Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT LULING THE MAN. Unanimously Nominated for Council- man From the Second Ward. Never before in the history of politics or political parties has any man been given such a rousing ovation and soul-stirring nomination for any office within the gift of the people as was that accorded Chas. H. Luling at M. B. CHAS. H. LULING Republican Nominee For Coun- man From 2nd. Ward A SURE WINNER the Republican caucus Thursday night. As with one voice Chas. H. Lulling was made the unanimous choice of the Republicans of the Second ward in such a tone which carried with it victory. Every man present vowed to do all within his power to make the election of Mr. Lulling a record-breaker—and they'll do it, too. The caucus, which was held in the basement of the court house was a large representative one, and Mr. Lulling has every reason to feel proud of the confidence reposed in him by the citizens of his ward. When election day, April 7th, has come and gone, Chas. H. Lulling will represent the Second ward i the city council. Many speeches were made among those who spoke were: Postmaster W. C Edwards, Judge J. M. Balderston, I. T. Chinneth, H. W. James, Judge Thomas C. Wilson, E. E. Fitzpatrick, C. E. Evans, Rev H. I. Jones, each highly endorsing the candidacy of Chas. H. Lulling. O. W. JONES NAMED FOR MEMBER OF SCHOOL BOARD. BER OF SCHOOL BOARD. For member of the school board from the Second ward two names were presented at the Republican caucus Thursday night, that of Rev. J. H. Van Leu, and Mr. O. W. Jones, the present member. A written ballot was taken, with the result: Jones, 31; Van Leu, 14; and Mr. Jones was declared the nominee. SENATOR, FORAKER'S BILL. Senator Joseph B. Foraker introduced a bill in the United States Senate last Wednesday authorizing the reenlistment of the non-commissioned officers and enlisted men who constituted the battalion of the 25th United States Infantry (colored), who were discharged without honor by the President on the theory that some of the members of the battalion shot up the town of Brownsville, Texas, in August, 1896. The bill provides that any and all of the discharged men who made oath that they did not participate in the attack and know of no soldier who did, shall be permitted to re-enlist; that all the rights and privileges to which they were entitled shall be restored to them; and that their military record shall be cleared. Those advoctes of square deal for all men certainly have an opportunity to meet the issue of "take to the woods." A majority of the Republicans on the Senate Committee on Military Affairs have decided that there was not sufficient testimony to show that the colored soldiers shot up Brownsville, and it is for the United States Senate to say whether these 167 men shall be given the benefit of the doubt or be forced to wear the badge of dishonor for the remainder of their natural lives. At some time, and in some way, we believe this wrong will be righted and the men responsible for it given the condemnation that they so justly deserve.-Richmond Planet. ECHOES FROM THE SOUTHWEST DISTRICT EXECUTIVE BOARDS. The Ministers and Deacons' Union and Auxiliaries, comprizing the Southwest District Missionary Baptist Association held its second Quarterly Board session in Pratt, Kansas, March 5-6. This district is composed of some of the most wealthy Negro farmers and real estate owners in the state of Kansas. A good delegation was in attendance at this meeting, who came to contribute their best in discussing important topics and representing the various auxiliaries of the church. We are safe in saying this Board meeting was the best ever held in the history of the organization, both spiritually and financially. Every sermon preached was soul stirring and inspiring. The presidents of each auxiliary were at their best in presenting the work in this district and made strong appeals for the success of the work to be done in the district and the state. Rev. J. H. Ralney, moderator of the Southwest District Association, in his able address, reported one hundred and forty-one additions to the churches in this district since the First Quarterly Board meeting in Great Bend, which is the result of revival meetings held. Total amount of money raised at this meeting $160.22. Too much praise cannot be given to Rev. Wm. Turner and the good people of Pratt, Kan., both the Methodists and Baptists who were instrumental and spared no pains in opening their doors to receive and make our stay pleasant. In honor of Rev. E. Arlington Wilson, D. D., Kansas City, Kan. Tenth Anniversary, March 8, 1908, Pastor Metropolitan Baptist Church. Rt. Reverend and Greater Metropolitan Baptist Church, Kansas City, Kansas, Greeting: In token and appreciation of the message bearing the intelligence of the Tenth Anniversary of your pastor, our wise counselor, indefatigable and devoted leader of the great Baptist family of Kansas. We, your co-workers of the Southwest District now in the Second Quarterly Board Session in Pratt, Kansas, hall these glad tidings with joy, just as the violets of the early spring receive the radiant sunshine from above. Standing, as you are now, upon the tenth mile-stone in the history of your greatness, looking into yon fertile fields of splendor, with your brilliant and energetic leader, Rev. E. Arlington Wilson, D. D., who is able to surmount all the difficulties common to this great denomination, which received its charter from the lowly Nazarene, who sald, "Go ye into all the world and teach all nations, etc." We regret our inability in being present with you in this glorious and grand occasion, but we pray the great Head of the Church may continue His blessings with you in going through the gates, gathering out the stores, and lifting up a standard for the people; ever holding up one God for our Father, the same Savior for our Elder Brother, one Bible for our guide book, one heaven for our everlasting home. "There is a time, we know not when, A place we know not where, That marks the destiny of men To glory or despair." REV. J. H. RAIMEY, Moderator. MRS. H. F. FRAZIER, Cor. Sec'y. RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE ON DEATH OF SIR PAUL GILES, FROM OMAHA, NEB. Whereas, The hand of the Divine Providence has removed from our midst our beloved Chief Orator, Sir Pul Giles; and, Whereas, It is but just that a fitting recognition of his many virtues should be had; therefore, be it Resolved, By Evening Star Temple No. 4, of the International Order of Twelve, of K. and D. of Tabor, that while we bow with humble submission to the will of the Most High we do not the less mourn for our brother Sir Knight, who has been taken from us. Resolved, That in the death of Sir Paul Giles, Evening Star Temple laments the loss of a Sir Knight who was ever ready to offer the hand of aid and the voice of sympathy to the needy and distressed of the fraternity, an active member, a zealous Sir Knight whose utmost endeavors were exerted for the welfare and prosperity; a friend and companion who was dear to us all; a citizen whose upright and noble life was a standard of emulation to his fellows; Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathy of this Temple be extended to his family in their affections and commend them for consolation to Him who orders all things for the best and whose chastisements are meant in mercy. Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the records of this Temple a copy thereof transmitted to the family of our deceased Brother, and to the official paper, the Searchlight. Yours respectfully, C. M. JOHNSON, Chairman. TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF SIR PAUL GILES G. P. P., BY SIR C. M. JOHNSON, P. G. P. C., OMAHA, NEB. Sir Paul Giles, G. P. P., many others have spoken of thee, our brother, right well and worthily thy achievements and thy worth have been and will be fittingly commemorated wherever there are Sir Knights. But the heart of a life-long friend prompts him to pay this brief tribute of affections to thy memory. When Sir Giles was first initiated into the Temple I remember of speaking to him on the esoteric doctrines of the Knights of Tabor and these are his words: Doubtless there is a higher knowledge and doubtless after death we shall attain unto it. But even in this life thine intellect has caught the sheen of the mystic wisdom, and went down into the dark valley unclouded. Thou hast passed out from the shadow of this nether world of unrealities into God's eternal sunlight, where now thou standest face to face with His truth. True scholar, skilled as thou wast in the language of man, and capable of bringing the meanings of earth's greatest minds into clear and simple words; true minister, thy heart beat in unison with all that is true, beautiful and good in the universe of God, and thy voice has with its melodious tones struck responsive chords in many a human heart. True philosopher, student of ancient wisdom, thou hast left to thy successors thy words and works as the only monument thy great soul desired. True Sir Knight, thou hadst earned master wages, wherewith thou art now travelin in foreign countries, for thou hadst in thy possession that mystic key of the underground realm which enables us to cross the stygian pool in Charon's boat. Well known and respected in all the walks of life, no one was more highly venerated by those who knew him, his presence among his friends was a constant blessing. He was a devoted Christian, a moral, upright pastor, an honest man, a kind husband, a devoted father, and enthusiastic, loyal Sir Knight, a courteous Taborian, and a staunch friend. A BIG BARGAIN—A good Economy steel range, in good condition at a bargain for someone. Inquire If people would train their children from infancy to love to do the right things and to fear to do the wrong things, there would be much less money spent and time lost in trying to get them out of jail or keep them out of penitentiaries—The Messenger, Tuskegee, Ala. INTO WORLD'S UNKNOWN CORNERS Man's desire to know the earth upon which his lot has been cast has intensified with the centuries until to-day the unknown and unexplored portions, small and unimportant, comparatively, though they be, are proving the magnets which are drawing innumerable expeditions to those sections. Never in the history of modern exploration have efforts so widespread and persistent as those of the present been made to uncover the mysteries of the unknown parts of the world. No less than nine expeditions from Europe and America are either under way or in course of preparation. Two explorers are seeking to solve the riddle of the North Pole. Four parties have in view the ice-capped continent of the Antarctic. Americans are about to start for the unknown swamps and prairies of the upper Amazon and northern Argentina, where for years the exploring parties have invariably been exterminated by savage Indians. The efforts which are thus being made to lay bare the secrets of the unknown world are summarized in the accounts which follow: In its prospective dangers and adventures the expedition to the upper Amazon easily acquires first place in general interest. The mind can hardly grasp the vast tropical plains over which flows the Amazon, largest of the world's rivers. The 4,000 miles of its course from its sources to the sea is equivalent to the distance from San Francisco to New York and back again to Chicago. Fifty miles wide at its mouth, the entire delta of the Amazon at the Atlantic, with its islands and waterways, would extend from Philadelphia to within 17 miles of Boston. The lower Amazon is familiar enough. But in the heart of South America are thousands of square miles of land that are practically unknown to the white man. They are at once a rich heritage for the pioneer, Oldest Ex-Governor Dead. Frederick Holbrook, governor of Vermont during the civil war, recently celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday. He is the oldest living ex-governor and one of the three surviving war governors. In spite of his advanced age he still retains an active interest in public affairs. Prof. W.-It must be very hungry -Yale Record. Into the heart of this unknown South America George Melville Boynton, the scientist and explorer of Boston, intends to penetrate with a seagoing ship and an exploring party of 35 picked men. In human interest the work of the explorers in the unknown deserts of Central Asia and Australia surpasses the adventures of white men in the tropical jungles of Brazil, in the ice floes of the Arctic and in the glaciers-swept cliffs that guard the South Pole. The unknown lands in Asia and the South seas were the early cradles of men. They are so old they are new again, the explorers and antiquarians seeking origins; not pioneers eager to snatch wealth and knowledge from a virgin soil. It is these facts which make Eastern Turkestan a land of fascinating mystery and give point to the present explorations of Dr. Stein and Sven Hedin. At the North Pole there are 1,330,000 square miles of the earth's surface of which little or nothing is known, but which such explorers as Peary, Nansen, Mikkelsen, etc., are persistently trying to discover. Dr. Frederick A. Cook is now on his way toward the North Pole from Greenland. He originally intended to seek the South Pole by establishing a base camp on Erebus Island, and later attempting to go south in motor car. As the Arctic regions become better known the mystery of the continent which is supposed to surround the South Pole becomes more engrossing and the expeditions to reach it more numerous. The area of unknown Antarctic land and water is nearly six times larger than the unexplored Arctic regions. The new English exploration party, under E. H. Shackleton, left London on their Newfoundland sealing steam- Doing His Share. The head of the rich family coldly turned down the request for a contribution to charity. "No," he said, "I'm doing all I can in that line." Then they reflected that his daughters were supporting a titled pauper apiece, and forbore to press the matter. There's a Reason. I am a poet, that is why I wish to change your name to Mrs.; For, while a miss will rhyme with kiss, The other title rhymes with kiss. er, the Nimrod, on July 30 last. They should have already made their first landing on the Antarctic continent. King Edward VII Land at the eastern end of Ross' great ice barrier is their base of operations. The exploring party carries with it a carefully planned living hut, 12 Siberian ponies, a team of 12 picked dogs from Canada and a specially constructed motor car. The closing days of the Antarctic summer will be spent in establishing a line of depots 150 geographical miles to the south of their station. With the return of spring efforts will be made to extend the line of depots another 100 miles to the south, or within 500 geographical miles of the Pole. Then parties will attempt to reach the Pole with Siberian ponies and the motor car. Plans are under way for another Antarctic expedition by Frenchmen under Dr. Charcot. He will seek further information of almost unknown Alexander Land. A special ship will be built with 300,000 francs supplied by the French government. It is also proposed that in addition to usual sledges the party shall take motor sledges for possible use on the surface of an ice barrier. Wandel Island is to be their base of operations, and from this the coast of Alexander I Land will be explored as far as possible. From Buenos Ayres comes word that the ship Austral started south on Antarctic research work last December. It is likely that the Argentine meteorological office will have a meteorological and magnetic station set up on Wandel Island this year. A second Belgian expedition is also under discussion. It will be commanded by Henryk Arctowski. The plan is to reach the edge of the ice pack early next autumn at about 100 west longitude, spend some months in hydrographic and magnetic observations, and then penetrate through the ice pack to the Antarctic coast. On the return trip the vessel will be taken to the Balleny Islands, off the northern end of Victoria Land. The rest of the expedition will be devoted to a westerly cruise to Adelie Land, Claire Land and other patches of coast which go by the general name of Wilkes Land. AMPUTATED LEGS AND WINGS. New Cook Got Away from Hard Work of Plucking Feathers. The new cook—as green a daughter of Erin as that verdant country ever sent over the seas—said she could pluck the ducks. The ducks in question were only three, but they were the pride and joy of the heart of the master of the house. He had spent four blessed days in Virginia sitting out in a cold, damp, dirty blind to get them. And to help eat them, he had asked the cronie to whom he had frequently boasted his skill as a marksman. The lady of the house was in bed with the grip, but so overwhelming was the joy of the cook when she had divested one bird of his feathers that she must needs bring it in for approval. “Sure, there was crowds of feathers on 'em,' said the girl, as, with a grin as broad as her brogue, she stood in the doorway exhibiting the now downless duck. “But, Katie—” The lady of the house fell back on her pillows, speechless. “What—where in the world are the legs and wings?” she asked when she could speak. “To be sure, I cut thim off. The feathers wouldn't come off so I took them off altogether, m'm,” the girl said. And to this day it is a joke among the friends of the young duck hunter that he has to knock off both the wings and legs of his game to capture them. Water Rates Increased. Louisville recently increased the water rates to an amount that will add $150,000 to the receipts. The department was running behind. Might Need It Again Little Marjory, after having fallen from the sofa, got down on her knees and began looking about as if in search of something. "What are you doing, dear?" her mother asked. "I lost my balance, and I'm hunting for it." True. Full many a pickle dish is born, As a curmite. To be a wedding gift, or just A pedro prize. —Detroit Free Press. Experience is a wise teacher, but not one ever gives her any nice red apples. Health, honesty and hope are the most genial companions in the midnight of care. "Let us laugh at trouble," sings a western poet. That's easy to do as long as it is some one else's trouble. A Pittsburg paper says that Count Bonil is game to the core. Why not say to the yellow? Bad eggs do not have cores. New York courts have given a boy thief 19 years, which may not reform him, but is sure to cure him of being a boy thief. The lack of mentality of some of the popular songs is striking. "I've a pain in my sawdust" is a title that would indicate the writer was something of a blockhead. After wading across a street full of soft, muddy, slushy snow, it is rather difficult to appreciate the genius of the man who wrote "The Snow, the Beautiful Snow." We have to admit that mince pies cause more juvenile crime than does strong drink, being often the impelling motive that drives the small boy to break into the cupboard. For every warship that Germany builds England will build two. Britannia has been ruling the waves for some years now, and intends to keep the job until the cows come home. Coming events cast their shadows before. The fashion columns are full of advance notes about the Easter bonnet and the shadow is cast athwart the bank account of the head of the house. The trans-continental automobilists have been too busy trying to get out of snowdrifts to explain what benefit humanity is to derive from their exploits if they succeed in getting through. There are to be special street cars for women in London. Suffragettes will fear that in some way they are being deprived of their rights. If it were special cars for men they wouldn't stand for it. "The best way to find out what your friends are really worth is to have need of them," says the Washington Post. And the Baltimore American adds: This is also the best way to get rid of ideals and illusions. A young man in Connecticut who called for a young lady with the intention of cloping with her was discouraged by a can of hot water. Paradoxically, the hot water thrown upon him proved cold water for his plans. In view of the love at first sight explanation of international marriages, the rarity of matches in which the groom is an American heir and the bride a daughter of the foreign nobility seems somewhat inexplicable. A young man who told a girl about the scheme of drying wet shoes by stuffing them with oats aroused her interest, but when she said she hadn't any oats he made a serious mistake. He had a bushel sent to her next day. French military experts are generally of the opinion that Japan would have little trouble in defeating the United States if war were declared. French military experts thought, along in 1870, that France could whip Germany without having to stop for more than one or two meals. The public school teachers of New York are insistent on the reinstatement of corporal punishment for flagrant offenders. After trying the new systems of moral suasion they have come to the conclusion that, though rather old-fashioned in his philosophy, Solomon knew what he was talking about. The mayor of Philadelphia has discovered that George Washington was the real author of the doctrine that to the victors belong the spoils. Now, some other iconoclast will shatter the last tradition to which we have tearfully and desperately clung and prove the Father of His Country a fully qualified candidate for the Ananias club of his time. John Ryder Randall, who lately died, was the author of "Maryland, My Maryland," one of the most stirring songs that the war produced. The words were inspired by the encounter between the Massachusetts troops and the people of Baltimore. They were soon after sung to the old tune, "Lauriger Horatius." Thus, remarks the Youth's Companion, from the opening of the war the south had a swinging song. "Maryland, My Maryland" caught the ear of the north, and although it is explicitly local, has become a national hymn. The proposition to furnish municipal free breakfasts to school children in the tenement districts in New York because many pupils have, of necessity, such a slim breakfast that when they get to school they cannot do good work, has appealed to many at first sight, says the Boston Globe, but the officials of organized charity in that city object strenuously and with some degree of reason to the free-breakfast idea; first, on the ground that it is not legal, an/secondly that it tends to pauperization. THE LAW MILWAUKEE SENTIMEL BAILEY'S SPEECH The Texas Senator Voiced Views of Minority in Opposition to Aldrich Bill. WAS GREETED BY APPLAUSE Banks Seek to Issue Notes Without Interest or Security and Loan Them for Interest and Upon Security. Washington, Mar. 10.—Senator Joseph M. Bailey of Texas, a member of the finance committee which reported the Aldrich currency bill, Monday, held the attention of his colleagues and visitors who crowded the galleries of the senate for over two hours with a speech in opposition to that measure. When he concluded his address he was greeted by a storm of applause and senators from both sides of the chamber as well as many members of the house who crowded about him to extend their congratulations. "The truth is," he said, "the national banks of this country are seeking to establish a system of asset currency; and they will strive to defeat any measure which compels them to secure their circulation. They want the privilege of issuing their notes without interest and without security, and lending them to the people for interest and upon security. For my part, I will never support a bill which legalizes such an arrangement; and I shall always insist that the safety of our currency is of infinitely more importance to the country than the size of bank dividends." He wanted to compel banks of the south to invest part of their capital and surplus in state, country, district and municipal bonds. He quoted court decisions to show that there is no question as to the right of congress to authorize the issuance of money by the government and make it legal tender for all debts. "I cannot account," he said, "for the general but unfounded notion that the issue of currency is the function of a bank except upon the theory that so many governments have abdicated that sovereign power and have permitted banks to exercise it so long that men have come to believe that it is, and has always been, a banking privilege. Nothing could be further from the truth than this." Mr. Bailey reviewed at great length the circumstances under which national bank circulation has been issued. "If any evidence were needed to show us the danger of committing the control over our volume of currency to banks," declared Mr. Bailey, "recent events will furnish it. Last autumn, when the country was in the very throes of a money famine, the national banks did not come to the rescue with cheerful and patriotic alacrity, but on the contrary, sir, the secretary of the treasury was compelled to beg them, almost upon bended knees, to take out additional notes. They preferred the clearinghouse certificates, because it was easier to retire them and less expensive to obtain them." Mr. Bailey declared that he had his own opinion on the cause of the recent panic. "I did not, of course," said Mr. Bailey, "overlook the fact that it has been charged in many quarters that the trouble was due to the persistent demand of the president of the United States for the enactment of new laws and the enforcement of the old laws to regulate and control our railroads; but that charge has been made by men whose minds are heated with resentment, and it will not bear a close analysis. The president has demanded only that the railroads of this country should be required to deal justly with the people; and he has evinced no disposition to harass or to oppress them. A. School Entertainment Fight. Springfield, Mo., Mar. 11.—Green Jones, deputy sheriff of Fulton county, Ark., and two farmers whose names are not known, were wounded probably fatally, during a pitched battle with Joe and William Davis, brothers, at a school entertainment at Moody. The Dys boys mounted horses and escaped into Howell county, Mo. A posse of officers and citizens is search-ing for them. THREATS FOR OFFICERS Chief of Police of St. Joseph, Mo., Received Warning Letters. Told Not to Attempt to Deport Any Italians—Suspect Arrested in Kansas City. St. Joseph, Mo., Mar. 10.—Threatening them with death if they harmed any Italians in St. Joseph, and warning them for love of their wives and children not to try to deport any Italians from here, letters, identical in meaning, but varying slightly in wording, were received last Thursday morning by Chief of Police William H. Frans and Inspector of Detectives Charles H. Kelly. After the entire local secret service department had worked on the case information was received that the supposed writer of the letters had gone to Kansas City and Police Detective Wilson returned from there Sunday night with Eduardo Ragio, 30 years old, whom the police believe was the author of the threatening letters. The letter to Chief Frans ends with the words "remember Shippy." Both are signed "Cincho Centavo." Ragio strongly denies authorship for the letter. He was in St. Joseph only a short time he says. He admits calling on Bishop Burke of the Catholic church to ask for money, but says there was no other object in the visit. He is not an anarchist, he says. Efforts will be made to have him deported. He was arrested in Kansas City Sunday partly through information secured from an Italian priest, from whom he tried to get money. The letters contain finger prints which will be compared with those of Ragio. St. Joseph, Mo. Mar. 11.—Eduardo Ragio, the young Italian who was arrested in Kansas City and brought here, suspected of having sent threatening letters to Chief of Police Frans, will be deported, the police say, the matter having been taken up by the federal authorities. It is believed now by the police that a companion of Ragio sent the letters, as another was received Monday. Microscopic examination made of the finger marks on the letters show that they were not made by Ragio. He agreed Monday to being deported, though still denying being an anarchist. The road stations and the Italian quarters are being closely watched and the police expect to make more arrests. A HUGE OPIUM DEN. Inmates of Nebraska Penitentiary Regularly Supplied With Morphine Declares the Prison Surgeon. Lincoln, Neb., Mar. 10.—The Nebraska penitentiary is not a reformatory but a huge opium den, according to Dr. R. E. Giffen, prison surgeon, in a report to Gov. Sheldon, made public Sunday night. Dr. Giffen who was formerly connected with Blackwell's Island prison and Bellevue hospital, New York, reports that of the 412 prisoners confined in the institution there are between 100 and 150 addicted to the morphine habit, and that morphine is being regularly supplied to the prisoners by outside persons, whose identity is unknown. He favors the establishment of a strict quarantine of the prison as the only method of stamping out the evil which he declares has been in existence for years and has resulted in scores of prisoners acquiring the habit after their incarceration. The convicts pay for the opium by money earned working overtime under the piece work system. Panic in Missouri School Lees Summit, Mo., Mar. 10.—Four hundred children in the public school here Monday rushed out in disorder when a fire alarm was sounded. Attempts were made to use the fire drill but a call of "fire" from outside of the building caused the children to make for the nearest exits. No one was injured. The fire was quickly extinguished. Herbert S. Hadley Is III. Jefferson City, Mar. 11—Herbert S. Hadley, attorney general, suffered an attack of pleurisis Monday and is confined to his bed. Dr. Clark, the attending physician, says that the attack possibly will be of short duration, but may confine the patient to his bed several days. The Interesting Experience of an Old Settler of Virginia. Daniel S. Queen, Burrell Street, Salem, Va., says: "Years ago while lifting a heavy weight a sudden pain shot through my back and after that I was in constant misery from kidney trouble. One spell kept me in bed six weeks. My arms and legs were stiff lifting a heavy weight a sudden pain shot through my back and after that I was in constant misery from kidney trouble. One spell kept me in bed six weeks. My arms and legs were stiff and I was helpless as a child. The urine was discolored and though I used one remedy after another, I was not helped until I used Doan's Kidney Pills, and I was so bad then that the first box made only a slight change. To-day, however, I am a well man, at 81, and I owe my life and health to the use of Doan's Kidney Pills." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ECONOMY CARRIED TOO FAR. Old Man's Thrift That Led Him Into Ridiculous Action. President J. G. Schurman of Cornell was discussing elective college courses, of which in the freshman and sophomore years, he disapproves. "A freshman of 16 or 17," said President Schurman, "is too young to choose for himself the courses best for him. His mind is not mature enough. It will make mistakes. "In its immaturity, its proneness to error, it is like the mind of an old man in my native Freetown. He, though old, was mentally undeveloped, and saw nothing wrong or ridiculous in a piece of economy that he put in practice in the cemetery. "The old man had lost four wives, and desired to erect for each a headstone, with an inscription commemorative of her wifely virtues. "But inscriptions, he found, were very expensive. He economized in this way: "He had the Christian name of each wife cut on a small stone above her grave—"Emma," "Mary," "Hester," "Edith." Under each name a hand pointed to a large stone in the center of the lot, and under each hand were the words: "For epitaph see large stone!" W. Willie—I see automobiles have been introduced in Borneo. T. T. M.—What do you think will be the result? W. Willie—An increase in the number of wild men. To Save Trouble. A Connecticut man tells of two Irishmen from Boston who, while driving through the state named, observed that many of the barns had weather- vanes in the shape of huge roosters. "Dennis," said one Irishman to the other, "can ye tell me why they always have a rooster an' niver a hin on the top of thim barns?" "Sure," replied Dennis. "Its because of the difficulty they'd have in collecting the eggs." Always Time to Reform. No man is wholly bad, and in all lives some moments come when the vision presents itself of a worthier and happier life which might be lived. What is needed is courage to make the start, for, while life lasts, it is never too late.—E. C. Burke. THE DOCTOR'S GIFT. Food Worth Its Weight in Gold. We usually expect the doctor to put us on some kind of penance and give us bitter medicines. A Penn. doctor brought a patient something entirely different and the results are truly interesting. "Two years ago," writes this patient, "I was a frequent victim of acute indigestion and biliousness, being allowed to eat very few things. One day our family doctor brought me a small package, saying he had found something for me to eat, at last. "He said it was a food called Grape-Nuts, and even as its golden color might suggest, it was worth its weight in gold. I was sick and tired, trying one thing after another to no avail, but at last consented to try this new food. "Well! it surpassed my doctor's fondest anticipation and every day since then I have blessed the good doctor and the inventor of Grape-Nuts." "I noticed improvement at once and in a month's time my former spells of indigestion had disappeared. In two months I felt like a new man. My brain was much clearer and keener, my body took on the vitality of youth, and this condition has continued." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. ORCHARD PLEADS GUILTY Is Charged with Murder of Former Gov. Steuenberg. Judge Asked if He Understood Full Consequences of His Act and He Said He Did. Caldwell, Ida., Mar. 11.—Harry Orchard Tuesday morning before Judge Fremont Wood in the district court was allowed to withdraw his former plea of not guilty entered at his first arraignment by order of the court when he stood mute and entered another plea of guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree as charged in the indictment. Judge Wood will sentence Orchard on March 18. Orchard pleaded guilty to having killed former Gov. Steunenberg by the explosion of a dynamite bomb at the side gate of his residence here early in the evening of December 30, 1905. He was arrested for the crime on January 2 and in February confessed that he was hired to kill Steunenberg by William D. Haywood, secretary; Charles H. Moyer, president, and George A. Pettibone, honorary member of the Western Federation of Miners. Haywood and Pettibone were tried in Boise and set free. The case against Moyer was dismissed. Judge Wood questioned Orchard as to whether he fully understood the status of the case, what it meant for him to plead guilty and if he understood that to plead guilty to the charges in the indictment meant pleading guilty to the charge of first degree murder. Perfectly calm with no indication of any emotion in face or voice, Orchard answered that he had gone over the matter thoroughly with his attorney and had made up his mind definitely. Judge Wood allowed the plea to be changed and set date for sentence. Bombarded Swedish Royal Castle Christiania, Mar. 11.—A Swede, apparently insane, fusilized the royal castle here with a rifle at noon Tuesday. He fired altogether a dozen bullets, several of which crashed through the windows and embedded themselves in the interior walls of the castle. The man was promptly seized by the police and disarmed. At the police station he declared that it was his intention to kill King Haakon. He still had 40 or 50 cartridges in his pockets. King Haakon and Queen Maud were absent from the castle. Snowstorm in the Ozarks. Snowstorm in the Ozarks. Rolla, Mo., Mar. 9.—This section of Missouri Sunday afternoon was in the throes of the worst storm of the winter. The snow was preceded by a heavy rain, which fell incessantly for 24 hours. At midnight the thermometer was 34 degrees above zero. Peach buds are swelling, and a great fear is felt test the crop will be a failure, as it was last year. There has been an immense amount of rain in this section during the past ten days, and as a result all small streams are out of their banks. Kansas Railroads to Eight Topeka, Mar. 11.—The railroads of Kansas Tuesday appealed to the United States circuit court for a restraining order enjoining the state board of railroad commissioners, from placing into effect, April 1, the new proposed freight rate schedules. It is claimed by the railroads that the new schedule will cause a reduction in the present freight tariffs of 25 per cent. The main contention of the roads is that the proposed rates are confiscatory. Sunday Blaze at Goodland Kan Sunday Blaze at Goodland, Kan. Goodland, Kan., Mar. 10.—A Sunday fire here estroyd four buildings and contents in the main business block of the city. The flames originated in the Hatch jewelry store and before it was under control the Bryan millinery store, the Scott jewelry company and the J. W. Bock hardware store were reduced to ashes. The origin of the fire is not known. There was little insurance. Missing Kansan Located. Sabetha, Kan., Mar. 11—Selden Miner, a wealthy hardware merchant, who left here two weeks ago, supposedly for Kaasas City to purchase goods, and from whom no word had been received since, has been located in West Fork, Ark. The dispatch indicates that he has been ill. Foul play was feared as he had considerable money with him. Position of Racing Cars Omaha, Neb., Mar. 9.—The Italian car was Sunday night in the Union Pacific shops here where new springs were being rolled and the car completely overhaulied. Press dispatches show the American car to be at Cheyenne, Wyo.; French car no. 1 at Tama, Iowa; German car and French car No. 2 at Rochelle, Ill. Veteran Kansas Editor Dies. Columbus, Kan., Mar. 10—J. M. McNay of this city, who died Sunday morning at 6 o'clock, was one of the veteran newspapermen of the state. At the time of his death he was editor of the Galena Republican. Rheumatism of the heart was the cause of his death. He had been sick but a few days. Verdict Against Wheaton Iola, Kan., Mar. 10.—The jury in the case of C. H. Wheaton, on trial charged with manslaughter in procuring a criminal operation that caused the death of his stenographer, Miss Maud Reilly of this city, aged 20, Sunday returned a verdict of guilty of a misdemeanor. WHAT WINTER WHEAT IS DOING FOR SOUTHERN ALBERTA. Splendid Crops on the Former Ranching Plains of Canadian West. (Information regarding the districts mentioned, best way to reach them, low rates, certificates, etc., can be secured from any agent of the Canadian government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere.-Ed.) True Generosity. "They say very few authors sleep more than seven hours a day." "But think how much slumber they furnish other people."—The Herald and Presbyter. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than in any other. A few years was supposed to be incurable. 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AGAINST THE SPECULATORS. Bonafide Settlers on Kansas School Lands Given Decision by Judge Pollock. Topeka, Mar. 8.—Judge J. C. Pollock in the United States circuit court here has handed down a decision that hits the speculators in Kansas school lands hard and allows the real owners of school lands to retain their homes. About 40 of these cases were brought and each was decided against the speculators. The school lands in the western part of Kansas were taken up by settlers many years ago. During the hard times many of these defaulted in their interest and deferred payments. The land was forfeited to the state. The early settlers went back to their eastern homes. Within the last few years these lands have become valuable again and many new settlers have appeared. Then the land speculators began buying up the certificates held by the former owners and after paying the back taxes, interest and deferred payments, sought to oust the new settler and obtain a patent for the lands. The cases have been fought in the courts for years and this is the first decision which the United States courts have given. The state supreme court has ruled on the question, usually favorable to the new settlers, but sometimes against them. WELFARE OF THE CHILD. The International Congress Held a Session at the White House—Addressed by President Roosevelt. Washington, Mar. 11.—The White house was the scene Tuesday of the formal opening of the first international congress on the welfare of the child which is being held under the auspices of the National Mothers congress. The 200 delegates representing all the states and territories and a dozen or more of the leading countries of the world, were received at the White House at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon when President Roosevelt delivered an address to them in which he declared that he placed the society ahead of the civil war veterans, because, he said, in the final analysis it is the mother only who is a better citizen than the soldier who fights for his country. The first session of the congress was held Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church at John Marshall place and C street. Elmer E. Brown, United States commissioner of education, who was appointed by President Roosevelt as the official representative of the United States at the congress, spoke on "Children in the United States." Custer's Messenger Dead. Custer's Messenger Dead. Yonkers, N. Y., Mar. S—Thomas J. Callan, the man whom General Custer sent for reinforcements when his command was entrapped by Indians on the Little Bighorn river, in Montana, and who led a relief force back to the place where Custer and his men had been slaughtered, died at his home here Friday. Callan received a medal from congress in recognition of his bravery in making the dash for reinforcements for Custer. An overwhelming body of Indians had already surrounded Custer's troops when Callan was chosen to carry out the dispatch asking for help. He made his way through the Indian lines to the nearest military post and then headed the relief party on the long ride back to the scene of battle. They arrived too late, however, the entire Custer command having been annihilated by the Indians. Callan left the army 28 years ago and since that time has been engaged in business here. Johnson's Boom Launched. St. Paul, Mar. S.—The Democratic state committee of Minnesota Friday afternoon, after a bitter fight, adopted a resolution indorsing Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota for the Democratic presidential nomination and recommending that he be named by the National convention at Denver next July. Mount Sterling, Ky. Mar. 8.-Joseph Fletcher, 116 years old, died here Friday. His wife died recently at the age of 102. MARKET REPORTS. Live Stock. Kansas City, Mar. 11—Cattle—Natives, Steers, $4.60@5.90; cows and heifers, $2.60 @5.30; stockers and feeders, $2.52@5.00; western steers, $4.25@5.65. Hogs—Bulk of sales, $4.40@4.00; Sheep—Muttons, $4.00@4.00; butchers, $4.00@4.00; Chicago, Mar. 11—Cattle—Natives, $4.25 @6.00; cows and heifers, $2.00@5.25; stockers and feeders, $3.00@4.00; Hogs— Mixed and butchers, $4.40@4.75. Sheep, $3.65@6.00; lams, $5.60@7.10. St. Louis, Mar. 11—Beef—Steers, $4.00 @6.00; stockers and feeders, $2.50@7.15; stockers and feeders, $2.50@7.15; heifers, $4.00; Texas sheep, $3.50@5.40; $4.00; Pigs and lights, $3.75@ 4.75. Sheep—Natives, $3.50@5.65. Lambs, $4.50@7.15. Grain. Kansas City, Mar. 11—Close. Wheat-1½%c lower. May, 90%; July, 82%. Cash No. 2, hard, 93½%@37½%; No. 3, 94½%@6%; No. 2, red, 99½%@1.00; No. 3, 96%@8, Corn-1½%c higher. Cash No. 2, mixed, 53½%; mixed, 59½%; No. 2, white, 59½%; No. 3, white, 59½%; Oats—Unchanged. No. 2, white, 59½%; No. 2, mixed, 53½%; No. 2, white, 59½%; Corn—Lower. Track No. 2, red cash, 51½%@1.03%; No. 2, hard, 99½%@1.02%; May, 59½%; July, 86. Corn—Firm. Track No. 2, cash, 63½%; No. 2, white, 63½%; May, 61½%; July, 60½. Oats—Higher. Track No. 2, cash, 52½%@53½%; No. 2, white, 54; May, 51. Chicago, Mar. 11—Close. Meat—Wheat, 93½%@38½%; July, 83½%; May, 65½%; July, 62½%; Sept, 61½. Oats—May, old, 53½; May, 51½%; July, old, 44½%; July, 43½%; Sept, 37½%@37½%. Produce. Kansas City, Mar. 11—Eggs, 16½%c per doz. Poultry, 11½%c; springs, 10½%c; turkeys, 11c. Butter—Creamy, extra, 20½%c; packing stock, 17½%c. Potatoes 70½%c per bu. 0 SHORT HEARING SHORT HEARING The House Committee Met to Hear Mr. Lilley's Charges Against Electric Boat Company. WAS NOT READY TO TESTIFY Neither Did He Wish to File Written Charges—Adjournment Was Taken to Permit Hiring An. Attorney. An Attorney. Washington, Mar. 10.—The special committee of the house appointed by Speaker Cannon, at the request of Representative Lilley of Connecticut, "to investigate the conduct of the Electric Boat company of New Jersey and its predecessor, the Holland Boat company, respecting the methods employed by said companies in connection with past or proposed legislation before congress" began its investigation Monday. The committee, which is composed of Representative Boutell, of Illinois, chairman; Stephens of Minnesota, Olmstead of Pennsylvania, Broussard of Louisiana, and Howard of Georgia, met in a room at the House office building at 10:30 o'clock. Before the committee had been called to order, Chairman Boutell stated that no witnesses had yet been summoned but that Representative Lilley had been requested to appear before the committee; that as yet the committee has nothing before it and will not be in position to summon witnesses until Mr. Lilley lays the facts before them. After the committee had been called to order the clerk was directed by Chairman Boutell to read the report of the committee on rules pursuant to which the investigating committee was appointed. When the clerk reached that portion of the report which said that Mr. Lilley at his own instance appeared before the committee on rules in connection with his charges, Mr. Lilley interrupted to say that he had received a written notice from the clerk of that committee to appear before it. When the reading of the report had been concluded Chairman Boutell called on Representative Lilley and asked him if he was prepared to go ahead and state the facts in his possession. Mr. Lilley said he was not prepared to be examined at this time; that he desired to be represented by an attorney and had not yet secured one. He however, submitted a number of documents to the committee. He stated that he had been shadowed by detectives and said that in order that this shadowing be stopped he would ask to have summoned as witnesses three operatives connected with a local detective agency. He also submitted a list of witnesses that he desired to be summoned Mr. Lilley stated that he did not propose to put himself in the attitude of a grand jury, and present an indictment but he would, if permitted by the committee and assisted by an attorney, examine these witnesses and help the committee to the fullest extent possible in bringing out all the facts. He said that to formulate written charges and limit the investigation to these charges would simply be to stifle real investigation and make the adoption of the resolution a farce. Mr. Lilley asked that he be allowed to name the manner in which the witnesses should be called. He did not wish, he said, to be the first witness. Mr. Boutell stated that it was the intention of the committee to have Mr. Lilley first state what he knows of his own knowledge concerning these charges and in order to allow him to procure an attorney adjournment was taken until Thursday morning. The committee went into executive session to consider Representative Lilley's request in the matter of witnesses whom he desires to have summoned. Closed Milwaukee Schools. Milwaukee, Mar. 10.—The third floors of 16 of Milwaukee's public schools were ordered vacated Monday by Building Inspector Edward V. Koch, because of the absence of fire escapes. The order was served on President A. S. Lindemann of the school board, and was issued by direction of Mayor Becker. Inspector Koch Monday investigated the conditions of private and parochial schools and if any were found wanting in fire escapes they will be required to close until they conform to the law. Less Wheat in Farmers' Hands Washington, Mar. 10.—The crop reporting board of the Department of Agriculture in the bulletin issued Monday places the quantity of wheat in farmers' hands on March 1, 1908 at about 23.5 per cent, equivalent to 148,721,000 bushels of last year's crop, compared with 28.1 per cent or 206,644,000 bushels of the 1906 crop, on hand March 1, 1907 and 24.6 per cent or 155,268,000 bushels the average for the past ten years. Japanese City Swept by Fire. Tokyo, Mar. 10.—A fire at Nijigata which started at 5 p. m. Sunday was extinguished at 2 o'clock Monday morning. In a district comprising 21 of the principal streets, 1,500 houses were totally destroyed, the district being swept clean. There was some loss of life but the number is not known. Toledo, Mar. 11.—The school building at Napoleon, Ohio, the largest of the kind in the state, was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. Loss $110,000. Nobody was injured. Chivalrous Man. A father and mother, with six children, spent a holiday at the seaside. Immediately on arrival they set about looking for cheap lodgings. At length they came to a notice of a "furnished room to let" and made inquiries. "Oh, yes," said the landlady in answer to the father's question; "it's here the room is to let, but there's only one bed in it." "Oh, that's all right," replied the father; "we're used to roughing it. The wife and bairns will sleep on the floor."—The Tatler. THREE CURES OF ECZEMA. Woman Tells of Her Brother's Terrible Suffering—Two Babies Also Cured —Cuticura Invaluable. "My brother had eczema three different summers. Each summer it came out between his shoulders and down his back, and he said his suffering was terrible. When it came on the third summer, he bought a box of Cuticura Ointment and gave it a faithful trial. So soon he began to feel better and he cured himself entirely of eczema with Cuticura. A lady in Indiana heard of how my daughter, Mrs. Miller, had cured her little son of terrible eczema by the Cuticura Remedies. This lady's little one had the eczema so badly that they thought they would lose it. She used Cuticura Remedies and they cured her child entirely, and the disease never came back. Mrs Sarah E. Lusk, Cold water, Mich., Aug. 15 and Sept. 2, 1907." The Thoughtful Author. "I don't like the title of your latest novel." "Sorry—because in that book I studied the interest of my readers." "In what way." "Killed my hero in the middle of the story!" Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Chad H. Plutteur In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought The Kind You Have Always Bought. The Age Index. Ella—You shouldn't look a gift norse in the mouth. Stella—But how are you going to tell whether the present is new or not?—Harper's Weekly. 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Leap-year girls would rather marry in haste and repent at leisure than never have a chance to repent at all. You ought to be satisfied with nothing less than Nature's laxative, Garfield Tea! Made of Herbs, it overcomes constipation, regulates liver and kidneys, and brings Good Health. The average woman is vain enough to believe that she isn't. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of piles. Being or Preparing Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.—Young. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocery for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Actors who are egged off the stage ought to make a fresh start. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna Cleanses the System Effectually; Dispels Colds and Headaches due to Constipation; Acts naturally, acts truly as a Laxative. 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Don’t Be a S Go Where Labor is Light, H and Sure and Life is W South Texas Offers the Home Opportunity He Ever Had Acquire a Competent 10 to 640 Acres of the Best Land the Sun Ever Lots for $210 Payable $10 a Month W Dr. C. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Texas. Dear Sir:—This is to certify that I have visited the Simmons Ranch in Atascosa County, Texas, pressed with the outlook there. The land is a de- foundation and is very fertile. The water and the cl It is a good place for an investment. I can tr represented by Dr. Simmons. Investigate this before it is too late. Write today of the ranch and name of the nearest agent. DR. C. F. SIMMO RICK snakes from AND BS OIL the body, calgia and IN ETS—50c. a Slave Light, Returns Large is Worth Living. Homeseeker the Best Had to Quickly competence. Sun Ever Shone On and Two Town a Month Without Interest. Brownwood, Texas, April 26, 1907. Texas. 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Sainfoin, the dry soil luxuriator, etc., etc., etc. And if you send He will we add a packe by you. K, & W_i Lesson in Music. Little Marion's music teacher, while endeavoring to make plain to her the different note values, used an apple as an illustration. Cutting it in two, Marion announced: "Those pieces are halves." On bisecting the halves, she replied "Quarters," but when it came to dividing one quarter to bring out the idea of eighths, here was the wise response: "That's a bite!" A Sore Throat or Cough, if suffered to progress, may affect the lungs. "Brown's Bronchial Troches" give immediate relief. A Word from Josh Wise. "It's 'cause he doesn't talk back that th' oyster's given so much sauce." WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE A powter magoozine iss full mit latent enerchy—and sometimes mit powter. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when now. All grocers. Dereis always room ad der top. Dot思 why deattig iss full of chunk. 215 Alamo Plaza. 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General Banking Business Tranacted CH17 NAS Johnston's Restaurant 339 N. Main St. Meals 20c and 25c Cigars, Tobacco, Lunch Fish Game and Oysters in Season Your Trade Wanted Keeping Hand Tabernacle No. 4.—All the Daughters are well at present. Mr. and Miss. Oliver Johns has brought them a home on West 4th street. We are THE WIGH TA SEARCHLIGHT 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. J33 70 347 WEST DOUGLAS Please Your Wife If you want to please your wife you must buy "Wichita's Best" Flour A skYour Grocer For It Have No Other PEONISCH BROS, Agents 622 N. 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Full directions with every bottle. Price only 50 cts. Sold by dealer can not supply you, he can get it for you from us. Job offers on wholesale dealer $1.40 for three bottles or $2.50 for six charges to all points in U. S. A. When ordering send postal or express money order, and Write your name and address plainly to The Ozonized Ox Marrow Go. (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 TRAD At 638 North Water St It is my sad duty to notify all Temples, Tabernacle and Palatiums 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 Edward Wheaton is still on the mend, but he is not able to be out, yet. On Tuesday night at the A. M. E. church the Literary will meet and some men from Coffeyville will come over and debate against Cherryvale. On the fourth Sunday there will be a lecture at the Baptist church and the choir met last night to practice. FT, SCOTT, KAN., NEWS. (Too late for last week.) St. Peters Temple No. 8 is doing nicely under the management of our new Chief Mentor, Sir Arthur Bean. We have added twelve new members. Dtr. Bessie Hall and mother are both improving. The Sir Knights will give an entertainment on Thursday night, April 9th, from our Chief Grand Mentor, Sir Frank Wilson and Dtr. Emma Gaines, C. G. P. Wright's Grocery 333 NOTICE. Sir Terry is up again. Western U The leading eo 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, Western University The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west MCCOY 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, Tailorling, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. For full particulars write Prof. Shelter Of Western QUINDA Residence Phone No. 15 Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Residence Phone No. 15 Office Phone 1423 A man and a woman ride bicycles. Seed R Choice Red River Minnesota Bliss's Triumphs and Burbanks. very soon. We have a large stock Red Texas R We have nothing but new stock, pect to close them out within price. See them before buying. Seed Potatoes Choice Red River Minnesota stock, Early Ohio, Early Rose, Bliss's Triumphs and Burbanks. Seed Potatoes should be planted very soon. We have a large stock NOW, and prices are right. Red Texas Rust Proof Oats We have nothing but new stock, shipped from the south. We expect to close them out within two weeks and can make a close price. See them before buying. All varieties; selected new stock Onion Sets are going fast. Sw mato Seed, Egg-plant and Culib beds now. We have special ear It Pays. All varieties; selected new stock, best adapted to this territory. Onion Sets are going fast. Sweet Potatoes, Cabbage Seed, Tomato Seed, Egg-plant and Culiflower should be planted in hotbeds now. We have special early varieties. Plant Good Seeds; It Pays. We have in stock Fine and Coa feet high, at right prices. Incubators a We are gaents and sell at fa Mandy Lee, Lindsey, Hatch-al complete stock of Chicken Feed, Lice Killer will kill the lice o stock and guarantee cure. Call Central F We have in stock Fine and Coarse-mesh Netting, from one to six feet high, at right prices. Incubators and Brooders We are gaents and sell at factory prices. Cypher's Reliable, Mandy Lee, Lindsey, Hatch-all and Old Trusty. We carry a complete stock of Chicken Feed, Stock Food and Remedies. Lee's Lice Killer will kill the lice on your chickens. We have it in stock and guarantee cure. Call or send for catalog. Central Feed and Seed Co. GREAT BEND NEWS. Rev. Rainey, Mrs. Alfred Johnson and Mrs. Kittie Scott returned from the board meeting at Pratt, Kansas, Saturday morning. Johnson-Booker—Married Sunday evening, March 8th, 1908, Miss Nettie Johnson and Mr. Raymond Booker at the home of parents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnson of South Bend. Rev. Alexander of the A. M. E. church, performed the ceremony. The bride is well and favorably known here and has lived all her life in this country. The groom lives in Missouri, where we understand the happy pair will make their home. About fifty guests witnessed the ceremony and after the wedding sat down to the finest banquet that money and cooking could supply. The young couple received a large number of presents from their many friends as tokens of their good DEPARTMENTS Biological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, M State Industrial, embracing courses in Aure, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Print-binding, Tailorlng, Business Courses, Ing, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Fathorough discipline, Christian influence careful supervision Fine Military Band and Orchestra or full particulars write to Prof. Shelton French, ACTING PRESID Of Western University QUINDARO, KS dence Phone No. 15 Office Phone Prof. Shelton French ACTING PRESIDENT Seed Potatoes Red River Minnesota stock, Early Ohios, Ear Triumphs and Burbanks. Seed Potatoes should be bon. We have a large stock NOW, and prices are n Seed Texas Rust Proof C have nothing but new stock, shipped from the south. close them out within two weeks and can make See them before buying. Bulk Garden Seed rieties; selected new stock, best adapted to this Sets are going fast. Sweet Potatoes, Cabbage Seed, Egg-plant and Culiflower should be planted now. We have special early varieties. Plant Goods. Poultry Netting live in stock Fine and Coarse-mesh Netting, from one high, at right prices. Incubators and Brooders are gaents and sell at factory prices. Cypher's Lee, Lindsey, Hatch-all and Old Trusty. We have stock of Chicken Feed, Stock Food and Remedie Killer will kill the lice on your chickens. We have and guarantee cure. Call or send for catalog. Central Feed and Seed ite to ton French, ACTING PRESIDENT ern University ARO, KS Office Phone 1423 Yes Sir, We have it or anything in the Sporting Goods line. Bicycle Repairing a Specialty. Wichita Bicycle& Sporting Goods Company Phone 545 230 N. Main st Potatoes stock, Early Ohios, Early Rose, s. Seed Potatoes should be planted stock NOW, and prices are right. Rust Proof Oats k, shipped from the south. We ex- t two weeks and can make a close g. ock, best adapted to this territory. Sweet Potatoes, Cabbage Seed, Toiliflower should be planted in hot early varieties. Plant Good Seeds; parse-mesh Netting, from one to six and Brooders factory prices. Cypher's Reliable, Ball and Old Trusty. We carry a Bed, Stock Food and Remedies. Lee's on your chickens. We have it in all or send for catalog. eed nd Seed Co. The bride is well and favorably known here and has lived all her life in this country. The groom lives in Missouri, where we understand the happy pair will make their home. About fifty guests witnessed the ceremony and after the wedding sat down to the finest banquet that money and cooking could supply. The young couple received a large number of presents from their many friends as tokens of their good Both Phones will and respect. We unite with their many friends in congratulations. Mrs. Gertrude Wells, enroute for her home in Larned, stopped off here, and visited with her husband. The A. M. E. church are still running their meetings, one soul professed a hope in Christ. Charlie Smith is here from Hutchinson. The Queen Esther Circle will meet with Sister Wilson Murrant, Friday, March 13. Ace Sellers is assisting at Al Johnson's chill parlor. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnson of South Bend entertained a fine dinner Monday in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Brooker. rMs. Gertrude Wells was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Smith, Tuesday, while visiting in the city of Hutchinson. Rev. Miss Scott is here assisting Rev. Alexander in his revival meetings. Mrs. Kittle Scott is going to move into her residence soon. The supper given February 29th, was quite a success. Amount realized $11.20, for which we are thankful. Rev. Dunn of Hutchinson is in the city. Mrs. Ed Higgins has been very ill, but is reported up again. Fenton Wilfrey is on the sick list. CLEARWATER NEWS. Mrs. Vina Bates has been on the sick list the past week but is somewhat improved at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Black has moved to Bayneville, Kan., where Mr. Black has a position on the Missouri Pacific. We wish them success. Miss Ethel Barton was in Clearwater shipping last week. C. R. Wilfley tried the water witch last week by putting in a pump at his new house at a depth of 29 feet. A. White has commenced cutting hedge and getting ready for spring crop. SALINA. KAN. Salina Sunbeam No. 7, met Friday, March 6. Most all the members were present. Dtr. Parker is on the sick list. Wednesday night the Tabernacle is going to make some new member. Maid Ida May Jones is on the sick list. Maid Lola Boswell is also on the sick list. The Temple, Tent, Tabernacle are adding new members to the number of each meeting. The Tabernacle is looking forward to the Grand Preceptress's annual visit. Dtr. Bessie Ingram left the eighth for Chevenne, Wyoming. KINGMAN, KANSAS. Mrs. Cy Porter is still on the sick list. John Vaughn went to Newton Wednesday on business. Mrs. John Ross left for her home in Hannibal. Mrs. C. E. Floyd and daughter returned Saturday from Anthony. Mrs. Robt. Davis is getting a splendid start in poultry. She has fifteen little chicks already. Mrs. C. E. Floyd received word from her son Charles that he is doing well on his claim in Stevenson county, Kansas. The W. T. Vernon club met Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Wm. Horton. A very interesting meeting was held. After the regular routine of business a dalinity two-course luncheon was served by the hostess. The meeting then adjourned to meet next Thursday with Mrs. J. S. Fauver, 1601 Woodland avenue. Mrs. R. Frazier was out and called on Mrs. H. C. Underwood last Thursday and spent a pleasant evening. Mrs. Mamie Mathenia from Fort. Worth, Texas, is in the city this week, the guest of Mrs. H. C. Underwood. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Glover entertained at six o'clock dinner Monday evening in honor of Rev. M. Wooten, presiding elder. The table was ladened with the choicest viands which a select market could afford and every dish was a master one of the culinary art. Those fortunate to be present were: Rev. M. Wooten, presiding elder, Rev. and Mrs. J. F. C. Taylor, Dr. Grant G. Brown, Miss Sallie Rawles, Mrs. Al Glover, Mrs. W. N. Miller. Everyone enjoyed themselves. James J. Olden is suffering with a bad case of inflammation of his eyes. He is reported to be on the mend. J. Syl Anderson and Sandy Patton have opened a lunch counter at 349 N. Main. Mrs. G. M. Smith will leave next week for Colorado for the benefit of her health. Thwarting a Conspiracy 4 He came swinging out of the Flatfron building into a piercing hurlyburly of sound and color and movement. He paused a moment to breathe the whipping briskness of the air, then started at a leisurely gait. Suddenly he clapped his hand, as if in tardy remembrance, to an inner pocket and drew out a letter. He had just inserted a vandal finger under the flap when his glance, playing casually ahead, caught on that, in the crowd, which impelled him to put the note back unopened into his pocket. She was strolling uptown. There was the same appearance of uncertainty in her graceful, unhurrying gait that marked his own. She was dressed all in gray—gray broadcloth suit, gray shoes, a chinchilla turban with a saucy gray plume, a chinchilla scarf, crossed on her shoulders and falling to her waist, a huge heart-shaped wad of chinchilla, that was a muff, suspended from her neck by a silver chain. A curious impulse caught him. It ran riot in his brain for a white-hot instant. It crystalized into a definite intention. He stopped at her side. "I beg your pardon." His tone was pleasant and filled with an easy deference. "I'm sure that I've met you somewhere, haven't I? Will you let me walk up the avenue with you?" The girl stared at him againt. He was a tall fellow, his clean-shaven, fair skin browned and red-dened by an unseasonable burn. Her stare lasted an instant. Then a haughty color flared into her face. It wiped out the look of aloofness in its expression and brought out the pride in it. "Certainly not!" she flung freezingly to him. He resumed his hat equally. Her shocked profile darted past him. It paused halfway. "Yes," she suddenly conceded, turning impetuously to him, "you may walk a little way with me. I would like to have a few minutes' conversation with you." He placed himself at her side. She walked a few moments in silence. He waited. "Now," she began imperiously, turning on him with a suggestion of menace in her air, "will you kindly tell me why, out of all the women on Broadway, you selected me to approach in that insufferable way?" He looked embarrassed. "Well—I—the fact is—I—I" "The fact is," she took it up heatly, "that after looking me all over, you concluded that I was the kind of girl who would respond to such an overture." Her face flashed indignantly up in A man and a woman in formal attire are greeting each other. The man is holding a book and the woman is holding a bouquet of flowers. They are standing in front of a window with a decorative frame. "You Dropped This Handkerchief." his direction and then away. He saw that the light glinted through the transparent bridge of her disdainful little nose. "I thought nothing of the kind," he asserted with equal spirit. "I'll tell you exactly why I spoke to you," he said simply. "I did not tell you when you first asked me because what happened to be the truth, in my case, is what men always say under these circumstances. I was afraid you would not believe it. You caught my eye at once, because you seemed such a mouse of a creature—that gray is so soft. Then—I have always liked women to part their hair in the middle. As you came nearer I had—I honestly had—a sudden conviction that I'd met you somewhere, though I couldn't, of course, think where. I spoke to you on impulse. It was a queer business. I don't understand now why I did it. The moment the words were out of my mouth I knew, definitely, that I'd never seen you before. I was sorry—on my honor. But I was first attracted to you, believe me, because you looked so girlish—so different. I think your new clothes are all right." "Oh, I'm so glad. I should have felt uncomfortable all this evening if you hadn't said that. You see, my friend is the best-dressed girl I know." They walked on in silence for a moment. "I think you had better leave me now." She smiled in spite of herself; but she stopped. "Good-by," she said inflexibly. He lifted his hat resignedly. She nodded and walked on. (Copyright.) In an instant quick footsteps overtook her. "I'm very sorry to trouble you again," he began, a statement that his dancing eyes made no effort to reinforce. "You dropped this handkerchief out of your muff." She was shocked. "Did I? What a goose!" She flamed. "Of course you know I didn't do it on purpose." "Of course. Do you mind if I follow you a little way, just for protection? You might lose your muff—or—or—" "I might cast a shoe," she flashed. She looked ahead with a little maddening judicial air. "Well, all right, but you'll have to leave me soon for I'm almost there. It's somewhere in the Sixties, I think. You're not going to insist on going to dinner with me, are you? "I'm not sure yet." She had been fumbling in her muff. She brought out a note, a crumpled creamy sheet. He watched her curiously at first, then with a start. "By every sign and token of long-distance signaling — that's Bettina Thorpe's handwriting," he commented casually. She stared. "Oh, I've got my credentials with me, too. There's no reason why this peace conference shouldn't get busy." He drew an unopened letter from his pocket and thrust it under her be-wildered eyes. "By Jove! I guess I'd better read that," he exclaimed. "How perfectly ridiculous!" Her breath came in gasps. "Why, I can't believe it—it's too silly!" "Bettina ought to serve a can-opener with her stationery," he complained, tearing at the flap, "or a little dynamite. Ah!" He ran hungrily through the note and then burst into a roar: "I know you you are," he informed his companion, his face brightening with mischief. "You're Patricia Otis. Listen to this: "Dear Duke: I've been 'phoning you you like all possessed ever since I heard of your arrival, yesterday morning. But nobody knew where you were. Come to 89 Sixty-third street to dinner tonight with Bob and me, if it's a possible maid-of-honor next week, who's being social event of the season. I've always told you you'd go crazy over her, and here's your chance. Hurriedly, "BETTY." He jammed the letter-back into the envelope. "You see, I've simply got to go to dinner with you." "Are you Duke Grayson?" "I am." "Betty never told me you were coming to-night. But then, of course, she knew I wouldn't be there. I have always refused to meet you." "Same here!" he agreed brazenly. "She's determined to marry us, you know. That's why you looked so familiar. It's the pictures she showed me. I would never have suspected that you were good-looking from those things." "Thank you. I'm not. It's these clothes I'm wearing. When you come to that—Betty had any number of pictures of you in her room at Bertram hall. See here—I don't want to meet you. Oh, Betty's a schemer. You wait until I get alone with her! If I don't—I simply decline to meet you. She'll throw me at you in the most disgusting way—leaving us to tete-atetes, and everything like that. She hates my settlement work, you know. Her heart is set on marrying me off. She says that if I married a man like you I'd be a different woman: Isn't it disgusting?" "Nauseae," he agreed. "Why, I wouldn't marry the kind of man you are for anything in the world—you're too frivolous. I have an object in life." He applauded her. "That's right. You stick to that—no matter how many times I ask you." She turned back and her little teeth gnawed at her underlip. "Oh, sugar!" she burst out vexedly. She made an indeterminate movement forward and stopped. "I won't go to their dinner," she said with decision. He had the look of one inspired. "I'll tell you what we'll do. You see how it is: here are two people conspiring against us—against your happiness and my liberty. Let's evade them by going off to dinner together. I'll call a hansom and we'll go down to the Waldorf. You can telephone Betty, so that she won't worry. There'll be nobody there to foist unwelcome gratuitous tete-a-tetes on us. That's the only way we can beat their game." "I don't know what grandma would say," she said defiantly, "but, anyway, I'm going to do it. I'll tell Bettina that I've met you by accident, that we understand each other and her, and that we see right through all her plans. And if she has any idea of poking us into corners to fall in love with each other, she can just give it up, because we absolutely refuse to do it." "That's the stuff." He raised an alert finger to the hansom that had assiduously trailed them up the avenue. But six months later, when Bettina Bosworth received a certain inevitable announcement, she only smiled placidly. "I give a good deal to know whether she dropped that handkerchief on purpose," she said to Bob. Around the Metropolis What Is Going On in New York City Told in Interesting Manner Newport Belle Is Free to Wed Again NEW YORK.—The divorce litigation brought by Mrs. Nathalie Schenck Collins against Charles Glen Collins, formerly of the English army, ended the other day in an order signed by Supreme Court Justice Leventritt, which makes Mrs. Collins free to resume her maiden name and to remarry. Miss Nathalle Schenek, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Spotswood Schenck, was a Newport belle when she married Glen Collins in 1904. She met him for the first time at Georgian court, George Gould's Lakewood home, where she was attracted by his dashing play at polo. Mrs. George Gould introduced him to Miss Schenck after the game. There was a rapid courtship. He was by repute a captain in the Cameron Highlanders. In reality he had once been a senior lieutenant in the regiment and was called captain by courtesy. By repute again he had Bargains Offered Along Bride Line MARTY KEESE, keeper of the city hall, is incensed at the flossy gentleman with the sandy wistaria trailing over a couple of Queen Anne shoulders and the lump of business acumen on the frontal, who is handing out to timid marriage-license applicants; in Marty's city hall, bunches of cards announcing a closing-out sale in Third avenue of baby carriages, rolling pins, potato mashers, skillets, flatirons and other woman weapons that are handy to have about the house in case of a variance of view-point. If he doesn't stop it he is going to get an entirely new set of artificial lumps installed forthwith that will make his business bump look like the surface of the bride's first cake. City Clerk Seully and ex-Coroner Edward Hart and Stewart Harris, his assistants, didn't know a thing about the card peddling along the line at the time that the three thousand nine Gateses Withdraw from Wall Street Gateses Withdraw from Wall Street WITH the verification of the report that Charles G. Gates had sold his seat on the stock exchange there is chronicle the last element in the withdrawal of the Gateses from active personal participation in the affairs of Wall street Mr. Gates sold his seat for $51,000, which marks another new level drop in the price of seats, the last previous sale having been at $59,000. Mr. Gates sold his seat for the same amount at which, in 1901, he had purchased it. Since then seats on the exchange have sold as high as $95,000. When the firm of C. G. Gates & Co. was dissolved last year the quoted price was $79,000. This sale by Mr. Gates drops the final curtain on the stock exchange career of himself and father, John W. Gates. The firm, in which the latter New Yorkers Careless Regarding Wealth WILL YOU KINLY BEE IF I HAVE TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS I FORGOT ABOUT THE recent panic served to bring to light in a striking manner the carelessness of the average New Yorker in regard to his money. The largest institution in the city which was forced to close its doors after a run, and is now attempting to reorganize, is seriously hampered in its efforts to get the sanction of its depositors for the plans mapped out because there are more than 500 such depositors, with deposits of more than half a million dollars, who are lost, strained or stolen. When the depositors' committee began its work of securing consent for the scheme of reorganization it discovered that half a thousand depositors seemed to have forgotten all Metropolis Free to Wed Again an income of $50,000 a year and was of noble family. In reality he had an income of a few pounds a month and came from a good, but inconspicuous Scotch family. Miss Schenck was supposed by Collins to be wealthy in her own right. As a matter of fact she had no private fortune and her parents were in moderate circumstances for people in their social position. She and Collins were married at Monterey, Cal., in the spring of 1904. They started on a honeymoon trip around the world. They sailed from San Francisco with a retinue of servants, a string of polo ponies and a formidable load of baggage. Honolulu, the first port of call, war the terminal point of the honeymoon. Their funds ran out, they discharged the servants, sold the polo ponies and returned to America, it was said at the time, by pawning some of the bride's jewels. After a short stay here they went to France together, but soon separated, Mrs. Collins returned to her parents. Collins was declared a bankrupt and left the English army. It was reported last fall that he had gone to work as a potter in the works of the Grueby Falience Pottery company of South Boston. hundred and seventeenth license (since January 1) was issued at closing hours of the marriage shop the other day. The barker has had diplomacy enough to shun the inner sanctum so far. Stewart Harris said when told of the card game he'd just like to see him come inside. But Marty is wrought up—Marty, who never can go into even the board of aldermen's chamber without taking off his hat. Clerks Harris and Hart have troubles enough as it is, they say, without having new ones laid on their shoulders. The man with the baby carriages for sale defended his position when Marty Keese said angrily to him, "Cease, my good man, cease!" on the ground that he is really a philanthropist. These goods, he says, are guaranteed to last for many, many years, and, what is of even more importance, so he says, baby carriages will be much higher the minute all the tunnels to Brooklyn, not to mention the new bridges, are in working order. Furthermore, the president is likely to dip into the cause of baby carriage panic at any moment. You can see yourself what will happen as soon as he issues a message on the subject. was a special partner, was, previous to its dissolution, one of the largest speculative firms in Wall street, and was a powerful factor in market affairs. Its 'change transactions were very large and its personnel of customers formidable. When father and son left for Europe after the dissolution of their firm Wall street believed their losses had run up into the millions because of the decided turn of the market against the position which they were believed to have maintained. The Gateses stated then, however, that they had not incurred the losses that were attributed to them. Although John W. Gates was not a member of the stock exchange, he was one of the largest operators of his day. Besides the firm of C. G. Gates & Co., he was connected with several other commission houses. As for the Gates firm at the time of its dissolution, John W. Gates said that during its career it had done about eight percent. of all the business done on the stock exchange. In addition it had done a huge volume of business on the other exchanges and in the outside market. about their money. Two whose deposits were over $20,000 each were found after weeks of search and much expense, and both were surprised to discover that they had this money on deposit, since all record of it had escaped their minds. That anyone should forget a matter of $20,000 cash seems unbelievable, yet the records show that more than 500 persons have done this. In one case a now wealthy man had deposited $12,000 in 1884 and had forgotten all about it. He was therefore surprised when informed that he had nearly $25,000 standing to his credit. Still further evidence of the New Yorker's carelessness in regard to money is given by the fact that in the care of this one institution are more than 100 accounts standing in the names of persons deceased whose families or executors have never even obtained letters of administration. In view of these figures it seems probable that many million dollars are in New York banks whose owners have forgotten about them. Official Knights & Knights & Daughters OF TABOR KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 1715 Clark Ave., Parsons, Kan. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. Miss Jennie Alexander, G. Q. M., 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kansas 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. Mul- blerce, 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 Wullace, 446 Ark., Law- rence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 823 Free- man, 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, 35 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Sat. (A) Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 208 N. 30th. 37 Jannle McAdoo, 1318 N. Madison. ur. (A) Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) Horton, Ft. 45 Cynthia Henderson, 312 Washing ton, Kansas. 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 610 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessle Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 20 Mrs. S. Montague, 403 Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kan. 24 Mrs. Angle Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 27 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) 33 Mrs. J. L. Cobb, Bx. 384, Alliance, Neb. 34 Mrs. Mattie Miller, 335 W. 15th, Wichita, Kan., 1-8 Thr. (A) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. ARCHER AV. aska. 1300 N. 6th, Fri. (A) 1173, Weir 8th and GRAND OFFICERS 1907-8. Thos. Glover, District Grand Mastor 704 N. Market St., Wichita, Kan Chas. A. Finney, Deputy Grand Mastor Cherokee, Kan. P. H. Bassett, District Grand Secretary, Chetopa, Kan. W. W. Shobe, District Grand Treasurer 836 N. Santa Fe, Salina, Kan. H. Kindell, District Grand Director, Scott, Kan. 37 Mrs. Matilda Waters, 1300 N. 6th, Atchison, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 808 Vermont, Law- rence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Wed. (A) 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 2302 N. 25th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lin- coln, Neb., 2-4 FYL (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. West- ern, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) Other Mentors 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 2 J. G. Burdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 3 A. M. Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Mon. 4 Robt. M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, 1-3 Thur. 5 J. C. Coffee, 1455 N. Mosley, Wichita, Kan., Fridays. 6 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 7 Jno H. McKinnis, 217 Sherman, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 8 C. Swan, 1058 N. Mosley, Wichita, Kan., 1-3-4 Thur. 9 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 10 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 11 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 12 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 13 U. A. Graham, 1100 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 14 W. Osteen, 1214 Lane, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. 15 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 10th, Lincoln, Neb. Banner Mills CUSTOM GKINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FREED FORDHILL BROAD, PROF. 600 N. Main St. Photos 92 --- 333 TABERNACLES. TEMPLES. Chief Mentors 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 M. 12th Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Lea- enworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, F. Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, L. coln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walken- Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. Mora 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Cof- feyville, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Ike Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 811 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 811 Everett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Mary Brown, 825 Miss., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 1 Sadie Tyler, 125 E. Riley, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arle Stone, 823 Main, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Salma, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 Lizzle Harold, Sherman Flata, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Willis, 2103 Grand, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 23 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawrense (A) Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) ton, Kansas City, Kan. 1-3 SAN NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle will next meet in Atchison, Kansas, on the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1968. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Ten is not in this Directory, or if there any error, please notify me at one W. N. MILLER, Editor. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Dstrict Grand Lodge, No. 17, Kansas G. U. O. O. F. NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. District Grand Lodge No. 17 meet in Kansas City, Kansas, in July 1908. In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 4102 E. Douglas Pozna 62 johnston's RESTAURANT 839 North Main Street Meals 15c to 25cts. Hot or Cold Lunch —At Ali Hours— ICE CREAM SODA POP always on le SUNDAY DINNERS 20c and 25c.