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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Brebeca May Tabernacle No. 8, of Coffeyville, Kan., Tuesday afternoon, March 31. Silver Leaf Tabernacle No. 16, of Parsons, Kan., Wednesday afternoon, April 1. Modern Tabernacle No. 28, of Parsons, Kan., Thursday afternoon, April 2. Helping Hand Tabernacle No. 4 of Cherryvale, Kan., Friday afternoon, April 3. Yours for Taborian success, DTR. EMMA GAINES, G. H. P. 1170 Fillmore st., Topeka, Kan. CLEARWATER NEWS Mr. and Mrs. A. White and Mrs. C. R. Wilfrey and Mrs. Vina Bates and Mrs. Charles Black was out visiting Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Barton Sunday and had o fine time, returning on the evening train. Mrs. Chas. Black has been very ill the past few days but is some better at this writting. G. H. Young of Wichita, was in Clearwater last week on business. Miss Ethel Barton of Millerton, Kan., is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. A. White and family near Baynesville, Kan., the past week. C. B. Wilfrey finished cementing his hot bed last week which has taken him 25 days to complete. Mr. White and Mr. aBron were out to the big sales neat Millerton Monday and Tuesday. ARE THEY AFRAID? With the brilliant array and large Republican majority of Republicans in the National Congress it is odd to find so few of the men who espouse to be the friend of the Negro silent when the enemy of the Negro continues to crush every vestige of life from the Negro. Out of this vast assembly of notables—who will dare rise in defense of the helpless Negro? If they are our friends, jet them show their colors. He that is ashamed or afraid to speak for us are against us. Now is the crucial time. It is now that the Negro needs some giant to defend his cause. Can he be found? GREAT BEEND, KAN. George Gracey is reported quite ill. Jones Buckham left for his home in Topeka Thursday evening. Rev. J.H. Rainey sold to Virgins Pulley of Larned, this week a car load of iron. Miss Della Joseph has returned from her visit to Marshfield, Mo. We certainly welcome Miss Joseph back to Great Bend again. The Masonic lodge will met in regular session Monday evening, Feb. 24. Tom Goodman returned from Hutchinson Monday where he has been assisting his son-in-law, Mr. Charlie Smith, and daughter fixing up in their new home. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Looney who have been sick are improving nicely. Virgins Pulley returned to Larned Wednesday evening. John Hurd intends to move in his new house very soon. Mrs. Levi Calmore is some what on the mend. Mrs. Albert Joslin is out again after her recent illness. Miss Marie Murrant of Wichita, intends to return home in a couple of weeks. We are certainly glad t welcome Miss Murrant back home again. Mrs. Emma Dooling returned from Warrensburg, Mo. When in Great Bend stop at Al. Johnson's Chili parlor. Miss Irene Sellers dined with Miss Millie Sellers Sunday. Rev. J. H. VanLou, the Baptist Sater Missionary, addressed the First Baptist Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. also. He will preach this evening, Feb. 24. Rev. VanLou is the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Rainey while in the city. Alex Jones of Larned, on his way home from Hutchinson stopped off here Saturday. Rev. E. A. Wilson, the Pres. of the Baptist State Convention of Kansas, is expected in our city Feb. 25 and 26. Rev. Wilson will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Rainey. Quite a number of colored people from the south side were in to church Sunday. Mrs. Sam Sanders lost a quite fo number hors recently. PARTY HARMONY NEEDED. There never was a time in the history of Kansas politics when the Republican party was less prepared to enter into a great political campaign such as must be waged this year than that party is now. With the Republican party organization in this state torn asunder by fierce and almost unrelenting party factions and with many mistakes which the party must bear the blame it is indeed a very discouraging feature to be met on the threshold of so important a campaign. Greed for office, fights for party leadership and over-confidence has brought the party now face to face with most serious political conditions. The white Republicans of Kansas have no one to blame but themselves—for be it remembered that in the past few years the Negro Republicans have not been called into party conferences, for it has appeared that there has been an effort on the part of the new Republican regime in Kansas state politics to quietly, if not entirely, eliminate the Negro—and as it were, to "read the Negro out of the Republican party in Kansas." There is no use of trying to withhold the facts; the Republican party must either become harmonious—must acknowledge the friendship of its Negro support or the party is doomed to defeat this year. We are intensely interested in the success of the Republican party in Kansas this year, but we are candid when we say that the Republican party must get back to those principles which gave it its birth, and has been so potent a factor in its growth—if it ever expects to continue to march to victory. "Political equality of all men" was the platform on which the Republican party saw its birth—and any other platform will surely mean its death. Should the white Republicans of Kansas continue their party warfare and meet a most striking defeat this year—in justice to all they should swallow the medicine which they are prescribing without one word of complaint. Party harmony must be established to bring party success. IOLA. KANSAS. Golden Tabernacle No. 2 met Saturday, February 22. All the members who were present enjoyed the meeting. The Tabernacle is increasing. We reinstated one and gave three the first degree and we have others to follow before our dispensation expires. Mrs. Sarah Crisp was in Ft. Scott last week and met many old-time friends. The uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, held their Thanksgiving sermon on Sunday, February 23d. They marched from Iola to Bassett, headed by Payne's Military Band. The Knights made a good showing. The sermon was conducted by Rev. Thomas, pastor of the Bassett church. The following program was observed: Remarks, Capt. Lee Gambel, master of ceremonies; address, T. A. Harris; prayer, Rev. H. Shepherd; address, Presiding Elder J. R. Ransom, Topeka; address, Rev. J. Kidd, Independence, Kans. The first quarterly meeting of the A. M. E. church was held last Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Gordon, who has been on the sick list, is improving. Dtr. Ida Stoval is also on the sick list. Mrs. I. J. Porter and Mrs. Bertha Chinmeth have returned from a very pleasant visit with friends in Chetopa. Both report a splendid time. FRANKFORT. KAN. Mr. Log Coffee, Jones Rice, Samuel Olphant, Henry McAlister and Samuel Russell went out west last week to look at land. The school and churches are closed on account of the smallpox. Mrs. P. Montgomery is on the sick list this week. School will begin Monday after being closed for two weeks. Mr. Log Coffee one of our prosperous farmers has bought a farm of 400 acres about six miles from town. CHERRYVALE, KAN. Helping Hand Tabernacle is working in love and harmony. All of the Daughters are in good health at the present time. Rev. W. Kidd, pastor of the A. M. E. church at Independence, Kan., preached at the A. M. E. church Thursday night. from Missouri, preached a good sermon at the A. M. E. church Sunday Mr. Charlie Washington, the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Walker, returned home sick after an absence of about thirteen years. Mr. Charlie Lewis has gone to Neodasha to work. Dtr. Angie Garner and Dtr. Mary Edding of Coffeyville were the visitors in our city Saturday and Sunday. Dtr. Daisy Watson has gone to Pittsburg, Kan., to work. Mr. E. P. Landis left for Neodasha Monday morning. Mrs. Harriette Lewis, who has been quite ill for several months and was thought to be recovering by her friends is again very sick at her home on Wichita street. The ladies of the G. L. A. church were enertained on Tuesday afternoon by Mesdames M. Carr and Mrs. S. W. Jones at the home of the former. After business a nice luncheon was served. They will meet next week with Mrs. J. E. Lewis, 307 N. Mead avenue. The ladies of the Presiding Elder committee of the A. M. E. church are preparing to give a paper costume contest entertainment in the near future; notice will be given later through the columns of the Searchlight. --- Ancient And Modern Fiction Barney Morlarty had done well for himself. Starting with nothing but health and ambition, he had acquired a modest fortune in real estate and had built a monument to his own success in the form of an apartment house in which he set up his own home, and on the granite front of which he blazoned his triumph in carved letters reading "Moriarty Maisonette." Barney was a popular chap, good-looking, witty, ready for a hand at cards, a glass or a joke with anyone who challenged him. He was quite alone in the world, an orphan and a bachelor, but possessed of a romantic regard for all women. Out of his wide acquaintance he easily rented nearly every suite in the Morlarty Maisonette before the showy brick and granite pile was finished. When the gas and heating fixtures were in and the plaster was dry, his tenants all moved in and he gave a banquet to them in his own showily appointed parlor, the best room of a suite intended for a doctor when one should come along to rent it. Not a man or woman of his tenants was a day older than 40, and it came to be the verdict of the neighbors that there was not a happier houseful in the ward. quisit the to the home deli Morlarty worker the light—so of pret take heart T Frid day ceep The Byrnd and procitio T the the mee Five proi The Maisonette was nine stories high. By a mere chance, no one except Florence, the elevator boy, was at hand when Miss Cordelia Byrne called to inspect the fifth floor back, which was advertised for rent one day. She took it at once, to the immense astonishment of Florence, who explained to Mr. Moriarty that he was "only jollying her along" in order to have her come back later on "when," he added, "she flashed the ten dollars on me to bind the bargain, and went away." She and her furniture came together the next morning, when Mr. Moriarty was again absent; there was nothing left but to make the best of the case. Florence declared Miss Byrne to be "a perfect lady," "out of sight as a good looker," and very well supplied with money and furniture. She was soon to be joined by her sister, the head lace buyer for the Colossus department store of Harlem. She was about 20 years of age, slender, of middle stature and dressed habitually in black or dark blue, with now and then just a touch of red at her neck, or a hint of purple in her hat. Every garment she exhibited, from her boots to her jacket, was of stylish pattern and perfect fit. The dominant expression of her attractive face was a sad one, her behavior was so modest that it might almost be called shrinking. Among her belongings was an upright piano, and she and it combined altered the temper of the people in the Moriarty Maisonette with a suddenness and to a degree which was astonishing. When I say that she and her piano altered the temper of the coterie in the Maisonette, I am anticipating a later development. To understand this fully we must come to it gradually. the tenants of the Morlarty Maisonette had, before this, noticed some faultiness and cheapness in the building. Drafts pouring in around the mantels and the window casings had borne upon their cold wings the proof that the occupants were housed by what is called "contract work," and that of a very filmsy character. There had been subdued and guarded complaints, and even gossip about this reaggregable characteristic of the Maisonette. But all fault-finding ceased on the afternoon and evening when Miss Byrne played the Paderewsky peasant dance over and over some dozen or 20 times. Now it was the ex- The historian Freeman once said: "I never let a man die at the end of a chapter." The modern serial, or continued story, exemplifies a like theory of pausing at the very brink of an absorbing event. We consider a yearlong serial one of considerable length; yet in France, in 1610, the first two parts of the Astree, one of the most celebrated Gallic novels, were pub- quisite, rollicking, merry, melodic current that flowed through the wails to the fifth floor front, through the floor to the fourth story suites and through the ceiling to the sixth story's tiny homes. Upstairs and downstairs the delighted tenants blessed the day that Moriarty's builders skimped their work, leaving the house so like a conder that Cordelia Byrne could play them all into the seventh heaven of delight with Paderewski's peasant dance—so suited to the joyous temperament of the Irish audience and to their pretty taste in music. Miss Byrne was taken into the warmest corners of the hearts of the Maisonette on that night. That was, as we recollect it, on a Friday night. The following Wednesday found everything unchanged except the temper of Moriarty's tenants. They were all well and at home, Miss Byrne was very well and at home, and she and her piano were still reproducing the elfish, fairy-like composition of the great Polish pianist The next night it was the turn of the Pinoche club, composed of six of the male tenants of the Maisonette, to meet in Mr. Mahoney's apartments. Five of the members were on hand promptly and waited for Mr. Morlarty, the sixth, to arrive. Miss Cordella Byrne, in the rear suite on the same floor with the Mahoneys, regaled the club members with that choice morceau of Paderewski's, to which we have referred, and with which all the men and women in the Maisonette had for some time been familiar. "Oh, mother of Moses!" one of the men exclaimed, "there's that tween goin' again like the wind at Kinsale." "Easy, easy!" said Mr. Mahoney. "Never mind the tune. Don't waste breath and words upon it till Moriarty comes and then we'll all light on him and give him fair notice that it's either leaving the Maisonette we'll be, in a body, or he'll be getting rid of that female bashi-bazouk in the flat beyond." The plot was afoot. The innocent proprietor of what he once boasted as being "the happiest bunch of homes on the island" was to be trapped when he came for a night's enjoyment, by a rebellious band of tenants who had sworn that either they, Miss Byrne or her piano must leave the house on the first of the incoming month. While these men, at war with a defenseless girl, were fuming and swearing and shaking their clenched fists at the wall which separated Miss Byrne from them, let us look in upon the maiden, all unconscious of the enmities she had aroused. She finished the one hundred and sixty-eighth rendition of the dainty peasant dance, and, closing the piano, moved across the neat and cozy parlor, faintly perfumed with a delicate odor of lilac, to the little writing table and penned a note to her sister. We may read over her shoulders as she wrote: Dear Lou: There is nothing to write, only I know you are wondering. It is win all or lose all with me. I may go back to the counter of a department store—but it won't be until I have to. I've taken the little money mother left me and furnished the apartment and dressed myself with the quietest taste, so as to look ladylike on the smallest outlay. I am grown, myself headlong in every room doing in a swell church, and I am so quiet and demure that I don't think you'd recognize your merry romp of a sister if you saw me. I made a bad choice of an apartment house because the men here are nearly all married and are such oysters that not one has yet made my acquaintance. The landlord is single, though, and rich, and he authorizes me to take him. I tells me he's a perfect "spoon" with women and that any woman can fool him up to the eyes. Not that I want to fool anybody, Lou. On. On. On. "That's a home and a husband-and- that's a home and a husband-and lished four or five years before the third part, and several more in advance of the fourth and fifth parts. About the same time flourished Mille de Scudery, memorable as the author of the first romance of any note written by a woman. She composed and published by installments novels of a length unknown to the readers of today. Every story was originally is- love. I am too good to stand and yell "cash! here, cash!" behind a counter, year in and year out, with a filmy, one-to-a-thousand chance of marrying a floor-walker, before I die. I am so lonely and I am playing such a desperate game! But if you could look in on me, Lou, I'd just simply let loos and we'd have a real old time romp. I am breaking the ice here in the Moriarty Malsonette in the funniest way. I'm doing it with a piano. It's bound to get me acquainted with somebody of the adorable sex. But you must wait until I tell you how my piano is helping me—when I know how it all turns out. Your loving sister, CORDELIA. "That's our last word, Moriarty," Mr. Mahoney was saying to the landlord, who stood with his back against the wall, facing the other members of the Pinocchle club, "the Maisonette's turned into a music box that plays only the one tune, and it's a case of 'good riddance to bad rubbish' with the lot of us." "Hold on, now," said Moriarty, "what's the use of such talk between friends? Leave it to me. I'll go and see the girl and give her the Ki-bosh, all right. What's her and her planer to me, where the likes o' you old friends is concerned?" Moriarty, with a firm and business-like temper, left their angry presence. When Miss Byrne opened the door to receive his visit, she greeted him with such evident, though guarded and blushing, pride, as would have flattered any man alive. As she set out a chair for him, she said that he was the first visitor who had honored her apartments and that she thought it most kind of him to pay her this high compliment. Then she sat opposite to him, at a well chosen distance, suggestive neither of familiarity nor prudish decorum. And, all the time, she let flow a current of the most shrewdly chosen remarks, the purpose of which was veiled by great maldenly simplicity and modesty. While Mr. Moriarty was yielding to a sense of shame for having planned rudeness to so pretty a little lady, he gradually became interested in the matter, as well as the manner, of her speech. He learned of her loneliness, her piety, her domesticity and of her very respectable family connections. His sympathy was first aroused, then his admiration. "But how rude I have been!" Miss Byrne presently exclaimed. "I have not asked whether you had any special errand. Or, did you really come to offer me the first kind word I have had in my new home?" "I heard your planner," the clumsy fellow began, in reply, "and—and—" He pretty nearly blurted out the truth. "Oh! did you like the little piece I was playing?" "Twas the most angelic tew ever I heard in my life," Moriarty answered, recovering his native tact. "Then, do let me play it for you. Oh, I don't mind a bit." She ended the performance with a medley of Irish airs, played with a fair amount of cleverness. She was finished. And the last string which held Moriarty's heart in place was loosened; both that organ and his brain went afloat upon the troubled sea of love. When at length he bid Miss Byrne good night, she dropped a hint that her pious duties at St. Catherine's were interesting her to such a degree that she was seriously thinking of "taking the veil" and devoting herself to the church. The rogue said this so soberly, with such half expressed suggestion of earnestness and doubt of her worthiness that she put Moriarty in an agony lest she should take holy vows before it would be fit time for him to propose marriage to her. Facing his friends at the card table somewhat later, he was unable to conceal his scorn for their unmany behavior of an hour before. "We'll pass no words," said he, "except that I'll be saying this: Come or go, as ye will, but that lone girl'll not be inconvenienced by anybody or anything while she does us all the honor to seek shelter under this roof!" A great many people find satisfaction in grumbling at themselves. sued in batches of small octavos, sometimes running to a score or so. She has been described as "the most pitiless writer of fiction that the world has ever known." The same Seventeenth Century, says Harper's Weekly, illustrates, again, the willingness of French writers to abide their time. 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MILLER, Editor, Resolutions from New Hope ‘We your committee on resolutions beg to submit the following report: ‘Whereas, The Sabbath Cehool ts that department in the church in which the word of Christ is taught for the pur- pose of bringing souls to Christ and bringing up souls in Christ, by teach- ing the Bible in a pure and simple manner, and ‘Whereas, There is no organization ‘on the face of the earth with an ob- Ject more specific and whose responsi- Dility is so great as that of the Sabbath School work, and its influence in any ‘community, and a ‘Whereas, It is a duty we owe to our- selves, to our fellow Christians and to the unbelieving world as teachers—to be able to teach the distinctive views of Christianity in the Sabbath School, ‘by having those teach who know Christ and the power of His resurrection, and love to teach for the love and sense of ‘the responsibility of the work of the Sabbath School in which they are en- gaged. For the Sabbath School says: “Study and think on God’s Word.” In order te know Christ we must know his word, Peter tells us to be always ready to give reason for the hope there is in us. The secret of our hope lies between the sacred lids of the Bible, and we ‘only can tell why we hope by perusing ‘the Scriptures. Therefore be It ‘Resolved, First, that the S. S. strive to elect leaders of high morals and Christian teachers with minds so ‘trained and developed as to render ser- vice to the S. S. which is able to meet the demands of the age and rightly di- vide the word of Truth, | Second, That the 8. S. highly en- dorse the effort of the superintendent in having the weekly teacher® meeting, and any teacher who ‘falls to attend the same, (having missed three succes- sive meetings) shall not be allowed to teach in 8, 8. ‘Third, That the S. S. will not endorse any teacher upon its staff who is cor- rupt in morals and is not embued with the spirit if congeniality, and be it further ‘ Resolved, That the S. 8. will not en- courage incompetent ones to teach who feel moved to do so, and are compara- tively wanting in ability. Furthermore we realize the necessi- ty of early childhood training of the lit- tle girls and boys in our 8. S. who are inclined to render praises by the sing- ing of S. S. songs. Therefore we rec- ommend 0 junevile choir for the S. S. of the “Kings Messengers” wihch is the youngest organized auxiliary of this church. Your Committee, H. L. GUNNINGHAM, J. H. JONES, MRS. H. F. FRAZIER, Chr. LOCALS —THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK— Ee Send your news notes and loca, hopponings to 601 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? ALL THINGS ARE WELL.” ‘That ends well—so pay your subscrip- tion to the Searchlight and get _ good night's sleep. Dr. G. G. Brown writes that he will arrive in Wichita March 2nd. ready to go to work. Mr. McDonald of Pratt, was the guest of Mr, and Mrs. H. C, Underwood last week while in the city. ‘The ladies of the A. M. E, Stéwardess Board will conduct the services on next Sunday afternoon at the A. M. E. church, A special program will be rendered as follows: ‘Selection—Choir, Invocation. Paper—Mrs. L. Reed. Solo—Mrs, 8. Howard. Reading—Mrs, E, Landrum. Inst. Solo—Miss Mamfe Richardson, Solo—Mrs, Theo Kennedy. Offering. ‘ Benediction, All are cordially invited to come out at 3 o'clock p. m. ‘The W. T. Vernon club met Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Tas- ico. A very enjoyable time was had ‘After the transaction of business a tw course luncheon was served by the hos- tess, ‘The club then adjourned to meet with Mrs. Bd, Roach, 1803 N. Mead next ‘Thursday. ‘The main feature of thi meeting will be a quilting, All mem- bers are requested to be present. (Too late for last week.) son was the reception and Valentine festoons of pink and white, the club served. Mr. J. E. Whitted, president Badly dope cue leas Le Le eo oe aeoeee naam who received the guests as they arrived. ‘This is the young men’s initial party royal manner they were entertained. ‘The members of the club are Messrs. J. Ene eee icee Ba A cote oe ie Wm. Mitchell, Gladfry Jones. Roy De Auta iadeeae ae Jas. Johnson. The guests were Misses Eula James Vina Dooley, Massie oa ealea ath ee tees Soca anes mee Irma Clark, M. Hurst, F. Phelps, Haz- el. Murst, Bess Whitted, Anna ‘Smith, ‘M. Jackson, Maria Whitted, Grace Bak- er, L. Covington, Ida Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Fines, G. W. White, S. W. Jones, Theo Kennedy, S. W. Flemings, F. ‘Childs, Messrs. Mort Wilson, F. Bynum, TNE WICHITA SZARCHLION: ae elaine ——————————————————————— Olna Johnson, Homer Roberts, | women’s clus Di The ladies of the G. L.A.Clubmet | A concise statement Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. L. W. among the colored wom jones. After the transaction of busi- oe oor eran ta non of busi" | THE BOOKER WASHII ness they were served to a nice lunch-| WidgiPA a E, Landrum on next Tuesday. {ieee ame ea I ‘The W. T. Vernon Club met Thurs- jay afternoon at the residence of Mrs. B. Hockett. A very enjoyable time was spent. After the regular routine of business a dainty two course lunch- eon was served by the hostess. The Club then adjourned to meet Thursday afternoon Feb. 20, with Mrs, Tasco, 15 ‘Mrs. E. D. Drain is on the sick list, A BIG BARGAIN.—A good Economy steel range, in good condition at a bar- gain for someone, Inquire W. N. MILLER, 634 North Water. Mrs. V. Covington continues to be ill at her home on Water street. CARD OF THANKS. T wish to thank our many friends for their kindness and assistance dur- ing the long illness and recent death of my wife, the late Louisa Gibbs, I also wish to thank all for the beautiful floral offerings. WALTER GIBBS. Mrs. Elmer Johnson who-has been on the sick list is now able to be out again. ‘The B. T. W. Club meet on ‘Thursday Feb, 20 with Mrs, M, Phelps and Mrs. J. Rowles, | Quite an interesting afternoon was spent in discussion and fancy needle work, The club then adjourned to meet with Miss Allee Thompson and Harris, 1222 N. Main street, Thursday, May 5th, Quotations and table talk for next Thursday, Mareh 5th, will be on “Peace” extracts from the serip- tures. Dainty refreshments were served by the hostess. | Mrs. H. F, Frazier, Mrs. J, B, Lewis ‘and daughter, Albertha, were pleasant callers on Mrs. Elmer Johnson, 1650 S. Topeka, Saturday eve. MRS. LOUISA GIBBS DEAD. After a lingering illness with dropsy for the past year Mrs. Louisa Gibbs died at her late home, 219 West Eighth street, Monday night, February 24th, Mrs. Gibbs was one of the pioneer citi- zens of Wichita, and was closely iden- tified with the progress of her people in this community. Mrs, Louisa Gibbs was born near Smith Mills, Ky., about 43 years ago, as near as ean be learned. She came to Wichita about 1884, and made this city her home from. that time to the time of her death, For more than twenty odd years Mrs. Gibbs had been a faithful and consist- ent member of St. Paul's A. M. E. chureh, and she was always at her post of duty. She was a member of Class No, 4, also one of the first_ members of the Song Service of the church, She was deeply interested and often ex- pressed great delight in this service. For more than eight years Mrs. Gibbs was @ dutiful member of the Steward- less Board. She was energetic, thrifty and pro- gressive, and was a property owner. In 1901 she was united in marriage to Mr, Walter Gibbs, who survives. her. She delighted in songs and prayer and praises to her God. Among her favorite songs were these: “I've An- chored My Soul,” “Is My Name Writ- ten There?” “A Charge to Keep I Have," “Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?” “Try Us, Oh God, and Search the Ground.” Mrs, Gibbs had been lingering for some time with that much to be dread- ed disease, dropsy, and for the gast three months was confined to her bed, but she always bore her affliction with Christian patience. She died in the loving embrace of her Saviour, conscious to the last, and peacefully waiting the coming of death. She leaves a husband, one brother, two cousins, an aunt, other relatives and many warm friends, Pastor H. I, Jones returned Thurs- day afternoon from St. Louis and St. Charles, Mo., where he was called to attend the funeral of his brother's wife and the bedside of a sick brother. He reports his brother better. Rev. Jones will fill his regular appointment Sun- day. It is the hope of the pastor that every member and friend will be pres- ent. | WOMEN’S CLUB DIRE7CTORY. A concise statement of the Clubs among the colored women of Wichita. THE BOOKER WASHINGTON CLUB WICHITA, KS. Hour of meeting 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Engaged in needle, charity and lit- erary work, Special 1908 course in typewriting. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs, ‘Thos. Glover, presi- dent; Miss Sallie Rawles, Sec. THE HOME COOKING CLUB, WICHITA, KAN, Engaged in the culinary art. Pro- gressive ideas in fancy and home cook- ing. Meets 2nd and 4th Friday after- noons of each month, Mrs. Will H. Jones, President; Miss Jennie Wheeler, Secretary, THE W. T. VERNON CLUB, WICHITA, KAN. Hour of meeting 2:30 p. m. “Engaged in needle, charity and literary work, Meets every Thursday afternoon, Mrs. B. Hockett, president, Mrs. S. Griggs, secretary. ‘Mrs, Viner Deemer is on the sick list, but is better at this writing. Rey. H. I, Jones will leave Tuesday to atend the second quarterly meeting of the Executive Board, which meets in Pratt on Mareh 5th, The T. B. Club gave a party last Friday night, February 21st, in honor Ee the Bachelor Club. Cards, dancing and pinning on “Buster Brown” ties ing much laughter. At a late hour re- freskments were served. Each of the departed, leaving the hostess as royal A ‘fine suit of clothes, standing col- lar, shining cuffs, patent leather shoes and a silk hat with nothing to back them does not make tae man, One substantial farmer, mechanic, or mer- chant will outweigh a bushel of “dudes.” Get down to real business, youngg man, and become somebody. Make lasting footsteps on the sands of time. RECITAL WAS GRAND. ‘The recital given by Miss Mamie Richardson, assisted by Miss Edmonia Hubbel at Garfield Hall Thursday even- ing was grand in every particular. Every member was a star and all who were present highly enjoyed the splen- did program. Miss Richardson is build- ing for herself a reputation as a teach- er of music of which anyone migat well feel proud, and we predict for her a grand success. If your son or your daughter is not one of her music stu- dents they ought to be and that soon, MEETING POSTPONED. Owing to attending the funeral of Mrs, Louisa Gibbs Thursday the Booker Washington Club adjourned their meeting till next ‘Thursday, when they will meet with Mrs. P. W. Harris, 1222 N, Main street. Al members are requested to be present, FIRE CHIEF A. G. WALDEN DE- FENDS HIS DEPARTMENT. ° In a signed statement, Fire Marshal A. G. Walden defended the colored men composing Hose Company No. 3 from an unjust criticism made against the company at the time of the Dold fire last week. Mr. Walden proved that No. 3 had the first stream of wa- ter and worked as heroically to save the property as any otner company. It is pleasing to all fair-minded men to see a department chief who does net let color or race stand in his way when merit is to be commended. On the part of the colored people we thank Chief Walden for giving of- Acially the truth to the public. CAMPBELL DESERVES PRAISE. It was left to Representative Phil P, Campbell of the third Kansas congres- sional district to come to the defense of the Negro and tae good name of the state of Kansas last week in the House of Representatives. The people of Kansas should give Mr. Campbell due credit for his manly stand. TABERNACLE MEETS THURSDAY. Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 will meet next Thursday, March 5th, in regular session. All members are requested t6 be resen Dr. G. G. Brown will be in Wichita |next week to begin nis practice of meaieine, Ty CLUB, | Orocn's Mnve Grose | Prescriptions Filled with Care ; +++ Drugs of all hinds, Cigars and Tobacco... 3 Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, alwaysa | } ~— eustomar. 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Good Work- -Low Prices to all 684 North Water St. Peerless é. * Steam Laundry Wichita’s Ol“est, Most Re liable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IR THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER f ONS, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market CACAO SE SE At AB Weeser | Druggist | Free Delivery. We will call for and! Deiiver Your Prescriptions | 811 N. Main St. New Phone 620 STORAGE We have anice, dry, san itary Storage Room...... Goods stored with us is safe. Rates the lowest MILLER STORAGE COMPANY 634 North Water St. ESAS RETESTED Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon. -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Ofte Hours yto lla m Residence 2Wor m. 703 N. Main St Tu 8y.m. OFFICE 601 N. MAIN ST LUMBEK Gar aT METZ’S Somer 3rd & Main A Goed Chance For All Those That Would Like To Be Helped Miss Mamie Richardson, of Kansas Citv, Kan, has locat- ed in our city as a MUSIC TEACHER. She comes well recommended from some of the best instructors in the west. Had several years ex- perience in teaching. She solicits your patronage and will be glad to meet you at 630 NORTH WATER ST., Phone 1041 RR A steel range cheap, 634 N. Wale! street. ic Supplement to The SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, = ? = = KANS. ee During the last two sessions of con. gress the question of copyright has conve up in all its old complexities and yith some new difficulties. The at- tempt to secure longer copyright for the authors of books has been practteal- jy confused with the question of mu- sical copyright in relation to phono- gvaph records and the rolls used in mechanical plano-players. Under both *tnese practical questions, which must bs decided separately, les the funda- mental theory of copyright. Copy- rigit, like trade-mark or patent right, ts an artificial monopoly, determined not by “natural” justice, but by arbl- trary statute. The man who makes a machine or an attractive name for soap or a novel asks the public to give pim exclusive use of his idea, in order that he may profit. The public grants him this exclusive use, not for his sake, but for its own sake. The idea, says the Youth’s Companion, is that such special protection encourages men to produce ideas. The words of the American constitution express clvarly the attitude of government, that is, the public, toward the individ- ual. Congress is empowered “to pro- mote the progress of scfence and use- ful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries.” In this the emphasis is on the welfare of the public, the progress of the art and science, and uot on the well-being of the individual. ‘The individual may ask the public to secure to himself and his descendants the profit of an idea for a hundred years. Society replies, in effect, “We do not care about you or your family. How can we get the most out of you? How can we coax and encourage you to produce your best, and at the same time have use of your ideas with the least possible restriction?” ‘To deter- mine where to draw the line, how long copyright shall endure, how long a patent shall live, is a question of psy- chology. ‘The effort ot law should be to cut the term down as low as reason- able generosity and the facts of hu man nature will permit, Gambling in Cuba. American influence has brought about some important changes in Cu bin customs and notably in the abolt- tion of the bull ring and the cock pit, which used to be the chief Sunday at- tactiong of the populace. Not a few of the better class of Havanese desire the same fate for Jai Alai and would rejoice to see the Fronton closed for ever. High and low wager immoder- ately on this game and many stories of ruined reputations and wrecked businesses are connected with it Every race has its prevailing vice and {ts comparative freedom from others. The Cubans are incurable gamblers, but drunkenness is virtually unknown among them, writes C. H. Forbes- Lindsay in the World To-Day. Both sexes in Havana spend a great deal of time in the numerous open air cafes, but they drink, for the most part, non. alcoholic, fruity beverages, ‘of which there are an extensive variety pecu- lar to the country. ha Riebenthinnnass nt Cute With the recent extension of rafl- roa | facilities, tourists in general have beaun to extend their travel beyond the neighborhood of Havana, and they ae learning that the provinces offer yen greater attractions than the a |. All the principal cities are pictuvesque and interesting, and each has distinetly individual characteris- tes, The hotel accommodations are #llom as good as they should be, but the waveler will not suffer actual dis comlort anywhere, says C. H. Forbes- Linisay in the World To-Day. to *'ery place one encounters Americans, With an occasional Spaniard, Cana Gian or Britisher, who are spying out this land of promise and quietly piek- dog up desirable tracts of ft. Prohibition surely seems to be Barciing on, A conference has been held iy London, participated in by men ot hemispheres, and including a £00) sepresentation from America, the ° which Is to inaugurate a x © moyement, supported by a fone vation Composed of workers fn the prohibition cause in all parts of the ‘The progress made in the Untied States of Jate has been re Markable, but the success attained in many parts of the old world, where the ducking habit is far more of an Ssblished institution, is still more extraordinary. : Masiia is the bestgoverned elty in the Oneat. We understand all about = thoory of government in this Suntry, but sometimes we hate to ap- i ‘ob ourselves, It is well that we tp 2tt bunch of foretgners on whom cae Rtimeat and thus prove our ———=—= a “™ aipears to be @ difference of hing (at? Whether oF not erepe de Bley Why not call on the ~“oman unannounced and ask he PAWDAL she selis it for? The General Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its com- ponent parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yel, prompt, in action, In supplying that demand with its ex- cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies ‘on the merits of the laxative for its remark- able success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-Informed. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine—manufactured by the Cali- fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty centa per bottle, A Necessity of Life. The liquor men say that Americans every year spend less money for liquor than for chewing gum, proprietary medicines, candy, perfumes and hair oil. However, Americans simply must have hair oil. A St. Patrick Rooste>. “My friend,” said the irate custom. er to his poultryman in Washington market, “I didn’t like that last chick- en at all. Why, it had no lungs!” “Oh, that's all right; it was a St. Patrick rooster.” “A St. Patrick rooster? What has that got to do with the case?” “Lord, man, don't you know that a St. Patrick rooster never crows? Therefore what does he want with lungs? Anything else wrong with him?” “Well, er—er—no. Otherwise he was a fine animal.” “Good. But next time I'll throw in an extra pair of lungs.”—New York Press. Chaties tow Gonvalaion: In the ante-bellum days, when An- son P. Morrill of Maine was making his first run for congress, a _hench- man of his opponent met an old min- ister of that section slowly jogging along the road on his old horse and hailed him with: “Who are you going to vote for?” “Well,” said the old man, “I thought I should give Anson a yote. Anson has good timber in him, I believe.” “Oh, but I don't see how you can vote for him! Don't you know he's a Universalist? He doesn’t belleve in a hell.” With a quiet twinkle in his eye the old man said: “We'll send him to Washington, When he has served his two years if he doesn’t be lieve in a hell I shall be very much surprised.” SHE WAS BUSY, TOO! ie AltA) zed Ip ey h ey So ay Ee As\ 1aey Ye 4% eo" Ne p EY f/\ Bo m/f > \ hod ont NS oy. She—And did my Duckums do a lot at work work at tie offs last aight? He—A—er—yes, dear; in fact, dar- ing, I was so much occupied that I have never known time go as quickly as it did last night. She—Yes, dear, didn’t it! (And Dickums wasn't out late egain!) BRAIN POWER Increased by Proper Feeding. | A lady writer who not only has done good literary work, but reared a family, found in Grape-Nuts the ideal food for brain work and to develop |healthy children. She writes:— | “I am an enthusiastic proclaimer of GrapeNuts as a regular diet. I for- merly had no appetite in the morning and for 8 years while nursing my four children, had insufficient nourishment for thém. “Unable to eat breakfast I felt faint later, and would go to the pantry and eat cold chops, sausage, cookies, dough- nuts or anything I happened to find. Being a writer, at times my head felt heavy and my brain asleep. “When I read of Grape-Nuts I began eating it every morning, also gave it to the children, including, my 10 months old baby, who soon grew as ‘fat as a litle pig, good natured and contented. “Within a week I had plenty of breast milk, and felt stronger within two weeks. I wrote evenings and feeling the need of sustained brain power, began eating a small saucer of Grape-Nuts with milk instead of my usual indigestible hot pudding, pie, or cake for dessert at night. “Grape-Nuts did wonders for me and I learned to like {t. I did not mind my housework or mother’s cares, for I felt strong and full of ‘ep’ I grew plump, nerves strong, and when I wrote my brain was active and clear; {ndeed, the dull head pain never re- turned.” “There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, Read, “The Road to ‘Wellville,” in pkgs. KANSAS ITEMS SUMMARY OF WEEN'S HAPPENINGS Junction City paper announces that it is informed by J. Ralph Burton, editor of the Home Rule, that that paper will be suspended and the sub: scription list will be added to that of the Salina Union, The Union will be 4 Democratic paper. Kansas Boy Leads. — The first honor cadet of the recent graduating class of West Point is Glen Edgerton of Manhattan, Riley county, Edger- ton, who was only 17 years old when appointed to the academy, is the third youngest member of his class and has consistently led his fellow cadets throughout his four Years’ course, Killed Himself at 67 Years.—W. G. Griffin, aged 67 years, committed sui- cide at Galena by shooting himself in the head. The suicide stood before a mirror and took aim. Business wor- ries and melancholy are given as the cause. Sealed letters were left ex- plaining distribution of property in- terests. Previous to locating in Ga- lena, in 1877, Griffin lived at Atchison and for many Years freighted across the Kansas piains. Dormitory of Schoo! Destroyed. — The dormitory of the Swedish Mis- sion, or Walden coliege, at MePher- son, was totally destroyed by fire. The fire was discovered in the attic, but on account of the distance from the fire hydrant the water was not turned on until the place was a mass of ruins, The entire contents of the upper floors were burned, but all the occupants eseaped without injury. ‘Insurance on the building was only $6,500, with none on the contents, For Betterment of Schools. — Gov. Hoch, upon selections made by E. T. Fairehild, state superintendent _ of Public instruction, appointea the fot. lowing educational commission for Kansas: J, W. Gleed, Topeka; Superintendent R. F, Knight, Wich- ita; Superintendent L, A, Lowther, Emporia; Superintendent W. D, Ross, Peabody; Principal W. S. Pate Cherokee; County Superintendent A. J, Stanley, Lincoln. The commission was appointed at the request of the last meeting of the Kansas State Teachers’ Association, Governor Invited to White House, —Gov. Hoch has received a letter from the White House inviting him to attend a conference of the govern- ors of the different states in Wash- ington, May 13 to 15. The purpose of the conference is “The concer ivi of the natural resources of the coun- try.” The invitation extended to the governor by the president includes three other persons. The governor has not yet decided who will accom- pany him. Several applications were made before the invitation had been received. The meeting will be heid in the “East Room” of the White House. Cattle Quarantine Raised. — State Live Stock Sanitary Commissioner John Baker has received word from Washington to the effect that the quarantine for seabies among cattle which has existed over Norton, Phillips, Graham and Rooks counties for nearly a year has been raised. ‘The quarantine -will be off March 1. ‘There are still twenty-four counties in the western part or the state which are under quarantine for seabies or mange. The cattiemen of the four counties above named have been making strenuous effort for some time to have the quurantine raised and will be greitly pleased over the action in Washington. Two Batteries For Foreign Service. — The headquarters and batteries A and B, First battalion of the Fifth field artillery, have left Fort Leaven- worth for foreign servies. The com: pany consisted of nine officers and 280 enlisted men under command of Captain J. B. Stephens. The soidiers left on a speci] train that is to get through in time to sail from San Francisco for Manila February 20, Masons Elect State Officers. — At the session of the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Kansas, held at Topeka, the selection of officers for the ensuing year resulted thus: Grand high priest, Augustus 0, Well man, Topeka; deputy grand high priest, Thomas G. Fitch, «Wichita: grand king, Fred Washbon, Anthony; grand scribe, William H. Evans, Marion; grand treasurer, A. H. Con- nett, Great Bend; grand secretary, Albert K. Wilson, Topeka; grand cap- tain of the host, Will C. Chaffee, To- peka; grand royal arch — captain, Harry EB, Best, Manhattan; grand marshal, William L, Maxweil, Paola; grand sentinel, Spencer P, Wade, To- peaks. year-old daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Al len Grimes, who lives north of Wood- ston, received frightful injuries by falling backward into a bucket of hot water. The flesh from the middle of the back to the knees was nearly cooked. Small hopes are entertained for recovery. ‘ Oil Inspector Reports. — State Oil Inspector L, T. Hussey has filed his report for the month of January with ‘the state auditor. It shows that dur ing the month 22,626 barreis of kero- sene and 6,461 barrels of gasoline were inspected by the department. ‘The total amount of fees for the month was $2,920.15, The check turned over to the state treasurer was for $2,271.92. 235 Men Laid Off—A reduction of two hundred and thirty-five men on the force of the Santa Fe shops at Topeka was made recently. This number includes men from every de- partment and class and has been made necessary, the officials say, on ecount of the great decrease in traf- fic on the system, Some of the men who were laid off will probably be re- instated within a short time, The re- duction was made to reduce the ex: penses of the shops. Kansas Missionary Dead in India— News reached Newton of the death of Amos G. Horst of that city in Bengal, India. Mr. Horst, with his wife and two-year-old son, went to India as a missionary in October, 1905. An epi- demic of smallpox invaded the band of workers to which they belonged and four of the missionaries, ineld- ing Mr, Horst, died of the disease. ‘The missionaries were compelled to burn their houses and much of their bed clothing in order to destroy the germs of the disease, Mrs, Horst and her young child are left without a home in a far away country and Jamong a strange people. Girl Burned to Death—While Mrs. Steve Hicks, living on the Heath ranch northeast of Burns, was out of the house after an armful of wood little Grace, thelr 3-year-old child, ts supposed to have been playing around the kitchen stove, as the grate was open and some burned pa- per wis on the floor, and in doing so her clothing caught on fire, for upon the return of the mother the child was standing in the middle of the room with outstretched arms and en- veloped in flames. Her clothing hat burned entirely off, burning the flesh ie a crisp from the knees up. After three and a half hours of agony, death ended her suffering. Are Making Ready.—Nearly all of the officers have had their primary petitions printed and most of them are sending ont the biank petitions to [be circulated. ‘The state officers are ‘planning to circulate their petitions ‘in at least 20 counties of the state in- jstead of ten counties. The primary law provides that if the petitions are [circulated in ten counties the num- ‘ber of signers must be at least 1 per ‘cent of the total number of votes cast Tor secretary of state in the last elec: ‘tion in the entire state. If the peti- ‘tions are circulated in 20 counties it |is necessary to secure 1 per cent of ‘the total vote cast in those counties ‘alone, If the petitions were elreuiat- ‘ed in ten counties it would be neces- ‘sary to secure 1,636 signatures while it is possible to get a name on the ‘primary ballot by circulating the pe~ ‘titions in 20 counties and securing a little more than 600 names. | da Tarbell to Speak at K, U.— Miss Ida Tarbell, one of the editors of the American Magazine, has prom- ised to speak at the University of Kansas, at Lawrence, in April, Her address probably will be made in the Robison gymnasium. Sues For Big Damages. — ‘William Leeman of Leavenworth has filed suit in the distriet court for $10,000 damages against J. E, Olvis for in- juries alleged’ to haye been sustained from being struck by Olvis’ automo- bile, | Big Mortgage Filed at Wichita—A $50 000,000. mortgage given by the Kansas & Colorado Pacifle Railway Company to the Guarantee Trust | Company of New York, has been filed in Sedgwick county. ‘The Kan- ‘sas & Colorado Pacifie includes the Fort Scott, Wichita & Western and the Missouri Pacifie im Kansas, ‘The mortgage runs 30 years and bears 6 per cent, payable semi-annualiy, It is dated February 1, 1908, and is styled a “refunding mortgage.” It is the largest mortgage ever recorded in this county. The filing fee was e040 50. EK , RH EUMATISM eh y) Weta Lapis | S'JAGOBS OIL Yu aoe oo WER CHOICE OF DEMISE. Pathetlo Thought of Little Girl Who Had Lost Playmate, ‘Mary had for neighbor a small play- mate, a much-loved and attractive boy. The little lad rushed across the street one day, throwing back a glance at his mother. At that instant a trolley car swept around the corner and the re- sulting tragedy threw the town into mourning, Each family wept as though its own son had been lost. Mary was utterly disconsolate and, Uttle as she had previously known of death, realized in a childish way the added horror of this one. In her con- vulsive grief, and while her father and mother sat with sobs in their throats and tears overflowing, Mary straight- ened up and sobbed: “Mother, when I die I hope it will be of a disease and not of a damage!” ECZEMA FOR 55 YEARS. Suffered Torments from Birth—In Frightful Condition—Got No Help Until Cuticura Cured Him. “I had an itching, tormenting ecze- ma ever since I came into the world, and I am now a man 55 years old, I tried all kinds of medicines I heard of, but found no relief. I was truly in a frightful condition. At last I broke out all over with red and white boils, which kept growing until they were as big as walnuts, causing great pain’ and misery, but I kept from scratching as well as I could. I was so run down that I could hardly do my work, I used Cuticura Soap, Oint- ment, Resolvent, and Pills for about eight months, and I can truthfully say I am cured. Hale Bordwell, Tipton, Ta, Aug. 17, 1907.” “I cheerfully endorse the above tes- timonial. It is the truth, I know Mr. Bordwell and know the condition he was in, Nelscn R. Burnett, Tipton, la.” Whe: Staking ota: dburnatist. Henry H. Ashton, a Virginia City capitalist, has in his library, richly bound in crushed Levant, those early volumes of the Virginia City Enter- prise to which Mark Twain contrib. uted. The faded pages contain innumer- able specimens of the famous writer's quaint humor. Mr. Ashton often points out the first paragraph that Mark Twain wrote on his arrival in Virginia City. The paragraph runs: “A thunderstorm inade Beranger a poet, a mother’s kiss made Benjamin West a painter and a salary of $15 a week makes us a journalist.” John Muir's Simplicity. Once, in a talk with E. H. Harriman, John Mulr, author and ranchman, said that he was richer than Mr. Harriman. “I know what you mean,” said Mr. Harriman, “but I won't admit it. Don't you think wealth is a good thing for a man?” “Not great wealth—no. Your rich Man renounces too much. I would rather lie down at night by an old spring I know up in the Sierras than to own the Waldorf-Astoria—that is, if Thad to live in it."—Bookman, eae Thic? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Rewar) for any gageror Catarch Unt cannot ve cured by Halle F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Wo, the undersigned; have kavwa Pod. Cheiey. for thie last 15 years. gad belleve bin perfectly hon- Sete cary out any biigucions made ty hen Walonic. hiras a Maeein, Vupiesain Dragitsts, Toiedo, O Hal's Catareh Care te taken’ laterniliy, acting steetly up the blood aad toucous surfaces ae the Figen Tectinontalc ne treo.” Prices coute pur tle. Suid by all Drgatst ‘Tako Hall's Famtiy Pills $F constipation, Ivy's Strength. An ivy plant which established itselt in a crevice of the tower of St. John the Baptist church at Yaraborouzh, England, undermined the foundation ‘and lifted stones out of place until it ‘will cost $3,000 to make epairs, “Brown's Bronchial Troches” are helpful to singers, teachers and clergymen for clearing the voice, Con- tain nothing harmful. It is the confiding nature of some women that makes them want to tell you their family troubles before you have known them ten minutes. ‘Whe surer a girl is about a man’s being in love with her the less sure she is about being in love with hita. WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE. From October to May, Colds are the most fre quent eauseot Headache, LAN ATIVE BROMO QUININE removes cause. E:W.Groveon box dee ‘The more money a girl has to burn the easier it will be for her to find a leap-year match, PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 Days. PAZO OINTMENT tn wiaranteed to-ctre any case Hao We ge Btolddaysormosey refunded. se. It is not easy to sting a bear with ‘g@ straw.—Danish. . WOMAN'S. BACKACHE ar the back is the ae of woman’s organism. It quickly calls attention to trouble by aching. It tells, with other symptoms, such as nervousness, headache, pains in the loins, weight in the lower part of the body, that a woman’s feminine organism needs immediateattention, In such cases the one sure remedy which speedily removes the cause, and restores the feminine organism to a healthy, normal condition is LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S Mrs. Will Young, of 6 Columbia Ave. Rockland, Me. says: “T'was troubled for along time with dreadful backaches and a pain in my side, and was miserable in every way~ I doctored until I was discouraged and thought I would never get well. I read what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound had done for others and decided to try it; after taking three bottles I can truly say that I never felt 60 well in my life.” Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East Earl, Pa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: “T had very severe backaches, and pressing-down pains. Icould not sleep, and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound cured me and made me feel like a new woman.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. #or thirty years Lydia %. rink- ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ils and has positively cured thousands o! ‘women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, uleera~ tion, fibroid. tumors, irregularities periodic pains, backache, that: bear- ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges~ tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration. ee A Nature Student. The faculty with which the New York child grasps the “new idea” im matters educational is charmingly il- lustrated in a composition recently penned by a six-year-old. Her teach- er had asked for brief compositions on “Animals I Have Seen.” This tp the result, written in the present day vertical penmanship: “Do you see the little robin swing- ing on the tree? Do you see the little goldfish a-swimming in the bowl? Who teached these two to fly so beau tifully together? Who struck the feathers on their breasts? "Twas Go® —'Twas God. He done it.” LETIRO = DODDS » iia [nec ea b ye 375 “Guaratty ) SICK HEADACHE GARTERS] rere ttie'en” PM Tre jena LIVER |usice tenet fF] PULLS. |i ocr ae muey vegaiate tie Rowela Durciy vegeseeie SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine Must Bear GARTERS) Fees Sgaturo Be fcuk (Gems! _| REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 9, 1908. IMMIGRATION FROM SOUTH EXPECTED U. 8. FARMERS ARE RECOGNIZING SPLENDID OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY WESTERN CANADA. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 9, 1908.—Present indications are that the Canadian Northwest will draw an exceptionally heavy movement of new settlers from the United States this year. It should surpass the banner record for 1907. This is not only based on the fact that the Americans have come to realize generally that the Canadian Northwest offers splendid opportunities, but also because the railroads have awakened to the fact and are offering rates to the Canadian Northwest which are exceptionally favorable. The lines which lead to St. Paul from the east and south are offering homeseekers' rates to the Canadian Northwest this year which are on a parity with those in existence to the southwest for a couple of seasons. These rates can be obtained from any agent of the Canadian government, who will be pleased to give all information possible regarding those districts which offer the greatest inducements to settlers. The weather throughout Western Canada has been remarkably good this year. A telegram from the winter wheat belt of Southern Alberta dated at Cardston, Alberta, January 29th, says: "This winter up to January 25 was nothing short of a marvel, in fact, it was the finest anyone can remember for twenty-five years though there have been others nearly as good. The days were fine, sunny and warm with light frosts at night. Overcoats and gloves, etc., were discarded by most people in the day time. There was so little frost in the ground that post holes could be dug without any trouble after the first inch was broken through. Winter wheat remained fresh and green although there has been no snow since the September storm. If there is an early spring, winter wheat should gain a great start." Amongst the reports of the yield of last year the following extracts are taken: H. Howe, of Magrath, Alta, writing on November, 1907, says: "I have 70 acres in crop, 50 acres of wheat and seven acres of oats. My average yield of oats was 35 bushels to the acre, and of wheat 45 bushels. The value to me was $35 per acre." J. F. Haycock, of Magrath, writes in November: "I had 65 acres in winter wheat, which went 60 bushels to the acre; oats averaged 80 bushels. I also had 12 tons of hay worth $10 per ton. I got 600 bushels of potatoes from three acres of land; I got eight tons per acre from five acres of sugar beet." J. F. Bradshaw, of Magrath, had 1,030 acres of winter wheat last year which averaged 39½ bushels to the acre. The value of his farm products per acre was: Wheat, $31.60; oats, $11.20 and barley, $25.15. Of course men are not vain, but just tell a man of 50 that he doesn't look a day over 30 and watch the effect. MONEY FOR RECIPES Prizes of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) In Gold for the Best Recipes. For our syndicate service to newspapers throughout the country you can obtain from the House- wives' Club Small Subscription appetizing dishes. 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For pamphlet, *Last Best West*, particulars as to rates, routes, best time to go and where to locate, apply to LITTLE VISITS WITH "UNCLE BY" The Boss. NO! Mandy's gist a smallish woman with a meek an' lowly air— In her face there ain't no discord, an' there's silver in her hair. She is kind and sympathetic and as gentle as a dog An' she stands a lot of naggin' fore she lets her temper go. She is patient as an angel and as balmy as th' night. "mother starts it go, You can't head her off her stop her 'til she's run a mile or so! I kin handle her most always when my arguments is fair— She's a thinkin' kind o womens an' she lib'ral to a hair, But yew try t trifle with her an' I'll bet you'll rue th' day That you contradicted "mother" in yer overhearb' way. Once I tried to sell the eighty for t' buy a patient right— Gosh, I tell you me an' Mandy—well, we blamed near had a fight! But she wouldn't sign them papers an' 'twas lucky, too, by ging. Fer our neighbor lost his homestead when he bought th' gol durned thing! Still, she taunts a feller, an' she's never sour ner mad When I cut sum foolish caper 'ginst th' I'll judgment that she nad. I kin ricolict Old Nigger tret was sound as hick'r wood— I wryt that I trieve with Bagley, an th' borer done no good! 'Twas again' her best advisin' but I traded gist th' same— I wuz always sorry for it fer a spavin made him lame! When th' gal she up an' married, I was madder than a hawk, But my wife she tuk th' ribbons an' she made ME toe th' chalk! They are happy now as robins an' th' lad is donn' well— Mandy sed he'd be successful, when he cum a-courtin' Nell. They hev got th' cutest baby thez ever happened yet An' they've named him for his grandad, Abyss, Horne Roger, you bet! dogs, you We air goin' there 'theromfer ter' t' visit them awhile- They air livin' up t' Elgin in th' swellest kind o' style. Do yew know, I hate t' tell it, but b' gosh-'I'm bound t' say I am glad, sometimes, that Mandy sets her foot down that-a-way! ★★★ Bag Time Eddies Sometimes a fellow who seems to be full of ideas is merely full of prunes. Of course the jaws of death have some terrors for a man—but there are the jaws of a wife on earth! Sometimes the person who talks continuously doesn't say as much as the one who snaps, "Yes, sir!" and "No, sir!" ☆ ☆ ☆ Love is the incentive to prove the fact that it costs ever so much more for two young people to live together than separately. ☆ ☆ ☆ The undertaker never knows whether the new doctor is a friend of his until the doc, is through practicing on the first patient. ☆ ☆ ☆ The world is surely coming to an end this time. An Iowa woman admits that her baby is not the smartest that ever was born. ☆ ☆ ☆ Why Don't You? The man who made "The Pigs in Clover" Got rich as Midas, so they say. Twas just a simple little puzzle Why don't you follow suit, today? The man who first thought out the gimlet Made just a million dollars clear. While he who made the rubber pencil No longer has the wolf to fear. Why don't you think up something easy And give me half? I've passed the hint Fire Protection. There was a fire on Main street Saturday and everybody in town was there excepting Awake Hose company. The fire flend burned down a shed at the rear of the fire engine house and threatened four cord of shabs belonging to Anson Judson before its ravings was checked. The old system of sending firefighters to the manager's fire department to notify them that a fire has broke out will be abandoned, as it is too slow-Roy K. Moulton, Editor Hoppertown Gazette. Happiness The editor of the Auxvasse (Mo.) Review makes the following plea for the simple life: "You frequently hear folks say they wish they were a millionaire. But our idea of happiness is the one that owns 40 acres of land in the hills, don't owe a cent, has a wife and seven children, five good coon dogs, some team of mules, 47 miles from a railroad and right on a good stream to fish. If that would not be happiness unalloyed we would like to know where you would go to find it." ★ ★ ★ "! would die for you," he wrote As his passion mounted higher. But she found in later life Dying does not light the fire! Byron Williams POLICE JUDGE WILLS. Will Gladly Answer the Questions of any Inquirer. It is a generous offer that Police Judge J. H. Wills, of Cloverport, Ky., makes to sufferers from backache, kidney and bladder lills. Judge Wills knows the value of Doan's Kidney Pills and will answer the questions of any sufferer who writes to him. The judge says: "I take pleasure in recommending key and bladder ins. Judge Wills knows the value of Doan's Kidney Pills and will answer the questions of any sufferer who writes to him. 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Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and they will send you the most original seed book published, together with free samples of farm seeds such as Macaroni Wheat, Billion Dollar Grass, Victoria Rape, Sainfoin, the dry soil luxuriant, Bromus Ingermis, the desert grassifier, Emperor William Oats, more original than the Emperor himself, etc., etc. And if you send 14c they will mail in addition a package of farm seed never before seen by you. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. K. & W. Power of Deceiving There is a Brooklyn woman who possesses a servant who is a model in all respects save one—in that she is none too truthful. Lately the mistress has been using all her eloquence to make Nora see the error of her deceitfulness. But at last she had to own herself beaten when Nora, with a beaming Irish smile, turned and in a most cajoling tone said: "Sure, now, mum, an' wot de ye suppose the power of desavin' was given us fer?"—Illustrated Sunday Magazine. Sees America a Heaven. Prof. W. B. Elkin of the University of Missouri believes that America will be a veritable heaven on earth within 100 years, and he goes on to tell why in an article which he has written for the American Journal of Sociology. Among other things which will be a feature of the millennium he pictures is a reformed press. Newspapers, he says, will be printed and edited by the colleges. FINE RECIPE FOR COLDS. Mix two ounces of glycerine with one half pint of good whiskey and one half ounce of Concentrated Oil of Pine. This latter is a product of the Globe Pharmaceutical Co. of Dayton, Ohio, and comes in one half ounce vials and packed in tin screw top cases. Any druggist should have it. This simple mixture is to be used in doses of a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful four times a day. The bottle should be well shaken each time. Action of Animal Charcoal. Why animal charcoal removes the color from colored liquids while wood charcoal has no effect has not been understood. A European chemist now finds that the action of the former is due to the presence of five and seven per cent. of nitrogen. ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE" That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for the signature of E. W. GROYE. Used the World ever to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c. There is nothing ill said that is not ill taken.—German. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Try to get rich quick to-day, then hunt a job to-morrow. At the Change Weak Women frequently suffer great pain and misery during the change of life, when the female functions are undergoing the readjustment that comes to every woman.. These hot and cold flashes, pains in back or side, drawing sensations, headaches, dizzy feelings, etc., have been found, in thousands of cases, to disappear, as a result of taking Wine of Cardui Mrs. Lucinda C. Hill, of Freeland, O., writes: "Before I took Cardui, I suffered so, I was afraid to lie down at night. 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Me own grandfather was havin' liver trouble whin I were not more'n tin years old." "Maybe," was the laconic response. "But," added Norah, "what I want to know is: how do thim slugs get inside the liver, anyhow?"—Illustrated Sunday Magazine. TOO MUCH. Eddie—I don't mind so much dat I quit smokin' 'cause you ast me ter, but ter be refused after I'd gone an' washed me handsome face fer a week straight—well, honest, I didn't think it of yer. Rather Neatly Put. A Baltimore man had until recently a darky in his-employ—about as shiftless and worthless a darky, says he, as ever he came across. One day the employer, his patience exhausted, called Sam into his office and told him to look for another job. "Will you give me a letter of recommendation?" asked Sam, piteously. Although he felt that he could not conscientiously comply with this request, the Baltimore man's heart was touched by the appeal. So he sat down to his desk to write a non-committal letter of character for the negro. His effort resulted as follows: "This man, Sam Harkins, has worked for me one week, and I am satisfied." GREATNESS. The man who has greatness thrust upon him is always sure that he could have achieved it if that had been necessary. OVER NINE MILLION (9,200,000) SOLD THIS YEAR. Sales Lewis' Single Binder cigars for year 1907 more than.....9,200,000 Sales for 1906.....8,500,000 Gain 700,000 Quality brings the business. The Winning Smile "Say, Mag," said Mame, "I don't see how you got so stuck on him. He ain't good-looking nor nothin'." "I know he ain't," replied the lovelorn Maggie, "but didn't yer never notice wat a lot o' gold he's got in his teeth?" Any 12 Year Old Girl Can make those delicious Lemon, Chocolate and Custard pies as well as the more experienced cook if she uses OUR-PIB" preparation, which now sold by nearly all grocers at 10 cents per package. Just the proper ingredients in each package. "Put up by D-Zerta Co., Rochester, N.Y." 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First-class work at reasonable prices. We give away discount coupons with all work amounting to 50c and over. Your trade solicited Goods Called For and Delivered MODERN CLEANING AND DYE W C. G. HANSON, Prop. 110 St. Francis Ave Phone 12 .. EMERSON SAID "If a man write a book, preach a better sermm make a better mouse-trap than his neigh though he builds his house in the woods, the will make a beaten path to his door" The "path" to our door proves that Peerless Princess Flou AND DYE WOKS SON, Prop. Phone 1286 red ON SAID... reach a better sermon or up than his neighbor, in the woods, the world his door" door proves that ncess Flour AND DYE WOKS C. G. HANSON, Prop. EMERSON SAID "If a man write a book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door" The "path" to our door proves that Peerless Princess Flour Is the Best. At all Grocers. We also keep in stock Bran, Shorts and Corn Chop. Market your grain and buy or exchange for Flour or Feed at our Mill Howard Mills Co. A. FAFTGER, W. R. TUCKER, Mills Co. GAMS Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-day 329 East Center SALINA, KANSAS assistant marshall. The club keeps open doors for membership. The supper given by the "Standing Club" Feb. 29, was quite a success. --- United States Depository W. E. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L. Haines, S. B. Amidon, B. F. Me Luna, J. M. Moore, L. S. Nafagus, E. H. Middleauff, O. Z. Smith. General Banking Business Tranacted W CHITA NSAS ohnston's Restaurant 339 N. Main St. Meals 20c and 25c Cigars, Tobacco, Lunch Game and Oysters in Season Your Trade Wanted ocluded people of Medicine Lodge organized a 'Standing Club.' The was organized Nov. 1, 1907, with Carter, president; John Pritch-chairman of ex. com.; Prof. W. Bench, sec.; Will Clay, assistant; Fuller, marshall; Henry Clay. A Smoke Talk At Home With green wood in the stove or fire place isn't what its cracked up to be We have lots of nice dry Wood cut in 16 inch and 2-foot lengths. Also plenty of GOOD COAL always on hand.. NOTE PHONE 496 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS $33 to $47 WEST DOUGLAS Please Your Wife If you want to please your wife you must buy "Wichita's Best" Flour A skYourGrocer For It Have No Other PEONISCH BROS, Agents 622 N. Main St., Phone 530 We also handle Feed and Coal FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" ```markdown ``` The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charles Ford Press 153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. Agents wanted everywhere. 638 North Water Street All kinds of Fancy and Staple Groceries .... We will appreciate YOUR TRADE At 638 North Water St It is my sad duty to notify all Temples, Tabernacle and Palatiurns of the death of Rev. Sir Paul Giles G. P. P., who departed this life Feb. 9, 1908. All members are requested to wear their mourning badge for a period of thirty days from date of notice. All C. M. s. H. P. s are requested to be punctual with their quarterly reports the first week in March so as to receive the pass on time. By order of SIR FRANK WILSON C. G. M. 444 999 A WORD FROM ATCHISON, KAN. Sir Knight Shepard, who has been ill quite a while is able to get about with the assistance of a cane. C. M. Burdette is wearying with a slight touch of the grip, and seems to be some what restless. I think he is wondering if that dear brothers (who said he hoped we would all be in Heaven before the end of the year) words are a going to come true. Dtr. Johnson who has been in the hospital for several weeks will be able to return home in a few days. Verena Patterson, age 7 years, 3 months, who departed this life Jan. 8, 1908, was a member of Busy Bee Test No. 14. She was very bright and loved by all who knew her. Her endowment of $25 was paid to her adopted mother, Mrs. Jenette Stewart, at the Mt. Calvary Baptist church, Feb. 16. Eutavator Tabernacle No. 37 wishes to say: Has a membership of 76 all in good standing and are getting along grandly. Dtr P. Waters H. P., Dtr. V. M. Irvin, vice H. P., Dtr. Laura Jordan, sec. Wright's Grocery NOTICE. Western U The leading ed stitute for Negro A faculty of eighteen thor from the leading Inst MAGNIFICENT Steam Heated and DEPART Theological, Classical, Nor cal, State Industrial, embr tecture, Carpentry, Mecha Book-binding, Tailorlng, making, Millinery, Cooking, Thorough discipline, careful supervision Fine Military Bank For full particulars write Prof. Shelte Of Western QUINDA Residence Phone No. 15 Western University The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west M.C. COY A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted Theological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailorlng, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. Crescent Tabernacle No. 5, will give an other Leap Year party in the near future. Presiding Elder J. M. Wilson preached two grand and noble sermons Sunday, being quarterly conference. Rev. Smothers of Ebenzzar Baptist church, will on Feb. 26-27 give a grand musical as a dedicatory of their new pipe organ. A number of out of town talented participants will be here. The warriors of Shilo Baptist church are getting ready to wage war on sin, under the command of Rev. Blake, who is certainly master of the situation. The carnation art club gave a successful entertainment at the residence of the president, Mrs. E. B. Taylor, last Monday eve. Daughter Lollie Dale who was a member of Eantevator Tabernacle No. 37 departed this life Thursday morning, Feb. 20. She was a long sufferer. She leaves nine children, the youngest twin boys 5 months old. We mourn the loss of our dear daughter who was loved by all who knew her. She died in the full triumph of faith. We thank those who helped us in our distress. Rev. W. M. Smothers officiat. Sent in by Dtr. Mary Robinson, 108 N. 3 street. KANASAS CITY, KAN. Rebecca Tabernacle No. 11 is progressing very nicely. Monday was the second meeting in Feb. and was largely attended. We regret to have as much sickness as we have. Daughters Edith Edmond, Mattie B. Harris, Mariah Harris Ellen Fletcher are numbered with the sick but all are better and some are able to be out. The Rebecca Drill Corps meets every Monday eve. at the Knights of Tabor The Daughters are so enthused that they come to each and every meeting regardless of the weather. The Drill is doi gnificely and we hope to continue. At our monthly meeting we were proud to have with us Sir John W. Wilson C. G. S., and Sir Milton Washington and also Daughter Pace of The Fair West Tabernacle of Kansas City, Kan. Miss Bulah Floyd has transferred DEPARTMENTS Prof. Shelton French ACTING PRESIDENT University educational in- poses in the west roughly equipped teachers institutes in America. BUILDINGS Electric Lighted MENTS Normal, Snb-Normal, Musi- acing courses in Archi- chemical Drawing, Printing, Business Courses, Dress Laundering and Farming. Christian influence and Orchestra me to Bon French, ACTING PRESIDENT University ARO, KS Office Phone 1423 19. free wood a time a him bu and ho Chas in Stee ther a Mrs. weeks Mrs. month Mrs. was c father Mrs. a spel Mr. to Kin Mr. sas Ch A ve ing is young Valent street ious s the ar fine m The v somet piano were: Peabo Misses rie M of Ma Mrs Ylo better Sam The Mrs. will b Rev E. ch attend Mrs better The is still vited Mrs Vages The Valen the C honor We have it or anything in the Sporting Goods line. Bicycle Repairing a Specialty. Wichita Bicycle & Sporting Goods Company Phone 545 from the Tent to The Rebecca Tabernacle. We are very glad to have her with us and hope she will prove her self as useful to the Tabernacle as she was to the Tent. Quite a few new members have been received in the Rebecca. We had some real winter weather Thursday and Friday but it has cleared off again. The revival at the A. M. E. church closed Sunday night. The lady preacher, Rev. Mrs. Bowen, from St. John, leaves for her home today. She was well pleased with her short visit to the city and has made a host of friends. We wish to make a correction concerning the statement of the Second Baptist church revival which was given last week. Instead of 18 there was 20 added to the church and 4 baptized and 1 to be baptized. The Home and Foreign Missionary Circle met at the Second Baptist church Sunday evening, Feb. 16, and organized Mrs. Rev. Dr. Washington, pres.; Maggie Johnson, sec.; Hattie Johnson, treas. The Circle's future promises to be very bright under the leadership of Mrs. Washington who has had a great deal of experience in missionary work. Mr. Elwood Johnson and Miss Jerusla Bruce were quietly married at the Probate Judge's office in t hicsity Monday, Feb. 10. They left Monday night for a few days honeymoon in Dodge City, but have returned. Mrs. Bradford and Mrs. Frank McCue have been on the sick list but they are improving at this writing. ? Announcements for the week are an oyster supper given at Second Baptist church Thursday, Feb. 20; proceeds to be used to supply church and Sunday school with song books. A Leap Year Social at Lewis restaurant Saturday night, Feb. 22, every body invited. Mr. Cy Porter died at his home Ave. T. Wednesday morning, Feb. --- Yes Sir, 230 N. Main st. GARDEN CITY, KAN. GINGMAN. KAN. 19. from being poisoned by drinking wood alcohol. He was sick only a short time and ever thing was done to relieve him but death came with friendly care and he died in less than 24 hours. Chaz. Floyd has gone to his claim in Stevneson county and expects to be ther about three months. Mrs. Laura Floyd is spending a few weeks in Anthony and other places. Mrs. Porter is improving after a three months sickness. Mrs. Laura Ross of Monmoth, Ill., was called home by the death of her father. Mrs. Robt. Davis is just getting over a spell of the lagripe. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Porter have come to Kingman to make it their home. Mr. Ernest Porter is home from Kansas City. NEWTON, KAN. A very pleasant and enjoyable evening is reported by all the twenty-four young people who attended the St. Valentine party given at 330 E. 12th street by Lee O. Frame. Games of various sort, conversation and music were the amusements of the evening. Some fine musical numbers were rendered. The vocal solos of Miss Butler were something fine, and also Miss Mayfields piano solos. The out of town guests were: Willard and Seattle Bush of Peabody, Walter Patterson of Florence, Misses Nettie Butler, Hazel Allen, Carrie Mayfield, and Mr. Arthur Simpson of Marion. Mrs. S. Dickerson is reported ill. Yloyd Ricknean is reported much better and is able to be out again. Samuel White is reported ill. The N. U. G. Club met Feb. 17, with Mrs. F. Jordan. Their next meeting will be Feb. 24 with Mrs. John Lawson. Revival meeting has started at C. M. E. church all are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Geo. Johnson is reported some better. The revival meeting at Baptist church is still going on. All are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Lena (Patterson) Stewart of Los Vages, N. M., is in the city visiting. The I. R. A. Club gave a charming Valentine party last Friday evening at the Gross home on East 4th street in honor of their husbands and friends. The program rendered was as follows: Welcome address—Mrs. J. M. Gross, Response—Mrs. A. L. Ford. Song by the Club. Recitation—Mrs. J. R. McClain, from Bunbar. Mrs. John Anderson displayed the art of the club, giving a short talk in way of explanation. Closing remarks by Rev. J. R. McClain. The rooms were decorated with streamers of club colors, lavender and gold. At a late hour they were ushered in to the dining room where they were confronted with heart shaped Valentines as place cards, which made a lovely souvenir. Those acting as waiters and waitresses were Bessie Frame, Cecilia Pettit, Julia Shelton and Carl J. Gross. ELDORADO, KAN. The city of Eldorado has not a very large colored population, about 75 in all. We have two churches; a Methodist and a Baptist and the colored people of our city are strictly law-abiding and church-goers. Rev. Chas. Anderson is pastor of the Methodist church while Rev. Bandy is pastor of the Baptist church. The C. M. E. church will hold quarterly meeting the first Sunday in March with Rev. P. E. Warfield as our presiding elder. We also expect to have a revival at that time. Eldorado is a good town for colored people to live in if they are law-abiding. They now do well here and now is the time for them to get property. The gripe has made its rounds here. Uncle Mart Reynolds, Miss Mable Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey, have all been gripe victims. MEDICINE LODGE, KAN. The smallpox scare is about over and business is normal again. It was not as bad as was reported, not by half. The weather has been quite disagreeable. The farmers have begun turning over soil in places. I don't know how much more winter we are going to have and are not waiting to see. We note that the old reliable gardner, Thos. Carter has begun for the summer. He has tomatoes plants up by the score and Mrs. Thos. Carter with all her weight is getting around among the chickens as usual. She has about 42 young ones and a few more to come off soon. We are expecting a series of meetings in the near future by Rev. Turner of Pratt, Kan. We are in hopes of good success. We have an awful nice colored Sunday scholl in our little home. Richard Prichard and Jesse Bunch went to Sharon Sunday. Mr. Pritchard will remain there quite a while working for his uncle, Wm. Neal. Round the Capital Information and Gossip Picked Up Here and There in Washington. "I" Out of the White House Alphabet WASHINGTON.—The question that has been agitating the public mind in Washington for some days has been: "Who are we?" No, it is not a college yell; it is the demand for information concerning the president's meaning when he abandoned his old friend "T" and studded his message with references to "we," "us," and "our policies." The idea that the president meant himself by "we" and was merely adopting a royal fashion is scouted by those who know the president and are aware of his distaste for getting into the low and vulgar class to which mere kings belong. It is generally accepted that Mr. Roosevelt was talking in the plural. Consequently there is much curiosity to learn the identity of the members of the "We club." Careful inquiry results in establishing the fact that there are more of them than had been believed. Here is a practically "Uncle Ike" Objects to Hotel Bills "UNCLE IKE" Stephenson, the new 71-year-old millionaire United States senator from Wisconsin, is having an awful hard time trying to have money and be a senator at the rate of $7,500 per annum. "Uncle Ike" is a brother of Samuel M. Stephenson, former representative from Michigan, who entered congress during the Fifty-first session just after Isaac had retired. When the new senator came to town in December he brought with him his whole family, even to the third generation, and the daughters-in-law and the sons-in-law. Senatorships don't happen every day, quoth "Uncle Ike," and what's the use of being stingy about spending a few extra simoleons while one is getting $7,500 a year for running department errands and sitting in the senate and looking wise. So he took a fine suite of rooms at the New Willard and prepared to wear a button- Uncle Sam Tests All Paper He Buys "THERE," sighed the professor, as he placed a drop of what looked like soup, but was really dissolved paper, on a glass slide, "three waves of my wand, and we will see what this rascally jobber has been selling to the government." It was in the paper-testing division of the United States bureau of standards that this monologue took place. The government printing office had sent some samples of paper to be tested. The samples were warranted to be "pure poplar pulp paper." "That's the poplar," murmured the professor, as he dropped some liquid from a glass tube upon the small globule of soup, and watched it turn purple. "Now for the spruce." It required but a moment to pick up another glass tube and apply another drop of colorless liquid. Under its Camera Pest at the National Capital IF there is any one thing that is more numerous in Washington than statesmen, it is photographers. This fact is impressed forcibly upon strangers visiting the city, especially if they happen to be with a party on a sightseeing expedition. The man with the camera is met at every turn. He is audacious and irresistible. He goes after his victims in a business-like way, there are no stops and delays, and before the victim hardly has time to realize what has happened, the photographer has his order for a picture to be delivered that evening at his hotel. The particular delight of the camera man is a party of excursionists. He catches them, perhaps, as they emerge from the handsome new union station, or as they come out of the capitol or "Who are we?"; complete list of "we," obtained with vast difficulty from high sources: President Roosevelt, who holds the highest position in the Taft, who holds the next highest, that of "me, too;" Herbert Knox Smith who is "first assistant me;" Milton D. Purdy, "chief trust buster and second assistant me;" Charles J. Bonaparte, "assistant to Mr. Purdy and deputy trust buster;" James R. Garfield, who holds the post of "almost I;" Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Frank B. Kellogg, George Von L. Meyer, Jonathan Bourne, Herbert Parsons and Francis J. Heney, who serve in the ranks, and are known collectively by the title of "us." George B. Cortelyou, it is learned, was formerly a component part of "we," and sometimes even had a look-in at "our policies." He is now a member of the class whom "we" refer to as "them." There is the highest authority for the statement that Edward H. Harriman, J. Pierpont Morgan, William D. Haywood, Chancellor Day, John D. Rockefeller, Joseph B. Foraker and Bellamy Storer do not belong to "we." The allegation that they do, from whatever source it may come, may be safely met with the shorter and uglier word. hole bouquet every day and put on all the dog there is. All went well until the bills began to come in, and then "Uncle Ike" went to one of his colleagues and said: "Senator, got any idea where a man could find a good, modest priced boarding house?" "Where are you living now?" was asked. "At the Willard." "Well, senator, that's the best boarding house in Washington." "I know it is good," answered "Uncle Ike," "but it costs like blazes." "But you're the richest man in the senate, so what's the difficulty?" "Probably I've got a little more saved up than some of the boys," was the Wisconsin senator's reply, "but, gosh ding it, I want to spend it in my own way. Why, just before I came east I gave $150,000 to colleges. I expect to give some more, and I'm blamed if I want all of my substance eaten up by hotel bills." "Uncle Ike" pounded his knee by way of emphasis and proceeded to give further vent to his indignation by hunting a newspaper and looking through the want ads to see if he could locate a place where good board could be had for a small section of his income per week. magic influence part of the soup turned pink. "Ha," sighed the professor; "about 10 per cent. of spruce. Once more." A third drop was applied with a third glass tube, and the soup began to show several points of bright yellow. "Rags," said the professor. "About five per cent." The glass slide was slipped under the end of a microscope, and the professor took a good look and jotted down the areas occupied by the different colors. "That jobber," said he, "either does not know what is in the paper he is selling or he is a liar. But the eye of the bureau of standards sees it all." And so, indeed, it does. Even after the wood, rags, and other ingredients have been ground up into pulp and then made into paper, the hand of science resolves them again into their original ingredients and the eye of science sees the relative proportion of each as certainly as if the professor had stood beside the pulp mill when the paper was made. some other public building. He holds up his hands as a signal for them to halt, then he admonishes them to look pleasant, please, and the next thing he and his agent are passing through the crowd taking orders. And they do take orders, and lots of them. For what person would not be happy to take back home a photograph of himself taken with the White House, or the treasury, or the congressional library, or some other government or historical building as a background? One photographer makes crowds on seeing-Washington automobiles his specialty. He usually catches them on Executive avenue at the beginning of the trip. When they get back to the starting place the pictures, printed and mounted, ready for them. Is Fund of America Mrs. Carl Muck, wife of the new director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is so fond of America that she says she has no desire to return to Berlin. She contemplates taking several courses at Radcliffe in the near future, and if her husband remains here, may go in for a degree. "UP THE OTHER SIDE." CHICAGO INTER OCEAN ELKINS LAWHOLDS Cupreme Court Decides Hepburn Act Did Not Repeal Section One of That Statute. GREAT NORTHERN LOSES Justice White Rendered the Decision Which Sustains the Findings of the Minnesota Court and Court of Appeals. Washington, Feb. 25.—The question whether the railroad rate law, known as the Hepburn act, repeals section 1 of the Elkins act prohibiting rebates by railroads, was involved in the case of the Great Northern Railway company vs the United States, which was decided Monday by the supreme court of the United States against the railroad company and against the contention of such repeal. The case was instituted in the United States district court for the district of Minnesota, which court fined the railroads $1,000 each for 15 violations of the first section of the Elkins law. The alleged offenses against the law were committed during the summer of 1905 and consisted in granting concessions to the W. P. Deveraux company on its shipments of oats and corn from Minneapolis, Minn., to points in Washington. The company admitted the concessions and fought the prosecution on the ground that by amending the Elkins act so as to provide for punishment by imprisonment rather than by fines, the Hepburn law had so modified the original law as to accomplish its repeal and render punishment under it impracticable. Monday's decision was announced by Justice White and affirmed the finding of the district court and the United States circuit court of appeals. Justice White said that the effect of the Hepburn law in repealing the Elkins act must be considered in the light of Section 13 revised statutes, which provides that the repeal of any statute shall not have the effect of releasing any penalty or liability incurred under the statute repealed. He said it was clear that the mere repeal of confliction laws is in no way repugnant to that statute and there could be no contention that standing alone the act had the result of destroying the effect of Section 13. Quoting Section 107 of the Hepburn act, which provides that the act shall not affect "causes pending in the courts." Justice White said: "The difficulty of construction, if any, arises from the word following the general repealing clause: 'But the amendments herein provided for shall not affect causes now pending in the courts of the United States, but such causes shall be prosecuted to conclusion in the manner heretofore provided by law.' These words, we think, do not, expressly or by fair implication, conflict with the general rule established by Section 13, revised statutes, since by their very terms, they are concerned with the application of proceedings pending in the courts of the United States of the new methods of procedure created by the Hepburn law. Any other construction would necessitate expunging the words 'shall be prosecuted to a conclusion in the manner heretofore provided by law.' Sustains Judge Landis. Chicago, Feb. 25—"The decision that the Hepburn act does not repeal Section 1 of the Elkins act takes away one of the big points on which the Standard Oil company, is basing its appeal from the fine imposed by Judge Landis," said District Attorney Sims in Chicago Monday. "Incidentally it is a big feather in Judge Landis' cap. He was the first jurist to decide this point." Missouri Delegates Instructed. St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 23.—Former Congressman Frank B. Fulkerson of St. Joseph and David Rankin of Tarklo were chosen to represent the fourth congressional district of Missouri at the National Republican convention in Chicago. They were instructed to vote for Taft "so long as his name is before the convention." 7114914 751 OTHER SIDE." HARRIMAN CAN VOTE STOCK HARRIMAN CAN VOTE STOCK Fish Has Again Lost in His Illinois Central Fight. Judge Ball Dissolved Temporary Injunction and the 236,231 Shares May Be Voted. Chicago, Feb. 21.—E. H. Harriman Thursday gained a complete victory in the Illinois Central litigation which has been in the superior court since last October. Judge Ball rendered a decision dissolving the temporary injunction granted to Stuyvesant Fish by which 236,231 shares of stock were enjoined from being voted at the annual meeting of the Illinois Central railroad company. This stock, which was held by the Union Pacific Railroad company and the Railroad Securities company of New Jersey, can now be voted at the annual meeting which will be held in this city March 25. The court declared that corporations per se are not barred from using and holding the stock of other corporations, and said that the fact that the purchaser might be a foreign corporation and the stock that of a domestic corporation could not change the rule of law. The court denied that there is any rule of the American common law prohibiting one corporation from holding stock in another corporation when the first corporation has in its charter specific power to do so. In this case, he said, it was proved and not denied that the Union Pacific and the Railroad Securities company each has express power granted to it by the state of its creation to buy, own, and hold stock in other corporations. Missouri Republicans Elect Delegates. Butler, Mo., Feb. 23.-Republicans of the sixth congressional district of Missouri met in convention here Friday and selected delegates to the National convention. Resolutions were adopted which indorsed the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, the candidacies of William H. Taft and Herbert S. Hadley for president of the United States and governor of Missouri, respectively and commending the record of Senator William Warner. The delegates to the National convention chosen were Charles A. Mitchell of St. Clair county and Philip I. Griffith of Dade county. Missouri Peonage Decision Holds. Washington, Feb. 25.—The petition for a writ of certiorari of Charles H. Smith and others convicted on the charge of peonage in Missouri, was Monday denied by the supreme court of the United States. The defendants are under sentences of fine and imprisonment and they sought to have the supreme court order the case up for review. The failure of the court to do so leaves in effect the finding of the trial court. Missouri's New Medical Department. St. Louis, Feb. 22.—Deeds transferring the Barnes university property at Garrison and Lawton avenues to the University of Missouri were filed Thursday. The property is worth more than $350,000 and includes the Barnes Medical college, schools of pharmacy and dental colleges. Possession will be given May 9 and the headquarters of the state medical department will be brought to St. Louis next September. Ten Tons of Dynamite Explodes. Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 22.—With a force that shook the entire bay region like an earthquake, the packing house of the Hercules Powder Works at Pinole, 14 miles north of here, blew up at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon and in the explosion four white men and 24 Chinamen were killed. Ten toes of dynamite went up in the terrific blast, shattering the sheds to dust and splinters. Gen. Sexton Dropped Dead. Washington, Feb. 24.—Brigadier General Rufus Sexton, U. S. A., retired, dropped dead here Sunday of heart disease. He entered the army from Massachusetts In 1855 as a first lieutenant of the Third artillery; received a congressional medal for bravery in the defense of Harper's Ferry and was retired April 23, 1904. General Sexton was born 84 years ago 333 Official Knights& OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 1715 Clark Ave., Parsons, Kan. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kaa. Miss Jennie Alexander, G. Q. M., 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kansas 16 Richard Clark, 420 N Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, Coffeyville, Kansas 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. City, Utah. TENTS. Queen Mother. Topeka, Kaa. Miner, G. Q. M. ence, Kansas TENTS. Queen Mothers. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St, L. enworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 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) 4 Mrs. Anna Fallings, 325 E. 6th, Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 5 Mrs. Carrie Brown, 922 N. 10th, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Lillie Shobe, 336 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Tues. (A) 9 Mrs. Julia Martin, 815 E. 11th, Topeka, Kansas. 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 822 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Martha James, 313 W. 11th, 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, Box 405, Weir City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Mae Wilson, 1715 Clark Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) So. Barber, Sat. (A) 208 N. 30th, ur. (A) Horton, Ft. 35 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1818 N. Mast, Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 312 Wash 17 Mrs. A. Musler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan. 1, 13. Sat. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Soott, Kan. 20 Mrs. S. Montague, 403 Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kan. 24 Mrs. Angie Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 23 Mrs. Anna Ray, 1412 Clark, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lula Wood, 613 N. 4th Leavenworth, Kan. 30 Mrs. Eliza Scott, 3rd and South, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 32 Mrs. Salma Ester, 334 Rear Dakota St., Butte, Mont. 33 Mrs. J. L. Cobb, Bx. 384, Alliance, Neb. 34 Mrs. Mattie Miller, 335 W. 15th, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 27 Mrs. Matilda Waters, 1800 N. 6th, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 28 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. a. 8th and armont, Law- ur. (A) 236 Barnett, 236 Barnett, P. H. Bassett, District Grand Sec- tary, Chetopa, Kan. W. W. Shobe, District Grand Treas- 336 N. Santa Fe, Sallina, Kan. H. Kindell, District Grand Directo- Scott, Kan. 89 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 808 Vermont, Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 68 Mrs. Lille Robinnett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 834 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Wed. (A) 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 2802 N. 25th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 908 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. 3 A. M. Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Mon. 4 Robt. M. Jordan, 908 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 7 J. C. Coffee, 1455 N. Mosley, Wichita, Kan., Fridays. 8 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 10 Jno H. McKinnis, 217 Sherman, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 11 C. Swan, 1058 N. Mosley, Wichita, Kan., 1-3-4 Thur. 12 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 15 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 28 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 60 W. Osteen, 1214 Lane, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. 72 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 19th, Lincoln, Neb. Kernan & Co. 102 E. Douglas Pors johnston's CUSTOM GKINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FRE SHOREBROOK BROOK, PROPS 600 M. MAIN St. Phone --- SEAR HLIGHT TEMPLES. Chief Mentors 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, B. Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 R. Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt City, Utah. 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, coln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Wai Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. M 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe feyville, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 6 Lottie Hill, 517 N. Main, Wiel Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 811 Ever Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Mary Brown, 325 Miss, Lawru Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 1 Sadle Tyler, 125 E. Riley, Atchie Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arle Stone, 823 Main, Atchie Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Sat Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman P Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Willis, 2103 Grand, Paran Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 21 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Easas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sher Leavenworth, Kan., 3 Sat. 28 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawru (A) Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) ton, Kansas City, Kan. 1-4 NEXT PLACE OF MEETING The Grand Temple and Tabernacle will next meet in Atchison, Kansas the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1908. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or if it is not in this Directory, or if you any error, please notify me at W. N. MILLER, Editor OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. District Grand Lodge, No. 17, Kansas. G. U. O. O. F. GRAND OFFICERS 1907-8. Thos. Glover, District Grand Mast 704 N. Market St., Wichita, K. Chas. A. Finney, Deputy Grand Mast Cherokee, Kan. NEXT PLACE OF MEETING District Grand Lodge No. 17 meet in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1908. In The Your wants need careful tention and our store is place to get it. 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