sally Rowles, Grace Baker, and Mabelle A. Taylor. 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. A SPLENDID TURNOUT. A SPELENDID TURNOUT. The Odd Fellows and Ruths of Wichita and the Odd Fellows and Ruths of Newton did themselves credit in the splendid turnout which they had at their annual Thanksgiving services last Sunday afternoon. The day was an ideal one with just brisk enough wind to make indoor services not burdensome. The visitors from Newton came in on an early train and were met by a committee and escorted to the Young hall, where various Odd Fellows and Ruths awaited their arrival, and assignment to the homes was soon accomplished. In the afternoon at 2:30 the visitors and the home lodge met at the hall and regaled and at 3 o'clock the procession began to wend itself to the Second Baptist church where the annual sermon was to be preached, with Syl Griggs as marshal of the day. At the church on the rostrum were Rev. J. F. C. Taylor, pastor of the A. M. E. church and Rev. Joseph Wilson, Jr., pastor of the New Hope Baptist church, who also preached the annual sermon. W. N. Miller was master of ceremonies and presented a short program. Remarks by the master of ceremonies, singing, "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus." Address on behalf of the household Mrs. M. E. Carr, reading 100 Psalms, Mrs. Lucy Anderson; singing, "There's Not a Friend Like the Lowly Jesus." Address on behalf of the Order, Bro. A. L. Case; Juvenile dialogue, Maylon Hall and Isis Brooks; singing, "On the Happy Golden Shore." Thanksgiving sermon, Rev. Joseph Wilson, Jr.; Collection, $30; singing, "Blest Be the Tie;" remarks by Bro. A. J. Tandy of Newton on behalf of the Odd Fellows of Newton and by Mrs. A. J. Tandy on behalf of the Ruths of Newton. Rev. Wilson preached a noble sermon to the order and the members are loud in their praise of him for the study necessary to deliver so noble a sermon. At the conclusion of the sermon the order then marched to the hall and adjourn, all agreeing that the sermon this year exceled all others. In the May Queen contest up to date the 2nd Miss Myrtle Hearst and Miss Bess Duval are in the lead. Miss Duval having 148 votes and Miss Hearst 1.0. GOOD BREAD MAKERS = It Is White As SNOW-TRY IT- OTTO WEISS, Agent DEAM ABSTRACT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors WORK BONE WHILE YOU WAIT 2nd Shoes Bought and Sold 332 N. Main Street Wichita, Kan. 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In Main st. tly Purchased HE se Grocery Main St. WICHITA, . . . KANSAS. Influence of the Politician's Wife. It has often been asked how much influence the wife of a public man bears on his political career. This is hard to estimate; but this much is certain: The man who comes to Washington, either as a member of Congress or of some other branch of the government where his position is one of prominence, is very unfortunate if his wife is not one whom he can trust to making her way socially. Not necessarily being a great social success, but capable of mingling with the average woman at the national capital. For, in spite of the fact that a small percentage of society looks leniently upon the married couple who are seldom seen in public together, the average sound American believes in the comradeship of man and wife. But when we sum up this question of the influence of women in statecraft we pass the judgment that, on the whole, the influence of woman in statecraft is for good, says a writer in Home Magazine. Being impulsive, she is apt to make mistakes now and then which cause the more logical males to laugh at her, but as a rule she is pretty sure of her footing before she attempts to make the jump across the political stream that divides womankind from mankind. Germs in Books. $ ^{*} $ The authorities of the city libraries in Berlin have been making some interesting experiments with the purpose of determining the hygienic conditions of books that have been used a great deal by the people. With the dirt gathered from such books, some of which was known to include tuberculosis bacilli, experiments were made on guinea pigs. In the case of books used but two years, no result could be noticed, but the refuse collected from particularly soiled books, that had been in circulation from three to six years, did produce an effect. Attempts to destroy the bacilli by sterilization through formalin vapors failed; but the books themselves suffered to such an extent that many were practically spoiled. In view of this fact, the city authorities have decided to abstain from further disinfecting experiments. In conjunction with the city medical society and the police department, it has now been decided periodically to examine the public libraries and to destroy those books which have been used so much as to make them a danger to public health. Such books must be destroyed, not sold for old paper. Alonzo H. Evans, Boston's oldest bank president, at 87, is robust and hearty, and shows by his own example the result of living the kind of life that he prescribes for the youth of to-day. Mr. Evans has the greatest confidence in the generation of the present and thinks if they follow his advice they will succeed. He says: "Apply yourself, young man, if you would succeed. Work hard, be honest, be truthful, be loyal to your employer, save something out of each week's pay, even if it is little, but, above all, apply yourself." At Krupp's, in Essen, an army of 10,000, fed with coal and iron from vast private mines, turn out engines of destruction by the thousand. There are another 12,000 men at Lord Armstrong's works in the north of England, besides an aggregate of 40,000 more in the titanic government forges of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan and Russia, and these thousands are quite apart from armor plate makers and builders of battleships. Twenty years ago the population of Oklahoma could be enumerated in Indians and a few thousand squaw men, cowboys and cattle kings. In 1890, one year after the first opening of Oklahoma territory, there were more than 60,000 people living on 2,000,000 acres of land. To-day the white population may conservatively be estimated at over 1,500,000. In the newly organized province of Alberta, western Canada, bordering the foothills of the Rocky mountains, is the latest stake of Zion. There 8,000 trekkers from Utah are farming and ranching, and incidentally building up a strong cause of Latter Day Saints in the dominion, as an integral part of the army of 300,000 that constitutes the sect the world over. The British coast erosion committee rejoices over the discovery that the sea has added 30,752 acres to the British isles in 25 years and carried away only 419 acres. The land cut off has been valuable, however, while the sandbanks added may remain useless for many years. Alphons Mucha, the noted French artist, has come to America to live and is now teaching art in New York. He was born in Moravia in 1860, but has lived in Paris most of his life. Chicago Banker for Federal Prison. —Another banker has joined the force at the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth. He is Charles H. Thornton, former note teiler of the Hamilton National Bank of Chicago, who embezzled funds of the institution amounting to $9,125. He will serve five years. He Shoots Former Wife. —Mrs. Vera Burkridge, prominent in colored circles throughout Kansas, was shot and fatally wounded by her former husband at Wichita. After the shooting Burkridge, who is a negro preacher, ran away and shot himself in the left side. He will recover. The woman died in the hospital. Her Burns Prove Fatal. — Mrs. James Chitwood, of Hutchinson, 60 years old, is dead as the result of severe burns received. She was burning vermin on the inside of a poultry house when her clothing caught fire. Neighbors extinguished the flames, but only after her entire body excepting her face and chest had been burned. Burton's Lecture Dates Arranged. —J. R. Burton has arranged to fill the following lecture tour: Topeka, May 13; St. Joseph, May 14; Lincoln, Neb., May 16; Leavenworth, May 15; Lawrence, May 20; Emporia, May 21; Wichita, May 22; Parsons, May 27; Chanute, May 28; Iola, May 29; Pittsburg, May 30; Joplin, June 3; Springfield, June 4; Sedalla, June 5. Victory For the "Drys."—The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company, one of the eleven concerns against which Attorney General Fred Jackson brought proceedings, has filed its answer in the supreme court, frankly admitting that a suit of ouster may be entered against it forbidding it to transact business of any sort or character within the borders of the state of Kansas, and expressed its willingness to withdraw. Four Suicides In a Week.—Within a week Pittsburg was the scene of four suicides, as follows: April 29—Mrs. Daisy Richardson, drank carbolic acid; May 6—Mrs. Ida M. King, jumped into cistern; May 7—Miss Zona Stanley, drank carbolic acid; May 7—despondent because of the death of her father and sister in less than a year, Miss Stanley, aged 21 years, drank carbolic acid and died from the effects about three hours afterwards. Will Make Flour in Russia.—Isaac A. Welk, a miller at Haven, will leave soon for Southern Russia, where he will erect a flour mill and equip it with American machinery. He will build it himself. Mr. Welk is a Russian, by birth, but has lived in America for years and has made money in the milling business. He sees a far better opportunity, however, to operate a mill in Russia, with up-to-date American equipment. Receivers Will Rent It—Ten thousand dollars' worth of property belonging to the Val Blatz and Pabst Brewery Companies was taken possession of by Receivers Garver and Whitcomb when they visited Wichita. They put signs on the building and placed it in the hands of a local real estate firm for rental purposes. They found no liquor or bar fixtures. 100 Horses Burn to Death—Lightning struck the Piper-Irwin horse market at Fort Scott and the buildings were destroyed by fire, together with 100 head of horses and a large amount of hay, feed and equipment. The loss is estimated at $25,000. Skull Dug Up.—While taking sand from the river bank near Abilene workmen unearthed a man's skull that had evidently been in the sand a long time. It was of a man about 50 years old. Some think it may be that of Thomas 'Williams, whose body was never found. Madstone Adhered Three Hours.—Joy Kent, the 15-year-old son of D.W. Kent, of Hutchinson, was attacked by a dog that was affected with the rabies, and was quite severely bitten. He was immediately taken to Jake Grimes' residence and a madstone applied. The stone adhered to the wound for three and a half hours, but when it finally refused to stick the poison had been entirely removed and the boy was all right again. The dog was killed. Biggs' Sentence. Commuted.—Charles H. Biggs, of Cloud county, who was convicted of grand larceny and sent to the penitentiary a year ago, has been given a commutation of sentence by Gov. Hoch. Cleans Up $100,000. — Twenty-five thousand dollars' profit is the net result of one day for Arthur Pauline, of Wichita. Mr. Pauline made his winning on the sharp advance of wheat. Within the last thirty days he is said to have cleaned up $100,000 in wheat deals. Kansas Fairs For 1907. Kansas will have 43 county fairs this year, the same number as last year, according to the official list of county fairs and the dates assigned them, given out by F. D. Coburn, secretary of the state board of agriculture. The list follows: Allen County Agricultural society Frank E. Smith, secretary, Iola; August 27-30. Burton County Fair association, W. P. Feder, secretary, Great Bend; September 10-13. Brown county, the Hiawatha Fair association, J. D. Welemer, secretary, Hiawatha; September 3-6. Butler County Fair association, W. F. Benson, secretary, El Dorado; August 27-31. Butler county, Douglass Agricultural society, C. R. Alger, secretary, Douglass; September 12-14. Chauqua county, Howins Park and Fair association, W. M. Jones, secretary Cedarvale. Clay County Fair association, Walter Puckey, secretary, Clay Center; September 3-6. Clay county, Wakefield Agricultural society, Eugene Elkins, secretary, Wakefield; October 2-4. Cloud County Fair association, W. L. McCarty, secretary, Concordia; September 24-27. Coffey County Agricultural Fair association, S. D. Weaver, secretary, Burlington; September 9-13. Cowley County Agricultural and Live Stock association, Frank W. Sidle, secretary, Winfield; October 1-4. Cowley county, Eastern Cowley county fair, W. A. Bowden, secretary, Burden; September. Dickinson County Fair association, H. C. Wann, secretary, Abilene; October 2-4. Elk County Agricultural Fair association, E. B.Pace, secretary, Grenciation, E. B. Place, secretary, Grenola; September 25-27. Finney County Agricultural society, A. H. Warner, secretary, Garden City. Ford County Agricultural society, Nicholas Mayrath, secretary, Dodge City; September 4-7. Franklin County Agricultural society, Carey M, Porter, secretary, Ottawa; September 3-7. Greenwood County Fair association, C. H. Weiser, secretary, Eureka; August 20-23. Harper county, Anthony Fair association, L. G. Jennings, secretary, Anthony; August 6-9. Harvey County Agricultural society, J. C. Mack, secretary, Newton; September 24-27. Jefferson County Fair association, Frank Leach, secretary, Oskaloosa, Linn County Fair association, P. S. Thorne, secretary, Mound City; October 1-4. Marshall County Fair association, R W. Hemphill, secretary, Marysville; October 1-4. McPherson County Agricultural Fair association, H. A. Rowland, secretary, McPherson; September 2-7. Miami County Agricultural and Mechanical Fair association, Geo. R. Reynolds, secretary, Poaia; October 1-4. Mitchell County Agricultural association, Ira N. Tice, secretary, Beloit; October 2-5. Montgomery county, Coffeyville Fair and Park association, A. B. Holloway, secretary, Coffeyville; August 13-16. Nemaha County Fair association, C. H. Herold, secretary, Seneca; September 11-13. Neosho county, Chanute Fair and Improvement association, A. E. Timpane, secretary, Chanute; August 20-24. Ness County Agricultural associa- Fulton Kills Himself—W. R. Fulton, of Wichita, the man who made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of his former wife, committed suicide by shooting himself. His body was found in the railroad yards four blocks from where he attacked Mrs. Fulton and shot her three times. The woman is not dangerously injured. A revolver, a razor and a pint bottle of whisky were found on the dead man. Negro Lit on His Head. — Fred Moore, a negro prisoner, handcuffed and in charge of a deputy constable, jumped through a window of a Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger train a few miles north of Oswego, while the train was going at the rate of forty miles an hour, struck on his head, bounced to his feet and ran. The train was stopped and the officer pursued Moore across the country but was unable to catch him, so he telephoned for assistance. Deputy Sheriff Beck went out and captured him after an exciting chase. Moore was uninjured except where he was cut by the glass in the window. Dropped Dead From a Hand Car.— Cornellus Jones, 70 years old, while riding on a handcar near Arlington, dropped dead from heart disease, falling from the car while it was running ten miles an hour. Aged Man Takes His Own Life. M. A. Lampton, 85 years of age, committed suicide at his residence in Cherckee. He has been a great sufferer with asthma and this is the only known reason for his rash act. He leaves a wife and a number of grand children. tion, Thomas Rineley, secretary, Ness City; September 11-13. Norton County Agricultural association, M. F. Garrity, secretary, Norton; August 27-30. Ness county, Utica Fair and Agricultural association, R. C. Webster, Jr., secretary, Utica. Osage County Fair association, F. E. Burke, secretary, Burlingame; September 3-6. Reno county, Central Kansas Fair association, A. L. Sponsler, secretary, Hutchinson; September 16-21. Republic County Agricultural association, W. R. Wells, secretary, Belleville; September 10-13. Rice County Agricultural and Live Stock association, F. L. Goodson, secretary, sterling; September 10-14. Rooks County Fair association, E. L. Williams secretary, Stockton. Saline County Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical association, B. B. Stimmel, Jr., secretary, Salina; September 23-27. Shawnee county, Kansas Exposition company, R. T. Kreipe, secretary, Topeka; September 9-14. Sheridan County Agricultural society, Miles Gray, secretary, Hoxie; September 3-6. Smith County Fair Association, H. C. Smith, secretary, Smith Center; August 20-23. Stafford County Fair association, G. W. Grandy, secretary, St. John; August 26-30. Wilson county, Fredonia Agricultural association, V. L. Polson, secretary, Fredonia; August 6-9. Girl Fell Thirty Feet.—Miss Mary O'Connor, 17 years old, an errand girl in the dressmaking department of the George Innes Dry Goods Company, at Wichita, fell through a skylight to the ground floor of the building, a distance of thirty-seven feet, lighting on her head and shoulders and, strange to say, escaped serious injury. Would Oust Burial Association. — The National Co-operative Burial Association of Galena has been proceeded against with an order of ouster from the attorney general's office. The charge is made that the concern has no capital stock, no stockholders and is creating a monopoly of the undertaking business at Galena and is violating the anti-trust laws. Rawlins County Man Paroled. Gov. Hoch has commuted the penitentiary sentence of Charles R. Stevenson, of Rawlins county, from a term of from three to five years to a term of from one to three years. Stevenson was sent to the penitentiary for manslaughter in the second degree last June. Under the commutation he will be eligible to parole next month. Delegates to Civic Federation. — Gov. Hoch has named the following as delegates to the National Civic Federation, which meets in Chicago May 28 to 31. A. W. Benson, Ottawa; W. J. Fitzgerald, Dodge City; George E. Tucker, Eureka; A. C. Mitchell, Lawrence; C. L. Davidson, Wichita; W. L. Cunningham, Arkansas City; James F. Getty, Kansas City, Kan; George H. Hodges, Olathe; J. H. Atwood, Leavenworth; H. B. Miller, Osage City; W. B. Ham, Stockton; W. W. Caldwell, Concordia; S. M. Porter, Caney; John Madden, Parsons; George W. Glick, Atchison; James W. Orr, Atchison; T. A. McNeal, Topeka; Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka; Harold Chase, Topeka; Dell Keizer, Topeka. To Present Silver Service. — The following members of the "official family" will make the trip to Jamestown for the presentation of the silver service to the battleship Kansas on June 17: Gov. and Mrs. Hoch, Mr. and Mrs. C, E. Denton, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. James Nation, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Tulley. The state has appropriated $1,000 for the party to make the trip. The party will go by the way of St. Louis, stop two days at Jamestown and a day at Washington on the way to Philadelphia. On the return the party will stop at Boston, New York and Niagara Falls. Three New Buildings Ordered. — The latest order for construction work at Ft. Riley has been received by the quartermaster from Washington, authorizing the construction of one double barracks for two companies, a big quartermaster's storehouse and a granary, all of which will be built of native stone at a cost of about $100,000. The building will be done this spring and summer. Body Found in River. — The body of James Looker, who was drowned in the Smoky Hill river three weeks ago, was found just below the Brown dam. Looker was drowned while fishing at Abilene. Jury Fails to Agree—The jury in the case of Charles Arthur, charged with the attempted robbery of the State Bank at Hunnewell, Kan., on March 11, was unable to agree and the jurors were discharged. The jury stood 4 for conviction and 8 for acquittal. Thirty-Five Shriners Killed on the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific. CAUSE A DEFECTIVE SWITCH Most of the People on Train Were from New York and Pennsylvania—Dining Car Landed on Engine. Santa Barbara, Cal., May 14.—While hurrying northward over the coast line of the Southern Pacific railroad Saturday afternoon, homeward bound, after a week of fraternizing and fiesta in Los Angeles, 145 Shriners of Ishmaelia Temple of Buffalo and Rajah Temple of Reading, with their families and friends, were hurled into the midst of death, when their special train, running 50 miles an hour, struck a defective switch at Honda, a lonely station on the sand wastes of the Pacific beach, derailing the train, smashing the coaches into winders, killing 35 almost instantly and injuring more than a score of others. There was no warning of the impending calamity. The special plunged upon the defective switch and in an instant the big locomotive, baggage car, diner and pullman, coupled with it were hurled together in a huge heap of wreckage. The engine shot forward on the broken track, tearing up the rails and ties and twisting the huge iron spans into fish hooks. The baggage car half buried itself in the sand on the right side of the locomotive. It was smashed almost to kindling wood. The dining car, in which were 32 people eating their noon-day repast, leaped into the air and was thrown directly on top of the demolished locomotive. Nearly every person in this coach was instantly killed. Scores were scalded by steam escaping from disconnected pipes in the kitchen of the diner. Engineer Frank Champlain was pitched with his cab 25 feet beyond the engine and got up and ran threequarters of a mile, seeking help, before he discovered that his arm was broken and that he was severely scalded. Santa Barbara, Cal., May 15.—The Shriner funeral train bearing the 21 dead from the wreck at Honda last Saturday, left the Southern Pacific depot of this city at 9:30 Tuesday. The train consisted of one baggage coach and two Pullman sleepers. The baggage coach contained the bodies of the dead. In the two Pullmans were survivors of the wreck, mostly members of Rajah Temple of Reading, Pa. James C Horton Read Kansas City, Mo., May 15.—On the eve of his 70th birthday, James C. Hohotten, a resident of Kansas City since 1878, and actively identified with the commercial, civic, social and religious upbuilding, died Tuesday night shortly after 10 o'clock at the South Side hospital. His death was the result of an operation performed last Saturday for a stomach derangement. He came here from Lawrence, Kan. Mr. Horton was a survivor of the Quantrell raid of Lawrence. C. H. Kimball of Parsons dead Parsons, Kan., May 14—Charles H. Kimball, a lawyer known throughout Southern Kansas, died suddenly at his home here. He was a member of the Kansas state senate from 1885 to 1893, past commander of Antietam post of the G. A. R., a thirty-second degree Mason, and has long been active in the politics of the state. Had Strong Death Grip. Webb City, Mo., May 12.—When Cal Stewart a telephone lineman, was electrocuted while at work on an overhead cable here Friday afternoon he took such a death grip on an overhead support that the strength of three men was required to pull the lifeless body loose. Wife Murderer Sentenced. Ozark, Mo., May 12.—Abraha L. Porter, who killed his wife here last December by striking her with a stick of stove wood, was Friday sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary on a conviction of murder in the second degree. John Mitchel Out of Danger. Spring Valley, Ill., May 12.—The physician in attendance on President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers, says the patient is gaining strength every day. It is expected that recovery will be slow, but all danger seems past. Mrs. Houser Shoots Herself. St. Louis, May 14.—Mrs. Agnes Barlow Houser, wife of Daniel M. 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The announcement of the court's decision was made by Justice Brewer who said that the dismissal was without prejudice to the right of Kansas to serve its petition whenever it can be shown that that state is being substantially injured. The intervening petition of the United States also was dismissed. The case has been on the court docket since 1901, when Kansas first lodged its bill of complaint. In that document it was alleged that the numerous irrigation ditches in Colorado had caused such a great and permanent diminution of the volume of water as to render a once navigable stream almost totally dry, to greatly diminish the power for manufacturing purposes, to lower to the extent of about five feet the surface of the underflow of the stream and to entirely cut off the supply of water for irrigation in western Kansas. The loss was reported to be incalculable. Justice Proposals enjoined Justice Brewer's opinion concluded as follows: "Summing up our conclusions, we are of the opinion that the contention of Colorado of two streams can not be sustained; that the appropriations of the waters of the Arkansas by Colorado for purposes of irrigation has diminished the flow of water into the state of Kansas; that the result of that appropriation has been the reclamation of large areas in Colorado, transforming thousands of acres into fertile fields and rendering profitable their occupation and cultivation when otherwise they would have continued barren and unoccupied; that while the influence of such diminution has been of perceptible injury to portions of the Arkansas valley in Kansas, particularly those portions closest to the Colorado line, yet to the great body of the valley it has worked little if any detriment and regarding the interests of both states and the right of each to receive benefits through irrigation and in any other manner from the waters of this stream, we are not satisfied that Kansas has made out a case entitling it to a decree. At the same time it is obvious that if the depletion of the waters of the river by Colorado continues to increase there will come a time when Kansas may justly say that there is no longer an equitable division of benefits and may rightfully call for relief against the action of Colorado, its corporations and citizens in appropriating the waters of the Arkansas for irrigation purposes. "The degree which, therefore, will be entered, will be the dismissing of the petition of the intervenor without prejudice to the right of the plaintiff to institute new proceedings whenever it shall appear that through a material increase in the depletion of the waters of the Arkansas by Colorado, its corporations or citizens, the substantial interests of Kansas are being injured to the extent of destroying the equitable apportionment of benefits between the two states resulting from the flow of the river. Each party will pay its own costs." Thieves in Toneka Bank. Topeka, Kan., May 14—Some time during Sunday night thieves broke into the Citizens State Bank of North Topeka through the rear door and so badly battered the time lock to the safe that entrance to the vault has not yet been made possible. The bank officers fear the thieves secured the money and then mutilated the door fixtures. They refuse to state the amount on deposit Saturday night. "Uncle Sam" Receiver Stays. Topeka, May 14.—Judge Pollock, in the United States district court, Saturday night overruled the motion to discharge the receiver he appointed recently to conserve the property of the Uncle Sam Oil company. The court censured those who had charged conspiracy, and declared himself as entirely satisfied with the manner in which the case had been handled. Hundred Horses Burn to Death. Fort Scott, Kan., May 15.—Lightning struck the Piper-Irwin horse market at 10:30 o'clock Monday night, and the buildings were destroyed by fire, together with 100 head of horses and a large amount of hay, feed and equipment. The loss is estimated at $25,000 Fire in Allen, Kan. Emporia, Kan., May 14—Fire at Aden, a small town near here, Sunday night destroyed property estimated at $50,000 You Look Prematurely Old THOUGHT HE WAS WANTED. Swede Returned According to Instructions on Envelope. Christ Nelson, having been in this country only a few weeks, was slow in learning American customs, and especially the inscriptions on envelopes. One of his first acts after landing in Oregon was to take out naturalization papers. On the corner of the envelope, in which were contained the documents that made him an American citizen, were the words: "Return in five days." "Wal, I 'be har,' he said yesterday, as he shuffled up to the counter in the county clerk's office and spoke to Deputy Prasp. "What do you want?" asked that official, carefully noting the embarrassed flush on the Swede's face. "Wal, it say on this har envelope 'return in five days,' and time be up to-day, so I ban come round." When assured that nobody wanted him, he turned with surprise and walked sadly away, not certain whether he was naturalized or not.—Portland Oregonian. WHAT MADE HIM DOUBTFUL. Size of Commuter's Hat Caused Acquaintance to Worry. A commuters on the D., L. & W. remarked to a friend the other morning, as they came into the city: "Hawkins, of Stamford, is going to move into that new house next door to me. I know him very slightly, and I understand that you know him pretty well." "Yes, I have known him for upward of 20 years." "Well, what kind of a fellow is he, anyhow?" asked the commuter. "A first-rate fellow, and in every way desirable. Why?" "I just wanted to know, because I could never quite make up my mind about him, he wears such a small hat."—Philadelphia Ledger. And He Was Not German. One of our third grade teachers noticed a little fellow the other day during a penmanship lesson who was evidently absorbed in his work and putting his whole soul into his efforts to make his results look like the teacher's copy upon the blackboard. Thinking such devotion worthy of special reward she passed up the aisle to give him an encouraging pat upon the head and the regulation smile of approval. As she drew near she noticed that his lips were moving, and that with the completion of each letter he compared it with his copy and muttered audibly, "damit," "damit;" then screwed up his courage and his lips for a new attempt. The teacher passed on without distracting his mind from his work—Journal of Education. An Indian's View of an Organ. An Indian's View of an Organ. After a while curiosity led me back to the sod house, and I saw for the first time how the white woman pumps so much air into a box that when she presses on the top board it howls convulsively. I forgot my bashfulness so far as to listen openly and enjoy the operation, wondering much how the white man puts a pair of lungs into a box, which is furnished with a whole set of black and white teeth, and when he sings to it it appears to answer him. This is how the white people teach their children to do things, I thought—From the Outlook-Dr. Charles A. Eastman's "Schooldays of an Indian." 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. Blind Man Expert Whist Player. Bert Trim, a blind resident of Woonsocket, R. I., is an expert whist player, being a valued member of a local club. He uses a special pack of cards, on which there are faint imprints sufficient to tell him what they are, but which are far too fine for the ordinary touch. Trim, who has been blind since childhood, is now 30 years old. He plays the piano and cornet in excellent style and is often heard in local entertainments. Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Not a Bit of It. City Boarder—When you exchanged cattle with Farmer Smith, did you get a quid pro quo? Farmer Smith—No, Neighbor Smith didn't try no sich mean tricks on me. We swapped fair and even—Baltimore American. Dont expect a man to have faith in your judgment if you call him a fool. DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? Profit by the Experience of One Who Has Found Relief. James R. Keeler, retired farmer, of Fenner St., Cazenovia, N. Y., says: "About fifteen years ago I suffered with my back and kidneys. I doctored and used many remedies without getting relief. Beginning with Doan's Kidney Pills, I found relief from the first box, and two boxes rested me to good, sound condition. My wife and with my back and kidneys. I doctored and used many remedies without getting relief. Beginning with Doan's Kidney Pills, I found relief from the first box, and two boxes restored me to good, sound condition. My wife and many of my friends have used Doan's Kidney Pills with good results and I can earnestly recommend them." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. PAUL HAD HIS OWN IDEA. Father's Explanation of Lightning Not Satisfactory to Him. Little Paul was four years old when the western city in which he lived was swept one night by a terrible storm. Wind, thunder and lightning played havoc, and, while other members of the family were huddled in dark corners, Paul watched the illumination of the sky with great delight. The next morning at breakfast he asked his father what caused the streaks of fire across the sky, and his father, with great pains, essayed to explain. Paul listened attentively and apparently accepted what was told him, but, when he found attention diverted from himself, he leaned over to his aunt, who sat beside him, and whispered: "It wasn't that, auntie. It was God scratching matches on the sky." BABY'S ECZEMA GREW WORSE. Hospitals and Doctors Could Not Relieve Him—But Cuticura Remedies a Speedy, Permanent Cure. "Eczema appeared when our baby was three months old. We applied to several doctors and hospitals, each of which gave us something different every time, but nothing brought relief. At last, one of our friends recommended to us Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. A few days afterwards improvement could be noted. Since then we have used nothing but Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, and now the baby is six months old and is quite cured. All that we used was one cake of Cuticura Soap and two boxes Cuticura Ointment, costing in all $1.25. C. F. Kara, 343 East 65th Street, New York, March 30, 1906." Worth Observing. In a certain preparatory school in Washington an instructor one day made the statement that "every year a sheet of water 14 feet thick is raised to the clouds from the sea." "At what time of the year does that occur, professor?" asked a freshman, "It must be a sight worth going a long way to see."—Harper's. 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Try it, 16 oz. for 10c, sold by all good grocers. Figures Seem Contradictory. The United Kingdom, which is the largest importer in the world of cattle and sheep for slaughtering purposes, is oddly enough the largest exporter of horses for the same purpose. Spring always brings into special favor Nature's blood purifier, Garfield Tea. It is made wholly of clean, sweet Herbs. It purifies the blood, cleanses the system, clears the complexion, eradicates disease and promotes Good Health. For young and old. Volume on Alpine Tunnels. An Italian, G. B. Biadego, has written a book of over 1,200 pages on the Alpine tunnels. Lewis' Single Binder Cigar has a rich taste. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. A quiet wedding is but a curtain raiser for a strenuous afterpart. Speaking of shade trees—most family trees are more or less shady. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 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Agents wanted everywhere. 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, Oxford and Slippers all styles and kinds. Tapp & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N. Male VIVA 329 East Center SALINA, KANSAS Designer and Builder of Ten Houses. Prices in reach of all. Write for particulars TO-DAY. Watch for the Searchlight collector. Be prepared to pay wha you owe us. Office, 601 N. Main St. No Hard Times Not when the agriculture products of the country are $6,000,000,000 in one year. You are safe to go ahead and build. I sell the Cement, Plaster Paris, Brick Etc., etc., etc. NOVEL 496 PHONE J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. J33 to 347 WEST DOUGLAS Centropolis Hotel 605 North Main st. First-Class In Everyway Clean Beds, Wholesome Meals, Cigars, Ice Cream and Cake at all times..... Terms Reasonable Mrs. S. Sneed, Prop. L. E. NAFTGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE, Cashier Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L Holmes, S. B. Amidon, R. T. Me Lean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Nathan, E. H. Middickaul, O. Z. Smith. A General Banking Business Trusted W CHIFA NSAS NEWTON NEWS. Miss Lillie Weston, who has been in Missouri for the past year, is in the city visiting with relatives and friends. Mrs. K. Ridley and son Clarence spent Sunday in Hutchinson, Kan. Remember the Quarterly meeting at A. M. E. church Sunday. Robert Brown is reported some better. The N. U. G. club met Monday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. H. Reevley. The members all report a lovely meeting. Kansas, was greatly a in the hen's nest a few little black chicken w developed feet instead The best colored fa ilips county are Messrs McCormick and Henery Nicodemus, Kansas, i Improvement is the or The colored assoc Nicodemus in August, s emanipation celebratio The order of Odd Fellows and Ladies of the Household Ruth turned out in full at Wichita last Sunday. The Wichita order met them and certainly entertained them royally. The Thanksgiving sermon was preached at the Second Baptist church of that city, it was grand. The Newton order can never forget the kindness shown toward them while there. There was certainly a crowd went to Wichita Sunday. They all repoprt a fine time. The social that was to be given for the benefit of A. M. E. church Wednesday night was postponed until another time. Rev. E. D. Willis of Mississippi, who spent several days with Rev. J. H. Van Leu, left Thursday for Hutchinson. Johnstons Restaurant, 329 N. Main, is the place to get good meals. Ice cream and soda water always on hand. NORTH TOPEKA. AT REST. Mrs. Bettie Warfield V. P., the wife of Henry Warfield, departed this life last Tuesday morning, May the 7th, at 2:10 a. m. She died in full triumph of faith at her home, 918 N. Western Ave. Her age was 49 years. She was a member of the First African Baptist church on 3rd and Quincy. She was a devoted Christian worker for thirty odd years and stood high among her own sex, and was loved by every one. She was an active member of Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93, had served as Vice Priestess eight long years and would have been installed May 22 as V. H. P. had she lived. She leaves a husband, five daughters and one son. The funeral was conducted by Rev. and Carr and Stonesber and Hamilton were the undertakers. Interment was made in Topeka cemetery. Throngs of people attended the funeral. IDA M. JORDAN, H. P. Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93 will have their installation next Wednesday evening, May 22nd. All other Temples and Tabernacles are respectfully invited. Officers will be installed by Dtr. Emma Gaines, G. P., of the Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction. Supper and refreshments of all kinds. Admission 10 cents. At 508 West B street, Tabernacle hall. Committee: IDA M. JORDAN, SARAH McELROY, L. LYMAN, L. LYONS. ROBERT CAMPBELL, Doorkeeper. ELECT OFFICERS IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Fair of the West Tabernacle No. 63, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Dtr. Lilly Robnett, C. P.; Dtr. Charlotte Dalton. V. P.; Dtr. Lula Moppins, G. R.; Dtr. Selina Ropper, C. P. Fair of the West Tabernacle No. 63 has done exceedingly well during the past year under the splendid leadership of Dtr. Lizzie Stone, C. P. CLEARWATER. KAN Roy White and the Misses White were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Bolton Sunday. John Banks was out calling on Mrs. and Mrs. Bolton Sunday. The correspondent has been busy building his new house that he could not get out and get the news. But lookout now. The Clearwater Cement Stone works owned by a colored man is giving perfect satisfaction. Mrs. C. R. Wilfrey was a visitor in Wichita this week visiting her mother. WESTERN KANSAS. GENERAL. Since the weather has opened up every thing looks prosperous, though the fruit is nery all killed. Wheat that was planted late is in fine shape. Sanford John one of the wealthiest colored farmers in Rooks owns over 100 head of live stock, a section of land and all the land in fine condition, pastures, wheat fields, orchards, etc. He has lived in Rooks over thirty years. He has out live the drought and now he can live off the reward of his long years of labor. Kansas, was greatly appreciated to find in the hen's nest a few days ago, a little black chicken with four fully developed feet instead of two. The best colored farmers of Phillips county are Messrs Beverly, Cox, McCormick and Henery. Nicodemus, Kansas, is on the boom. Improvement is the order of the day. The colored association meets at Nicodemus in August, shortly after the emancipation celebration, August its. PRATT, KANSAS, NEWS. Mrs. Holly, wife of Rev. Holly, pastor of the A. M. E. church of Pratt, arrived in Pratt from Kansas City this week with her children. Mrs. Holly is very much pleased with her new home. We are glad to have Sister Holly come in our midst and we hope that her stay in our city may be one of joy and peace. One of those old fashioned, soul stirring, gospel meetings was held at the Second aBptist church last Sunday and we believe the church is on its happy journey to a spiritual revival, which we have planned to begin at this church May 19th. Every member is requested to be at his post of duty with their lamps trimmed and burning. Rev. Holly, pastor of the A. M. E. church, is moving along quite nicely with his church work. We wish him much success. Rev. Wm. Turner, pastor of the Second Baptist church, says that the sinners must be saved. The battle is ours and we, through His name, shall conquer. All are welcome. Seats free. In the revival to begin next Sunday, May 19th, the following will be the order of services: Prayer meeting at 7 p. m. and preaching at 8 p. m., each evening. Everybody in Pratt should read the Wichita Searchlight. It's our race organ and is chucked full of wholesome news each week. Subscribe now. $1.00 per year. Fred Madison left Thursday night for Topeka where he will assist in laying some fine tilling. Chas. H. Floyd has returned to his home in Kingman. STRONG CITY, KAN. Kindly allow space in your well edited paper for a few lines from Strong City. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Pennington, Jr., of Hymer spent Saturday and Sunday in the city visiting relatives and friends. Rev. J. W. McGee went to Emporia Saturday evening. Misses Ida and Gertie Duncan are at home from Marion. Miss Gertie expects to return to that place in a few days, but Ida will remain at home for some time. Mrs. Gertie Jackson left for an extended visit in Kansas City. Miss Rosetta Duncan who has been on the sick list for some time is reported about the same. Miss Mamie Levell left Saturday afternoon for Hutchinson after a short visit with friends and relatives. Miss Nettie McLean entertained a few friends at an evening party at her home on last Saturday. The evening was spent in music and games. Mrs. Levell's and Miss Mae McCombs' solos were greatly appreciated, as usual, ice cream and cake were served at 12 o'clock and the guests departed for their homes, all reporting a very pleasant evening. Those present were: Misses Leta Woods, Lula and Cornelia Blackwell, Mae McCombs and Ida McLean; Messrs John Woods, Tom Woods, John Blackwell, Gilbert Boyd, Andrew Moore, Robinson and Willie McLean, Mr. and Mrs. R. Levell, Mr. and Mrs. A. McLean. The Odd Fellows will give an entertainment at the hall on Saturday, May 25th. All are invited to come. Rev. G. T. Raimey of Nicodemus, Kan., preached at the Second Baptist church Sunday morning and evening. Mr. Frank Taylor of Emporia came up Sunday afternoon to visit the B. Y. P. U. NEWS OF GREAT BEND. Rev. Raimey spent Sunday in Salina where he was called to conduct the services of the Odd Fellows. Dave Watson died at his home on Kansas Avenue, after an illness of two years, Monday morning at 4 o'clock, May 6th. He was a devout Christian, belonging to the A. M. E. church. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. George Childs, to mourn his death. The funeral services were held at the A. M. E. church, his pastor, Rev. Alexander and Rev. J. H. Raimey of the First Baptist church officiating. The M. E. choir rendered some beautiful solemn music for the occasion. Mrs. Childs being a member of the First Baptist church, the choir of that church rendered the song, "Thy Will be Done," very beautiful. A large number of friends were present. The floral designs were beautiful. Mr. Watson was among the first citizens to settle in Great Bend. His wife died about five years ago. The community joins in extending sympathy to Mrs. Childs. Rev. A. Berry, the evangelist, came to our city. He expects to be in Wichita next week. Miss Katie Joshlin is very sick. The A. M. E. social was well attended. REV. COPELAND HEARD FROM. Dear Sir;—Since reading your eloquent editorial in the Searchlight of May 11 in regard to the political situation in the state of Ohio—"Colored Men with Foraker in Ohio Contest"—I cannot get my own consent to keep silent and say nothing by way of endorsement of the article referred to. It gives me pleasure to note that the Afro-American voters of Ohio have the wisdom and intelligence to support an honest, fair-minded, and efficient statesman as Senator Joseph B. Foraker who has the courage of his convictions. He is not a double-dealing politician; but on the contrary, a statesman of superb qualities; he believes in the United States' constitution which says that the accused shall have a fair and impartial trial according to law, before being declared guilty. Not only the Afro-Americans in Ohio, but all men who desire to see the laws fairly administered and citizens protected in the United States in their equal rights before the law, should support such a man in his efforts to vindicate the right, regardless of bosses or patronage distributers. I am glad that the Afro-American voters have arisen to the high plane of intelligence which forbids their following any political trickster through quagmires on account of some one of their race holding a petty appointeal job; and very often said job is given without the consent of the majority. I think the policy that helps the many, is better than the policy that helps the few at the expense of the many. M. L. COPELAND WANTS BISHOP GRANT AGAIN. Electoral College So Declares Itself. (Chuangte, Kao) 1997 Chanute, Kan., May 8, 1907. In the A. M. E. church of this city, at 11:30 a. m., the Electoral College of the Kansas Conference, meeting for the purpose of electing delegates for the General Conference to be held at Norfolk, Vt. May, 1908, was called to order by the local delegate, Mr. J. S. Johnson, who stated the nature of the meeting and requested the election of a temporary chairman. Prof. G. A. Gregg of Western University was elected. Mr. H. G. Smith, of Iola, Kansas, was elected temporary secretary. The chairman then appointed a committee of three delegates on credentials and a committee on business. A collection was taken of $5.05, as a present to Rev. Green, pastor of the church, who has been ill ever since his appointment to that work. The college reassembled in the afternoon and received and adopted reports of the committees. President Shelton French of Western University and Mr. Thomas Glover of Wichita, Kan., were elected delegates to the General Conference. They were also instructed by the college to use their influence to secure the return of Bishop Grant for another quadrennium. The meeting then adjourned. At night the citizens came out enmass to witness a program which was highly interspersed with music by the local choir, a body of splendid young people who are not only singing themselves into the hearts of the people, but doing good work for the church. The welcome address was delivered by a young lady. Response by Prof. Gregg, chairman of the evening meeting. After a short talk by Mr. Thomas Glover, of Wichita, President French was introduced and delivered a lecture on the subject of Destiny. Another collection of $3.30 was taken up and given to Rev. Green. G. A. GREGG. LADIES HOME MISSION SOCIETY LADIES HOME MISSION SOCIETY. The ladies home mission society met at the residence of Mrs. Mary Sherrils Monday afternoon and organized for the ensuing year by the election of the following officers: Mrs. Mattle, president, and Mrs. Sam Brazille, secretary. This society is organized for the purpose of doing acts of kindness and to help those needing help among our people. You will hear more about these ladies in the future. If you have any carpenter work to be done or any painting which you want done give W. C. Neeley a chance to figure with you. He will do you, good wok at right prices. Corner Of 3rd & Main Banner Mills CUSTOM GKINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL, & FEED STOCKHOLDER BROS. PROPS PEERLESS TEAM LAUNDRY BEAVER & SONG, Preps. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 801 M. Main St. Wichita, Kans. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. 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The Queen shall be selected by popular ballot. Any person can vote for their choice. The ballot box will be placed at Olden's Drug Store. There will be pages, maids of honor, heralds, with musicand flowers, will form a grand pageant to crown the chosen Queen. Under the guspieces of the bodies of the Auxiliary Board of the A. M. E. church. Date and place notice will be given later. Who shall it be? Cast your ballots with 5c for 2 votes. YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? NEED A COLOURED BAND. We again call our people's attention to the great need of a brass band in Wichita among the coedged people. There is much room in Wichita for such an organization and some of our entertaining men should see to it that the town gets one. Get busy and organize a brass band. Vote for the Queen o'May contest will close on the 26th. A Modern Pantheist (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Gabriel Dante Swift was crazy. Gone out of his mind over fool poetry books, commented the village sage and barber, Felix Todd, Swift had been caught reading a poetry book, a boony thing called Keats' Endymion, while the unread morning paper lay discarded. Felix had dropped into Gabriel's real estate office to discuss the news about the earthquake. Gabriel said he hadn't heard anything about it—hadn't seen the paper yet. When Felix searched for it he found it in the waste basket. He peeped over Gabriel's shoulder as he stooped to pick it up, and saw a lot of silliness about his love dancing before the gate of heaven. He took another peep as he arose, and read words that weren't fit for a good moral man to read, about arms, a naked waist and Cupid. He was going to give Gabriel jiel some pointed advice, when he noticed something which looked like a set of resolutions hanging on the wall over the desk. "Let's see what sort of resolutions Gabe's been making," he said to himself, and read: "MY CREEP." "There is soul in everything that has life." "There is spirit in the waterfalls." "Each lake and river is a personality." "The teachings of the ancients were not myths. They are facts, obscured by the smoke of our factories." "The shadow of the dollar has hidden the sun." "Concentration on the material has killed perception of the spiritual." "The mind of man is all potent. He who will may see in the fountains the beautiful inhabitants thereof, and behold the exquisite forms that dance in the waterfalls." "The secret is concentration of the will." Felix sighed, and passed out to tell his customers about it. Poor fellow, there was no use in chiding him. He was daft. It all came of reading crazy poetry books. Gabriel closed the volume, disgustedly, as his visitor went out. "Pig," he muttered. "His gospel is the morning paper. He is of the age, he thinks more of a monster that will turn out horseshoes at a hundred a minute, or grind so-called music, in a broken voice, with a nasal twang, than he does of a sunrise on the water, or all the glorious harmonies that swell through the forest naves. Opening his "Keats," again, his eye caught the following: "Glory and loveliness have passed away; For if we wander out in early morn, No wreathed incense do we see upborne into the East to meet the smiling day; No wreathed to me soft-voiced and young and gay." In woven baskets bringing ears of corn." "Incense!" he repeated, "The only incense which the modern man tolerates rises from a tobacco pipe; and nymphs, if they appeared, would have to wear corsets. A fancy a wood nymph with an hour-glass waist; bah!" He stammed the door of his office and wandered out in search of a woman who was young, fair, and didn't wear corsets. "Concentration of the will," he muttered to himself, "Concentration of the will." As he came to a bend in the path from where could be seen a tree-stump, cut level as a table, he thought of a day, two months ago, when as he turned the bend with all his force of mind and spirit concentrated in a single resolve, to see one on the many forms of conscious life, which, he was fully persuaded, inhabited the wood; a wood nymph, slowly, and gracefully, had glided out from between the trees and seated herself on that very stump. Stealthily, he had approached the shy, beautiful creature as she sat braiding her hap in the morning sunshine, and was delighted to find that he had been mistaken. "Forgive me, I thought you were a nymph," he said, foolishly, as his step, rustling among the dry leaves, stunted her. "Oh, Endymion!" one sighed, and stopped in confusion. "Pardon me. I've been dreaming over Keats," she stammered, taking a drab volume, with gold lettering, from her bosom. "You and I belong to the same fellowship. I, too, have wandered with Endymion," he replied, taking a book from his pocket. The level stump in a break in the woods became their trysting place, where they mingled love and pantheism. But to-day, no graceful figure with its flowing drapery met his gaze. It was not the day or hour of their tryst. Like the devotee of some footlight beauty, he beheld the ebony stage and it was garish. In a mood of depression he crossed to the award and passed into the wood by a path he had never taken before. He entered through a gateway and knew not that he was trespassing. Emerging from a thick pine wood into a basin formed by the environing hills, his reverie was broken by the sound of falling water. Looking up he beheld the sheen of a tiny waterfall. After a moment of admiration, he climbed a preciice and stood on the margin of a miniature lake, so carefully hidden away that, probably, not one of the inhabitants of the neighborlarg village was aware of its existence. Here was the spot in which to --- dream. Who could stretch himself there, on that flat rock, overlooking the water, and, looking down into its crystal depths, believe that the ancient Greeks were entirely mistaken? No, it could not be. Their faith was the faith of millions. By that fact it was not a fraud. "Concentration of the will," he doubted if he was spiritual enough, but he would try. He would concentrate his will, mind, and all the forces of his being on this scene until its secret should be revealed. He would behold the personality that lent its invisible charm to the spot. "I will! I will!" he repeated, tensly, to himself, as he lay stretched on the rock, while his heart thumped and his sight became obscured with the intense application. His senses, like a high strung instrument, caught a slight rustle. He looked up and nearly swooned. From a projecting rock, not five paces away, stepped a maid, beautiful as Venus and clad only in her rippling hair. Poised deftly on a half submerged log, she plunged into the lake. Gabriel watched her gleaming body as she shot down in an oblique course until she nearly touched the bottom; and then with a swift turn, came again to the surface. Completely entranced, he watched the beautiful creature disport herself for some moments. Then, all at once, the significance of it struck him with overwhelming force. His theory had proven true, and he was the first human being, after a lapse of thousands of years, to gaze on a scene such as this. A feeling of exultation overcame everything else, he rose to his feet determined to explore the source of the mystery. Feverishly, he strode to the rock and peered over. There at its base lay a bundle of feminine apparel, a tiny drab volume with gold lettering beside it. At that moment a cry of horror arose from the lake—a splash as naked body sought to hide itself beneath the waters. GO LONG WITHOUT WATER. Many Animals Seem to Have No Knowledge of Thirst. From our childhood picture book days nearly every one of us has cherished the idea that the camel was the beast above all others that could exist for extended periods without drinking. An so few of us have any idea that there are other beasts quite as capable as the humped quadruped of going for from 40 to 60 days, in winter, without drink, grazing on the green, succulent vegetation of that season. Peccaries in the desert of Sonora live in little dry hills, where there is no natural water, for long periods. They cannot possibly find water, in fact, for months at a time. The only moisture they can obtain comes from roots and the fruits of cacti. But the most extraordinary case is that of the pocket mouse, one of the common rodents of the desert. This little creature, by the way, has a genuine fur-lined pocket on the outside of its cheek. When it is hungry it takes food from this pocket with its paw, just as a man would pull a sandwich from his pocket. It is said that one of these mice has been kept for three years with no other food than the mixed bird seed of commerce. During this period it had not a taste of either water or green food. Other experiments in this direction have shown, in fact, that these mice in captivity refuse such treats, not seeming to know that water is good to drink. The bird seed put before the mouse referred to contained not more than ten per cent of moisture, which is less than is necessary for digestion. Stuff so dry as this cannot even by swallowed until it is moistened by saliva, yet this remarkable mouse gave nothing but his time to the interests of science. He suffered nothing in health or spirits during his captivity. Saved the Situation She raised her head from his shoulder for a moment. "Do you believe that exercise and lotions and toilet preparations will improve a woman's looks?" she asked. He pressed her blond curls back upon his chest. "They couldn't improve the looks of some women," he said. "Whose?" she asked. "Well, your's and Violet Cochrane's, for instance," he replied thoughtlessly. "I don't understand you," she said, raising her head for the second time and chilling him with a look. "We are not at all alike." "I mean," he replied, turning her head for the second time and thinking quickly "that your looks couldn't be improved because they are perfect as they are, and that her's couldn't be improved because no amount of work could make her petty." And the firelight flickered knowingly as she sighed a great sigh of contentment and relief, while he drew a deep breath—Penny Pictorial. Banana Business Booming. It is officially stated that the United States last year purchased bananas to the value of $11,500,000, and exported nearly $1,500,000 worth of the same fruit. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT J. T. H. With a stirring message to the American people, Rev. Charles F. Aked, for 16 years the pastor of the second largest Protestant church in England, on April 21 assumed the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church of New York. With a stirring message to the American people, Rev. Charles F. Aked, for 16 years the pastor of the second largest Protestant church in England, on April 21 assumed the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church of New York. Dr. Aked's labors at Liverpool, where he was pastor of Pembroke chapel, drew the attention not only of all England but even of Europe, because of his extraordinary ability as a preacher, the wide range of his broad, practical sympathies, and his energetic support of every movement calculated to benefit the people. JUST SNIFFED THE WHISKY. New Yorker Claims Act Gives Him Pleasant Memories. FATHER OF THE POOR. Queer Charity Seen Every Morning Near Paris Markets. MARK TWAIN BUILDING NEW HOME. Mr. Clemens (Mark Twain) has bought a 180-acre farm in Connecticut, and chose a hilltop for his new home. The plans of the house, recently approved by Mr. Clemens, were drawn by J. Mead Howells, a relative of William Dean Rowells. There will be a rectangular pavilion with wings on either side, the walls of cream-colored stucco, and the low Italian roof covered with copper-colored tiles. The farm is called the Glen.. In one of the valleys, however, is a noted natural fountain known as Beach Spray Spring. This will not only furnish a water supply of exceptional value, but will probably give a name to the country house. A man entered a down-town restaurant the other day and ordered a whisky, says the New York Times. The waiter brought a bottle of it. The man uncorked it, raised it to his nose, and took a long sniff. Then he took another. Then he took a third—a long, contemplative sniff. Finally he wound up the performance with a fervent king-sniff, one that he seemed loth to end. But he did end it at last, with a sigh. Then he replaced the bottle on the table, and called the waiter. "Take it away," he said. The waiter removed the bottle. "Well, upon my word," said some one at another table, "I certainly thought that old fellow liked that whisky from the way he sniffed at it, but there he is sending it back. I wonder what other klnd the waiter will bring him instead." But the waiter brought him no more whisky. The man ate his lunch in silence, smoked his cigar, paid his check, and went his way. "He swore off long ago," explained the waiter to a curious somebody at another table. "But he always takes six sniffs of whisky at every meal. Giges him pleasant memories, he says." Gremation on the Increase. Cremation is increasing in Great Britain, the number of bodies cremated being 742 in 1906, against 604 in 1905. Consul Mahnin of Nottingham. MARK TWAIN BUILD Mr. Clemens (Mark Twain) has built and chose a hilltop for his new home, proved by Mr. Clemens, were drawn by liam Dean Rowells. There will be a either side, the walls of cream-colored ered with copper-colored tiles. The farm is called the Glen.. In natural fountain known as Beach Spring water supply of exceptional value, b country house. ham writes: "There are crematories at Leicester, Hull, Leeds, Iford, Bradford and Sheffield, owned by the respective municipalities, besides several conducted by companies in other cities. The operation of cremation requires about an hour and a half; the ashes are perfectly white and weigh four pounds, and the cost is about $25. Cremation is now fully recognized by law in Great Britain, though strictly guarded." The Scotch Juror. In Scotland in a civil case jurymen get ten shillings a day for their services and the litigants must in addition provide them with lunch. If two cases are tried consecutively and the same jurymen officiate, they get ten shillings for each case. But the most important difference between an English and a Scottish jury is this: An English jury when returning their verdict must be unanimous, and if they fail to agree after a certain length of time they are dismissed and the whole proceedings are begun again de novo before a fresh jury. This is a most expensive mode of administering justice. In civil cases, in order to avoid this result, the litigants sometimes agree to accept the verdict of a majority. In Scotland the jury can always give a verdict by a majority in civil cases after the lapse of three hours. 1 BUILDING NEW HOME. bought a 180-acre farm in Connecticut. The plans of the house, recently ap- ply J. Mead Howells, a relative of Wil- rectangular pavilion with wings on stucco, and the low Italian roof cov- one of the valleys, however, is a noted day Spring. This will not only furnish a but will probably give a name to the Number. 1 Will W 2 Tho 3 M 4 An 6 M 7 J. C. Wich 8. Rev. Ft. 5 10 Fran en 11. W. 1 13 Lee 16. E. V Salin 16 Ri Annie --- At a certain point of Paris, France, near the Halles there is every morning to be seen an instance for which it would probably be difficult to find many parallels of that benevolence which combines with money expenditures the elements of personal service. An old gentleman, well dressed, presents himself at an hour now well known to those concerned, and there distributes with his own hands 109 large bowls of soup, which he first tastes himself, to as many poor people, who, it need hardly be added, are there waiting for him. Then he withdraws, walks for some distance, and is taken up in a fine motor car, which whisks him rapidly away. "The Father of the Poor" is the only name which can be given to him. "Going to the Dogs." The phrase, "going to the dogs," with which Father Bernard Vaughan has been making effective play in connection with pet-worship, has puzzled the explainers of metaphorical expressions rather needlessly. It has even been suggested that it is a profane perversion of "going to the gods," and an allusion has been detected to "canis," the dog throw, the worst throw with the dice among the ancient Romans. Shakespeare's "Throw physic to the dogs," and the Scriptural "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs," have been quoted in connection with the expression. But it seems a fairly obvious reference to the fate of the worn-out horse, condemned to be slaughtered. The old Greek curse, "Go to the crows!" may be compared, referring as it did to the Greek's horror of having his body left unburied as food for carrion birds.—London Chronicle. Rival of Beeswax A substitute for beeswax has been discovered in the leaves of the rafa palm, a product of the island of Madagascar. The wax is extracted by the simple process of beating the dried leaves on a mat to small bits. The particles are then gathered and boiled. The resultant wax is kneaded into small cakes. Experiments are being made with the new substance to find out its commercial value—whether it may be used for bottling purposes, in the manufacture of phonographic cylinders, etc. Justifiable. "I haven't any compunctions about it, either," she said, picking her teeth with her claws. "I couldn't eat the pianola on the first floor or the graphophone on the third, but I could make a meal of the musician on the second floor, and I've done it." With a satisfied grin on her face she curled up on the floor behind the gas range and went to sleep.—Chicago Tribune. Number. 1 Mrs. S. Williams, 1309 N 10th St., Kansas City, Kansas. 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 South Chestnut St, Iola, Kan. 3 Mrs. Carrie Douglass, 1722 Sixth avenue, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 3 Mrs. Mary Burbridge, 514 N. Wichita St, Wichita, Kan. 4 Mrs. Laura Williams, 625 4th St., Cherryvale, Kansas. 5 Mrs. Mary Burdett, 819 N. 1st. street, Atchison, Kansas. 6 Mrs. Addie Glasphe, 123 Mulberry street, Ottowa, Kansas. 7 Mrs. Lillian Shobe, 336 Santa Fe street, Salina, Kansas. 8. Mrs. Nancy Fax, 505 N. Santa Fe St., Foffeeville, 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. 16. Mrs. Hattie Collins, 1001 S. Forest, avenue, Parsons, Kansas. 17 Mrs. A. Masie, 615 Barbee, Ft. Scott, Kan. 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kansas. 20 Mrs. S. Montaque, 403 Kickapoo St, Leavenworth, Kan. 24 Mrs. Cherry Briley, E. 12th St., Coffeyville, 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 Birtight, 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, Aitchison, Kansas. 88 Mrs. Laura Lee, Weir City, Kan. 52. Mrs. Cora Yeager, 928 Main, Lawrence, Kansas. 68. Mrs. Lizzie Stone, 1147 Ann ave. Kansas City, Kansas. 77 Mrs. A. Pickenc, 250 E. 15th, Topeka, Kan. 85. Mrs. Francis Hardeman, 1901 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kans. 80. 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. Number. 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 Herroel, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb. 6 M. E. Bird, 3014 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. 11. W. N. Miller, 601 N. Main street, Searchlight office, Wichita. 13 Lee Holiday, 728 S. 20th St. Par- 15. E. W. Garvice, North 1st street, Salina, Kansas. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th St. S. Omaha, Neo. Annie Edwards, 944 Everett, Kansas South Mosey avenue, Wichita, Kan. 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 Tepeka, Kan. 60 James Scott, 1404 Van Buren Tepeka, Kan. 71 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 10th St. Lincoln, Neb. 536 Albert Graves, 90 Charles St., Deadwood, South Dakota. QUEEN MOTHERS OF TENTS IN KANSAS. Miss Jannie Alexander, G. Q. M. 448 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. Mollie Spencer, 502 V street, Atchison, Kansas. Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Cedar Ella McKinnie, 217 Sherman, Lea According to the annual report of the New York savings banks the number of depositors is now 2,753, 295, and the total of their deposit is over $1,400,000,000, an amount greater than the bonded debt of the United States. These depositors, who outnumber the inhabitants of Manhattan Island are to be commended for their wi dom. If all men of small means to follow their example, the com munity as a whole would be much better off. There was not one savings bank failure in the past year. There is not a single savings bank now whose report is not creditable to its mas agement, and whose solvency is not beyond question. In these days of get-rich quick schemes, of mining stocks, of speculation in bucketshops, pootrooms, on the curb and in the stock exchange it is most timely to turn to the savings banks and to point out the superiority to every man of small earnings and limited means of depositing a definite surplus regularly at interest. For a rich man to speculate is one thing. He can afford to lose some money. He has time for personal investigation of the risk, and he has the power to enforce his legal rights. He may win or he may lose, but in either case the transfer of wealth is not a vital matter. To all the men who work for wage or on salaries their only hope four peaceful old age and for a life free from racking money cares is to provide beforehand for the future. They should take no risk. When they speculate they stake their family's future and their own peace of mind against a few dollars. Even were the chance equal—and in the case of a small man the odds are always against him the risk which he takes is vastly proportionate to any possible gain. Origin of Mr. and Mrs. In earlier times the ordinary man was simply William or John—that is to say, he had only a Christian man without any kind of "handle" before it or surname after it. Some mean of distinguishing one John or William from another John or William became necessary. Nicknames derived from a man's trade or his dwelling place from some personal peculiarity were tacked on to his Christian name, and plain John became John Smith. An yet there were no "misters" in the land. Some John Smith accumulate more wealth than the bulk of his fellows, became perhaps a landed prietor or an employer of hired labor. Then he began to be called in the Norman-French of the day the "maître" of this place or that, of these workmen or of those. In time the "maistre" or "maister," as it soon became, got tacked on before his name, and he became Maister Smith and his wife was Maistress Smith Gradually the sense of possession was lost sight of, and the title was conferred upon any kind—by mere possession of wealth or holding position of more or less consideration and in portance. Esperanto for Dancing Masters. Mr. Turveydrop in his twentieth century development is ambitions. A international congress of dancers to be held at Barcelona, and the occasion would be a notable one if on because it has been decided that he peranto shall be the official language. This is probably the first practice experiment in the new language, and we trust that the movement we prove as gracefully facile as dancers ought to be. But besides this there is quite a imposing programme of prizes for new dances of all kinds—for ball for drawing room, for ball, for couples, for children, and for detail studies on grace, bearing and manners. All these matters are to be disposed of in five days. Kissing the Book. The exact origin of kissing the Book in English courts, though modern, is obscure. It is not a matter of legal obligation but seems to be merely a custom dating from the middle end of the eighteenth century. It witness claims to follow the law by cording to Coke and to take his 'coral oath' by touching the Book which refuse him his right? The 'kissing' act seems akin to deed to what the 'fancy' call, some what unpleasantly, a saliva custor which in modern western life exists in very few forms, though many the lower classes still 'spit' on coin for luck. Don't Fit the Case. "You shouldn't have hit that man who called you a liar." "No; you should have demands the proof, and if he could not produce it he would have been branded as falsifier." "That's all right ethically, but knew he had the proof."—Philadelphia Ledger.