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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT White Man's Press To Blame Mis-statements of Facts NINETH YEAR. White Ma To Bl For Most Of The trated Again Mis-stateme TRUTHFUL LANGUAGE FROM A SOUTHERN WHITE MAN. The Negro has suffered no little at the hands of the Southern press, which inherited to an intense degree all the prejudices against the Negro that grew up with Southern civilization. The press is a power everywhere. It makes and unmakes men, promotes and develops peoples and on the other hand, when it is so disposed, it can hinder no little. It is fair to say that if the Southern press were only fair to the Negro, not covering his faults but giving an equal measure of praise to those deserving and an equal measure of condemnation to those who go wrong, the egro would fare better. Our friends, North and South, have accepted by far too much that has gone out in the press dispatches concerning the Negro. Much that has gone out is true, but it is untrue if it is the only side of the life of the Negro to be presented. Sin abounds, but righteousness also abounds among this lowly people, and it is fair to present the best rather than the worst. One of the most hopeful and encouraging signs of the situation in the South is the occasional brave utterance of some Southern paper or publisher, or preacher or teacher. At this particular point and in harmony with the line of thought presented we want to quote from the Dispatch, published at Lexington, North Carolina, the Honorable H. B. Varner, editor and proprietor. The Dispatch in a recent number contains an editorial on "Negroes and the Newspapers," that is indeed very, very significant. It tells our side of the story. We quote: "Has it ever occurred to you that the newspapers of this country owe something to the colored race other than recording day after day the crimes that Negroes commit? What newspaper within your range of reading gives any space to the colored race to promote the best interests of these people? You cannot name one. We hold them up to ridicule, we show humorously their dense ignorance and quaint views to make white folks laugh, and we tell with unfailing regularity of the worst they are guilty of, not frogetting to say "big black brute" and narrate how he was lynch-ed. Now all Negroes are not bad. There is many a good man among --- them. It is rare that we notice him. We owe it to him to notice him, tell of the good work he does not only to encourage him, but to encourage others of his people. The newspapers of the South have not given the Negro a square deal. Possessed of all the prejudices incident to white life in the South, we nevertheless submit that we as newspapers treat the colored man badly and we ought to do better than we have done. By doing so we will contribute to our own welfare." We are profoundly grateful to the Dispatch for this editorial utterance. At one time the present editor of the Southwestern was a pastor in the town of Lexington and it is very gratifying to read such a brave, dispassionate fair, and just statement coming from the Dispatch. Mr. Varner has done our people a distinct service. He has served the country well by calling attention to what has been by all odds one of the serious hindrances to a proper understanding of the race relations in this country. True the Dispatch arraigns with a degree of severity the attitude of the press toward the Negro, but every word of the charge can be proven. It is easy enough for a Southern white man to drift along with the sentiment of his community and not champion the cause of the Negro for he has little to gain in so doing—the Negro has nothing to offer. The white man has much to lose when he champions the cause of this unpopular citizen. But he who has the courage to speak out in no uncertain tones as has the editor of the Dispatch, and who is big enough to live above his prejudices and accord to a helpless citizen a square deal is a man a time like this demands. On the behalf of our people we extend to the Dispatch and its editor the sincere appreciation of our people everywhere.—Southwestern Advocate. AMERICAN BLACKS PLOT UPRISING IN AFRICA—TO DRIVE WHITES INTO SEA. London, December 7.—There is an American end to the threatened rebellion in Zululand, which is of considerable importance. It is asserted that the uprising is part of a general movement all over the continent below the equator having for its motto, "South Africa—Blacks." What is known as the Ethiopian movement has taken a firm hold upon the South African natives for years past. Friends of missionary efforts present the charge that this is a political propaganda. Careful investigation shows that, under the cloak of religious effort, this is really an agitation to drive the whites into the sea. The p.ers came from America. They went first to Liberia and then spread to the territories south of the Zambesi river. They are described as Negroes who absorb much of the vices and few of the virtues of the white man. The effect of their work has been that tribal hostilities have almost disappeared, all the tribes uniting in one purpose. The Surrender of Z By William H. Ham (Copyright, by Daily Story P) Zed Bilbro's two most troublesome possessions were a violent temper and a pretty daughter. The temper, like an active volcano, was always either in open eruption or gathering steam for a big explosion. day even elopin' roo you'll be a house. I married, as I'm a Helen m RELICS OF SLAVERY. (Colored American Magazine.) All over this country, North as well as South, we find a prevailing disposition among Negroes to trade with white people in preference to their own race. This applies to their own race. This applies to the professions of law and medicine and all others. Negro merchants do not get the same patronage that white merchants get in the same communities where there are ten Negroes to one white person, and in the same localities white merchants are doing a good business right in a street or settlement made up entirely of Negroes. A Negro merchant in the same place would starve to death. There has been some improvements along this line in many places, we are glad to say, but still the disposition of the Negro to trade with the white man in reference to Negroes in business, is prevalent. Few Negroes go into business because of prevailing sentiment. Colored men with money do not care to throw it away in business ventures that are to depend on race patronage. Unless it be a "drive" or "gin mill" where a certain element can have a greer swing than in a place for to place much money in a business, looking to Negroes for patronage. There invariably devolepoes some objection to the man, his wife, his children or clerks. "They don't speak to me on the street," or "they had a party at the house and didn't invite me," are some of the frivolous reasons given for not trading with Negroes. Such reasons are never given about white business people. This refusal to patronize each other is so extensive and pronounced that it shows up in the boldness of a racial trait, especially as it does not seem to apply to the Jwe, German or Italian in this country. There is one thing colored people do not want white people to do for them. The white Southrn churches especially used to be crowded with Negro members and attendents before and immediately after the war, but the moment chains were loosened the Negroes commenced to set up shop for themselves along church lines till now all the colored people are out of the white churches and the Negro churches with a Negro pastor. Most of them believe the white man should sell them groceries, doctor them and attend their legal matters, but when it comes to preaching, none of the white man's religion for them. We do not know why it is that Negroes prefer to do business with white people, but are not willing to listen to their gospel, unless it be that this peculiarity is a relic of slavery and born of the teachings that Negroes receive from that institution of mistrusting and enying the prosperity of one another. QUADRUPLETS FOR CHRISTMAS. Virginia Wife Presents Husband Two Boys and Girls. Roanoke, Va., Dec. 24.—The Christmas present of Mrs. William Luck of Roanoke to her husband today was two boys and two girls at a birth. All doing well. Attend the musicie at Redman hall, Wednesday, January 1st, given by Bud Hickerson and Miss Mattie Turner. The Surrender of Zed Bilbro By William H. Hamby (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Zed Bilbro's two most troublesome possessions were a violent temper and a pretty daughter. The temper, like an active volcano, was always either in open eruption or gathering steam for a big explosion. The daughter was aggravatingly obedient, and was as sweet and modest as she was pretty. She was so much unlike her father that one constantly wondered what an angel her mother must have been. The disagreement which led to the tragedy was over Ben Hudson. Zed suspicioned that Helen loved this young man, and she knew that her father hated him. Ben had courted her a very short time when old Zed's temper had one of its most violent explosions. He ordered the young man off the place and swore by all his fighting accessories that if he ever set foot on the premises again he would fill him so full of lead that he would not float in brine. Those who knew intimated the old man's opposition was not by any means solely due to his hate for Hudson. Helen's mother had left her $5,000 which was to be used by her father until she married or attained the age of 30. She lacked eight years of being 30. But whatever the cause of his opposition, Helen knew, and Ben knew, and everybody else knew that it was a mighty dangerous proposition to go up against Zed Bilbro's word. If he said he would shoot, shoot he would, no matter if he hung for it within 24 hours. Therefore Ben, who, by the way, was a very excellent and prosperous young man, wisely stayed off the premises; and Helen went unaccompanied, if sadly, about her work. Her face grew thinner, her cheeks paler; and there was a far-away look in her eyes that would have touched the heart of anyone but a stingy old curmudgeon who wanted to hang on to the use of her $5,000. But one Friday afternoon as she stood listlessly by the west window suddenly her eyes brightened and the color came back to her cheeks. Zed locked out just in time to catch the last wave of Ben's handkerchief as he rode by. The next Friday Helen was at the window at the some time, and again Ben rode by and waved his handkerchief. Although there was no response from Helen save in her eyes and cheeks, Zed sprang up angrily and jerked the window blind down in front of her. Quietly she moved to another window. Again he jerked the blind. Then without a word she walked out on the porch and sat down in a rocker. Whereupon Ben gave the handkerchief an extra swing around his head and tossed it triumphantly into the air. Zed's face grew apoplectic and he looked longingly at his Winchester which hung over the door, but he he could not very well shoot a man down on the public highway for merely waving his handkerchief. After that the Friday afternoon salute became the weekly event for the girl, whose cheeks once more got back their pink and her step regained its old-time elasticity as she went singing about her work. But all the time Zed's impotent wrath smoldered under repression, growing hotter and hotter until he was in constant danger of explosion. "Now, young lady, I want you to remember one thing," he said one Fri- Skeleton Shows Kickapoo Measured Six Feet Seven Inches in Height. Dr. G. W. Redmond, of Potter, says that in 1870 he and Dr. Parsons, of Mount Pleasant, unearthed the remains of what is said to have been the tallest Indian who ever lived in this section of the country. The Indian was a Kickapoo and was noted for giant proportions. He was buried on the old Pensoneau farm, or what was day evening. "There ain't to be any elopin' round here. When you marry you'll be married right here in this house. If you ever run away to get married, I'll kill him just as shore as I'm a foot high." Helen merely replied: "Yes, father, I'll remember," and went on about her work. That made him boil all the more, for he had hoped for an excuse to pour out upon her the vfals of his wrath, which were too full to be com- fortable. About 11 o'clock Wednesday night Zed awoke with the feeling that something had gone wrong. He hastily got into his clothes and went to Helen's room. She was gone. He went down the stairs three steps at a time and got his rifle. When his hand was upon the door-knob he stopped. There were voices. He went to the window and looked out. It was a fine June night, and the moon smiled on grass and roses and leaves. There they were, in the shadow of the grape arbor. They were sitting on the bench, and even in the shadow he could see the young man's arm was about her. A fit of anger swept Zed until the moonlight looked like blood. Out of the door, across the porch, and half-way across the yard he dashed before they noticed him. They sprang to their feet. Helen screamed and started toward her father, but the young man stood his ground defiantly. Crazy with anger, Zed jumped to one side, so the girl was out of range, threw up his rifle, and fired twice square at the young man's chest. He fell forward on his face, lifeless. With an agonized cry, Helen ran back and kneeled over him. The old man returned to the house, put up his gun, finished dressing, deliberately; then went to the barn and saddled a horse. He rode back to the gate and called to Helen, who still knelt over the lifeless body: "I am going to Martinville to give myself up." A heart-broken moan was the only response from the girl, and the father roared away. It was 15 miles to the county seat, and daylight was just streaking the east when Zed presented himself at the sheriff's, told his story and surrendered himself to the law. "I'll just guard you here in my house, Mr. Bilbro," said the sheriff, "until a warrant is sworn out." "Very well," assented the old man wearily. Now that his anger had died down and he must face the gallows, he confessed to himself the exceeding folly of his rash act. The sheriff locked him in his room and went out to investigate. For hours the old man waited his return, wondering if there would be any attempt to mob him. Ben Hudson was very popular, and certainly public excitement would run high. But he did not care much if they did lynch him, it would be over all the quicker that way. About four o'clock the sheriff returned. "Mr. Bilbro," he said, "I just now had a 'phone message from out your way, and they say there is a large crowd gathered at your house." "I expected it," said the old man, dismally. "But let 'em come, I don't care a fig which way I go so it is over with in a hurry." "There has been a wedding out there," added the sheriff. "It is just now over." afterward known as the Dougan farm, just north of Potter. "Uncle Jimmy" Dougan, an early settler, remembered when the Indian was buried and pointed out the grave to Drs. Redmond and Parsons, who wanted the skeleton for dissecting, or, rather, anatomical purposes. It measured six feet seven inches in height. The Indian was killed in a drunken brawl. Many trinkets were buried with him, and the blankets in which he had been wrapped were in a fair state of preservation when the skeleton was ex- "A wedding!" And Zed leaned forward in amazement. "Yes, your daughter is married." "Married?" repeated the astonished father. "Why, I killed her sweetheart last night. The sheriff smiled. "No, Zed, that was a dummy you shot." The relief that swept over him was so great he grew dizzy. But directly the bloot rushed back to his head and he grew appolytic with rage. To think they would fool him like that and make him the laughing stock of the whole country. He would never hear the last of it. The sheriff saw the change and understood it. "I haven't mentioned this to a soul," he said. "I promised Helen I never would." "And have they?" gasped the old man with a faint glimmer of hope. "No, and Helen told me to tell you if you would not make any fuss they would never tell it in the world. "They are to have a big wedding supper to-night; there are about 50 guests there, and she said if you agree to take it in good humor to phone her something so she will understand." For a few minutes Zed struggled with his wrath, but before him stood the certainty of an endless joshing and guying wherever he went, if the thing became known. He stepped to the 'phone and asked for his number on the rural line. "This Helen? Well, say. Helen—" his voice was very fatherly, "I got the four gallons of ice cream all right, and will be out with it in time for the supper." TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN GIRL. Well-Intentioned Rhapsoid That Hardly Does Subject Justice. We like poetry, we do, a whole lot. Whether it comes in the form of rhythmic verse or mellifluous prose, it hits us in a tender place. That is why we feel good thrills coming over us when we find the Oklahoma State Capital quoting some one as saying that "when God made the American girl, He sent His angel messengers throughout all the star-strewn realism of space to gather all there was of beauty and brightness, of enchantment, of glamour. When those angels returned from their harvesting of beauty and threw down their glittering burden at His feet He began, in their wonderful presence, the fashioning of the American girl. He wrought with the gold and the gleam of the stars, shifting glories of the rainbow hues, and the pallid silver of the moon. He wrought with the crimson which swooned in the rose's rubbed heart, with the pure sweet snow which gleams from the illies' petals and the fire of the flames which dash and leap from jewel's depth. Then glancing deep into His own bosom He took of the love which gleamed there like some rare pearl beneath the winkkissed waves of a summer sea, thrilled into the form He was fashioning, and all heaven and earth rejoiced, for lo! He had wrought the American girl." Yum, yum, also b'gosh.—Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. Moth Plays 'Possum. "Playing 'possum' means shamming death, as practiced by that cute little beast, the American or Australian opossum. It is a queer thing to find the same curious trait in an English insect. But the currant moth, as any entomologist will tell you, when seized upon by the wing or leg, instead of fluttering, lies absolutely quiet and still until the rough grasp is slackened, when it will quietly but quickly fly away again. How to Make Furniture Shine. Take four tablespoonfuls of turpentine, two ounces of white wax, four ounces castile soap. Place together in a clean enamel saucepan and dissolve slowly over a gentle heat. Next add a sufficient quantity of boiling water to form it into a cream. humed. The remains were buried at a depth of only about three feet. The skeleton lay around Dr. Parsons' office in Mount Pleasant for a long time, when it finally disappeared, and Dr. Redmond says he never knew what became of it.—Kansas City Journal. To Learn to Enjoy Music. The only way to learn to enjoy music is to hear it again and again. By listening to music and looking at pictures you cultivate a taste for them. on —— ‘WRt SEARCHLIGHT, ‘mara, . wane GB Wnt em WN. MILLBR................-Baltor ‘Mintered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Welished Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. 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Any erroneous reflection on the eharacter, standing or reputation o} my person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected 1 Drought to the attention of the editor To Live and Let Live” 1s Our Motto. FOR GOVERNOR OF KANSAS, 908. CHAS. L. DAVIDSON of Sedgwick County. —_—$ ___ THE OLD FOR THE NEW. Before another issue of the Search- light shall have gone to press the year 1907 shali have passed from time to eternity and the new year 1908 shall have been ushered upon the stage of activity. We have no words of compfaint to make for that which has been our lot during the year 1907, while, indeed, on the other hand we have many reagons to be thankful for our humble portion during the year 1907. It is with songs of gratitude and thanks that we bid the old year good- ‘bye. During the old year our path has not always been strewn with Sweet-scented roses and the sun has not always shone in our door-way, but in the midst of all we could see plainly the ever tender hand of Him who holds the destiny of men and nations. We go with other humanity into the new year with high hopes and glowing ex- pectations and a firm determination to “endeavor to improve ourselves In the new year. ‘We wish to thank those who have favored us during the year which is soon to be ushered into eternity and ask of them a continuation of their kind offices and favors during the new year 1908. We wish you a Happy New ‘Year. ALL BLAMED FOR ACT OF ONE It is a sad circumstance for the col- ored people at large that as soon as one sensational episode has cleared away there comes, seemingly another. It js not that colored people are more lawless than others, for the yare not, Dut it is from the fact that the whole race is unjustly charged with every wrong act, real, imaginary or cireum- stantial with which any one member ‘of the race may be charged. There- fore in fact, as well as in theory, every colored man is made “his brother's ‘Xkeeper,” which makes it a serious mat- ter for the race every time a colored man is charged with crime. With ‘every other race in America every ‘man is held accountable for his own acts—but with the colored man every colored man is held accountabie for the act of any member of the race— this is surely as it ought not to be— however it is—and we must accep! the conditions as they are—not as we would have them. It is then, for the colored man, nothing to produce laugh- ter or merrimént when any one mem- der of the race is charged with erime ‘While the race should not and doe: not condone in the crimes any member of the race—yet under the Americar @octrine of charging each allege erime of any member of the race t the whole race—it certainly becomes the bounden duty of each member o} the race to allvocate that each member ‘of the race charged with crime be given a fair and impartial trial an¢ ‘that ff guilty be punshed only “ac: “@ording to law.” LIFE IN PENITENTIARY FOR AN- DREW BURBRIDGE. Negro Minister Shot and Stabbed His Wife. | Sheriff Richard Cogdell will leave to- morrow morning for Lansing, Kan. where he will take Andrew Burbridge, convicted during the last term of court of first degree murder, and Berton Mc- Clelland, who was found guilty of rob- bery. Andrew Burbridge will serve a life sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of his wife, Mary Burbridge, last April. Burbridge shot and stabbed her, making wounds which caused her death. He afterwards tried to commit em and was found hanging on a barbed wire fence west of the Friends University. A statement which Mrs. Burbridge made on her death bed was instru- mental in causing the convietion of Burbridge. McClellan will serve a sentence of not less than ten years nor more than twenty-one years in the penitentiary McClellan was found guilty of robbing Miss McCoy and Miss Dick, two schoo teachers of this city. He took a silve watch from the latter. McClellan proved an alibi at his tria but the jurors seemed to doubt the «¢. timony of some of his witnesses an found him guilty. WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM. If the colored men would suffer to be killed out like rats in America anc 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 wo- men; 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 in- vites you to call and trade with him He will give you bargains in grocer- ies and provisions. Remember _ the place, 638 N. Water street, VV A. B.WeeBeEr Druggist Free Delivery. We will call forand Deiiver 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, Sup pers ete, ete, etc. Enquire of G, H. Young, 601 N- Main St. LOOKS SUSPICIOUS. | Gov. Haskell of the new state of Oklahoma desires to have a conven- ce of governors of all the states, called to revise and amend the federal plan” of state government. The Negro moyement looking forward to any con- in any form, of the federal constitu- tion, | The time is not at hand to begin tinkering with so important a @ocu- ment as the national constitution, whieh in its entirety means so much to the American Negro. "A greater suspicion is raised from ‘the fact that the suggestion comes from such a man as Haskell of Okla- homia and nine other Southern gover- nors, If the constitution is to be changed, let it be suggested and made by the friends of the docament—men who would see a constitution which would protect all citizens regardless of race or color. ELECTS OFFICERS. Toas Lodge No. 10 held the semi-an- nual election of their officers Monday night with the following result: Wm, Bowers, . C. ——-v.c. S. W. Fleming, K of R. & S. | Thos. Cox, M. of B. H. Branson, M. of F. Fred Martin, M. W. F, Floyd, Prel. Miss Jessie M. Hayes of Guthrie, Ok, was the guest of Miss Jessie. Mick- leburry, 917 N, Mafi street, for the nottaays. Mrs. J. W. Newlin is suffering in- tense pain from a tooth which she had extracted. VHE WICHITA SZARCHLIGN. ——_—_——_—X—X————__—_— a ae _ |Rev, a Wooten, presia | LOCALS ~ feist made yery encouraging a ee J. F.C. Taylor presen THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK— |stewards appointed for —_—— ear, which were confirr 7 Seng your news notes and local jaras namea are hepponings to 601 Worth Main Street. Sane pee eee | iF IT EVER HAPPENED “ee YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? z Mrs. Geo. McDonald wishes to an- nounces that she now has a new an¢ fresh supply of Mme. Walker's Hai Grower, on band, and in the future wil Kee pa supply. Largest size boxe: Ste. MRS. GEO. McDONALD, F 720 N. Washington Ave. ‘The Booker T. Washington Club held their annual Christmas tree at the pleasant home of Mr. and’ Mrs. Thomas ings they all passed into the dining fully decorated with white hyacinths and Christmas bells. Mr, and rMs addressed the club and all extended him a vote of thanks for his encourag: priate manner. And as the hour wa: cipient of a handsome present, _ bic their host and hostess a pleasant gooc night and many good wishes for the 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. | Mr, and Mrs, Elmer Johnson enter- ‘tained at dinner on Christmas day to ¢ number of friends at thelr pleasan home, 1650 S. Topeka avenue. The house was elegantly decorated witt Christmas bells, holly and mistletoe ‘There was a delicious dinner, with plenty of everything for everybody ‘The menu was as follows: Roast Turkey, Cranberry Sauce Mashed! Potatoes with Cream Gravy. ‘Tomatoes. Peas. Chicken Salad, : Pumpkin Pie with Cheese. ” Suet Pudding. Peaches! Cake. Boston Cookies Fruit. Nuts. Candy. Mr. S. W. Cox was toastmaster of the occasion. The time was pleasantly spent with music and games, and the merry party broke up voting Mr. an¢ Mrs. Johnson delightful entertainers and wishing all a Happy New Year. ‘The guests were Mi. and Mrs. 8. W. Cox and Mr. Frank Kimberling of Col- lege Hill and Miss Connte Hill of Dover, Okla, Miss Mamie Richardson will leave Saturday morning for her home in Kansas City, Kan., to spend the re- maining holidays with her parents. She will return the 4th of January to re- sume her work in music. Let every student be prepared to be- gin his work with new energy and de- termination for the ensuing year. Mr, and Mrs. G. M. Smith enter- tained the following guests for Christ- mas dinner: Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Chun- neth and family, Mrs, L, C. Carr, Mrs. V. Covington, This was one of the season’s most elaborate affairs, the A. M, EB. church Monday night, ee Packing Meat Is now loca building at 2}: \f and can give t I Brech and Galt Packing House Meat Market | Is now located in their new building at 2Ist & Lawrence and can give big bargains in Fresh and Salt Meats We Can Save You Money. Come and See JOHN S. DAWSON, PROP. & J. F. C. Taylor presented his list of stewards appointed for the present SS BUY LUMBER Sa AT METZ’S re 3rd & Main Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon ~ SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Office Hours 9tolla.m Residence 2t05pm. 703. N. Main St e 78pm. OFFICE 601 N. MAIN ST eS Wm. Coulter — Dan Furgerson 9 Coulter & Furgerson’s Barber Shop 349 N. Main Everything First-Class Shave 100. Hair Cut25c. 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 Grocery 638 North Water St. All kinds of Fancy and Staple Groceries. ..... We will appreciate -.. YOUR TRADE... At 688 N. Water St feet Z # , Johnston’s Restaurant 339 N. Main St, Meals 20c and 25c Cigars, Tobacco, Lunch Fish Game and Oysters in Season Your Trade Wanted ere ELECTS OFFICERS. Home of the West Lodge No. 2906, G. U. 0. 0. F, held the election of their officers Wednesday night. The following were elected: L. H, White, N. G. | Pink Stratford, V. G. Joe Dunson, P. N. F. R, Landrum, N, F. Frank Buford, P, N. @. |G. M, Smith, Adv. Geo. A. Wallace, P. S. ‘Wilbur Clark, B. 8. Ed F. Thomas, W. Treas. Dan Pryor, Chaplain. Geo, Clay, Warden. MT. NEBO NO. 7 TO GIVE SOCIAL. Mt. Nebo Temple No, 7 will give an entertainment at Young's Hall, on ‘Wednesday night, January 1st, 1908. A short program will be rendered and preparations are being made for a good time. They will highly appreci- ate your presence at Young’s Hall on Wednesday night, January 1st. Mrs, R. E. Smith, who has been quite ill at her home, 422 Stevens, is reported to be on the mend. 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In Philadelphia, more than half a century ago, a few casts from the antique created something very like a public scandal; and when, at an earlier period Greenough's Chanting Cherubs, the first group, by an American sculptor, was exhibited, a storm of condemnation enveloped the undraped figures; nude babies were familiar in American homes, but their appearance in public shocked the moral sense of the whole community. This, remarks Hamilton, Mabia in Atlantic Monthly, was in New York, where, still earlier, gentlemen who lived by piracy had been influential members of society. The symbolism of Powers' Greek Slave and the passionate sympathy with the Greek struggle for freedom diverted attention from the nudity of the figure to the pathos it expressed; but it was thought necessary, in the interests of public morals, that the fair captive should be examined by a committee of experts. Accordingly a group of clergymen in Cincinnati sat as a jury and, after a critical examination of the figure, issued a kind of license for purposes of public exhibition. The humor of submitting the statue to the inspection of a committee of clergymen does not seem to have occurred to any save a few Americans who had been corrupted by familiarity with foreign galleries; nor does anyone appear to have realized that the real immorality was not in the timid slave, but in the public opinion which hailed her effigy as the greatest work of art in the history of the world! Transformation in Lumber Industry. A few American citizens are still living who were alive in the days when the Indiana and Ohio pioneers were cutting great clear-grained black walnut, white oak and hickory logs, piling them and burning them to ashes in order to be rid of them. Farmhouses are still standing in the Ohio valley whose tenoned frames are of black walnut, and whose roof boards are of wide; clear lumber such as is now sought for to be made into kings' table tops. Black walnut lumber in American commerce is to-day little more than a memory, says Milton O. Nelson in the American Review of Reviews; white oak in the finer finishing grades is worth half the price of mahogany, and the American vehicle industry is in distress for the lack of hickory. Even in sawmill cities of the present day the lath from the walls of wrecked houses is carefully cleaned and bundled for resale, while half-decayed pine logs are sawed into merchantable lumber. Thus in the span of one life the American lumber industry has passed from surfeit to hunger. Such another span promises to carry us from hunger to starvation. American Wheat to Odessa A big shipment of wheat from New York to Odessa, Russia, is an important indicator as showing how the current of trade is sweeping in an unusual direction and one that promises to bring benefit to this country. Ordinarily Odessa itself is a wheat-shipping point, being one of the ports to which the Russian grain fields are contributory, and Europe has been accustomed to depend on that region for a large portion of its food supplies. This year the Russian crop has not been sufficient to meet home demands, and the export trade has fallen off accordingly. The people of that country are buying instead of selling foodstuffs, and as Europe is always confronting a shortage, the situation compels reliance upon the new world, in which the United States is the chief wheat producer. Hence, remarks the Troy (N.Y.) Times, the increasing shipments abroad, the effect of which in the aggregate must be to strengthen materially our credit and to increase the 'avoidable balance of trade. The automobile may have its uses. The Touring club of France, composed of bicyclists and automobiles, has taken up the work of reforestation and got it under way on a broad and sound basis. The theory was that the destruction of forests lessened the pleasure of travel. Auxiliary societies have been started everywhere, and by their efforts tree culture is now taught in the public schools. Prizes are given both to teachers and to pupils for good work in this line. The club has also secured the passage of several laws for the preservation of forests. This is better than running over pedestrians, at least. King Edward now is eligible for membership in the hotel clerks' union, with his fine big $750,000 diamond. He could paralyze the drummer and the blase traveler simply by extending his front a few inches and not saying a word. New Jersey has a gay bridegroom of 84. Cupid is, after all, the real lover, though it takes some people quite a while to realize that there is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. NEW YEAR REVERIES A man sits in a chair, smoking a pipe, looking at a fireplace with faces in it. COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY THE EDITOR Scene—The living room of a wealthy bachelor's apartments. THE Bachelor—How bright the fire. How cheery the crackling logs. Outside the Dying Year battles with the raging storm. “What has the Old Year brought to me that I should mourn its passing? “Loves in plenty. But were they loves or were they passing fantasies—bright spots of blue peeping through the stormy sky. ‘Tis many a sorry trick Dan Cupid has played me during the past twelve months. Could I but have him here I’d review him for his benefit. “Ah, the bell rings! What friend or foe has braved the elements and come to disturb my reveries of a New Year’s Eve?” (Enter Butler.) The Bachelor — A wee, small gentleman to see me, James, you say. But just a sweet-faced child. His card — Dan Cupid — Yes, I know him, and you may show him up. But, James, you're not a judge of character. He's not a child, he's old as time, and as full of devilish pranks as that neighbor's brat of whom you so complain. (James departs and returns ushering in Dan Cupid.) Dan Cupid — Ha, ha, dear sir, 'tis not love's night. Business is dull, and so I come to beg a chat with you and may, perchance, revile you for the shortcomings of the year that is passing. The Bachelor—Revile me, you imp of Satan! Why, 'twas but a moment before your ring that I wished for you that I might review for your benefit the times you've played me false. Now sit you down and let's turn back the pages of the passing year and see the record. It surely will show you up in your true colors. (Gets a volume from the shelf.) "We'll start with January, and with Eleanor. Dan, you rogue, you wounded me for fair with her. I should not have cared had time and eternity been made up of January's could I but have had Eleanor to sit beside me before the crackling fire throughout them all. I pleaded well my case, but she would have none of it, and then I learned that you had played me false. Through February, March and April I nursed the wound caused by your treacherous dart, and it was not until the flowers of May began to bloom that it would heal. But three shorts months and yet they seemed like years, like centuries, to me." Dan Cupid—Good sir, the fault was yours, not mine. Across that page can you not read the promises you made the budding year? How did you keep them? Not at all. Had you but been the angel you started out to be, fair Eleanor would have had no grounds for the curt refusal she met out to you. The Bachelor—Ah, well, Dan, I was but human—that is, to err. She married, yes, and I suppose believed she had captured the one real matrimonial prize. But yesterday 'twas good to read the courts had cast asunder the bonds that bound, and set her free to wound another heart. Dan' Cupid—But you shall credit me with other opportunities that I made for you—opportunities more in keeping with your deserts. The Bachelor—Yes, Dan, there was Jessica, of the yachting party. The wound she left was not long in healing, but was painful at first. Then, later, there was Isabel. How I adored her. Your aim was sure, and the bow was strong that send that shaft into my heart. Never can I forget the tender words with which I wooed her at the seashore, nor the pulsations of my heart when she answered "Yes." But, Dan, you rascal, you know her. But once since those summer days have I seen her. She served me coffee and rolls in a quick lunch room in November. I did not ask her where I might redeem the ring. "Yes, Dan, there were others. But why review them? And I'll forgive you, you imp. I'll lay not up against you a single pang—or dollar—they have cost me—on one condition—that you shall not, for this next year, point your darts in my direction. Do you agree? Then we'll burn the book, and think no more of it." (Casts it into the fire.) "And now, then, Dan, the year is dying. A toast to it and its fond memories; to your escapades and my escapades; to the fair girls who caused the heart throbs of a season; to the broken promises that saved me troubles; to the Old Year. And another, Dan, to the year just 'boming'; to the anticipations which it brings. The bells are ringing; the Old Year is dead; the New Year lives, and now, good night, but please remember that you have promised not to aim your darts in my direction." (Exit Dan Cupid and Curtain.) Wright A. Patterson. Masterson 1908 NOTHER year has found us just as we were getting comfortably used to the idea that summer had really gone. A Busy people never have time to dwell very much on the passing of the seasons. The days are so full of tasks and Father Time is always catching up and getting ahead of us in spite of his advanced age. It is always the same old story! It is always the same old story. Surprise surprises us with its blossoms and its bursting brooks and then summer has come and gone before we know it. Very few of us stop to think that this swiftness of time in its passing indicates that we are really living rather than lolling through life. It is only when the days hang upon our hands that we know how blessed are those other times when we have to make lists of the many things we have to do and get up early mornings to begin them. Of course we are likely to complain that we get so little done, especially at this time, when the calendars tell us that another 365 days have become a part of yesterday's 7,000 years. We look back regretfully and repine that we have so little to record in the way of achievement, beyond the mere act of living from day to day and from week to week. But living in the right spirit, striving, if not always accomplishing and completing the tasks we set ourselves, is nothing to regret. It comes near to that simple life that sounds so grand and inspiring when it is lived in the woods, but which is quite as fine when lived in a big city. There is no doubt that when we try to set up standards of happiness and contentment and peace at the close of a year that has had its rifts of sunshine and its stretches of shade, that it is impossible to put wealth, or fame, or success, personal popularity, beauty or even health itself forward as the great, good thing that makes life worth living. The thing that counts is the ability and the desire to feel an interest in things, in events and persons—in the game of life itself. All the other blessings pall unless that interest remains. It is very closely akin to health for it is a part of youth, of vitality, of life. It has become the general practice to speed the departure of the old year with every indication of rejoicing, welcoming in the new with acclaim and expressions of satisfaction. It is natural and wholesome to look forward, but those of us who wish to include the brick of gratitude in the building of our characters should learn to omit our complaints of the luck the old year has brought us. In truth, the new year will be to a great extent like the old—what we make it and how we take it. Things will happen in accordance with the same laws that guide this big earth of which we are a small part. So we can greet 1908 in a calm and happy manner, rather than with any manifestations of frenzied joy at its coming, and let us have the good manners to speed our parting guest, 1907, politely. With all his faults we know him for what he was and the new year is as yet a stranger to us. We can hope and believe that all good things will come with him, but let us avoid the hackneyed congratulation on the passing of a twelve-month that probably treated us better than we deserved. The dawning of another January is invariably the time for what are called "good resolutions," which translate themselves into rash promises, usually broken before the new year is well under way. That was the old-fashioned way of expressing an inclination to reform one's bad habits and people kept on from youth to old age making these good resolutions every 31st of December, finding themselves each year further from perfection than ever. Good resolutions are not so prevalent, or at least not so noisy as they used to be at this time. They have become popular material for the comic papers and everybody knows what a joke they are. Nevertheless, the close of a year is a capital time for a look back, a retrospect in which we can see the faults that are on the mend with us, or the ones that have persevered and grown stronger. Maybe some new tendency has sprung up which does not promise well. At all events if we are able to get a new view of our characters as though a searchlight had been thrown in our souls, we are in a fair way to improve. It is only when we blindly consider ourselves as right in everything that we are all wrong. It is only when we blindly consider ourselves as right in everything that we are all wrong. So if your look back shows you mistakes and errors and misbeliefs, be glad that the New Year gives you a clean slate to try for the right road and the true goal. Be thankful for the mental perspective when you see it with clear sight—with new true eyes. There is no need of making resolutions, for right seeing means right thinking and right thinking is the path to right living. Perhaps your faults are those mean little ones which you would like to exchange in a bunch for one noble sin, but there are no exchanges of that sort or we should all be noble sinners. The petty faults are the thorns that cluster round some of the finest roses in life's big garden, crowding, jarring, overtopping one another in their eagerness to get to the light. Maybe the old year has been a good friend in some special instances that you can recall. Perhaps it brought you back with a short, sharp shock from a too arrogant happiness or an overconfident success. Be glad of that jar, even though it kept you stirred up for awhile. Perhaps the past 12 months have healed some breach or brought some ship home, the white sails of which you have been watching wistfully for months or years far out at sea. Be glad of that. Perhaps some millstone has fallen from you and you stand free at last on the great highway with long, manacled arms reached out to the sky. Be glad! Or peace has settled on a troubled ocean and you can greet the sunrise with a smile and a prayer of thankfulness for another day. Maybe there is a cradle in one corner of your home this New Year's eve with a most important guest cuddled in down blankets and rose-leaf palms upturned for your kisses. No need to tell you to be glad. Or success has come to crown some effort at which you have toiled rather wearily, hardly daring to hope. Or if it has been withheld, be glad that you have nevertheless tried. It will all come to you some day. The old year has taught us lessons. Let us profit by them and enter into the new armed with experience rather than plunge into it as though it were a rose garden. It is quite as full of danger and conflict and clouds as the old friend that is going. Let us wish it will have even as much sunshine and gladness and joy. We can meet it with splendid hope and lively faith—for those two qualities are what make our dreams come true. Let us cherish a few good hopes that it may bring us the things we stand in need of—health, happiness, good friends success, joy and the clear vision that will teach us to discern the false from the true. May it leave us our beliefs and our ideals. Teach us to love more and to hate not at all. To be content with the blessings that we have. To cultivate sweetness and good nature rather than exclusiveness. To meet the world with a smile. To stifle criticism of things and people. Never to make little of our own. THE, POOR YEAR. 1907 INDICTED Hit Him Again. He's Got No Friends. GOOD-BY, OLD YEAR. By Clifford Kane Stout Good-by, Old Year, your mission ends With midnight chimes and all is done; The records were filled and guarded The records fulfilled and guarded won Are hung as trophies round thy rime, And thou are named with olden time. Forevermore;oh, fateful past, That saw so much no law can change; Beginning and the end of things That were to be, the new and strange, The old and worn and bloom and blight, Passed to the dark or born to light. And, oh, for some happy year; Sweet wedding bells rang joyously; Old friends clasped hands and strangers met, And sunshine fell so glad and free On buoyant youth, and smiles were fair, And laughter bantered pain and care. Some tears must fall in every year: Your portion came when grief had set A badge of mourning on the hearts Of some whose love could not forget, And hopefully, without dismay, They covered friends of yesterday. Good-by, Old Year; we regret the New, cost of May, they are a double, proportion show Thy favors won o'er which was lost! Good-bay! A hand at parting; then A benediction and amen. —Cindennati Enquir UNCLE HAD THE FORMULA. Prolably Knew as Much About Waters as Did Fellow Townsmen. 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Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature Breastwood REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. Gleanings of Gotham Life in the Great Metropolis Mirrored for Our Readers COSTLY IMPROVEMENTS BEING MADE IN GOTHAM NEW YORK.—We have heard much of late about the magnitude of the Panama canal undertaking in respect to the number of men employed, the time it will take for construction and its total cost to the country. Certainly $180,000,000, more or less, is a huge sum of money to be spent on a single work, even by a nation as wealthy as our own. Nevertheless, it is a fact that at the present time there are being carried out in New York new engineering works of magnitude, public and private, whose total cost has been estimated at not less than $600,000,000, and much of this work has been planned, begun and carried well on to completion with not one-tenth of the discussion and world-wide advertisement which has marked the operations on the Panama canal. Without entering into full particulars, it is sufficient to instance a few of the leading engineering works and their probable cost. In addition to the Catskill water supply, which is to cost $162,000,000, two leading railroads of the country are rebuilding their terminal stations and electrifying their terminal and suburban service, at a total cost for the two which, judging from the way things are going, will not fall far short of $200,000,000. We refer to the electrification NEW YORKERS lose 30,000 umbrellas a year on subway trains, surface cars and the elevated lines, or more than enough to supply the whole state of Nevada. New York people seem to have acquired the losing habit almost to the point of a mania, and while figures for the whole city cannot be obtained, the statistics of the lost and found departments maintained by the street car lines show that more than 100,000 articles are left on the cars every year. If to this total are added those found by dishonest persons who do not turn them in, the figure approaches the quarter-million mark, and for the whole city in all its different activities the total number of articles lost every year is estimated at 5,000,000, valued at $2,500,000. SPACE FOR CIGAR STAND HOLDS HIGH RENT RECORD THE leasing of a space 21 by 9 feet, to be used as a cigar stand, at an annual rental of $40 a square foot, not only has established a high rent record for New York and the world, but has officially located the choicest bit of space on earth for business purposes. The plot, hardly as large as a good-sized room, which commands an annual rental of $7,560, is in the new Hudson terminal, where it is estimated that more than half a million commuters will pass every day. In spite of this tremendous crowd on which to draw for patronage, the enormous rent will necessitate a business on the part of the little cigar stand which will occupy it equal in volume to that of many a large store. It is JUDGING from the attendance at a motor school in Fifty-sixth street New York will see a large increase in women chauffeurs. Fifty women have enrolled as students at the school, and the instructors, without exception, are enthusiastic over the quickness and ability shown by the women students in mastering the complexities of an automobile engine. The regular term of lessons comprises six weeks, with eight hours per day given to school work, and while a number of women have taken the full course, and given the greater part of every day during the term, a still larger number have had private lessons, or have made up a small class of from two to four pupils, arranging to have the course cover a longer time in order to reduce the hours of daily attendance. Some of the women, as soon as they master all the intricacies of the machine and secure their certificates, will become demonstrators for automobile manufacturers. While they will sell cars and equipment to all comers, they will make a specialty of edu- GEE THESE TUNNELS COME HIGH, BUT WE MUST HAVE EBW! of the New York Central system and the construction of its new yard and station and offices and to the carrying out of similar works, which involve the construction of no less than six separate tunnels under the Hudson and East rivers and below Manhattan island. Then there is the extensive work being done by the Hudson companies, which is completing four tunnels below the Hudson river and building an extensive system of subways below Jersey City and beneath the streets of Manhattan. The total cost of this work, by the time the terminal stations, yards, etc., are completed, will not be far short of $50,000,000. The Rapid Transit commission, moreover, has laid out extensions of the rapid transit subway, of which the first installment, which will soon be begun, will call for an expenditure of not less than $100,000,000. Add to this the two bridges which the city is building across the East river, costing together about $40,000,000; the Connecting railway, with its 1,000 foot four track steel arch bridge over the East river, to cost $12,000,000 to $15,000,000, to say nothing of a large number of minor but costly improvements, and it can be seen that the total easily amounts to the $600,000,000 above mentioned above. 30,000 UMBRELLAS ARE LOST YEARLY ON TRAINS More umbrellas are left behind than anything else, but hundreds of overcoats, shoes, shirts, coats, vests and even trousers are turned in every week. It would hardly seem that a person riding in a street car would forget a cannon, yet two of these implements of war have been found in the last six months. Parrots and canaries, to say nothing of four-footed pets, all go to fill the menagerie of the lost and found offices. Perhaps the most curious find reported lately was what is officially described as "a tin can and its contents," said contents being very flat beer. Of course it is absolutely worthless, but as the law requires, that all found articles be held for a specified time it has taken its official place with all the others. estimated by experts that 250,000 two- for-a-quarter cigars, or 625,000 five-cent smokes, will have to be disposed of before a profit can be made, or at the rate on the latter basis of 2,000 cigars daily. High as the rent in this instance may seem, there are other plots which command amazing rates. Throughout the new station prices of space for booths range from $15 to $30 a square foot annually, while stores 20 by 60 feet will bring about $12 a square foot. One ambitious bootblack will pay $4,000 annually for a space 19 by 8 feet, although this is said to be no more than once was paid for a similar purpose in one of the life insurance buildings. MANY WOMEN STUDENTS AT NEW YORK MOTOR SCHOOL cating women in the use of the motor car and prove by their own skill and knowledge that women can learn something about the points of a car before buying, and how to run one when they have decided to become the owner of one. It is safe to predict that the invasion of women in the automobile business will result in satisfactory returns. New Egyptian Relics. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been enriched lately by specimens recovered from Egyptian tombs. There is one object of much importance to Egyptologists. It is a jar of alabaster, on which is a portrait of Queen Tu. The jar was the reliquary for part of the remains of the queen, following the embalming of the body, Henry C. Frick has loaned the museum a primitive painting by Antonello da Messina. The picture was painted in the fifteenth century, when painting in oils was a newly discovered process. The painting is comparatively small, and represents the removal of Christ from the cross preparatory to entomb You Look Prematurely Old GREAT SCHEME. "Are you still troubled by your neighbor's chickens?" asked one man of another. "Not a bit," was the answer. "They are kept shut now." "How did you manage it?" "Why, every night I put a lot of eggs in the grass very carefully, and every morning, when my neighbor was looking, I went out and brought them in." THOUGHT CHILD WOULD DIE. Whole Body Covered with Cuban Itch —Cuticura Remedies Cured at Cost of Seventy-Five Cents. "My little boy, when only an infant of three months, caught the Cuban Itch. Sores broke out from his head to the bottom of his feet. He would itch and claw himself and cry all the time. He could not sleep day or night, and a light dress is all he could wear. 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"Between emotionalism and formalism in religion," says a Washington clergyman, "there is a golden mean—a reflection that came to me recently upon the conclusion of my remarks to a colored congregation in Richmond. "I had invited an aged deacon to offer prayer. 'Oh, Lord,' prayed he, 'gib dis pore brudder de eye of de eagle, dat he spy out sin afar off. Glue his hands to de gospel plow. Tle his tongue to de line of truf. Nail his yere to de gospel pole. Bow his head 'way down between his knees, oh Lord, an' fix his knees 'way down in some lonesome, dark and narrier valley, where prayer is much wanted to be made. 'Nooint him wif de keroseneile of salvahun, 'an set him on fire!'" Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. 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There, I believe that's he now, over in Meade's orchard." "Is he standing?" inquired Mr. Crandall. "Yes," said his wife, "he's standing under one of the big trees looking toward our house." "That can't be the man," said Mr. Crandall. "He'd be sitting or lying down." The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Not the Residence A South Side household recently employed a domestic who is a native of Norway. The other day Freda answered a telephone for the first time. "Is this Mrs. Browning's residence?" asked a voice over the wire. "No'm," was the surprising answer, "it's her help."—Kansas City Times. 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Excellence Counts..... WICHITA, KANSAS 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 Shoes cannot be excelled. BRAITSCH DEAM ABSTRACT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors FLOUR BREAKFA and you will I AT YOUR GROCERS DEAM ABS IN NORTH-WEST COURT Bonded A Wichita's BEST Flour k Your Grocer For It Have No Other PEONISCH BROS., Agents 2N. Main St., Phone 530 We also handle Feed and Coal FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) ISSE. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, IL. Agents wanted everywhere. I. NAFTGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE, Cashier Fourth National Bank United States Depository Author-W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L. Neimes, S. B. Amidon, B. F. Me Lean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Nautuger, E. H. Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith. National Banking Business Tranacted CHITA BANK --- A Smoke Talk At Home With green wood in the stove or fire place isn't what its cracked up to be We have lots of nice dry Wood cut in 16 inch and 2-foot lengths. Also plenty of GOOD COAL always on hand.. PHONE: 496 PHONES J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 533 30 347 WEST DOUGLAS GAM 3 Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-day 329 East Center SALINA, KANSAS There are men of five nationalities American, Indian, Mexican, African and Japanese—engaged in picking cotton in Oklahoma. It has been proven that the Negro is the fastest worker. ALL THINGS ARE WELL. That ends well—so pay your subscription to the Searchlight and get a good night's sleep. THE WIGH TA SEARCHLIGHT A Good Chance For All Those That Would Like To Be Helped Miss Mamie Richardson, of Kansas Citv, Kan, has located in our city as a MUSIC TEACHER. She comes well recommended from some of the best instructors in the west Had several years experience in teaching. She solicits your patronage and will be glad to meet you at 630 NORTH WATER ST., Phone 1041 PEABODY, KANSAS Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Duncan entertained a number of friends to Christmas dinner in honor of their brother, John C. Duncan of St. Louis. A delightful dinner was served at 3 o'clock by Mr. Duncan and daughter, Beatrice. The menu: Turkey and cranberries, roast duck with apple sauce, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, peas in parties, sweet potatoes, olives, pickles, chestnut dressing and oyster gravity, banana salad and cheese straws, celery, mince and pumpkin pie, pineapple mousse and white potato cake and wines and eggnog were served at a late hour. Those that were present were Mrs. Chas. Miller, Mrs. Dickerson, Mrs. Albert Ford, all of Newton Kan.: Mrs. Lee of Kentucky, Mrs. W. N. Miller of Wichita, Mr. E. B. Kennedy of Hutchinson, Mr. J. Holder, Mr Albert Holder, Mr. and Mrs. John Richardson, all of Marion, Kan. They all reported a delightful evening. 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 NEW HISTORY OF THE NEGRO. Mr. Alfred H. Stone of Dunleith, Miss., whose temporary headquarters are 124 Third street, N. E., Washington, D. C., who is gathering material for an economic history of the Negro, which will come in one of the volumes of the Economic and Industrial History of the United States, which is being prepared under the general direction of a department of the Carnegie Institution, of which Hon. Carroll D. Wright is chairman. Material is wanted of Negroes during the ante-bellum period, of free Negroes in the South, Negroes of the Civil war, of emancipation and reconstruction, and since reconstruction periods, is wanted. Mr. Stone would be deeply grateful to anyone for information on any point mentioned or for a word of suggestion as to the whereabouts or ownership of documentary material bearing on such points, and he would appreciate an opportunity of opening personal correspondence in this connection. FORT SCOTT, KAN. St. Peter's Temple No. 8, paid off the endowment of Rev. R. M. Campbell on December 19, and had a good crowd and had a good success financially. All the pastors of the city were judges for the paying off of the money, after which Rev. J. L. Dudley made some grand points on the life and death of Rev. Campbell; also other pastors made some very interesting remarks, after which supper was served, hot chicken and hot French fried oysters (Chitting's) was served, and the way the pastors ate those oysters was something fearful. Chicken didn't stand any show at all. The Tabernacle Daughters will see that the pastors get enough oysters in the future. Marian Tabernacle No. 20, gave an entertainment December 11, 1907, and American State Bank Wichita, Kansas; At the close of business Dec. 3, 1907. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts.....$267,978.03 Overdrafts Secured.....1,476.79 Banking House.....13,700.00 Furniture and Fixtures.....2,500.00 High-grade Bonds and Warrants.....$ 25,301.44 Cash and Sight Exchange.....225,310.68 250,612.12 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock..... $ 50,000.00 Surplus Fund..... 12,500.00 Undivided Profits (net)..... 14,005.35 Deposits..... 459,761.59 The above statement is correct. J. N. RICHARDSON, Cashier. We respectfully solicit your business. cleared $23.82. On the following Friday was meeting day of our Daughters. Mrs. Holmes came down from Kansas City to meet with us and made a speech of encouragement. Sir Knight Hall also spoke encouragingly to the Daughters as that was the last meeting in the old year. Daughter Witherspoon started the meeting by thanking the Lord for what he had done for her in the past year and being in union and love with all the Daughters and by the time all the Daughters had spoken they had had an old-time covenant meeting. Praise the Lord! Daughter Collins sang "Nearer, My God, To Thee." They all marched two by two to the reception room, where refreshments were served. Mrs. Holmes was the guest of honor. Mrs. M. S. Jones will leave Thursday for Garden City, Kan., to visit quite a while. Her health not being very good. The sisters and friends hope when she returns she will be well. Rev. Jones will be an old bachelor till his wife returns. Miss Josephine Stroghu, our missionary from Dutch Guana, was here December 19, and lectured to a large house. Miss Stroghu is a smart and wonderful woman; she has power. Go and hear her, all who hear her will be benefited. Would to God there were more such women. Pastors' Alliance will give January 1. 1908, the forty-fourth emancipation celebration to the old soldiers at Taborian hall. All old soldiers served free of charge. A grand program will be rendered afternoon and night. There will be visiting pastors in the city to participate in the program. Fort Scott's most highly accomplished speakers, including all the teachers of the city, will take part in the program. The marriage of Mr. Josh Morgan to Miss Cora Crump was a grand affair. The wedding bells rang and the friends thronged the church to see two hearts made one. After the ceremonies were performed and a hundred congratulations, kissing and presents by the score, the bride and groom took their departure for Kansas City, Mo., where they will make their future home, the groom having a job awaiting his return. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morgan came from Pittsburg to the wedding of his brother. All friends were glad to see them. Mrs. Bettie Hugh of Parsons, Kan., is the guest of Mrs. Anna Witherspoon during the holidays. There will be a wedding Christmas, Mr. Frank Caldwell to Miss Ethel Coneland. Misses Lula and Emila Woodson of Oklahoma City are the guests of Miss Beatrice Smalley during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Rob Olison will entertain Christmas day, Mrs. Bettie Hughes of Parsons guest of honor. Mrs. Gertrude Johnston of Kansas City is visiting her parents, Mrs. Dudley and wife. Rev. McCray has built his church, dedicated it to God, going right along in God's name doing well. The church is being called McCray's chapel. NORTH TOPEKA ITEMS. Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93, are progressing nicely. They have two sick members. They are much improved at this writing. Mrs. Nettle Webster presents Mrs. Ida M. Jordan a beautiful set of silver merry spoons for a Christmas present, wishing her a merry Christmas and a happy New Year and a success in all her undertakings. Different members of Tabernacle No. 93 have presented their high priestess, Ida M. Jordan, with some very handsome and valuable presents. The majority of the members of Macedonia No. 93 love Ida M. Jordan, H. P., and they show it by many tokens of love and gifts, and she certainly loves all of her daughters, and thanks them for their many tokens of respect shown her. God bless all of the daughters of No. 93. I shall try and do all I can in the interest of Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93, the Lord being my helper. $536,266.94 . 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Phone 1286 red Great Holiday Sale Now on in FURNITURE, posi- tively the lowest prices in town at Furniture COPYRIGHT MARRIED IN SPLEDOR. The marriage of Miss Lula Thompson and Mr. A. R. Washington at the home of the bride's parents, 1102 N. Santa Fe, Wednesday night, December 25th was, indeed, one of the social events of the present holiday season. The room was beautifully decorated with flowers and potted plants and the bride and groom were dressed in a neat and becoming manner. The ceremonies were performed by Rev. J. F. C. Taylor, pastor of the A. M. E. church. Many beautiful and useful presents were received. All join in wishing Mr. and Mrs. Washington a long and happy married life. Mrs. W. N. Miller spent Xmas day in Peabody, Kansas, the guest of her friend, Mrs. Samuel Duncan of that city. She reports having hada splendid time and was much impressed with the royal treatment accorded to her. Christmas day in Wichita was a very dull one it seemed more like Sunday than like Christmas. Things were very, very quiet. The spring campaign is nearing us right smartly and it will stand the colored men in hand to be careful what they do. The race must learn to practise more economy in the building of churches. Extravagance in church building i sas hurtful as elsewhere. No people are justified in building a church beyond their means even if they are able to beg the money of others.—Exchange. --- ```markdown ``` Gut Glass, Lamps, Dinnerware Toilet Ware, Jardiniers, Chocolate Sets, Fruit Sets, Biscuit Jars, Box Plates, Vases, Tankard Jugs, Bon- Bons, Spoon Trays, Celery Trays, elc. Finest assortment; prices right. HUSE-CHAPLTON Jupiter Star Chapter No. 29, O. E. S., elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Mrs. L. DeVan, W. M. R. Levell, Patron. Mrs. C. Levell, A. M. Sadie Savage, Secretary. Mrs. C. Williams, Treasurer. Miss Nettie McLean, Cond. Mrs. L. McLean, A. Cond. Mrs. Beulah Falls, Warder. Mr. A. McLean, Sent. David Cox of this city died at Osawatomie, Kans., Wednesday, December 18, at the age of 66 years, 8 months and 2 days. The remains were brought here Friday afternoon. Funeral Sunday at 2 o'clock p. m. Mr. Cox has resided in this city for the past 15 years, and all who knew "Uncle Dave" knew but to love him. He was a member of the Knights and Ladies of the Orient and also a member of the Masonic lodge, Mt. Lebanon No. 16. The remains were peacefully laid to rest in the Strong City cemetery east of town. Mrs. Georgia Lee of Topeka was here to attend the funeral of her uncle, Mr. David Cox. Mrs. Hannah Merrit and Miss Mable Means of Council Grove were in the city Sunday. Rev. M. Wooten of Fort Scott, presiding elder; Rev. J. F. C. Taylor, wife and family and Mr. and Mrs. Will Gosby of Manhattan, Kan., were the welcome guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock dinner. A very pleasant evening was passed. As we go to press Mrs. Louisa Gibbs is reported to be very ill at her home, 219 W. Eighth street. THE HAUNTING EYE My object in visiting the asylum was one of curiosity. The gibberings of the insane, their hallucinations, sardonic laughter, queer and erratic ways always fascinated and held me entranced. Being a physician, and well-known at the institution, my presence was always welcome, and ample time was given me to cater to my peculiar whims. One day in room 48 I encountered a new subject. He stood at the grated door while I was talking with one of the attendants in the corridor, and when I had finished, motioned me to approach. I did so, at the same time noticing his shapely form, well-chiseled face, its deathly pallor, and the uneasy shifting of his coal-black eyes. "I like your looks," he said, regarding me critically. "It is my desire to trust you with a secret. May I be allowed?" "Certainly." I replied. Certainly, I replied. "I am glad of that," he answered. "That I am not insane, and entered this institution of my own volition, does not matter. My confession relates to the cause—my willingness to be incarcerated without the protest usually advanced by subjects who are insane." "I understand," I replied, wishing to humor him. Then, as he paused and glanced uneasily into the open space behind me, I added: "I am prepared to listen." "I fancied I heard a step," he rejoined, again turning his attention to me as if relieved. "My nerves are at high a tension of late that psychological illusions are quite frequent. I imagine sights and sounds that do not exist only in the environment of the brain; but—never mind." he added, brushing the black curls away from his forehead as if to brush away the incident. After another prolonged pause, during which he glanced up and down the corridor with all the alertness of a cat watching for a mouse, he continued: "You will notice I am not old in years, and possibly not ill-favored in contour of face. If lines of dissipation are at all apparent it is not the result of intoxicants, remember that; and yet, I have been dispatched to some extent. A fortune which has furnished me a life of luxury and ease is partially responsible for this. It has led me to dissipate—not in liquors, which I naturally abhor, but in love of woman, which is not a holy love such as you might expect. Woman has been my folly—my disgrace—my ruin. To the fruits of this unholy love I attribute my present position." "Many have followed in your footsteps," I said, by way of continuing the subject. "Too true," he muttered, sadly and reminiscently, "only by different routes. Some lead downward more weirdly and incongruously than others, and mine is one. But—listen. Adelaide Lamphere was beautiful in form and feature—and well-modeled form and feature I always admired. I did not love her, for pure love is out of the question with a rouse which, however humiliating, I professed to be; but I was fascinated, and this fascination placed her at the head of the list of those I admired. If innocence is a fault, and trust a folly, then she was guilty of both, and I took advantage of each. She became my abject slave, trusted me implicitly. A trust which was depicted in her large blue eyes—eyes that were calm and soft and trustful. "But this rainbow-tinted happiness could not last. There were other sylph-like maidens I adored—others whose charms purloined a portion of my time. And so the awakening came. It was in the form of a rival with temperamental moods, voluptuous form and dashing ways. This infidelity on my part thrilled Adelade like an electric shock. She was stunned at first and gazed at me with eyes in which were depicted wonderment and doubt. Then, as the truth dawned upon her, she childed—wept—implored and begged me to desist. I only hugged at her tears and mocked at her despair. Perceiving this double duplicity on my part, my falsity of heart, the inward rottenness of my soul, the magic spell was broken, and her whole nature revolted and underwent a change. She drew back with soiled lips, gave me one despairing look, and then left me to pursue my own course. "But she did not forget—O heaven! she did not forget. Sealed lips set in a determination for revenge are more dangerous than paroxysms of rage, or over-abundance of speech. I could have withstood both better than the unprecedented method she took to satisfy her unrequited love. Perverted her nature became—metamorphosed—turned into insatiable hate. No outward sign was indicative of this—no word to that effect once dropped from her lips; but the cold gleam and steadfast look of her eyes which were ever upon me when an opportunity offered, was proof of this, and impressed me more forcibly than language could speak. She followed me about, often came upon me in unexpected places and looked into my eyes. Simply gazed with an icy gleam and yet with no sign of recognition in the stare. Neither did she attempt to speak or would she answer if spoken to. In brilliant ballrooms surrounded by festive crowds, at tete-a-tete in roof-garden or abandon saloon, on the street, at home or abroad, this woman would suddenly appear to rivet her eyes upon me with frigid, stony stare. Not once did she attempt to interfere with my plans. Neither did she conduct herself reprehensibly or in a way open to general criticism or complaint. Dressed in the deepest of black, her features half-hidden in a vell of the same somber hue, her apparition-like form would rise up, and after a look—a dagger's gleam from the cold blue eyes—would gradually drift out of sight. "At first this method of following me about seemed unique and more amused than caused me pain. To be haunted by a pretty blonde, especially ly one with forget-me-not blue eyes and pink skin, was more of an exquisite pleasure than the torture it afterward became. I rather enjoyed the novelty of the situation. I would point her out to my companions as 'The Haunting Shadow,' 'The Beautiful Woman in Black,' 'My Girl with the Staring Blue Eyes,' and dub her with other terms appropriate to the case. Many a joke was cracked at her expense. In these I joined in the laugh with the rest. A heartless laugh, I will admit, and which must have wounded her full sore. If so she did not manifest it by outward sign or the slightest discernible change of the eye. They only continued to gaze at me, and—nothing more. "But all that is novelty has a limit, and then the irksomeness of it begins. Those haunting eyes began to tantalize and mock me in my delirium of fancied bliss. The charm of the novelty then became abhorrent and I was no longer jubilant or filled with enthusiasm when they appeared. This feeling grew upon me slowly, of course, but it grew, and I was doomed to suffer the results. I became irritable and nervous and ill at ease. There was a falling off of my companions, especially those butterfly companions in the social whirl, who made it plain they did not fancy a suitor followed by a 'shape.' From irritability I turned to rage and cursed this author of my despair; but the curses were as useless as my taunts or the hollow mockery of my former laugh. She heeded them not. Neither did they change one lineament of her face, or add a new flash or gleam to the cold steel-blue of her eyes. All the love once seen in those tender, lovable orbs had disappeared. They now shone like a winter's sky, icy as I have said, and I might add, as irpenetrably clear. They became unendurable -maddening -devilish. "Finally I fled. I would escape this Nemesis who was slowly but surely dragging me down. Flight would relieve the strain which those haunting blue eyes were bringing upon me. It was no use. Wherever I fled, she followed. No disguise was intricate enough to obscure my path. She was ever present, though never to chide or upbraid; only to face me under the most trying conditions, and—look. It was the same everywhere. If I reveled with dauseus or grisette, she was present. If I attended the theater, she was there. If I visited some bar to drown my troubles in the cup, she would manage to seek a position to give me one withering glance. As a final resort I applied to the police. They could do nothing. She had not violated a single clause in the law. I pronounced her insane and entered a complaint to that effect. In this I also failed. Before an examining board of physicians she was pronounced as sane—more sane than I. What was I to do? So indelibly photographed upon my brain did her eyes become, that they began haunting me in the dark, and in the obscurity of my room when I was alone. They glared at me from the foot of the bed, from the papered walls, from the ceiling overhead. It was horrible—horrible. Murder entered into my heart. Was I to blame? Who would not kill that which is sapping the life out of him? I was insane; or that is, I soon would be under the continued strain and knew that some crime—the killing of this girl, would be the result. "Therefore to escape the inevitable I entered here. It was easy to pave the way, to prove that I was insane, to show that murder was in my heart. You know how it is—all men are insane; only in some the insanity is more pronounced. That is all the difference. Certain subjects and conditions excite us though we are rational upon all other points. I rave over an eye; an eye that has been working the horrid canker of insanity into my soul. But here I will escape." "Yes," he almost cried in savage glee, "here I will escape those eyes which are for me a hell upon earth. She dare not enter where shrieks, and horrid curses, and maniacal ravings fall upon the ear. Her revenge must end with death, and insanity being worse than death, I know that I am safe." He started back, clutched his head with frenzled hands, and glared through the grates in the door. I turned and followed his gaze. Standing beside the door was a woman in black, calmly regarding him with cold, unfeeling, but never-to-be-forgotten, immentable blue eyes. WIGHIT/ SEAR:HLION. Two Paris The beautiful creation at the left in white satin. It is really very simple, but all the trimming consists of beautiful shade of violet than the tulle, and a around the neck, which is fastened in monds. The girdle and the narrow band a panne; the little chemisette or tucke. It the other gown is of pale green finished at the bottom with two box-pl the upper one is run a gold ribbon. A lace, finished at the top by a band of p of guipure with crenellated edge. The Japanese corsage is made and is of chine silk Two Paris Models The beautiful creation at the left is of figured violet tulle, made up over white satin. It is really very simple, but therein is its elegance. All the trimming consists of beautiful applique gulpure, colored a deeper shade of violet than the tulle, and a drapery of pane of the same shade around the neck, which is fastened in front with a magnificent clasp of diamonds. The girdle and the narrow band at the bottom of the skirt are of this panne; the little chemisette or tucke; is of white mousseline de sole and lace. panicle, the little cheuvette of tucke, is of white mousseme the sole and face. The other gown is of pale green satin. The long, half-empire skirt is finished at the bottom with two box-plaited flounces, and under the plats of the upper one is run a gold ribbon. Above these is a wide puff of brussels lace, finished at the top by a band of pink roses and at the bottom by a band of gulpure with crenellated edge. The Japanese corsage is made and trimmed in the same way. The girdle is of chine silk Easy Method of Dyeing Finery That Has Faded This, the fag end of the season, is the time when white dresses or suits of serge, henrietta and panama present, from frequent cleanings, a yellowed and woe-begone appearance which, if not remedied, consigns them forthwith to the "give-away" pile. The remedy lies in dyeing them, and the following recipe will be found very satisfactory: To one tube of oil paint add enough gasoline to dissolve it completely. The best way to obtain this result is to squeeze the paint into a small bottle partly filled with gasoline; let it dissolve and shake it well. Then into the basin pour enough gasoline to cover entirely the article to be dyed. Add to this enough of the mixture in the bottle to color it the desired tint—more for darker shades, less for lighter. Dip the article repeatedly, allowing it to dry each time until the required tint is obtained. To select the right colored paint is an important item. For pinks and reds, carmine is best, for blues marieue blue is most satisfactory, and burnt sepia produces a beautiful woody brown. Not only for woolen and mixed goods is this recipe practicable. Laces, net waistls, hose, canvas shoes and lace hats can all be created by the same method. Thus at very small outlay an entire costume, shoes, hose, suit, hat and waist, can be transformed from dingy white to some dark shade. Golden yellow is one of the new hues. For young girls a nun-like simplicity is encouraged, both in material and style. There is an exquisite shimmering gold-colored messaline for a gown, and to match it are dainty little cloth of gold slippers. In the Brussels mesh there is a rich gold net for gowns, and laces for flouncing have the design and edging worked in gold thread. Women's black cheviot walking suits have full plaited skirts and double-breasted half-fitting coats with side pockets. Ermine and white fox will be much used for evening and for carriage wear on the cold days of the coming season, no furs outranking them in this. The new yellow known as topaz is very fashionable, and is very effective in creme de chine. The best gown makers are much at variance over the wide sleeve; several houses are still using it on several of their models. A handsome tailored costume made for an autumn bride is of soft clothn. The skirt fits closely over the hips and trails a little! A particularly lovely dance frock for a young girl was of mauve silk muslin trimmed with silver pompadour embroidery. of figured violet tulle; made up over but therein is its elegance: fine applique guipure, colored a deeper drapery of panne of the same shade front with a magnificent clasp of dia- but the bottom of the skirt are of this of white mousseline de soie and lace. satin. The long, half-empire skirt is aited flounces, and under the plaits of above these is a wide puff of brussels ink roses and at the bottom by a band trimmed in the same way. The girdle Various Devices Used for Preservation of Beauty Madame Vestris, the celebrated French beauty, slept every night with her face plastered in a paste made of milk, oxide of zinc and corn starch, in order to drive back the wrinkles and keep her complexion fresh and fair. During the reign of Empress Eugenie, bathing in milk was practiced by every fashionable beauty who could afford the luxury. This custom was carried to such an extent that there became a great scarcity of milk for domestic purposes until at length the police discovered that the venders were in the habit of buying back the milk which had been used in the bath and selling it over again to their tea and coffee drinking customers. Lola Montez said the secret of preserving beauty lay in three simple things, temperance, exercise and cleanliness. A small round bath tub. Invented for the use of Marie Antoinette still bears her name. The Dauphinesse used in her baths a decoction of wild thyme and marjoram, to which was added sea salt. Anne Boleyn was the first of the English queens to indulge in the luxury of bathing and cleanliness as we know it, and ended the thousand years without baths, which constitutes one of the misfortunes of the middle age. Mme. de la Valliere retained the beauty of her golden hair by washing it in rum, into which was put an infusion of bitter apples (colocynthis). CHILD'S TWEED COAT. — More Stripes. The return of stripes in the choicest fabrics prepared for winter was a surprise to many who had looked for a reign of plain materials after the long use of checked, plaided and striped ones. Even the briadcloths are outcrossed by lines or checks or plaids, and from them through the whole range of fine weaves to chiffon and other transparent textured striped effects are apparent. Official Knights & OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF 16 Richard Clark, 420 N TABOR MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kaa Miss Jennie Alexander, G. Q. M. 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kansas TENTS. Queen Mothers. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St, Leavenworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, P. Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (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, 836 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Tues. (A) 9 Mrs. Julia Martin, 815 E. 11th, Topeka, Kansas. 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Martha James, 313 W. 11th, Pittsburg, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, Box 405, Weir City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Mae Wilson, 1715 Clark Persons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masier, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2208 N. 30th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 20 Mrs. S. Montague, 403 Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kan. 24 Mrs. Angie Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 23 Mrs. Anna Ray, 1412 Clark, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lula Wood, 613 N. 4th Leavenworth, Kan. 30 Mrs. Eliza Scott, 3rd and South, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 32 Mrs. Salma Ester, 334 Rear Dakota St., Butte, Mont. 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 Frl. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 808 Vermont, Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 63 Mrs. Lille Robinnett, 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. 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 2302 N. 25th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 9th, Lin- coln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 900 N. West- ern, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1278, Weir City, Kan. 1-8 Fri. Kernan & Co., 102 E. Douglas Pone 8 J. G. Burdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 4 A. M. Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 908 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. 25 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 60 W. Osteen, 1214 Lane, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. 72 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 10th, Lincoln, Nebr. --- 333 TABERNACLES TEMPLES. Chief Mentors 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 N. 12th Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. TENTS. 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walker, Kansas City, Kan. 1-3 Sat. Mon. 5 Lottie Hill, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 Sos. Walnut, Ioi Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 21th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 811 Everett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Mary Brown, 325 Miss, Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 1 Saddle 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, Salma, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Flah, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Wills, 2103 Grand, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 21 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kas sas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherma Leavenworth, Kan., 2 Sat. 23 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawnus (A) Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 23 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1818 N. Maternity Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle will next meet in Atchison, Kansas, on the 2rd 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. Dstrict Grand Lodge, No. 17, Kansas G. U. O. O. F. GRAND OFFICERS 1907-8. Thos. Glover, District Grand Master, 704 N. Market St., Wichita, Kan. Chas. A. Finney, Deputy Grand Master Ther Cherokee, Kan. P. H. Bassett, District Grand Secretary, Chetopa, Kan. W. W. Shobe, District Grand Treasurer, 338 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan. H. Kindell, District Grand Director, P. Scott, Kan. NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. District Grand Lodge No. 17 will meet in Kansas City, Kansas, in July, 1908 In The Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 102 E. Douglas Pone 87 Johnston's Restaurant 839 North Main Street Meals 15c to 25cts. Hot or Cold Lunch -At All Hours- ICE CREAM SODA POP always on ice SUNDAY DINNERS 20c and 25c. CUSTOM GRINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FIED STORNICK BROOK PROPS. M. Main St. Photos (c)