Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Is Kansas For Taft? NINETH YEAR. KS KANSAS FOR TAFT FOR PRESIDENT Ever since we read in the daily press that Senator Chester I. Long from Kansas, made a visit to Secretary W. M. Taft and guaranteed to the ambitious secretary the support of the people of Kansas for the high office of president of the United States to succeed Secretary Taft's god-father, President Roosevelt, the editor of the Searchlight has made a careful and impartial canvass of the men whom he has come in contact with and as do their choice for president. After several weeks of canvass we are now satisfied beyond the shadow of a doubt that the people of Kansas, taking the poll so far made in Sedgwick county as a criterion, ARE NOT in favor of Taft for president. Senator Long simply made an error in promising the support of the people of Kansas for any man for president in the absence of any authentic authority to do so. A few politicians who wish to tickle the president under the chin on the Taft proposition in order to further some political scheme in the accomplishment of which the president, Mr. Roosevelt, comes handy, wishes to make believe that everything and everybody is "for Taft." These same men know that even though the will of the people should not be adhered to, and Mr. Taft should by some of the tricks anciently used in politics, secure the Republican nomination, they know we say, that it will simply mean that the next president of the United States will be a Democrat. In refusing to take kindly to the Roosevelt third term idea the people also mean that they want entirely new blood in the president's chair during the next four years beginning March 4th, 1909. The nomination of Mr. Taft will simply mean a continuation of "the blik stick." The people of Kansas, in common with the people of other states and territories have been unusually kind and generous to our president and they now are of the opinion that he should feel very well honored and not attempt to perpetuate himself and his interests and ideas in the president's office of this nation—and the people of Kansas further believe that a change will do good and they want that change—the pledging of Senator Long to the contrary notwithstanding. There was a time in the history of politics when one or two men could very safely "pledge the people" and that pledge could be counted as safe but a study of some of the recent results in American politics show plainly that the day of the "political boss" is at an end. In no state in the Union is that determination of the people to vote their own sentiments been so vividly shown as has been the case in Kansas in the past few years—and the fact of the matter is that sentiment is stronger today than ever before—and we presume for that reason we have heard unlimited criticisms from men of the alleged act of Senator Long in purporting to "pledge" the people of Kansas to any man for president without first getting that the sense of the people. In Kansas, at least, it will be of untold interest to the Republican party to support some man for president of the National Republican party for president whose name on the official ballot will add strength to the ticket, both state and national, and this the nameo f Mr. Secretary Taft will not do. It is an old chestnut now and every schoolboy is "onto the game" which Secretary Taft and President Roosevelt are playing, and as the immortal Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some time, some of the people all the time, BUT YOU CANT FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME". The people of Kansas have not decided whom their choice is for president, but enough is known to warrant the statement that it is not for Taft. If Secretary Taft is not politically "big enough" to get the nomination and be elected president on his own merits, the American people, and that, part of them residing in Kansas at least, are broad enough not to favor his twin ambition. What the people demand is a man of the hour with ideas of his own and not some figure head who is pledged to carry out the ideas of someone else. Taft is a Roosevelt man, and Roosevelt is a Taft man, and that spells it all. With Taft as president, Roosevelt will be the unlimited dictator—just as with Taft as Secretary, Roosevelt is the dictator. Under the constitution of the United States this republic is only to have one president serving at one time—but under the Taft-Roosevelt "political trust combination" we are to have two presidents at once. The people of Kansas have proved more than once their ability to do their own thinking and before this game is over it is very likely that they will show this fact again. Kansas is far from being for Taft for president. SPECIAL SESSION CALLED. Governor Edward W. Hoch has called a special session of the Kansas legislature to convene on Thursday, January 16th. Primarily the session is called to enact a primary election law, depositors guaranty law, to amend the present tax law, and to pass such other measures as may be deemed needed. It remains to be seen just what will hap- COLORED FIREMEN WIN. First Water for No. 11.—Negro Firemen Win in Contest. Fire in a rooming house at 116 Independence avenue, Kansas City, Mo., Friday morning, January 2nd, at 2:45 o'clock, gave the rival fire fighting companies of the city the closest race in history for the honor of throwing the first stream of water in the year 1908. From headquarters station at Eleventh and Central streets hose companies No. 2 and No. 3 raced on Eleventh street to Walnut, on Walnut to Independence avenue, and on to the blaze, with oN. 2 a length i n the lead. Tom Gorman, driver of No. 2's wagon was bareheaded, and other members of both companies dressed as they rode. Half a block from the fire, Thomas Dowd, plugman for No. 2 company, crouched low on the footboard for a spring to the water plug. As he jumped he slipped an rolled. But he rolled in the direction of the plug, and, landing right end up, coupled 250 feet of hose before the o. 3 company's wagon arrived. But the men from No. 2 were thirty seconds too late. A stream from the hose of No. 11 was already being played upon the fire under the directions of Assistant Chief Alex Henderson, who, with his driver, after a hair-raising ride, had arrived upon the scene just as No. 2 pulled in. To the company of Negroes goes the honor of the first stream of water thrown in 1908. Hose company No. 11 is located at Independence and Tracy avenue. This is the second time that this company has been in at the first fire on a new year. The men of No. 11, will celebrate their victory. GREAT IS FORAKER. Joseph Benson Foraker may or may not be the next President of the United States. Be that as it may, he will go down in history alongside the immortals contributed by Ameriac to that galaxy that were not born to die. Orator, statesman, soldier and patriot, he is greater than his party, grander than his country; the soul of honor; the mind of Napoleon, with the heart of Lincoln; the faith of John Brown, the zeal of Garrison, and the wisdom of Wendell Phillips. The Republican party to him owes more than it is able to pay; perhaps it will be willing to do what in its power lies. Ohio loves and honors him, and calls him prince among her sons. The nation has come to know him as a patriot in whom there are both zeal and courage. This record is rich enough, but the recent months have revealed him in another light, and everywhere men are rising to say: "We never knew him before." And so they did not. The great crowd of loyal Negro Republicans in the West and North have testified that, while they will support whoseover their party names to run the race set before us, they did neither halt nor doubt, if Foraker were chosen for the contest. They love him, honor him, and follow him. A delight they find in him, and are not afraid to name him their choice. It is well that this is so, for who has talked about Liberty, and championed Freedom as he has done? Who? There is not even an echo to the query. Foraker—why not crown him with the prize he has won by a life of unbroken patriotism, whether in war or in peace? Why not?—Advocate, Charleston, W. Va. The Nation of Shopkeepers Napoleon must have been right after all. We are a nation of shopkeepers. There is nothing in the shop we are not ready to sell at a price, says the London Saturday Review. We would no doubt sell the Great Seal if we could get a good enough offer from Mr. Pierpont Morgan. Shakeswa fefolls, first editions of Walton, the portraits of Reynolds, of Romney—these and any other national heirlooms, only given a fat enough offer, we are happy to part with to any foreign nation that has the taste and money to buy them. We can put them up as coolly as Charles Surface did his forbears. By Lulie Wells Smith She came every evening and they always greeted her with smiles, and threw more money to her than the others. Not that the piano she followed played any better than the rest, for its strains were discordant, and the old man who turned it was far from a thing of beauty. But she, slight of stature, with a roundness at bosom, and eyes big and black, and hair that hung in long, shiny braids from beneath a little kerchief she wore, made one think of Italy and sunny skies, and soft scented fields far away. Even her worn dress had a graceful limpness about it, as it fluttered with every motion of her lithe figure, when she would keep time to the music in the very poetry of motion, that was all Italian, and the shabbiness about her throat gave charming glimpses of creamy undulations, here and there a tawdry jewel flashing against the smooth skin. At one of the big houses set back in a large plot of green she always lingered longest, hot for the pennies they threw, but because in the gay party stated on the massive brown-stone steps there was one who smiled more sweetly upon her than all the rest. of zat word?" the glowed deeper, child to her bree meanin' like zee baby," and there voice. "Only zat?" the lips quivered a "Oh, I see!" the quick intuitiveness, now what it ee know; Reeta waver to zay zat want to know, a showing two rows "Yes, zat ees lowering her hearing blushes and forwaerness. "Oh, Reeta ee got beau!" The finger at the girl to her discover baby till it criees got beau!" fully. "But suppose in beggie house Rita asked, with head was up no died out of her "Oh, zat make other woman sl He was wonderfully good looking in her eyes, with a cleanness of face she was not accustomed to see in men of her face, and hair and eyes that reminded her of the pictures she saw in the church where she went to say her prayers. When he would throw pennies at her like so much sand from the street, he would smile ever so sweetly, and sometimes when she would come near enough to take them from him in her own chubby brown hands, he would call her "Little Italy," and the caressing cadence in his voice thrilled her strangely. Once he called her "sweetheart;" she had never heard the word before, and she did not know the meaning of it, but it made her tremble very much, and the color came and went in her face. All that night and the next day she pondered over the word, but it was still strange to her. She had no one to ask, for her father spoke only his own language, even if she had not felt a vague shame to ask him—and among the women in her street few knew more English than she did herself. At last one day she heard the word from a woman who sat on the doorstep next to the house in which she lived. With a little cry of surprise, Rita—that was the name of the girl who followed the piano—dropped her work as she was sitting in her own door jammed close beside the one where the woman sat holding her baby, and stood over her. "What ees zat you call ze baby?" she asked, looking down on the mother and child with flushed face, and eyes large and liquid. "What you mean? I call a menny names—" "Ah, but zat one you just now zay," the girl interrupted with an impatient gesture—"zat one what soun' soorf and loffly, like a musk? zay it some more," she coaxed. "Oh, you mean a ze word my husband' zay, an' I learn frum heem, an' call a babepe, like zees?" the woman and bending over her baby all the time. "Ah, yes! zat ze it! The time was radiant. "But ze meanin', what ees ze meanin'?" she asked stammeringly. "Oh, you want to know ze meanin'" DARING OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Many Risks Made by the Man Who Takes Pictures. A man who can stand or sit on the flange of a steel beam, not so wide as the sole of your shoe and 600 feet above a roaring granite paved city street, there coolly to take successful pictures of the top of the city far below him, must be possessed of three qualifications and each of the first water. He must have judgment, pa- of zat word?" the woman's dark eyes glowed deeper, and she folded the child to her breast. "I tella you, it meanin' like zees what I feel for my baby," and there was rapture in her voice. "Only zat?" the girl asked, and her lips quivered a little. "Oh, I see!" the woman cried with the quick intuitiveness of her race. "I zee now, what it ees zat Reeta want to know; Reeta want to know eez it like lover to zay zat word, zat what Reeta want to know, ain't it?" she queried, showing two rows of white teeth. "Yes, zat ees it," the girl allowed, lowering her head to hide the increasing blushes and swaying herself backward and forward in pretty bashfulness. "Oh, Reeta ees got beau! Reeta ees got beau!" The woman poked her forefinger at the girl teasingly, giving vent to her discovery by squeezing the baby till it cried feebly. "Oh, Reeta ees got beau!" she repeated gleefully. "But suppose he ees reech, an' lief in beeg house all gran' an lofly?" Rita asked, without denying, and her head was up now and the color had died out of her face. "Oh, zat make no difference." The other woman shook her head in wonderful matronly wisdom. "Eef he call Reeta zat name he lof her all a-same, an marry her zome day an' take her to ze' beeg house where she be a gran' lady an wear jewels an' silks, an' be loty all ze time." The baby gave an outey of alarm as it was nearly toppled off the mother's lap, who, snatching it closer in her arms, began smothering it in kisses to make amends. So it was that Rita was filled with a strange, delicious dream, thrilling her with a joy that made life some new existence. That night as she lay awake, through the deep shadows in her little room rose bright visions, such as the woman with the baby at her breast had intimated. There was the big house with the massive steps leading into it, and inside, where she had stolen glimpses of wonderful sights through the gauzy curtains at the great windows, she fancied herself standing in the midst, decked in shimmering silks and sparkling jewels. With heart beating louder and blood surging through her veins, she fancied him beside her, his laughing blue eyes bent upon her, his soft caressing voice repeating the word that had put all these dreams in her head. All next day she was thrilled with delicious ecstasy. Ah, but the perversity of things—her father was too ill to go on his rounds that evening, and the little piano sat in its dark corner alone, and Rita pouted on the door-step. The next night he could not go, and the next; then she grew desperate. She would go alone. It was after dark when she left the Italian quarter and began to wander through the streets she was accustomed to follow with her father, until at last she came to where there was a spaciousness that made her breathe freer. A few more squares, and the big, white houses began to loom up in front of her. She was in front of the one now, and with a trembling in her limbs she stopped in front of the tall, massive steps looking into the great, brightly lighted windows. There was no one on the steps, as it was past the time when they would watch for the street-plano, so creeping closer in the dark grass, she stood beneath the windows where the fragrant fidence and courage, these three and one may add without slighting the other two, the greatest of these is courage. The eager eye of the camera goes everywhere nowadays and the man who makes picture getting his business adopts no peaceful, unexciting pursuit. If he is under contract to a great newspaper or magazine he may be called upon to secure a picture of anything, from a flashlight in the black depths of a metropolitan sewer to a portrait of the fairest white slave NO.43 vines fluttered in the evening breeze. Suddenly there floated up upon her ear low strains of a waltz; somebody was playing close to the window beneath which she was standing. Ah! they could have music whether her father came or not, she thought with a pang of jealousy. The rough stones projected temptingly through the thick masses of foliage, and stopping upon one she caught hold of the balustrade above and pulled herself in reach of the window. A beautiful picture met her eyes, such as she had seen only in the theater, with the same soft lights, and furniture all white and gold. There was a lady playing the piano she had heard, dressed in shimmering silk and sparkling jewels, with him beside her, just as the woman with the baby in her arms had pictured, only Rita had been in the place of the lady, and at the thought of that her heart beat faster, and when the music stopped a little ear was pressed closer among the vines to hear what he was saying. But the language was strange, and she did not understand until—Oh God! from his lips floated out upon the quiet evening air one word that made the listener's heart turn to stone, as with whitened face and hands clutching the cold balustrade, she heard the word that had brought her life's happiness and its doom. With a low cry the little italian's hands loosened their grasp upon the stone and she fell with a thump upon the pavement below. --- When they picked her up they saw that she was quite dead. It was a slight fall, but she had struck her head against the edge of the stone step, and death had been instantaneous. No one seemed to recognize her until the young man came out of the house and remembered she was the girl who came every evening with an old man and a street-piano, and as he bent over the stark little figure stretched on the cold stone, a strange, vague idea caused a shade of regret to pass over his handsome face, and it was some time after they had carried her beyond, in the dark and silent street, that the old smile came back again. HAD WITNESSES IN PLENTY. Whole Troop Rallied to Defense of Beloved Captain. A story is told concerning a captain of cavalry in the old army days who was inclined to gaze too long upon the flowing bowl. He finally came to grief and was placed under arrest, charged with drunkenness. The judge advocate who was sent to conduct the court-martial was fond of the bluff old soldier, and in his heart hoped that he might be able to clear himself. On the day of the trial the two, defendant and prosecutor, were talking. "They have me at last," said the captain. "I do not see how I can clear myself." "Have you no witnesses?" asked the judge advocate. "None," replied the despondent officer. "Suppose we call your first sergeant and ask him." The first sergeant was duly called. "Have I any witnesses?" asked the captain. The old Irishman was quite certain that the captain did have witnesses. He was dismissed with orders to bring the witnesses equipped with side arms, to the captain's tent in a half hour. At the time appointed the sergeant stepped into the room, saluted, and reported: "Sor, the troop is ready to be sworn." Got 'Em Just the Same. The "buddy" is the latest political slang in England. He is described as one who seldom thinks nationally or imperially, but almost always provincially, if not parochially. Something resembling this has been seen over here. But the name applied is shorter, and begins with the first letter in the alphabet. In a Turkish harem. He may be asked to "get" a female grizzly nursing her whelps, in the mountain lair, to illustrate some naturalists's work, at one end of the year and, before the other end has come, he may snap a shutter on the lip of some smoking volcano's crater. When you see a striking or a startling picture of man or beast in some extraordinary place or pose, do you ever stop to think where the photographer was who made the negative or how he got there?—Technical World. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mail).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mail)......75 Three Months (By Mail).....50 All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wed- nesday to reach publication in the cur- rent issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will not be published in the current issue. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to an- other give both the ned and the old. 4th. No new name will be placed on our books unless the money accompa- nies the name. Write plain. 6th. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 W Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. "To Live and Let Live" is Our Motto. FOR GOVERNOR OF KANSAS, 1908. CHAS. L. DAVIDSON of Sedgwick County. THE KIND THAT COUNTS. We always appreciate words of encouragement, expressions of good will and wishes for our success, these have their rightful place in the construction of every human and in every business—but the REAL KIND of encouragement, etc., essential to the real wish for success, and, indeed, for success itself is financial encouragement. The man who comes up and pays his account to us, no matter how small that account, contributes more, and give more real encouragement to our success and progress than an hour of orgytion of some other man in simple words. While, as we say, we appreciate your good will by word of mouth—but it so happens that these words will not help pay any of the necessary bills incurred in publishing this paper. The man who lavishes words of "good wishes," etc., etc., on us, owes us, and makes no effort to pay us what he owes, leaves a serious doubt in our mind as to his sincerity. It seems to us that if he was sincere and knows he owes us he would show his wish for our success by paying what he owes—that is the "real" good wish. Then, again, the man who is so eager in his "words" of good will and is not a subscriber or in any way a supporter of our enterprise has very little weight with us, so far as the impression on us is concerned it would be better had he not spoken. In the language of the street we mildly say—"Talk is cheap—but it takes money to do real business." Save your words and let your money talk awhile—That counts. BOOM THE AUDITORIUM Everyone is agreed that Wichita is in need of a public auditorium that will be large enough to accommodate any public gathering that may wish to select Wichita as its place of meeting, and the colored people in common with other citizens have a right to and should be interested in such a building if it is to be made and maintained as a public place, i. e., open to the use of all the citizens. At this time several plans are being discussed for the acquisition of such a place and our people should take an interest in the proposition. A large convention auditorium will be a benefit to all the people of our city. We think that such a building should be built from public funds and maintained by the general public and made part of the holdings of the city. Such a building should be conducted under fixed regulation with no "illy whitisms" or "red tags" attached. It is of interest to Wichitans that our city have a large and commodious auditorium to arouse the full interest of all. A SCHOLARSHIP. The Booker T. Washington Club are contemplating a voting contest to give some young lady a scholarship at the Western University, Quindaro, Kan. Watch for the names in the Searchlight later, and vote for your choice. SOMETHING NEW Vol. 1, No. 1, of The Colored Woman's Magazine, published in Topeka, Kansas, found its way to our desk this week. It is a spicy, well-edited, plainly printed and wholesome magazine and is destined to fill a long felt want of our housewives. It is a credit to its name, The Colored Women, and should receive the patronage of every colored woman at least in Kansas. Its official staff is Mrs. C. M. Hughes, editor, and Mrs. Minnie Thomas, business manager. We welcome it and wish these enterprising ladies a successful voyage on the troublesome sea of journalism. We are in receipt of Vol. 1, No. 1, of the "Progressive American," published in Pittsburg, Pa., by our friend Chas. J. Walker. Mr. Walker is an old experience newspaper man and started his journalistic career as a partner with the editor of the Searchlight some fifteen years ago in establishing the Walker-Miller Advertising Agency in Kansas City, Mo., the first of its kind in the West. The people of Pittsburg are to be congratulated in securing so able, honest and straightforward a gentleman as Chas. J. Walker to launch a newspaper in their community. We predict for our friend Charley success and extend to him our heartfelt wish for a gigantic prosperity. FORAKER CLUB TO ORGANIZE. Mr. Robert Hodge and party of gentlemen have called a meeting for Monday night, January 12, at Young's Hall for the purpose of organizing a "Foraker For President Club," All gentlemen who favor Senator Foraker for president are invited as the accompanying letter will fully explain: Wichita, Kan., Jan. 7, 1908. Editor of the Searchlight. Dear Sir—Will you kindly announce through the columns of your valuable paper that a meeting is hereby called of the friends and supporters of Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio, for president of the United States to meet in Young's Hall on Monday night, January 12, to organize a "Foraker For President Club," the object of which club wil lbe to do all within its power to further the nomination and election of Senator Foraker for this office on the Republican ticket. The meeting will be called to order promptly at 8 p. m. Thanking you in advance, I beg to remain, for the race, ROBERT HODGE. Every colored man should avail himself of this opportunity and attend this meeting, and assist in making it a grand success. AN OVERSIGHT. By an oversight of the reportorial staff of the Searchlight, the visit of Mr. William Stamps and his mother, of Oatville, Kansas, to Wichita to attend at the sick-bed-side of Mrs. Louisa Gibbs was omitted in the last issue of the columns of the Searchlight. Mrs. Stamps is an aunt of Mrs. Gibbs, while Mr. Stamps is a cousin, and they did much to aid Mrs. Gibbs during their stay in our city. Both Mr. Stamps and his mother left Tuesday for their home in Oatville. A VERY SICK GIRL Miss aMittle Williams, said to be from Chickasha, I. T., was taken to the hospital Wednesday afternoon from the home of Mrs. M. Stewart, 541 N. Water, where she has been rooming. She is reported to us as being very sick. GUARANTEE DEPOSITS IN BANKS. One of the wholesome features of the present financial flurry is the demand which is arising from every quarter of the country for a guarantee of the deposits made in banks. This is as it should be, and no one will reap a greater benefit from such a law than the bankers themselves as it will give a security and confidence to all banks which is much needed in this century and time. Under the present regime a man takes a bag of money to a bank and deposits there; he has no assurance that he will ever his "chang" again. The American people have been fortunate that they have had, as a rule, honest men engaged in the banking business which has been the only guarantee given. Give the people the guarantee law. The Delmonica restaurant conducted by Miss Rhoda Frazier at 513 N. Main, closed their doors Wednesday on account of the continued ill health of Miss Frazier. During her management of the restaurant Miss Frazier made quite a success, and many friends. THE WICHITA BRANCHJON. LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to GO1 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Make the editor of the Searchlight smile by coming up and paying that little subscription bill which you owe. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Madison have purchased lots on Sherwood avenue, and have had a house moved on it and are remodelling the house and will soon have a home of their own. This is what we like to see our people do. Buy a home and stop paying rent. The B. T. W. met this week at the pleasant home of Mrs. T. Hackley, 1520 North Sherod avenue. After the general routine of business an interesting program was rendered. After an interesting and well attended meeting they adjourned. And a most delightful four-course luncheon was served. Next week, Mrs. Milton Jones and Mrs. James will entertain at the resident of Mrs. James in the twelve hundredth block on oNrth Main street. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Gaines for supper Wednesday evening. Everything was fine. The W. T. Vernon Club met on December 2nd with Mrs. B. Hackett, After calling the meeting to order the committee on finance brought in the report of the proceeds from the bazaar, which was held in Young's Hall on December 26, 1907. The club made several donations among the sick of the city and also to the Sojourners True Mission Circle of the Tabernacle Baptist church. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Hockett and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Mary Moore of Fifteenth and Mosley. Fred Ratley, employed at the Searchlight office met with the misfortune of smashing his hand on the job press last Saturday. He is getting alright, again. Henry Braden is in Wichita again after spending a glorious holiday with his mother in Enid, Oklahoma. Mr. William Gosby, who has been in Wichita for the past few days, returned to his home in Manhattan this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Underwood and daughter were the guests of the Misses Bakers for dinner, January 6th, in honor of their sister of Lawrence, Kan. A very pleasant time was had. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Monroe entertained Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock dinner. Covers were laid for Messrs. and Mesdames Henry Johnson of Nevada, Mo., John Tidwell, of Ft. Scott, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Porter, Mrs. Bertha Fletcher and Mr. and Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Walls. Mr and Mrs. S. Hackley entertained Sunday evening at 5 o'clock dinner. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. 8. Kennedy, Mrs. C. Barker, Mrs. B. Fletcher, Miss Emma Clark and Miss Myrtle Flemings. Mrs. Thos. Glover was a welcomed visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller Sunday. Come again. Mrs. Emma McCune is expected home soon from Kansas City, Mo., where she has been visiting her daughter. Rev. H. I. Jones, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church left Wednesday for Pratt where he will assist Rev. Wm. Turner in a series of meetings in Pratt. James J. Olden, vice-president and manager of the Boley Ice, Ice Cream & Refrigerating Co., of Boley, Okla. left Wednesday on a business trip in the interest of his company. Miss Lizzie Underwood has been ill for three or four days but is better now and gaining strength. Send your news to the Searchlight- right now. Princess Chapter No. 12 held a very pleasant meeting Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. H. C. Underwood and daughter were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer R. Johnson of 1602 Jeanette avenue, New eYar day. A fine time was had. Come again. Mr. Essex Allen of St. Joe, Mo., brother-in-law of S. W. Jones, was in the city Tuesday en route to New Mexico. Mr. Henry Braden has returned from Enid, Okla., where he has been visiting his mother. Miss Ethel Crouch, who has been visiting relatives in Missouri, is at home again. Miss Alice Thompson has been quite ill for the past week. Rev. M. Wooten of Ft. Scott, was in the city Tuesday. The Ladies of the G. L. A. Club met on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. J. L. Harper. A JOYFUL MEETING. A joyful meeting was witnessed in this city last week when Square Sampson of Smithville, Ky., came to Wichita last week to visit his sister, Mrs. Walter Gibbs, who is very ill at her home, 219 W. 8th St. Mr. Sampson and Mrs. Gibbs, though brother and sister, had not seen each other for more than 35 years, and one did not know the other at sight. It was indeed a very pleasant meeting and one long to be remembered by the two. Mr. Sampson came in response to a telegram telling of the serious illness of his sister, Mrs. Gibbs, and it was his first trip to the West. After spending several days at the bedside of his sister he left Monday for his home in Kentucky. Robt. Davis, of Kingman, Kansas, came up Tuesday to spend a few days attending to business affairs and visiting among friends. He paid a visit to Arkansas Valley Lodge No. 21, the first which he has attended for seven years. He is well. He left Thursday for Kingman. Mt. Hope Tabernacle is progressing nicely under the leadership of Dtr. Mary Goss we held an itineresting meeting Friday although the day was very muddy and rainy. There was a good number in attendance. We are expecting a visit from our Chief Grand Mentor. A good many Daughters showed their respect and esteem for their High Preceptress, Dtr. Goss, by giving a Christmas present which she appreciated very much as it shows that she has been remembered by them. She wishes to thank those Daughters for their kind remembrance of her. Rev. J. H. Van Leu left Friday for his field of labor as State Missionary. Miss Mamie Richardson returned Tuesday from Kansas City, where she spent the holidays visiting with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. John R. Richardson. Miss Richardson returned prepared to continue her work of teaching music, and wishes the cooperation of parents and children in making the present year a grand one in the art of music. Rev. and Mrs. James Tipps entertained at dinner Xmas day, December 25. Mrs. Hattie Alexander, Misses Rosie and Marie Dunn and little Albertine Alexander. Everything nice that the market could afford was served. Each guest departed, vowing themselves well pleased. Rev. and Mrs. Tipps entertained, January 2, at their resident, an exchange party. Some very valuable and costly presents were exchanged by the attending guests. Ice cream, cake, nuts, candy and fruits were served. All reported an extra good time. Each departed at a late hour, declaring their host and hostess idael entertainers. Those present: Misses Beedie Jackson, Heilen McAfee, Mary McAfee, Rosie Dunn, Bertie Alexander, Marie Dunn, and Hazel Slaughter, Mr. J. D. Reed, Mr. A. Monon, Mr. Cunningham, Clay Mitchell, Glenn White, George Patton, Albert Minnewether, and Mr. Speer. Prescriptions Filled with Care . . . Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. 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Red Front RACKET The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes We have just received a large invoice of Men's, Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies' and Miss' Fine Shoes, Oxfords and Slippers all styles and kinds. AT WHOLESALE PRICES Tapp & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N. Ma TRY US For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO. HALL FOR RENT YOUNG'S HALL, 601 N. Main st is open for engagements for Parties Dances, Socials, Supp pers etc, etc, etc. Enquire of G. H. Young, 601 N. Main St. Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Re liable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER & MONS, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market A. B. WEBBER Druggist Free Delivery. We will call for and Deiver Your Prescriptions 811 N. Main St. New Phone 620 STORAGE We have a nice, dry, san itary Storage Room..... Goods stored with us is safe. Rates the lowest MILLER STORAGE COMPANY 634 North Water St. Coulter & Furgerson's Barber Shop 349 N. Main Everything First-Class Shave 10c. Hair Cut25c. Your Patronage Solicited Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Office Hours 9 to 11 a.m. Residence 2 to 3 p.m. 703 N. Main St 7 to 8 p.m. OFFICE 601 N. MAIN ST BUY LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner Of 3rd & Main Job Printing We have installed a new line of JOB TYPE FACES and we would be pleased to use them on a job for you. Good Work--Low Prices to all 634 North Water St. WICHITA, KANSAS The Forty-Six Stars. Some question has been raised as to the proper rearrangement of the stars in the flag, in view of the fact of the admission of Oklahoma as the forty-sixth state. The new star does not take its place officially in the great constellation till the fourth of July next, but its place was fixed some time ago by a joint board of the army and navy, of which Admiral Dewey was chairman. Its report has been approved by the secretary of war and of the navy, and also by the president. The 45 stars now in the flag are arranged in six rows, the first, third and fifth having eight stars, and the second, fourth and sixth having seven each. Under the new arrangement, says the Buffalo Commercial, which was effected withoutmaterially altering the general scheme, the first, third, fourth and sixth rows will have eight stars, and the second and fifth rows seven stars each. Thus Old Glory will look more imposing and beautiful than ever. And there is still room for more stars, when the time comes. Dr. Thomas fears that some villain just escaped from a melodrama will buy up all the dirigible balloons in the world and then with 15 cents' worth of dynamite will hover over the cities and extract tribute from them, compelling them to loosen up good and plenty. That would be fine and hairraising reading to get out of a dime dream book, but the man who started out to do the deed might find a few obstacles in his way. The only purpose of getting money these days is to have some place to spend it unhampered. In the days of the pirates of old there were plenty of opportunities for a seafaring person to go pirating on other shores and come home with chests of gold which he could claim to have won in trade, but now it is different. The entire world is getting to be one vast village and the robber bold who combines light and ornamental blowing up of cities as a side line along with the sport of ballooning would find the whole world in conspiracy against him. Some time when he alighted for a drink of water some one would playfully stick a penknife into his balloon and then his dream of empire would be over. It was not because her husband wanted soup three times a day that the woman applied for a divorce. That was the least of her troubles. Caterfig to a soup-loving man is about as easy as anything in married life. The woman who is a skillful mixer can keep the pot on all the time and when she sees her husband coming a block away she can light a fire and greet him with a warm plate of soup. A progressive woman might even have a pipe line from the kitchen to the table with a faucet over her husband's plate so there would be no irritating delays. No, furnishing soup was the least of the troubles of the woman who got the divorce. It was when her husband followed her 'into the kitchen, telling her how to make bread, and into the bedroom to criticise her bedmaking that she rebelled after 21 years. Who can blame her? asks the Chicago Daily News. If a man cannot be fed with soup into good mature in 21 years he is hopeless. One of the best-known dining places in the world is about to be sold. The "Star and Garter" of Richmond Hill, near London, is familiar through picture, poetry, prose and experience. In 1738 the original house was erected on a lot of ground leased for two pounds sterling a year. Twenty years later the little inn had expanded into the chief hotel in the vicinity of London. Most of the famous characters of the world, and many of those of fiction, have dined at the Star and Garter. Kings and princes have been its patrons. Louis Philippe lived there for six months after his flight from Paris, and Napoleon III. had apartments there. Indeed, at one time or another, almost every distinguished man of the day has visited the great Richmond Hill hostelry. Busts of Frederick the Great and Field Marshal Count von Moltke have been set up in the West Point Military academy. They were given to the academy by Emperor William as a token of his interest in the American army, and will take their place along with the busts of the great American soldiers that already adorn the buildings of the academy. A down easter has constructed an amphibious automobile with a balloon attachment. Where can the innocent bystander find refuge from a thing like that? - Millwakee Sentinel. In the subway, brother; flee to the subway! exclaims the Chicago Tribune. The doctor who says that nearly 2,000,000 deaths could be avoided every year by care should make his meaning clearer. Those 2,000,000 deaths have to take place some time, do they pot? WILL ASK FOR RECEIVER The Great Western Railroad to Be Placed Under Control of the Federal Court. THE ACTION WAS ARRANGED IN LONDON President A. B. Stickney and English Creditors After a Conference, Come to an Agreement—Failure to Obtain Extension of Notes Cause of Road's Difficulties. London, Jan. 9.—The expected meeting of the note-holders of the Chicago, Great Western Railway company with A. B. Stickney, president of the company, was held Wednesday afternoon. It was decided to appoint a receiver for the company, to maintain the status quo during the time necessary to prepare a first mortgage bond covering all the indebtedness of the road, and to obtain a vote of the stockholders on this measure. There were many note-holders at the meeting. St. Paul, Jan. 9.—Frank Kellogg and other attorneys representing the creditors of the Chicago Great Western railroad, had a conference with Judge Sanborn of the United States circuit court at 10 o'clock Wednesday and at its close Mr. Kellogg announced that he would appear before Judge Sanborn with application for a receiver for the Chicago, Great Western railroad. "We have not decided who will be the receiver," said he, "as that will come up when the application is presented in court. We have merely decided that the receiver shall be asked for, as it had to come sooner or later." The following statement regarding the reason for the receivership was given by Mr. Kellogg Wednesday afternoon: "The receivership is not the result of the action of any single creditor or stockholder, but has been taken after careful consideration by all parties interested, many of the creditors and the board of directors. The immediate reason for the receivership was the failure to obtain an extension of the notes now due and coming due during 1908, which were given for money borrowed for improvements and betterments of the property. The company has spent about $19,000,000 during the past ten years in lowering grades, constructing new bridges, culverts, acquiring additional terminals and equipment, double tracking, and in general improvements and betterments of the railway and has outstanding notes for this purpose, to the amount of about $10,000,000. During last spring a plan for financing the road was agreed to by the board of directors and the finance committee but owing to the stringency in the money market and other unforeseen causes, they have been unable to carry it out. "The earnings of the company were very materially decreased during the autumn by strikes at the shops, which tied up the equipment. The strike was won by the company but the damage had been done. "The receivership will be temporary pending the time referred to carry through the plan of financing the road. Everything possible has been done to avoid a receivership but it could not be prevented." Judge Sanborn Wednesday afternoon appointed A. B. Stickney and C. A. J. Smith of St. Paul receivers for the Great Western railroad. Kellogg and Severance were appointed attorneys for the receivers. Greene and Gaynor to Prison Macon, Ga., Jan. 9.—Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gavnor were taken to Atlanta Wednesday to be placed in the federal penitentiary to begin four years' sentences for embezzlement of government funds in connection with government work in Savannah harbor. The men have been in jail here for 18 months pending a decision on an appeal to the supreme court of the United States. New Bishop in Nebraska. Ompha, Neb., Jan. 9.—Bright Rev. A. L. Williams, coadjutor bishop of Nebraska, succeeds to the bishopric of this state with the death of Bishop George Worthington, who died at Mentone, France. Tuesday. Bishop Williams received a cablegram from Mentone Wednesday night confirming the Associated press dispatch announcing Bishop Worthington's death. John D. Agrees to Settle. Cleveland. Jan. 9.-John D. Rockefeller has agreed to settle a suit for $25,000 damages brought against him by Mrs. Martha Condee, a Chicago woman, who owns the Saunders hotel building here. Mrs. Condee sued Rockefeller because the excavation for the big Rockefeller sky-scraper being erect d. had undermined the hotel building. An Iawa Man Chosen. Washington Jan. 10—John L. Crockett, former clerk of the supreme court of Iowa, was Tuesday appointed assistant reading clerk of the senate by Secretary Bennett. Seventy-two contests had been tried for the position. Republican Editors to Meet St. Joseph Jan. 9—The annual meeting of the Republican Editorial association of Missouri will be held in St. Joseph January 17 and 18. MARSH FEB. 1914 GOOD RESOLUTIONS MILWAUKEE SENTINEL STATEMENT BY GOV.HOCH What Kansas Executive Hopes to Accomplish by Special Session of the Legislature. BELIEVES THAT AN EMERGENCY EXISTS Demand for Law Guaranteeing Bank Deposits Is Widespread in State—Newspapers Asked to Co-Operate in Making Session as Short as Possible—Primary Law Possible. Topeka, Jan. 9.—Gov. Hoch Tuesday called a special session of the Kansas legislature to convene at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of January 16. This was followed by a statement construed to reflect the governor's message, to come later, asking that a guaranty deposit law be passed, the tax law revised, a primary election law enacted, and some amendments made to the prohibitory law. The proclamation calling the session simply states that several matters of state importance create an emergency. The co-operation of the newspapers is asked in shortening the session and avoiding all delay. This statement says: "The demand for a law to guarantee bank deposits is widespread and, among the people, well nigh universal. I strenuously urged this measure as well as the primary proposition upon the last legislature, violating all precedents is appearing in person before that body to urge these important measures. "The enactment of a deposit guarantee law in Oklahoma, threatening our border banks and indeed many of our interior banks, as these bankers themselves write me, with the loss of deposits in favor of Oklahoma banks, has added a new and urgent reason for prompt action on the part of Kansas. "The decision to reconvene the legislature in extraordinary session has been reached after very careful consideration. The demand for a special session has come from every part of the state in an avalanche of letters and telegrams and personal solicitation. "Three specific things have been chiefly dwelt upon by these petitioners: Namely, the enactment of a primary election law, a bank depositors' guaranty law, and some seemingly necessary amendments to the new tax law." Judge Wilfley in St. Louis. St. Louis, Jan. 9.—Judge Lebbeus R. Willey, formerly of St. Louis, but now presiding judge of the United States court at Shanghai, China, arrived Wednesday from the Orient and after a brief visit with his brother will proceed to Washington. He declined to make any statement concerning the charges of maladministration that have been filed against him in Washington. Lutheran Minister On Trial New York, Jan. 9—Rev, John R. Brauer, of the English Lutheran church, of Jersey Heights, is on trial before a committee of the synod of the church on charges of heresy. The congregation is largely with the pastor, who is accused of saying that it was not necessary to believe the entire Lutheran creed as the church was "free and independent." Lost On Diamond Shoals. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 9.—A broker message received here over the United States sea coast telegraph wires Wednesday from Cape Hatteras, on the North Carolina coast, reports the stranding and loss on the treacherous Diamond shoals Tuesday, of an unknown schooner, out of whose crew of seven men, five perished and two were saved. Kansas Veteran Brings an Ouster Suit Topeka, Jan. 9.—A suit was filed in the state supreme court Tuesday by T. M. James to test the validity of the soldiers' preference law. AFTER ST. LOUIS BANDITS. Armed Posses Looking for Two Youths Who Killed and Robbed a Postman St. Louis, Jan. 9.—Armed posses, under the direction of Sheriff Herpel, are scouring St. Louis and St. Charles counties Wednesday for the two boy saloon robbers who, with their faces masked, killed Bartender August Boss in his saloon at Normandy Groves Tuesday night. They then forced three customers into the ice box and robbed the cash register. Later they forced the customers in a saloon at Ferguson into the ice box and robbed the cash register. Their descriptions tally with those of two masked boys who killed Peter Dunn and robbed a saloon on the night of November 6. If they are found a fight is anticipated and Sheriff Herpel has instructed his possemen to use revolvers without hesitation. The boys are presumably about 18 years of age. Charged With Criminal Libel. Indianapolis, Jan. 9.—President C. M. Barnett, of the American Society of Equity, who was arrested Tuesday evening on complaint of John Everett, former president of the police society, charging criminal libel, was released later on $500 bond. Secretary O. D. Pauley of the society was also arrested on the same charge and released on the bond. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Garrett M. Walrod, of Tennessee, member of the executive board now in session here. W. S. Taylor, former governor of Kentucky, now living here, is acting as attorney for the three men. Statements made in a circular are the basis for the charges. Passes issued to Nebraskans. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 9.—Members of the Nebraska state railway commission Wednesday morning received Missouri Pacific annual passes. They were issued for the year of 1908 and came enclosed in envelopes bearing the inscription: "Compliments of B. P. Waggener." Commissioners Winnett, Williams and Clark, and Secretary Perkins received the passes. Chairman Winnett stated that the passes would be placed in the hands of Attorney General Thompson. The Nebraska anti-pass law forbids transportation being issued to state officials. St. Joseph Grafters in Custody St. Joseph Grafters in Custody. St. Joseph, alo., Jan. 9.—Walter C. Stewart, superintendent of the municipal street lighting plant surrendered Wednesday to the sheriff, who held a grand jury capias charging Stewart with falsifying certificates. Charles A. Waller, foreman, was arrested Tuesday night for embezzlement and is in jail. Ferd Mays, a saloonkeeper, charged with forging time slips bought from city employees, is also under arrest. Ben E. Bradford, a former city employee, was arrested Wednesday, charged with collusion in the alleged frauds. President Eliot to Come West Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 9.—It was announced at Harvard Wednesday that President Charles W. Eliot had planned an itinerary through the middle west next April, including visits to Indianapolis, Chicago, Urbana and Evauston, Ill., and Des Moines, St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio. In nearly all of these places President Eliot will be entertained by other university presidents and by Harvard clubs. New York Broker a Suicide. New York, Jan. 9.—Charles W. Whitney, a member of the stock exchange firm of H. N. Whitney & Sons, committed suicide Wednesday at his home in West Seventy-second street by shooting. The cause for his act has not yet been learned. Mr. Whitney was 38 years old. Eight Millions for Motor Cars. Eight Millions for Motor New York, Jan. 9.-Nearly $8,000, 000 was spent in the United States during 1907 for motor cars, according to the estimates made by the association of licensed automobile manufacturers. MAY BE OTHER INDICTMENTS. Federal Grand Jury in New York Not Yet Through Investigating Financial Transactions. New York, Jan. 9.—Through the arrest Tuesday of F. Augustus Heinze, the promoter and former president of the Mercantile National bank, on a charge of over certifying checks to the amount of $400,000, it has developed that a federal grand jury is still engaged in a searching investigation into other transactions of a similar nature in this city. While none of the federal officials will make any statement as to the possible result or even the extent to which the inquiry will go, United States District Attorney Stimson said Wednesday that the work of the jury has not been completed. "It would be improper for me to reveal the evidence I have lest I give away my case," said Mr. Stimson, "but I can say that the investigation is not yet over." To the straight question as to whether there will be other arrests the district attorney refused to answer. Train Through a Trestle Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 9.—The death list as the result of the wreck of section two of the Collier special, which went through a trestle near Hiram, Ga., Tuesday, remained at three Wednesday morning. Mrs. Emma Hoover, of Cleveland, Ohio, is probably fatally hurt, and is in one of the hospitals here. There are some doubts as to the recovery of Miss Florence A. Studebaker, of Cleveland, who is suffering from internal injuries. The list of injured remains at about 80, many of the hurts being of a minor character. Heinze Pleads Not Guilty. New York, Jan. 9.—F. Augustus Heinze, who was arrested Tuesday charged with the over-certification of checks while president of the Mercantile National bank, Wednesday entered a plea of not guilty when arraigned before Judge Chaffield in the United States court. Through his counsel Heinze reserved the right to withdraw the plea of not guilty and demur to the indictment any time before January 20. The bail bond of $50,000 which Mr. Heinze furnished after his arrest was allowed to stand. A Brakeman Got the $10,000. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 9.—The Union Pacific railroad Monday paid Frank C. Catlin, a brakeman, $10,000 in settlement of a personal injury suit brought by Catlin on account of injuries received several months ago in a wreck. Catlin was a brakeman. The settlement was made as a compromise on a $50,000 claim and the railroad attorneys agreed to settlement an hour before the supreme court of the United States decided the employers liabilities act invalid. Colonel Harris Won't Run. Topeka, Jan. 5—Col. W. A. Harris will not be a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor this year. He was here to make a speech before the Improved Stock Breeders' association. He saw W. H. Kemper, treasurer of the democratic central committee, and it was to him that Col. Harris made the announcement that he would not be a candidate. "I will not consider the nomination under any circumstances," Col. Harris is quoted as saying. For Better Rates On Grain. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 9.—The state railway commission Wednesday prepared a complaint against the Missouri Pacific interstate rate on corn and wheat and will file the protest with the interstate commerce commission. The complaint is based on a shipment made from McCook, Neb., to St. Louis. The rate paid, it is claimed, is a combination of the two local rates by way of Omaha to St. Louis. Famous Union Scout Dead. Nashville, Jan. 9—Capt. Daniel Ellis, aged 79, the celebrated Union scout of East Tennessee, is dead at his home near Elizabethton, Tenn. During the Civil war the Confederacy set a price on his head but he nevertheless succeeded in piloting thousands of East Tennsseeians and Western North Carolinans through the Confederate lines to Kentucky, where they joined Union regiments. He was also a veteran of the Mexican war. A Statement by Powers. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 9.—A statement to the public was issued by Caleb Powers Wednesday in which he asks the people to sign a petition to Gov. Willison for a pardon. Powers bases his petition on the main grounds that he was tried unfairly three times and at his last trial ten jurors asked for his acquittal. A committee composed of four democrats and three republicans has charge of the petition. Reading Evidence Against Standard. New York, Jan. 9.—Evidence taken in previous cases against the Standard Oil company was read before Examiner Ferriss Wednesday in the government's suit to dissolve that company. The reading of this evidence is expected to occupy the attention of the examiner for several days during which no witnesses will testify. An Old Railroad Man Dead. New York, Jan. 9.—Samuel Carpenter, aged 71 years, died at his home here Tuesday evening. Mr. Carpenter was employed by the Pennsylvania railroad for 49 years and was Eastern passenger agent at New York for more than 30 years. He retired from active service a year ago. OBJECT LESSON FOR CHILDREN. Mayor Was Quick to See and Impress Good Point. It was five minutes before noon. The mayor and the state superintendend had spent an hour talking to the children in an Ohio school, and just before the stroke of the gong the chairman of the local school committee was called upon to follow them. "Children," he said, pointing toward the window, "as you go out from the school in about two minutes you will see a gang of men who are now shoveling cinders into a railway train. They are earning $55 a month. "Beside them is a timekeeper earning $55. "At the head of the train is an engineer getting $100, and over him is a superintendent getting two hundred. "What is the difference between those men? Education. Get all you can of it."—Youth's Companion. THEN IT LOOKED ABOUT RIGHT. Coal Dealer Understood When Told What Load Represented. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in one of the last addresses that he made to his Sunday school class before abandoning it, said of carefulness in business: "Too many business men are careful on one side, their own side, only. Thus a coal dealer whom I used to know shouted one afternoon to an employee who was driving out of the yard: "Hold on there, Jim! That coal can't have been weighed. It looks a trifle large for a ton to me." "Jim shouted back: "This ain't a ton, boss. It's' two ton." "Oh, all right,' said the dealer, in a modified tone. 'Beg your pardon; go ahead.'" HE KNEW. Father—Yes, you're a regular little pig! Wouldn't give your brother any of that candy. Do you know what a little pig is? Kid—Er—er—sure—er—pig is—er—hog's little boy. Both Worked Well. A correspondent sent this "pome" to the New York Sun: Jack Spratt beneath his hat concealed a shining pate; his wife she wore a budding beard, most foeful to relate. Apothecary shops they sought in utter despair. "Sure Hair Restorer" Jack then bought; his wife bought "Anti-Hair." One night some sprite in dire delight the bottles did misplace, and Mrs. Jack applied, alack, Jack's lotion to her face. While Jack, alack, took from the rack a bottle on which read: "Depilatory, Use with Care," and doused it on his head. Jack Spratt beneath his hat now sports a lion's mane, his wife is happy, for her face is soft and smooth again. But Not the Same. Mushley—Indeed, yes, he's very tender-hearted. I really believe if a beggar approached him and he had no money about him he'd actually take off his coat and give it to him. Crabbe—Well, I'm not tender-hearted, but some of these nervy beggars make me feel like taking off my coat and giving it to them—good and proper. FOUND A WAY To Be Clear of the Coffee Troubles. "Husband and myself both had the coffee habit and finally his stomach and kidneys got in such a bad condition that he was compelled to give up a good position that he had held for years. He was too sick to work. His skin was yellow, and I hardly think there was an organ in his body that was not affected. "I told him I felt sure his sickness was due to coffee and after some discussion he decided to give it up. "It was a struggle because of the powerful habit. One day we heard about Postum and concluded to try it, and then it was easy to leave off coffee. "His fearful headaches grew less frequent, his complexion began to clear, kidneys grew better until at last he was a new man altogether, as a result of leaving off coffee and taking up Postum. Then I began to drink it, too. "Although I was never as bad off as my husband, I was always very nervous and never at any time very strong, only weighing 95 lbs, before I began to use Postum. Now I weigh 115 lbs, and can do as much work as anyone my size. I think. "Many do not use Postum because they have not taken the trouble to make it right. I have successfully fooled a great many persons who have drunk it at my table. They would remark, 'You must buy a high grade of coffee.' One young man who clerked in a grocery store was very enthusiastic about my 'coffee.' When I tol him what it was, he said, 'why I've sold Postum for four years but I had no idea it was like this. Think I'll drink Postum hereafter.' Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason" 1920 MISS ANNIE CATRON, 927 Main St., Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: "As I have found Peruna a blessing for a severe case of catarrh of the head and throat which I suffered from for a number of years, I am only too pleased to give it my personal endorsement." "Catarrh, such as I suffered from, made life a burden to me, my breath was offensive, stomach bad, and my head stopped up so that I was usually troubled with a headache, and although I tried many so-called remedies, I nothing gave me permanent relief. I was treated with medicines when Peruna was suggested to me." "However, I did buy a bottle, and before that was finished there was a marked change in my condition. Much encouraged I kept on until I was completely cured in a month's time, and I find that my general health is also excellent." People who prefer solid medicines should try Peruna tablets. Each tablet represents one average dose of Peruna. Man-a-in the ideal laxative. Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1908. WINCHESTER Shotgun Shells "Leader"and"Repeater"and Repeating Shotguns make a killing combination for field,fowl or trap shooting. No smokeless powder shells enjoy such a reputation for uniformity of loading and strong shooting qualities as "Leader" and "Repeater" brands do, and no shotgun made shoots harder or better than the Winchester. THEY ARE MADE FOR EACH OTHER SICK HEADACHE Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Month, Coupled Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. CARTERS LITTLE IVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. LIVE STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS Electrotypes IN GREAT VARIETY FOR, SALE AT THE LOWEST PRICES BY WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION Kansas City, Missouri READERS of this paper desiring to buy anything advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask for, refusing all substitutes or imitations. SURPRISE IN THAW TRIAL Jerome's Expert Witnesses in First Trial Subpoenaed by Attorneys for the Defense. MAY FORGE NEW LUNACY COMMISSION In the Former Trial the Doctors Swoe That Thaw Was a Paranoiac, and Incurable—Jerome's Action Problematical—Little Progress in Getting Jury. New York, Jan. 9.—The defense in the case of Harry K. Thaw sprung the first great surprise of the second trial Wednesday by announcing that it had issued subpoenaes for several of the expert witness who testified for the prosecution at the first hearing a year ago and who, when District Attorney Jerome applied for a lunacy commission, made affidavit that in their opinion that Thaw at the time of the inquiry was suffering from an incurable form of insanity. These same doctors, however, had previously testified on the witness stand, in response to Mr. Jerome's famous hypothetical question, that they believed Thaw knew what he was about when he shot and killed Stanford White on the Madison Square roof garden. This move is intended by the defense as a block to the prosecution in putting these same doctors on the stand and is taken by some as showing a determination that Thaw shall not be convicted even with the danger of a stay in the asylum for the criminal insane at Mattewan as the alternative. The alienists who were the mainstay of the prosecution at the first trial were Drs. William Mabon, Carlos MacDonald and Austin Flint. They were present at the former hearing from the very first day and their absence this year has been commonly noted. The defense in the present trial is insanity at the time Stanford White was killed. In making out this case it will require delicate handling to show Thaw so mentally deranged at that time as not to know the nature or quality of his act, and at the same time show that he is now mentally sound. Drs. Mabon, MacDonald and Flint swore that in their opinion Thaw is a paranoiac, whose case is incurable. It is undoubtedly the intention of Mr. Littleton, the new chief counsel for the defense, to interrogate and draw from these men the opinion that Thaw was also insane at the time of the homicide and then to limit all testimony as to the defendant's mental condition to the immediate period of the tragedy. If successful in this the defense would force a trial of the case strictly on Thaw's mental condition in the summer of 1906. This in turn would force District Attorney Jerome again to apply for a lunacy commission and Thaw's attorneys are confident of his ability successfully to fill out his claim of present sanity before such a board. Just what steps District Attorney Jerome will take to combat this unexpected move by the defense is not known. The work of jury building went forward Wednesday, but progress was slow. Predictions were freely made at the beginning of the third day of the trial that a jury will not be secured before the middle or latter part of next week. There were but three sworn jurors in the box when court convened at 10:45 a. m., and they represented the net proceeds of the first two panels of 100 talesmen each. The third and last panel of the 300 originally summoned reported Wednesday and there was no thought that it would furnish all of the material needed to complete the trial twelve. As a result the court ordered 200 additional talesmen be summoned to report Thursday and Friday. At the first trial some 370 talesmen were examined before a satisfactory jury was empaneled. Found an Ancient Relic Marquette, Mich., Jan. 9.—The discovery of a small copper axe, undoubtedly of aboriginal origin, on the shore of Lake Superior here has revived the theory, combatted by metalurgists, that the ancient people of the region possessed the art of tempering. The axe appears to have been hammered from a piece of pure metal. It is so highly tempered that it offers more perfect resistance than highly tempered steel. It is presumably a relic of a race of the Indians. Kansas Bank Bobbery Ottawa, Kan., Jan. 9.—Robbers early Wednesday wrecked the safe in the State Bank of Quenemo, at Quenemo, Kan., near here, with dynamite, and escaped with its entire contents, estimated at between $7,000 and $8,000. The robbery is believed to have been committed by four men, who escaped. Foreigners in a Bloody Fight. Pittsburg, Jan. 9.—During a quarrel between five Italians at Stowe township late Tuesday night, three of the foreigners were perhaps fatally shot. The two uninjured men are under arrest. The cause of the fight is unknown. New York, Jan. 9. 9-Threats that their buildings would be burned if they evicted the tenants flooded East Side landlords Tuesday. The warnings were supposed to have come from the rent strikers. You Look Prematurely Old ART LONG, CREDIT SHORT. SKETCHES "What does your brother do for a living?" "I know, so am I. But what does he do for a living?" 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At our watch meeting it is a glorious time, giving praise and honor to our Lord and Master. Rev. Wade, formerly of Ft. Scott, spent the holidays with his wife and friends. Rev. Wade is now preaching in New Florence and Wright City. The friends welcome Rev. Wade back to his old home. Miss Ethel Copelin, 18 years old, was united in marriage to Mr. Lee Caldwell, 21 years old. Their friends wish them much success in life. The bride and groom are at home to their friends every Wednesday and Thursday. I am sorry to say our city is in grief. There have been four deaths in our city this week. God warns us to make ready for the great day of His wrath is coming. Who will be able to stand? Mrs. Lizzie Jones died Friday, December 27, 1907, with pneumonia. She leaves a husband and three small children for our Heavenly Father to watch over. Funeral was preached at the A. M. E. church by Rev. Dudley. Rev. Dudley preached Sunday to the living,—not to the dead, for Sister Jones is at rest. Hr. Floyd Dodson was united in marriage to Miss Etta Green, one of Fort Scott's society young ladies. Mr. Dodson is a cook by trade. His wife will get plenty to eat. George Tines, living in Kansas City, was called home to the bedside of his sister, but sorry to say when he arrived she was dead. Also Mr. Jake Jones, living in Coffeyville, aKn., arrived home Friday to attend the funeral. Mrs. Maggie Williamson and sister, Millie Johnston, of Kansas City, spent Christmas with their mother and father, and old old friends. They were both looking well. We are always glad to see an old friend. Charley Jameson and wife of Kansas City, are in our city cisiting his mother and father and many relatives and friends. Mrs. Roxie Wells of Atchison, is visiting Daughter Tolbert. She has been highly entertained. Fort Scott has been blessed with old schoolmates and friends visiting during the holidays. We know they will return again, because they have all been well entertained. Mrs. C. A. Glass of Parsons, Kan., is visiting Mrs. Sarah Bell Sage. Mrs. Oliver of Kansas City, is visiting her mother and brothers. Mrs. Hail entertained Mrs. Oliver and Mrs. George William at dinner Sunday, which was very elaborate. Mrs. F. Funkhouse, presidet of the Mothers' Aid Society, made a good selection in appointing a committee to secure a matron of the orphans' home: Mrs. H. J. Moore, 623 S. Barbee, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. Edna A. Young, of Mound City, Kan., Mrs. Fannie Fields of 501 N. Washington, Iola, Kan. R. H. Moore of Baxter Springs, visited with his brother, J. T. Rosson a few days during the holidays. Roy Dodson is spending the holidays with his grandparents in Baxter Springs. NEW TEMPLE ORGANIZED AT OS- WEGO, KANSAS. On January, 1st, 1907, Rev. Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor, organized and put in operation Basic Temple No. 21, of Oswego, Kansas, with a membership of 18. This is a good start for the new year and shows that the Order of Twelve is on the upward move. Sir William was assisted by Sir Lee Holiday and the Palitine Guards, of Parsons, Kan., who gave an exhibition drill at an entertainment that was given after the Temple was organized. Mrs. Wilson accompanied the party to Oswego. Sir Bruce Easter is Chief Mentor of the new Temple in Oswego. That the Knights of Basic Temple No. 21 have the full and sincere wish of every Knight and Daughter that their Temple may grow and become one of the powers in Tabor circles in our jurisdiction. PARSONS. KAN. Moses Dickson Temple No. 12 held a splendid meeting January 1st with 22 members present. They now have a membership of 46 and are progressing nicely. Sir Lee Holiday is Chief Mentor. Every Knight and every Daughter ought to be a reader of the Wichita Searchlight. It only costs you One Dollar for a whole year. Send your name, address and money to W. N. Miller, Editor, 634 N. Water Street, Wichita, Kansas. Send it in today. NEWTON, KAN. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Roach, Mr. and Mrs. M. Underwood, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Broilis, Mr. Peter Coleman, Mr. D. Cason, Mr. R. L Malone, Miss Bettie Novell and sister; also Mr H. Neely and Mrs. L. Brockway of Wichita, were present at a dinner given by Mrs. Wm. Coleman on Christmas day. Miss Fleta Coleman entertained on New Year's night twenty-three of her young boy and girl friends at a popcorn party. All left reporting a good time. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Broills gave a dinner at their home, 512 West 4th street. New Year's day. Those being present were: Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Roach, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Roach and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Will Coleman. All left reporting a good time and hoping that she will invite them back to dinner again, soon. Mrs. John McLain is reported very ill. Mrs. J. Anderson has been ill this week. Mrs. Frank Weston is reported quite ill. Ocran Rickman left the city last week for Marion and Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Childs of Wichita, spent three days in the city last week. Mrs. C. R. Ramey is reported quite ill. Mr. Geo. Hold, who has been in Kansas City, returned, feeling some better. Mrs. S. Frame is reported some better. Remember the "Leap Year" opening the 15th, given at the A. M. E. church. Mr. John Payne entertained a few friends Friday evening in honor of his cousin Christina, and a pleasant time was spent. PRETTY PRAIRE (KAN.) NEWS. Wheat in this vicinity is looking fine. Mrs. Joe Banks spent a few days in Hutchinson returning home Tuesday. Miss Mae Flemming of Pratt, Kan., spent the Xmas holidays with her friends, the Misses Nellie and Florence Banks, of Pretty Prairie, Kan. Miss Nannie Walker and brother, Benson Walker, also spent their Xmas and New Year's holidays in Pretty Prairie, the guests of their friends, the Misses and Mr. Banks. Revival meeting is being held at Parallel this week. Bertie James of Pratt, Kan., visited in Pretty Prairie, Kan., a few days last week the guest of Fred and Pearl Banks. Mrs. Robert Davis gave a swell reception Sunday, in honor of the Misses Nannie Walker, Mae Flemming and Mr. Benson Walker. All report an enjoyable time, vowing that they had spent one of the happiest days of the season. Pearl and Fred Banks left last week for Pratt, Kan., where they expect to visit friends, from there they will go to Cullison, Kan., and spend a few days before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Banks gave a swell supper last Saturday evening. Those present dere the Misses Mae Flemming, Nannie Walker, Nellie and Florence Banks, the Messrs. Benson Walker, Fred and Pearl Banks. All report an enjoyable evening. KANSAS CITY (KAN.) TABORS At the last meeting of Washington Temple, No. 25, of Kansas City, Kan., Sir A. F. Wilson was elected as corresponding secretary of the Temple to the Official Organ. "Onward and Upward." As this is the beginning of a New Year it is the sense of the Temple to make this the most happy and prosperous year of its history, and in fact the year just past has been a very progressive year, while we have lost some of our Knights and friends. Yet there is no room for us to feel anyways discouraged, though we mourn the loss of them and feel satisfied that it was God's way, and like the immortal McKinley we simply bow our heads and say "Thy will be done." Washington Temple No. 25 has been on the upward road for several years, but in my judgment it now stands second to none in its onward march. Since it has Sir James Downs as its Chief Mentor, your humble servant, the vice-Sir M. Washington, its Chief Scribe, and Sir John W. Wilson, the Chief Treasurer, the most important station in the Temple, and being the right man in the right place, I have a reason to believe that the prospects for prosperity and growth, both financially and in membership, will be greater than ever before. At our regular monthly meeting, January 3, 1908, every Sir Knight seemed to rejoice over the past year's progress, and expressed himself in a manner that encouraged each and every Knight present. As proof to show my reasons for this prosperity the Drill Corps of Daughters from the various Tabernacles and the Sir Knights of both the Washington Temple No. 25 and the Eureka Temple No. 23, gave an entertainment on New Year's night, which consisted of a mock trial, and was attended by quite a large audience from which they managed to realize about $35.00. The program was rendered as follows: The Common Pleas Court of Tabor. Hon. Howard Brown.....Judge J. Clayborne.....Sheriff Douglas A. Moss, Plaintiff Mary Jones Sir J. F. Armstrong, Defendant..... .....Oss Williams Sir J. F. Wilson.....Clerk Sir J. W. Wilson and Sir R. C. Hayden, Lawyers for Plaintiff. Sir A. F. Wilson and M. Washington Lawyers for Defendant. Drill by Palatine Guards and Daughters Drill Corps. A. F. WILSON, Sec'y. The Charming Woman. Kindness of heart and consideration for others give charm to the manners of woman. The unselfish woman with agreeable manners who strives to be in sympathy with the lives of her as sociates is charming. World's Botanical Gardens. In France there are 22 botanical gardens; in Germany, 35; in Great Britain and Ireland, 11; in Russia, 14; while there are but five public botanical gardens in the whole of the United States. Considering that the past can't turn around and come back and that the future has never yet arrived, it would seem as if to-day is the only time really worth while. Just a Literary Thought. What a sensation it would create it occurs to one after rereading "Vanity Fair," if Becky Sharp would register at a prominent hotel in Pittsburg to-day! Uncle Eben's Wisdom. "Some men," said Uncle EbEN "finds fault around home because it's de only place whah dey's important enough to git a chance to speak deli minds." 1LE2 TRAMPS TAKE UP ABODE IN RICH MAN'S MANSION INVADERS HOLD HIGH CARNIVAL WHILE OWNER IS AWAY FROM HOME. Philadelphia.—Living for several weeks in the palatial country home of C. R. Wannemacher, drinking his choice wines, wearing his silk underwear, sleeping in his bed and making free use of the larder and pantry, was the experience of two tramps who, becoming satiated a few days ago, discarded their old clothing, dressed themselves each in one of Mr. Wannemacher's $80 suits and disappeared. The Wannemacher family closed their Glenside residence recently, returning to this city. Soon after their departure neighbors noticed lights at night about the house, but thought H.B. The Tramps Lived Like Kings. that the Wannemachers had returned. Two men were seen moving about the place. Mr. Wannemacher was notified and he went to Glenside. From cellar to garret the home bore the marks of vandalism. Empty wine bottles were scattered from the wine cellar to the garret. In the dining room dishes were broken and the furniture was scratched and cut. Lace and chenille curtains were torn from their fastenings; in fact, the men broke everything that they could not or cared not to carry off. On the upper floors the men wrought much havoc. They slept in Mr. Wannemacher's room, used his night clothes and wore his silk underwear. They took a shotgun and a revolver, 12 dress shirts and a quantity of underwear and other clothing when they departed. Before leaving they visited the other rooms and wrecked them. The total value of articles stolen is less than $200, but the damage done exceeds $2,500. The police are of the opinion that the intruders were tramps and will make a general roundup in the hope of catching them. MAN, DOG AND BOBCAT FIGHT. Sheepherder Finally Slays Fierce Animal with His Hands. Moorcroft, Wyo.—Charles Friend, a sheep herder, and his dog were rounding up sheep, and in a steep ravine came upon a big bobcat devouring the carcass of a lamb. The dog tackled the cat, whereupon the feline flopped the canine on its back and started in to claw the life out of it. To save his pet, Friend grabbed the cat by its hind legs and attempted to dash out its brains by swinging its head against the ground. The cat was too heavy to be swung, however, and broke from the man's grasp and flew at his throat. The leap was short, and the cat struck the man's breast, where it clung and clawed with such fury that Friend's heavy coat, vest and shirt were torn to shreds and fell from his person, causing the cat to drop to the ground. The dog, undaunted by his first failure, was on the cat the instant it struck the ground, and the cat, with shreds of cloth entwined about his head, was able to fight only blindly. Friend threw himself on the struggling dog and cat, obtained a grip on the cat's throat and choked the beast to death. Death Reveals Dual Life. Port Huron, Mich.—Through the death of both himself and his first wife it has been revealed that Herbert Hoadley, formerly of Port Huron, was living a dual life. He died a few days ago in Alpena, where he had a second wife and family. Thirteen years ago Hoadley disappeared from this city, leaving his wife and five children. While she was on her deathbed Hoadley died in Alpena. Before he expired he asked that he be buried in Port Huron. His first wife was laid to rest a few days ago in Lakeside cemetery. In a lot not far from her burial place Hoadley has also been buried. His second wife, who thought Hoadley to be single when she married him, came to attend the funeral services. Sleeve Saves a Life. La Crosse, Wis.—To the fact that he threw up his arm when he felt the walls of the well beginning to cave in about him does William Neldfield of Onalaska owe his life. He was 13 feet beneath the surface, deepening a well at the Onalaska power house. The cave-in covered him completely with the exception of his hand and through his sleeve he received enough air to keep him alive during the eight hours that it took to dig him out. HIS REBELLIOUS PUPIL (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) "But I don't understand it yet," Murted the red-headed girl with pouty lips. "I can't see where you get the one-eighth. In fact, I don't understand any of it." And she closed the book in her lap with a slam. "Well," said the youthful, downy-lipped professor, smiling from behind his hat, "shall we go over it again?" His tone was very patient and indulgent. He was lying lazily on the grass and seemed to be enjoying the disturbance of the red-headed girl scared near him. "I don't see the use," said the girl curtly. "We have gone over and over 2. And I just can't follow you." "We might try it again," mildly suggested the young educator. "I will not," cried the pouty lips. "I hate it. It is horrible, horrible. Oh—oh," and two round shining drops burst over the long brown lashes. "I most feel like saying it can go to the—devil! There!" and she threw the green-backed text book, tablet and pencil down the grass-covered slope. The lazy young professor picked himself leisurely up and sauntered down the slope after the abused books. When he had returned and dropped down beside he he said, very slowly and tantalizingly, smiling the while: "You are delightful! If you only knew how pretty you are when you are angry! You have such a reckless amount of vim. Now if you could only divert it to this green-covered—" "Green-covered nothing!" she exclaimed angryly, not allowing him to finish. "I tell you I hate it. And I hate you, too, Prof. Jackson. You are always laughing at me. I never look at you but you seem to be amused. I suppose you think I am such a big ninny to be in school. Well, I would have graduated long ago but for horrid old mathematics. I know as much as you do in everything else. And you know I do. Didn't I stick you in grammar last Monday?" "Yes, Stella, you did," he acknowledged, with a twinkle in his eye. "But I am not to blame that it is quite as necessary that you be as proficient in mathematics as in grammar." "I don't want to be, I tell you. I hate them. Why don't you tell papa I never shall be able to master them and then he would let me quit school!" she asked him severely. "Why, my dear, dear young lady, because I have no intention of losing a very charming pupil as long as I can help it; even if she does hate me." "Yes, I do hate you," insisted the pouty lips, tossing her head with its wealth of red, red hair. "You had no business to come over here and spoil my Saturday afternoon by telling mother that you would assist me with this horrid old stuff if she wished. You have made me angry and made me say 'devil.'" "Well, Stella," he said quietly, picking up his hat. "I am very sorry that you hate me, very sorry that I spoiled your afternoon, very sorry that I made you angry and very sorry that I made you say 'devil.' And I suppose you will think me a monster when I tell you I have enjoyed every bit of it, even the 'devil;' and." he spoke still more quietly, until his tone and attitude was unenduring to the heated girl, "would you mind not brushing those petals from your hair. They look very pretty there." "Prof. Jackson!" exclaimed the indignant girl; "you certainly say most extraordinary things for a professor. Of course you enjoyed your day," she continued slurringly. "You were not doing anything but watching the plum blossoms fall and keeping track of those sailing boats out there." She waved her hand toward the blue ribbon of a bay. "It is easy enough to tell how to solve a problem when you know how. I hate school and you know it. I want to stay at home and help keep house. I love to keep house and tend my flowers. Thank goodness, your old school will soon be out, and then I can do what I please for a while. Heaven knows, I am old enough to know that I have all the schooling I need." "Well, do you know, Stella, I rather think so, too," he said, teasing her critically, while a teasing little smile played about the downy lip. "Although," he continued lamely, "school closing won't make much difference to me, as I have accepted a position as instructor of mathematics in the Teachers' Summer Training school at Logan." "Why, professor!" exclaimed the red-headed girl, turning to him with wide-open eyes. "You said you were going to remain here this summer. I thought you were going to teach me to sail a boat." "I am sorry that I shall not be able to keep my word, Stella. But it is a matter of dollars and cents with me. Then, too, perhaps you wouldn't like me any better as a sailing master than you do as professor of mathematics." "No, I don't like you as a professor," she confessed. "I want to stay at home and keep house. And if you would only ask papa if I might I am sure he would consent. Please, Prof. Jackson, won't you ask papa?" He looked at her whimstically and said slowly: "Yes, I think I shall ask him." "Oh, that is just too good of you! I believe you are laughing at me right now. Don't you mean what you said? Aren't you going to ask papa?" "My dear girl," said the young professor, "I am going to ask him this very day. But are you quite sure that you would really like to keep house?" "Indeed I would," she replied laughing. "And do you know, professor, "I love to cook. And I am going to make you a cake for being so nice to me." "Only one?" he exclaimed. "Why, I shall demand one every day; and puddings and pies and rolls besides. I shall be very particular about my cooking and housekeeping." The girl with the red hair looked at him in astonishment, then blushed from the roots of her brilliant hair to the edge of her dainty, lace-trimmed collar. And then her lips formed their pretty pout again and she stamped her foot furiously. "Prof. Jackson," she cried, "why can't you treat me sensibly? You have made fun and laughed at me ever since I knew you. Why don't you treat me with the dignity you do the other girls? I hate you. I know you never meant to ask papa. You were making fun all the time." It was the professor's turn to throw the green-covered text-book down the grassy slope and seize the plump, white hand of his retreating pupil. "Stella," he said. His voice was very steady, very firm and very serious now, and his eyes were looking into hers, while the sweet-scented petals fell noiselessly about them. "I have not been making fun of you. And I do mean to ask your father this very evening if you may quit school and be my little housekeeper. I have had this in mind, dear, from the day you first entered school. But I was waiting for some encouragement. And now," he smiled teasingly, "you yourself have suggested that I ask your father if you may quit school to keep house. Thank you very much, dear," and he raised the plump, white hand to his lips. "I shall do so only on condition that the housekeeping is to be for me, even if you have said you hate me." "But, Prof. Jackson," stammered the blushing girl, hanging her head, "I didn't mean it that—that way about asking papa, nor about hate—hating you. 1 —I—" "Now just wait a minute, dear, and let me straighten this out. Look at me," he urged, patting her hand. "What you really meant is that you don't hate me and that I may ask papa. Now isn't that it? Say 'yes,' Stella." He was crushing her hands painfully and his face was very close to hers. "Isn't it?" "I—I—think it is," said the girl with the red, red hair. Then he kissed her and said laughingly, "I hope I may smile at you here after, dear, without offending. Now let us go and see papa about this wonderful housekeeping we are to undertake after our honeymoon at Logan." NOT AN AMERICAN BEAUTY. St. Gaudens Chose a Girl Born in Ireland as His Model. When the late Augustus St. Gaudens started in to remake some of our coin designs it was expected that he would secure as models female types that are wholly American. There was a good deal of unfavorable comment over the fact that an English girl has served as a model for Liberty on one of our coins and that a little schoolgirl had posed as an Indian to adorn the back of the copper cent. Now we were to have American types that should be perfectly reasonable in all respects. We do not suppose that American girls are lacking in beauty, or that they have not profiles as classic and contours as delectable as any, but it turns out that, after all, St. Gaudens chose the pretty face of a charming young waitress who was born in Ireland, and she now adorns the coins which are soon to be issued. A protest was filed with the department, but it was overruled. The Irish beauty wins and the American girls must suppress their wrath as best they can. We see no occasion to get excited over such a small matter as this. Art knows no red lines on the map. Beauty is not national except as to certain types. If an Irish girl suited the artist best, then it is more glory to the girl and no shame to those who were born in America. And, after all, by this time the young lady in question is doubtless a good American and will doubtless soon have a good American husband—Philadelphia Inquirer. Sunday School as Club. The Sunday school of the parish church at Ludwell, England, is to be used as a men's club, during the winter, the vicar, Rev. F. O. Harris, lending his billiard table and other games until the club can afford to buy its own, and he will further provide newspapers and free tobacco, membership being confined to those who have been confirmed. Cardinal Newman's Writings. After rumors that have been going the rounds for some years as to the place that the Holy See would assign to Cardinal Newman's writings, it can be stated on authority now that the genuine doctrine and spirit of Newman's Catholic teaching are not hit by the pope's recent encyclical on modernism. THE AMERICA HOME W.A.RAD EDIT THE AMERICAN HOME W. A. RADFORD EDITOR Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF charge to students in the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address: 144 Fifth Ave., Chicago, IL., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A story and a half six room house, comprising many desirable features, is shown in this plan. It is not very large, but fortunately small low-cost houses often have advantages over larger ones. Three of these advantages are light, sunshine and air. In a small house opposite windows are necessarily near together, and the light from one often crosses that of another, although they may be in different rooms. Sunshine, of course, carries light, and it carries life-giving properties besides. Light, airy houses are almost always healthful and cheerful. In crowded cities houses offering such advantages are always occupied, while dark, dimly houses often go begging for tenants. In this design there are three rooms downstairs and three rooms upstairs, and they are arranged to provide a great deal of comfort and convenience. When a man starts to build a house he usually has some particular ideas in mind that he wishes to have worked into the plan. Very often these are not practical. They have been extracted, as a general thing, from some other plan and cannot well be grafted into the new design without spoiling the symmetry. You cannot have everything in one house, no matter what the size or the amount of money it costs. There are natural advantages that go with the environment which cannot be successfully transplanted. This is one of the principal reasons why architects are necessary. One of the most difficult problems an architect runs up against is to prevent owners from injecting ideas into house THE HOME OF THE MAYOR THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM plans that are not fitting or practical under existing conditions. One man insisted on having a port-cochere at the side of his house when the lot was not wide enough to accommodate the extension. He got his idea from a different style of house built on a wider lot, and it was so thoroughly fixed in his mind that he was prepared to sacrifice much more desirable features to carry out his idea. He could not understand that such attachments do not ordinarily go with small houses on narrow lots. Of course, there is no law against it. If a man is stubborn enough he can build any kind of a freak house or hitch on any sort of an attachment and take plenty of time afterwards to regret doing so. I have seen a great deal of such nonsense in building. One of the first principles in home building is to exercise common sense KITCHEN 11'0"X12'6" BATH DINING ROOM 14'0"X15'6" VESTRO PARLOR 11'0"X12'6" PORCH First Floor Plan in buying a lot in a satisfactory neighborhood, then follow this by building a house that fits the lot, the family and the man's bank account. As a rule men are influenced by their more prosperous neighbors to build a more expensive house than they can afford. This often comes about by selecting RICAN HOME W.A.RADFORD EDITOR a lot in a high-priced neighborhood. Then a man feels under obligation to build a house in keeping with the street and the ideas of his neighbors. He can't go against popular opinion without losing caste. It is much better to move into another part of the town than to attempt it. But a little house like this, for instance, is within the means of every ambitious man and if properly furnished and kept in good repair it may be made more attractive than some of the larger houses on the wide street. I do not mean that a person should DATH 3'7" DEED ROOM 16'11.0" CLOS DEED ROOM 14'0×12'0" CLOS DEED ROOM 11'0×11'0" CLOS Second Floor Plan go into a part of the town where property is neglected, but there are many side streets leading off from main residence avenues that are more desirable for homes than the main streets themselves. A house is not always a home, whether it be large or small. I have seen many more real homes in the smaller houses than the large ones. I think the proportion is very much greater. 100 The stairway in this little house combines a good deal in a little space. Besides leading both upstairs and down, it gives a grade entrance to the cellar, a side entrance to the kitchen, and it takes up very little room. Downstairs the main feature is the dining room, which is large, enough to make a comfortable sitting room, and it is especially attractive on account of the three windows and the grate. Where a chimney can be so placed as to accommodate the furnace in the cellar, the range in the kitchen and the grate in the dining room, you get a large amount of comfort and satisfaction with comparatively little expense. Other advantages in a chimney like this are that it usually draws better, it climbs out into the upper air through the peak of the roof, where it is better supported by the house and where it is easier to fix the roof around it so it won't leak. Still another advantage is the additional height, which insures a better draft. Chimneys like this draw better for another reason, they are surrounded by warm rooms and the flues are easily heated. Hot air naturally goes up, so the ordinary cold draft of the chimney is increased by this natural phenomenon. All you have to do to have things right is to follow natural laws and take advantage of them to promote the end desired. This little house is only 22 feet wide by 36 feet long, without measuring the porch. A 22-foot house can be comfortably placed on a 30 or 35-foot lot and leave plenty of breathing space on all sides. Then it don't cost a great deal to build a compact little house from this plan. Under ordinary circumstances $2,000 should build it complete, with plumbing, furnace, piping for gas and wiring for electricity. All In the Family. A private soldier walking arm-in-arm with his sweetheart met his sergeant when about to enter a cheap restaurant. He respectfully introduced her to him: "Sergeant, my sister." "Yes, yes," was the reply, "I know; she was mine once." OF TABOR KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. Miss Jennie Alexander, G. Q. M. 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kansas TABERNACLES. Explanation.—"A" means meets in afternoon—all other meeting at night. Chief Preceptresses. Number. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 So. Chestnut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Lillie Shobe, 336 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodford, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) - 3 Thur. (A) 813 W. 11th, Thur. (A) ox 405, Weir 1715 Clark Wed. (A) So. Barber, Sat. (A) 208 N. 30th, ur. (A) Horton, Ft. 21 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherman Leavenworth, Kan., 3 Sat. 23 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawrence (A) Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 36 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1318 N. Madison Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 312 Washing 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 Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (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. 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. Mattle Miller, 335 W. 15th, Wilchita, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) Archer Av.,aska. 1300 N. 6th, Frl. (A) 1173, Weir GRAND OFFICERS 1907-8. Thos. Glover, District Grand Master 704 N. Market St., Wichita, Kan Chas. A. Finney, Deputy Grand Master ter Cherokee, Kan. 37 Mrs. Matilda Waters, 1300 N. 6th, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulaud Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 808 Vermont, Law- rence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Gmaha, Neb., 1-3 Wed. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 2 J. G. Burdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 4 A. M. Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Mon. Kernan & Co., 102 E. Douglas Pone 37 Johnston's Restaurant 839 North Main Street Meals 15c to 25cts. Hot or Cold Lunch —At All Hours— ICE CREAM 5 Robt. M. Jordan; 903 N. Western, N. Topea. Kan., 1-3 Thur. 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. Banner Mills CUSTOM GKINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FRED PROBRIER BROAD, PROP. N. Main St. Phone no. 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, 2137 So. 10th, Lincoln, Nehr. TABERNACLES. TEMPLES Chief Mentors. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 M. 121 Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Leav enworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wail, 5 Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, Lin coln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 5 Lottie Hill, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 8 Ida Swallow, 706 So. Walnut, Ikeh, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Osna, ha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 1 Sadie Tyler, 125 E. Riley, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arie Stone, 823 Main, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Salina Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Wills, 2103 Grand, Parson Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) ton, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Sa NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle will next meet in Atchison, Kansas, or 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. P. H. Bassett, District Grand Secretary, Chetopa, Kan. NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. District Grand Lodge No. 17 will meet in Kansas City, Kansas, in July 1908. In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staples Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. SODA POP always on iod SUNDAY DINNERS 20c and 25c.