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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Uplift The Negro Urged NINETH YEAR. Uplift The N A Splendid Addi Justice Davi UPLIFT OF THE NEGRO URGED. Justice of the Supreme Court Points Out Duty. RE GOOD TRAITS IN THE RACE. Christian League Aids in the Work in Georgia. Cleveland, O., Oct. 19.—Justice David Brewer of the United States Supreme Court spoke on the race problem at the meeting today of the American Missionary Society of the Congregational Council. He urged the people to make it their business to aid a uplifting the Negroes, whe, he said, were much more desirable citizens than the objectionable foreign population which came to this country and made ear on the industrial and social or- The uplift through Christian education is the principal work of the American Missionary Association," said Justice Brewer. "Still these are not the only objects of its interest and care. All the despised races in our borders are included. I have myself done a little preaching from the bench of the supreme court on the duty of Christian American people to the heathen Chinese. What I said made but slight expression in the courts, but it will not be heard and heeded by the great body of American Christians. But the number of the colored people so surpass those of all the others and their relations to the nation are so peculiar that not unnaturally we look earnestly upon the work of the association among the colored people. Surely anything which is uplifting one-ninth of our population must be of profound interest to all. Many of the vast multitudes pouring into this republic are radically cold blooded and selfish. Not a few come painted with the spirit of anarchy and are willing to destroy all social order in the hope of personal gain out of the wreck. These immigrants become citizens as we are citizens and as is colored and enfranchised race. And while the colored brothers may be fond of the chicken coop and the intermelon patch, they are firm believers in social order. You will find Johann Most, Emma oldman, Czollinger or Guliteau among them. "In the struggle which may be expected to come between order and anarchy, may it not be that these people, grateful to the nation for their liberty, prove themselves a mighty force, upholding law, order and the supremacy of the nation? Stranger things have happened that of these people, crushed and wronged for generations should become at last strong defenders of the nation and the community at whose hands they hitherto have received many injuries. "They are here as citizens. Whatever temporary restrictions may be placed upon their approach to the ballot box the time will come when all barriers will b ebroken down and they will enjoy everywhere the full rights of citizenship. But ignorant citizens are the prey and the sport of every demagogue who appeals to their passions, and if one-ninth of our citizens are so exposed the whole life of the nation is in peril. "One of our first tasks is that of multiplying skilled workers. It is one thing to pic kcotton or hoe potatoes and something more valuable to make a watch or run an engine. The skilled laborer is worth more to the nation than the unskilled and the industrial training at Hampton, Tuskegee and elsewhere is creating a higher class of labor in the midst of this people." JOHN L. WALLER PASSES AWAY. He Became Well Known as Minister to Madagascar. Topeka, Oct. 19.—Word has been received in Topeka of the death in New York of John L. Waller, former one of the best known colored politicians in Kansas. During the administration of President Harrison Waller served as United States minister to Madgascar, and became involved in trouble with the French government which resulted in his being thrown into jail, where he was held until released at the demand of President Grover Cleveland in 1893. After his return to the United States Waller began suit against the French government for $100,000 damages for false imprisonment, but the suit was later compromised by the payment of $10,000 to Waller. Waller was a very eloquent speaker and was in much demand during political campaigns. During the Spanish-American war he served as an officer in the Twenty-third Kansas, the negro regiment organized by Governor Leedy. MAY ABOLISH NEGRO TROOPS. Southern Congressman Will Work to That End. Washington, Oct. 21.—That an organized effort will be made this winter by Southern senators and represen- tatives to abolish the four colored regiments now in the army of the United States is a nassured fact. That this campaign against the colored troops will, if properly organized, assume the most serious aspect, is a foregone conclusion. In the first paddle, the Southerners will enter the movement with the moral certainty that they will receive the support of the representatives and senators from the Pacific coast. Republicans and Democrats alike, who have felt strongly drawn toward the South and its race difficulties ever since the Japanese question became a live issue on the coast. Most significant of all, Democrats in the house and senate, especially those on the committees on military affairs, have received assurances from the war department officials, army officers of the highest rank on duty in Washington, that the abolition of the four colored regiments would be a most acceptable course of action so far as army people are concerned. This has served to increase the confidence of the Southerners that now is the time to make their stand for the abolition of the colored regiments. HE CAPTURED JOHN BROWN. Charlestown Blacksmith Dies at His Home in Washington. Washington, Oct. 20.—John E. Hilbert, who captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry, died at his home in this city last night. At the time of John Brown's raid, Hilbert was a blacksmith at Charlestown, W. Va., eight miles from Harper's Ferry. He joined a posse to head off Brown and was the man who captured the Kansan in the old engine house of the government arsenal. Later Hilbert joined the Confederate army and after the war was over move dto Washington, "where he has since lived. A NEGRO AWARDED CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR BRAVERY. Pittsburg, Oct. 19.—The regular fall meeting of the Carnegie Hero Commission was held and last night F. M. Wilot, secretary, announced that 24 persons throughout the country had received awards for bravery. The number is the largest in the history of the commission. With last night's awards, 216 persons have been benefited by the hero fund, and 1,121 persons have been refused either money or medals. John B. Hills, 38 years old, a negro of Atlanta, received a bronze medal and $500 to reimburse him on account of loss sustained by being injured. Hills saved several persons during a runaway accident. He was recovering from an operation and was injured again. He is the first negro to receive a reward. BANQUETED A NEGRO. Richmond Society Aroused by the Act of the New Yorkers. Richmond, Va., Oct. 19.—Mr. and Mrs. Potter of New York, who have leased a residence here during the general convention of the American Episcopal church, last evening entertained at dinner Bishop Ferguson of Africa, the only Negro entitled to a seat in the house of bishops at the convention. The dinner given in honor of the Africa nbishop, in the heart of the South, has been the occasion of considerable comment. 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. DO NOT SELL your household goods, etc., etc., store them with us. By N. W. JENKINS (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Capt. Amyas Dare, of the Fifth United States cavalry, was east on furlough, after three years of frontier service. At this time he cherished a passion for photography; he had brought his friends innumerable pictures of Indians, coyotes, cliff-dwellers, and gila monsters; he went about with a kodak in his pocket and accumulated souvenirs of his holiday, destined to adorn the walls of his shack in the barracks, on the Arizona border. One fine June morning he left New York for Washington, making himself comfortable in a parlor car, with a stack of books and papers beside him. By some fatality, he was dressed that morning in full uniform. Presently, looking across the pages of his newspaper, he became aware of a beautiful young woman, seated at the open window on the other side of the car. The girl looked up from her book; the captain, ashamed to be caught staring, at once dropped his eyes, and their gaze rested full upon that peerless foot. Flesh is but grass. The captain whipped his kodak out of his pocket and, under cover of his newspaper, sighted it at the distracting object, an instant, and all would be well. But in that instant the girl stirred. "Don't move!" cried Amyas, forgetting himself. "Don't move your foot!" She sprang up, but the kodak had clicked shut; the impression was taken. "I have it!" he exclaimed, in the moment of triumph. "Thank you very much!" "You have what? A photograph of me?" "Not altogether," he explained, innocently, "merely a picture of your shoe." The young woman turned indignantly toward an elderly gentleman, who had now come forward. He had bristling white mustaches, and a haughty and forbidding appearance. "Papa!" she exclaimed, "this person has insulted me." "The particulars, Daphne!" said papa, with an ominous, steely glance at the culprit. A whispered conversation followed; then Daphne subsided into her seat, holding her head high. Her papa confronted the captain. "Sir," he said, "you have insulted my daughter." "Nothing, declared Amyas, with his best bow, "could have been further from my intentions." "How, sir? Hadn't you the impudence to try to take her photograph?" "Oh, but I didn't." "Don't attempt to trifle with me. You tried to photograph her—" "Shoe. Well, I did. But there was nothing personal about that. Nobody could possibly identify it as hers. I regarded it merely as a beautiful object of—ah—art, or nature, or—" "Be silent, sir. Of all the impudence—but, bah! I see you do not understand these things. I will come to the point. You have insulted my daughter. I demand satisfaction." "Very good, sir. I am on my way to Washington. I stop at the Ebbb house. Send your friend to me; I will be glad to accommodate you. Here is my card." "H'm! Glad to stand up and shoot at me, after affronting my daughter! I dare say. I am not such an ass, sir, as to engage in a ridiculous duel with a young swash-buckler. I shall have you tried—court-martialled—for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gen- The force of example had a very striking exemplification in the case of two persons, a man and a woman, seen walking through Central park recently. Apparently they were husband and wife. He was painfully inching along as though suffering from rheumatism, taking very short, spasmodic steps and leaning heavily on the woman's arm, and she, although having every appearance of health and strength, moved her feet in exactly the same way. One compara Force of Habit. tieman. A gentleman—taught? I will take your card now. Here is mine." And he handed it over. I read: ..... HON. EVERARD ST. CYR. British Legation. Soon after the train arrived in Washington Daphne's papa was in the office of the war department, preferring charges against Capt. Dare, while Daphne's too enthusiastic admirer, in his room at the Ebbitt house, was developing the film of his latest snap shot. As he proceeded to do so, he remarked, rather pensively: "I suppose I did wrong, and there will be old Nick to pay, but was I to miss an opportunity like that? The picture will be a gem." Subsequently, he was placed under arrest and confined to his quarters at the hotel, to await trial by a military tribunal. One morning, who should call on him but Daphne, darkly veiled, and accompanied by her maid, who looked a modish duenna in her Frenchified, black garb. Daphne had been talking to a mutual friend, a brother officer of Dare's, and this conversation had led her to look more leniently upon Dare's offense. He was a brave, single-hearted, high-toned fellow, the friend had said; singularly inexperienced in the ways of the world, and, where photographs were concerned, scarcely responsible for his actions. In this case, his error might be visited with severe punishment—even his dismissal from the service. Daphne had vainly endeavored to persuade her papa to withdraw his charges. And now—would the captain give her the unfortunate picture, that she might at once destroy it? Amyas sighed deeply; however, he brought out the picture, beautifully developed and inclosed in an envelope. He gave it to Miss St. Cyr, who gave it to her maid to carry. The officers appointed to act upon the case of Capt. Amyas Dare, charged with "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman," had met, received all the evidence collected, and were about to make their final decision. Bound to the strictest justice and impartiality, they did not propose to let any feeling of sympathy for the accused influence their verdict. They had the dignity of the service to uphold, with all its immortal traditions; and Dare's conduct had been in the last degree inconsistent with these. An unfavorable verdict seemed imminent; when, to the surprise of all, the captain, who had had very little to say in his own behalf, asked that a witness be summoned. It was supposed that all available testimony had been gathered. But Dare explained that the only real witness for the defense was the ankle photographed on the fatal occasion. A short discussion followed, which ended in dispatching a messenger to the St. Cyr residence a few blocks away. The messenger returned in haste, and with a grin handed Hon. Everard's reply to the officer whose address it bore. It was a defiance, pure and simple, of military tribunals in general and of this one in particular. It contained an absolute refusal, in language more forcible than polite, to send Miss St. Cyr's ankle. What was to be done? The officers conferred together, and one of them tively long step and then a short jerk with the other foot. And thus they made their way along, keeping exact time as though moved by an eccentric piece of machinery.—Pittsburg Dispatch. one whom I know well before he enters my door. "No two people walk quite the same, and as a rule everybody, under ordinary circumstances, puts down and lifts up his feet in a way that does not vary. I can recognize without trouble the quick nervous stride of the ```markdown ``` undertook to call on Hon Everard, and use his persuasions. He soon returned, discomfited; and Amyas, feeling fate against him, was obliged to waive the appearance of his witness. He had nearly given himself up to despair, when the door softly opened, and a trim little veiled woman entered. It was Ceasarine, Daphne's maid. She held in her neatly gloved hands a dainty little box. She looked about her for an instant, then laid it in, the hands of a gray-haired colonel, the oldest officer present. The colonel untied the cord that secured the box, and removed the wrappings, one of silver paper and one of tissue. He reverently drew forth—the ankle—and placed it on the table before him. All came forward to inspect it. No one spoke. It was a wonderful ankle. In a few seconds it had cast a spell over the entire company. The colonel was near-sighted. He adjusted his glasses and bent a little lower over the object of interest. The silence was broken by the voice of Capt. Dare. "Gentlemen, I ask you—looking at this shoe, with Her foot in it, was I to blame?" "Colonel," said the youngest member of the tribunal, rising, "have you ever read "Ninety-Three?"" "Perhaps I have," said the colonel. "If so, I don't remember it. What of it?" "Only this: I am going to emulate Sergt. Radoub. If any man, with eyes in his head and a heart in his body, could preserve entire sanity while looking at—That—court-martial me! Dismiss me from the service!" And he sat down. "Capt. Delgarde for acquittal," said the colonel. And, one after another, the remaining officers gave the verdict "Acquittal;" lastly, the gray-haired colonel himself. Amyas breathed once more. "Vive ces Messieurs!" said Ceasarine, softly. L'Envoi. Married, at the British embassy on the 20th of December, 18—, Daphne, only daughter of Hon. Everard St. Cyr, to Amyas Dare, captain —th, United States dare. ARE WORLD'S FINEST STABLES. Most Luxurious Horse Quarters on Earth to Be Found in Newport. No one feature of Newport extravagance more clearly shows the mint of money lavished on this playground of millionaires than the wonderful stables attached to every establishment, says the Broadway Magazine. Take, for instance, the O. H. P. Belmont villa. It has a stable for its ground floor of such dimensions that a coach and four can drive in, turn about and drive out again. It contains the most elaborate equipment of carriages and harness in the world; its walls are decorated with rare old prints and blue-ribbon prizes. The estates of the brothers Vanderbilt, Alfred and Reginald, at Sand's Point, are veritable villages of stables. As you pass, Dr. Austin Flint whirls by in his motor, and you remember that people from Maine to California are reading that "A. ss Reginald Vanderbilt is confined in the house with a cold." The mere incidents impress you at first with the extravagance of Newport. The prices of papers, periodicals, candy, flowers, etc., are doubled. The millionaire sets the pace even in the simple process of buying a paper of pins. But these details are not of importance; what is important is the gigantic abortive extravagance dreamed of in the philosophy of the millionaire, and ably shown by the magnificent homes of the very horses and motor cars. man who has the room next to mine, the light footfalls of my stenographer, the peculiar shuffle of the dean of our row. There isn't the least difficulty in telling the identity of frequent visitors to my sanctum ere they appear, for there is the telltale revelation brought to my ears before my eyes rest upon them. Just a little observation does the trick." A mixture of emery powder, sweet oil and kerosene is said to be excellent for cleaning the teeth—of a saw. THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. MILLER.....Editor Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. 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"Te Live and Let Live" is Our Motto. A MEA NTRICK. What do you think of a person who will not pay their subscription to a Negro paper? Are they not mean? Do not hold back what you owe. Talk about race enterprise—prove it by paying your honest bill to your race paper. HOW PERRY OPENED JAPAN. Under the above title Pearson's Magazine for November publishes a very interesting account of how Commodore Perry opened Japan to civilization in 1854. The article is from the pen of James Creelman, and coming from one so well acquainted with the doings in our national capital, it will be read with much interest, especially now since Japan seems to be causing a stir in the minds of the American people at large. In it is told in detail the story of Commodore Perry's mission to Japan, and how he accomplished what all the world-renowned diplomats of Europe failed to do. The fact that this is a recount of a rather old story does not lesson the interest in the article. Here we have these latter-day events reflected in the light of modern development. D. F. Marshall. 236 N. Main, sells new and second-hand Furniture and Stoves on easy payments at cash prices. It will pay you to figure with him. BANDANA CONCERT. There will be a grand Bandana Concert, concluding with a cotton picking scene, at the A. M. E. church Monday, October 28th. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hicks and Mr. Young were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Underwood Sunday. The ladies of the G. L. A. Club were entertained on Tuesday afternoon by Mesdames J. L. Harper and S. W. Fleming at the home of Mrs. Harper. Among the important transactions of business was the election of a president, which was omitted at the previous meeting. Much of the progress of the club has been due to the highly efficiency and faithfulness of the retiring president, Mrs. Thos. Cox, who has held the position a number of years. Mrs. J. L. Harper was elected as their new president and the club starts out with most favorable prospects for this year's club work. After business a nice luncheon was served. They will meet next week with Mrs. A. T. Glover. Mrs. White, a sister of Mr. Thos. Fines, and her husband visited with Mr. and Mrs. Fines last week. They returned to their home in Independence Saturday. OUR COLLECTOR WILL CALL— WICHITA READERS--READ! The collector for The Searchlight will begin his collections in Wichita on Saturday, October 12th, and will collect from day to day until he has collected from everyone who may owe The Searchlight anything. Now, friends, permit us to ask you not to put our collector off, but pay him something when he calls. He has a large territory to cover in Wichita, and he wishes to do so as quickly as possible. It has been some time since we had our collector out in Wichita, and our readers should favor us, as we have them by paying what they owe. Encourage our young folks and race enterprises by paying your little bill to our collector. Any favors shown our collector in paying your bill will be highly appreciated by the management. Pay up, please. A Good Chance For All Those That Would Like To Be Helped Miss Mamie Richardson, of Kansas City, Kan, has loca- ted in our city as a MUSIC TEACHER. She comes well recommended from some of the best instructors in the west. Had several years ex- perience in teaching. She solicits your patronage and will be glad to meet you at 630 NORTH WATER ST., Phone 1041 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. ALL THINGS ARE WELL. That ends well—so pay your subscription to the Searchlight and get a good night's sleep. See those beautiful designs in Tapestry or Axminster Rugs at D. F. Marshall's. 236 N. Main. BEN F. BELL AND MRS. LOTTIE HILL MARRY. We are reliably informed that Mr. Ben F. Bell and Mrs. Lottie Hill, both formerly of Wichita, but now of Enlil, Okla., have married. It is said that they have been man and wife for the past two months. The many friends of both wish them success. Both were former consistent workers in the A. M. E. church in this city. NEW BARBER SHOP. Messrs. Wm. Coulter and Dan Furgeson have opened up a new barber shop at 349 N. Main street with the well-known artists, Dan Ferguson and George P. Silvers at the chairs. They are open for business and invite their friends to call. APPRECIABLE PRESENT Taborian Temple No. 11 presented Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M., with a solid silver shaving mug on the event of the marriage of Rev. Wilson. The gift was highly appreciated by the Crief Grand Mentor. Grand Master Thos. Glover made a business trip to Kansas City last week in the interest of the Odd Fellows and to attend the meeting of the board of trustees of Quindaro, of which he is a member. MADE ROYAL ARCH MASONS. Quite a splendid time was had in when six Master Masons were given the Royal Arch degrees. Those who were promoted were: Dudley Johnson, Ambrose Morris, Sam Brazille, Willie Lwis, Joe Phillips and W. M. Knox. PEABODY, KAN. Mrs. J. Richardson, Mrs. L. Pinchum and Mr. Albert Holden of Marion, Kan., spent Sunday with Mrs. S. L. Duncan and daughter, Beatrice. LOCALS BUY LUM -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. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Everything in the Housefurnishing line can be had at D. F. Marshall's. 236 N. Main. SEASON'S MUSICAL EVENT. The coming musical number of the season will be the splendid musical event to be offered by Miss Mamie Richardson, the very accomplished music teacher of our city. Miss Richardson's presentation at Redman hall on Thursday night, Nov. 7th, will be in the nature of a recital in which the more advanced members of her large class in music will take part, thus demonstrating Miss Richardson's superb ability in her chosen line—teacher of music. This musical event of Monday night, Nov. 7th, will be the social musical event of the season, opening the high class musical circles in Wichita. Those who delight in first class up-to-date musical events should avail themselves of this great event on Monday night, Nov. 7th Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Young have just completed a very cosy addition to their residence at 601 North Main street. HAS RETURNED HOME. Mrs. I. J. Porter and children returned Wednesday from Colorado Springs, Colo., where they have been since spring. They are the very pictures of good health and report an enjoyable stay in Colorado. They came home and find everything in firstclass shape, as Mr. Porter, during their absence has had their home remodelled, painted and many improvements made to add to the comfort of their already palatial home. Their many friends are glad to see them. Mrs. Maggie Cannan of Enid, Okla. was a pleasant visitor in Wichita this week. Mt. Hebron Tabernacle No. 3, gave a very successful entertainment on Oct. 12th, at which $8.75 was cleared. All wish for them continued success. Rev. and Mrs. Tipps spent the 13th of Oct. in Eldorado, Kan. Mrs. Tipps as the guest of Mrs. John Reed and Rev. Tipps preached two able sermons for the SecondBaptist church morning and evening, and also the 21st Rev. Tipps preached for them and baptized one. Mrs. Geo. McDonald wishes to announces that she now has a new and fresh supply of Mme. Walker's Hair Grower, on hand, and in the future will kee pa supply. Largest size boxes 50c. Mrs. M. B. Smith of Hutchinson, came over the 15th and paid a day and half visit with her baughter, Mrs. Dord Tipps. Packing Meat will occupy the 21st & Lawren Oct. 21st.. Great kinds of Fresh Packing House Meat Market will occupy their new building 21st & Lawrence on Monday Oct. 21st..Great Bargains in all kinds of Fresh and Salt Meats We Can Save You Money. Come and See JOHN S. DAWSON, PROP. BUY LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner Of 3rd & Main Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- OFFICE 601 N. MAIN ST Coulter & Furgerson's Barber Shop 349 N. Main Everything First-Class Shave 10c. Hair Cut 25c. Your Patronage Solicited IN NEW QUARTERS. Packing House Meat Market Moves to New Building. The Packing House Meat Market is now located in their new quarters at 21st and Lawrence avenue. Mr. John S. Dawson, the proprietor, is prepared to serve his many customers with wholesale meats, lard and other eatables in that line at nearly wholesale prices and will thereby save his customers much money. It is to your advantage to go to the New Packing House Meat Market, at the corner of 21st and Lawrence, and buy your meats etc. ARM BROKEN. Walter Neely, son of W. C. Neely met with the painful accident of getting his arm broken while at work in the new Boston Store Sunday. Young Neely was on the freight elevator assisting in carry up freight and was sitting on top of a load of boxes with his arm on top of the cage when the cage struck the top catching his arm. His injuries were dressed and he is reported fast improving. BANDANA CONCERT PROGRAM. There will be an old fashioned bandana concert given at the A. M. E. church Monday, October 28, 1907. Come out and see the old fashioned folks in an old fashioned way. Admission 10c. PROGRAM. Opening Chorus, "Swing Low, Sweet Charlot." Recitation—Mrs. Wilkins. Music and Song—Mrs. J. Hall. Recitation—Mrs. rGagg. Solo—Mrs. Howard. Recitation—Mrs. Kennedy. Song by Company, "Old Kentucky Home." Recitation—Mr. Robert Proffitt. Bakin and Greens. Recitation—Mrs. Baker. SSong by Company, "Keep in De Middle Ob De Road, Cotton Picking." Johnston's Restaurant 339 N. Main St. Meals 20c and 25c Cigars, Tobacco, Lunch Fish Game and Oysters in Season Your Trade Wanted Notice—Mrs. Dord Tipps will conduct a grand productive concert in the near future. Watch for date, programe and prices. "The South Before the W ar." Young people take notice for you will be called upon to participate therein. House Market ir new building ce on Monday Bargains in all Residence 703 N. Main St Dan Furgerson WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Soalals and Churches. Orders delivered to any part of the city. ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco ... Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaters for Colored people. 615 North Main st. "Second to None The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Food are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. Goods Stored Household Goods, Trunks, Boxes, Packages, and any kind goods SAFELY STORED for you. Reasonable Rates. Miller Storage Co., W. N. Miller, Manager 634 N. water st. Wichita, K HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue Dr.J.E. Farmer Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St YOUR GOODS SAFE if you store them with us.—Miller Storage Co., 634 N. Water. Centropolis Hotel First-Class In Everyway Clean Beds, Wholesome Meals, Cigars, Ice Cream and Cake at all times..... Terms Reasonable Mrs. S. Sneed, Prop. Do You Want Long Hair? Mrs. Geo. McDonald. MME. C. J WALKER'S Wonderful Hair Grower Mrs. McDonald is the Sole Agent and uses the same process which Mme. Wal- ker uses in making the hair grow. Office at 634 North Wabash Ave., For Full Particulars W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 M. Main St. Wichita, Kans. --- Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER & MONG, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Martin Delmonico Restaurant 513 N. Main St. First Class Meals Lunch at All Hour Everything neat andclean. Your patronage solicited. Fish, Game and Oysters in season. Frazier & Frazier, Props. Watch for the Searchlight collection Be prepared to pay wha you owe Office, 601 N. Main St. Red Front RACKET The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes We have just received a large invoice of Men's, Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies' and Miss' Fine Shoes, Oxfords and Slippers all styles and kinds. AT WHOLESALE PRICES Tapp & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N. Malt For a Good Job of Lead and Oil SUTTON PAINT CO. Supplement to THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANSAS. At Home. "I never was a hand to go gawping round!" contemptuously exclaimed an old woman who boasted of never having seen a railway train or a trolley car or any town but her own. The generation of stay-at-homes in the country is perhaps passing away—the women—they were chiefly women—who prided themselves on their self-imprisonment on farm or in village as a virtue, serving to demonstrate their devotion to home and children and duty. There is a class of men in the business world who have the same point of view in regard to the object of life. Such a one, dying at the age of 88, left a record of 55 years as the head of a banking house, during which he had been absent from his desk but two days—and those were accounted for by a sprained ankle. No vacation, no travel, no day of summer leisure with wife and children—55 years of steady, unswerving routine! There is something impressive in the story of a lifetime of persistent toil. But there is another point of view which deserves respect. The gadabout may be a useless member of society; but the stay-at-home is likely to be a narrow one. We find ourselves on this little planet, with its oceans and mountains and mighty rivers and wide prairies. We know not whence we came, nor if we shall ever pass this way again. Surely, exclaims Youth's Companion, we may do our task better in our own appointed place if we look about the world, feed our minds with the glories of nature, and discover how men and women before us have lived their lives, and embodied their aspirations in the great arts of building and painting and sculpture. The man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before was long ago pointed out as deserving well of his fellow creatures, but if distinction is due to such a one, what, asks the Chicago News, shall be said of the man who develops a race of hens that would habitually lay more than one egg a day? Surely no tribute of honor and gratitude could be too great for such a one. Prof. Gilman A. Drew of the University of Maine may be the one to whom such debt will eventually be paid, for he has been conducting studies and experiments which lead him to believe that there is no biological reason why he should not lay more than one egg a day. This being true it follows that the same American enterprise which increases the quantity of all other agricultural products will be turned to the hen and compel her to do her full duty. A hen's time is of no value in other directions, and if she can occupy what has hitherto been idle leisure in producing more eggs, then no laziness on her part should be permitted. She should have no afternoons off. The eyes of the world are now expectantly fixed on Drew and the further results of his experiments. A New York woman who is a famous authority on cooking has gone bankrupt while endeavoring to cater to the appetites of the people of her town, where she ran two restaurants. This innocent person should have known that the way to make money in New York is to lay in a dozen celluloid sandwiches and a large stock of alcoholic beverages. To try to tempt the New Yorker with good cooking is one of the strangest vagaries thus far recorded, declares the Chicago News. What he wants is something to stimulate his thirst, not allay his appetite. It is well known that good cooking tends to destroy the craving for drink. Yet this expert in the culinary art deliberately undertook to practice her specialty in Gotham! New Yorkers do not want their craving for drink destroyed, so they probably breathe more freely, now that the scientific cookshops have landed in bankruptcy. The New York board of education is to investigate the question of corporal punishment, as it has been charged that the discipline of the schools has been undermined by the powerlessness of the teachers to punish and the advantage taken by the children in their knowledge of this immunity. Is Solomon to be vindicated in these modern times and his wisdom admitted when he said that to spare the rod was to spoil the child? In his own day, it may be remembered, Solomon was considered a very wise man, and his record has not been signally broken by modern sages. One New Jersey hotel keeper proved more than a match for a lot of college hazers. He locked them in, turned in a fire alarm and had the hose turned on them. There is nothing to quench enthusiasm of any kind like having cold water poured on it. Once more the season is at hand when things begin to happen that cause a rise in the price of coal. In this respect it stands in sharp contrast with the period for rises in the price of ice. END OF THE HUNT. President Roosevelt and Party Return to Stamboul From 15 Days' Camping. Stamboul, La., Oct. 22.—"We got three hears, six deer, one wild turkey, 12 squirrels, one duck, one possum and one wild cat. We ate them all except the wildcat and there were times when we almost felt as if we could eat it." This was President Roosevelt's summing up of the result of his hunt on Bayou Tensas and Bear lake. He arrived at three o'clock Sunday afternoon at the residence of Leo Shields, where he will be a guest until he makes his departure for Vicksburg Monday. He came in on full gallop and accompanied as he was by about a dozen of his hunting companions, all mounted and attired in hunting garb, the cavaleade presented a tableaux as picturesque as it was animated. The president is slightly more bronzed than when he entered the wilderness from this point 15 days ago, but not withstanding this fact and the additional circumstances that his clothes bear evidence of contact with the cane and other brush, he was never in better spirits in his life. New Land Ruling. Washington, Oct. 21.—An important change in the regulations for acquiring homesteads on the public domain was announced Saturday by Commissioner Ballinger of the general land office. As an additional precaution against fraud, all persons making homestead entries on public lands after November 1, next, will be required to prove actual residence on the lands for 14 months before they will be permitted to "commute" the entries to obtain title by a cash payment. Heretofore the period of actual residence has been eight months. The ruling will not affect entries made prior to November 1, 1907. Kansas Medals Go Begging. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 20.—The G. A. R. delivered to the adjutant general Friday 89 of the medals to be given to the members of the Twentieth Kansas regiment. When the regiment returned from the Philippines the G. A. R. had a bronze medal cast for each member of the regiment and presented one to every member that could be located. It has been impossible to find 89 of the members, so the G. A. R. gave up the job and the adjutant general is going to try it. Decided Against Kansas. Washington, Oct. 22.—The supreme court of the Un ed States Monday declined to allow the Kansas versus Colorado case to be re-opened by denying a petition for rehearing submitted by the state of Kansas. The case, which was an attempt on the part of Kansas to prevent the state of Colorado from using for irrigation purposes the waters of the Arkansas river, was decided by the supreme court last spring in favor of Colorado. Fewer Pensioners Now Washington, Oct. 23.—The decrease of 18,600 in the number of pensioners on the rolls at the end of the fiscal year 1907, as compared with the year previous, is the feature of the annual report of the pension commissioner, Vespasian Warner, just issued. This is the greatest decrease in the history of the pension bureau. How Kansas City Grows Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 22—The Kansas City bank clearings Monday made another high record. They amounted to the huge total of $8,146,284, as compared with $5,9.4,539 on the corresponding day last year, showing an increase of 36.3 per cent. St. Joseph Barker Dead. St. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 20—Louis Boder, president of the Merchants' bank of St. Joseph, is dead at his home here, aged 59 years. He Captured John Brown Washington, Oct. 22—John E. Hilbert, who captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry, died at his home in this city Sun-Lay night. MARKET REPORTS. Live Stock. Kansas City, Oct. 23. -Cattle-Natives: Sheers, $4.80@6.50; cows and heifers, $2.10@4.75; stockers and feeders, $3.00@4.80; Western steers, $3.60@4.75. Hogs-Bulk, of sales, $6.05@6.15. Sheep-Muttons, $4.99@5.75; lambs, $6.25@7.40. Chicago, Oct. 23. Beef-Natives, $3.85 stockers and feeders, $1.90@5.20; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.60. Hoga- Mixed and butchers, $5.85@6.45. Sheep, $3.10@5.50. Lambs, $5.00@7.50. St. Louis, Oct. 23. -Beef, steers, $4.00 @7.15; stockers and feeders, $7.55@4.50; cows and heifers, $5.75@4.75. Texas steers, $2.75@5.25. Tigers and lights, $5.75 @6.45. Sheep -Natives, $3.25@5.65. Lambs, $4.50@7.35. Grain Kansas City, Oct. 23. -Close. Wheat 2 to 4c lower -Dec., 94%; Maw, $1.00%; cash No. 2 hard, 96%@1.00; No. 3, 96%@92%; No. 2 red, $1.02; No. 3, 1.00. Corn-Unchanged to 1%c lower. Dec, $51%; May, 53%; cash No. 2 mixed. No. 51%; No. 2 white, 55%@59; No. 3, 58%@58; Oats-lower. No. 2 white, No. 3, 50%@50%; No. 2 mixed Chicago. Oct. 23. -Cash wheat- No. 2 red, $1.00%@1.01%; No. 2, red, $98%@1.01%; No. 2 hard, $1.00%@1.03%; No. 3 hard, $98%@1.01%; No. 3, spring, $1.02%; No. 1 northern and No. 2 northern, nothing doing. Corn- No. 2. $61%@61%; No. 3. $61%@61%; Oats- No. 2 and No. 3, nothing doing. St. Louis. Oct. 23. -Close-Wheat lower Track No. 2 red, cash, $1.02%@1.03%; No. 2 hard, $1.01%@1.03%; Dec., $98%@98%; May, $1.05%; Corn-Lower. Track No. 2, cash, 62; Dec., $54%; May, 57%; No. 2 white, 62; Oats-Lower. No. 2, cash, 50; Dec., 48%; May, 51%; No. 2, white, 52. Produce. Kansas City, Oct. 23. -Eggs, 22c per doz. Poultry- Hens, 52c; springs, 8@2c; turkeys, 10c; Butter-Creamery, extra, 29c; firsts, 22c; packing stock, 20c. Potatoes, 70@75c per bu. MIX THIS YOURSELF RECIPE FOR SIMPLE HOME-MADE KIDNEY CURE. Here is a simple home-made mixture as given by an eminent authority on kidney diseases, who makes the statement in a New York daily newspaper, that it will relieve almost any case of Kidney trouble if taken before the stage of Bright's disease. He states that such symptoms as lame back, pain in the side, frequent desire to urinate, especially at night; painful and discolored urination, are readily overcome. Here is the recipe; try it: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Take a teaspoonful after each meal and at bedtime. A well-known physician is authority that these ingredients are all harmless and easily mixed at home by shaking well in a bottle. This mixture has a peculiar-healing and soothing effect upon the entire Kidney and Urinary structure, and often overcomes the worst forms of Rheumatism in just a little while. This mixture is said to remove all blood disorders and cure the Rheumatism by forcing the Kidneys to filter and strain from the blood and system all uric acid and foul, decomposed waste matter, which cause the afflictions. Try it if you aren't well. Save the prescription. WHEN MILESTONES CHEER. They Always Gladden the Heart of the Pedestrian. In a walking trip a milestone along the way is the most companionable fellow in the world; your spirits rise as you near him as though you were about to greet a human friend, and they keep almost consistently on his high level till his brother a mile distant advances to meet you. And when you overlook one of this friendly company because of an encroaching bank or screening boughs, says the Travel Magazine, his neighbor further on comes to you doubly welcome. At the latter end of this passage in the journey your spirits flag a trifle as though oppressed by a sense of desertion. You may even scowl at the overhanging bank which is more than a party to this concealment. Those worthy persons who attend to the roads should see to it that every milestone within their province stands out frankly from its leaf background. Observance of this, however, would rob the wayfarer of that leap of the heart which is his when the stone tells the story of two miles done rather than one. For however much the landscape and the minute world at his feet may claim the footfarer's admiration he is still keenly alive to the virtue of decent distances covered in his day's journey. Old Coins Discovered Workingmen in demolishing the old smelter house of the first United States mint, on Seventh street, Philadelphia, have uncovered a number of relics of the early days of the republic. These relics consist of a number of foreign and domestic coins, dating as far back as 1793. Some of the interesting finds are a number of test coins that were experimented with by the officials in the olden times. These coins are similar to Chinese money, each containing a hole in the center that was filled with various kinds of metal to bring up the value or the coin. Hospital Story-Telling. It is curious that philanthropists in search of a novel means of doing good do not engage reciters and storytellers to visit hospitals and amuse the patients. A rich man in New York engaged Marshall P. Wilder, the diminutive entertainer, who has given pleasure in nearly every city, to visit regularly certain hospitals in New York. Mr. Wilder was welcomed enthusiastically by the convalescent patients, and his merry stories did them good. OLD SOAKERS Get Saturated with Caffeine. When a person has used coffee for a number of years and gradually declined in health, it is time the coffee should be left off in order to see whether or not it has been the cause of the trouble. A lady in Huntsville, Ala., says she used coffee for about 40 years, and for the past 20 years has had severe stomach trouble. "I have been treated by many physicians but all in vain. Everything failed to give relief. Was prostrated for some time, and came near dying. When I recovered sufficiently to partake of food and drink I tried coffee again and it soured on my stomach. "I finally concluded that coffee was the cause of my trouble and stopped using it. I tried tea in its place and then milk, but neither agreed with me; then I commenced using Postum, had it properly made and it was very pleasing to the taste. "I have now used it four months, and my health is so greatly improved that I can eat almost anything I want and can sleep well, whereas, before, I suffered for years with insomnia. "I have found the cause of my troubles and a way to get rid of them. You can depend upon it, I appreciate Postum." "There's a Reason." Read "The Road to Wellville." in pkgs. MAGILLS FOUND NOT GUILTY Jury Decides They Are Not Responsible for Suicide. State Claimed Magill and Miss Graham Had Driven First Mrs. Magill to Self Destruction. Decatur, Ill., Oct. 19.—Acting under instructions from Judge Cochran, the jury Friday night returned a verdict acquitting Frederick Magill and his wife, Faye Graham Magill, of the charge of murdering Mrs. Pet Magill, the first wife of Magill. In his instructions the judge said the state had failed to prove the Corpus Delicii. The verdict was greeted with cheers in the spite of effects of the court to maintain order. The crowd in the court room hurried forward and offered congratulations to the Magills. The jury afterward filed by and each shook hands with the defendants. On May 31, last, Mrs. Pet Magill was found dead in her home at Clinton, Ill., and postmortem examination held six weeks after her death showed that she had been suffocated by chloroform. On July 5, in Denver, Col., Frederick Magill, her husband, and Miss Faye Graham, a young woman who had been a close friend of the family were married. Four days later in San Diego, Cal., Magill and his second wife were arrested on a charge of murdering the first Mrs. Magill. They were brought back to Clinton and secured a change of venus to this city. In the trial the state claimed that Magill and Miss Graham by their conduct had driven Mrs. Magill to suicide and were therefore guilty of murder. The defense introduced letters written by Mrs. Magill shortly before her death, in which she complained of "unbearable headaches" and constant "nagging" of her husband's relatives. Witnesses also testified that Mrs. Magill had often talked of committing suicide. In a letter to her husband written the day before her death, Mrs. Magill asked him to marry Faye Graham in case anything should happen to her. Magill was employed in a bank at Clinton, Ill., the chief owner of which is Vespasian Warner, United States commissioner of pensions. A KANSAS HERO. The Carnegie Commission Gave Medal and $5,000 to Andrew J. Hodger. Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 20.—The regular fall meeting of the Carnegie Hero commission was held Friday in the Carnegie building, this city, and Friday night F. M. Wilot, the secretary, announced that 24 persons through the country had received awards for bravery. The number is the largest in the history of the commission. With the awards 125 persons have been benefited by the hero fund, and, 1,121 persons have refused either money or medals. For the first time since the beginning of the hero fund a negro, John B. Hill, of Atlanta, Ga., received an award. Hill saved several lives by stopping a runaway, although ill and weak at the time. The last and largest award to be made was a gold medal and the sum of $5,000, given to Andrew J. Hedger, 45 years old, of Santa Fe, Kan. Mr. Hedger, who is county superintendent of schools, made a heroic rescue. Two men, Josepa King and William Nann were caught by a cave-in of sand while at the bottom of a deep well at Pierceville, Kan. Nunn was suffocated and King slowly dying. Notitwsstanding the fact that another cave-in seemed sure within a short time. Mr. Hedger was lowered into the well and succeeded in saving King and recovering Nunn's body. The night following the rescue there was another fall of a ton or more of sand. The money awarded Mr. Hedger is to be used in educating his four children. A Remarkable Walking Test. A Remarkable Walking Test. Cincinnati, O., Oct. 22. — Dan O'Leary, the world's famous long distance walker, finished his 1,000-mile walk at Norwood Inn, in this city at 7 o'clock Sunday morning. He has walked one mile during each hour for 1,000 consecutive hours and although he is nearly 65 years old, he at no time during this test of his strength has shown any signs of faltering. This is one of the most remarkable walking tests ever witnessed in America, and the medical world has been intensely interested as to the outcome. Joplin Hearing Postponed. Joplin, Mo., Oct. 19.—The preliminary hearing of Minnie St. Clair and others held on the charge of having dynamited the News-Herald office the night of September 13 was continued Friday to October 26. Continuance was granted on application of the defendants on the ground of absence of their attorney. Secretary Taft Satisfied. Manila, Oct. 23.—Secretary Taft ended a day of hard work in the transaction of official business with an important conference with President Osmena of the Philippine assembly. They discussed the attitude of the assembly, which the secretary said was satisfactory, expressing his gratification that its tendency is not radical. Convention of Press Clubs. Birmingham, Ala. Oct. 23.—the annual convention of the International League of Press clubs opened here Tuesday. that period of its terrors. Women who are troubled with painful or irregular functions should take immediate action to ward off the serious consequences and be restored to health and strength by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Miss Adelaide Nichols of 324 West 22nd Street, New York City, writes:—Dear Mrs, Pinkham:“If women who suffer would only rely upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound their troubles would be quickly alleviated. I feel greatly indebted for the relief and health which has been brought to me by my inestimable remedy.” Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures Female Complaints such as Falling and Displacements, and Organic Diseases. Headache, General Debility, Indigestion, and invigorates the whole feminine system. For the derangements of the Kidneys of either sex Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is excellent. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to write Mrs.Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass From the symptoms given, the trouble may be located and the quickest and surest way of recovery advised. One trial will convince you that Sloan's Liniment will relieve soreness and stiffness quicker and easier than any other preparation cold for that purpose. It penetrates to the bone, quickens the blood, drives away fatigue and gives strength and elasticity to the muscles. Thousands use Sloan's Liniment for rheumatism, neuralgia, toothache sprains, contracted muscles, stiff joints, cuts, bruises, burns, cramp or colic and insect stings. PRICE 25¢,50¢, 5 $1.00 Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass, U.S.A. Garden Spot of the World This Fitly Describes That Portion of Texas Lying Between San Antonio and the Gulf. You Can Buy a Truck and Fruit Farm of from 10 Acres to 640 Acres and Two Choice Town Lots for $210. Terms $10 a Month Without Interest. Read the Following: Dr. C. F. Simmons, Sdn. will receive a receipt of your favor of the 7th inst., and in answer will say that I visited the Dr. C. F. Simmons ranch in Atascosa County, Texas, on February 9th, 1907, spent 1 hour at the ranch, and stayed nine hours. Brantford, on March 16th, the 10th over the ranch, making two full days of hard riding on horseback over this ranch. two thousand miles. I saw three artesian wells, and was within three-quarters of a mile of the fourth one. I tasted the water at one of these wells and found it to be all right. It was very warm, as I understand all artesian water is when it first comes from the well. I am satisfied this well is furnishing enough water to irrigate 1,000 acres of land. It is in Headquarters pasture. I found the soil to be from a heavy black to a dark red, and all the shades between black and red. In fact, the soil looked good to me, and I believe I knew good land when I see it. believe I know. I have carefully the printed folders and examined the little book, "New Home Sweet Home" with regard to the pictures printed in it, and will say they are all there just as natural as life. While I did not get to see all over the ranch, I saw enough to satisfy me that it is all right. I saw the country from San Antonio via Corpus Christi to Brownsville, but like the Simmons ranch better than anything I saw in Texas. I have invested in this Simmons proposition and am now making preparations more than this fall, and I wish to say to my friends and all of the friends to take out at least one application. You can't go wrong. It is the garden spot of the United States. This is the famous Simmons Ranch of 95,000 acres 36 miles south of San Antonio. For literature and full particulars write for name of nearest agent. DR CHAS, F. SIMMONS. FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL. Discharged Because Doctors Could Not Cure. Levi P. Brockway, S. Second Ave., Anoka, Minn., says: "After living for away, S. Second Ave. ways: "After lying for five months in a hospital I was discharged as incurable, and given only six months to live. My heart was affected, I had smothering spells, and sometimes fell unconscious. I got so I couldn't use my arms, my eyesight five months in a hospital I was discharged as incurable, and given only six months to live. My heart was affected, I had smothering spells, and sometimes fell unconscious. I got so I couldn't use my arms, my eyesight was impaired and the kidney secretions were badly disordered. I was completely worn out and discouraged when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, but they went right to the cause of the trouble and did their work well. I have been feeling well ever since." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo, N.Y. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. De Scales. There are dear wives and dear wives; one kind is dear to a man's heart, the other to his pocket book. A MISS ADELAIDE NICHOLS that period of its terrors. Women who are regular functions should take immediate consequences and be restored to health at Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Garden. Miss Adelaide Nichols of 324 West writes:—Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—11 women upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound quickly alleviated. I feel greatly indebted which has been brought to me by your Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound such as Falling and Displacements, and General Debility, Indigestion, and in system. For the derangements of the E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Mrs. Pinkham's Standing In. Women suffering from any form of fever write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. From this may be located and the quickest and surest one trial will convoke you that Sloan's Liniment will relieve soreness and stiffness quicker and easier than any other preparation cold for that purpose. It penetrates to the bone, quickens the blood, drives away fatigue and gives strength and elasticity to the muscles. Thousands use Sloan's Liniment for rheumatism, neuralgia, tooth sprains, contracted muscles, still joints, cuts, bruises, burns, cramps or colic and insect stings. PRICE 25¢, 50¢, $1.00 Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass, U.S.A. Garden Spot of This Fitly Describes That Pair Between San Antonio You Can Buy a Truck and Fruit Farm of Two Choice Town Lots for $210 Without Interest. Read Hutchison Dr. C. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Tex. Dear Sir:—I am in receipt of your favor will say that I visited the Dr. C. F. Simmons, on February 9th, 1907. I spent all at the Brown ranch, then rode all day the full days of hard riding on horseback over the met Mr. Pendis at Pleasanton. He for me, knows every foot of the lily the poorest land on the ranch, and he did two days' hard riding I was fully satisfied with I saw three artesian wells, and was waking the fourth one. I tasted the water at one all right. It was very warm, as I understated first comes from the well. I am it. I am to irigate 1,000 acres of land. It is in Heard the shades between black and red. In fact, the believe I know good land when I see it. I have read carefully the printed folded "New Home Sweet Home" with regard to will say they are all there just as natural to While I did not get to see all over the me that it is all right. I saw the country Christi to Brownsville, but like the Simmons I saw in Texas. I have invested in this Simmons properties to move there this fall, and I wish their friends, take out at least one application the garden spot of the United States. Wishing you success, I remain. Yours truly, This is the famous Simmons Ranch of Antonio. For literature and full particular DR. CHAS. F. S. 215 Alamo Plaza, New and Liberal Homestead Regulations in WESTERN CANADA New Districts Now Opened for Settlement 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Some of the choice lands in the grain grow- ing belts of Saskatchewan and Alberta have recently been opened for settlement under the Revised Homestead Regulations of Canada. Thousands of home owners 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Some of the choices made in the grain growing belt in grits, wheat and Alberta have recently been opened for the Revised Homestead Regulations of Canada. Those aids of homesteaders are now available. The new regulations make it possible for entry to be made by proxy, the opportunity to enter the farm without waiting for. Any member of a family may make entry for any other member of the family, who may be entitled to make entry for himself or herself. Entry may be made by proxy, (on certain conditions) by the father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister of intending homemaster. The fee in each case will be $10.00, schools and markets contract. Healthy climate, splendid lands and markets. Cultivar growing and cattle raising principal industries. For further particulars as to rates, routes, best time to go and where to locate, apply to J. S. CRAWFORD, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 43, 1907. PERIODS OF PAIN PERIODS OF PAIN While no woman is entirely free from periodic suffering, it does not seem to be the plan of nature that women should suffer so severely. Irregularities and pain are positive evidence that something is wrong which should be set right or it will lead to serious derangement of the feminine organism. Thousands of women, have found relief from all periodic suffering by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which is made from native roots and herbs, as it is the most thorough female regulator known to medical science. 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Simmons ranch in Atascosa County, sent all day the 8th, and stayed all night day the 11th over the ranch, making two takes over this ranch. He has been foreman on this ranch of the land. I told him I wanted to see and he directed me how to go, and after satisfied with the proposition. I was within three-quarters of a mile of at one of these wells and I found it to be underdemand. I water it when it isified this well is furnishing enough water in Headquarters pasture. Heavy black to a dark red, and all the fact, the soil looked good to me, and I see it. Used folders and examined the little book regard to the pictures printed in it, and natural as life. Over the ranch, I saw enough to satisfy country from San Antonio via Corpus the Simmons ranch better than anything ins proposition and am now making prep- aid I wish to say to my friends and all of a application. You can't go wrong. It is tes. rs truly, B. O. MATHES. Ranch of 95,000 acres 36 miles south of San articulars write for name of nearest agent. F. SIMMONS, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, WHAT IS PE-RU-NA? Is it a Catarrh Remedy, or a Tonic, or is it Both? Some people call Peruna a great tonic. Others refer to Peruna as a great catarrh remedy. Which of these people are right? Is it more proper to call Peruna a catarrh remedy than to call it a tonic? Our reply is, that Peruna is both a tonic and a catarrh remedy. Indeed, there can be no effectual catarrh remedy that is not also a tonic. In order to thoroughly relieve any case of catarrh, a remedy must not only have a specific action on the mucous membranes affected by the catarrh, but it must have a general tonic action on the nervous system. Catarrh, even in persons who are otherwise strong, is a weakened condition of some mucous membrane. There must be something to strengthen the circulation, to give tone to the arteries, and to raise the vital forces Perhaps no vegetable remedy in the world has attracted so much attention from medical writers as HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS. The wonderful efficacy of this herb has been recognized many years, and is growing in its hold upon the medical profession. When joined with CUBEBS and COPAIBA a trio of medical agents is formed in Peruna which constitutes a specific remedy for catarrh that in the present state of medical progress cannot be improved upon. This action, reinforced by such renowned tonics as COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS, CORYDALIS FORMOSA and CEDRON SEED, ought to make this compound an ideal remedy for catarrh in all its stages and locations in the body. From a theoretical standpoint, therefore, Peruna is beyond criticism. The use of Peruna, confirms this opinion. Numberless testimonials from every quarter of the earth furnish ample evidence that this judgment is not over enthusiastic. When practical experience confirms a well-grounded theory the result is a truth that cannot be shaken. Only Royal Doctor. The only royal doctor in Europe is Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria. New German princes have had a more romantic career than Duke Carl Theodore. He recently completed, with his wife as his assistant, his five-thousand sandth operation for cataract. Poor people flock to his hospital, where they are treated free, the duke asking payment only from those who can easily afford it. He it was who successfully treated the kaiser, when eight years ago, he was temporarily blinded by a swinging rope when cruising on the Hobenzollern in the North sea. John Brown Juror Williams Abrams Martin, the solitary survivor of the 12 men who convicted John Brown, is still living in Virginia. He has celebrated his seventy-fifth anniversary. 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She was a scholar of the High school. She died as she lived, a good christian girl. She was 17 years and 6 months old She leaves father and mother and sister, and a host of friends to mourn her loss. Mrs. Addie Clark returned to her home in Mo. after a two month visit with her sister, Mrs. F. L. Wheaten. Mrs. Daisy Watson was taken in the H. H. Tabernacle as a new member Monday. Miss Nellie Williamson returned back to her home after a two week's visit in Oswego, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn Powell are the proud parents of a baby boy. Rev. White filled the pulpit Sunday with wonderful sermon. Eugene Rolland left the city Sunday evening for Iola, Kan., where he will spend the winter. Walter Patterson of Florence, Kan., was in the city last Thursday. Miss Callie Anderson spent three days of last week in Valley Center, Kan., being the guest of Miss Cora Stevenson. She returned home Monday, reporting a pleasant visit. L. L. Shaw and G. V. Brown spent last Sunday in Valley Center, being the guest of Miss Cora Stevenson. The social given last Thursday night at the Odd Fellows Hall, for the benefit of the Chapter, was a grand success. Lightfoot of Hutchinson was seen in the city last week. The N. U. G. club met at the home of Mrs. Geo. Payne Monday afternoon and a pleasant time was reported. Oliver LePaige, who has been away from thsi city for some time, returned Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Knox have left the city for Hutchinson, Kan. Butch Pipkins of Kansas City, Mo., is in his city visiting his cousin, Mr. Alex Ridley. Mrs. H. Broils gave a surprise party Monday night in honor of her husband's birthday. Quite a number was present and every one reports having a fine time. NORTH TOPEKA ITEMS. The Twelve Star club were delightfully entertained at Mrs. Simon's home 908 West Lawrence street, last Monday eve. Twenty-eight members present, three joiners, five visitors. After routine of business the Club adjourned to meet at Mr. and Mrs. Abe Otam's, 1159 N. Jefferson stret, cordially invited to meet. There will be a grand entertainment given under the auspices of the Twelve Star Club next Thursday eve, Oct. 31, 1907, at the home of Mrs. R. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western ave. Supper and all kinds of refreshments will be served. All come and enjoy yourselves and have a nicetime. Mrs. Ida M. Joran, Pres. Mrs. R. J. Williams Sec. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan returned from K. C. last Thursday morning, Oct. 17-07, where she attended the grand reception in the honor of Rev. and Mrs. No. 93, presented to Rev. and Mrs. Frank Wilson C. G. M. a beautiful and handsome present. Mrs. Jordan reported that she had a delightful time. During her stay she had stopped at Mr. and Mrs. Gant's, at the beautiful home 440 Oakland ave. K. C., Kansas, and also with Mrs. Gennie Floyd. 406 Oakland ave. K. C., Kansas. Mrs. Ida M. 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He seemed so well please to hear prayers. He leaves a true mother two sisters one brother, brother-in-llaw and aunt and a host of friends to mourn his death. Earth's loss is heaven's gain. He was a true Sir Knight and cared for by the order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Rev. Jacob Dodd ppreached his funeral, after which the Knights did the rest,assist-by the Daughters. AT THE CRAWFORD THEATER. The Searchlight has added the theater column to its pages, and will endeavor each week to give its readers the news of coming good attractions at the Wichita opera houses. "Before and After" is booked at the Crawford Tuesday, November 5th. Outdoor Tuesday, November 20 It is always customary to say a comedy is irresistibly funny, yet there is really no other phrase which can describe that deliciously absurd farce called "Before and After," of which Leo Ditrichstein is author and leading man. That he adapted the play from the German may be true, but no one who watches his acting of the chief role will doubt that he has improved rather liberally on the original version of the play. The most acrimonious pessimist buried in an apparently impervious grouch will not be safe in the audience. Before he is aware he will progress from smiles to side-sbaking laughter as surely as if he had taken one of the infallible "Sunny Jim" powders, those wonderful potions which produce all the absurd complications of the play. One may speak first of Leo Ditrichstein since he shows himself such a pre-eminently brilliant farce comedian. This play of his gives him sufficient opportunity for those lightin' gchanges in which he has previously shown his versatility. For nothing could switch much more rapidly than do the situations in "Before and After." He has a particularly subtle faculty in fun-making; his hands alone play a little comedy by themselves. But after Mr. Ditrichstein, it would be difficult to select any member of the cast as really superior to the rest, so uniformly good is the entire company. Edward Elton, as Dr. Latham, did very unusual work in his character as instigator and extricator. The irasible Frenchman of Mr. Durand satisfied one's conception to the most delicate shade. Aubrey Beattie was so thoroughly Jeffreys that it seemed impossible to believe he could ever have been anything else. The character of Edgar Driscoll was foolish foolery very well done by John Arthur. Miss Madeline Sorrell made the most of a rather subordinate part and Miss Hazel Chappel played the outraged wife with excellent effect, while the parts of Cora Belle and Odette were given with really delightful skill by Miss Kenyon Bishop and Miss Nellie Butler.-Omaha World-Herald, Oct. 11th. The phenomenal run of "Are You a Mason?" in London is the talk of the theatrical world. It has been playing there continuously for the pas three years, and the business is still averaging about $5,000 a week. This is a remarkable record when one considers the bad condition of theatricals in London for the past season or so. For the past five years this excruciatingly funny comedy has been the favorite laugh maker of America, and this season it is playing to bigger business than ever. "Are You a Mason?" will be the attraction at the Crawford, matinee and night, Staurday, October 26. The Press Agent's Retort. Ralph Stuart, who will present "Strongheart" at the Crawford theater on Friday, November 1st, was playing in an Eastern city several weeks ago. A rival company was appearing at a theater but a few blocks away, and doin ga very bad business. The pres sagent of the unfortunate company, while doing his utmost to divert public interest from the "Strongheart" company to the one he represented was personally on quite friendly terms with the gifted young star. They met frequently in a social way, and in a light vein discussed the merits of their respective attractions. Mr. Stuart, who is devoid of the petty jealousy that at times obtains in the profession, was genuinely commiserating, and sorry for the hard luck his friend's company was up against. "Oh, we're not doing so badly." was the constant assertion of the press agent, "come around and see for yourself." "I can't, unless I close up for a night," retorted Stuart, "and that EDITOR. would disappoint too many people." On Saturday afternoon the funeral of a edman musician was held in the neighborhood of the hard luck theater, and the street on both sides was thronged as Stuart strolled past after his own matinee. In front of the opposition house he met the energetic press agent, armed with a camera. "What are you going to-do, old man?" asked Stuart. "Photograhp this immense audience leaving our theater," responded the press agent; "isn't it a dandy?" "Pretty good crowd," said Stuart, "but what is the hearse here for?" "Oh, that! Why, that's to carry awa ythe unfortunates killed in the crush." Another group of quaint characters are to be seen in the coming production of "Just Out of College" at the Crawford next Wednesday, October 30. The successful run of the piece in New York, Chicago, and Boston would seem a sufficient guarantee of the merit of the attraction. HONORS OUR CHIEF. Knights and Daughters of Kansas City, Kan., Tender a Great Reception in Honor of Sir Rev. Frank Wilson and Wife. --- On Wednesday evening, October 16, 1907, 777 Sir Knights, and Daughters of Tabor 333 of Kansas City, Kan., gave a grand reception at their hall, corner of Eleventh street and Washington avenue, in honor of Chief Grand Mentor Sir Rev. Frank Wilson and wife. The hall was beautifully decorated with palms, creeping artistically arranged and flowers of all colors and variety galore, and under the varied colors of electric lights assembled the merry throne of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor laughing and chatting while the sweet strains of music was being played by Miss Hallie Holt and Miss Gertrude McClais of Western University. All were anxiously awaiting the arrival of C. G. M. Sir Rev. Frank Wilson and wife. At 8:45 p. m. a pair of charging white horses with a closed carriage was driven up to the hall, the door of the carriage was opened and out stepped the C. G. M. Sir Rev. Frank Wilson and wife and C. G. Instructor Sir John W. Wilson and wife. They quietly marched to the stage, where many were introduced to Mrs. Frank Wilson, the wife of our C. G. M. The house was called to order at 9:15 by the eminent young Chief Mentor of Eureka Temple No. 23, Kansas City, Kan. Sir John F. Armstrong, the master of ceremonies of the occasion, and the one who introduced, and by his earnest effort was the cause of the magnificent affair, too much cannot be said of this pushing young man. After he delivered a few pointed and spick remarks the following programme was rendered: Invocation by Sir Rev. Bowrin of the First Baptist church, Kansas City, Kan. 1. Welcome Address, Sir Dr. R. C. Hayden. 2. Response, Sir Dr. G. E. Horsey. 3. The Need of the Organization, Dtr. Emma Gaines, C. G. P., Topeka, Kan. 4. The Life and Taborian Works of Rev. Frank Wilson., C. G. M., Sir Rev. G. C. Fishback, C. G. O., of Topeka, Kan. 5. Progress of Our Order, Sir Dr. C. M. 7. Presentation Speech, J. E. Herford C. G. M., of Missouri. SIR JNO. F. ARMSTRONG, Master of Ceremonie The welcome address was rendered to the satisfaction of all present. It was a pointed, brief eight-minute speech, which showed the speaker, Sir Dr. R. C. Hayden, an able young man and equal to the occasion. He is a conscientious young man and no doubt a coming leader. In his flowery address he said: "Kind Sir, We the Taborian members of this jurisdiction, believed that had we searched from the ice-bound shores of the Great Lakes down through the fertile valleys of the Appalachian mountains to the Great Delta of the Mississippi, or had we searched from the golden gates of the calm Pacific over the snow-capped peaks of the Rockies to the troubled and restless waters of the Atlantic we would not have found a man to be more loyal, more enterprising, more qualified and instructive than the one one we now pay our homage. Kind Sir, you seem to be cognizant of the fact that we as a race need to be united in friendship, love and truth, put on the whole armor of knowledge in the race of life." This is a small portion of the many great things he said. We are very proud of young Sir Dr. R. C. Hayden and know him to be a model Christian young man, and an eminent practitioner of his 1623 profession and a gallant Knight of Tabor. The response was delivered by our much beloved Sir Dr. G. E. Horsey, a man of known ability as a Knight of Tabor and as a physician. He beautifully responded to the welcome address in every detail, frequently referring to the C. G. M. and his most proficient work as a Taborian leader, after which followed the eminent Mrs. Emma Gaines, Chief Grand Preceptress who spoke on the need of the organization. She spoke of organized bodies from the time of Moses to the present time and frequently referred to our Frank Wilson, Moses Dickson and Moses, the leader of the Israelites, and other such leaders. Lady Emma Gaines as we all know is a proficient leader, and we the Taborian Family think there is no greater mother than she. Next the honored guests, Rev. Frank Wilson and wife and members enjoyed the smooth, gliding oratory from the silver-tongued Chief Grand Orator of Missouri and Kansas Jurisdiction, Sir Rev. G. C. Fishback, a man who is known for brain, talent and tongue. Followed by the Honorable Sir Dr. C. M. Moates of Leavenworth, who so beautifully showed the progress of the order from its infancy, and who showed that the financial progress of this jurisdiction was brought about by your honorable C. G. M. A timely and pointed speech was delivered by the C. G. M. of Missouri, Sir J. E. Herford. He spoke of Sir Rev. Frank Wilson's early marrying in life, followed by laughter, and in a smooth, proficient way presented the following presents to the honored guests: From C. G. M. of Missouri, a valuable closed package. From the Temple at Leavenworth, a silver water set. From the Knights and Daughters, members of Tents of Kansas City, Kan., a complete silver tea set. From Temple No. 10, Wichita, a silver shaving mug and brush. From Daughter May Perkins and mother, a silver salad fork. From Sir W. N. Miller and wife, Wichita, a glass wine set. After which Sir J. E. Herford presented C. G. M. Sir Rev. Frank Wilson as a married man, who was so taken from his feet that he was unable to say much for the shortness of breath, whilc only comes to those who know how to appreciate the kindness of others. But as he never fails to say something he directed a short and pointed and instructive speech on the "Life and Works of Sir Rev. Father Dickson." Then by music all marched to the banquet room for supper in order as follows: Rev. and Mrs. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Herford, C. G. of Missouri Mr and Mrs. J. W. Wilson, C. G. Instructor Prof. and Mrs. French, president Western University. Notice of Application for Permit to Self Intoxicating Liquors. State of Kansas, Sedgswick County, ss. Before O. D. Kirk, Probate Judge of said County and State: In the matter of the application A. K. Lawrence for a Druggist's Permit to sell Intoxicating Liquors. To all whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given that on the 25th day of October, 1907, I filed with the Probate Judge of said County and State a petition for a Druggist's Permit to sell Intoxicating Liquors for Medical, Scientific and Mechanical purposes at No. 615 North Main street in the City of Wichita, in the County of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, and that said petition will be heard by the Probate Judge of said County and State on the 27th day of November, 1907, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. at the Probate Courtroom in the City of Wichita in the said County of Sedgwick and State of Kansas. Signed this 25th day of October, 1907. A. K. LAWRENCE. Applicant. TRY A COLD SODA. At the Olden Drug Store, 615 North Main. Grand Bandana Concert at the A. M. E. church Monday, October 28th. The musical and Literary features will consist of solos, duets and quartette of olden times, and humorous recitations and readings. A grand cotton picking scene will be the concluding number. Admission 10 cents. Mexican Alole Two tablespoonfuls of blanched almonds, three tablespoonfuls of rice. Grind the almonds fine first, then the rice, then mix; add a cup of sweet milk and cook in a double boiler until the mixture thickens. Add salt or sugar to taste and serve. Grakham Bread Without Yeast. Two cups graham, one cup wheat flour, one teaspoon soda, a little salt, one cup sour milk, one-half cup molasses, one cup cold water. Stir well, and bake at once. A BIT OF LIFE (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Trinity church is ablaze with lights. The chancel is fragrant with the perfume of rare exotics. The rustle of silken gowns is heard as guests pass up the aisle. Voices are hushed and anxious looks toward the western door show the eagerness with which they await the coming of the bridal party. One by one the carriages roll up, deposit their fair burdens and pass down the other side of the street. Outside the thick flashes of snow come down soft and fast. A sudden little gust of wind blows a miniature avalanche around a corner, and for a moment almost blinds a swiftly passing pedestrian, who suffers accordingly from the unexpected assault by bringing his umbrella in direct collision with that of some one coming towards him. Both hurriedly look up, and both simultaneously grasp hands and exclaim: "My dear boy!" "Pon my word, Geoff, where did you drop from?" gasps the younger man. "Odd thing, that, d'ye know. Bob Lathrop and I were speaking of you this morning at the club; wondered if one of your royal Bengales had taken a notion to swallow you whole. Bob said: 'No. Trust Geoff for that; nothing so tame for him. Pincky man, Geoff!' Bob suggested some East Indian beauty and all that sort of thing; might be, you had said 'good by' to the land of your forefathers forever. But now old man, we have you with us again. Welcome back! Tell you, I'm delighted!" The serious gray eyes of Geoffry Thorne had reflected many lights during his friend's speech. At the mention of falling in love, they had saddened perceptibly, but had relighted as if with some sudden thought and turning to the other he answered: "No, Jack, it was not that. Fighting tigers is not half bad, and there are pretty girls all the world over, but to tell you the truth, three years is a long time to knock around and I've come to stay. The Etruria dropped anchor six hours ago and here I am tubed, dressed and making for the club; pretty good time, eh?" "Pretty good!" echoed Jack Lenox, absently. "By the way, Geoff, I was thinking instead of going to the club, suppose you take this card and drop into Trinity there; wedding going on—old friend, I believe, too—was going myself, but changed my mind. Good-by, old man! Meet you to morpom at the Metropolitan!" and waving his hand, was off; saying to himself: "Odd thing, that—just happened to think—old flame of his, Marian Strong—wonder how he'll take it!" Thorne glanced at the card carelessly. "Please present this at the church," stood irresolute a minute, and then turned toward the long line of carriages, saying: "Well, I might as well—can go to the club later and Jack says it is an old friend—wonder who?" and turning up his coat collar to the now ice wind, says softly to himself: "Three long years and now back again! Back to Marlan!" How lovingly he dwells upon that name, dearer to him than all the world: "Marlan! what will she say? Does she care? Who knows? Nothing but silence—all of my letters unanswered—nothing left me but this little rite that she took off her finger the night I said 'Good by!' and told me to trust her—and I have trusted. Can I wait until to-morrow, I wonder?" His thoughts were brought to an abrupt close by the obnoxious umbrella coming in contact with an awning stretched from the doorway of the church to the street, under which he now passes and into the glare. The bridal party are at the altar. From his seat near the door he hears the impressive Episcopal service being read, while the tender strain of de Koven's "O Promise Me" softly steals through the heavy perfumed air. Now the notes have changed to a more joyous tone: the triumphant song of Mendelssohn pealing forth from master fingers. They have turned and are slowly passing down the aisle. Geoffrey begins to feel a bit bewildered. He says he cannot see distinctly, and yet, there is something strangely familiar—"Gad, 'tis colar chokes me!" He turns nervously to leczen it. They are nearing him. The bride seems pale; and is it not a forced smile rather, than a natural one that light, the beautiful face? The look of bewilderment on Geoffrey's face has changed suddenly to one of horror and then to a misery that time will never heal. There is spreading over his face an ashy pallor, that brings in prominence every line; determination, too, is written there. "My God!" he matters, "can it be Marian? Marian, darling, come back, come back!" he whispers feverishly and stretches out his arms. Nothing but space answers him. The warden taps him on his shoulder. He looks hastily around and sees he is alone in the church. He steps out in' the frosty air and' looks around. Where is he? What has happened? Why is that heavy pat at his heart? and why does everything look so dreary? "Yes, yes" he sighs, "I remember it all." Then the look of determination comes back. Hastily calling a cab, he jumps in and giving directions to the driver so soon among the long line of car- 4 riages drawn up in front of the handsome avenue home that he knows so well. "I will see her! I will know from her own lips," he mutters as he angles and passes in among the guests. He reaches a quiet doorway where he can see and yet be unobserved. He takes a long breath. "Ah, how beautiful she is!" He sees the same clear cut features crowned by that same beautiful hair that he had once reverently touched; the pure white throat rises like chiselled marble from the gleam of her wedding gown. "Her wedding gown! The wife of another!" the thought maddens him. He cannot bear it. "Marian!" he groans and turns away. He will leave the house—it is only agony to stay—he will go away again—all is over—only memory left—that will never go! He reaches the door and then as if impelled by a will stronger than his own—enters the drawing-room She is receiving her congratulations with ease and grace always characteristic of Marian Strong, but today there is a restlessness, a tremor of excitement about her that she cannot conquer. Her eyes are nervously scanning the room; they look at every one who enters. She gives a sudden gasp. A look of terror spreads over her face and passing away, leaves her deathly white. Some one is approaching, and with a superhuman effort she controls herself. "May I offer my congratulations, Mrs. Wyman?" a low, steady voice is saying, but she hears nothing. Faces around her have become indistinct. She thinks she hears music somewhere. Her hand is held out mechanically and touched. "Geoffrey, Geoffrey!" she cries faintly. It is stifling, and yet she is growing colder each minute. "Such a surprise!" the voice is saying in well modulated tones. "I only returned from India this morning—met Jack Lawrence on the street; he told me an old friend was being married at Trinity and gave me his card—Such a surprise!" he repeated "Couldn't believe my own eyes—had to come to the house to be convinced. You have my best wishes, Mrs. Wyman. I should like to see you again, but I sail to-morrow for England. I had expected to remain in New York, but my plans have been changed," and with a forced smile of adieu, he passes on and out in the cooling night. The room grows suddenly dark to Miriam. The light has gone from her life forever. "Mrs. Wyman is ill; the strain has been too much for her!" is whispered around. As the guests leave the room, some one says: "Beastly custom, anyway, standing two hours. Poor girls! I wonder there are not more cases of nervous prostration after these wedding receptions." As Geoffrey boards the Kron Prinz the next morning, a note is handed him. It is only a little cream, crested affair, and reads thus: "They told me you were dead; that you had been killed in a fight with natives. My letters were returned. Father urged me to marry Mr. Wyman, and at last I yielded. Oh Geoffrey! why did you come back too late?" Jack Lawrence hears the news of Geoffrey's departure next morning at the club and twirls his mustache thoughtfully as he says to himself: "By Jove! there must have been something in that old affair after all. Jack, it wasn't quite fair in you! Poor old Geoff!" then calls for a brandy and soda. Shrewd Scheme to Mulct Bride of Wedding Presents. Lecon, the detective, waved the reporters back. "Madame," he said to Mrs. Van Astorbilt, "take my advice and don't have a list of your daughter's wedding presents printed." But, regarding the blaze of diamonds, the pale sheen of pearls and the glitter of massed gold and silver on the long table, Mrs. Van Astorbill said regretfully, rebellious: "Oh, why not, Mr. Lecoq?" "Madame, I'll tell you," said the great detective; and he began in thrilling accents, while the reporters listened with an air of incredulity and displeasure: "Madame, there is a new dodge out in the profesh. A crook gets a list of the presents at a fashionable wedding, and then forges a letter—say from Mr. Brown, whose gift was a rock crystal ewer—and old Brown says in this here letter that he is sorry to see the bride got two other crystal ewers, and he wishes her to return his to him by bearer, and he'll send her a rope of pearls in its place. "Of course the bride complies. She sends away the ewer, she waits for the pearls, and days, weeks, go by. The pearls don't arrive, but, for fear of hurting Brown's feelings, the bride says nothing to him about his strange remissness, and thus the thief has plenty of chance to get off. "Carefully worked, this dodge is almost bound to succeed, and lists of valuable presents like these here should on that account never be made public." \* \* \* For the Hostess ant College Party. The 31st of October is the day par excellence on which to entertain. There is almost no limit to the things to be done—it acheons, dinners and evening parties can be made most unique, and the stores provide a charming array of novelties for favors, place cards and decorative purposes. Then there is always the charm of mystery, the driving into the future for tokens of success in love affairs and the surety that all omens will come true if bried on Hallowe'en in the dark of the moon at the witching hour of 12. M.n.e. Merri has been permitted to see the preliminary plans and preparators being made by two young girls, and she is delighted to pass on some of the ideas to the readers of the department. The invitations are on red card board, lettered in black. They are ornamented with pen and ink sketches of witches, cats, owls, bats, brownies, cabbages, etc. They read: "You are invited to come to the sign of the Jack O'Lantern on witch night at 8 o'clock." A small boy bearing a staff on the top of which will rest a grinning jack o'lantern is to deliver the invitations. He will wear a white mask with the features market on in red and black. The hostesses are going to dress as witches in black cambric robes ornamented with cwls, toads, cats, etc., cut out of red cloth then appliqued on. Tail witches caps and masks will complete these wizard costumes. All the black cats in the neighborhood are to be borrowed for the occasion, while the rest of the animals suitable to this night are being manufactured to fly from the ceiling by invisible threads. All the old-time charms, with apples, nuts and tea grounds, will be tried, and the dining room is to be the scene of the greatest mystery of all. As midnight approaches a gong is to ring out 12 solemn strokes and the door will open to reveal a red-covered table with broad black ribbons across it. A large stuffed owl is to be suspended in a tree bough by red and black ribbons from the overhead chandelier. Pumpkin "jacks" and candles are to furnish the only light, making the spiders, snakes and toads, etc., crawling over the table look grewse enough. A tissue paper pumpkin rests on each plate with a tiny black cat perched upon it, and there are the dearest little tin kettles for holding the salted nuts. The usual refreshments are to be served, but the mystery cake is to be brought in with due pomp and ceremony. It will be illuminated by red candies, will stand on a platter surrounded by burning brandy in which large table raisins are to be scattered. As it is passed around each guest will attempt to get a raisin out of the flame. Only one chance is to be allowed. The gaining of the bit of fruit is supposed to bring good luck. This is called a "Snap Dragon," and is a very old custom. The cake will contain a coin, ring, pen, thimble, a lucky stone from the head of a sheepshead fish and a rabbit's foot. At a College Party. The reign of the post card is supreme and it is really omnipresent. The very latest (to me) was its use at a recent party where the men were either college graduates or were in attendance at some well-known institution. Soon after the arrival of the guests the hostess, herself a college girl, passed cards, hearing silken em- Design for Doily Design for Dohly A most acceptable present to make a friend, and especially if she be enthusiastic for water sports, would be a set of dolls, or serviettes, and a teatable cover worked with this simple design. Linen or damask might be used for the foundation, and the embroidery worked with blue or red ingrain cotton; the edge is simply buttonholed round, as lace or drawnthread work would be out of place. The work is executed in cording袜 with knot stitches at the ends of the short lines. The edge should be run out twice to make it strong before the buttonhole is worked. A most acceptable present to make a friend, and especially if she be enthusiastic for water sports, would be a set of dolls, or serviettes, and a teatable cover worked with this simple design. Linen or damask might be used for the foundation, and the embroidery worked with blue or red ingrain cotton; the edge is simply buttonholed round, as lace or drawnthread work would be out of place. The work is executed in cording袜 with knot stitches at the ends of the short lines. The edge should be run out twice to make it strong before the buttonhole is worked. Hostess blems in the colors of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc., to the girls, telling them to compare with the other girls and exchange until each maiden had the ennant of her preferred man's college. The men select their favorite and then each man and each maid as partners were found for the game to be played and the emblem was pinned upon his sleeve or coat lapel. These cards were simply postals with the merriest of gingles on each one. A Guessing Contest The hostess called this an "Observation" contest. The following objects were arranged upon a table and each guest was handed a catalogue. After 10 minutes of close study the table was removed and as many of the objects as could be remembered and identified were marked opposite the list. Out for the night.—Candle in candle-stick. Departed days—Old Calendar. Scene in Bermuda—Bermuda onions. The reigning favorite—An umbrella. Home of Burns—Flatiron. The greatest bet ever made—Alpha bet. A line from home—Clothesline. A heavenly body—Dipper. A place for reflection—Mirror. The mute choir—A quire of paper. Made to shine—Silver polish. An absorbing subject—Flotter Assorted liquors—Whip, switch, slip per. The black friar—A skillet. A rejected beau—Old hair ribbon. A skylight—A star. Cole's memorials of the great—Clinders. The morning caller—A bell. The skipper's home—Cheese. Scene at a baseball game—A pitcher. HOW TO APPEAR TALL Simple Rules That Will Aid Short Women to Attain Fashionable Height. If you would appear as slender and tall as possible observe the following rules: Adopt plain garments, dark colors and lengthwise effects. A dark princess gown with lines from neck to edge of skirt will accentuate the apparent height and slenderness very much. Avoid all crosswise effects and light colors; shun plaids, belts, large buttons and a variety of material or shading at one time—anything which tends to break up the long, sweeping lines of the same tone—as you would a pestilence. For home wear, trailing garments in one tone, light or dark, will increase the height. A solid trig, compact, one-tone effect must be the aim of the well-dressed, large, fleshy woman. Puffs, ruffles and fluffy effects are not her rightful inheritance. Her dimples and curves are brought out best by the plain dark garments. Have the material as rich as your purse will permit. Avoid tight lacing, high, stiff collars, high heels and anything that would interfere with your freedom of movement. Freedom and comfort for throat, feet and waist are absolutely essential to health and grace. or Doily OF TABOR —NEBRASKA JURISDICTION HHTERS OF C. C. G. M. city. Kas. C. C. G. P. Topeka. Kas. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Lesa enworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, R. Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 942 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 TENTS. Queen Mother 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Ft. enworth, Kan., 4 S 2 Susan Daniels, 216 Scott, Kan., 2-4 S 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 S 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) 5 Mrs. Mallie Spencer. 502 "V", Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mul- berry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Lillie Shobe, 336 N. Santa Fe, Sallna, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 8 E. 11th 3 Tues. (A) Ark., Law- d. (A) k, 823 Free- Kansas, 1-3 11 Stewart, 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Fish Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Wills, 2103 Grand, Parson Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 21 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kas- sas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherman Leavenworth, Kan. 3 Sat. 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark, Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodford, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 13 Mrs. Martha James, 313 W. 11th, 14th Thur. (A) box 405, Weir 1715 Clark, Ved. (A) So. Barber, Sat. (A) No. 101, 11th, Dur. (A) Horton, Ft. 3 Kickapoo, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 30 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1318 N. Madison Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia 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. 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, Box 405, Weir City, Kan. 16 Miss M. E. Cavanaugh, 1715 Clark, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2601 So. 11th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 404 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 20 Mrs. S. Montague, 403 Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kan. 24 Miss Angie Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 24 Mrs. Anna Ray, 1412 Clark, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 30 Mrs. Eliza Scott, 3rd and South, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 33. Mrs. Adda Birthright, 114 West Broadway, Fulthe, Montana. 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. Archer Av., aska. 1300 N. 6th. Frl. (A) 1173, Weir mont, Law- r. (A) 236 Barnett, -3 Frl. (A) , 634 Spruce ed. (A) 215 Pacific, GRAND OFFICERS 1907-8. Thos. Glover, District Grand Master 704 N. Market St., Wichita, Kan. Chas. A. Finney, Deputy Grand Ma- ter Cherokee, Kan. P. H. Bassett, District Grand Secre- tary, Chetopa, Kan. W. W. Shobe, District Grand Treasure 336 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan. H. Kindell, District Grand Director, F. Scott, Kan. NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. 37 Mrs. Matilda Waters, 1800 N. 6th, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs.ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 32 Mrs. Ada King, 808 Vermont, Law- rence, 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, Lin- coln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. West- ern, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) TEMPLES. 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 2 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. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 21 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 29 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, Coffeville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. Banner Mills --- --- TEMPLES. Chief Mentors. 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, L coln, Beb, 2 Fri. (A) 5 Lottle Hill, 517 N. Main, Wichita Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Ida Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 911 Evergreen 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, Sattah Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 23 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawrence (A) NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Text is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at one W. N. MILLER, Editor. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Dstrict Grand Lodge, No. 17, Kansas G. U. O. O. F. District Grand Lodge No. 17 will meet in Kansas City, Kansas, in July 1908. In The 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 87 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. CUSTOM GKINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED FROENBACH BROG, PROPS. N. Main St.