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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT The Negro in America NINETH YEAR. The Honorable W. T. Vernon, register of the United States treasury, spoke in the large auditorium of the Baptist church at Durham, N. C., on the evening of November 26th, 1907, to a crowded house. The meeting was presided over by Dr. James E. Shepard, one of the secretaries of the International Sunday School Board, who is doing special work among the colored people. When the register arose to speak he was greeted with great applause, which continued throughout the address. His subject was "The Negro in America." Among other things he said: "All true Americans regard with extreme satisfaction the preachments and efforts for an era of good feeling on the part of the leaders of the South and the leaders of the North. The coming together of the hitherto discordant elements in our body politics can but meet the approval of the patriotic citizens of the American republic. "While this feeling of charity for all and malice toward none is ever increasing, we must all agree that it should be sufficiently inclusive to embrace the Negro, and that it will never have accomplished its full purpose until he, a necessary part of this republic, is the beneficiary of the same. If such a spirit is necessary to the rehabilitation of the Southland, and the building up of the Northland as it relates to the American white man with his education, wealth and power—how much more imperative it is that the Negro, the weaker race, should be fostered and encouraged in the same way. The weak look to the strong, the ignorant look to the intelligent—look to them for aid, leadership, light and justice. Justice unalloyed, justice full and free is that which the constitution guarantees and that which will bring a better day to our country. The evidences of progress around me, the prosperity of the Negro which I have observed in the South, all convince me that there is a spirit of mutual helpfulness between the races. This is gratifying and reassuring to those of us who desire this better era. The elimination of selfishness on the part of both races should be sought after. The economic phase of the question should not be confused with the racial phase. It may be difficult for some to always realize that race prejudice should have no part in business relations. Wherever the Negro makes himself competent and worthy his color should not bar him from remunerative employment and protection of the laws in the performance of his tasks. The better element of the white race should look with favor and satisfaction upon the efforts of the sturdy progressive Negro. He in turn asks and should receive their protection from any ills which may be visited upon him because of his race. Feeling secure he will more industriously strive to become a factor for the commercial and industrial uplift of his community. Theh sum total of the progress of his locality will be hindered or helped by his individual status. So then, the protection of the laws, the opportunity to thrive should be guaranteed him on the one hand and should be accepted by him on the other. This interdependence of the white man and the Negro must be acknowledged by all who see the right and strive for the same. I am always optimistic with regard to the final outcome of this question. The patience, industry, fidelity, hopefulness and splendid endeavor of the Negro through long generations are an earnest of the indestructibility which always counts in the lives of nations. These qualities have always made for the splendid triumph of the American white man, and I believe the better natures of a people who have thus succeeded will be appealed to successfully by weaker people traveling the same pathway. It is because of this that I have faith beyond the discouragements placed before us by any who doubt the final success of the Negro. Those who advocate that the Negro should not be educated indirectly speak for more fails, more repressive laws and more crimes. To educate out of the ignoble into the noble, from the lower into the higher, from narrowness to broader vision, from badness to goodness is the supreme duty of all who see the light. Unbiased educators, statesmen and publicists of the highest order are everywhere arguing for an enlightened citizenship which will include the Negro. In a country such as ours, where bayonets do not control, where the ballot is sovereign, where law is king, our republican form of government is protected and secure when civic virtue of the highest order is in the ascendant. It was an inspiring sight a few days ago to see Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the United States; Andrew Carnegie, the philanthropist; James Bryce, the diplomat, and James R. Garfield, the statesmen, lay aside pressing duties and weighty responsi- bilities, to participate in the fortieth anniversary exercises of one of the great institutions of learning where hundreds of Negro youth are being educated. The encouragement, advice and hopefulness propounded in the addresses of these great men meant more for the race and nation than we can here imate. Their philanthropic, unselfish act was but in line with the spirit of the age, which spirit is making the amelioration of all untoward conditions and the betterment of all humanity. Such acts exhibit a lofty purpose, the outgrowth of the idea that service to others is paramount, and that no man's duty is complete unless it encompasses his duty to his fellow men as well as to himself. As a race we must put ourselves at all times in harmony with this spirit. We shall be able to measure up to the same by making ourselves the highest types of manhood and womanhood. Maloney, the Sect By Dennis H. Stow "Here's an extra order for you, Maloney," said Chris Munson the "second trick" man, who had just relieved the day dispatcher and had seated himself before the battery of tickers. He passed the little yellow envelope through the wicket to Jack Maloney, the section boss. Jack had just come in from his day's work to file his report with the division roadmaster. The section boss opened the envelope slowly and with work-stiffened fingers. To assure himself that he understood it he called Chris from the desk and asked him to read it over. dispatch w catch the and camp only with the law next to "At an end take the the regular too late t from a nei walker's d patrol the Overi and Lelan ahead of f spection ca If we lay well to heart these thoughts and demand of ourselves the best that is within us, we shall raise ourselves in the estimation of all the world and prove ourselves worthy of all the best men of America will finally secure for us." The register is delivering addresses in all sections of the country and is thus working earnestly to benefit the race and serve his people. After a splendid reception tendered him by the citizens of Durham he left to attend a meeting of the A. M. E. conference at Wilmington, N. C., where he also spoke. LANGSTON SCHOOL DESTROYED Incendiaries Burn Oklahoma State Institution for Negroes. Guthrie, Ok., Nov. 25.—The main hall of the state institution for Negroes at Langston was destroyed by fire last night. The loss is estimated at $23,000. President Page of the institution, who was here today, said the fire was of incendiary origin. Three men were seen prowling about the building just before the fire. Page called upon Governor Haskell and asked that the state provide temporary quarters for the school until the building can be rebuilt. TAFT AND OHIO. Secretary Taft is not a man to worry much about the precedents and omens, but as he hurries homeward he will have ample time to reflect upon the history of Republican presidential nominations, and especially in Ohio. Senator Foraker's automatic "resurrection" will give point to the lessons of history. With the single exception of General Garfield, no Republican presidential nominee was ever successful in the convention who had any considerable number of votes against him from his own state delegation. As to Garfield, his case was hardly a fair test, for he was not even a dark horse candidate when named, being taken up when the deadlock between Grant and Blaine occurred. This illuminating exception therefore only adds force to the omen which has customarily spelled defeat in the convention for the Republican candidate who was seriously opposed in his own state. The Democracy, with its characteristic "sul-generisness," has violated this precedent, as it has done with most others. Cleveland was successful even though opposed by most of the members of the Empire state delegation. It is a singular coincidence that the most conspicuous victim of this home opposition augury in Republican conventions was an Ohloan. Senator Sherman's life-long ambition was defeated through the virulence with which he was fought in his own state. Sherman would have won in the convention which nominated Garfield but for the bitter antagonism among the Ohio delegates, and even when the convention dead-locked over Grant and Blaine the delegates refused to take up Sherman, and that distinguished statesman, though his name was presented at more than one convention, never had the undivided support of his own state. He would have been presi- Continued on page 3, column 3 By Dennis H. Stovall "Here's an extra order for you, Maloney," said Chris Munson the "second trick" man, who had just relieved the day dispatcher and had seated himself before the battery of tickers. He passed the little yellow envelope through the wicket to Jack Maloney, the section boss. Jack had just come in from his day's work to file his report with the division roadmaster. The section boss opened the envelope slowly and with work-stiffened fingers. To assure himself that he understood it he called Chris from the desk and asked him to read it over. Chris read aloud: "Maloney, Foreman Section 46: Take handcar and two men and cover line carefully from Granite Pass to Marlin Coffin containing corpse lost off southbound Overland between these two points. Find and report condition. Edward Shields, Division Chief." "Now what do you think of the likes of that?" Maloney inquired, puffing his cornbock fiercely. "To come in from a ten-hour shift chuckin' rails an' be sent corpse huntin'. Oh, it's a fine job I have." He spread the order on his broad palm and studied it seriously. "Didn't they send any details, Chris?" he asked "That's all there is to it, Jack," the dispatcher replied. "It's up to you to find the corpse." "It must have been a mighty lively corpse to jump off the train," Maloney remarked. "How in the civil did it get out o' the car?" "I don't know positively," said Chris with a true railroader's caution. "But I believe I can guess." "In the forward baggage car of the Overland which passed here an hour ago," Chris said, "was a coffin containing a corpse. It has been a warm day and the corpse had come a long distance. I have an idea the baggagemen found the air anything but pleasant in the car. He did what other baggagemen have done before—opened the side door and slid the coffin near it. He may have anchored it out on the platform as the baggage car on this train has an open vestibule at each end. In going around a curve the coffin was lost." Maloney turned from the wicket and left the office. How the corpse left the train was a matter of but little concern to him. The division little said he must find it, and Maloney intended to do so. He called two of his men from the section house, rolled out the hand-car, and started slowly up the track. "Not very many people have an understanding of the section boss' job," Chris said, after Maloney had gone. "I never was a section boss, and I hope I never will be one, but I have seen enough of Jack Maloney's work since I've been in the service to convince me that he is really one of the big men of the road. He not only is required to keep a solid track under 25 miles of his section, and puts in a ten-hour shift every day, but is yanked out of bed at any and all times of the night to fill such orders as the one just given him." "They certainly handed him a big one this time." "I've never known Jack to fall down yet, and I've worked on the same division with him for 15 years. Last summer two commissioned officers were taking a prisoner through here to the military prison at Alcatraz. While the train was slowly climbing the grade this side of Tunnel Nine the prisoner leaped out the car window and struck for the heavy timber, making a clean get-away. Maloney was working his crew near there, and a Ibsen a "Pathological writer." A New York woman, not being content with the reputation she enjoys of being one of the most beautiful women in her state, has literary aspirations. Recently she was a guest at luncheon when the conversation drifted to books and plays. Various discussions followed. The beauty took part and expressed herself freely. But when she asked her listeners whether they considered Ibsen a "psychological and pathological dispatch was sent him from Hugo to catch the fugitive. He found the trail and camped on it all night. Armed only with a shovel he caught the outlaw next morning. "At another time he was called to take the night trackwalker's place, the regular man being ill and it was too late to bring in another walker from a neighboring section. The trackwalker's duties on this section are to patrol the track 30 minutes ahead of the Overland between Granite Pass and Leland, returning 30 minutes ahead of the express. A gasoline inspection car is used. "Jack covered the first 15 miles in good shape, but when he reached the siding in the deep cut on the summit he was halted by three masked men. In the blind darkness they came upon them before he was aware. They seized and dragged him from the car. For a time the three wrestled up and down the track. Jack fought desperately, tearing his coat from his body in his mad endeavor to free himself. Finally they dragged him down the track and tied him to the switch staff." "Having no key to open it themselves, it was the plan of the robbers to force the trackwalker to open the switch for them. They kept him tied to the staff a while, then made known their plans. With their hands firmly upon him, they released the ropes that bound him, and at the point of their rifles, commanded him to open the switch. The plan was to wreck the train and rob the passengers and cars during the confusion. "He hesitated, and the robbers urged him on by significant thrusts of their rifles. "While he hesitated the Irish boss did some hard thinking. A method of last resort finally occurred to him. It was the one chance left of saving the Overland. Though they watched him closely their unfamiliarity with switch and block signals prevented their seeing all that Maloney did. The summit switch, is connected by a double wire cable a quarter-mile to a block signal. This cable is attached only by brakemen when opening the sliding to receive trains. As there is no station there, it gives ample warning to approaching trains that the switch is open. "Maloney had placed the red light on the block signal and knew it was in working order. He stooped down and hooked the cable ends. When he turned the switch the red light was exposed on the block a quarter-mile down the track. It was around the curve and could not be seen by the robbers. "His work done, Maloney turned as if to go, but the robbers seized him all the more firmly and bound him securely to the switch staff. They meant that he should be slaughtered with the rest. Then they ran well down the track to be out of harm's way. The section boss knew that if they went far enough they would discover the red light on the block post. If they made such discovery they would very likely return and make an end of him. "In ten minutes the Overland thundered up the grade. The roar of it came so distinctly that Maloney feared the engineer had passed the signal without seeing it. There was a possibility also of the robbers having discovered and removed it. "These thoughts were dispelled from his mind by two shrill blasts from the locomotive whistle. The headlight shot around the curve, and the long train rolled up and came to a standstill but ten yards from the open switch. Folled in their attempt, the robbers escaped to the mountain forests. writer." she handed out a stumbler. writer, she handed out a bumper. A graveyard silence reigned until one girl, who was bolder than the rest, asked what pathological meant. Here is where the beauty lost literary prestige. "I looked it up a few days ago," she replied, "but cannot remember just now what it means." Man is connected in this world by a thousand ties; you cannot live a single day without doing good or ill to those around you—Dr. E. Porter. NO.37 "The section boss was found tied to the staff. Though he tried to pass over the occurrence as a thing of little moment, the passengers and crew insisted on making a hero of him, much to Maloney's disgust. They wanted him to ride in a Pullman on his return to the Pass, but he refused. He climbed aboard his gasoline car, lighted his pipe, and an hour later reported a clear track for the express. Just as the dispatcher finished his story the trainmen leaped up and started toward the door. It was time to go out on their run. "Wait just a second, boys," said Chris, turning to his key, "here's something coming in from Marlin. It's Maloney's report on that corpse. Listen to this: "Chris Munson, Dispatcher Granite Pass: Wire in to chief, have found corpse. It is dead, but in good condition. Jack Maloney, Foreman Section No. 46." (Copyright, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) CAMELS DWELT IN OREGON. In Days of Cid, When the State Was a Tropical Wilderness. That the whole of interior Oregon was once the bed of the Pacific ocean has been proved beyond question, says Sunset, by the investigations of Prof. Thomas Condon, Dr. Diller and other noted geologists. That the region was later a tropical country has been equally well established. Numerous discoveries of the bones of these animals, and rocks containing the perfect imprint of the plants of the tropics, have been made, and it is no longer an occasion for surprise when well diggers or irrigation excavators unearth the fossil remains of a camel or a broad faced ox. Within recent years many fossil beds of beautiful palm leaves have been found in eastern Oregon. To-day the soil presents a finely ground mixture of basalt and volcanic ash, containing the elements of most fertile soil, and when properly watered producing enormous crops of vegetables, fruits and grains common to temperate zones. The climate has been changed, says Prof. Condon, by the unfolding of the Cascade range, shutting off from the interior the softening influence of the Japan current and the drift of ocean fogs and clouds. Waste of Artesian Water. Millions of gallons of artesian waters are going to waste every day in Indiana. Over a million gallons a day are wasted in a single county. The amount of water thus drawn from the underground, reservoirs and unutilized in Madison county alone is sufficient to supply a city of 10,000 inhabitants. In only a few places is this water put to use. The farmers do not seem to realize that a hydraulic ram or a windmill placed on a flowing well will raise a large portion of the water to their houses on the hills above. Immense volumes of good water are therefore suffered to waste and in this way the "head" or height of water in the wells, or the height to which it rises above the surface has been lowered several feet. Many wells that once yielded copious and strong flows have ceased to flow entirely. By this means, also, the ground-water level in this region in ten years has been lowered over ten feet. Making Raw Carbon. One of the most important electrical industries at Niagara Falls, Ont., manufactures graphite from anthracite coal and petroleum coke and converts into graphite the forms of raw carbon used in electric furnace work, where high temperature is required, and for electrolytic work, such as the manufacture of caustic sodas, bleaching powders, etc.—in fact practically all methods of electrolysis. The raw materials used consist of anthracite coal, glass sand, foundry coke and a sawdust, all of which are imported from the United States, except the sawdust—Baltimore American. Redd—I see the blood thrown out by the heart travels seven miles in an hour. Greene—That's all right. That's under the speed limit.—Yonkers' Stateman. The cultivated area of Spain is a little over 2,000,000 acres and the barren and uncultivated area about 103,000,000 acres, most of which could be rendered productive by irrigation. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mall).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mall)......75 Three Months (By Mall)......50 Advertising Rates Made Known on application. 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WILL ELIMINATE NEGRO. There is now and has been for the past few months much talk concerning the proposed "Commission Plan" of city government—and now since a petition has been signed, presented to the mayor and he has called a special election for December 3rd that the people may vote "For" and "Against" the proposed "plan"—it is squarely up to the voters as to what they will desire. Should a majority of the voters vote "For" the "Commission"—then, and in that event all ward lines will be removed and the people will proceed to elect the "commissioners" from the city at large. The question now is—Is the "commission plan" the better form of government? For the past two weeks we have made an exhaustive investigation into the merits of this proposed "commission plan" of government for which the special election is called for December 3rd, 1907, and we have tried to look at this subject from an impartial point of view, and have endeavored to learn as much as possible both "for" and "against" the proposed change, and with this in mind we have made it our business to hear arguments and see literature on both sides, and now, after as close an investigation as is possible under such circumstances we are candid in our opinion that the time has not arrived for so sweeping and untried a change as that proposed in the "commission plan." Without going into minute detail of the plan we say that to give the management of a city the size of Wichita into the hands solely of four or five men is, in our judgment, taking a backward step. Our government should always remain "a representative government," and any attempt to decrease the number of representatives is an attempt to place the people still further from having any voice in city affairs. It is not a "centralizing" of power that is most needed—but an "expansion" of power. Is a Southern Plan. The only places of note where this "commission plan" has been used to any 'extent is Galveston, Texas, and it is not hard for a colored man or colored woman to find ample, good and substantial reasons to oppose any plan of government emanating from such a hole as Texas. Just think of it—a Texas plan in Kansas—the very idea is a gigantic slur at every Negro in Kansas. Let the colored man who may for Let the colored men who may favor this plan go to Texas and see how it works when applied to the Negro. None of Texasism for us. Means Anti-Negro. Under the present form of government we are all agreed that the colored people have little enough representation—but take it under this new proposed plan they will get nothing. Under the old subterfuge of retrenchment every colored man employed in a public place will lose his official scalp; it will mean the doom to the Negro fire department, to our lone—one—Negro policeman—and others who by chance hang on. Negro Vote Lost. With this proposed "commission plan" the Negro vote will be lost in the shuffle and in those wards—such as the Second and Fourth wards—the negro vote will be a nullity. We say to all our people before you vote for this change—be sure you are right—it will be too late to close the door—after the horse is gone. We believe the safe and sane way to do is to vote a big "NO" and let her go at that. Everything in the Housefurnishing line can be had at D. F. Marshall's, 236 N. Main. COLORED GROCERY STORE. Mr. Louis Wright has purchased the stock of groceries of C. A. Parr, at 638 N. Water and will remodel the interior of the store and add an up-to-date stock of groceries and provision. He is now opened for business and invites you to call and trade with him. He will give you bargains in groceries and provisions. Remember the place, 638 N. Water street. See those beautiful designs in Tapestry or Axminster Rugs at D. F. Marshall's, 236 N. Main. A golden chance is offered someone to lease a good hotel, cheap. Inquire of The Searchlight, 634 N. Water. NEW HOPE LITERARY. The New Hope Literary Society, successor to the Toussaint l'Overture will meet at the church every Tuesday night. At the next meeting there will be an address by Mr. H. W. James and a scientific address by Rev. W. H. Tillman. All welcome. The colored people of Wichita took advantage of the very pleasant weather Thanksgiving and had a royal time all day long. HALL FOR RENT YOUNG'S HALL, 601 N. Main st is open for engagements for Parties Dances, Socials, Sup- pers etc, etc, etc. quire of G. H. Young, 601 N. Main St. SHOULD BE SLOW. As a race our people should be slow in grabbing at these new untried policies of political government. There are few American so-called "reform" movements that have any good points in them for the black race. Most of them are issues to eliminate the black man under a false guise. Let us see the real points before taking hold. 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. A CARD OF THANKS. We desire to thank the many friends who were so kind to us during the illness and death of our husband and father, who died November 20, 1907. We also tender thanks for the many beautiful floral offerings presented. Mrs. Maggie Robinson, Viola Robinson, Kansas City, Kansas. BAND CONCERT. W. M. Dunson and his splendid Mandolin club will give an exhibition concert at Young's Hall Thursday night, December 5th. This promises to be one of the enjoyable features of the coming week. BOUGHT A HOME. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Marshall have purchased a cozy home at 1724 South Mosely and a horse and wagon. They are making the kind of progress that counts. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT LOCALS BUY L U M —THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK— Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Mrs. Geo. McDonald wishes to announce 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. GEO. McDONALD, 720 N. Washington Ave. LeRoy Young of Peabody, was Wichita visitor Thanksgiving day. CHURCH BAZAAR. The Presiding Elder's committee of the A. M. E. church are making extensive preparations for a church bazaar, December 10-11-12. The first night will be the paper dress contest, the second night the paper float contest, and the third night a three-act drama, "A Glad Surprise." All the women auxiliaries will have booths each night. More details later. HALL REPAIRED. Mr. G. H. Young has had his hall at 601 N. Main repaired, repainted and frescoed and has now one of the swellest entertainment halls in this part of the state. It is now open for rent to all comers. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Young and family and Mrs. Sallie Hall and Pete Coleman went to Wellington where they spent a pleasant Thanksgiving day. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thomas entertained at their home, 437 North Wichita street, Thursday, Thanksgiving day. A four-course dinner was served. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Willis Devereaux of St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reed, Mr. and Mrs. Will Ruteledge, and her mother, Mrs. A. Brown and children, Viola Roberson, Miss Bertha Ralston and Master Howard Devereaux. After dinner the young people spent the afternoon in playing bridge whist. All reported having a nice dinner and spending an enjoyable evening. Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Porter gave a swell Thanksgiving dinner at their palatial home, 1459 Sherwood, Thanksgiving day. The table was filled with the best eatables the market afforded. Those present were: Rev. and Mrs. Jno. Mitchen, Mrs. C. Faulkner of Newton, Mrs. S. Duncan and daughter, Miss Beatrice Young of Peabody, T. L. Hackley and daughter, Miss Pearl and Mrs. W. N. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Porter are well known as royal entertainers. Mrs. Sam Duncan and daughter, Miss Beatrice Young of Peabody, came down Thanksgiving morning and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller. They attended the many attractions offered by Wichita's colored people Thanksgiving day and night, made several acquaintances and enjoyed their visit in the highest. Wichita welcomes them again. NOTICE! AT NEW HOPE BAPISTER MISS JOSEPHINE STRAGHN, N SOUTH AMERICA, FIELD MISSION BOARD, WILL LECTURE AT NEW 1907. DON'T FAIL TO HEAR THIS DAY TELL OF THE HEATHEN, RELIGIO GOVERNMENT OF HER PEOPLE I REMEMBER THE DATE THE T NOTICE! AT NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH, SUNDAY, DEC. 15, 1907. MISS JOSEPHINE STRAGHN, NATIVE OF BRITISH GUIANA, SOUTH AMERICA, FIELD MISSION ARY OF THE FOREIGN MISSION BOARD, WILL LECTURE AT NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH, DEC. 15, 1907. DON'T FAIL TO HEAR THIS DARK SKIN DUTCH MISSIONARY TELL OF THE HEATHEN, RELIGIO N., MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND GOVERNMENT OF HER PEOPLE IN SOUTH AMERICA. REMEMBER THE DATE THE THIRD SUNDAY IN DECEMBER. Is now located in their new building at 21st & Lawrence and can give big bargains in Fresh and Salt Meats We Can Save You Money. Come and See JOHN S. DAWSON, PROP. Corner 3rd & Main Of Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Office Hours 9 to 11 a. m Residence 2 to 5 p. m. 703 N. Main St 7 to 8 p. m. OFFICE 601 N. MAIN ST Wm. 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Mrs. Fannie Hyde of Argentine, Kan, matron Heriones of Jericho, Kansas, and Nebraska jurisdiction, was a visitor in Wichita Wednesday of last week, and was the guest of Mrs. J. G. Gaines and daughter, Miss Winnie Ray, at the cosy Gaines residence, 917 North Water. Mrs. Hyde made an official visit to Mr. Olive Court No. 9. MESSERVE'S FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Soclals and Churches. Orders delivered to any part of the city. BON-TON & KANDY BAKERY E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. 146 North Main St. Phone 152 ... 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 PLEASES ALL Good Bread Makers It Is White As Snow—TRY IT 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. 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Wichita, Kan Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER & BONG, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market Delmonico Restaurant 513 N. Main St. First Class Meals Lunch at All Hours Everything neat and clean. Your patronage solicited. Fish, Game and Oysters in season. Frazier & Frazier, Props. Watch for the Searchlight collector. Be prepared to pay what you owe us. 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. Male For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO. Vote "NO" at the election Tuesday. THE SEARCHLIGHT Some people have a terrible past before them. Great Britain gives the best protection in the world to the inventor. Marconi has scored one, but the cables will not be driven from their ocean beds just yet. Aerogram, Marconiogram, ethergram, wireless—what you will. The nomenclature is yet in its incipiency. Green turtles are 22 cents a pound, while snapping turtles bring only half that price. It never pays to be snappy. It may be true that the pure food laws have increased the cost of living, but they have also increased its happiness. The fact that 589 persons have been drowned this year will have no effect next season on the cheerful chump who rocks the boat. If some of the ocean steamships do not stop being so sudden, there will be no need of statercoms on them in the frolicsome future. Germany announces its intention to curb the automobilists. In this country we often get the impression that they wear blinders. The poor we have all with us, but some of the dealers in flour and coal do not realize this fact, or, if they do, basely ignore it for gain. And now it is said that the price of wheat will soar. In course of time, perhaps, it will be possible to raise the bread without any yeast. The rich may be maligned, as an educational observer says, but they have the comfort of knowing that they have money enough to sue for slander. Mr. P. T. Barnum's widow recently entered the holy estate of matrimony for the fourth time. The lady is now getting out of the three-ring class. The date of the flood has been found by a Chicago professor. This is where the diary habit on Noah's part would have come in handy for posterity. "Little by little the camel goes into the steepan," says the old Arab proverb, and it expresses the present sad plight of Morocco. France is doing the stewing. "A pig," says Miss Louise Gribbin, actress, "is better company than a millionaire." Miss Gribbin's words suggest a distinction in terms popularly considered synonymous. An earthquake which shakes recording instruments past their capacity and which nobody knows anything about cannot complain if it is classed under the head of a gigantic nature fake. Horace Fletcher evidently does not believe in odors from Araby the Blest, for he recommends onions and spazetti as a most nourishing combination. But don't tell this to the barber. A Russian paper says a clash between Japan and the United States is inevitable, but kindly puts it off until we get through with the Panama canal. This will give us time to get our aerial fleet ready. It is estimated that the $74^{\circ}$ Columbia university students who applied for work last year to the committee on employment earned about $250,000. The average is more than some lawyers earn the first year after hanging out their shingles. Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews gets to the front once more with a declaration that "Hanging is the punishment that should be meted out to a proved liberal." But why stop with hanging? asks the Chicago News. Why not draw and quarter him, refuse him Christian burial and let his goods be forfeit to the state? The London Economist calculates that Sig. Marconi's wireless service across the Atlantic cannot handle more than three million paying words annually, which would be equivalent at most to the laying of a seventeenth cable between this country and Europe. Probably this helps to explain why the cable companies are not frightened at the prospect. Brothers of Gladys Vanderbilt should be wise enough to know that the way to pry sister away from the fitted one is not by giving her a fatherly talk or by treating the count as if he were a bellboy. That Nine of conduct only makes the girl sticks tighter. The foxy way is to take them for an automobile and mountain climbing trip lasting a week or two. Then if the count has a streak of yellow the climate is liable to bring it out where all the girls can see. Inquiry into the looting of churches in France by which many religious and art works, including numerous artiques, have been appropriated is developing much interesting information and incidentally showing that the work has been carried to an extraordinary extent. It is now alleged that the thefts of one of the principal parties implicated amount to not less than $1,600,000. Artistic taste has combined with criminal practices to produce some curious results. But stealing is stealing, and the culprits should get all that is coming to them PRETTY WASTE BAGS MAKE ATTRACTIVE AND ACCEPTABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. They Are Easily Made and Cost but a Trifle—Nice for Den, Library, or the Bedroom. A variety of bags, suitable for Christmas gifts, may be fashioned from the pretty Bulgarian cloths, figured cretonnes and plain ticklings,' which are found at art needlework shops and at most of the dry goods stores. EWC.1 Hanging waste bags are among the newest ideas and are particularly appropriate for the den, library or bedroom. Some especially attractive designs are patterned after Japanese lanterns. Figure 1 shows one of these lantern bags, made from plain material, with printed cretonne in Japanese design applied. For the bottom of the bag a square pasteboard or light wooden box cover may be utilized as a foundation, over which black silk or satin is neatly sewed. The top square corresponds in size, and if the bag is desired for darning, a cover, fastened to one edge, may be added. The four sides of the bag are cut exactly alike — twelve inches high by or satin is neatly sewed. The top square corresponds in size, and if the bag is desired for darning, a cover, fastened to one edge, may be added. The four sides of the bag are cut exactly alike — twelve inches high by ten wide is a good proportion—and are put together with black silk or satin binding ribbon. This ribbon is used also for edging the applied pieces. At opposite sides of the top are sewed two covered rings through which cord or ribbon is run. In Figure II. cut from any pretty material having some body to it a circle nine inches in diameter. Easte to its upper side (which will be inside of the bag) a muslin-covered pasteboard circular place, six and a half inches in diameter. The two are fastened together by stitching narrow black binding ribbon on the right side along the edge of the smaller round, thus leaving an unstiffened margin of two and a half inches. 竹 Next cut out of card board a circular pattern, making the inner diameter seven inches and the outer nine. This forms a round section FIG. 3. round section two inches deep. By this pattern cut twelve sections from your material. Baste them together carefully, edge to edge, stitching black binding ribbon around the outside seams and white around the inside. To the topmost section of the bag—which should correspond to the margin at the bottom, and hence measures two and a half inches in depth—is sewed an embroidery hoop, wound in black ribbon. Two small rings, through which black cord or ribbon is drawn, complete it. The simplest of the lantern bags is to be found in Figure III. As a finish to the upper and lower edges use embroidery hoops wound in black, and, if desired, the bottom may be of pasteboard. Upon the plain material applique circles of fancy cretonne, edging them embroidery hoops wound in black, and, if desired, the bottom may be of pasteboard. Upon the plain material appliqué circles of fancy cretonne, edging them with black binding ribbon. For the bag shown in Figure IV. the two sides, cut exactly allike, measure eleven inches high, and fourteen across the widest part. They are joined by a six-inch strip of material. Appliques may be put on to suit one's fancy, the usual binding ribbon being used as a finish. PRETTY PAPER WEIGHT. Good Way to Make Use of Kodak Prints at Christmas. The owner of a kodak will find this a nice way to make use of prints for gifts. Get some children's toy flat-frons, in the old-fashioned shape, gild the uppers and handles, and on the face of each mount a print that will particularly appeal to the one who is to receive it, trimming off evenly at the edges. Should the print not be as large as the face of the iron, trim it so the margin will be the same width all around, and gild the border also. Finish with a bow of ribbon on the handle. Of course it is intended to stand on end—Mrs. F. Pretty Den Clock. A pretty clock for a den or carriage is made of a narrow strip of leather pointed at the top and fringed across the bottom. A simple conventional design may be stenciled on the leather. A second piece of leather is fitted to the lower part of the strip and laced with a narrow strip of leather to hold it firm. This forms a pocket for the cheap nickel watch that is to do the work. This is held in place by a leather lacing run under the watch and through the two strips of leather. PRETTY STOCKS FOR CHRISTMAS Not Hard to Make and Will Alway Prove Acceptable. Stocks are always useful to girls and make excellent holiday presents. A simple but very pretty stock is made of narrow strips of golden-brown velvet tacked to a collar shape, the edges turned under (Fig. 1). The stripes are about a sixteenth of an inch apart, and are connected by the effective "fagging," done in yellow floss. Yellow dots are worked along the velvet FIG. 8 strips, and draped from the front point are two "flare paddle" ends of the velvet, the lower edges sprinkled also with the yellow dots. These "flare paddle" ends—a new thing out—are lined with the velvet itself, and altogether this makes a rich as well as a warm winter stock, and is especially suitable to the low-necked winter coat or suit. The same design may also be worked in white on a pale, misty blue, or in deep red on red. A yard of velvet, in this way, would make five or six stocks. Another stock—a very dainty one—is of white liberty satin, with white silk faxgoring and blue silk dots (Fig. 2). From the long point in front are suspended six roses made of bias folds of the satin, and shirred round and round. These are different lengths, and hang on ends of white baby-ribbon. MARY HELLEWELL A CASE FOR BONBONS. Makes an Odd But Pleasing Christmas Present. Here is a practical suggestion for a Christmas present for the girl or wom- an friend who is a lover of sweets. It is a somewhat elaborately made case that would do for holding bonbons, or would serve for a smart work bag. The ribbons are of very varied widths and colors, and are seamed together to make a bag at the top of a horn-shaped cardboard-stiffened base. A casing is formed in the usual way to hold a double drawstring. The base is cut somewhat triangular in shape, and the T top, instead of being straight, is curved out into a bold scallop. By way of covering for the cardboard foundation wide ribbon may be turned to account. It may be brocaded, or plain, as may be more convenient. If the latter, some kind of embroidered, or applique, decoration must be added, and as many extra trimmings in the way of twists and little bows of narrow ribbon as the worker thinks advisable. When joining strips of ribbon to make a large and firm article, such as the top of this bag, it is advisable to choose them as far as can be of the same texture. The bag would not set well if a stout corded ribbon were to be placed next to a thin, soft gauze, but the thinner makes are, all the same, useful for a dozen other purposes. Gauze ribbon, in particular, can be employed for the daintiest of scent and camphor sachets. TO MAKE A PLACQUE. Easily Made Novelty That Will Please Many Friends. Pictures are always welcome to both sexes, and a unique way to fix the smaller ones is to get some plaster of Paris, mix it with water until it will pour nicely, and then, after you have carefully placed your picture—print or unmounted photograph—in the bottom of a porridge plate, pour in the plaster of Paris. Then dry in a slow oven, or let it stand for several hours. When the mixture is perfectly hard, tap the bottom of the dish, and your plaque will come out as smooth and clean as the plate itself, and the picture will be so imbedded in the plaster of Paris that the edges will not show at all. This is a very nice way to treat an amateur photo or a head of one of the old masters. If it is a subject in which the recipient is interested he will prize it very much. To get the "hanger" on, turn the plaque on its face, place a loop of string a little above the middle, exactly centered crosswise, and put over it a "dab" of the plaster of Paris. When this dries the plaque is ready, and will hang flat against the wall. Different shapes can be obtained, of course, by using differently-shaped dishes. B.J.T. LITTLE VISITS WITH UNCLE BY Only a weaver of dreams am I— Fabrics of lace from the turquoise sky— Toller with woof from the field and brook, Painter of arabesque shade and nook, Worker with threads from the sunbeam's shaft. This is the whole of my magic craft: A weaver of dreams! Looms I have naught, but my dreams are spun Deep in the wood where the Dryads run Bathed in the scent of the zephyr fleet, Lulled by the fragrance of nectar sweet, Hidden away by ambrosialill, Nodding, I rest 'neath the tangled hill!- A weaver of dreams! Here, with no loom but the Great Out- doors, Deftly, I weave from my shuttle cores: Snatching my warp from the elm tree's green. Gently, I bait it with water's sheen. Softly I breeze in the rainbow's blue. Sunrise and sunset and moonlight hue— A weaver of dreams! Slowly my shuttle swings to and fro, Catching the hum of the river's flow. Culling the song of the birds and bees, Gleaning the murmur of forest trees— Now it is weaving the peace of sheep, Standing knee-deep in a stream. asleep. A weaver of dreams! Now it is blending the blush of rose, Weaving it in as the shuttle goes. Tips of the trees by the sunlight kissed, Jewels of dew that the sun has missed, God and contentment and love and play— These are the steels that I weave alway, A weaver of dreams! Only a weaver of dreams am I— Fabrics of lace from the wood and sky— Weaver of cloth from the clover bloom, Maker of lace on the Great Goat bloom. Dealer in dreams and the song of birds Wrought with a shuttle in woven words— A weaver of dreams! Gladly I offer my wares to you. Woven of joy with the Dryad crew. Wrap them about you and feel the thrill Born of the wood and the babbling rill Freshen your heart with the tillgrey Woven of dreams and their ecstasy Woven of dreams! Flashes. When the Sunday school teacher asked an Iowa boy, "What is the greatest of virtues?" he replied glibly: "Buttin' in!" In Chicago, a man who doesn't want to buy that new set of furs for his wife gives her a check on the bank which, under the new rules, she cannot cash. These be strenuous times! When broke, read Psalm xxxvii. It doesn't make so much difference about the invention's merits, if the stock selling scheme works well. A woman of tact is one who makes a bashful man think he did the proposing. One does not have to spend time now-a-days figuring on whether or no his salary will cover his expenses. He knows it will not. Sometimes a man's wife calls him up on the 'phone just to call him down. "Where, O where, are the mosquitoes of yesteryear?" asks a Milwaukee poet. You can search me—I just moved here last week—but I know where a fellow can buy a dandy bull pup for $10. To ascertain the latest in ladies' hose, take a mouse to the ball. A Kansas farmer lost a quarter's worth of plug tobacco and did not discover what had become of it until he milked "Brindle" that night. The cow, after imbbling freely from a stagnant pond, gave seven quarts of as fine drug-store whiskey as ever you tasted—er, I beg your pardon—as ever was made in a prune barrel with Three-X plug, a quart of red pepper and the required amount of plain water. Cyclone cellars may now be safely stored for the winter. According to some men I know, Solomon's record as the wisest man is having a hard time to maintain itself. **Joy!** Rabbit in de bresh pile, Rabbit in de lawg! Rastus wif his zulu, Rastus wif his dawg! Mandy in de kitchen, Mandy cook um brown! Rastus an' his Mandy Lick Br'er Rabbit down! Mandy keep a passin' Rabbit pie an' krust! Rastus keep a-eatin' 'Til him's eyes pop out! **Exciting.** How it makes our pocketbook palpitate, as we note the big loads of coal and wood pass our office. We can only sit by the window and let 'er "palp"—Calhoun (Mo.) Clarion. Right in Style. M. Edwards is right up with the procession, dressing his store front with paint of the prevailing fashionable colors. —McHenry (Neb.) Echo. Buy a Good Farm Now --- IS Offering the People of This Greatest Opportunity They Need to Own a Beautiful Rock or Fruit Farm. Tactically No Cost to You. The Chance May Come Your Way Again. well known gentleman of Jacksboro, Texas, Jacksboro, Texas, Feb. 26, 1907. just returned from Atascosa County, where I investigated of this February on the ranch, and drove not less than 125 miles and visited every examined the property as thoroughly as it was time. well on the ranch except the one in the Hall could have seen it by turning back, and if my me, and did not take the time to go back. New Home Sweet Home" with me and I compared saw, and I found them absolutely correct. wells I saw, and the water was good for drink-all of them except the gas well. I did not sitated a great deal worse water. I am sure it isation purpose I saw the cattle drink it, and on it. I put a match to the gas well and it that oil is to be found on this land. Just off from which I procured a bottle of oil which I in, the gentleman now employed in getting down and for you, and he told me that he had been try for the last six years, and that good water face on the ranch from forty to two hundred can be obtained anywhere on the ranch at hundred feet up. of my friends who want comfortable homes in told to purchase from you. with what I saw, and as you have said, it is time," especially for the man with small means, disposing of this land, and furnishing homes in man, I remain. Very truly yours. W. N. HUTTO. news and full description of the ranch. $210—payable interest, will buy a 10 to 640 acre farm and two town MAS. F. SIMMONS, Dr. C. F. Simmons is Offering the People of This Section the Greatest Opportunity They Ever Had to Own a Beautiful Truck or Fruit Farm. Why Not Buy Now at Practically No Cost to You. The Chance May Never Come Your Way Again. Mr. W. N. Hutto, the well known gentleman of Jacksboro, Texas, writes: Jacksboro, Texas, Feb. 26, 1907. Dr. C. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Texas. My Dear Sir: I have just returned from Atascosa County, where I went for the purpose of investigating your 95,000 acre ranch possession, and this February on the ranch, and during those three days I drove not less than 125 miles and visited every pasture on the ranch, and examined the property as thoroughly as it was possible to do within that time. I saw every artesian well on the ranch except the one in the Hall pasture. I was near it and could have seen it by turning back, but I had already seen enough to satisfy me, and did not take the time to go back. I took your books and looked at the property, and the trees the owner with what I saw, and I found them absolutely correct. I drank water at all the wells I saw, and the water was good for drinking and all other purposes in all of them except the gas well. I did not like it very well, but I have tasted a great deal worse water. I am sure it is good for all stock and irrigation purposes. I saw the cattle drink it, and they seem to be thriving on it. I put a match to the gas well and it began to burn at once. I drank water in which oil is to be found on this land. Just off of it there is an oil well from which I procured a oil of which I carried home with me. I talked with Mr. Brown, the gentleman now employed in putting down an artesian well on your land for you, and he told me that he had been drilling wells in that vicinity for the last forty years. Can you be obtained at any time for forty to two hundred feet of flowing wells can be obtained anywhere on the ranch at the draining from three hundred feet up. departed. The land is all as good as represented by you, and lots of it much better. The Vctaw pasture is the best all purpose land I ever saw. I shall recommend all of my friends who want comfortable homes in the best climate to provide to my property. I will thank pleased with what I saw, and as you have said, it is the "Opportunity of a Lifetime," especially for the man with small means. Wishing you success in disposing of this land, and furnishing homes Write today for book of views and full description of the ranch. $210-payable $10 a month until paid, without interest, will buy a 10 to 640 acre farm and two town lots in the paradise of America. Edge Shoes cannot be equalled at any price. W. L. Douglas name and price stamped on bottom. Take r for W. L. Douglas shoes. If he cannot supply you, send where by mail Catalog free, W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass. My $4,700 and $5,000 Gift Edge shoes cannot be equalled at any price. No Substitute. Ask your designer for W. J. Daughle shoes. "The cannot supply you, send me a new pair." One of Many. As Atchison woman started out to buy her fall hat. First she visited the openings and looked and looked. Then she took a friend and went around to the millinery stores and "tried on" again, saying, of course, that her "hair looked perfectly terrible." Then she went home and thought and thought, and, finally, went back to the stores and "tried on" once more; and thought, and thought, and then bought a hat which is so grotesque and hideous that her relatives and friends blush with shame every time they see her wear it, and strangers stare at her, wondering what kind of courage it takes to wear such a looking hat. But she did the best she could—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. Sheer white goods, fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. French Police a Surprise: "Well, how did you enjoy yourself in Paris?" they asked of Mrs. Maloney when she got home. "Very well," she replied. "Very well, indade; but there was wan thing that surprised me more thin ennythin' else." "And what was that?" they queried. "There were a lot of policemen there and all av thim was French." 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At the end of four years' growth it is fit for the table. Buy a Goods Dr. C. F. Simmons is Off Section the Greatest Ever Had to Ov Truck or F Why Not Buy Now at Practically No Never Come You Mr. W. N. Hutto, the well know writes: Dr. C. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Tex. My Dear Sir: I have just return went for the purpose of investigating I spent the 21st 22nd and 23rd during those three days I drove not pasture on the ranch, and examined the pictures in it with what I saw, and I saw every artesian well on the pasture. I was near it and could have already seen enough to satisfy me, and I took your booklet, "New Home 8 the pictures in it with what I saw, and I drank water at all the wells I saw and all other purposes in all of the it very well, but I have tasted a great good for all stock and irrigation pump they seem to be thriving on it. I began to burn at once. I am an am of the opinion that oil is of it there is an oil well from which carried home with me. I talked with Mr. Brown, the gent an artesian well on your land for you drilling wells in that vicinity for the can be obtained at any place on the feet, and that a sowing of three hundred feet departing from the farm is as good as represent The Votaw pasture is the best all purp I shall recommend all of my fri the best climate in the world to purp I am more than pleased with what the "Opportunity of a Lifetime," espe Wishing you success in disposing within the reach of the ordinary man, Write today for book of views and from $10 a month until paid, without interest, w lots in the paradise of America. DR. CHAS. F 215 Alamo Plaza, W. W. DOUG $3.00 & $3.50 SHOEES SHOEBS FOR EVERY MEMBER THE FAMILY, AT ALL PRICE $25,000 Douglas does not Reward more Men's $3 & thin other men THE REASON W. L. Douglas shoes are worn in all walks of life than any other make, is the best choice for men. 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WESTERN CANADA New Districts Now Opened for Settlement FOREMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Some of the choicei lands in the grain growi land and Albuquerque recently been opened under the Revised Home Regulations of Canada. Thousands of home 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Some of the choices hands in the grain grow- ing industry in Waco, wan and Alberta have recently been opened to the Revised Homestead Regulations of Canada. Two thousands of hom- esteads are now available. The new regulations make it possible for entry to be made by poxy, the opor- mentation of the plant by a contractor, 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 b itself or herself. Entry may now be made before the Agent or Sub- stitute of the plant by the father, son, daughter, brother or sister of intending homemaster. 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General Banking Business Transected CHITA KANSAS love good eating IMBODEN MILLING CO. Thanksgiving Proclamation As there is nobody else to make this proclamation, I would proclaim to the citizens of the United States, especially those cf Wichiiia, that I am sole agent for the BEST COAL in this section. I am giving the business my personal attention and giving good services. . . BOTH PHONES 496 J H TURNER J533 to 547 WEST DOUGLAS GOWA Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-day 329 East Center SALINA, KANSAS There are men of five nationalities American, Indian, Mexican, African and Japanese—engaged in picking cotton in Oklahoma. It has been proven that the Negro is the fastest worker. Vote "NO" when you go into the booth Tuesday. Let us have no "Texas Plans" in Wichita. Not much. Co. dent if he could have secured the support of his own people. freshness and youth in theater-goers that is lit Can the big war secretary of today break this hodoo, as he has broken so many others? He seems to be immune from all the disasters of the sea and land. Railroad wrecks don't feaze him; automobiles have nothing sinister in their appearance or demeanor. The dangers of the sea and of the air and of the things under the earth are naught, and the beasts of the forest would probably eat out of his hand. Surely he can show the country that the omen that has been resistless for fifty years is like a toy balloon—there's nothing in it but wind. And yet Foraker is a real entity and a genuine potentiality. He will have to be reckoned with. The Ohio woods, if not full of Foraker followers, are at least well populated with them. A Good Chance For All Those That Would Like To Be Helped Miss Mamie Richardson, of Kansas City, Kan, has located in our city as a MUSIC TEACHER. She comes well recommended from some of the best instructors in the west. Had several years experience in teaching. She solicits your patronage and will be glad to meet you at 630 NORTH WATER ST., Phone 1041 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. 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. EDITOR. "Two Men and a Girl" and their friends and relatives will be introduced by the genial comedian, Mr. Tim Murphy, at the Crawford Grand on Monday evening, December 2. The dramatist had room for only three of his characters in the title, in spite of which the cast is a long and important one. Mr. Murphy's role is that of a middle-aged, bachelor lawyer and gives full play to his well known gifts of comedy and pathos, artistic suggestion of strength under a gentle surface. His art rhymes with heart. When the problems were passed out by the dramatists he refused the morbid disagreeable ones with the result that there is always assurance of an exhilarating delightful evening with him. "Two Men and a Girl" is an unusually happy vehicle for his optimistic comedy, and though there are occasionally fleecy clouds before the sunshine in the story, it is mostly sunny, laughing bracing weather while the curtain is raised on the story of the middle-aged bachelor who found his rival for the love of a girl in his fashionable but rascally young brother. This discovery seals the elder man's lips and disarms him in the fight. The dramatist has solved interestingly the problem of opening the eyes of the girl to the catastrophe which looms before her in marriage to the plausable young scamp and to the native value of the self-sacrificing brother. There are two other lighter love storle in the background and an environing group of sharply contrasted comedy characters. "Two Men and a Girl" tages the audience into a fashionable Adirondack Mountain camp, where nature is her loveliest and Dan Cupid has a central exchange connecting all hearts and the gun-god holds unadjourned sessions. The dressing is extremely modish and the scenery will be found uniquely beautiful. That vigorous, picturesque and thrilling play, "In Old Kentucky," with its vivid and graphic story of life in the famous blue grass state, will be presented again at the Crawford, Thursday, December 5th. This drama, now in the fifteenth season of its remarkable career on the American stage, shows no signs of waning popularity. It manifests a freshness and youth in its hold on theater-goers that is little short of the marvelous. Perhaps the secret of its power lies in the sweet and homely love story that goes straight from the first curtain to the end of the play; perhaps in the exciting episodes which fill the four acts; perhaps in the amusing sport and characteristic antics of the pickaninies. Anyhow, the power to draw people again and again to see it is there. Playgoers appear to consider it a duty as well as a pleasure to attend "In Old Kentucky," whenever it is announced for presentation. To this fact is due, no doubt, some measure of its unusual success. The pickaninny scene is always new and enjoyable. Their whirlwind of fun and frolic, of music and mirth, is contagious, and they have a way of going through their work in this play that makes the spectator forget that it is simply a fine piece of stage management and not a scene from real life. The company secured for the present year's performance is said to be one of the best that has ever presented "In Old Kentucky." A magnificent new scenic equipment has been prepared for this season and an unusually large contingent of little darkey boys will add novelty to the presentation. The company will include several members of the original cast. Mr. Burt G. Clark, who was their original colonel, is with the company, as is Mr. Chas. K. French, the original Uncle Bob. Miss May Stockton will be seen in the role of Madge Brierly, the moun tain heroine. Next Friday, December 6th, that everlasting success, "The Moonshiner's Daughter," will be the attraction at the Crawford. The management promises a wealth of splendid scenery, and a company the equal of which has never been seen in this highly interesting play. There are several new vaudeville acts with the company, and a few other novelties that are strictly up to date. The odd, not to say cryptic title of Paul Armstrong's new comedy, "The Heir to theh Hoorah," creates a lot of comment and considerable inquiry. A good many citizens appear to jump to the conclusion that a piece under such a name should be a musical comedy or an extravaganza, but it isn't. "The Heir" is a baby supposedly born during the progress of Act II, and "The Hoorah" is a mine to which the guilleless infant is heir apparent. NORTH TOPEKA (KAN.) ITEMS. The Twelve Star Club will meet with Mrs. Ida' M. Jordan, 903 Northwestern avenue, Monday evening, December 2, 1907. Rev. M. Wooten, presiding elder of the Wichita District, stopped over in Topeka last Friday on business on his way to Salina, Kan., to hold his quarterly meeting. He stopped with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jordan, and during his stay had a fine time with his many friends of Topeka. He left Saturday morning for Salina. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jordan entertained Sunday from 2 to 5 o'clock in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Small of Michigan, Mrs. A. Auston of Burlingame, Rev. Martin of Bonner Springs. The following guests were present: W. Riddley, Mrs. Allen, Miss Martin A, Ridley, Mr. McComb, Mrs. S. Filinch Everything was served in royal style and all had a delightful time with Mrs. Ida M. Jordan. NEWTON (KAN.) NEWS. Mrs. John McLain is able to be up again. Mrs. Geo. Johnson spent last Wednesday in Wichita. Mrs. oJe Rickman is reported some better. Miss Addie Webb is reported very sick. Mrs. Wm. Webb is somewhat better. Charlie Allen of Marion was in the city Tuesday. The concert given at the A. M. E. church last Friday night was a grand success and the audience wishes it to be repeated sometime soon. Mrs. S. S. Washington of Wichita spent several days in the city last week. She reports having a fine time. Miss Grace Johnson of Wichita passed through the city on her way to Hutchinson. Mr. Johnson and daughter of Great Bend, Kan., passed through the city Sunday on their way to Oklahoma. The N. U. S. Club met with Miss Bettie Norvell Monday afternoon. The members all reported a lovely meeting. LEAVENWORTH, KAN. Crystal Tabernacle No. 29 met Tuesday, November 19. We are doing nicely, the members are all in the best of health and the Tabernacle prosperous. Love and union abound. Our Tabernacle has been visited by death once in eight years. We have no sick at this time, and are pressing forward, trusting in the Lord. We are planning a masquerade for December 28th, for the benefit of the Tabernacle. "If a man write a book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." Recent news from the new demagogic state of Oklahoma shows an exceedingly bad start—so far as the Negro is concerned. First comes dispatches of the proposed "order" of the railroad commissioners "ordering the railroads to maintain "jim crow cars" for its Negro citizens. Next comes news of the incendiary burning of the Negro school at Langston, completely destroying the institution. While it cannot be charged that the democratic administration was "de facto" responsible for this infernal cowardice—yet certain it is that their outspoken "policy against its Negro citizens" had, no doubt, much to do in encouraging the incendiary to action. The white people of Oklahoma and other "Negro-hating" communities laugh in their sleeves at the work of the incendiary, the mob and other elements aimed at retarding the Negro, but it is as certain as nature is that "as we've sown so shall we reap; when the harvest time appears." The seed time which the white man is sowing today in his haste to prove to the world his "hatred" for the loyal Negro, is but the seed of anarchy, "confusion" and eventual disaster—and though the Negro is the victim today—when the seed are all sown—yet on the morrow—which is certain to come—when "the harvest appear"—the white man will flee and beg the rocks and the mountains to fall on him and hide him from the great, gigantic and grewsome harvest which the white man MUST reap. The American white man is "kicking against the pricks" in his efforts to turn the tide and work of nature: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin?" There has been nations and peoples more worldly powerful than the American white man who have sown like seeds but were unable to gather and withstand the harvest. To the Negroes of Oklahoma, as elsewhere, we say, maintain for your rights—be courageous—be manly—and above all, BE BRAVE MEN. If the time should come when MIGHT must be pitted against RIGHT a David will rise up in the interest of the American Negro and will accept the proud boast of the American white man's Goliath and the battle will be given to the Negro for right. Such conditions, however, are a shame to be credited to a race as the Caucasian, who boast of their superiority, blood and learning. It is lower than the acts of heathens. When you vote Tuesday vote "NO" on thethe commission proposition and you will vote right. --- MT. OLIVE BANQUETS. Mt. Olive Court No. 9. H. of J., spread a sumptuous banquet Tuesday evening at Young's hall in honor of Mrs. F. Hyde of Argentine, G. M., who was in the city. A very pleasant time was had and all enjoyed the occasion and welcomes Mrs. Hyde to our city again. The T. B. Club met with Mrs. Fred Madison last Saturday afternoon and enjoyed a pleasant meeting. The club adjourned to meet next Saturday with Miss Winnie Ray, 917 N. Water. Mr. and Mrs. Sy Cox and baby Cox and Mr. Kimberlin of College Hill were the pleasant guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson, 1650 Topeka avenue at 6 o'clock dinner Sunday eve. A very pleasant time was spent. Jas. J. Olden has returned from Kansas City, where he went in the interest of his ice plant project. He reports having received much encouragement in the city of the Kaw. WILL BE DEFEATED. On Tuesday next, December 3d, the qualified voters of Wichita will go to the polls, cast their ballots to decide --- whether Wichita is to change from her present satisfactory form of government to the untried and unknown "commission plan." We do not attempt to say that the eminent and worthy citizens who are sponsoring the cause of the "commission" are not earnest and feel that their position is as right as those who are not in favor of the change. As we have sail all along, there are no doubt, some good points in the proposed plan, but taking the proposition as a whole, as presented for consideration today, even the most ardent supporters of the proposed change agree that it is a dangerous thing. No man will venture the assertion that our present system of government is "perfect," yet we know what our present system is, and it is certainly capable of giving a far better and amply more satisfaction to the poor man and middle class of citizens than any aristocratical commission of five men vested with "unlimited power" of conducting the affairs of our city. It may be the "very thing" for the man with money—the millionaire, the autocrat—but we; the common people, want a government of affairs that will be in touch with all the people—the poor man—the rich man—the middle man—the black man—the white man—all. This is what we now have. WE DO NOT NEED A CHANGE. Some of those who favor the "commission" say it will remove the city affairs from politics. If they really believe so they are badly mistaken. There will always be two contending political parties as long as there is civil government, and each will aspire for control. The successful party will always have friends to reward and enemies to punish. That's politics. They say it will remove all chance of political corruption. We know of no corruption in our present affairs, but Ingalls said wisely when he said: "Purity in politics is an iridescent dream." But it seems to us that corruption would be more readily accomplished in the hands of the few than in the hands of many. And then where will the Negro be? In the short end of the horn. Let us favor our present plan and vote against this proposed new change. Let us all vote NO. HURRAH, FOR OHIO! On Wednesday, November 20th, the Ohio Republicans endorsed Senator Joseph Benson Foraker for his successor in the senate or as Ohio's choice for the presidency. This is a most flattering and worthy endorsement and shows that "right" is mightier than "might." With the entire influence of the national administration opposing his every step, Senator Foraker has gained a most phenomenal victory. Senator Foraker, by his long, earnest, faithful and honest service for the people of Ohio had justly won this endorsement which would have not been questioned had the senator not had the manhood to defend the helpless Negro soldiers on the floor of the United States senate in the face of the frowns of the national administration. But coming at this time, as it does, it is the more pronounced and proves beyond question the fidelity, faith and confidence in which the people of Ohio hold Senator Foraker. Whether Senator Foraker should be his party nominee for the presidency or not is another question. The Ohio endorsement fully shows that the people of his home state endorses Senator Foraker's public stands—on the question of the Negro soldiers as well as all others. Again we say: Hurrah for Ohio! ALL THINGS ARE WELL. That ends well—so pay your subscription to the Searchlight and get a good night's sleep. Johnstons Restaurant, 139 N. Main, cream and soda water always on hand. is the place to get good meals. Ice