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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT White M. E. Church To Ostracise Negro Members Church To Elect Negro Bishop For Negro Members Negroes Must Pray Alone NINETH YEAR. White M. E. Ostracise Ne hurch To Elect For Negro Negroes Müs Washington, Monday—"Race problem promise to be among the most important subjects considered at the triennial conference of the Episcopal Church of America," said Bishop Sam-Edsal, of Minnesota, who is in the court to attend the great conference which begins next week at Richmond. New questions have come before the reference of recent years of more vii-importance of the problem of being with the colored membership of the Southern States," said Bishop Hall. "The situation is not apparent in Northerner. In Minnesota the church recognizes no difference in races in blood, and the foundation laid by Bishop Whipple in his fight for the quality of the Indians in the church has been built upon consistently and with a church in which different men sit in entire harmony. It has been impossible to ignore differences in the South, how-ow, and the colored members of the Episcopal church are anxious that the general convention take up their prob- and help in the solution of it. A plan has been proposed that will be considered at length at Richmond which may finally be adopted by the church. This plan involves the formation of a new diocese of the church on territorial lines, as are the regu- divisions of the church, but to in- include the colored men of the church in Southern States. This diocese would have its own bishop and con- its own affairs, and would select presentatives for the triennial gath-ings where the new diocese would really come into the general church. The plans have been discussed in all, and it is possible that the Rich- and conference may take no final ac- toward this end, but the clergy throughout the country has given care- consideration to the idea. The sat- tory establishment of the colored Episcopal church in the South would be a great deal for the strengthen- of the general church, and the ul- lapse solution of the Negro problem. NOTE- EDITOR. It seems to us high time that cer- seems to us high time that cer- elements of the Negroes would see destre of the white Methodists to acize the Negro members of their church and its funny to us that these Negroes will hang around, be pushed from pillow to post, be sat off into one corner and made the "hewers of wood and drawers of water" just to say that they belong to the "whi' fok's' church" when they have such finely organized church organizations in their own race. Somebody ought to get a stick and "chase 'em out" before the white man picks him up bodily and throws him out. Just think, Negro bishops for Negro members—Why not Negro bishop for every member? And then—well—We'll not say the rest! We wait for the outcome—and not the outcry. ATTORNEY GENERALS MEET. The meeting of twenty-two attorney generals of as many states in St. Louis, Mo. on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, has more than a passing interest to all the people, and, more especially to the Negroes of America. One of the principal objects of the meeting of the legal department of these twenty-two states was to discuss "State's Right," and to lay plans by which a sentiment may be cultivated necessary to repeal the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Ever since Lincoln issued his famous proclamation, which free four millions of American Negroes, and ever since Congress submitted the 14th and 15th Amendments to the people, and ever since the people ratified the 14th and 15th Amendments and ever since these Amendments became a part of our organic law—the South with its never-sleeping Negro-hating fever—has been working incessantly to make these Amendments as applied in the interest of the Negro "a dead letter." They have tried every hellish device that human mind could invent, and now, after forty years or more they find only the states who rebelled for this same "States' Rights" with them today and so they have invented this scheme and now under cover and guise of something else to accomplish the same desire for which the states south of the Mason and Dixon line rebelled and spent four years in bloody war that "States' Rights" might maintain—the they lost as they will lose again. This clamor for "States' Rights" has no good in it for the Negro any more than it had previous to 1861. The South and those men who are willing to send their very soul to hell to humiliate and degrade the Negro below the common level of a cur might as well wake up to the true state of affairs—and leave the Negro to make his way as a man. The Negro knows too well the pangs of his former servile condition—and never—no never—never—will the Negro submit to personal slavedom again. The South may take away its ballot—the Negro is buying the land—the South may think to socially ostracize the Negro—but in its stead the Negro is acquiring an education, rearing refined and cultured families and building up a social circle of his own which for elegance, purity and comfort challenges the admiration of men and nations. Then it is that this St. Louis meeting of the twenty-two attorney generals is of some consequence and the Negro—above all others—should place an open ear to the ground and listen for the sound which is hoped to echo from this St. Louis meeting. The whole world knows that it pains the Negro-hating white man to think that a people whom his race held under such arduous abject slavery for nearly three hundred years should in less than fifty years make so marvelous, honorable and honest progress—but such is the case "and the half has not been told." The Negro haters, and would-be stumbling blocks to the Negro just as well close up their shop and seek some other more profitable occupation because the Negro is going to continue his onward and upward march until every nation, tongue and tribe will be glad to recognize in the Negro a man, honest, thrifty and sincere. Every sunset leaves the Negro better equipped for the next day than the previous day's sunset left him. hTeese little obstacles are only incentives to inspire the Negro to more noble and grander future deeds. "We are coming, Father Abraham, twelve millions strong." Watch the Negro as he surmounts the filmsy obstacles of the times—and stands up boldly on the ramparts of his arch enemies flying the colors of a victor in the breezes of o opportunity. Such a dazzling drama as that being now daily enacted by the American Negro was never before presented on the stage of human activity. No wonder—then—that such states as Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas, Arkansas, etc., etc. would be represented in the St. Louis meeting—but any attempt to "take from" our organic law will meet with as firm a resistance as it did from 1861 to 1865. We will let her stand just lick she is. A. M. E. APPOINTMENTS. Pastors Named for Various Stations in Kansas. The Annual Conference of the A. M. E. church, which met in Parsons last week is said to have been the most interesting held in years. The conference came to a close Monday when Bishop Grant made the following appointments for the ensuing year: Omaha district—Rev. J. W. Wilson, presiding elder; Fremont; Rev. W. J. Krisel; Beatrice, William Moore; Tonganoxie, S. Morris; %ion and Edwardsville, W. S. Hayter; Nebraska City, H. M. Rievers; Horton and Fairview, S. H. Barker; Holton and Oskaloosa, James Banks; Hlawatha and Sabetha, John A. Allen; Highland and White Cloud, William B. Johnson; Troy and Elwood, C. A. Woods; Bonner Springs, A. J. King; Quindaro, J. W. H. Morris; South Omaha, W. H. Honsley; Leavenworth, J. A. Gregg; Atchison, A. C. Terrell; Lincoln, W. T. Biggers; Omaha, W. W. S. Dyett. Kansas City district—J. R. Ransom, presiding elder; Rosedale, Rev. R. P. Christian; Bethel Mission, Kansas City, J. W. Williams; Pleasanton, James Holmes; Bassett and Humboldt, A. Thomas; Oswego, S. Robertson; St. Paul Mission, John Lavender; Yale, R. C. Davis; Weir City, R. T. Green; Pittsburg, J. J. Watson; Baxter Springs, B. R. Ross; Galena, M. H. Spencer; Chanute, D. Abbott; Cherryvale, J. W. Warren; Independence, T. W. Kdd; Coffeeville, J. Pleasant; Paola, C. R. Runyon; Iola, Henry Sheppard; Parsons, H. Brooks; Fort Scott, J. F. Sage; Kansas City, J. E. Edwards; evangelist, Rev. T. W. Green. Topeka district—Rev. H. W. King, presiding elder; Osage City and Council Grove, T. C. Anderson; Rock Valley, Eudora and Lakeview, W. H. H. Jones; Manhattan and Wamego, Prince Williams; Emporia, J. L. Graw; North Lawrence, J. P. Green; Ottawa, H. D. Harris; Garnett and Osawatomie, P. D. Davis; Argentine, G. A. Griffith; Topeka, Brown chapel, B. R. Guy; North Topeka, P. Bond; Lawrence, St. Luke, J. M. Brown; Topeka, St. John, O. E. Jones. Wichita district—Rev. M. Wooten, presiding elder; Newton, S. S. Wash- Continued on page two - column one Mrs. Atterby, the Loan Shark Py Edward E. Webb ight. by Daily Story Pub Co.) "It's all off, Doc" aned, as he sank wearily into a gat seathern chair. "It's all off—she's going to do it." "Who's going to do what?" queried the dentist with forebearance born of long acquaintance. "My wife is going to mall you a receipt for $400 you owe her." "What $400? I don't owe her anything—never saw her save at your wedding and the call I made after your honeymoon." "I know it, Dock, and I've had the devil's time keeping you apart, but you'll get it just the same. Look for it Wednesday morning, because when Grace says she'll send it you've as good as got it. I tried to get her to intrust it to me, but she wouldn't, so I've come here to 'fess up. She personally wishes to thank you for the prompt and generous manner in which you have paid the interest, and say that as you have, since making the loan, paid her 360 per cent. of the principal, and as she has been reading up on usury and loan sharks, she's going to drop the whole shooting match because her conscience has begun to bother her. Dependent will apologize, plead ignorance of law and business methods and state that she considers this an auspicious time at which to turn over and glue down the leaf aforesaid." Dr. Carlton looked at his disconsolate friend as though he doubted his sanity. "I've had an awful time for three years, Dock," sighed Bob. "She thinks I've been wasting my substance in riotous living; but I've walked to save car fare, smoked a pipe shaved myself and gone in rags. If I tell you about it, will you write her a letter of thanks, to save my face? It wouldn't be a lie, Dock; just thank her for the receipt—you'll get it all right." "Go on, Bob," said Carlton, with a smile of dawning intelligence. "You see," continued the narrator, brightening a bit and filling a briar pipe from a pouch, "when we married Grace had an even four hundred which had fallen to her from some one who had gone above. The game was that I was to save enough more to buy a lot for her on our third anniversary—that's to-morrow—and after that we were to trust in providence for the house." "Well, things came slowly and I became impatient. You know I earn only fifteen hundred a year and we are used to good things. After six months I'd saved only $200—and then I fell—fell hard. I had a sure tip there was a combination on in Chicago to corner wheat and I went long on 5,000 at a four-cent margin. There was a day when I could have pulled out with double my original capital, but I had the fever and held on. After a time she was off more than two cents from the point where I loaded up, and to save my stake—forgive me, Dick—I told her you needed $400 awfully bad, and was going to pay a loan shark ten per cent. a month for that amount. I showed her where she could make a nice little income, and I made it strong, because I thought wheat had struck bottom and that at the close of the first month I could turn over $440 and say you had settled up. She always follows my advice, you know, so I got the wad. I lasted ten days," and Bob laughed mirthlessly. "I must have felt pretty bad when it was wiped off the books, because the last act I remember concerning that night was looking at the soldiers' monument on the Campus Mar- EDUCATING HORSES FOR WAR. Enormous Sums Spent by the Nations of the World. From the earliest times the horse has been a potent factor in war, and to-day his education is a delicate and serious matter, undertaken at great expense by all the nations of the world, says a writer in the Circle Magazine. Germany needs a million horses for cavalry and artillery to put her colossal forces in the field; France re- Bob Atterby dragged into the dental parlor con. tinus and crying because the brave lads I saw there had been killed in a cruel war—and I have a dim recollection that I then went over to the bust of Gov. Bagley and asked it for a match. I've had an awful time, Dock!" "Why, confound it, Dock, since then I've had to pay up 40 plunks interest each month—and that was three years ago. She's collected $1,440 interest money from me and I still owe her the $400! I nearly fell dead of heart failure once when she hinted she would call the loan. How was I to get the money? I was Johnny on the Spot with the interest for fear she'd write you or telephone you or call. I've had to live a life of deception. Each month I had just enough for household expenses after delivering, and she roasted me good for my seeming extravagance—said yesterday she supposed I was so secretive about money matters because our anniversary was so near, and smiled a smile that would have got ten her a diamond tiara if I had the price. Why, I couldn't buy a rhinestone at the ten-cent store! I'm drained dry—absolutely dry. And then she wonders when I am going to buy the lot! "I read her the law on loan sharks and told her she was liable to imprisonment for usury if she didn't cut the interest down. Did that impress her? Not a bit. I told her such conduct was unbusinesslike, but she thought otherwise because she got the money. And now she's veering the other way, and, without warning, decides to kill the goose that lays the long green. I give it up. I can't understand a woman—not even that one. Stand by me, Dock, and the next time the interest would have been due we'll go out and blow it in." And when Dr. Carlton came out of his paroxysm he solemnly promised. "This is our third anniversary, Bob," bubbled radiant and irrepressible Mrs. Atterby the next morning as she shoved a refractory brown curl which Bob had just mentally decided was in exactly the right place back to where she thought it belonged and dropped four lumps of sugar into her coffee. "Look, dear, here is your anniversary present." And tripping around the table to a position behind him she pressed her soft, schoolgirl face to his and spread out before him a paper. "It's a contract for the lot, sweetheart, and the deed is to be in your name. I'm buying it with the interest money. I just felt sure we'd get that lot by the end of our third year." "I saw Dr. Carlton yesterday," shifted Bob, unceasily, after he had expressed embarrassed thanks, "and told him of the present he has coming." Grace eyed her husband furtively. "Are you quite sure you mentioned the matter?" she queried with puzzled face. "Certainly." "Then, dear," slowly, "I believe I'll give you the receipt to deliver, since you have already discussed the matter." Bob kicked himself under the merciful screen of the table. Next morning as Mrs. Atterby ascended to her tip toes to kiss her big husband good-by she slipped an envelope into his breast pocket. "Here's the receipt for Dr. Carlton, dear," she said simply. Bob looked down at the pretty face, fidgeted, then looked elsewhere. Why not be a man and tell the truth about the miserable affair? He had lived a lie for three years, and it had nevertheless been a lie, although born quires probably 750,000, and even Great Britain has needed as many as 230,000—in her serious predicament in South Africa while she was fighting the Boers. Although England in peace time mounts only two-thirds of her cavalry, her horse bill amounts to about $400,000 a year—a figure which may be multiplied by four or five for the German army. In most countries omnibus, farm and domestic horses are registered as being available in time of war for miscellaneous service, and for --- of love for her and a wild fear that he might lose her good opinion. More fidgets—this silence was becoming unbearable. The clinging arms about his neck seemed dragging the truth to his lips. "Gracle, darling," he said; "Gracle, darling, Mr. Carlton never saw the money. I lost it in a miserable speculation and told 40,000 lies about it. I've tried to—" But Gracle heard no more. A wild convulsion of happy, tearful laughter had seized her, and, dancing up and down before him with face illuminated and a diminutive finger pointed at his nose, she shouted: "You look me square in the eye, Bobby Atterby! You look me square in the eye! I knew I'd get the truth from you some time and some how! I knew from the very first what you did with that money—for I found the commission broker's receipt in your pocket!" THEY LIVED TO EAT. People of Olden Times Were Lovers of Good Feeding. The antiquary took down a manuscript of vellum beautifully illuminated in gold and blue. "Old recipes," he said. "A book of medieval recipes and menus that shows us what the monks, the priors and the abbots ate. Listen. Here is a Good Friday menu, a fast day, think." And he read: "Eggs with tansy sauce; good trout of large size stuffed with the buds of primroses; turbot in jelly of the quince; onions roasted with cloves; a soft pudding of milk and pigeons' eggs; a larded cheese of Italie, with tarts of quince and citron; Rhenish wine with many spices, and whey wherein pears have been stewed." "Not bad for a fast day?" said the antiquary. "Here is a dinner for six, a dinner that was served in the Abbey of Barking before Columbus discovered America: "Baked mallard. Teals roasted on a spit. Almonds boiled in milk. Roasted capon, with a syrup of honey and pears. Roasted leg of a calf, boiled herons, a small baked pig, set about with gilt, and with a citron in his mouth. Flesh tart with sauce of quince. "Second Course—Roast hedgehog with jelly of pears. Venison well baked, with many apples. Almond and white wine potriage. Boar's flesh in soft pudding. Two cranes, with the gravy of a young kid. Partridge and curlew, with sauce of good syrup. "Third Course—A peacock roasted with the grease of the pig's chaps; set it out covered with its skin, with feathers on, many onions underneath him in the dish. Custard of cream and the eggs of hens. Also some small birds of all kinds, laid in good wine." Execution of a Queen Bee. If the mother-bee of a colony is getting past her work, and she cannot be sent off with a swarm in the usual way, the bees will supersede her. They will deliberately put her to death, and raise another queen to take her place. This state execution of the old worn-out queens is one of the most curious and pathetic things in or out of bee-life. One probe with a sting would suffice in the matter; but the honey bee is a great stickler for the properties. The royal victim must be allowed to meet her fate in a royal way, and she is killed by caresses, tight-locked in the joint embrace of the executioners until suffocation brings about her death. Abnormally Sensitive. "Awfully sensitive about trifles, isn't he?" "I should he is! Why, that man is so personally sensitive that he can tell if a single one of the 3,500 pores that fill the average inch of human skin isn't in working order." A healthy adult breathes from 14 to 24 times a minute. The rate of the pulse is four times that of the respiration. this anything from $30,000 to $150,000 a year may be paid by a military nation. France spends upward of $600,000 a year on horses for her great armies. As a general rule, the recruits are five years old and cost $200 each. Belief of Mohammedans. Mohammedan meals begin with salt and end with vinegar. The salt defends the believer from 70 diseases; the vinegar assures him increased prosperity THE SEARCHLIGHT. N. MILLER.....Editor Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mall Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION **One Year (By Mall)** ..... $1.00 **Six Months (By Mall)** ..... .75 **Three Months (By Mall)** ..... .50 All matters addressed to The Searchlight, for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. 1. matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wednes- day to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will not be published in the current issue. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to an- other give both the ned and the old. 4th. No new name will be placed on our books unless the money accompa- nies the name. Write plala. 6th. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 N. Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. A. M. E. Appointments From page one ington; Garden City, J. R. Ramsey; Winfield, T. M. Reeves; St. John, O. H White; Sterling, A. Simms; Pratt, C. L Holly; Ellsworth and Salina, E. T Malcome; Abilene and Minneapolis, A Gamble; Nicodemus and Hill City, W T. B. Harewood; Logan Mission and Speed, C. A. Morgan; Great Bend, S W. Alexander; Hutchinson, J. C. Newby; Arkansas City, J. M. Pope; Wichita, C. F. Taylor. KANSAS BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. The Baptists of Kansas are all interested in the session of the Kansas Baptist State convention which will meet in Salina, Kansas, Oct. 8th to 12th inclusive. This session of the Kansas Baptist State convention promises in many ways to eclipse any previous session of the Baptists of Kansas. The present year has been a most prosperous one for the Baptists In this the Sunflower state, and every church to be represented will be able to make a most flattering report. Numerically, financially and spiritually the Baptists of Kansas have kept apace with the church progress of the times and all have only the most encouraging reports for the year. The watchword for the Baptists of Kansas is, "On to Salina." The Wichita delegation to the Baptist State convention in Salina will be: Rev. J.-H. Van Leu, state missionary; Rev. H. I. Jones, pastor Tabernacle church, Rev. Joseph Wilson, Jr., pastor New Hope; Rev. S. M. Hall, pastor Second Baptist; John E. Lewis, recording secretary; Mrs. H. F. Frazier, corresponding secretary Women's Home and Foreign Mission society. THE ARRAPPAHOE CLUB. Will give an entertainment at Young's Hall, 601 N. Main, Saturday night, Oct. 5th, for the benefit of New Hope Baptist church. They will serve chili, pigs' feet, corn bread, and fried chicken. Supper ready at 6 o'clock. Come by on your way from your work. BAR NEGROES FROM PRIMARY. Democrats Won't Let Them Help Nominate Governor. New Orleans.-Negro voters were excluded from participating in the democratic primary election for governor in January. This action was taken by the democratie state central committee, which declared the measure to be "the purpose and intent of the primary election law passed a year ago. LEGALLY DEFINED. J. E. House figures it out thus: "Marriage is a sentence for life. Divorce is being out on parole. Re-marriage is being arrested on the old charge." A Good Chance For All Those That Would Like To Be Helped Miss Mamie Richardson, of Kansas City, Kan, has located in our city as a MUSIC TEACHER. Sho comes well recommended from some of the best instructors in the west. Had several years experience in teaching. She solicits your patronage and will be glad to meet you at TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. Last Sunday was an extraordinary day with this church. The women, under the leadership of Mrs. H. I. Jones, made this one of the great days in the history of the women's work. In the morning a good congregation assembled to hear teh sermon at 11 o'clock. The pastor, though indisposed, chose for a text, "There was no room for them in the inn." The sermon was very helpful to all present. The Sunday school had its usual large attendance. he Superintendent and her assistant reviewed the lessons of the last quarter. Deacon Lea's class of old-7 people captured the banner by the neat percentage of 40 per cent. The inclement weather in the evening prevented the B. Y. P. U. from holding their services at their regular hour, though at 7 p. m. the pastor instructed the union from the lesson of the demoniac. At 8 p. m. Mrs. H. I. Jones, the president of the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society called their meeting to order and a very interesting missionary program was rendered. The papers were very thoughtfully prepared and read as were the recitations, etc. Dr. C. G. Brown of Atchison, Kan., was present at the evening meetings and gave a very interesting talk on "Our Work in America." The choir of elderly women and men was one of the leading features of the program. Bro. Miles Parker sang a solo which was greatly enjoyed by all. The Women's meeting on Monday at 2:30 p. m. was representatively attended. The proceeds from their meeting on Sunday amounted to $16.38. Prayer meeting was led Tuesday evening by Mrs. R. H. Lowe and Miss Ethel L. Webb. This meeting was well attended. The services for Sunday will be as follows: Praise service, 10:30 a. m., led by Mesdames Parker and Banks. Covenant services, 11:15 a. m., Sunday school, 12:30 p. m.; Junior B. Y. P. U., 5:30 p. m.; Senior B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m; preaching, 7:45 p. m., subject "In Remembrance of the World's Greatest Friend." All are cordially invited to these services. Mrs. Ambrose Morris and son, Ambrose Morris, Jr., left Sunday for Kansas City, Mo., where they witnessed the Priests of Pallas Festival. Mrs. A. H. Allen of Kowa, is in the city under the medical care of Dr. E. Harrison at St. Francis Hospital. Mrs. James Jackson and Mrs. Young of Anthony are in the city. AT THE A. M. E. CHURCH. AT THE A. M. E. CHURCH. A. G. Pearson, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., will speak at the A. M. E. church Sunday night at 8 o'clock from the subject, "Follow the Leader." Choir will render a special musical program. At 6:30 the song service will be conducted by President Thos. Glover who is home from the Annual Conference. It is hoped that all will be prompt at 6:30 as the president, will tell about the Endeavor work in the conference. Be on time at 6:30 Sunday. Rev. Taylor, the pastor, will be in Wichita the latter part of next week. EUREKA FLAT 634 North Water St WICHITA, KAN. Now Open to the Public. Nice and Clean FURNISHED ROOMS FOR MEN. New and elegantly furnished. Newly painted and papered. Located in the residence portion of the city one block from Main street car line and in easy access to restaurants and business portion of the city. Furnished and Fitted for comfortable sleeping. When in Wichita come to the comfortable Eureka Flats, 634 N. Water street, for rest. Rooms by the Night, Week, or Month. Open Day and Night. - Rates Reasonable. MRS. W. N. MILLER, Mangr. ALL THINGS ARE WELL. That ends well—so pay your subscription to the Searchlight and get a good night's sleep. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT LOCALS -THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK- Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. Why don't you pay that little account which you owe the Searchlight? Be manly! You pay for the white man's paper—why not pay for the black man's paper? Are you just really too men to pay—we think not. You have done all right in the past—keep it up and help maintain a good, live, race paper by paying what you owe. Do so today. F IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? HOME PAID FOR. B. Helm feels happy, as he has paid the last penny on his home at 16th and Mosley. That's the way—accumulate a home. WICHITA HONORED The Annual Conference, which met in Parsons, elected Thos. Glover, of Wichita, and Rev. J. W. Broxton as members of the Trustee Board of Quindaro College. The election of Mr. Glover is an appreciated distinction for Wichita. A SPLENDID TRIP. A. Covington returned Sunday evening from Kingfisher, Okla., where he attended the 2nd Annual Fair given by the colored people of Oklahoma. Mr. Covington was greatly impressed with the grandeur and magnitude of the fair and says it casts great credit on the colored people. Their exhibits of farm products, needlework, culinary art, and horticulture was grand. Their baby show was also fine, which shows that the colored men of Oklahoma are progressing along all lines. We are indebted to Mr. Covington for much literature concerning the fair, which he brought us. For nice, clean, cool rooms, come the Eureka Flat, $24 N. Water St. A WELCOME RECEPTION. A WELCOME RECEPTION. The ladies of the Stewardess Board of the A. M. E. church tendered a splendid reception to Rev. J. F. C. Taylor, who was returned to Wichita for the next conference year. A large crowd was present. W. N. Miller was chosen master of ceremonies, and after a few remarks by the master of ceremonies stating the cause of the meeting he introduced Rev. Taylor, who made a very appropriate address touching the work of the conference and briefly outlining the work for the coming year. Rev. Taylor was heartily applauded and at the end of his splendid address on behalf of the church, W. N. Miller was introduced by J. T. Chinneth and responded to the address made by Rev. Taylor. Rev. Taylor left Monday night for Colorado Springs, Colo., to spend ten days with his family. A. Covington left Tuesday for Kansas City, where he will spend Priests of Pallas week sight-seeing. Rev. J. H. Van Leu, state missionary, returned Wednesday evening from the session of the National Baptist Convention in. Washington, D. C., and an extended trip through the Southland. He reports a splendid time. Thos. Glover returned Tuesday from Parsons where he attended the annual conference of the A. M. E. church. Remember the Chttling supper at Young's Hall, Saturday night, October 5. Big eating takes place. Notice $300,00 For W Conve The Woman's Home and For Auxiliary to the Baptist Sta vene in Salina, Kan., with church, October 8th. and 9th We hope to have a large as the people of Salina are for our reception. Women, Arise! Come p The Woman's Home and Foreign Mission Convention, Auxiliary to the Baptist Stat Convention, will convene in Salina, Kan., with the St. John's Baptist church, October 8th. and 9th. 1907. We hope to have a large delegation at this meeting as the people of Salina are making great preparations for our reception. Women, Arise! Come prepared to make this meeting the best in the history of its organization. BUY LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner 3rd & Main Roscoe Copeland, of Ft. Scott, is in the city and is now employed on the staff of Searchlight employees and also as manager of the Eureka Flat, at 634 N. Water. Mr. Copeland comes from a good family and comes to Wichita well recommended. MOSES DICKSON TENT MEETING. Parents Should See That Their Children Attend. Moses Dickson Tent No. 5 will meet Saturday afternoon, Oct. 5th at 3 p. m. Business of much importance. Parents should see to it that their children attend. The Tent children have an endowment now of $25.00, and every parent should be interested to see that their children keep in the Tent. Dr. G. G. Brown of Atchison was in Wichita Sunday looking over the city with a view of locating here in the practice of medicine. He left Sunday night without saying whether or not he had decided on this location. B. J. Topp is enjoying a visit from his brother, Emanuel Topp, of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Topp is one of the very prominent colored men of the South and is a man of means. Wichita appreciates his visit to our city. Leadership requires more than hot air. Some thing firm is needed after the smoke is cleared away. CHERRYVALE KAN. home to St. Rev. P. C. Campbell filled the pulpit Sunday and delivered good sermons. Quite a number returned from Parsons Sunday where they had been attending quarterly conference. Harrison Wheaton, who has been visiting his relatives, returned to Pueblo, Colo., Wednesday. Miss Elnora Walker is quite ill at her home with fever. Mrs. Mary Kemp and Mr. Tom Wills of Parsons has united in the holy bonds of matrimony. Helping Hand Tabernacle will hold their regular session Thursday, October 3. NEWS OF GREAT BEND. Rev. Wm. Turner our ex-pastor preached two noble sermons while in our little city. We were glad to greet Rev. Turner and hope for his speedy return to Great Bend. Queen Esther Circle gave a rally last Sunday and a neat little sum was realized. Rev. Raymey, with his alternate, Rev. Carter address the women Sunday evenings. Miss Ethiol Emery returned home after a pleasant visit with Mrs. Gertrude Wells and Miss Georgia Perry and other friends. Mrs. Georgia Smith was called to Dodge City last Saturday night on business. Mrs. Claud Brooks left for Trinidad, Colo., Sunday. Miss Nellie Michashaux returned from Cleo, Okla. Queen Esther's Circle will give a social Saturday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall. Mr. Eddle Rucker, Jr., left for Quindaro to attend the Western university last Sunday night. Mrs. Jennie Armstrong made a flying trip to Lyons, last week. For Women's State Convention and Foreign Mission Convention, Dist State Convention, will con- with the St. John's Baptist and 9th. 1907. large delegation at this meeting a are making great preparations come prepared to make this meet- story of its organization. MRS. H. F. FRAZIER, Cor. Sec. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Churches. Orders delivered to any part of the city. BON-TON & KANDY BAKERY E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. 146 North Main St. Phone 152 OLDEN'S DRUG STORE OLDEN'S DRUO STORE Prescriptions Filled with Care ... 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AT WHOLESALE PRICES Tapp & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N. Ma For a Good Job of Lead and Oil SUTTON PAINT CO. 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANSAS Youthful Criminals. Two-thirds of the convicts in Americas greatest prison (the Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson City) are men without trade or profession. Look into any state penitentiary, and you will ordinarily find that at least one third of the convicts there confined are young men, ranging in age from 18 to 25 years, and that nearly all of these came into prison absolutely without the knowledge of any useful and gainful occupation. Comparatively few of the younger class of felons are illiterate. In my own experience, writes Thomas Speed Mosby, Missouri state pardon attorney, in Success Magazine, I have never met one who could not read and write, and very many (by far the greater number, I should say) are possessed of no small degree of intelligence. But, however stupid or however precocious, they are found to be, scarcely without exception, young men who have not applied themselves to useful, honest work. This is true of both the poor and the well-to-do. Why are they there? The answer is given by Gustave Marx, one of the Chicago "carbarn" bandits, who recently died upon the gallows: "It wasn't drink that caused my downfall," he said; "not cigarettes, nor bad companions, either. It was just idleness. Idleness led me first to cigarettes, then to drink, then to bad companions—then to the gallows. And I blame my folks. If they had made me remain at work, work would have kept me too busy to have planned robbery and murder." This is the story that fits them all. First, idleness; then cigarettes and drink, to blunt the moral sense and destroy the will; then living beyond one's means, then indulging the riotous excesses that spell debauchery and make for ruth. And may they not rightly blame their "folks," as did Gustave Marx? Society Music. Mary will have to be asked to play when she goes out in society. A proud mamma will attend to that. And Mary will play, with faithful accuracy, something from 'Chopin or Beethoven' of Mendelssohn, and the young people will watch her chubby fingers thoughtfully and wonder when the selection will come to an end, writes Cynthis Westover Alden in Success Magazine. They will applaud, too—when the end is reached—for that is good manners, and everybody likes Mary anyhow. And then—well, Lucy Smith, who has never taken lessons, will rollick up to the piano and begin a "coon song." hands and feet will beat time all over the room, half the listeners will hum the refrain; everybody will see the difference between the piano as a pence and as a pleasure, and only Mary's mamma will make unpleasant side remarks about the degeneracy of popular taste in music. One of the great electric manufacturing companies reports gross earnings for the year covered by the statistics at over $33,000,000, with profits of $4,179,000. This is the electric age for sure, and the experience of this one concern is probably matched by that of others. The demand for electrical appliances in every form was never greater, nor is there any indication of subsidence. An interesting accompaniment of this report of earnings is the government statement of copper production, from which it appears that the output of the metal for 1903 was 906,591,000 pounds, or 18,000,000 pounds in excess of the amount in 1905. Production and consumption of copper are intimately related to electrical development, and this country is foremost in both respects. Numerous inscriptions in Latin were cut on the new building for the department of agriculture in Washington. The head of the department discovered the other day that some of them are in bad Latin, and ordered them all erased and recut in plain English. There is no better reason for inscribing American public buildings with Latin than there would have been for putting inscriptions in Greek or Sanskrit on the public buildings in ancient Rome. The theory, that there is peculiar virtue in a foreign tongue is widely held. It goes so far as to lead to the singing of French translations of German and Italian operas in American opera houses, translations made at the demand of music-loving Frenchmen, who insist that they shall understand the language sung to them. The Londoh Lancet advises cigarette smokers to form the habit of quitting the habit by making their own cigarettes and abandoning the ready-made. That is like taking to whisky in order to swear off drinking wine. Now they say that soft drinks are made mostly of dope. Maybe the day will come when we shall have sterilized pop and boiled lemonade and things of that sort. Then it will be time to pass or THE MEMORIAL OF THE DEATH OF MARTIN LEE STATUE UNVEILED The McKinley Mausoleum at Canton, Ohio, Dedicated with Impressive Ceremonies. THOUSANDS WERE PRESENT Tomb Was Built at Cost of $600,000 and Was Gift of 1,000,000 Admirers of Martyred Canton, Ohio, Oct. 1.—The McKinley mausoleum, the tribute and gift of a nation to the memory of a martyred president, was dedicated Monday afternoon in the presence of hundreds of distinguished men from all parts of the United States, representatives of foreign countries, and a crowd of approximately 50,000 people. The feature of the dedication was the presence of the president of the United States, Vice President Fairbanks, members of the president's cabinet, United States senators and governors of several states. Addresses were delivered by by President Roosevelt, Justice Wm. R. Day, McKinley's secretary of state, and A. STATUE OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY. A bronze masterpiece that is a feature of the monument erected to the martyr president at Canton. Gov. Harris of Ohio, who acted as president of the day. The programme ended by the singing of "America" and benediction by Bishop Horstmann of Cleveland. President Roosevelt and party then visited the interior of the tomb. The invited guests and then the general public did likewise. Thousands passed through the tomb. The tomb, built at a cost of $600,000 is the donation of over 1,000,000 Americans to this memorial to William McKinley. The mausoleum stands on an eminence to which has been given the name of Monument Hill, about two miles west of the McKinley home in the city of Canton. It is not an ornate affair, but its simplicity is relieved by sufficient artistic embellishment to make it an object of beauty, as well as one of massive proportions and breadth of design. From the first step of the approach to the monument, to the actual top of the structure is 163 feet 6 inches, the mausoleum itself being 98 feet 6 inches high above the summit of the mound. The top of the dome has an oculus 15 feet in diameter through which comes a softened light which adds greatly to the beauty of the interior. The mausoleum is 78 feet 9 inches in diameter. In the center of the floor beneath the dome stand the sarcophagi containing the bodies of the president and Mrs. McKinley, and in niches on the north side of the dome are the caskets containing those of the two daughters, Ida and Mary, who died in infancy. Half way down from the top of the 125 granite steps that lead up to the main entrance on the south side of the mausoleum stands an heroic bronze figure of President McKinley representing him in the attitude usually assumed when speaking—his left hand holding a roll of manuscript, and the right hand in the trousers pocket. Behind the figure is a bronze chair encircled with a wreath, and draped with the flag of the United States. The bronze figure, which is nine feet high, stands on a pedestal 18 feet from the base to the feet of the figure. Upon the foot of the pedestal of the statue these words are inscribed: "William McKinley, president of the United States; a statesman singularly gifted to unite the discordant forces of government and mould the diverse purposes of men toward progressive and salutary action; a magistrate whose poise of judgment was tested and vindicated in a succession of national emergencies; good citizen, brave soldier, wise executive, helper and leader of men, exemplar to his people of the virtues that build and conserve the state, society and the home." Twenty-six acres of ground were purchased by the monument commission and the utmost art of the landscape gardner has been lavished upon the grounds. Natural streams flow past the base of the mound, and trees and flower beds have been arranged with an eye to the greatest artistic beauty. A REMARKABLE BALL GAME. Only Darkness Put An End to the Play=10,000 Persons Saw Philadelphia, Oct. 2.—In one of the greatest baseball games ever seen in this city, Detroit and Philadelphia, who are making a sensational fight for the American league championship, Monday played each other to a standstill. The game went 17 innings and was called by the umpires because it was too dark to play any longer. Both teams were worked up to a high pitch and going strong, and neither side wanted to quit, although the street lamps surrounding the grounds had already been lighted. It was a remarkable contest in many ways and the crowd that saw it was probably the largest that ever gathered in a ball grounds in this city. It is estimated that fully 40,000 persons were packed in and outside the grounds. The gates to the grandstand were closed before 1 o'clock and the crowd became so great that the police for a time lost control and hundreds gained admittance over the fence. The roofs of surrounding houses were crowded to the danger point, the thrifty householders charging from 25 cents to a dollar for standing room on their roofs. The Eddy Suit Dismissed. Concord, N. H. Oct. 2. — Judge Chamberlin Monday granted the motion to dismiss the suit of the "next friends" for an accounting of the affairs of Mary Baker G. Eddy. The apportionment of costs was left open for future settlement. Friedrichshaven, Germany, Oct. 2. Count Zeppelin made another successful flight in his airship Monday. He was aloft for seven hours. TO PRESENT A SOLID FRONT The Attorneys General Take Decided Stand Against Federal Courts. Adopt Memcrial to Congress Asking That Federal Judges Be Prevented From Nullifying State Laws. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 2.—Action that will have far-reaching effect in antitrust and corporation litigation and which will bear fruit in almost every state in the union, was taken by the convention of attorneys general in its final session here Tuesday. A committee was appointed to draft a scheme of anti-trust legislation to be sent to all attorneys general, and as a climax for the entire meeting the attorneys general assembled adopted a resolution which is expected to remove a thorn in the flesh of state officers, the interference by federal circuit courts with the operation of state laws. Permanent organization was also effected under the name of the "National Association of Attorneys General of the United States," and a united front will be presented in legal actions brought by different states against the same corporation or trust. The resolution is in the shape of a memorial to congress and is as follows: "Whereas, the efficient administration as well as the preservation of our dual system of government requires that each sovereignty be permitted to exercise its functions as defined by the federal constitution unhampered by the other; therefore be it. "Resolved" by the convention of attorneys general of the several states here assembled, that we earnestly recommend to the favorable consideration of the president and the congress of the United States the enactment of a federal law providing that no circuit court of the United States or any judge exercising powers of such circuit courts shall have jurisdiction in any case brought to restrain any officers of a state or any administrative board of a state from instituting in a state court any suit or other appropriate proceeding to enforce the laws of such state or to enforce any order made by such administrative board, but allowing any person or corporation asserting in any such action in a state court any right arising under the constitution or any laws of the United States to have the decision of the highest court of such state reviewed by the supreme court of the United States as any provided by law "We also recommend that suits in federal circuit courts by persons interested in corporations to restrain such corporations from obeying the laws of states in which they are doing business be prohibited." On recommendation of the committee on organization the following were chosen as officers: President, H. S. Hadley of Missouri; vice president, Dana Malone of Massachusetts; secretary and treasurer, William H. Dickson of Colorado. Attorney General Dickson of Colorado asked that the next convention be held in Denver, but it was finally decided to leave the matter to the executive committee which is composed of the following: R. B. Davidson of Texas, chairman; F. S. Jackson of Kansas, James Bingham of Indiana, W. H. Dickson of Colorado and H. S. Hadley of Missouri. ON RIVER CRUISE. President Roosevelt Leaves Keokuk, Iowa, on His Trip Down the Mississippi. Keokuk, Ia., Oct. 2.—Keokuk put on her Sunday dress to receive the president of the United States, when he arrived here at 9 o'clock Tuesday, and the people of the city were assisted in their reception of the chief magistrate by a notable gathering of distinguished men, including the governors of more than a dozen states, a number of members of both houses of congress and the members of the Inland Waterways commission. The occasion of the president's coming was the movement in the interest of a deep waterway down the Mississippi river to the Gulf and this city was selected as the point of embarkation on his voyage down the river, which will end at Memphis next Friday. He was given a drive through the city and made a noteworthy speech at Rand park to many thousand people. The reception to the president both along the line of march and at the park was cordial in the extreme and he was in excellent health and spirits. He embarked on the steamer Mississippi a few minutes before noon and is scheduled to reach St. Louis at 9:45 a. m. Wednesday. He was accompanied by Gov. Frantz of Oklahoma and Seth Bullock of the Black Hills. Kansas Girl Murdered. Kan., Sept. 29.—Miss May Slipp, the beautiful daughter of John N. Slipp, a wealthy man who lives with his family in the little town of Moran, ten miles east of here in this county, was found dead with her throat cut, in the back yard of the family home Friday night. There appears to be no reasonable explanation of the cause of the deed. A Brewer for London's Lord Mayor. London, Sept. 29.—Sir. John Charles Bell, ex-sheriff of the city of London and head of a big brewery company was Saturday elected lord mayor of London. Pure Food. The pure food law does not prohibit the sale of Cream of Tartar Baking Powders because Cream of Tartar is as pure as Alum—but it is a well known fact that a baking powder in which Alum is used instead of Cream of Tartar is less injurious. Dr. Herman Reinbold, the expert German chemist, in a recent official report concerning Baking Powders, declares that a pure Alum baking powder is better and less injurious than the so-called Cream of Tartar powders. He says that if the quantity of alum contained in a sufficient quantity of baking powder for a batch of bread or cakes for an ordinary family, be concentrated to one mouthful of food, and taken into the stomach of any one person, no matter how delicate, it could do no harm. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. 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This is but one of many letters giving experiences of settlers, and should be encouraging to those who are looking about for a new home in which they may better their conditions. The following is a copy of the article referred to: William Knowles, who cultivates some twelve acres of land just below Middlechurch ferry on east side of the Red River has probably as fine a display of horticultural products as any in Manitoba. The whole of his holding is in a high state of cultivation and literally crowded with splendid vegetable specimens, which have fortunately escaped damage by hail, although heavy storms have more than once occurred within a few miles. The potatoes are a wonderful crop, and he expects to raise 1,500 bushels from his patch of $4\frac{1}{2}$ acres. A half dozen of tubers yesterday average more than a pound each. Adjoining the potatoes may be seen a marvelous collection of tomatoes. There are 600 plants, all growing under an enormous weight of fruit. One single stock picked yesterday contained eighteen tomatoes and weighed four pounds. This extraordinary example of marvelous growth, together with some of the potatoes were sent to the Free Press office. The proprietor was the first in town with several specimens, including green corn. The season has been favorable for onions, and one square patch of nearly an acre is looking remarkably healthy. In addition there are good crops of cabbages, cauliflower, turnips, parsnips, carrots, pumpkins, marrows, cucumbers, celery, peas, lettuce, rhubarb, etc. The floral department has not been neglected and a charming display of all the well known blooms were shown, including a specially choice lot of asters. Mr. Knowles, who gained most of his gardening experience in England, is loud in his praise of Manitoba soil for vegetable raising, and is gratified with the result of his first attempt at extensive horticulture. KNEW WHAT PAPA SAID. And It Was Something of a Variation of Old Adage. Tommy was stubborn and his teacher was having a hard time explaining a small point in the geography lesson. "Tommy," teacher began, "you can learn this if you make up your mind. It's not one bit smart to appear dull. I know," she continued, coxingly, "that you are just as bright as any boy in the class. Remember, Tommy, where there's a will there's——" "Aw," broke in Tommy, "I know all dat, I do. Me fadder's a lawyer, he is, an' I've heard him say it lots o' times." "You should not have interrupted me," reprimanded the teacher, "but I'm glad that your father has taught you the old adage. Can you repeat it for me?" "Sure," said Tommy, confidently, "Me daddy says dat where der's a will—der's always a bunch o' poor relations."—Lippincott's. 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. 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Water St. fitted up for the purpose of storing goods of any and every kind for people who wish to leave the city or for any other reason wish to store anything. The room is being specially fitted for storage of Furniture, Trunks, Boxes, Household Goods, etc., and special attention is being given to ventilation and safety. Our storage charges will be reasonable and all goods left with us will be guaranteed to be kept dry and in good shape. If you have any goods to store call at our storage room, 634 N. Water street. and Mrs. Maud Johns. Mrs. B. Dudley Minnally for Topeka, Kansas she thanked her kindness during her and death. Miss Marietta Mineon of St. Louis, M. and had a very brilliant ception. We regret to learn ness of Mrs. Mary A. Rev. Edwards has M tor the A. M. E. ch Nebraska. Mrs. Anna Bradford band is on the sick THE EUREKA FLATS Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller have leased the rooms over the Searchlight office, 634 N. Water, and are having them fitted to a queen's taste and will rent them to gentlemen. The interior of the upstairs has been repainted and the stairway repapered and new furniture installed, and the Eureka Flat is now one of the most comfortable rooming place in Kansa. Everything new, nice, clean and cozy. For a good, comfortable place to sleep come to the Eureka Flats, 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. TRY A COLD SODA At the Olden Drug Store, 615 North Main. Miss Lucinda Murrant returned from Wichita last week. Mrs. Lizzie Johnson is reported better at this writing. A man to hold his own must be on his guard and every day survey the field of his surroundings. To sit down and fret or murmur, is to bow to ultimate failure. COURT OPENS. The Sedgwick county district court will begin the October term on Monday, October 7th. KANSAS CITY, KAN. The Rebecca Tabernacle No. 11, is progressing nicely and is in a healthful condition. We are glad to know the Rebecca is working in peace and harmony. For the past month or so our sick list has been large, but has decreased very much. Daughters Laura Aldridge, Irene Boggs and Bettie Carson are able to be out again. Daughter Laura Aldridge will be out of the city for a short while. We hope when she returns her health will be greatly improved. Wichita Tabernacle No. 34, held a splendid meeting Thursday afternoon. There was a large attendance present. The Tabernacle will meet again on Thursday, Oct. 17th, at which time the lecture will be passed. Daughters, watch for Oct. 17th and be present. THE LATEST RELIGIOUS CIRCLE. A certain class of the holy folks are now receiving the gift of tongues. One fellow declares that he has the gift and can speak in seven different tongues. We are very sorry of this, for the majority of Negroes talk too much already, and really don't need any more tongues.—Ex. GRAND MUSICALE. Miss Pearl Mayfield will offer a classical musicale at, Young's hall, 601 N. Main street on Monday night, Oct. 7th. This young lady has a high standing in musical circles and her musical extravaganza Monday night, at Young's hall, promises to be one of the musical events of the season. As a convenience to those who attend light refreshments will be served in the hall. The admission is within the reach of all, 15 cents single, 25 cents per couple. You are cordially invited. Be there. KANSAS CITY, KAN. Miss Lulu Estes, of Atchison, was united in marriage to Mr. W. Shields by Rev. Hayes, at Mrs. J. Jackson's residence. It was a very private affair and only the few following witnessed the ceremony: Prof. and Mrs. J. J. Lewis, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. M. C. Matthews, Mrs. O. B. Johnson and daughter and Mr. Leroy, of Kansas City, Mo. Ice cream and cake were served in abundance. Mrs. A. J. Hill entertained the Metropolitan Sewing Circle royally at its last meeting. Her electric lights were turned on and daylight obscured, making it very reception-like. Her menu consisted of chicken salad on lettuce leaves, saratoga chips, cheese straws, etc., ice cream, cake and punch. A good program was rendeefed. Mrs. M. C. Matthews is president of the circle and Mrs. Maud Johnson, secretary. Mrs. B. Dudley Mimms left eventually for Topeka, Kansas. Before leaving she thanked her friends for their kindness during her mother's illness and death. Miss Marietta Miner and Mr. Dickson of St. Louis, Mo., were married and had a very brilliant wedding reception. We regret to learn of the severe illness of Mrs. Mary Alexander. Rev. Edwards has been sent to pastor the A. M. E. church at 8th and Nebraska. Mrs. Anna Bradford-Williams's husband is on the sick list. NEWTON, KAN., NEWS. Mrs. Ben Bevenue, of Iola, Kansas, is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. John Rolland and friends. Rev. Cole preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday night. Mrs. Alex Ridley and Miss Callle Anderson returned home Sunday evening after a few days with Miss Irma Clark of Wichita. They report having a lovely time. Leven Shaw spent Friday and Saturday at Wichita last week. He reports a lovely time. Geo. Brown spent Saturday in Wichita, and Sunday at Valley Center. He reports a very pleasant time. Mrs. Ellen Grey is reported quite ill. Miss Nora Hyder of Oklahoma Is in the city visiting with her sister, Mrs. Geo. Johnson. Geo. Brown made a flying trip to Peabody Tuesday. He reports a lovely time. The U. U. G. club met with Mrs. John Anderson Monday afternoon. The ladies report a lovely time. NORTH TOPEKA ITEMS: The Twelve Star Club met with Ellza Vaughan at her home, 1049 Pine street, Monday evening, September 30, with 15 members present. After the routine of business, dainty refreshments were served. An able paper read by Ida M. Jordan entitled "A Man of the World Under the Lights." The Twelve Star will meet with Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western avenue, Monday evening, September 14 A paper will be read by Ida M. Jordan, title, "The Hypocrite and Wisdom." All are respectfully invited. Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93 is progressing fine. All are in a healthy and financial condition. St. Luke Temple No. 5 is flying. Pride of Topeka No. 36 is progressing nicely. Solution of Race Problem—Location Adjoining W. Va. Colored Institute Near Charleston. Wheeling, W. Va.-A city exclusively for Negroes is to be built in West Virginia, if the plans of the projectors do not miscarry. Partially intended as a solution of the race problem, the projectors of the black city believe their project will meet with instant favor among the colored people of West Virginia, and they expect within a year's time to have a city of several thousand persons without a white person among its population. Eight miles from Charleston, the State capital, is the West Virginia Colored Institute, an institution for the higher education of the colored people, maintained by the State. Former State Tax Commissioner C. W. Dillon, of Payette county, has purchased some 500 acres immediately adjoining the colored institute property. He is having it cut up into city property, grading streets, laying cement sidewalks, putting in electric lights and sewerage and is constructing a large city park. He will refuse to sell a lot in his town to any but a colored person, and with the distinct understanding that no white man is to be allowed to live in the city. It is believed the Negroes will take to the idea, and as the place is close enough to Charleston to enable them to retain their positions in Charleston and live in the Negro community. The city will give a splendid object lesson in the capacity of the Negro to govern his own race, for a full city government will have to be provided. The whole state is watching the outcome of the novel experiment. PAY UP! PAY UP! GIVE US YOUR EAR. We ask our readers that in all fairness to us and the merchants who advertise in the Searchlight to trade with the business men whose place of business is advertised in the columns of the Searchlight. Do this won't you It costs you nothing more. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL BABY KIDNAPED BY A HURRICANE CARRIED FROM HOME WHEN SIX YEARS OLD TO FARM OF CHILDLESS COUPLE. LATTER CONCEAL HIS IDENTITY Quarrel with Supposed Parents Brings to Light Story of His Adoption — "Cyclone Kid" Now Seeking Relatives. Des Molnes, Ia.—"The Cyclone Kid" they are now styling Charles H. Bennett of Melbourne, La. It isn't because "he is there with the wallop," as the spiritual souls of the prize ring put in, but because he was kidnapped by a cyclone when he was too young to have developed the western instinct for the cyclone cellar. Bennett has just finished a search for his relatives, and in his success has come the unfolding of the story. The hero of the unique event was born on a farm at Leon, Ia., a few miles north of the state line. The region was, as now, in the vicinity of the cyclone belt, and strong winds frequently threatened to lift the roof of the Bennett homestead. One August afternoon 18 years ago, when Bennett was only 6 years old, there developed suddenly a wind storm of herois proportions. The little boy, who had been playing in a field near the house, sought to run under cover, but a deluge of wind caught him in its grip and made him leave his feet in a jiffy. And then away he went clear over the fences that had been, sometimes being rolling along the ground, at other times lifted up into the heart of the maelstrom. His mother, who had seen him knocked off his feet, tried to pursue him, but the tail of the cyclone struck her down, so dazing her that she knew little or nothing for several hours. Meanwhile the youngster was easier prey for the winds. Once he was dropped in the middle of the road. With what little strength he had left, he strove to regain his feet and make for shelter. In his bewildered and breathless state, he had no chance at all against the rapidly moving cyclone. He was picked up again and carried into the distance. Late that evening Mr. and Mrs. James Hudson of Harrison county, Mo., decided that the cyclone had left their neighborhood and that it would be safe to venture out of doors for an inspection of their property. Only a few yards from their threshold they came across a bundle of rags. It was such a soiled-looking mass that they thought it must have been unearthed from the bed of a stream or from a mud hole. FIGHTS BIG SNAKE IN MIDAIR WITH DYNAMITE WORKMAN HAS THRILLING EXPERIENCE WHILE SUSPENDED OVER DEEP CHASM. Trenton, N. J.—John Hutchinson, a blaster at the 'workhouse quarries along the Delaware river, had a midair encounter with a big pilot snake that resulted in the suspension of all 冈 Escape Was Impossible. quarry work for the remainder of the day. A hundred quarryman watched the fight, unable to give assistance. Hutchinson had been lowered over the side of the quarry and was suspended about a hundred feet from the top and 75 feet from the bottom of the hole, when his attention was attracted by a peculiar gliding movement on the rope above him. First he thought the rope was giving way, but a moment later he saw that the movement was that of a large pilot snake, which had slid on to the rope from a projecting crag and was leisurely making its way in his direction. Escape was impossible and Hutchinson's danger was increased by the fact that he was carrying in his hand a stick of dynamite and a small drill. He dared not drop the dynamite for fear of the consequences and it was impossible for him to put up a fight with it in his hand. He managed to shove the dynamite in a pocket and then ```markdown ``` They were much astonished when they discovered that the object was a small boy, and still more astonished when they felt his heart beat. So they carried him into their kitchen, washed the soil of the road and fields off him, gave him a little stimulant and put him to bed. He awoke the next morning and cried for his mother. He made the mistake of thinking that Mrs. Hudson was she, a fact which pleased the woman so mightily that then and there she decided to make no effort to learn the identity of the newcomer, but to adopt him. Eventually the Hudson family moved to Louisiana, and there the foster child grew up. He never knew un- 4 Away He Went Into the Heart of the Maelstrom. til last winter that he was no kin of Mr. and Mrs. Hudson. The story came out when he had a tilt with the father and declared that he was going out into the world to seek his fortune. Then, as a result of an interview, he departed to look up his family. In Leon he met many persons who remembered that a terrific cyclone had carried away the Bennett child. From them he also learned that his father was dead, and his mother was living at Long Beach, Cal.; a brother, James, in Fairfield, Neb, and a sister, Mrs. Benjamin Richardson, at Villisca, Ia. Bennett recalls his experience with the cyclone only dimly. Now and then he says, he has a feeling that he was once carried through the air like a bird. But he is willing to accept the evidence of his mother, his foster parents and Leon persons that he was kidnapped by a terrific hurricane. prepared to give battle with the small drill as a weapon. As the snake came within reach Hutchinson aimed a blow at its head, but the swinging of the rope made the blow a glancing one and the snake continued its downward course, while its fangs darted on menacingly. The second blow was more successful and seemed to stun the reptile, which maintained its hold on the rope, but swung its head from side to side, as though dazed. Another blow ended the fight, the snake uncoiling from the rope and dropping into the pit below. Hutchinson was nearly exhausted when he arrived at the top, and the other quarrymen who witnessed the struggle were so unstrung that they refused to go back to work. Bolt Robs Girl of Garter. Columbus, Ga.—Miss Hilda Clark is mourning a costly jeweled garter, one silk stocking and one slipper because of a prank played by a bolt of lightning. Miss Clark was swinging in a hammock on the veranda of her home when the bolt came. Her left leg was hanging from the hammock and her dress was a bit elevated. The flash of lightning came, and with it a scream from Miss Clark. She was found sitting in the hammock dazed. The bolt had struck the garter clasp, torn off the garter, ripped off the stocking, and shattered her slipper. The bolt then passed into the floor, making a hole. Miss Clark soon recovered from the shock. The only mark on her is a blue streak on her left leg, where the garter was worn. Coffin Shoal Stirs Hamlet. Peoria, Ill.-The sight of a number of coffins floating in the Illinois river above Ottawa recently caused a profound sensation among the residents, and stories of grave robbers and ghouls were soon in circulation. The talk resolved itself into the possibility of employing an armed guard for the local cemeteries. An investigation, however, revealed that a number of coffins were stored in an old mill and were pushed into the river by boys when used by them as floats while swimming. Cat Catches Black Bass. Towanda, Pa.—A large cat owned by Dr. D. Leonard Pratt of this city has developed into an prudent fisher, and now several times a week takes home to Dr. Pratt a good sized fish caught in the Susquhanna river. The cat has caught no less than 15 black bass and has taken them all to the doctor. GRADUATING NIGHT By NELLIE CRAVEY GILLMORE It was past midnight when the library door opened and somebody put his head in the opening. There was only one person who ever entered Mr. Denton's sanctum without knocking, and the latter barely lifted his head as he asked: "What is it, Perkins?" "I beg pardon, sir," but it's getting on towards one o'clock, and I was thinking, sir, that—" "Yes, yes, of course, Perkins. It's a lucky thing for me that I have you to take care of me, else—" He broke off with a significant shake of his head and turned round in his revolving chair. He met the anxious eyes of his faithful servant fixed upon him, and his face broke into a quick smile. "Forgive my miscroniously—Farewell, then, Your loving Kath When William letter he was the night of her ville he had not effort to see her accept attention, and that had been how came this leap pockets? I peritatively and once, He saw a thing was wrong waiting for his misterious, "Perkins," he "You needn't worry, old fellow," he said; "I'm all right. Just a bit blue to-night, Perkins. You've been with me twenty years. Do you remember of what this is the anniversary?" "It's the thirtieth of May, sir. Is it—was it—" He came to a standstill and stood regarding his master with misty eyes. "Hadn't you better go to bed, sir, begging your pardon?" Mr. Denton rose and pulled down the roller-top with a snap. He stretched himself wearily and started toward the door, Perkins in the lead. "Was there any mail for me this afternoon?" he asked, as he reached the corridor. "No, sir; only some tickets and things as were left here by some young ladies. I put them on your dressing table, sir." When Mr. Denton had dismissed his devoted bodyguard for the night he turned his attention absently to the "tickets and things" lying on a porcelain tray. He picked them up with a sudden dawning of curiosity. It was no charity bazaar, or baby show, this time, but tickets for the high school commencement. Who could have left them here? He had been in the city but a month, and his acquaintance—especially among schoolgirls—was absolutely. Yes, yes, of course; little Dolly Winterby, his housekeeper's niece. He recollected it suddenly; she had been at the house less than a week ago, asking for flowers for the occasion, from his hothouse and garden. For some inexplicable reason Mr. Denton could not bring himself to seek his pillow. He was oddly restless; something, many things, had stirred his recollections to the dregs, bitter, half-forgotten. He sat down in a chair and gave himself up completely to "auld lang syne." A score of years ago he had been the happiest man in the village of Redville. He loved the most beautiful girl in the county, and so certain was he of her love in return that he had already bought the ring, the house and lot. They were not actually betrothed, but the bond of mutual confession had seemed to leave nothing to be desired, beyond the consent of her parents for him to place the ring on her finger. This was to be withheld until the night of her graduation, and then—happiness! When that night came she left suddenly for a two months' visit in a neighboring town, without ever telling him that she was going, or saying good-by! Twenty years. How many things had happened in that time—to everybody but him! Kathleen had married another man two years after her cool dismissal of him and they had moved away from Redville. He had never seen her since. Would he ever see her again? He was not sure that he wanted to. His wound had been too deep and poignant to bear being re opened after all these years. It was three o'clock when Mr. Denton finally lay down to rest. Broad panels of sunlight gleamed all across his room when he waked at eight that morning. He rose quickly and made a hasty toilet. The first thing that met his eyes was the little package of tickets for the commencement. There was really no one he knew that he could ask to go with him, but he decided impulsively that he would go himself. It had been—a score of years, of course—since he had had on a dress suit. He wondered dimly if he should go in his Sunday clothes or buy him a new dress suit? Perhaps the old one would do! He called Perkins and, much to that individual's surprise, ordered him to open his trunk in the garret and bring forth the suit. It proved to be somewhat impossible, naturally, and with a hearty laugh Mr. Denton waved it away and went to his breakfast. When the meal was finished he returned to his room and, still under the influence of old memories, took up the queer, old-fashioned trousers and began mechanically to go through the pockets. He found a yellowed linen handkerchief, a tiny penknife and—a letter! In some curiosity he drew forth the letter and turned it over in his hand, looking for the address. To his utter astonishment the seal had never been broken and—he gasped for breath—the delicate back-hand could belong to but one woman in the world—Kathleen! With shaking fingers he opened the envelope and took out the letter. "Decarest Billy—Quite unexpectedly, I have decided to accept an Invitation to Luclie Wilburn's house party in Greenwood. Will you come up on Sunday and make 'one of us?' I've confided to her our little secret, and she is as eager, almost, as I, to have you 4 "What is it. Perkins?" "Forgive my running away so unceremoniously—will explain all later. Farewell, then, for two long days, Your loving Kathleen." When William Denton laid down the letter he was the color of ashes. From the night of her departure from Redville he had not seen her or made any effort to see her. Soon she began to accept attentions from another man, and that had been the end of it. But how came this letter here, in his dress pants pocket? He rang the bell imperatively and Perkins appeared at once. He saw at a glance that something was wrong and stood silently waiting for his master to speak. "Perkins," he said, at last, and his voice was completely changed now, "why did you put this letter in my pocket that night—instead of giving it to me?" Perkins scratched his head and turned pale. Then a relieved look flashed over his face. "If you please, sir, it was not me, Mr. Denton. Don't you remember, it was my evening off, sir, and Johnson was here—" Mr. Denton recollected. But it was all too hopeless and wretched now to even think about. He must try to make the best of his disappointed life, and blame only himself for everything. If he had only gone to her, honestly and honorably, and asked an explanation of what he construed to be her silence! He made up his mind to go to the commencement exercises and, although weary and miserable enough, he would not change again. But only one thought was in his brain—to find Kathleen and tell her everything. There would never be happiness for him, but at least there would be exoneration. Promptly at eight o'clock William Denton entered the great, brilliantly-lighted hall. The program was just opening. He sat through it, dreamy and preoccupied. He was glad when the valedictorian came on. He had not particularly observed her before, but at the first clear words that fell from her girlish lips he sat up, trembling. "Kathleen!" The name escaped his lips involuntarily. He sat and listened to her as one fascinated. At the close of the evening he rose and made his way dazedly through the throngs. At the door he paused a moment to let some ladies by. "Oh, Mrs. Hargraves," one of them was saying, "she just did beautifully—beautifully." Hargraves! That was the man she had married. Mr. Denton turned quickly and their eyes were locked. "Kitty!" he said. "Kitty!" A moment she thought to repulse him, but something in the man's face held her eyes to his as by physical strength. "Will you come in my carriage, Mr. Denton?" she said, smoothing the situation tactfully, as she glanced at the woman who had spoken to her. He nodded and offered his arm. In the brief space while they were pushing their way through the crowd Denton wondered apprehensively where her husband was. He was the last man in the world he wished to see; he felt that he could never bear it. The next minute they had entered the carriage, the doors were slammed and they were whirling away down the avenue. "There's something you wanted to say to me, Mr. Denton," she began, the first to break the silence. "I 'shall have to return in a few moments, as there is to be a reception to the graduates; but I want you to tell me, first—" And he did tell her. Not only of the found letter, the valet's blunder, his own stupidity and stubbornness—but all the dark, bleak years that had gone—and all that were to come! When he finished and looked into her eyes he saw that they were brimming with tears. He saw her lips twitch and the color go out of her face—for the streets were as light as day. With a little, uncontrollable gesture, she turned and laid her hands in his. "Poor Billy!" she said. "Poor Billy!" He gathered her in his arms, oblivious of possible observers. "My husband died five years ago," she said. "He was a good friend and protector, and I was fond of him in a way; but—" She looked up into Denton's eyes and her glance finished the words she could not utter. "The house is still at Redville, Kitty. Will you go back there with me, you and Kathleen?" "I am afraid her sweetheart will object to that, dear. She is to be married at home the day after to-morrow." "Then we shall have a double wedding," cried William Denton; "shall we not?" His Foresight "What makes you keep predicting all sorts of disaster for the country?" "Well," answered Farmer Corntosel, "I sort of do it for self-protection. If anything should go wrong I'll at least have the comfort of sayin' I was a good prophet." SAC WICHIT/ SEARCHLIGHT SAMPLE TALKED ABOUT OS ORGANIZED LABOR Samuel Gompers, although a small-city, is the biggest man in the country union standpoint, standing as he head of the American Federation of labor organization, with its 2,000,000 affiliates is the largest union labor body in the country. President Gompers has been at the federation except for one year since it is recognized as the most conservative leaders. As a part of his duties he takes part in nearly all great strikes and is doing what he can to aid the strikers. Mr. Gompers was born in England 27, 1850, and is a cigarmaker by trade been an advocate of the rights of labor reports to organize the working people since he the founders of the American Federation of labor magazine. He has declined high political life. Half holiday has come about by his initiative and referendum" has grown out of a system makers' unions, of which he was for many. Confession of faith in regard to unionism is as for holds that it is morally wrong for any of the union in his trade or calling. Unorganized to refuse to enter a union, and the legal right price, but it is also the legal right of the union will not work with the non-union man." Matches the work of congress, and if a bill affect the interest of union labor, he is on the until the matter is settled finally. ROBE NEW RATE LA HEADS ORGANIZED LABOR nected with the efforts to organize the working people since his 15th year. He was one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor and editor of its official magazine. He has declined high political honors. The universal Saturday half holiday has come about by his initiative, and the so-called "initiative and referendum" has grown out of a system he introduced in the cigarmakers' unions, of which he was for many years the head. Mr. Gompers' confession of faith in regard to unionism is as follows: "Organized labor holds that it is morally wrong for any workingman to remain outside of the union in his trade or calling. Unorganized labor has the legal right to refuse to enter a union, and the legal right to sell its work at its own price, but it is also the legal right of the union working-man to say that he will not work with the non-union man." Mr. Gompers watches the work of congress, and if a bill is presented that he believes will affect the interest of union labor, he is on the alert lobbying and fighting until the matter is settled finally. TO PROBE NEW RATE LAW Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, one of the strongest men on the interstate commerce commission, is at present on an extended trip through the west and northwest and along the entire Pacific coast to make an exhaustive inquiry into the operations of the railroads and their condition consequent upon the application of the new rate law. Incidentally he will hear several cases arising out of complaints filed with the commission. Commissioner Lane was born on Prince Edward Island in 1863, and in 1870 located with his parents in San Francisco. In 1892 Dr. S. C. Pardee, republican, defeated him for governor of California. In 1903 E. F. Schmitz defeated him for mayor of San Francisco. He is a lawyer and has been a newspaper man. He was nominated per man. He was nominated for the office of interstate commerce commission. He met with opposition owing to his being a new his man and finally named him in December. Commissioner Lane took an active part in the he has figured conspicuously in other important at time. Trip Commissioner Lane is to look into coor- tland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He harding the transportation of coal in the west make a special inquiry into a probable sho- pos this fall. British Legal Light Lord Loreburn, lord chancellor o and one of the ablest of the legal light is coming on a visit to Canada. Lord in spite of his title, is a man of the comes from a middle class town on the west a quaint old Scotch town on the border. The chances for a lawyer in a com- making a national and almost internat- ation were slight, but Robert Reid, known then, came of a race of hard h thinking, logical minded Scotchmen who for their principles at all times and w was, "Til tak' duns frae nane." Oi not daunt a man of that calibre, and became as successful in the practice of college career. He was one of the bitterest o did not fear to condemn the attitude of his republica at a time when his countrymen we feats at the hands of the farmer soldiers. The public opinion is always a dangerous thing for o seemed to glory in it. He had no notion o he, for he was making a brilliant name for his of his aggressive nature there is some pleasu- majority, just as his fathers had done when t church. When the Liberals came to power o and made him solicitor general with a kni was made lord chancellor, which carries with o those for his title the name of the principal t Loreburn street. Is an enthusiastic devotee of almost every shed himself principally at cricket and tennis he found time to take an interest in the a measure with which his name has been most entered the ministry was the bill to establish where judicial errors could be rectified. S. J. D. ROCKEFELLE by the president for the office of interstate commerce commissioner to succeed ex-Gov. Fifer. He met with opposition owing to his being a democrat, but the president knew his man and finally named him in December, 1905. Last spring Commissioner Lane took an active part in the Harriman investigation and he has figured conspicuously in other important inquiries before and since that time. On his present trip Commissioner Lane is to look into complaints at Spokane, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He will make special inquiry regarding the transportation of coal in the west an dnorth-west, and also will make a special inquiry into a probable shortage of cars for moving the crops this fall. BRITISH LEGAL LIGHT had been in his college career. He was one of the bitterest opponents of the Boer war. He did not fear to condemn the attitude of his own country towards the Boer republics at a time when his countrymen were smarting over a series of defeats at the hands of the farmer soldiers. To fly in the face of prevailing public opinion is always a dangerous thing for a politician to do, but Robt. Reid seemed to glory in it. He had no notion of entering politics at that time, for he was making a brilliant name for himself at the bar, and to a man of his aggressive nature there is some pleasure in stand out against the majority, just as his fathers had done when they seceded from the established church. When the Liberals came to power they sought out the young lawyer and made him solicitor general with a knighthood. The following year he was made lord chancellor, which carries with it a large peerage, and Reid chose for his title the name of the principal thoroughfare in his native town, Loreburn street. Lord Loreburn is an enthusiastic devotee of almost every species of sport, but distinguished himself principally at cricket and tennis. Although his was a busy life he found time to take an interest in the affairs of his native town. The measure with which his name has been most prominent connected since he entered the ministry was the bill to establish a criminal court of appeals, where judicial errors could be rectified. MRS. J. D. ROCKEFELLER It is not generally known that one of the most valuable business partners John E. Rockefeller ever had is a woman. And that woman is his wife. There is no doubt that a large share of his present unparalleled financial prosperity is due to the fact that many a time he has accepted the advice of his wife in regard to business matters. It is not hard to believe this after seeing Mrs. Rockefeller. She looks as if she were capable of managing affairs other than those which commonly fall to the supervision of the domestic circle. An amusing incident is told in connection with the engagement of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Celestia Spelman, the daughter of a Cleverna merchant who devoted much of his time and and temperance movements. the daughter of a Cleveland noted much of his time and money to the events. the proposed alliance first went the rounds, friends—a man who was later very promiscuous about the rumor he had heard. She blush morality, whereat her friend is said to have renegotiated you! John Rockefeller is a find girl. But, Laura, I hope it is a case of love for ever be very well off in this world's goods." he has always been a great home body. Special gayeties, having devoted the 41 years of life, their home and their church. For though aggregational church before her marriage, she Baptist thereafter, and has been a consistent immunion ever since. she shared Mr. Rockefeller's work in teachin she is still deeply interested in religious work regular in her attendance at church as her l has only one close confidante in the world, lives with her. merchant who devoted much of his time and money to the anti-slavery and temperance movements. When news of the proposed alliance first went the rounds, one of Miss Spelman's intimate friends—a man who was later very prominent in Ohio affairs—asked her about the rumor he had heard. She blushingly gave it the stamp of authority, whereat her friend is said to have remarked: "Well, Laura, I congratulate you! John Rockefeller is a fine fellow and he deserves a fine girl. But, Laura, I hope it is a case of love for love's sake, for I fear he will never be very well off in this world's goods." Mrs. Rockefeller has always been a great home body. She has never cared at all for social gayeties, having devoted the 41 years of her married life to her husband, their home and their church. For though she was a member of the Congregational church before her marriage, she went with her husband to the Baptist thereafter, and has been a consistent and active member of that communion ever since. For some years she shared Mr. Rockefeller's work in teaching a Sunday school class, and she is still deeply interested in religious work of all sorts. She is almost as regular in her attendance at church as her husband, and besides him, she has only one close confidante in the world, her sister, Miss Spelman, who lives with her. A. H. nected with the efforts to He was 'one of the four editor of its official magazine universal Saturday half he so-called "initiative and re- duced in the cigarmakers head. Mr. Gompers' confession "Organized labor hold to remain outside of the has the legal right to refo- work at its own price, but man to say that he will no Mr. Gompers watches that he believes will affect bying and fighting until the TO PROP Commissioner Franklin strongest men on the inti- mission, is at present on the west and northwest an efficile to make an ex- operations of the railroad consequent upon the appl law. Incidentally he will ing out of complaints file. Commissioner Lane was Island in 1863, and in 187 ents in San Francisco. Ir- republican, defeated him formia. In 1903 E. F. Sch mayor of San Francisco. has been a newspaper ma- by the president for the co- ceed ex-Gov. Fifer. He mu- but the president knew his Last spring Commissi- investigation and he has before and since that time On his present trip O Spokane, Seattle, Portland special inquiry regarding west, and also will make for moving the crops this BRITIS P had been in his college of the Boer war. He did not towards the Boer republic over a series of defeats a face of prevailing public to do, but Robt. Reid seen politics at that time, for he bar, and to a man of his ing out against the majori from the established church out the young lawyer and following year he was m ABOUT D LABOR Although a small man physician in the country, from a standing as he does, at the Federation of Labor. His body in the world. He has been at the head of labor one year since 1882, and most conservative of labor. His duties he takes an active heat strikes and at present aid the striking telegraph. Born in England, January 1882, formaker by trade. He has the rights of labor and con people since his 15th year. Federation of Labor and high political honors. The by his initiative, and the out of a system he intro was for many years the unionism is as follows: strong for any workingman balling. Unorganized labor and the legal right to sell its right of the union working on man." and if a bill is presented labor, he is on the alert lobly. STATE LAW Samuel Gompers, although a small man physically, is the biggest man in the country, from a labor union standpoint, standing as he does, at the head of the American Federation of Labor. His organization, with its 2,000,000 affiliated members, is the largest union labor body in the world. President Gompers has been at the head of the federation except for one year since 1882, and is recognized as the most conservative of labor leaders. As a part of his duties he takes an active part in nearly all great strikes and at present is doing what he can to aid the striking telegraphers. Mr. Gompers was born in England, January 27, 1850, and is a cigarmaker by trade. He has been an advocate of the rights of labor and con- PETER H. merce commissioner to suc- cing to his being a democrat, him in December, 1905. give part in the Harriman and other important inquiries so look into complaints at Los Angeles. He will make final in the west an dnorth- probable shortage of cars. LIGHT and chancellor of England, the legal lights of Britain, Canada. Lord Loreburn, a class of the people, and class in Dumfries, on the border of Eng- lawyer in a country town almost international repu- Robert Reid, as he was race of hard headed, clear Scotchmen who had had all times and whose motto rae nane." Obstacle, and he soon in the practice of law as he the bitterest opponents of attitude of his own country countrymen were smarting ser soldiers. To fly in the thing for a politician had no notion of entering at name for himself at the his some pleasure in stand and done when they seceded came to power they sought real with a knighthood. The ich carries with it a large the principal thoroughfare of almost every species of ticket and tennis. Although interest in the affairs of his has been most prominent bill to establish a crimi- rectified. FELLER Lord Loreburn, lord chancellor of England, and one of the ablest of the legal lights of Britain, is coming on a visit to Canada. Lord Loreburn, in spite of his title, is a man of the people, and comes from a middle class family in Dumfries, a quaint old Scotch town on the border of England. The chances for a lawyer in a country town making a national and almost international reputation were slight, but Robert Reid, as he was known then, came of a race of hard headed, clear thinking, logical minded Scotchmen who had stood for their principles at all times and whose motto was, "Till tak' duns frae name." Obstacles did not daut a man of that calibre, and he soon became as successful in the practice of law as he A. money to the anti-slavery that the rounds, one of Miss her very prominent in Ohio ard. She blushingly gave aid to have remarked: feller is a fine fellow and case of love for love's sake. child's goods." some body. She has never the 41 years of her married h. For though she was a marriage, she went with seen a consistent and active work in teaching a Sunday religious work of all sorts, church as her husband, and in the world, her sister KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TAPOR TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 943 Everett, Kansas City, Kas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. Miss Jennie Alexander, G. Q. M. 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kansas TABERNACLES. Explanation.—"A" means meets in afternoon—all other meeting at night. Chief Preceptresses. Number. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 So. Chestnut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. Anna Fallings, 325 E. 6th, Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thr. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Lillie Shobe, 336 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Tues. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Martha James, 313 W. 11th, Pittsburg, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, Box 405, Weir City, Kan. 16 Miss M. E. Cavanaugh, 1715 Clark, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 21 Mrs. S. Montague, 403 Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kan. 22 Miss Angle Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 23 Mrs. Anna Ray, 1412 Clark, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 24 Mrs. Elliza Scott, 3rd and South, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 25 Mrs. Adda Birthright, 114 West Broadway, Butte, Montana. 26 Mrs. Phannie Corneal, Box 384, Alliance, Neh. 27 Mrs. Mattie Miller, 335 W. 15th, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 28 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 29 Mrs. Matilda Waters, 1300 N. 6th, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 30 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 808 Vermont, Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 63 Mrs. Lille Robinett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Wed. (A) 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 2302 N. 25th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 908 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) TEMPLES. 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 3 J. G. Burdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison; Kan., 1-3 Fri. 4 A. M. Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 7 J. C. Coffee, 1455 N. Mosley, Wichita, Kan, Fridays. 8 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 10 Jno H. McKinnis, 217 Sherman, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 11 C. Swan, 1058 N. Mosley, Wichita, Kan., 1-3-4 Thur. 12 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 15 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 25 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 60 W. Osteen, 1214 Lane, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. 72 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So, 10th, Lincoln, Nebr. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Leavenworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, Ft. Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Lizzle Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walker, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. Morn. 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Coffeyville, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Mary Brown, 325 Miss., Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 1 Sadie Tyler, 125 E. Riley, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arie Stone, 823 Main, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Sattma, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Wills, 2103 Grand, Parsons Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 21 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherman, Leavenworth, Kan., 3 Sat. 23 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawrence (A) Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 30 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthla Henderson, 312 Washington, Kansas City, Kan.. 1-3 Sat. NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle will next meet in Atchison, Kansas, on the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1908. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Tent is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Dstrict Grand Lodge, No. 17, Kansas, G. U. O. O. F. GRAND OFFICERS 1907-8. Thos. Glover, District Grand Master, 704 N. Market St., Wichita, Kan. Chas. A. Finney, Deputy Grand Master Cherokee, Kan. P. H. Bassett, District Grand Secretary, Chetopa, Kan. W. W. Shobe, District Grand Treasurer, 836 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan. H. Kindell, District Grand Director, Ft. Scott, Kan. NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. District Grand Lodge No. 17 will meet in Kansas City, Kansas, in July, 1908. In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 102 E. Douglas Pone 3F Johnston's Restaurant 339 North Main Street Meals 15c to 25cts. Hot or Cold Lunch —At All Hours— ICE CREAM SODA POP always on ice SUNDAY DINNERS 20c and 25c. Banner Mills CUSTOM GRINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED STORNESCH BROG, PROPS. 22 N. Main St. Photo