Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT The Negro and The Future An Able Paper By Hon. Thomas Blodgett NINETH YEAR. The Negro and The An Able Paper H Bloo THE NEGRO AND THE FUTURE. (By Tom Blodgett of the Cox-Blodgett Wholesale Dry Goods Co. Wichita, Kan.) Every man shapes his own destiny. The mightiest force for your success and happiness in this world throbs in your own bosom. HON. TOM BLODGETT, Of the Cox-Blodgett Dry Goods Co., Wichita.—A believer in right and "All men up—no man down." The tremendous power of Niagara, the sweep of the swiftest tornado, the ceaseless battling of the ocean waves is but a passing circumstance compared to the eternal and unmeasured power of your own soul. Your life and mine will be just what we make it. If we are waiting for some wave of fortune or good luck to carry us on its bosom to some spot of perpetual happiness we will die with our own dreams unrealized. The magic wand of destiny is in your grasp; no evil spell haunts the paths of human existence that can withstand its mighty power. We so often feel that our failures in life are due to some chain of circumstances beyond our control. But few have the courage to admit their mistakes and failures and grapple with the problems of life with an ambition that laughs at defeat. Sir, the powers of heaven and hell combined are no match for a man in whose soul burns the fires of holy determination and character. There is only one battle in life, and when that is won the giants we once dreaded prove to be our most valuable champions in the triumphs of victory. The battles of regiments and batallions with their roar of cannon and flash of musketry pale into insignificance when compared to the battles for self mastery in the human soul. The fiercer the conflict and the greater the odds, the more stupendous will be the victory when you win. He is strongest and bravest who has conquered most. You say you haven't as good a chance as some one else; then thank God for it, and get busy, for its the folks with a chance that make the biggest failures. The problems and struggles of any race are no greater than the perplexities and battles in the life of each individual. A great race can be composed only of great individuals, not necessarily great in the sense of wordly renown, but great in the self mastery which makes of our men and women uncrowned kings and queens. The nineteenth century relates the history incident to the emancipation of the black man from slavery at the hands of the white man. The historians of the twentieth century will be compelled to record the matchless achievements of the black man as he lifts his race from the valley of prejudice, hatred, persecution and the insult to the mountain heights of opportunity, respect and vindication. From a nation of uneducated slaves, turned loose, poverty stricken, to battle unaided in a hostile world, will come a race of mental and moral giants redeemed by the priceless virtues of honesty, patience and industry. The "race problem" as it relates to the colored people of our country, has but one solution. The ungodly and inhuman speeches and writings of such men as Tom Dixon Jr. and Ben Tillman filled with the poison of hatred and injustice, is an attempt to stifle and strangle the hopes and ambitions of the colored man, until in despair he gives up the struggle and submits to being branded an outcast forever. On the other hand philanthropists are giving financial assistance to the race, which is very commendable and worthy. But neither the versection of Dixon or the gifts of philanthropists will solve the race problem. There is a mighty irresistible force underneath this great question, which is rapidly gathering form and sinew that will bring a righteous and tri- It is the same eternal passion for umphant station. truth and ghteousness that has throbbed in the bosom of all mankind through all ages, that is being awakened in the soul of the black man that will dispel the darkness and herald the dawn of a redeemed and enlightened race. The negro will solve the race problem himself by becoming a necessity to this great republic. He will help us defend our flag in times of war. His brain and muscle will be indispensable in the development of our great industries, and instead of a menace to our civilization the negro will in the providence of God become essential to the nation, in its onward march as a world power. The same education and moral quickening that makes a white man a useful citizen will touch the foundation of nobility in the soul of the colored man and illumine his body, mind and soul until the image of God sparkles in his life in response to the touch of the divine hand. OLD NICK BRADSHAW was the richest man in Jonesburg, and for 30 years he had also been the most hated. There was a tradition that a girl whom he was to have married one Christmas day had eloped with another man a few hours before the time set for the wedding. Whether the story was true or not Old Nick, as everybody called him, had become a recluse. Nobody ever had a kind word for him. It had long been agreed that the death of Old Nick would be the luckiest think which could happen to Jonesburg, wherefore there was general surprise when it was announced the wonder and he smiled. The day was people said heart that bite of the Christmas the town of Expectance was to be that people could do so beginning which Old Nick. The cree hour before of the The greatest danger I see that can come from a bad negro is the fact that he is so apt to imitate the deeds of bad white men. I do not see any more need of alarm from the "race problem" as it relates to the negro than I do from a dozen other social volcanoes which threaten at any time to belch forth their burning lava of death and destruction. I fully appreciate the indignities which are heaped upon the black man in every avenue of life. He is denied many of the advantages and comforts that mean so much to all self-respecting people, and is made to feel that every man's hand is against him. But I want to say to you that the hand of God is tremendously more powerful, than the hand of man, and God will defend the people who are true and obedient to him. When the negro realizes that every source of help and opportunity is cut off he will then turn to God, who alone can guide, and whose almighty arm is ever ready to defend his children. If it were possible for the colored race to reach the highest attainments of Christian character and citizenship without struggles and hardships the way would be opened, but no man nor race of men can be moulded into greatness except by conflict and battle against opposing forces. I do not mean the warfare of mobs and riots, but the accomplishment of virtue, industry and noble purpose in spite of the obstacles that are thrown in the way. The heart of every colored man and woman should so throb with love for the sacred cause of their race that no motive could tempt them to turn traitor to their people. The colored people can shape their destiny only as they stand together. With the burdens under which your people groan you cannot afford to allow jealousy and selfishness to induce you to be a traitor to the interests of your race. Stand together and die if need be rather than betray the cause of your countrymen. There are thousands upon thousands of colored men whose honor cannot be bought, and who will stand shoulder to shoulder until the dark night of persecution and suffering shall end and the morning light of a new day shall burst upon a redeemed race. The Nation of Shopkeepers The Nation of Shopkeepers. Napoleon must have been right after all. We are a nation of shopkeepers. There is nothing in the shop we are not ready to sell at a price, says the London Saturday Review. We would no doubt sell the Great Seal if we could get a good enough offer from Mr. Pierpont Morgan. Shakeseare folios, first editions of Waton, the portraits of Reynolds, of Romney—these and any other national heirlooms, only given a fat enough offer, we are happy to part with to any foreign nation that has the taste and money to buy them. We can put them up as coolly as Charco Surface did his forcibles. The Transformation of Old Nick By S. E. KISER. OLD NICK BRADSHAW was the richest man in Jonesburg, and for 30 years he had also been the most hated. There was a tradition that a girl whom he was to have married one Christmas day had eloped with another man a few hours before the time set for the wedding. Whether the story was true or not Old Nick, as everybody called him, had become a recluse. Nobody ever had a kind word for him. It had long been agreed that the death of Old Nick would be the luckiest think which could happen to Jonesburg, wherefore there was general surprise when it was announced one year that Nicholas Bradshaw intended to have a Christmas tree for all the children in the town and that he would on the great day give a dinner to the people. the wonder in the faces of the citizens and he smiled with keen satisfaction. The day was very cold, but he apparently was oblivious of the fact. The people said it was the warmth of his heart that kept him from feeling the bite of the ice winds. Christmas day dawned clear, and the town was astir earlier than usual. Expectancy was on tiptoe. The hall was to be opened at 12:30 sharp, so that people who wished to go to church could do so and still be in time for the beginning of the ceremonies over which Old Nick was to preside. The crowd began to assemble a hour before the time set for the opening of the doors. People danced on the sidewalk, slapped their hands against themselves to keep from freezing, and every little while there were cheers for Mr. Bradshaw. At last the hands on the courthouse Three weeks before Christmas he began his preparations. He rented the biggest hall in the place, had an immense evergreen tree set up in it, and The Christmas Tree Loomed Before Them. hired carpenters to fill it with long tables. The people could hardly believe that their eyes did not deceive them when they saw him getting taings ready. He made many mysterious visits to the great city in which the Jonesburg merchants bought their goods, and he always returned bearing many boxes and packages. Sometimes they were too big or too numerous to be carried by him, and he hired expressmen to take them to the hall, while the people stood on the sidewalks and made greateful remarks about the way they had wronged Mr. Bradshaw, or insisted that they had suspected all along that beneath a stern exterior he possessed a kind heart. After the tree and the tables had been set up nobody but Old Nick himself was permitted to enter the hall. He explained that he wanted every one to be surprised. He carried the boxes and packages up the stairs alone, and he had the windows carefully curtained, so that nobody could see from the outside what was being done within. On the day before Christmas the last assignment of Nicholas Bradshaw's boxes and packages arrived from the city. There was a wagonload of them! and the excitement of the people as they saw them being transferred from the railway station to the hall where the feast was to be held became intense. Old Nick saw Strain the milk through a flannel cloth or through two or three thicknesses of cheese cloth. As soon as strained cool at once to a temperature of 50 to 55 degrees. This may be done by aerating if the air of the room is perfectly pure and sweet. The cooler the milk is the longer it will keep from souring. If lawyers and doctors ever did get to Heaven, they would be most terribly bored there.—Philadelphia Telegraph. "Hello, Santa Claus!" the wonder in the faces of the citizens, and he smiled with keen satisfaction. The day was very cold, but he apparently was oblivious of the fact. The people said it was the warmth of his heart that kept him from feeling the bite of the ley winds. Christmas day dawned clear, and the town was astir earlier than usual. Expectancy was on tippet. The hall was to be opened at 12:30 sharp, so that people who wished to go to church could do so and still be in time for the beginning of the ceremonies over which Old Nick was to preside. The crowd began to assemble on hour before the time set for the opening of the doors. People danced on the sidewalk, slapped their hands against themselves to keep from freezing, and every little while there were cheers for Mr. Bradshaw. At last the hands on the courthouse clock indicated that it was 12:30, and then one of Old Nick's hired men appeared with the key to the door of the big hall. With a wild rush and a loud whoop the people crowded inside and hurried upstairs. The Christmas tree leomed gloriously before them. Its branches were laden with packages all neatly tied with ribbons and each bearing a card on which was written the name of the person who was to receive it. The tables were set and ready for the feasters. There were big brown turkeys with drumsticks pointing upward; there were huge cakes, there were filled wineglasses at the plates, and there were many vases with bright-colored flowers. But it was quickly discovered that the turkeys were made of papier-mache, such as are used in make-believe banquets on the stage; the cakes were nothing but painted blocks of "Hello, Sam Don't Hurt Your Farm. Your farm is a sensitive thing. If you neglect it, it is hurt. Don't neglect anything is a mighty good rule—even to a little recreation now and then. Keep abreast of the times. Put the wood ashes in the orchard. Any place in the orchard is a good place, but if put around the trees it will help to keep the borers out. A man has to be mighty good-looking to be as handsome as he thinks he is. NO.40 wood, the wineglasses contained only vinegar, and the flowers were artificial. When the packages that had been cut from the tree were opened they were found to be filled with sawdust, except that in each of them was a slip of paper such as lay beside each of the plates and on which was printed this statement: "I have for a long time believed that the people of this town celebrated Christmas, not for the purpose of exhibiting the true Christmas spirit, but simply to outdo one another in making a big show. If you are true to the faith you possess you will forgive me for what I have done and thank me for teaching you a valuable lesson. It is not what you give or what you receive, but the spirit in which it is given and received. I give you all these things with the heartiest good wishes and with the hope that joy will be yours in fullest measure. How will you receive them? 'NICHOLAS BRADSHAW'. For a moment there was painful silence. Then the Baptist minister mounted a chair and said: "I think Mr. Bradshaw has, as he says, taught us a profitable lesson. We have been drifting away from the true Christian faith. We have made Christmas a time not of joy but of dread to the people who have to pay the bills. We give not for the joy of giving, but with the hope of receiving something just as good in return. I propose a vote of thanks to Mr. Bradshaw for opening our eyes." Some of the children and a few of the women were inclined to be sullen, but the vote of thanks was given with a good deal of enthusiasm, and then Old Nick opened the door of an adjoining room which was filled with real things to eat and fine presents for all the people, and when everybody was seated and the feast was at its height he stood up, saying in tones that were rather husky: "Friends, I have for a good many years been a skeptic. I have not believed in God and I have regarded all people as being inherently and selfish. You have shown me that I was mistaken. My old faith has come back to me; you have made me the happiest man in the world. God bless you all."—Chicago Record-Herald. ta Claus! Feed and Exercise of Bull. It has been said that the dairy bull should be fed like the work horse and given nearly as much exercise. Usually a large lot over which he can rove at will is ample to furnish exercise. Do not attempt to keep him housed in a close stall and expect him to beget a race of healthy and representative offspring. It is nearing the usual breeding time and the bull should have an abundance of exercise for the next month or two at least. Few men live up to their obituaries. THE SEARCHLIGHT. THE SEARCHLIGHT. 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. All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. in matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wednesday to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will not be published in the current issue. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to another give both the ned and the old. 4th. No new name will be placed on our books unless the money accompanies the name. Write plaia. 5th. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 M Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. FOR GOVERNOR OF KANSAS, 1908. CHAS. L. DAVIDSON of Sedgwick County. NEED BUSINESS CLUB. There is a great need of a business club among the colored men and women who are engaged in business pursuits in Wichita for the mutual benefit of all. There is much lasting good that can be accomplished through such an organization. The time is here now when a united stand must be taken by the colored men and women who have ventured their money in business in Wichita for the accommodation of the race. Let us get together on a mutual ground and there is much good which one can do the other. We must organize for the benefits derived therefrom at home. Some steps will be taken, we trust, in the near future with this object in view. Let us organize. Not all white men are enemies of the Negro, and anyone who assumes that every time he meets a white man he meets an enemy of the Negro recants without a foundation. There are hundreds, yes, thousands of white men right in America today who believe in right against wrong, and regardless of color or creed will ever stand for right. On every hand the close obedver may see the handiwork of white friends of the Negro. From the "Jim Crow" legislation, the acts of ostracism, the seemingly insurmountable mountain of prejudice—the loud-mouth spieler of Negro hatred—that the American Negro stands in this republic today friendless. But such is not the case. "After the storm comes the calm," and the "darkest hours are just before day" may be aptly applied to a race as to an individual. But the race must not stop and depend on its friends. Although branded in a civilized country like a herd of cattle as "inferior" by its manly and upright living let the Negro brand this a lie. Although the attempt is made to "legislate" the race to obscurity, yet buy land, accumulate money, build homes, buy farms, conduct businesses and force the hand that now smites us to be extended to us in recognition of our worth as men. We are aware that it seems at times dark, but work, it seems, sometimes useless. But work—our efforts seems all in vain—but work—do not cease work—climb—as long as there is a round on the ladder—cease not to climb. Our friends among the whites are legion, and like all other agencies for good—they are but biding their time. Do not find time to discuss the "racial differences"—work, climb, work, pull and climb. As a rule—and true, too, men do not fear the weak and friendless, but all fear a prospering competitor. So with the Negro. Among those white men who have so many lies to tell on the Negro and about the Negro it is those men who fear the energy and backbone and invincibility of the Negro as a likely prosperous competitor. But let the Negro work, climb—work the harder. Day must break some time—it will not always remain dark. WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM. WILE SOLVE THE PROBLEM. If the colored men would suffer to be killed out like rats in America and leave the colored women here, the white man would be satisfied, and you would hear no more about the "race problem." It would be settled. But the colored men are going to "stick tight" and look after their own women; you bet. 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. GO TO OKLAHOMA. Negroes who are looking for locations should come to the state of Oklahoma. In spite of the fact that there are some drawbacks, opportunities are better here than elsewhere and our people should come here and help to make this new state the best in the Union. God is not dead, and the future will show that all men regardless of color or creed, can live here in peace. The recent threats to deprive Negroes of their rights will have no effect as there are still enough liberty loving white men who are willing to see that all men shall have their rights under the law. (No Negro is asking for or seeking the so-called social equality.) Negroes own much of the land in this part of the country and landowners cannot be disfranchised in any country on earth.-Cimeteer, Muskogee. A. B. WEBBER Draggist Free Delivery. We will call for and Deliver Your Prescriptions 811 N. Main St. New Phone 620 HALL FOR RENT YOUNG'S HALL, 601 N. Main st is open for engagements for Parties Dances, Socials, Supp pers etc, etc, etc. Enquire of G. H. Young, 601 N. Main St. COLORED CONGRESSMEN IN THE UNITED STATES. Since the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1863, many Negroes have held official positions. Two were United States Senators, Twenty-two Representatives; three, Registers of the Treasury; several were Lieutenant Governors of States. About forty have held diplomatic and consular positions; many have been officers in the army; six were Recorders of Deeds in the District of Columbia. A fine engraving of these Negro Congressmen has just ben issued, giving accurate portraits of each; also the Congress in which they served and the years of service. In the picture, the two Senators, Messrs. Revels and Bruce, occupy the center of the group, surrounded by the other twenty Representatives. In the background, the Stars and Stripes in color. This beautiful engraving, with a booklet containing biographies of these eminent men, is sold for one dollar ($1.00). This engraving is a graphic political history of the Negro in America. No home, library, office, or school-room will be complete without it. Send for one today. THE COLORED AMERICAN NOVELTY CO., Washington, D. C. P. O. Drawer 2318. Agents Wanted SHOULD SIGN NAME. Persons writing articles and sending them to the Searchlight for publication should always sign their name and give their address. Any matter, except local news, which reaches our desk without signature will not be published no matter of what nature. Please take notice. DATE CHANGED FOR MOCK WED. DING. The daughters of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 have changed the date of their entertainment to Monday night. December 23d at Young's hall. In connection with the "Mock Wedding" there will be a short program. Admission only 15 cents. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT LOCALS Send your news notes and local openings to 601 North Main Street. F IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? 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. GEO. McDONALD. 720 N. Washington Ave. BOY WANTED. The editor of the Searchlight wants a good, energetic boy who will attend to business, to work in our office, go on errands and do collecting. A good place for the high boy. W. N. MILLER, 634 N. Water. W. T. CERNON CLUB. The ladies of the W. T. Vernon club met in regular session with Mrs. Wm. Horton, of 1825 N. Meade, extensive preparations were made for a grand entertainment and bazaar, to be held in bazaar to be held in Young's hall on December 26, 1907. The ladies of the club have a quilt on exhibition at Olden's drug store which will be sold at Young's Hall on December 26, 1907. Come out and buy a ticket on this quilt at 10 cents each. The program for the evening consists of an address by Mrs. B. Hockett, president; address by Rev. H. I. Jones, "Life of W. T. Vernon."; instrumental solo by Mrs. J. W. Thompson; "History of W. T. Vernon Club," by Mrs. L. H. White; vocal solo by Mrs. R. H. Love; recitation by Mrs. W. H. Helems; reading by Miss Ellen Roach, subject, "Charity"; instrumental solo, Miss Mamie Richardson. Come everybody; admission 10 cents. MASONS TO SPREAD A grand entertainment will be given under the auspices of Arkansas Valley Lodge No. 21, A. F. & A. M. Friday, December 27th, at Young's hall, 601 N. Main street. The committee will spare no pains in making it one of the grandest affairs of the season. A cordial welcome to all. NOT LESS THAN $1.00. After January 1, 1908, the Banner Mill, 622 North Main, will not sell less than one dollar's worth of coal. NEW DRUG STORE. A. B. Webber has opened a fine drug store at 811 North Main, where he will appreciate your patronage. You will certainly receive courteous treatment there. Stop by. NEW K. OF P. LODGGE. McKinley No. 8 is the name and number of the new K. of P. lodge recently organized in Wichita, with Mr. Pink Stradford, C. C. The lodge was instituted by J. E. Lewis, G. C., and promises to do good. BIG BANQUET. The Literary Society will give a big banquet at Young's Hall, on Monday night, December 30th. More particiuiars later. Chas. H. Floyd passed through Wichita Wednesday from Topeka en route to his home in Kingman. He had been to Topeka where he witnessed the marriage of his brother, Robert, to Miss King. Packing Meat Is now locat building at 21s and can give b Packing House Meat Market 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. LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner Of 3rd & Main 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 Coulter & Furgerson's Barber Shop 349 N. Main Everything First-Class Shave 10c. Hair Cut 25c. Your Patronage Solieited FOR RENT. A newly remodeled four-room house, corner Twenty-third and Grace. Rent reasonable. Apply to W. N. Miller, 634 N. Water or 335 W. 15th St. Wright's 638 North Water St. All kinds of Fancy and Staple Groceries..... We will appreciate ...YOUR TRADE... At 638 N. Water St Johnston's Restaurant 339 N. Main St. Meals 20c and 25c Cigars, Tobacco, Lunch Fish Game and Oysters in Season Your Trade Wanted Roscoe Copeland left Thursday for his home in Fort Scott, Kansas. Emprie Hawkins of Fort Scott was in Wichita last week and left for Kansas City. Bertha May Griggs has been very sick, but it improving. Little Burton McClellan, who has been quite sick for the past two weeks with pneumonia is able to be out again. Mrs. J. A. Martin left Thursday for Greenville, Miss., where she will spend the holidays. The B. T. W met with Miss Sallye Rowles on Thursday afternoon, and business being duly transacted completing the arrangements for the holidays they adjourned until after the holidays Mrs. Mamie Matheena of Fort Worth, Texas, was in the city this week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Underwood. She left for Topeka, where she will spend a few days visiting friends. House Market ed in their new st & Lawrence big bargains in Dan Furgerson WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Churches. Orders delivered to any part of the city. BON-TON & KANDY BAKER E. B. MESSERVE. Prop. ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco ... Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters 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. It Is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. Goods Stored Household Goods, Trunks, Boxes, Packages, and any kind of goods SAFELY STORED for you. Reasonable Rates. 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 First-Class In Everyway Clean Beds, Wholesome Meals, Cigars, Ice Cream and Cake at all times..... Terms Reasonable Mrs. S. Sneed, Prop. Use Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salv Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spices They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 808 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita - - - Kansas W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 801 M. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Wichita, Kan Peerless Steam Laundry Wlehita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER & BONS, 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. Tapp & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N. Male TRY US For a Good Job of Lead and Oil SUTTON PAINT CO. THE SEARCHLIGHT A ton of oil has been obtained from the tongue of a single whale. And wise is the man who agrees with his wife rather than argue with her. The heart surcharged with love and benevolence is ever happy and successful. The European monarchs are taking the rest cure. The king business has fallen on strenuous times. The woman whose affections are priced at $1,500,000 by the husband she is divorcing is certainly a dear. In Boston the automobile scorcher is not entirely an evil. He has given the city a revenue of $6,715 in three months. An Illinois man has exploded the theory that one can safely carry both gunpowder and matches in the same pocket. New York is to have a poultry show. It is generally understood that there are some pretty game birds in the metropolis. It is up to some automobile company to attempt to break the record made by Pedestrian Weston—with a machine one-tenth as old as he is. A food expert says that it is foolish to live on peanuts exclusively. But according to the experiment of a man who attempted an exclusive diet of peanuts, people don't live on it. They die on it. It has been discovered that mice are dangerous, as they carry pneumonia. This gives the gentler sex a really good excuse for getting upon chairs when one of the little creatures makes its appearance. A Chicago doctor prescribes ginger snaps as a cure for insomnia. Thus vindication comes at last to the unprofessional gentlemen in Kansas who have long been accustomed to go to sleep on a pint of extract of Jamaica ginger. A spool of thread is a little thing, but the aggregate sales make a big showing. One of the leading thread companies in the country announces that it will pay a 30 per cent. dividend this year, its profits amounting to over $15,000,000, which is considerably larger than in 1906. Chinese women of aristocratic families presided at the tables where refreshments were served at the reception given by the Chinese residents in Shanghai to Secretary Taft, on his recent arrival in that city. This is the first time that women have taken such a part in a social function in China. The spirit of progress is evidently working in the orient. That was a novel experience enjoyed by the two men who went up in a balloon, from North Adams and descended in New Hampshire. At one time they struck a snow squall, but were falling so rapidly that the flakes appeared to be going up instead of down. That seeming reversal of nature's practices must have given the impression for a moment that the world was turning topsy turvy. Panama is the place for unattached women to go if they wish to marry, says Miss Boswell, who later returned from a tour of the canal zone which she took at the request of Secretary Taft. Many bachelors are there and they are all lonely, she declares. Of course if any young women visit Panama after this, it will be understood that their motives are purely altruistic. Nothing distresses a woman more than the thought of a lonely man. A schoolmaster in Pennsylvania has been sued because he punished a twin for a misdeed of the other twin, or, rather, he punished both for the misdeeds of one of them. Or—it was like this: One was bad, and the class teacher whipped the other. Then she thought she had made a mistake, and started to whip the one, but he changed seats with the other, so that the other was whipped twice. The principal, to make sure, whipped both. Then the parent brought suit. The late Mr. Barnum had an elephant plowing on a Connecticut field, in view of passing railroad trains. To a farmer who asked if the elephant was a profitable beast of labor for this country, the showman replied that it was not unless he had a circus to advertise. Contractors in a New York town, engaged in extensive building, have imported two work elephants to pull dirt cars. It may be, however that the contractors have caught Barnum's spirit, suggests the Youth's Companion, and have sent the story to the newspapers for purposes of advertisement. Prof. Brander Matthews modestly calls attention to the fact that Columbia has not specifically adopted the system of spelling with which his name is more or less conspicuously identified. It has merely directed that the orthography authorized and indorsed by the Century Dictionary shall henceforth be used in the publications of the university. Score another for the professor, who never lets slip an opportunity to demonstrate that simplified spelling is indorsed by very distinguished authority. 9 CHRIST AS A YOUNG MAN. From Painting by Hoffman. By Reb. Newell Dwight Hills. OME biographies of heroes are long, and yet they leave the central figure a vague and shadowy form. The memorabilia of Jesus are short, and yet we know him as we know a familiar friend of yesterday. From his features not one line is lacking. His flower like childhood, the purity of his youth, the majesty and beauty of his increasing manhood, the atmosphere of character that he carried—all, all are fully known. Standing on the hilltop, we look down upon a populous valley holding in its lap shining towns and cities, and from the mount we look down across the career of Jesus, bright with parables, sparkling with deeds of mercy, glorious with wonder words and works. Once none so little but that Jesus was less in honor; now, none so exalted as singer, scientist, reformer, artist, poet, but that he seeks to borrow new fame by linking his name with one whose star has climbed zenithward into a solitary pre-eminence. In the republic every citizen is one eighty-millionth of a king. In the civilization of to-day every leader who has conquered the love of the generation he has served is one fraction of the Christ life, and has borrowed his inspiration and ideal from the carpenter's Son. More wonderful than all else is his unfolding perfection. In general perfection means the purgation of imperfections. Slowly some Thorwalden rubs off a speck of marble dust here and sandpapers the minute roughness there. Slowly, with here a stroke and there a stroke, the artist carries his canvas toward ideal beauty. With infinite erasures and interlineations the poet polishes his perfect verse. Success is the residuum left after a thousand artistic failures. With God it is otherwise. All his sweetbriar has to do is to unroll. So it was with Jesus. He unfolded each faculty as a rose its petals. Lo, there was nothing to be added, and nothing to be taken away. And yet he grew in wisdom. By experience, by work, by travel, and conversation he gathered knowledge about the fields, the woods, the sea, the sky, about men, tools and events. Also, what we never would have dared to say the word of God says. His memorabilia declare—he "grew in favor with Cod." God's confidence and love were increasing events, marching steadily toward the day when the voice was heard whispering, "Thou art my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." And this message falling on the inner ear was the bliss of his solitude and the reward of his work. It we can trust our analysis of the Magnificat of Mary, his mother was the most gifted intellect of her time. No spring rises higher than its source, and Mary the singer explains the sweetness of the song. In that far off era the Sabbath with its hours whitened by prayer and perfumed with aspiration, lent richness to his mind and heart. Often it is said that his handicraft was against Jesus. Not so. His needs were few. His work was in the open air. Bending over the plow, Cincinnatus meditated his laws. Tending his focks, David wrought out his songs. Moving slowly along the furrow Burns found his music. In all ages the crook and the plow have united work and health to reflection and genius. The chief charm of Christmas is its simplicity. It is a festival that appeals to everyone, because every one can understand it. A genuine fellowship pervades our common life—a fellowship whose source is our common share in the gift of the world's greatest life which was given to the world. S A Simple Festival. Blessings to the World in Christ's Birth. By James Cardinal Gibbons. UR SAVIOR came down from heaven to shed light on that illimitable world which lies beyond the tomb, and to reveal to us a new life which begins with death. He has made known to us our origin and destiny and the means of attaining it. He has brought not only light to our intellects, but also peace to our hearts, that peace which springs from the knowledge of the truth and the hope of the eternal life. He has given benediction to the home by proclaiming the unity, sanctity and the indissolubility of marriage. The wife is no longer the slave, but the partner of her husband; she is no longer a tenant at will, but the mistress of her household; he is no longer confronted by a usurping rival, but she is the undisputed queen of the domestic kingdom. The aged poor are no longer at the mercy of heartless masters. They are not cast aside like a worn-out machine. Their life is sacred like that of infants, and they are comfortably provided for in institutions now spread throughout Christendom. The tender and compassionate spirit of Christ has caused orphan asylums and hospitals to spring up and bloom in every land. There is no phase of human misery and suffering that does not find solace and relief in these establishments. Human slavery has, at last, melted away before the effulgent rays of the gospel. To borrow with a slight paraphrase the words of a distinguished writer, we can say with truth that a slave stands redeemed, regenerated and disenfralled as soon as he plants his foot on the sacred soil of Christendom. The gospel proclaims the dignity of labor. Judged by its standard, every honest employment is honorable, how menial soever it may be. Christianity has been a peacemaker to the nations. By her beneficent influence she has made wars far less frequent than they used to be under pagan regime. Let us not grow weary of the salutary restraints of Christian life. Let us not cast wistful glances toward Egypt, from whose bonds we have been rescued, nor long for its flesh-pots. Let us glory in our Christian heritage; and, above all, let us not be guilty of the mockery of leading pagan lives while making profession of Christianity, recalling to mind what the apostle said to our gentle forefathers: "We were once darkness; but now light in the Lord. Walk as the children of light." Christmas in Bethlehem Shepherds still watch their flocks by night during the Christmas season around Bethlehem. It is the most peaceful scene in all the Holy Land. Yearly they watch the procession of pilgrims that wends its way from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre through the Via Dolorosa, out through St. Stephen's gate, where the martyr was stoned to death, and across the plains to Bethlehem. All night long the footsore travelers, who have gathered from every part of the world, may be seen trudging by starlight toward the little village of Bethlehem. —December Travel Magazine. Every Christmas should be a new center of Christ-life in this world. That is what Jesus meant when he said, "The kingdom of God is within you." He wants us to be so filled with his life that his influence shall pour out through our lives for the brightening and sweetening of the world. He wants us to start a new Christmas everyday, wherever we are—J. R. Miller. A New Christmas. Little Vida's Gray Muff By KENDRICK FERRIS. T HAD begun way back in November—the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when Sallie Carter came in late to church with a gray as trakhan muff. The sermon was too "deep" for Vida who had her hand on her face and was almost asleep, when a flash of gray in the next pew caused her to turn her head T H A D b e g u n e w way back in November—the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when Sallie carter came in late to church with a gray astrakhan muff. The sermon was too "deep" for Vida, who had her hand on her face and was a almost asleep, when a flash of gray in the next pew caused her to turn her head ever so slightly and peep through her chubby fingers. There it stood on the velvet cushion beside Sallie, trim, warm and lined with pearly gray satin, exactly like Mrs. Carter's own beautiful big one, but smaller by half. A great longing began to grow in Vida's heart. But from that day on till the 17th of December Vida thought of nothing but a gray muff—how she would look carrying it, how it would feel and how every Sunday afternoon she would let poor Dorothy Haines carry it for a whole block. The 25th fell on Sunday that year, and Saturday morning dawned bright and clear. Vida and her mother were standing together at the nursery window, as with a jingle of merry bells the Carters' sleigh drove by. Vida sighed contentedly. "To-morrow," she said, "I shall be carrying a gray astrakhan muff." Her mother laughed merrily. "Why, Vida, dear," she said. "You asked Santa Claus for seven other things—you said so only this morning. You couldn't expect him to remember them all, and he's as likely to forget the muff as the French doll, or the tea set. It's foolish to count on any one thing when you made so long a list. I told you to be moderate." And her busy mother hurried off in answer to a call from Aunt Jane. Not count on it! Why, she had done nothing but count on it ever since Santa Claus had found her note, says St. Nicholas. Not count on it. Why, Christmas would be nothing without it! At last twilight came, and the darkness fell. And in the corner of the great hall sofa, facing the clock on the stairs, Vida, a disconsolate little body, fell asleep. Her mother wakened her when it was time to hang up her stocking, and then, in spite of her warning, and in spite of her long hours of worry, love was born again, and when Vida kissed her mother good night visions of gray astrakhan muffs danced in her head. "Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!" It seemed to Vida she had but closed her eyes, and there stood mother and Aunt Jane beside her bed, one with her worsted shoes and the other with her red elderdown wrapper to hurry her over to the nursery, where her father stood awaiting at the door. "Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Oh, papa, I said it first!" she cried, laughingly, as her father caught her in his arms. Vida drew a quiet breath, and gave a little happy exclamation. Then she flew straight to the fireplace—the muff should be there. Of the seven presents six were not forgotten, and there were others she had not asked for. But Vida's lips were quivering, and a great lump swelled in her throat. The muff—the beautiful gray astrakhan muff was not there. Santa Claus had forgotten it. But Vida was brave. And she would not let those who loved her see her cry, or suspect her disappointment. She turned away from them and went to the north window, fighting with her tears. "Oh, papa, papa," she cried excitedly. "Come here, come here right away. See, there is something out on the roof!" Her father opened the window quickly, and climbed out. Vida's heart beat so wildly she could scarcely speak. Her father was picking up a box—it was about the size of Aunt Jane's cooky jar, and it was round. "Well," her father said, as he climbed back into the nursery. "Here is something old St. Nick dropped, and from its size I guess it's meant for you." Vida's hands trembled so she could scarcely tug off the round top of the box. Just as it was about to yield, a sudden fear fell upon her heart. "Papa, perhaps—perhaps he didn't mean it for me. Perhaps he dropped it, and it belongs to some other little girl." Her father's eyes twinkled. "Look at the bottom of the box, little one." he said. Vida turned the box upside down. There was her name—Vida Sumner Lane, as plain as plain could be, and while she was staring at it open mouthed, out dropped—not a little gray astrakhan muff, but a beautiful soft chinchilla one and a little collar to match! And Sallie Carter peeped through her fingers that Christmas morning at the happiest little girl in all Christendom. ST. PATRICK Drove all the snakes from IRELAND ST. JACOBS OIL Drives all aches from the body, cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia and CONQUERS PAIN 25c.—ALL DRUGGISTS—50c. 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Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri WHEN·SANTA GAME·BY WATER BY. CLYDE. ALISON. MANN. Capt. Riley was intently watching from his netloft window the approach of his biggest fishing tug, the Alice Riley. Even in the inner harbor she was pitching and rolling in the December seas and sheathed in ice from bobbing timber head to the overhang aft. "Not a boxful, not one," he groaned, seeing the nested fish boxes still lashed to the deckhouse roof. "But the boys will get their pay, somehow; they'll get it, if I have to slap a mortgage on all the outfit." No one else should know it, but the truth was Christmas cheer was not in Capt. Riley's heart as he turned gravely to the twine-reeling he had busied himself with since he broke his ankle and Billy Noonan had proudly taken out the Alice Riley, the most powerful tug that fished off Skilligabe in the Straits of Mackinac. The tug tied up to the dock with a bump, there was some shouting, heavy footsteps clumping on the icy wharf, then up the shaky stairs and the door flew open letting in a blast of raw north wind and an ice-coated being in oil skins who presently shed his chrysalis and became a crestfallen skipper, a curly-haired, alert young fellow, who almost hugged the roaring stove, for he was drenched and shivering. "Not a pound, cap'n," was his greeting. "Breezed up so we couldn't touch the nets," he added. "Old Michigan must be cuttin' up considerable," the old man answered cheerly. "Never mind, boy, ye'll get 'em next time." But Billy Noonan knew how bad the fishing had been all year, and could figure as well as his employer how bad matters must be. Not a man of them RANKIN Got a Line to Her. all but loved the grizzled old man, and marveled at him, for he knew the lake bottom from Point Betsie to the great log rollway that scarred the bluffs north of Waugoshance light, as most men know dry land. Billy Noonan, however, also loved the old captain's daughter, Mary, and had hoped—how he had hoped!—to bring in a big catch of whitefish when he was given the big tug to lift the last nets of the year. Now a lean Christmas, a very lean Christmas, seemed certain in the Riley home—a home for all homeless lads at Christmas time. Mary's laugh had been infrequent of late and her merriment had been forced. Here she was herself in the doorway as the crew clumped in. "Billy Noonan," she called, "don't you know you'll swamp the tug with the fish jammed to the gunwalls, so?" There was a note in her railery that cut him to the quick. How queenly she was, this straight, blue-eyed brunette, wrapped in the captain's oilskins, flushed from facing the storm! Billy Noonan lay awake that night, notwithstanding the long day at the wheel of the lurching tug. Through his window he stared out at the blackness, and he listened to the wailing wind; walling, it seemed to him, complaint at the year of misfortunes and pitiful catches of fish, wailing complaint at the wages and prices of fish fixed by the union that made the lot of Capt. Riley so hard in an "off" year. Far out on the Charlevoix pier no white light shone, up and down the angry lake the lighthouses and lightships were nowhere else on watch, the fog signals were silent, although belated barges still stumbled up and down the lake. Suddenly a flash in the north, and another and another, the flash of rockets, brought him out of bed. "This side o' Waugoshance, about White Shoals," he calculated. "Bad place with this wind." He shook his bed-fellow, Kelly, the fireman, and finally roused him. "Get out Kell, someone's in trouble near the straits and maybe the Alice Riley can get a line to her first." Kelly knew what that would mean, at least $400 a day for "the old man," and he knew the need. Everyone said the Alice Riley had an uncommon crew; two hours later the tug's whistle blew four booming blasts in the darkness—"strong ahead"—and five more that were Billy's farewell to Mary if she was awake—or cared. She saw from her bedroom window the tug steam through the channel, sparks flying weirdly in the wind, out to the open lake where no light shone to mark the way for the 20 miles of desperate tussle with waves that now at times buried the very deckhouse roof. Again the five short blasts as the starboard light turned north beyond the pier. then was gone. "Here's hopin'," growled Billy as he whirled the wheel over. He was hanging on grimly, for at times the tug stood about on end. A sea smashed one of the pilot-house windows and he fixed it as best he could by the dim binnacle light. He lashed the wheel to a course two points east of north. In the blackness he could see only the white crests of waves. The panting of the tug's exhaust told him Kelly was stoking like a fiend and that O'Neil was squeezing the last ounce out of his big engine, 16 square. Ahead was blackness, the maddened waters and the infrequent flash of rockets. It was still dark when Billy saw, as the tug topped a great wave, a ship's light ahead twinkle a moment where the whitecaps marked White Shoals. At dawn he had a line to the derelict and the great seven-inch hauser was going to her override; an hour later they were fast by the forward towing post. It would be easy in such a sea to trip on the hauser and "turn turtle," or to be snatched by a great wave and have the hauser break. The barge on the shoal was an ore freighter loaded to the water's edge, a heavy tow. With his hand on the bell cord to signal to O'Neil, Billy muttered: "Here's for Mary and better—" He rang, the engines started, then, crash! Billy's Christmas wishes were cut short; the tow post was gone and water poured into the hole in torrents. It was hours later when they got that hauser again, when the tug's hoarse whistle roared, "All right," and the bellow of the stranded barge replied. It was dreary work and Billy and the crew were gaunt with hunger and weariness. Again slowly in the teeth of the wind they went ahead, jerked tremendously at intervals when the waves snatched the tow. When they were getting into deeper water O'Neil's engines suddenly stopped, and ten minutes later the barge had drifted back to the shoal. The eccentric had slipped; the tug was but driftwood; bad business in such a sea. Billy Noonan and O'Neil kept her afloat somewhere, and all the time Billy, still clutching the wheel, was muttering of Mary and Christmas; he had strange vagaries, but was still sane as a skipper. When at last the frantic hammering in the engine room ceased, near evening of the next day, they were still near to the barge that was pounding on the shoals. The sun broke through the clouds, a red sun near to setting beyond the tossing waters, the sunset of Christmas eve. It was never clear how they got the slow steel barge to move so fast once they got her off again. But in the midnight hours when St. Nick, Kris Kringel and all the Christmas fairies were abroad on land, when the last embers of the yule log's smouldered cozily under lines of stockings in many, many homes, the Alice Riley's deep whistle sounded off the Charlevoix pier. Capt. Riley still sat before his fireplace, waiting hopefully—as was his nature. But for the hundredth time he looked about the room at Mary's pitiful efforts at Christmas decorations. Suddenly he heard, faint but unmistakable, the bass call of the Alice Riley. Instantly he picked up his crutch and rapped on the door of Mary's room. So quickly d.d she appear, suspiciously red-eyed but smiling, she must have been awake, too. "Listen," he cried, holding up his hand. Boo-oo-ooo, boo-oo-ooo, boo-oo-ooo! "All right!" Again, deep, full and growing less faint, the whistle sounded, "All right." "That means a Christmas for all of us, Mary, in spite of the fish!" Then there came a succession of short, sharp toots and the captain stared perplexed. With a twinkle he turned to Mary. "Do you know what that means, Mary?" he asked. She flushed crimson, but before she put her arms about her father with a hug that he understood she flashed her answer from the bow window with a lamp. The captain, smilling, for a long time sat looking at a picture over the mantel, the picture of her mother, "Merry Christmas," he said to the picture, very softly. "I knew it would come." Billy brought it—and Billy had it, an unforgettable Christmas—with the Riley's. 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An Albanian who has just returned from the east, where freshes have been the rule, tells the following about a horse which had been attached to a foot bridge crossing a brook, to keep the structure from going adrift. The flood finally swept horse and bridge down stream. Later, the bridge was discovered lodged against the bank, with the horse sitting quietly on the former. A bystander who had listened intently to this tale, remarked quietly: "I see suthin', similary onceet." "Indeed? What was it?" asked the story teller. "Ye see," was the reply, "arter the hoss I see was took down stream, nobudy ever 'spected to see him alive agin. But he was a powful sort o'brute, an' 'bout a hour arterwe we see him a comin' up a stream a pulin' the blame ole bridge arter him!"—Albany Evening Journal. For Cigar Smokers. When you smoke a cigar you want a good one. A poor cigar is a rank abomination and a stench in your own nostrils and in those of your friends within smelling distance. The trouble with most of us is to find a cigar with rich, satisfying aroma and easy drawing qualities without paying an exorbitant price for it. It remained for Frank P. Lewis of Peoria, Ill, to solve the problem for us. His Lewis' Single Binder 5c cigar is without doubt the peer of any brand of 10c cigars on the market. The Lewis' Single Binder cigar is wrapped in tinfoil and reaches the smoker as fresh as when leaving the factory. Its smooth, rich, satisfying smoking qualities are a delight both to the palate and the nostrils of cigar connoisseurs everywhere. In spite of the fact that the Lewis factory employ no traveling men the sales this year will exceed 9,000,000, the demand being created solely on the high quality of the tobacco used. NASTY. He—Do you think glasses would make me look more intellectual? She—Well, if I were you I'd try them. They certainly couldn't hurt any. Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Good: Workers Uly Rewarded. Sweenyhym and Pannartz, the two Germans who were the first to print books in Rome, used paper and types of excellent quality. Their ink on pages printed more than 400 years ago can vie in blackness with the best of the present day. Yet with all their labors they often lacked bread. In a petition to the pope they informed his holiness that their house was full of proof sheets, but they had nothing to eat. More men are injured by having things made easy for them than by having their paths beset with difficulties.—C. H. Parkhurst. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Justice, it would seem, is both blind and deaf. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Inching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 56c. He is not free who drags his chain after him.—French. Miss Gibson Girl—How long before you can let me have this gown? Dressmaker—Two weeks, miss. Miss Gibson Girl—Heavens! In the meantime he may propose to some one else. There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship, and friendship itself is only a part of virtue—Dr. Johnson. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. When a man is full he isn't fully responsible. 313—GirlDolls' Dress, with Separate Guimpe and Coat. 312—Girl Dolls' Kit mono Wrapper or Dress-ing Sack. To Teach the Future Mother to Dress the Future Child we have prepared The Butterick Rag Doll and a series of patterns of attractive Dolls' Dresses, etc. This doll is about 18 inches high, printed flat in eight colors on durable cloth, quickly and easily made up. Remember it is but a step for the little ones from the making of pretty clothes for their dollies to the more useful accomplishment of making dainty garments for themselves and others. For this reason we make the following Special Offer: For 25c in stamps or coin we will mail you The Butterick Rag Doll, and the two attractive Dolls Patterns, shown above. Send at once to Only One Crop of Land Don't Forget This and Don't Forget to Buy Your Share Now Before it is All Gone. You Can Get Rich in South Texas in a Few Years on an Investment of $210. Payable $10 a Month Without Interest. Read the Following: Dr. C. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Texas. Dear Sir: I have just returned from a visit to your 95,000-acre ranch where I have been for the purpose of investigating the conditions of soil, climate, rainfall, etc., and its adaptability to general farming, truck-growing and manure. I found conditions really better than I expected, and fully up to representations in your literature. The soil seems to be of fine quality and of such variety as to make diversified farming easy and profitable. While on the ranch I had the pleasure of visiting Hall, Frenchman, Turkey Creek, Windmill, Muley Cow and Headquarters pastures. I did not see the Votaw pastures but was assured by disinterested parties that it was even better than that which I examined, and believing this I came home persevering that you have the best proposition, for the poor Northwest Texas. On farms adjoining your ranch I saw fine crops growing without irrigation, and this I consider remarkable in view of the severe drought, which obtains at this time over the entire state. I am sure this will prove to be a fine fruit-growing section, especially for grapes, figs and berries, and that the water supply is sufficient seems certainly to be proved by the flowing artesian wells in various parts of pasture, and this also settles the truck-growing proposition. You have my hearty endorsement on both your lands and plan of sale. Very truly yours. DR. T. E. FOSTER Remember—you get a truck or fruit farm of from 10 to 640 acres in the finest country in the world, and two town lots for $210. Can be handled very easily. The stick is oured, and all others it can handle is more durable. It is best kept for home use, by using SPOONS LIQUID DISTEMPER CUBES. Can be touched on in feed. Acts on the blood and expels germs of some microbes on matter loss. Best remedy is for mats in food. One bottle guaranteed to cure one ear. Express paid by 10 down of damages and harness dealers, or express paid by 10 down of damages and harness dealers. Do not furnish booklet gives everything. Local agents wanted. Largest selling house remains in existence—twelve years. AL CO. Chemists and Bacteriologists, Osher, Ind., U, S, A, ILL CURED • SEND FOR FREE ILLUSIONS, TREATISE OR REVENUE DISEASES, WITH NAMES OF PROPHIET MEN CURED MILL OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. SH $30 AN HOUR Has Been Taken In With Me MERRY GO ROUNDS PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED DRS. THORNTON & MINOR 1020 OAK ST. KANSAS SPOT CASH $30 A PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED SEND FOR FREE ILLUSTRATIONS TREATMENT OR RECREATION DR. THORNSON & MINOR 10:00 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. SPOT CASH $30 AN HOUR We also manufacture Razzle Dazzle, Strikers, etc. HERSHELL-SPILLMAN CO., General Amusement Ouarters, Dept. M. NORTH TONOWANA, N. N. LIVE STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS In great variety for sale at the lowest prices by WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, Kansas City, Missouri. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 51, 1907. E BINDER SMOKERS PREFER TO 10¢ CIGARS SINGLE BIRD IT 5¢ MANY SMOKER THEM TO IO W.L.DOVGLAS SHOES $300 SHOES AT ALL PRICES, FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, MEN, BOYS, WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN. W.L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world, because they hold their shoes longer, wear longer, and are of greater value than any other shoes in the world to-day. W.L. Douglas $4 and $5 Gift Edge Shoes cannot be CAUTION. - W. L. Douglas name and price is stamped stitute. Sold by the best shoe desiers everywhere. Shoes m of the world. Illustrated catalog free. W. L. DOU Bridge Shoes cannot be equalled at any price. Home and price is stamped and bottom. Take No Sub- mers everywhere. Shoes mustled from factory to any part. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. W.L. Douglas $4 and $5 Gift Edge Shoes cannot be equalled at any price. CAUTION. - W.L. Douglas name and price is stamped on bottom. Take No Substitute. Sold by the best sale dealers everywhere. Shoes made from factory to any part of the world. Illustrated catalog free. - W.L. DOUGASL. Brockton, Mass. SPOHN MEDIC FOR SOLDIERS AND HEIRS xcellence Counts... «THEN USE... se “U-KNEAD-IT" | FLOUR It excels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds ef ‘ broad per barrel. MADE BY. 7 Watson Mill Co, WIOHITA, KANSAS aa! POE POSOLODEDOOODODOOS POPP OOO OOOO OOOO DOC OSOOO OS Warm Shoes ——We have a complete line of — FELT GOODS For FALL and WINTER Wear and also a complete stock of SCHOOL SHOES Our Assortments of Men, Women, Boys, Misses and Children’s Shociieaunae ts excelled. | BRAITSCH ‘ 120 E. DOUGLAS AVE 946 90OCOO OOOO COO C OCC C CSCS 100000000000000000CCCC000 ee ae eo oe USE, eee ——— IMBODEN’S IMPERIAL FLOUR—___. BREAKFAST FOOD —and you will Love good eating —~ AT YOUR GROCERS IMBODEN MILLING 00, ‘ BEES EAM ABSTRACT Co. IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors Vichita’s BEST '~ £Rleur k Your Grocer For It Have No Other PEONISCH BROS., Agents N. Main St., Phone 530 We also handle Feed and Coal POO DOO e FORD’S : Formerly known 8 , “OZONIZED OX MARROW” as 4 ® 3 ‘ $0, STRAIGHTENS KINKY or CUR! WAGE dat tt ens be ptt erie ae mE Borde i ate bom nde > kstown as “OZONIZED OX MARROW Bade te Saif aafe preparation khan tof tbat ‘ge ty preety le Bech ae horn harsh, Kinky or curly leit ‘sor, Diinble and Sasy" to, comb These resis bitliesare uqually suiiclene forasens.- the Scrat Bra Hr Pomnde peisovse and ieventae dandruft reliever ftoking. “invlg: sot'oe breaking ‘of "makes it grow and. OE ‘sig the fafa, eteee fe ew I and joie, dling eltwantiy’ Der tuum ed end Hnrronegns fea olla sennity Zo fades Ehtiguor nd hiro, (Fora Hale Ba hace has bean ade tnd sekdcnetatonsly yitecabont Tass, and label, “OZOMZED OX 4 LMEROW "waae reelstered 4 the United | States Batent Oto, ta nt. Ba art get Cerna emp males ashel PRRIGES member that Ford's Binkx Bomade ty pita cule We'BO ots afeay and te macony Iecitcauy and by sae Re gomeine has the siznatara: Charles Bord, Prost, on each pack icin "Refine ai otheres” Pall Girectisne’with Siery bottle. Price only BO ete, Sold by aaa an nae sane sooe be sakes fr yout frog hie Sgubee on helena, Sealer $1-i0 tor three bottion on S220 ale Bot: scgen tonal potote int BUA When ier vation Mame oe this. paper. "Write your ¢ sarso and address plainly to The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) § ht Ee Bat er ag | 153 B. KINZIE ST.. CHICAGO, ILL, Agents wanted everywhere. 000000000000 4. MAFTGER, W.R. TUCKER, President Vice Presideng JM. MOORE, Cashier + Four‘ National Bank United States Denository tom—W. B. Tucker, WE. Jett, R LMotmes, §. B. Amidon, B, F, Me Lean, J. M. Moore, L. 8 Nattager, E ‘A, Middle: au, O. Z, Smith. ‘®coral Banking Business Tranacted 7 CHITS “susae A Smoke Talk At Home With green wood in the stove or fire place isn’t whatits cracked up to be We have lots of nice dry Wood cut in 16 inch and 2-foot lengths. Also plenty of GOOD COAL alwayson hand.. (Roues 496-8 RNER J. _ I ee wicHitA, HANS, es no S47 WEST DOUGLAS li ee oak pS Gen i ees OS ‘Serge A ay is ip Vere "ee AER) Hl arene) tea | - Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach ofall. Send ycur order to-day 829 East Center SALINA, KANSAS ‘There are men of five nationalities —American, Indian, Mexican, African andJapanese—engaged in picking cot- ton in Oklahoma. It has been proven that the Negro is the fastest worker : ALL THINGS ARE WELL, That ends well—so pay your subscrip- tion to the Searchlight and get a good night's sleep. THE WIGM TA SEARCHAIOND ory ee Oe eee I Condensed Official Report of the A Good Chance F | For All Those That Would Like American State Bank To Be Helped \ Wichita, Kansas. —_- At the close of business Dec. 3, 1907. Miss Mamie Richardson, of | Foe coe ; Loans and Discounts.......$267,97% Kansas City, Manshaslocat 7“ carne -gecared! anead edin our city as 8 MUSIC |panking House............. 13,700.00 TEACHER. She comes well |rurniture and Fixtures..... 2,500.00 recommended fromsome of |High-grade Bonds and the best instructors in the pee ee seg Cash and Sigh ase Hed ooveral soars Oe | alcuaae (1. uasatnee anon | perience in teaching. She solicits your patronage and ’ $536,266.94 will be glad to meet you at LIABILITIES. Capital Stock..........+.++$ 50,000.00 630 NORTH WATER ST., | surpius Pund.....c0sss.+. 12,500.00 Phone 1041 3 Undivided Profits (net)..... 14,005.35 Deposits ....cseseeceeeeeens 459,761.59 a gets NORTH TOPEKA SOCIETY NEWS. $536.266.94 The Twelve Star Club of the First Baptist church meet with Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, president, 903 Western ave- nue, Monday evening, December 16, for the lost time this winter, and will not work until the first of April, 1908. routine of business an able paper was read by T. P. Horde and responded by and duty. A song by Isabel and Mc- Kinley Warfield, title “Take Good Care of Mother”; song, “Preacher in the Srd. After tHe routine of business an Jordan is one of the great Negro ple, never tired of working for the elevating and the good of her race. The Club will take their work April 1st or May, owing to the bad weather during the winter that the ladies can- dan, president; R. J. Williams, secre- Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93 is pro- gressing fine under the leadership of St. Luke Temple No. 5 is flying. Pride of Topeka Tent No. 36 is get- ting along fairly well; ‘has had one ae sre Une Retr, re ta, members of Mecadonia No, 93, are Dtr. Parthena Wooten of Fort Scott, Kansas, a member of Macedonia No. 93, are numbered among the sick for a few days, but is getting along nice- Rev. J. L. Woodson, Mrs, Ida M. Jor- CLEARWATER NEWS. ‘The colored people of Clearwater and vieinity are getting up a Christmas tree, Mrs, Vinice Bates went up to Wich- ita last week to visit her granddaugh- ters and many friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. White were over visiting Mr, and Mrs. eGo. Barton, and returned Sunday. ‘Mr, and Mrs. Chas, Black were call- ing on C. R, Wilfley and wife, Sun- day. Mrs. Geo. Barton was visiting in Wichita last week with friends and returned Tuesday. The Misses White were visiting tn Clearwater Sunday with their sister Mrs, Chas. Black. Rev. Wm, Turner returned Monday morning from Oklahoma and Pratt. Rev, J. H. Van Len is in the city this week. ‘Mrs, Wm. Turner, wife of Rev. Wm ‘Turner, returned Monday night from Fort Worth, Dallas and Ennis, Texas where she visited relatives. NEWS OF PRATT. Mrs, A. T. Bandy is on the sick list. ‘Tom Russell has moved to the city. George James is building a three- room house and will occupy it by Jan- uary Ist. ‘The people are all smiles here over the snow, which is good for the fall wheat. Both of the churches are doing nicely. Rev. Wm, Turner, pastor of the Sec- ond Baptist church, has returned from his six weeks’ vacation, and the Sun- day school and church are preparing for their Christmas exercises on De- cember 24th. The Sunday school will have their Christmas tree, and at 10 p. m. the same night the ladies of the | Condensed Official Report of the American State Bank . Wichita, Kansas. At the close of business Dec. 3, 1907. RESOURCES! Loans and Discounts.......$267,978.03 Banking House............. 13,700.00 Furniture and Fixtures..... 2,500.00 Cash and Sight Capital Stock...............$ 50,000.00 Surplus Fund............... 12,500.00 Undivided Profits (net)..... 14,005.35 Deposits .......0eeeeereeeee 459.,761.59 The above statement is correct. J. N. RICHARDSON, Cashier. We respectfully solicit your business. church will serve a big supper at the G. M. Biggs sample room, All are cor- dially Invited to attend. Bring your presentst to the chureh early and the committee will receive your gifts. We ae to make this a Joyous time for the people and the church, The A, M. E. chureh will serve De- i SS ‘ST. PAUL'S A. M. E. CHURCH NEWS | ‘The first quarterly meeting of this conference year wiil be held Sunday. Rey. M. Wooten, P. B,, will preach morning and night. In the afternoon ‘Tom Blodgett will preach, Do not fail to be present at each of these services. Sunday school at 2 p. m.; song service at 6:30; quarterly conference Monday evening at $ o'clock. All members are urged to do their duty.’ Sisters Lewis, Gibbs and Smith are on the sick list, The stewardesses will present the Blind Boone Concert Com- pany at Red Men's Hall, February 12. : Rey. W, Ewing and Rev. 8. M. Hall were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. JA. Wallace for supper Thursday even- ing. . Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 is doing nicely with a membership of 45 in good standing and everything in har- mony. At their meeting Thursday af- ternoon the secretary and treasuret made their report showing the taber- nacle in a good financial condition. Fully two-thirds of the members were in attendance. DO NOT MISS the “Tom Thumb Wedding” at Young's hall Monday night, December 23d, The season's best a STAR CHAPTER ELECTS |" Princers Chapter No. 2. 0. B.8 held a splendid meeting Wednesday afternoon at which time they elected Mrs. Mollie Cox, M. A. M. Ge Tome, Buin aire Tin B. Chrk, Beoretry Stra G: = Youne Teenie Mee at Banks, Cond, Ais Ao Mibepate Ae can Mrs. Lula Robinson, Warden. Mrs. Fannie Baker, Sentinel. nt: Matte ale Aad, 3tre Bila Chinnethy, Martha, Mrs. H. L. Neeley, Electa. Mrs. W. L, Herman is on the mend after five weeks of serious illness at her home. | Hickerson and Turner will give ar up-to-date concert at Redman hall on Wednesday night, January 1, 1908. Mrs, J. A. Martin and Miss Inez Brown left for Memphis, Tenn,, and Greenville, Miss, Thursday at 1:30 lover the Frisco, where they will spend ‘the holidays visiting friends and rela- gpa: “ | Taborian Temple No. 11 had a rous- ing meeting Thursday night. Quite a good number were present and every- thing looks forward to much good work ‘in the future. | Chas, Floyd passed through the city. ‘Tuesday enroute for Kingman, his home. - | | Mrs. F. Childs and Miss 8. A. Cov- ington will'entertain the G. 8. A. Club next Tuesday at the home of the lat- ter. os i Ss i oe er os ee ig oS = et’ shri -» EMERSON SAID... “If aman write a book, preach a better sermon or . ,makea better mouse-trap than hisneighbor, “though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door ’”” The ‘‘ path ”’ to our door proves that Peerless Princess Flour Is the Best. At all Grocers. We also keep in stock Bran, Shorts and Corn Chop. Market your grain and buy or exchange for Flour or Feed at our Mill nr Howard Mills Co. ht Fe Ae AAS SEAL ALAS A ES BARES ASS. y | We Are Now Prepared, | . : To Clean Ladies and Gents Clothing with the { : FRENCH PROCESS of Dry Cleaning, Steam % : Cleaning and Steam Dyeing with new, and the : : most Modern Appliances and skilled workman- ‘ : ship. First-class work at reasonable prices, We ‘ ; give away discount coupons with all work a- : 5 mounting to 50c and over. Your trade solicited ‘ : Goods Called For and Delivered % * } MODERN CLEANING ‘ : AND DYE WORKS : C. G. HANSON, Prop. ’ : 110 St. Francis Ave Phone 1286 red " CERES EEN KE EEN EE Ee foe ee ee ae ene 0 ~ a 2_otifiht, Great Christ- SE But Pe = < SL at), ST mas Salet * / | on Now on in Furnirure, posi § sC 1 4 tively the lowest prices ing % ae \ | JZ town at & 3 vs * NI > Grand : éNolley's StF NolleyS papas FUMMIture § CEE KKK EEK KK KK LK EEK EK ELE COKE EK KEES, OOOO O00S S909 SOO OO ew ee SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS || GK Gut Glass, Lamps, Dinnerware @ ee N Toilet Ware, Jardiniers, Chocolate cE a — Sets, Fruit Sets, Biscuit Jars, Box Me pon Plates, Vases, Tankard Juge, Bon- U ie! Vif Bons, Spoon ‘Trays, Celery ‘Trays, A j= elc. Finest assortment; prices right. ON Aaggo = OT ii Rate ee val is - HUSE-CHAPLION | (Ca Ne CROCKERY COMPANY || \.ZAE eS 130N. MAIN Wichita, Kan|| GQ. SEES £0000000000000600060000006 66600600060000006000000000 eee Mrs. W. Gibbs continues to be quite il at her home on West Eighth street. THE SOUTH’S FAULTY LOGIC. It seems, if the Negro is inferior, vicious and incapable of seif-govern- ment, as Tillman, Vardaman, Dixon and some other cranks claim, these things will assert themselves and do not require the entire time of these backwoods statesmen’s promulgation and elucidation s0 often, Here again, if the colorea man is so brutish, igno- rant and inferior, it seems that these very facts, if they are really and truly nets, would be sufficient to keep the precious white girls from marrying jeolored men without the making of laws to that effect, See the folly In the South's boasted superiority. ‘The very section where they say we are so bad and so low and depraved, In- nately, at that, they make laws to keep the white women from marrying colorea men. From any logical deduction pursued that places the white people in an em- barassing position, for, it is natural for an inferior to strive after the su- perlor, but it is not natural for, the reverse, And you make laws’ to keer white ladies trom accepting the may- be proposals of Negroes and therefore marrying them. It must be this, for you know colored people can’t marry white women uniess there is mutual agreement, and. surely she would no! agree to marry a colored man unless she wanted him, in a land where al these good-looking superior white folks are, In reality these laws are unconsti- tutional, interfering with a person's rights and Wberty. What do you in- telligent white people think of your Southern logicians, you don't have tc waa pass laws and lynch and intimidate to keep sane people from running inte @ batch of snakes or a den of Mons and tigers—Ex. WHERE DOES DAD COME IN? ‘We happened in a home the other night and over the parlor door saw the legend worked in letters of red, “What Is Home Without a Mother?” Across the room was onther brief, “God Bless ‘Our Home.” Now what is the matter with “God Bless Our Dad?” He gets up early, lights the fire, bolls an egg, ang wipes off the dew of the lawn with his boots, while many @ mother is sleeping. He makes the weekly handout for the butcher, the grocer, the milkmap, the baker and his little pile is badly worn before he has been home an hour. If there is a noise during the night @ad is kicked in the back and made to go down stairs to find the burglar and ‘kill him, Mother darns the Socks. but dad bought the socks In. the firet plaee and the needles and the yarn after- ward. Mother puts up the fruit; well, dad bought it all, and Jars and sugar cost like, the very mischief. Dad buys the chicken for the Sunday inner, carves it himself, and draws [the neck from the ruins after everyone ‘is served. “What is home without a “mother?” Yes, that is all right; pt what is -home without a father? ‘Ten chances to one it’s a boarding, father is under the slab and the landlady is the widow. Dad, here's to you—you've got your faults—you may pave lots of ’em—but you are all right and we miss you when you're gone—Exchange. For Fine Holiday Candies and Holiday Bon Bons call at the The One Big Stock of Toys and Xmas Gifts IS AT TANNER'S BOOK STORE 122 North Main Street Favorite Meat Market W. H. KELCHNER, Prop. 406 E. Douglas. Pho THE HUB Suggestions of what to buy for Xmas Gifs Mufflers Handkerchiefs Socks Suspenders Gloves Shirts Smoking Jackets Bath Robes Child's Overcoat Child's Suit Overcoat Suit The Hub 114 N. Main Pontiac, Great Organizer. Pontiac exemplified at once the best and the worst traits of the American Indian. As an organizer, among a people with whom organization is almost impossible, and as a master of the treacherous statecraft of his race, he probably surpassed them all. As soon as his death was known, the French governor, at St. Louis sent for his body and buried it with full martial honors near the fort. "For a mausoleum," Parkman finely says, "a great city has arisen above the forest hero; and the race whom he hated with such bunning, rancor, trample with unseason footsteps over his forgotten grave."—Outing Magazine. Big Stock of Xmas Gifts AT BOOK STORE Main Street Phone 294 Turn on More Power! FREE FREE A Pair of Trousers During the remainder of this month—just to help the Christmas spirit along—the spirit of giving—we will give absolutely free with each Suit of Clothes an extra pair of trousers. All Suits made to measure and guaranteed to fit. Roy L. Williams Successor to Frank & Williams. 514 East Douglas. Won Votes by Her Cooking. Here is a story of the electioneering methods of one woman that men will not be likely to copy. She wanted to be superintendent of the county schools and went to a lot of harvest hands to ask for their votes. She told them she would make a good official, but they preferred to know how well she could cook and offered the votes in exchange for a good meal. They got it and she got the votes. The Even Tenor of His Way. A man who served as a hackman in Hempstead, Long Island, for over 50 years, died yesterday. Some days ago, as he sat dozing on his seat in front of the railroad depot, a commuter said to him: "You must have seen some queer things, Luke, in your half century of going to and fro?" "Dunno as I have," was the slow answer. "Just hacked."—Pittsburg Gazette. The Nicest Way He Knew. The Nicest Way He Knew. A Boston physician has two young hopefuls, Master Tommy and Miss Jennie, the latter the elder by a year or two. A few days ago Master Tom came in, whimpering with the complaint: "Papa, Jennie's got my roller skates on, and I want 'em, and she won't give 'em to me." "Did you ask her for them kindly, my son?" "Yes, papa." "Well, suppose you go back and try again. Ask her just the nicest way you know, and see if you can't get them." The youngster troted out, and the father from the doorway heard him ask in wheedling tones: "Jennie, for God's sake, let me take them skates!" Copper in Africa. It is believed by some that the greatest copper industry in the world will be developed in the Tanganyika region, where the properties are of great potential value, and may prove to be one of the greatest factors in carrying civilization into the heart of Africa. Much time is required for developments. Because of the heavy speculation in the shares these may suffer much before the properties become dividend earning. The Benguese railway cannot well be completed for five years or so, and even the Rhodesia railways extensions are now to require a couple of years are they can reach the property. Robert Williams is the pioneer and, in a great measure, the organizer of this vast undertaking, one of the most remarkable of modern times. --- 146 N. Main WICHIT/ SEAR:HLIGHT THE B TREE BY ONE winter's night we beneath it was far all cosy and warm storm. A droopled hard he couldn't keep sti green head Till he tumble. "Oh, what is the use o slender and small. When the squirrels turn tail and bours, the Holly and Oak to hear them a-boasting, y made into tables and thin with the Beech, They're declare THE BEST TREE OF ALL NE winter's night when the snow lay deep, And the earth beneath it it was fast asleep, And the dormice were snuggled all cosy and warm From the hurry-go-hullabaloo of the storm, A droopledy Tree on the edge of a hill, That shivered so hard he couldn't keep still, Nursed grumblesome thoughts in his silly green head Till he tumbled the flakes from his branches and said: "Oh, what is the use of living at all, For a fellow like me who am slender and small, When even the birds say I'm feeble and bare, And the squirrels turn tail and visit elsewhere? My bandyboughed neighbours, the Holly and Oak, They put on the airs of superior folk; And to hear them a boasting, you'd think they were kings, Because they are made into tables and things. It's the same with the Poplar, the same with the Beech, With their lofty ideas and their loftier speech; They're going to be shipmasts or something at sea, And declare there's no use for a scrubby Fir-Tree." This ter, He letter, He'd So Our That soil, And This startling treatmen self carted through byway a hospital door, And dump Now the sight of a bandag of physic make some people so beyond feeling faint, We This startling treatment was hardly complete When he found himself carted through byway and street, Till they bundled him in through a hospital door, And dumped him down in Ward Number Four. Now the sight of a bandage, the taste of a pill, And the odours of physic make some people ill; But he grumbled no more, so beyond feeling faint. We may fairly conclude that he had no complaint. And yet he arrived with so many wraps, You'd have thought him a patient, or postman perhaps; But when he stood up in his garment so green, What a giant he looked in that singular scene! Just think of a room with a long double row Of fifty wee cots all whiter than snow; Though at each little house in that invalid Lane There rested a Curly Head throbbing with pain. But once in a while, when the aching grew numb, Those Crippled Mites dreamt of the revels to come, Till they smiled with delight in their slumber, and then They whimpered, and turned to their slumbers again. The Fir-Tree was tired, and sank in a doze, But was all eyes and ears when a murmur arose; He watched the Nurse bend o'er a sufferer's bed Till his wonderment grew to a whisper that said: "Why, these must be children like those who once played Through our green summer woods, and were glad of my shade; But those were all laughter, and these are all grief. And here I'm afraid my shade's no relief. Oh, what can this Pain be, that I never feel, And why should it take so much trouble to heal?" The thought was so sad that he wept, very near. Or 'twas a snowflake turned into a tear. To distress from inquisitive sight, He was there and then with a curtain of white, the strange preparations behind the scenes puzzled the heads of those bed-ridden At last there arrived one radiant day When the Medicine Men were ordered away, And rooms full of Youngsters all trooped into one, To share in the fullness and shout in the fun. There were Bobbies and Bessies, and Jennies and Jims. With the usual array of unusual limbs; There was Hobbling Harry, who limped upon crutches, And a Motor Boy bragging of brakes and of 9 clutches." If you gave him the word he was off like a shot, A-trundling along till his wheels were red-hot; He was sent to invite the Matron and all, And was back in a trice lest the curtain should fall. Oh the shout that went up when the Tree came to sight, All loaded with presents and blazing with light! When one Chickabiddywink crowed in her glee,—"Oh my, what a luffery Tissmas Tee!" For among the branches, half hidden from view, Were toys of all sorts and of every hue, And everywhere till they dazzled your eyes, There were candles as many as stars in the skies. Oh, the toffee and trumpets, and watches and packed Noah's Arks, tin engines and trains, and ships that could never have sunk, And a elephant dangling his trunk? There were puppies and whiskerful cats, And blinkable squeakable rats, A sturdy red Soldier all scarlet, and brave, And a Banner so starehy it never would wave; Silver balls on elastick, gold beads on a string, Pink pigs that would grunt, bright birds on the wing, And topmost, of everything shining afar, Stood a flaxen-haired Fairy Queen crowned with a star. Then just at the height of the staring and wonder, The signal was given for presents and plunder; Each Toddler in turn got the desired, And at every fresh gift a fat cracker was fired. So when all the romps and excitement were done, And the wearyworn Youngsters went off one by one, And mumbled their prayers and crept off to their beds. With their treasures all cuddled close under their heads. Why, you couldn't imagine a Fir-Tree so proud As our Friend when he thought of that happy young crowd; And he said, as they bundled him into the yard, Where the snow was adrift and the wind blowing hard. "I am glad I was born neither Oak-Tree nor Beech, For softy ambitions are out of my reach; But if I'd my life to live over again, I'd spend it in gladdening Children. Amen! COPYRIGHT BY WRIGHT A. PATTERSON was all very well, but the Woodman knew bet-chopped down the Fir-Tree and posted a Saying 'oping as 'ow it deserved to be known the finest young Spruce that ever was grown without being asked if he liked it or not, fidgety friend was installed in a pot was packed to the brim with sawdust and waistcoated round with charming tinfoil. OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURIS KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 1715 Clark Ave., Parsons, Kan. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. Miss Jennie Alexander, G. Q. M., 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kansas TOPEKA, KAN. ENCE, KANSAS 8. us meets in ing at night. sees. 1309 N. 10th, 1-3 Wed. (A) So. Chestnut, (A) on 1, Wichita, 325 E. 6th. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St, Laure enworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, P. Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, L. coln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walks, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. More. 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fo- feyville, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 5 Lottie Hill, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) Explanation—"A" means meets in afternoon—all other meeting at night. Chief Preceptresses. Number. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 So. Chestnut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. Anna Fallings, 325 E. 6th, Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 5 Mrs. Carrie Brown, 922 N. 10th, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Lillie Shobe, 336 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-8 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Martha James, 318 W. 11th, 1-3 Thur. (A) 813 W. 11th. Thur. (A) Box 405, Weir 1715 Clark Wed. (A) So. Barber, Sat. (A) 2208 N. 30th. hur. (A) Horton, Ft. 21 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kas sas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherw Leavenworth, Kan., 3 Sat. 23 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawrens (A) Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 36 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, K Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1318 N. Madi Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Cynthia Henderson, 312 Washi 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, Box 405, Weir City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Mae Wilson, 1715 Clark Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessle Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 20 Mrs. S. Montague, 403 Klckapoo, Leavenworth, Kan. 29 Mrs. Lula Wood. 613 N. 4th Leavenworth, Kan. 33 Mrs. J. L. Cobb, Bx. 384, Alliance, Neb. 34 Mrs. Mattie Miller, 335 W. 15th, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Matilda Waters, 1800 N. 6th, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 44 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 808 Vermont, Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 63 Mrs. Lille Roblett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Wed. (A) 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 2302 N. 25th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) Chief Mentors. 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 2 J. G. Burdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 3 A. M. Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Mon. 4 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. 25 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 26 W. Osteen, 1214 Lane, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. 27 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 10th, Lincoln, Nebr. SODA POP always on 100 SUNDAY DINNERS 20c and 25c. Banner Mills ```markdown ``` TABERNACLES. TEMPLES. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E 11th Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Iola Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 811 W. 27th, Omaha ha, Neb., 1-3 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, Salton, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Willis, 2103 Grand, Parramon Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) ton, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 M NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle will next meet in Atchison, Kansas, the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1908. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Text is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER, Editor. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. District Grand Lodge, No. 17, Kansas G. U. O. O. F. GRAND OFFICERS 1907-8. Thos. Glover, District Grand Mast 704 N. Market St., Wichita, Kn Chas. A. Finney, Deputy Grand Mast ter Cherokee, Kan. P. H. Bassett, District Grand Sec tary, Chetopa, Kan. W. W. Shobe, District Grand Treas 836 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan. H. Kindell, District Grand Director, R Scott, Kan. NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. District Grand Lodge No. 17 w meet in Kansas City, Kansas, in Jul 1908. In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 4102 Douglas Pone 87 Restaurant 339 North Main Street Meals 15c to 25cts. Hot or Cold Lunch -At All Hours- ICE CREAM CUSTOM GEINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FRED PROKRISON BROG, PROP. N. Main St. Photo 22