Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. THE EXPECTED HAPPENED. After Causing One of the Most Heinicus Riots in History—Springfield Ill., White Woman. EXONERATES ACCUSED NEGRO. And Withdraws the Charge That Started Illinois Race Riots. Springfield, Ill., Sept. 1.—At 2 o'clock this afternoon Mrs. Earl Hallam signed a statement that George Richardson is not the Negro who assaulted her on the night of August 14. It was the alleged assault charged against Richardson and his arrest and removal to Bloomington, Ill., that precipitated the recent bloody race riot. The Springfield, Ill., race riot will go down in history, as one of the most benign and bloody riots ever witnessed in America. In distruction of property and in loss of life, no rito north of the Mason and Dixon line can even compare with it, and, yet in the few lines above clipped from one of our dolls the fact is heralded to the world that the riot was without cause. Famulose as the riot itself was, there can not even be a conception of disgrace which should be attached to this later declaration of the woman in the case that she sat supinely and contented and witnessed this awful and horrible destruction of life and property on the strength of a false or mistaken identity. No man can have any sympathy or compassion for any man who assaults a woman, and no man should pity a woman who would not at least be sure of her words. Riots of this nature are most deplorable and this later statement of the alleged victim in this case ought to be a living example and lesson to the riot bent mind of the unwarrantedness of their passion. These are matters delicate and touch the very soul of every race loving Negro. AN INSPIRING SESSION. Prince Hall Grand Lodge Held its Most Notable Session in Topeka Last Week. Grand Master Collins Makes A Phenomenal Record. For work accomplished, for inspirations to future progress the session of Prince Hallodge, A. F. A. M. held in Tupelo last week stands forth in Kansas Masonic history unequaled and unscrolled. From every quarter of the Grand Jurisdiction came forth reports of renewed determination of the various crafts to give their full and unrestricted support to Grand Master C. H. Hinton, Collins, (Kansas' youngest Grand Master) in his effort to make Masonry in Kansas stand for somethin$^{19}$ more than a mere name. The Collins idea of push, vim, prigress and newer, sets some Masonic ideas permeated the entire session. For many years in every words the Masons have cherished a Mason chome, where the aged, reform members, and the widows andphants of deceased members might be invited for. But this has passed as a stream under the matchless leadership of Grand Master Collins, this long felt words are now soon to be a real D. At this session a special committee composed of the following splendid Masons were appointed: Past Grand Master D. A. Jones, Leavenworth; C. O. Officer, Maple Hill; John B. Fleming Horton; Atty, L. W. Johnson, K. C. Ks, and S. P. Hawkins of Topeka, which purchase a home for not more than Masons with power to act. One thousand dollars was set aside to the use of this committee to bind any bargain they may hake and the Negro Masons in Kansas may soon expect some realizations from this committee. At this session the endowment was also raised, in fact, the Order is awakening to the fulfillment of its rightful place among men and nations. After a most formidous and brotherly session the following officers were chosen: Grand master, C. H. M. Collins, Kansas City, Kas; deputy grand master, T. W. Bell, Leavenworth; grand senior warden, M. T. Ransom, Parsons; grand junior warden, J. H. Hudson, Chetopa; treasurer, A. D. Hins, Salina; secretary, F. M. Stone, Lawrence; custodian I. F. Jennings, Kansas City, Kas; grand lecturer, W. E. Gray, Atchison; grand Chaplain, O. Davis, Kansas City; Kas; grand marshal, Ben Tillery, Seneca; grand sword bearer, Moses Hope, Fort Scott; grand senior deacon, W. F. Weatherly, Topeka; junior deacon, J. W. Jackson, Winfield; senior steward, S. Galbreath, Troy; junior steward, Walter Rollins, Olathe; pursuitant, W. H. Broddus, Hutchinson; grand tyler, R. L. Bradley, Emporia. Committee on Masonic Home, D. A. Jones, Leavenworth; C. C. Officer, Maple Hill; John Fleming Horton; L. W. Johnson, Kansas City, Kas; S. P. Hawkins, Topeka. One thousand dollars was raised at this meeting toward a fund of $10,000 which will be used to purchase a 160-acre farm, which will be used as a home for disabled and aged members, their wives and orphans. WHAT THINK YE? A Strong Forceful and Pointed Line of Truths From the Pen of Mr. R. M. Wilson. ON THE RACE ISSUE Helpful and Beneficial Writing. There is now and has been for many years much prating by men, wise and men otherwise, upon what they call the race question. Now this miscalled race question, with the peculiar meaning attached to this country—a meaning so well understood that it need no defining, is a myth. There is no race question in this country between white people and black. This race question is a chimera—a thing hatched up and bruited about as an excuse for criminal injustice and violence, incendiarism and blood-shed. It also serves as a trumpet call to the rioting legions in every community, who never fail to respond to its call and to do destruction to life and property. Race war, Negro dominancy, and rape—an act which from its very nature is doubtful of accomplishment, are all popular cries to the lawless hosts. Wheer is the good of crying out against a handful of anarchists when the masses of the people tolerate anarchy even against a weak and defenseless minority of innocent citizens? If one man commits a crime, should all the men, women and children of that race have their lives and property jeoparded? Is there no safety, no security for the innocent? Must they suffer violence, be driven from the little homes that husband and wife have worked and stinted and saved so long to make Has it come to that pass that every time a Negro reads in the daily paper or hears from other sources that a crime has been committed and that Tom says that Dick told him, that Harry said to him, that it was suspicioned that a Negro did it, flee to the woods and cornfields with his wife and children, leaving his property to be burned or shot to death themselves, along with the general destruction? And must they stay out there night and day—be the weather fair or foul—until the mob has satiated its thirst for huma nblood and human life? The police are unable to stay the angry populace, the militia has been disarmed or thyre have no ammunition; for what can the militia do without guns, and of what use is a gun without ammunition. A stick or a stone is as good. There is small difference between the savage and the civilized when the civilized become savagely mad. When such a state of affairs obtains in a land of schools, of Bibles, of Y. M. C. A.'s, of C. E. societies, of churches and pulpits and praachers—all momentarily shock at the Spring-fields reigns of terror, of bloodshed and arson, as they follow each other in broken, but endless procession, and then quickly fall back itnto a state of apathy—if not superlative indifference—with the remark: "They only killed a few "niggers," but can you afford to kill "a few niggers" in that way? I repeat, when such a state of affairs can exist under such conditions, who will say that this boasted civilization is not a curse—a destroying curse to the world; or if not that, may it not be but the entrance upon a more refined, a more esthetic plane of barbarous savagism? The executive power waiting on the legislative, the legislative waiting on the people, the church and the ministry waiting on—the Lord only knows whom. Everybody waiting for wrongs to right themselves, as if such a thing weer possible; as well expect the water of Great Salt Lake of itself to freshen itself. He who commits a crime against his fellowman degrades himself, brutalizes himself and from that condition he is not likely to arise unassisted. Some have been so romantic as to suggest as a remedy for the evils that the black men suffer at the hands of the whites in this country, miscegeneration—bad luck to the day that shall bring it to pass. With due deference to the opinions of Mr. Geo. L. Wells, whom, I see, is no more of an altruist than I am, I take issue—not that I would controvert the logis of his reasoning only in so far as it touches results and proportions; that the white race is deteriorating, I admit. That the black race is deteriorating I do not claim that it is. That the blood of the white man is deficient in some of the properties or elements of the blood of the original stock, I admit now the black man has no such deficiency, but possibly a superabundance of color pigments, but even if this is so, still, he is nearer in color to the primary man than is the white man, hence suffers less from the variation in color from Adam, the first man, whom ethnologists declare was red or brown. Now, if white is not a color, but only the absence of color—as is generally held, then it is nature depleted, or a freek, for nature gives color to all her creatures, and the Negro loses, white the white man gains, in a union of the two races. Examine a herd of wild horses and compare the number of white horses to the number of colored horses; do the same with a herd of wild cattle; wild flowers, wild birds, and in every case you will find white in the minority. Then where did the white man come from, for he, also is in the minority? It is estimated that the total population of this earth is 1 billion 380 millions; and 380 millions of this number are classed as caucasan or white. So you see there are nearly four times as many of the dark races as there are of the white race. No. Mr. George T., not just yet awhile; so you and your "miscegenation" had better hobble along while you can, for we will have none of either of you. Your objects are purely selfish; true to the instincts of your race. You would gain at the expense of another—you would gain stamina, longevity, brawn, fertility and strength of brain, religious fervor and zeal—by your proposed amalgamation. God never lead a people through such severe trials as he has lead and is still leading the Negroes in this country, but that He had a mission for them to perform. If the Negro remains true to himself, true to his God, then will he perform, and grandly, too, this mission laid upon him by his Creator race to lose its identity by amalgamating with a race long since gone to seed in its effort and strife for money. STAIRESCAPE By DON MARK LEMON (Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.) house, with the ex-grocer in hot pursuit. The peddler took the gate at a leap, but his pursuer, being stout and rusty, was compelled to stop where the fence began, and thence he hurried impotent maledictions down the street. When the peddler was out of sight, Jones returned to his castle, brought out a huge padlock and chain, and chained the gate fast. Some small boys saw him, and no sooner had he retired to his arm-chair than the youngsters climbed the low fence and rang the bell until the battery gave out. Whereat, the excited ex-grocer came forth with a rush—and succeeded in knocking the inoffensive letter-carrier down the front steps. Jones removed the padlock and chain from the gate and considered. He might get a cannon, load it, set it on his front porch, and place over its mouth the sign, "No Peddlers or Agents." This idea he immediately surrendered for the more brilliant one of buying a big bull-dog and stationing the beast in the front yard, with the sign "No Peddlers or Agents" painted on dog-house and dog. But the peddlers would soon poison the dog! Jones looked at his gate, which stood about 18 feet from his front door, and sighed: "If it were only half a mile from that gate to the door, then I'd be rid of the whole tribe of peddlers. Only half a mile," he repeated. Suddenly he slapped his thigh and cried: By crickety, I've got it! I'll make it half a mile from that gate to the door, and I won't move the house an inch. At least," he added, thoughtfully, "I'll make it seem half a mile." The next morning Mrs. Jones and her daughter were amazed at beholding a great wagon-load of lumber deposited on the sidewalk and street before their house. This load was followed by another and another. "My, Pearl," exclaimed Mrs. Jones, "your father will be dreadful angry when he learns that some one is using our front sidewalk for a lumber pile!" Just then the husband and father himself came down the street and viewed the lumber with wreathed smiles. "It's pa's doings!" cried Pearl. "John, John!" called Mrs. Jones from the window, "what's all that lumber for?" "Shut the window and be quiet!" commanded Jones. A little later a number of carpenters entered the ex-grocer's front gate and fell to work, and, breakfast being over, Mrs. Jones and her daughter sat down at the parlor windows and watched the men. They had lived long enough to know that what father did was worth watching. The neighbors also watched the carpenters. What were they doing over at Jones' house? They weren't raising the building, nor erecting an addition to it. The best that any one could judge, the carpenters were constructing steps—tens, scores, hundreds, of steps—building on the ex-grocer's premises a stairway that led up into the air, then down to the earth, then up again, then down again, then up still again, then down still again, to lose itself at last somewhere on the side of the house opposite to that where it began. Finally, the carpenters took their leave. Then the painters came and, later, took their leave, and during all this time no human being had been able to get into Jones' house, save Jones himself, and his wife and daughter. For the front door of the ex-grocer's home had disappeared. Where Jones' gate had formerly stood there now appeared a neat door, and on the first of June a lettered tin another was impaled upon his sharp sword, while his side cuts sent many of the small sharks out of the water. The dogfish closed in on him and tore huge pieces out of his sides. He shook them off each time, however. In the meantime the fishermen returned to the schooner and got a harpoon. They drove this into the big fish and he gave up the fight.—Boston Herald. There the Difference Lies. It will always remain a matter of By actual count it was the fifth time in an hour that he had answered the door-bell that morning, and when he opened the door he found, as usual, a peddler standing on the porch. The fellow had a small bucket of onions and a basket of string-beans in his hands. "String-a-beans, lady? Onions? string-a-beans?" With a swift dive Jones grabbed the peddler by the ear and thrust his face before a large sign above the door-bell, which read: NO PEDDLERS OR AGENTS. "Do you see that?" demanded the frate Jones. "Let ago my ear!" cried the peddler, who was a little, wizen-faced Italian. "Read it;" commanded the man whose house wasn't his castle. The Italian stared at the sign, gave his ear a tug, and exclaimed: Sac-raiment-o!" "You lie!" thundered Jones. "That sign reads: 'No Peddlers or Agents.'" "I no can read-a de English," squirmed the little alien. "Then take that!" and Jones kicked the peddler down the steps and out at the front gate. Jones was a retired grocer and lived with his wife and daughter in a neat one-story house set forward in a 30x140 foot city lot. Having little with which to occupy his time, and wishing to prescribe who should and who should not enter his home, he had taken upon himself the labor of answering the door-bell. Of late a plague of peddlers was driving him distracted. He had just installed himself in his arm-chair and taken up the morning paper when the bell again rang. He got up with a muttered malediction, went to the front door and opened it. "Potatoes to-day, lady? Nice, fresh? Dollar a sack!" The peddler was a husky young fellow of five-and-twenty, or thereabout, and Jones paused. True, the fellow, utterly regardless of his sex, had called him "lady" but then—Well, Jones had learned to consider discretion the better part of valor, and so, scrowling horribly, he slammed the door in the peddler's face. After ringing the bell a time or two, by way of diversion, the potato-hawker went his way, and again Jones installed himself in his chair, as a wonderful idea came and entered his brain and buzzed about a bit, like a honeybee in the wrong hive. He would attach a nickel-in-the-slot machine to his gate, so arranged that all who wished to come through the gate would first have to deposit a nickel in the machine. This would prevent peddlers entering his yard and ringing his door. But then—No! The peddlers would fill up the machine with brass slugs, and torment him as often as ever. Bz-z-z-z-z-z! The sound of the electric bell whirred through the house like that of a fire alarm, and with three strides Jones was on his feet and at his front door. "Any needles, pins, hairpins, safety-pins, thread, sealing-wax, china-mending-cement, ironing-wax, soap, perfume, corn-salve, cold-cream, dandruff-cure, shaving-soap, tooth-brushes, nail-brushes, hair-brushes, combs, hand-mirrors, chewing-gum, thimbles—" The peddler paused for breath, and Jones, having sized up the fellow, gathered himself into a battering-ram and made a rush. Another instant and the neighbors beheld a small, lean peddler flying down the steps of Jones' Swordfish Fights School of Dogfish. A 400-pound swordfish engaged in a battle with a school of dogfish was captured by the crew of the schooner Galatca, which arrived at T wharf recently. The Galatca was at anchor off Chatham when the crew noticed a commotion in the water. Two men rowed over in a dory and witnessed a remarkable battle. The swordfish was standing off a whole school of dogfish. The swordfish would charge right and left with his weapon. One fish after sign was nailed up on this door. It read: PRESS BUTTON AND WALK UP. The letter-carrier was the first outsider to read this sign. He had a registered letter for the ex-grocer and must deliver it in person. He pressed the button beneath the lettered tin sign and the door flew open. A steep stairway led directly up from the threshold. He mounted to the top of this stairway and before him stretched down a second steep stairway. He descended. At the bottom the way turned, and there at his feet arose a still steeper and considerably longer stairway. Perspiring till he washed the ten-cent stamp off the registered letter in his hand, he mounted this third stairway, which led over the roof of the ex-grocer's house, and coming to the top he saw stretching down before him still another steep stairway. He descended, and at the bottom looked for a door. No door! Instead, another stairway! Swearing softly, he climbed this fifth stairway, and almost fell as he saw stretching down before him a sixth stairway. With his knees shaking under him he slowly and painfully descended this sixth flight, and behold! there at the bottom was the lost front door of the ex-grocer. He rang the bell and delivered the registered letter to Jones in person. When the registered receipt was signed, the letter-carrier looked hard and long at the cause of all his labors, mopped his dripping forehead and remarked dryly, his remark being the only dry thing about him: "You've got a nice place out here in the country." Then, without another word, the letter-carrier turned, went back up the first flight of stairs, down the second, up the third, down the fourth, up the fifth, down the sixth, and stood again in the street, 18 feet from Jones' front door. But this servant of Uncle Sam had fathomed only the shallows of the ex-grocer's inventive genius. A potato peddler was the first to cast a line to the bottom of the dreadful abyss. He, too, pressed the innocent-looking button beneath the tn sign, and when the door before him flew open he thrust in his head and queried: "Any potatoes to-day, lady?" Seeing a flight of stairs and not a lady before him he ascended to the top of the flight, then descended a second flight, then ascended a third flight, then descended a fourth flight, then ascended a fifth flight, then to his left turned off and descended a sixth flight, all the time wondering what kind of a trance he was in. At the bottom of the sixth flight of stairs was a door. On the door was the sign: PEDDLERS AND AGENTS WELCOME. PRESS THE BUTTON. The peddler gazed long and earnestly at this remarkable sign, then pressed the button. The door before him flew open, and in another instant something wide and hard closed at his back, shoving him into the street four feet from where he had stood some minutes before. A laugh, too near to be directed at another than the peddler and too boisterous to be ghostly, smote the ears of the hawker. "That sliding partition works like a charm," said Jones. What the peddler said would make this too long a story. Paris Gets Acquisition. The American telephone girl has been transplanted to Paris, and according to reports she has lost none of the qualities which distinguish her in this country, but is quite as ready to break in upon her own private conversation to oblige a customer of the telephone at any time, and her replies to irate and disobliging people asking for connections are of the same temperate and high-class English she employs at home. dispute as to whether one person has a right to say to another that she shall not work more than a certain number of hours each day. The society woman goes about her avocations and her pleasures as many hours as she pleases, and often to the detriment of her health and that of her children, but would consider it a question of personal privilege if anyone dared to make a law requiring her to stop working or playing at a certain time. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mail).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mail).....75 Three Months (By Mail).....50 Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. Notice--All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wednesday to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. 2nd. 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In spite of all that is being said about these faithful and helpful Republican allies—the fact remains that some very strenuous efforts must be put forth by Republican leaders to enliven an interest among the colored voters to the whole ticket. What these steps or strenuous efforts should be and how to make them effective is a proposition we leave. It is a conceded fact that the Republican county, state and national ticket cannot win without the colored vote and any candidate or Republican leader who has a mind to the contrary is most seriously at error. In the good days of yore the colored voters have whooped up the Republican ticket with a vim and hurrah. But this enthusiasm,so characteristic in the past—is most conspicuous for its absence. Why the cause? We leave some one else to answer. Surely the Republican party will find a way to interest its friends—the colored voters WOULD-B-LEADERS. ..... Wichita has a few—and we are glad only a few—would-be Negro leaders, who when it comes to patronizing Negro enterprises always finds some petty excuse that they put forth in excusing themselves from giving their patronage to members of the race. Such individuals are an imposition upon the race. They are of far mire detriment than good. Such pesky race nuisances always seek leadership in the Negro lodgesfI churches and societies and then when placed there use the money of the race which passes through their hands to make "big names" for themselves among the "whi folks" at the expense of the race. If the colored lodges, churches and societies of Wichita wish to thrive among the race in this city they must ferret out and relegate such individuals to the rear rank where they belong. Pay what you owe to the Search light. Be honest. LOCALS Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Vote for S. B. Kernan for County Commissioner from the First, Second and Third wards. Past Master J. G. Gaines, Aphas Richey, R. E. Smith, W. H. A. Clark, Dudly Johnson and H. W. James were among the Wichitans who attended the Masonic Grand lodge in Topeka last week. Mr. Henry Winlock, who was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson of 1650 S. Topeka avenue last week, left Sunday for his home in Denver, Colo. Fred Harwell, age 26, died Sunday morning at the residence of Henry Braden, 928 N. Wichita of consumption. Funeral services were held at the Mueler undertaking parlers Monday afternoon. The deceased leaves an uncle, Mr. J. S. Harwell and other relatives. Rev. J. J. Cable of Independence, Ks., persiding elder of the M. E. church. Topeka District, passed through the city Tuesday. Miss Bertha A. Warding of Dombey, Okla., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson of 1650 S. Topeka ave. J. W. Thompson has rented th enewly finished house of B. J. Topp and will occupy it with his mother and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson, 1650 S. Topeka ave., entertained at an informal luncheon Wednesday, Sept. 2. In honor of Miss Bertha A, Warding of Dombey, Okla. The evening was pleasantly passed in music and games, aftr which a dainty three course luncheon was served. Guests were Mrs Sallie Wall, Misses Louise Wilson, Sallie Rawles, Lulu Clark, Messrs. Chas, Price and Wesley Rawes. Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Van Leu gave a six o'clock dinner Wednesday at their residence, 630 N. Water in honor of SEARCHLIGHT ON SALE. The Wichita Searchlight is on sale each week at J. M. Johnson's barber shop, 1119 Eighteenth street, Denver, Colo., and at Patton's barber shop, 911 Wyandotte street, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Mary E. Green, of Memphis, Tenn, who was in the city visiting. Those present were: Miss Mary E. Green, Memphis, Tenn, Rev. and Mrs. E. T. Fishback, Rev. and Mrs. R. N. Counte, Mrs. Wm. Turner, Mrs. Anna Harwell, Miss Susie Price, Miss Ethel Patton. Lost—A solid gold watch with a fob attached with initial "W" on the watch. Lost between the A. M. E. church on College Hill or stock yards car. Liberal reward if finder will return same to IDA WILSON, 326 N. Water St. Mrs. A. Griggs gave a dinner in honor of Rev. F. D. Douglas, Mr. Mitchell and Master Mills at 1:30 o'clock Mon-F. C. Taylor, Mrs. F. Baker, Mrs. A. Martin, Mrs. A. Dancy, Mrs. E. Hodges, of California; Miss Mary McBride, Mrs. Griggs was assisted by Mrs. Benton McCellan and S. Griggs. Mr. and Mrs. A. Price entertained at their residence 1420 N. Mosely, Thursday, with a four course dinner in honor of Mr. and Mr. W. White of Oklahoma. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. W. White, Mr. and Mrs. Bolden. A pleasant time was had. Miss Mary E. Green of Memphis Tenn., was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Van Leu this week. She left Hursday for her home in Memphis. R. H. Sims, J. Perkins and Lee Anderson of Topeka, was in the city Monday. Mrs. K. Coleman entertained at dinner Monday Rev. and Mrs. Countee, Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Van Leu, Mrs. V. Covington, Mrs. Amanda Jones of St. Joc. Mo.; Miss Mary Green of Memphis, Tenn. WOMEN'S CLUB A concise statement among the colored w THE BOOKER WAS WICHITA Mrs. M. Hodges has returned from Helena, Montana. Harold Flemtungs who has been in Topeka is at home again? Miss Irma Clark has returned from Topeka and Kansas City where she has been visiting. Presiding Elder M. Wooten, of Ft. Scott, passed through the city Thursday enroute to Arkansas City. Wichita is now the third largest city in Kansas in population. They are as follows: Kansas City, Kans., 80,839; Topeka, 43,279; Wichita, 40,660. Good for Wichita. TABERNACLE BAPT CHURCH TABERNACLE BAPT. CHURCH. Great preparations are being made for the Southwestern Bapt. District Association which will convene September 8. A large delegation is expected. Sunday morning was spent very profitably in a song and praise meeting, while Pastor R. N. Caintee preached at the New Hope Baptist in the interest of the association. A large congregation assembled at 8 p. m., and the pastor preached on the life and character of Noah. Much enthusiasm was manifested, at the close of the service an offering of ten dollars was collected. Miss Mary Green, a former pupil of Rev. Camtee's from Memphis, Tenn., has been in the city for the last 10 days and returned home on the 3rd. While here she was the guest of Mrs. J. H. Vanlue. Mrs. Pinky Jones of Kansas City, Mo., arrived in the city Friday and will spend some time in the city as the guest of Mrs. G. H. Young, 601 N. Main. For good accommodations go to Johnston's hotel, 507 N. Mahn. RACE RIOTS A FAD The latest, up-to-date fad now is, the "race riot." Leavenworth, Parsons, Weir City, Kansas City and several other places "have had it"—whose next? The "race riot habit" seems to be going its rounds. COLORED INSTITUTE Whereas, We the teachers of the joint Normal Institute, consisting of the following counties: Caddo, Grady, Canadian, Blaine, Garfield, Major and Kingfisher, in body assembled for the purpose of increasing our knowledge, broadening our minds and better qualifying ourselves for our chosen work, in the hope of receiving new inspiration along new lines and feeling that this hope has been realized, the very efficient help of our instructors; do hereby tender these resolutions expressive of our appreciation. 1st. Resolves. That a vote of thanks be extended to the county superintendents of the above named counties for the arrangement of this joint institute. 2nd. That we extend a special vote of thanks to Supt. Moore of Kingfisher county for the direct interest he has taken in making this institute a success. 3rd. That we extend to the trustees and pastor of St. Marks A. M. E. church our heartfelt thanks for the use of their building for chapel exercises and the school board of the city of Kingfisher for the use of the school building. 4th. Our thanks are heartily extended to the citizens of Kingfisher for the hospitality shown us in opening to us, not only their homes, churches and places of amusement but their hearts as well. 5th. We also thank the distinguished gentlemen, Hon. E. O. Tyler, Dr. Penny, and Senator Brownlee for having favored us with special addresses during this session. 6th. That we think the present method of managing the school lands a safe and proper one; therefore, be it Resolved, Fuhtre that we register our disapproval of the sale of the said lands. Resolved further, that we favor the June period for holfing our Normal Institute. 7th. We appreciate very highly the care and untiring efforts put forth by our instructors and whereas we have found Profs. E. H. Hall, J. H. Brown and F. F. Bailey to be wise counselors, proficient instructros, and sympathetic friends; be it further 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 literary work. Special 1908 course in typewriting. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Thos. Glover, president; Miss Sallie Rawles, Sec. Engaged in the culinary art. Progressive ideas in fancy and home cooking. Meets 2nd and 4th Friday afternoons 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. Office Hours 9 a m to 6 p m Sundays by Appointment Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST 507 N. Main St Wichita, Kan Resolved. That we, the teachers of the Joint Normal Institute, turn to them a vote of thanks for the manner in which they have so wisely imparted knowledge. Respectfully J. A. SMITH, F. M. HUDSON, FLORA POSTEN, J. E. ALLEN ESSIL WALKER, PATTIE WILLIAMS, MISS YOUNG. Your Committe. W. C. KING, Chairman. LUCINDA MURRANT, Secretary. VERNON IN THE EAST. On Monday Washington Park, on the Potomac, was the scene of an event of unusual significance and importance. I was to this place, the good colored people journeyed for the purpose of helping a fund for the relief of "Cedar Hall," the beloved and historic home of Frederick Douglass. Washington Park is situated about eight miles from Washington on the Maryland shore of the potoimac. A number of excursion boats carrying crowds of people were run between Washington and this beautiful park where the ceremonies were conducted Dr. Booker T. Washington, W. T. Vernon, Registar of the Treasury, and a number of other race leaders made speeches. A large amount of money as a result of this novel scheme was subscribed, and the laudable cause of preserving the home of one of America's greatest citizens will undoubtedly be realized. The Republican party, that is, the colored end of it in the District of Columbia, held another notification meeting on Saturday night. Not dismayed or intimidated by the Democratic host led by the Rev. J. Milton Waldron, the colored republicans marched to True Reformer Hall and filled every available space, and from the same platform from which the Rev. J. Milton Waldron and the Rev. Dr. Corrouthers only a week before thundered their ridiculous approval of Mr. Bryan and the democratic party, the republican spell-binders commended the work of the Chicago convention and pledged the hearty support of the colored people to its cause and its nominee. There was plenty of enthusiasm on tap, and the spetkers were all cheered lustily at every mention of the name of Ohio's favored son. The meeting was held under the auspices of the New York Republican Club, and was presided over by Mr. Walter Pinchback, its president. Among those who made speeches were Mr. Charles Banks, of Mississippi, Lawyer 'Napier, of Tennessee, Rev. Geo. W. Lee, and Thomas L. Jones of Washington. The speech, however, judging from the hearty approval made by the audience, which captivated all was made by W. T. Vernon, Registar of the Treasury. Mr. Vernon was not on the program for a speech, but when his presence became known, the crowd demand a hearing, nor would this demand down until Mr. Vernon had been introduced by Chairman Pinchback. He made one of his characteristic, eloquent, logical talks which carried the crowd and demonstrated Mr. Vernon's great popularity with the boys. It is reported that Mr. John C. Dancy has gone to Pennsylvania for a vacation. Hon. W. T. Vernon left Wednesday night for New York, Boston and Providence. 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Main St Phone 255 BOOST FOR WICHITA PRISES. supplement to The SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA. : : : : KANS. The giant bees of India build combs 15 feet high. The case of Castro proves that it sometimes pays to be little. If speculation were to be entirely abolished the buying of cantaloupes would cease. Mr. Edison has $25,000,000, but what good does it do him while he works 16 hours a day? The king of Servia wants his sons married to American heiresses before he is deposed. How can the Sick Man of Europe show anything but the feebest kind of a constitution? Speed maniacs occasionally kill themselves, but otherwise they generally go unpunished. The apple orchards look as if cider vinegar might live up to its name for awhile, after next fall. Twenty-five women lay delegates attended the general Methodist Episcopal conference in Baltimore. One University of Chicago professor does not believe in the miracles. But there are still plenty of people who do. A man has been discovered in New Jersey who is immune from the bite of a mad dog. How does he stand on mosquitoes? Mrs. Hetty Green has quit hotel life "because she has to wear too many clothes." Where's she going to live—in a bathhouse? Seeing that he is a sort of antelope, it is suggested that the thar born in the New York zoo is a member of the "git thar" family. The branslent hotel population of New York is figured at 250,000 people a day. The hotel properties are valued at over $80,000,000. A new disease has been discovered in Pittsburgh — "automobile heart." Every now and then it stops and you have to get out and crank it. The sultan is thinking of changing his name to emperor. We should suppose he would want some kind of an alias, considering the life he has led. The German ministry of marine has begun preparations for the complete utilization of Helligoland, for which $1,500,000 has been granted by the richstag. Los Angeles man who inherited big fortune says he is going to make 20,000 people happy, and now fully that many people will try their best to make him unhappy. Statistics indicate that living expenses have been increased 11 per cent. in New York during the past year. In a majority of the cases it isn't much of a living, either. It will soon be cheaper to send a letter from England to this country than to mail it to France, just across the channel. Is this a case of blood or language, or just plain business? In Austria a married man cannot go up in a balloon unless he has the written consent of his wife. Over there they must regard ballooning as more dangerous than remaining late at the club. Fally 200 guests at a French banquet suffered ptomaine poisoning from a duck. Oh, the marvels of French culinary art, which can produce 300 dirty portions out of one decayed musk! The prince of Wales is going back to England without deigning to take a look at this country. It may be that he feels spunky because nobody invited him to speak at any of our Chaucaquas. Two monster whales have just been killed on the Eden coast of New South Wales, thereby furnishing a reminder that the whale fishery was once looked upon as the staple industry of the Australian continent. The Paris waiters thought better of their threat to reveal the horrors of the restaurant kitchen and called off the strike. They took counsel to shelter and decided that no person would ever believe them! Worse and worse. A religious exchange says it is a cost of money to spend campaign funds in the printing and circulation campaign literature. "We never had a campaign document through the end," it declares, "and never knew any one who did." It is safe to say that the one who makes this accusation does not always recognize documents when he sees them. Campaign literature takes many forms and is found in unlooked-for places. Since the British set foot in the new city of Lhasa, in Tibet, the Dalai Lama, the head of the Buddhist church, has been wandering about the capella with a large retinue. He did not stay in a city defiled by invaders, and has been traveling from one of the faithful to another at great expense to the faithful. He now appheses Peking. The Chinese government is probably not anxious to enlist this costly guest, says the Chinese Companion, but is trying to make him to go home and re-assure the administration of Tibet. RAIL MEN THINKING MANY OF THEM ARE CONSIDERING PRESENT DAY CONDI- Some Interesting Figures Given by B. F. Yoakum in an Interview with a New York Times "Railroad employees, according to B.F. Yoakum, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Rock Island-Frisco lines, are losing every day through the present depression in trade $1,000,000, or $25,000,000 a month," says the New York Times, "One-quarter of them, or about 400,000 men, are out of employment and are living on their rapidly diminishing savings. "Construction of new lines has almost entirely ceased, and for every 1,000 miles of new track that are not built 6,000 men lose permanent employment and 24,000 people a good living. The railroads are purchasing supplies at the rate of $500,000,000, instead of $1,250,000,000 a year. "Mr. Yoakum has been speaking late in Texas and St. Louis, and urged there that the most important element in the present industrial conditions was the enormous losses in wages and the stagnation caused by the stoppage of the development of the country. He has considered this phase of the present crisis deeply." A reporter of the New York Times sought him recently at his farm at Farmingdale, L. I., and asked him how he believed the railroad men of the country would vote this year. Mr. Yoakum declined to answer directly, but said he could at any rate say what is pressing itself day by day on the minds of the railroad men. He said: "Hard times are now costing railroad employees $25,000,000 a month or $1,000,000 for each working day. This decrease of the employees' payroll is approximately the same amount as the Government's daily deficit at Washington. The Government's deficit of $1,000,000 is shared by the entire population of 85,000,000 people while the other $1,000,000 daily loss is borne by the railroad employees. "This loss in wages indicates that the means of living for 400,000 railroad men has been cut off, and that not only themselves but the 1,500,000 persons comprising their dependent families are living out of their savings of better days. "I have been asked how the railroad men will vote in November. Frankly I do not know, but I believe I know of what they are thinking. They are thinking of next Winter's fuel, clothing bills, and keeping their children in school. They are wondering what will be done to remedy the present industrial conditions and stop the appalling loss from enforced idleness. "Railroad workers are thrifty and they help one another. Their savings and mutual bearing of the burdens of adversity have prevented much suffering up to this time, but they have greatly reduced their surplus bank accounts, and when winter comes the story will be different unless business conditions materially improve. "The more than a million and a half of former railroad workers have in mind that one-fourth of their number are out of jobs or on short pay. They are thinking of their lost jobs not worrying over foreign policies or tariffs on imports, or how this Government shall deal with the Philippines, and such questions, which the Government authorities and Congress must deal with. "The railroad employees are more interested in what is going to be done to start up the work which will bring back to them regular and permanent employment. They are tired of seeing dead engines, idle cars, neglected tracks and rusty signs of disuse. I will not try to say what they think should be done, but I do know that they are listening for words of encouragement. "To think what it means in thousands of homes is not a pleasant topic, but we should look the situation squarely in the face, and each man should be pressed to share his responsibility in seeking a remedy. "The campaign orators of September and October must face the country full of men out of employment. The stump speakers will be seeking votes and the idle will be seeking work. "Of what else can the railroad men be thinking except of what caused the reduction in their income of $300,000,000 a year? They are listening for those who have suggestions as to how to get on the payroll again and at old wages." "But there are other factors in the railroad situation?" it was suggested to Mr. Yoakum. "The railroad employee," he replied, "is the most important factor in the railroad situation from every point of view. The owners of the railroads, known as bond and stockholders, are less in number than the employees and have less at stake. One year ago there were, according to the InterState Commerce Commission's figures, 1,675,000 employees, and they received $1,075,000,000 as wages, and, according to Slason Thompson, statistician, there are only 1,000,000 of both bond and stockholders receiving less than half the amount paid as wages. "Out of every dollar earned by the railroads the employee gets 42 cents of it in wages, while the bond and stockholders combined only receive 21 cents out of each dollar, or one-half as much as the employee. Therefore, numerically and financially, the employees have by far the greatest interest in the railway revenue," and are the ones who are now asking the most pertinent questions. They have more at stake than the owners, and are just as capable of deciding for themselves and taking care of their own interests. "The 42 cents for the employe and the 21 cents for the bond and stockholder only account for 63 cents of each dollar earned by the railroads, but it shows the combined interests of 2,675,000 employees, bond and stockholders in the railroads of the Nation. Of the remaining 37 cents of the dollar, 7 cents go for taxes and insurance, and the balance of 30 cents largely for material and supplies, in the manufacture of which labor is the largest item. "The loss to the entire country on account of inability of railroads to purchase supplies is as serious to the public as the forced reduction in the payrolls. Last year the total amount of the railroad purchases was one and a quarter billion dollars. At the present time they are only buying at the rate of one-half billion dollars per annum, which at this rate means a loss to the manufacturers and the general trade of the country of more than $750,000,000 a year, or two million dollars a day. If to this is added the approximate one million dollars a working day which the railroad employee is suffering of this heavy loss, it is apparent that the business of the country is losing at this rate approximately three million dollars a day on account of shrinkage directly connected with railroad operation. "Do you wonder why the Labor Commissioner of the State of New York is reporting that one-third of the union men are idle because there is no work, or that Jacob Schiff is appealing to the city officials of New York to open up municipal work for their relief? "There is another phase of railroad activity not included in the foregoing," Mr. Yoakum added. "It is one which is seldom mentioned in connection with figures dealing with employees, wages and material. I refer to construction of new railroads and more extensive improvement of existing ones to meet the growth of the Nation's traffic. I refer to the army of men usually employed in this work and the large amounts expended for supplies, tools, fuel and other material, the greater part of which has been cut off. "The railroad employees are well-informed and capable citizens. They give due credit for the good which has been accomplished through healthy reforms within the last few years. They are not unmindful that proper regulations to prevent abuses and to give fair treatment to the public are necessary. "There should be no difficulty in surmising the thoughts of the railroad man. He knows that one out of every four of his fellow-workmen is idle or working short hours. He fully realizes that something is wrong. He understands that the man who constructs 1,000 miles of railroad gives actual and permanent employment to 6,000 railroad men, and thereby furnishes the means of living for 24,000 souls constituting their families. "He's thinking and hoping for better t". The vital issue will be the man and the job, and the candidates of both parties will have to meet it in both National and State Campaigns, with due regard to public welfare, at the same time encouraging full restoration of confidence in the country's institutions that construction, reconstruction, manufacturing and general business may again assume their normal activities." Get Fat in Hospital. Everybody said they never heard of such a thing as a person getting so fat when done up in a plaster cast that the old cast had to be taken off and a new one fitted on to give the patient a chance to grow, but the doctor declared that the occurrence was by no means phenomenal. "Many illnesses do not result in emaciation, especially down in this part of town," he said. "Scores of poorly fed patients that are brought to the hospital in a skinny condition take on flesh amazingly while under treatment. This is especially noticeable in the case of an accident where a plaster cast is necessary. Then the arm, the leg, the body even that is thus incased increases in size under hospital fare, until the patient is in positive pain from the pressure and has to be relieved with a larger cast." Jap View of Baseball. One strong-arm gentleman called a Pitch is hired to throw. Another gentleman called a Stop is responsible for whatever that Hon. Pitch throw to him, so he protect himself from wounding by soft pillows which he wear on hands. Another gentleman called a Striker stand in front of that Stop and hold up club to fright off that Hon. Pitch from angry rage of throwing things. Hon. Pitch in hand hold one baseball of an unripe condition of hardness. He raises that arm lofty—then twist—a sudden! He shoot them bullet-ball straight to breast of Hon. Stop. Hon. Striker swing club for vain effort. It is a miss and them deathly ball shoot Hon. Stop in gloves. "Struck once!" decry Hon. Umperor, a person who is there to gossip about it in a loud voice.—H. Togo, in Atlantic. Emeralds. At the presult day most of the emeralds that come into the market are obtained from the famous mines of Muzo, in the Columbian province of Bayaca. These workings are situated on the eastern slope of the Andes, about 70 miles to the north-north west of the town of Santa Fe de Bogota. There is another mine, called Las quez, two days' journey by nuleback from Muzo. PRESIDENT TO ATTEND: Trans-Mississippi Congress to Have Mr. Roosevelt. Abilene, Kan., Sept. 1.—In a personal letter to J. B. Case of Abilene, Kan., president of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress, President Roosevelt has promised to attend the first day of the session of the congress in San Francisco, October 6. Mr. Case has also invited E. H. Harriman to attend the congress. He said Saturday Mr. Harriman probably would accept. Gov. Hoch has appointed these delegates from Kansas: P. T. Goebel, Kansas City; Charles F. Gleed, Topeka; Arthur Capper, Topeka; David Hanna, Hill City; J. W. Creech, Herington; L. L. Northup, Iola; H. B. Miller, Osage City; George Barker, Lawrence; J. L. Brady, Lawrence; R. L. Brock, Manhattan; C. M. Harger, Abilene; Albert Sarbach, Holton; Henry Allen, Wichita; H. D. Lee, Salina; John Seaton, Atchison; L. A. Bigger, Hutchinson; H. E. Richter, Council Grove; E. R. Burholder, McPherson; Z. G. Hopkins, Wellington; A. C. Jobes, Wichita; Frank Crowell, Atchison; T. C. Frazler, Coffeyville; Grant Hornaday, Fort Scott; Russell J. Harrison, Selden; E. R. Moses, Great Bend; E. F. Davidson, Peabody; C. L. Davidson, Wichita; Mit Wilhite, Emporia; C. W. Morrow, Washington; Fred H. Quincy, Salina. Oyster Bay, Sept. 1.—President Roosevelt has declined the invitation to attend the Trans-Mississippi congress at San Francisco, beginning October 6. The report that the president had accepted the invitation is an error. BANK ROBBERS AT EASTON, MO Bandits Succeeded in Getting $150 of Postoffice Funds. St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 1.—The Bank of Easton, at Easton, Mo., about 12 miles east of St. Joseph, was robbed early Sunday morning of $150, the funds belonging to the postoffice. The money was between the outer and inner doors of the vault and the robbers were frightened by daylight before securing the bank's funds. The vault was wrecked and a large hole blown in the floor. The four men who committed the robbery were seen at their work for two hours by Mrs. A. Marshall, from across the street, but she was too frightened to give the alarm. They drove away in a carriage toward St. Joseph. They are believed to be the same men who robbed the bank at Rushville, Mo., last Wednesday for whom a reward of $5,000 has been offered. Formal Landing at Melbourne Melbourne, Sept. 1.—Formal entry of the Americans into Melbourne took place Monday. Admiral Sperry and his staff landed at the St. Kilda pier where they were met by the prime minister, Alfred Deakin, the premier of Victoria; Sir Thomas Bem and the other members of the commonwealth and state ministers. National Bank Note Circulation Washington, Sept. 2.—The monthly statement of the circulation of national bank notes on August 1 shows an increase as compared with August, 1907, of $81,269,787 and as compared with the previous month a decrease of $6,762,883. The total circulation outstanding August 31, 1908, was $685,326,108. The Tafts at Middle Bass Island. Middle Bass Island, O., Sept. 1.—William H. Taft and party arrived at the Middle Bass Island club at four o'clock Sunday morning. After a five-hour sleep the candidate breakfasted and later attended services in the little chapel. He rested throughout the remainder of the day. Public Debt Statement. Washington, Sept. 2.—The monthly statement of the public debt shows at the close of business August 31, 1908, the debt, less cash in the treasury amounted to $963,886,588, which is an increase for the month of $5,076,765. Emperor Nicholas and the empress and their children started Tuesday night for a cruise in the Gulf of Finland on the imperial yacht Standart. MARKET REPORTS. Live Stock. Kansas City, Sept. 2—Cattle—Common steers, $3.25@4.25 heif; ferals, $5.25@6.50; western stockers and feeders, $3.10@4.15 Hogs—Bulk of sales, $6.50@6.80 Sheep—Lambs, $0.50; 6.55; good to better wethers, $0.50; 6.40; 4.10. Chicago, Sept. 2—Beef—Steers, $4.75@7.80; cows and hefters, $3.40@6.75; stockers and feeders, $2.60@4.50 Hogs—Bulk of sales, $6.50@6.80 Sheep—Natives, $3.50@4.65 lams, $4.75@6.00. St. Louis, Sept. 2—Beef—Steers, $3.00@7.00; stockers and feeders, $3.00@4.00 owers, $7.55@6.00 Hogs—Pigs and lights, $3.50@6.50 Sheep—Natives, $4.00@4.25 lambs, $5.50@6.00 Grain. Kansas City, Sept. 2—Close: Wheat- Sept, 89%c; Dec, 90%c; May, 91%c; Corn —Sept, 71c; Dec, 58%c; May, 59%c. Chicago, Sept. 2—Close: Wheat—Sept, 96%c; Dec, 96%c; May, 99%c; Corn— Sept, 78%c; Dec, 67%c; May, 65%c; Oats —Sept, 49%c; Dec, 49%c; May, 52c. St. Louis, Sept. 2—Close: Wheat— Higher; track, No. 2 red cash, 97%c; No. 2 hard, $6c@$1.00. Futures: December, 96c; May, 99%c; Corn—Higher; track, No. 2 cash, 77%c; No. 2 white, 78%c. Futures: December, 63c; May, 63%c; Oats— Higher; track, No. 2 cash, 49c; No. 2 white, 51%c. Futures: December, 49% @49%c; May, 51%c. Produce. Kansas City, Sept. 2—Eggs, 22 cper doz. Citypity—Hen 2—springs, 13c; turkeys, 13c. Put—Creamery, extra, 23c; packing stock, 16c. Potatoes, new, WHAT THE TRADE MARK MEANS TO THE BUYER Few people realize the importance of the words "Trade Mark" stamped on the goods they buy. If they did it would save them many a dollar spent for worthless goods and put a lot of unscrupulous manufacturers out of the business. When a manufacturer adopts a trade mark he assumes the entire responsibility for the merit of his product. He takes his business repulsion in his hands—out in the lime-light—"on the square" with the buyer of his goods, with the dealer, and with himself. The other manufacturer—the one who holds out "inducements," offering to brand all goods purchased with each local dealer's brand — sidesteps responsibility, and when these inferior goods "come back" it's the local dealer that must pay the penalty. A good example of the kind of protection afforded the public by a trade mark is that offered in connection with National Lead Company's advertising of pure White Lead as the best paint material. That the Dutch Boy Painter trade mark is an absolute guaranty of purity in White Lead is proved to the most skeptical by the offer National Lead Company make to send free to any address a blow-pipe and instructions how to test the white lead for themselves. The testing outfit is being sent out from the New York office of the company, Woodbridge Building. On the Doctor. Mrs. Mary G. Baker Eddy, who, of course, has no faith in medicine, told Western Christian Scientist, at one of her latest audiences, an anecdote about a friend of hers. This friend, a thin and nervous woman, could not sleep. She visited her physician and the man said: "Do you eat anything just before going to bed?" "Oh, no, doctor," the patient replied. "Well," said the physician, "just keep a pitcher of milk and some biscuit beside you, and every night, the last thing you do, make a light meal." "But doctor," cried the lady, "you told me on no account to eat anything before retiring." "Pooh, pooh," said the doctor, "that was three months ago. Science has made enormous strides since then." Cape Cod Fog. "Yes," remarked the Down Easter, "we do have fog along Cape Cod sometimes. One night the fog came up and in the morning when I went to milk I couldn't find the old cow. Knew where she was in the habit of lying, though, and followed her easy enough. Got to her just in time, too. "Why, I just went through the hole she made in the fog—sort of a tunnel like—and pretty soon I came up to her. She was almost smothered. You see the fog had packed ahead of her and she'd jammed her horns into it and got stuck. Had to chop her out. You may believe it or not, but I'll show you the cow any time you come round."-Philadelphia Public Ledger. A Few Funny Facts. The Georgia legislature has had under consideration a bill which would make null and void a matrimonial compact into which a woman has wheeled a man by means of paint, powder, perfume, cosmetics, artificial teeth, false hair, corpses, hoops, high-heeled shoes, low-cut waists, lace or rainbow hosiery, or by any other artificial means or practices. Why not limit the woman's "wheedling" privileges to the method of absent treatment? It is plain the poor men need at least a ten-mile start. Mentally Sound. The proud beauty eyed him with scorn. "What!" she exclaimed. "Do you think I would marry a dried up, insignificant, homely little man like you? You must be crazy!" "No, Miss Pinkie," he said, looking around for his hat; "my mind is all right, but you have convinced me that it's in the wrong body." An Observation. 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ONLY SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGCISTS one size only, regular price $50 per bottle A. Unanimous Vote. A German-American who had recently arrived at the estate of riches attended his first banquet. The wine was particularly vile, and so several gentlemen who were seated near the German were quite satisfied to have him empty the bottles that had been set apart for their common use. Neither the quality nor the quantity of the wine in the least disturbed the Teuton, and, after draining the last glass, he looked around joyfully and said: "Shentlemen, I haf now drunken all your wine and safed you the trouble of trinking vat you did not like. I tink you ought to vote me a public tank." They did—Lippincott's. HER GOOD FORTUNE After Years Spent in Vain Effort. Mrs. Mary E. H. House, of Cambridge, N. Y. says: "Five years ago I had a bad fall and it affected my kidneys. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twinges followed any exertion. The kidney secretions were badly disordered. I lost flesh and grew too. Though constantly I despaired of being began using Doan's. Then relief came a short time I was ed. I am now in ex- I had a bad fall and it affected my kidneys. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twinges followed any exertion. The kidney secretions were badly disordered. I lost flesh and grew too weak to work. Though constantly using medicine I despaired of being cured until I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. Then relief came quickly, and in a short time I was completely cured. I am now in excellent health." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. When the Little Man Scored. A meek-looking little man with a large pasteboard box climbed on the car. As he did so he bumped slightly into a sleepy, corpulent passenger with a self-satisfied look and two little dabs of sidewhiskers. As the car rounded a curve the box rubbed against him again and he growled: "This is no freight car, is it?" "Nope," returned the meek little chap with the box, "and when you come right down to it, it ain't any cattle car, either, is it?" CURED HER CHILDREN. Girls Suffered with Itching Eczema—Baby Had a Tender Skin, Too—Relied on Cuticura Remedies. "Some years ago my three little girls had a very bad form of eczema Itching eruptions formed on the backs of their heads which were simply covered. I tried almost everything, but failed. Then my mother recommended the Cuticura Remedies. I washed my children's heads with Cuticura Soap and then applied the wonderful ointment, Cuticura. I did this four or five times and I can say that they have been entirely cured. I have another baby who is so plump that the folds of skin on his neck were broken and even bled. I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and the next morning the trouble had disappeared. Mme. Napoleon Dupece, 41 Duluth St. Montreal, Que., May 21, 1907." Hard Blow. "So Barnstormer's performance of Hamlet caused a great hit in the country circuit." "Yes, a stunning hit." "Between ourselves, what caused it?" "I don't think Barnstormer ever knew himself what struck him." Important to Mothers. 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 H. H. Mitchell In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. You may have observed that an office seeker is a man who shakes the voter's hand before the election and shakes the voter afterward. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents When a rich man is seriously ill he sees a lot of people standing around waiting for his old shoes. Lewis' Single Binder costs more than other 5c cigars. Smokers know why. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill It sometimes happens that a man doesn't ask his wife to sing because he is fond of music. What is Pe-ru-na. Are we claiming too much for Peruna when we claim it to be an effective remedy for chronic catarrh? Have we abundant proof that Peruna is in reality such a catarrh remedy? Let us see what the United States Dispensatory says of the principal ingredients of Peruna. Take, for instance, the ingredient hydrastis canadensis, or golden seal. The United States Dispensatory says of this herbal remedy, that it is largely employed in the treatment of depraved mucous membranes lining various organs of the human body. Another ingredient of Peruna, corydalis formosa, is classed in the United States Dispensatory as a tonic. Cedron seeds is another ingredient of Peruna. The United States Dispensatory says of the action of cedron that it is used as a bitter tonic and in the treatment of dysentery, and in intermittent diseases as a substitute for minine. Send to us for a free book of testimonials of what the people think of Peruna as a catarrh remedy. The best evidence is the testimony of those who have tried it. USED CHURCH AS SCHOOLROOM. Proceedings That Somewhat Astonished the Sexton. The sexton of one church that keeps open doors all day long didn't know whether to regard the matter in the light of a desecration or a devotional exercise. He paid no attention when the three women, watched by a man who stood at the lower end of the aisle, walked the length of the church and back again. Even when they made the trip a second time he scarcely gave them a thought, but when the trio started around the church a third time and the man called out, "Step a little more briskly, please," he began to wonder, and presently made inquiry. "I hope you won't be offended," the man replied. "I am a physical culture instructor. I am teaching these young ladies to walk. I have already taught them to walk in the street, in the drawing room, in the theater and every place else they are likely to find themselves. I am now teaching them to walk in church. Very few women can walk there properly. Some lope, some swagger, some skip, others adopt a mincing gait. All these styles are very inappropriate for church. A dignified, subdued gait alone is suitable for devotional purposes. Church is the best place for pupils in walking to receive practical instruction, therefore I have brought them here." "Great fathers!" gasped the sexton. "What next?" But he said no more till the walking exercise was ended. Then he followed the class to the door. "I hope," he said, "you will practice the lesson learned to-day by coming here to church once in a while." OCULIST A MAN OF RESOURCE. Has a Blind Beggar Woman to Advertise His Business. Enterprise takes various forms, even in Warsaw. A young oculist, finding that patients were few and far between, hit upon an original means of advertising. He engaged a blind woman who sits and begs by the Church of the Holy Cross to hold a light board whereon are written his name, address, professional qualifications and consultation hours. As the church is in the busiest thoroughfare of the town the notice attracts a good deal of attention. The beggar herself says she is quite satisfied with the results, as many people notice her who would otherwise pass by, and as the doctor has added his assurance that she is hopelessly blind benevolent old ladies throw coppers into her tin mug, sure that their money is not wasted on an impostor. It is not yet known whether the number of patients has increased. TUNES FAIL TO KILL; MAY BUY Aged Flute Player Makes Sure by Trying Score of Pieces. A little old man entered a large music shop and asked the assistant to show him a book of flute music. "Here, sir, is a very fine selection," said the assistant, "and cheap at half a dollar, seeing that it contains no fewer than 50 airs." The old man took the book, opened it, and laid it on a shelf. Then he took his flute out of his coat pocket, screwed it together and began to play softly the first tune in the book. When he had finished the first tune he turned the page and played the second. Then he played the third. An hour later he was still playing. The assistant thought it was time to hurry him up a bit. "Well, sir," he said, "do you think the book will suit you?" "I like these so far very much, thank you," said the old man, putting his instrument to his lips again, "but I have only played half the tunes so far!" English Sense of Humor In one of his burlesque sketches on English history Bill Nye spoke cf Julius Caesar's jumping into the water as he approached the English coast, wading ashore, running up to London, and walking through Regent street. "An acquaintance of mine reported to me," said Mr. Nye, "that he had asked an Englishman how he liked the story. 'Not at all, not at all,' was the reply. 'That fellow Nye doesn't know what he's about. There wasn't any Regent street then, you know.'" G. A. R. AT TOLEDO FORTY-SECOND ENCAMPMENT OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS FORMERLY OPENED. CITY FILLED WITH VISITORS Public Receptions by Commander Burton and Local Committee Marked First Day Toledo, O., Sept. 1.—What with the marvelous illumination of the downtown streets the "Venetian night" on the river, and the public reception by the local committee and Commander-in-Chief Burton, and numerous other attractions marking the formal opening of the forty-second encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, the down-town streets were well nigh impassable. It is estimated 30,000 visitors are here. Street cars, with their windows full of the protruding shoulders of pent-up passengers, moved at snail's pace within a few feet of each other. Automobiles were no less hampered for the streets were alive with them. Fife and drum corps, brass bands, arriving delegations and squads of sightseers blocked the pavements from curb to curb. Street orators, side shows, catch penny devices and the like gathered their crowds. A pair of steers horns, stretching a distance of seven feet and a lone star of electric bulbs in front of the Niagara hotel Monday night, announced the presence of a happy party of Texas veterans, among whom are T. M. Wright, the department commander, and Col. W. O. Kutsinger and Col. Dexter Wagner of his staff. Col. Kutsinger said: "For real enthusiasm I desire to call attention to our blue and gray doings in Texas. There is no north or south in Texas." West Virginia reported 200 visitors from that state, with more to come. Joe Trax, an inveterate attendant of reunions, is here with his cannon, probably one of the most remarkable ever manufactured. It has been a feature of encampments, national and state, for many years, for Mr. Trax was Gen. Custer's orderly in the West Virginia campaign and named the weapon after his favorite military hero. The metal is a composition of various articles picked up on the battlefield, among them being four pounds of brass buttons, three division bugles, one cowbell, and others too numerous to mention. There will be a pretty fight on the convention floor for the office of commander-in-chief. The candidates are H. N. Nevins of New Jersey, L. T. Dickason of Illinois, former Gov. VanSant of Minnesota, and General Adams of Nebraska. All have opened headquarters and are proselyting among the delegates. The Atlanta, Ga., post wants the next encampment to be held in the Georgia metropolis. Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief Scott, a citizen og Atlanta, is among the active exponents of further cementing the friendship of the blue and the gray by bringing the veterans in blue to the southland. Salt Lake City, Pittsburg, Kalamazoo and Seattle are also listed among the aspirants for the honor of entertaining the Grand Army men. Tuesday's program includes the dedication of the Fort Meigs monument at Perrysburg, 12 miles from the city, and the civic parade, in which the veterans do not take an active part. Taft's Cincinnati Headquarters Open. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 1.—Fred W. Carpenter, secretary to William H. Taft, Republican candidate for president, arrived in this city Sunday from Hot Springs, Va., and opened headquarters in the Sinto hotel, where the personal work of Mr. Taft's campaign will be carried on. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Gov. Folk of Missouri has issued his usual Labor Day proclamation. The Franco-American joint tariff commission has finished its labors in Paris. The cities of Kansas got only 12 percent of the 6,639 gain in the state's population for 1908. The postponement until 1917 of the Japanese International exposition which was to have been held in 1912 was officially announced Tuesday. Six thousand persons are reported to be in actual need of clothing and other supplies as the result of the recent flood in Augusta, Ga. The directors of the Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis (Henderson Route) Tuesday re-elected the old officers for the ensuing year. Editors representing 150 labor papers recently met in Chicago to discuss plans for unity in the present campaign. The Baldwin dirigible balloon which was recently purchased by the government for the army is to be one of the attractions at the St. Joseph, Mo. military carnival. A shortage of more than $400,000 has been discovered in the postoffice at Havana, Cuba. Ricardo Rodriguez chief of the supply bureau has dispapeared. The Missouri Pacific Railroad company has filed an application with the Kansas railroad commissioners for permission to haul seed wheat free to farmers in the western part of the state. THE LAND OF GRAIN JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Author of "American Farmers Building a New Nation in the North"—"Canada—The Land of Greater Hope"—"The Invasion of Canada by American Farmers"—"A Thousand Miles on Horseback Across the Dominion Provinces," Etc., Etc. Not so very many years ago the majority of people in the United States laughed at the prediction that the day was coming when Western Canada would far outstrip this country in the raising of grain—when, in other words, it would become the great bread-basket of the world. During the past three or four years the enormous production of grain in the Dominion West has thinned the ranks of those who doubted the destiny of Canada's vast grain growing regions; the crops of this year will dispel the doubts of the remaining few. From Winnipeg westward to the foothills of Alberta, over a country nearly a thousand miles in width, the grain production this year will be something to almost stagger the belief of those hundreds of thousands of American farmers whose average yield is not more than from ten to fifteen bushels of wheat to the acre, and who are finding that their product is also outclassed in quality by that of their northern neighbors. The enormous grain crop of this year in the Canadian West may truthfully be said to be the production of "a few pioneers." Only a small percentage of the unnumbered millions of acres of grain land are under cultivation, notwithstanding the fact that tens of thousands of homesteads were taken up last year. And yet, when all the figures are in, it will be found that the settlers of the western prairies have raised this year more than 125,000,000 bushels of wheat, 100,000-000 bushels of oats and 25,000,000 bushels of barley. It has been a "fortune making year" for thousands of American farmers who two or three years ago owned hardly more than the clothes upon their backs, and whose bumper crops from their homesteads will yield them this season anywhere from $1,500 to $2,500 each, more money than many of them have seen at one time in all their lives. Very recently I passed through the western provinces from Winnipeg to Calgary, and in the words of a fellow passenger, who was astonished by what he saw from the car windows in Manitoba, we were, metaphorically speaking, in a "land of milk and honey." The country was one great sweep of ripening grain. In fact, so enormous was the crop, that at the time there were grave doubts as to the possibility of GETTING ENOUGH BINDER TWINE TO SUPPLY THE DEMAND. A situation like this has never before been known in the agricultural history of any country. Before I made my first trip through the Dominion west I doubted very much the stories that I had heard of this so-called "grain wonderland" across the border. I believed, as unnumbered thousands of others believed, that the stories were circulated mostly to induce immigration. I quickly found that I was wrong. As one Alberta farmer said to me a few weeks ago, "If the whole truth were told about this country I don't suppose you could find one American in ten who would believe it." This year the prospects of the wheat crop of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta are an average of over TWENTY-FIVE BUSHELS TO THE ACRE, and that this grain is far superior to that raised in the states is proved by our own government statistics, which show that American millers are importing millions of bushels of B "Canadian hard" to mix with the home product in order that THIS HOME PRODUCT MAY BE RAISED TO THE REQUIRED STANDARD. It is a peculiar fact that while the Dominion Government is anxious for its western provinces to fill up with the very best of immigrants, there has been no blantant or sensational advertising of those lands. For this reason it is probable that not one American farmer out of fifty knows that Canada wheat now holds the world's record of value—that, in other words, it is the best wheat on earth, and that more of it is grown to the acre than anywhere else in the world. A brief study of climatic conditions, and those things which go to make a climate, will show that the farther one travels northward from the Montana border the milder the climate becomes—up to a certain point. In other words, the climate at Edmonton, Alberta, is far better than that of Denver, 1,500 miles south; and while thousands of cattle and sheep are dying because of the severity of the winters in Wyoming, Montana and other western states, the cattle, sheep and horses of Alberta GRAZE ON THE RANGES ALL WINTER WITH ABSOLUTELY NO SHELTER. This is all largely because sea-currents and air-currents have to do with the making of the climate of temperate regions. For instance, why is it that California possesses such a beautiful climate, with no winter at all, while the New England states on a parallel with it have practically six months of winter out of twelve? It is because of that great sweep of warm water known as the "Japan current," and this same current not only affects the westernmost of the Dominion provinces, but added to its influence are what are known as the "chinook winds"—steady and undeviating air-currents which sweep over the great wheat regions of Western The Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL, TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless, and the most effectual form. For adults and children. 50c. Canada. There are good scientific reasons why these regions are capable of producing better crops than our own western and central states, but best of all are the proofs of it in actual results. This year, for instance, as high as one hundred busnels of oats to the acre will be gathered in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and some wheat will go AS HIGH AS FIFTY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE, though of course this is an unusual yield. Last spring it was widely advertised in American papers that Alberta's winter wheat crop was a failure. In fact, this is Alberta's banner year in grain production, as it is Saskatchewan's and Manitoba's, and from figures already it is estimated that Alberta's wheat will yield on an average of THIRTY-FIVE BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. In many parts of the province returns will show a yield of as high as FIFTY bushels to the acre and it is freely predicted by many that when the official figures are in a yield of at least forty-five instead of thirty-five bushels to the acre will be shown. At the time of my last journey through the Canadian West, when my purpose was largely to secure statistical matter for book use, I solicited letters from American settlers in all parts of the three provinces, and most of these make most interesting reading. The letter was written by A. Kaltenbrunner, whose postoffice address is Regina, Saskatchewan. "A few years ago," he says, "I took up a homestead for myself and also one for my son. The half section which we own is between Roulau and Drinkwater, adjoining the Moosejaw creek, and is a low, level and heavy land. Last year we put in 100 acres of wheat which went 25 bushels to the acre. Every bushel of it was 'No. 1.' That means the best wheat that can be raised on earth—worth 90 cents a bushel at the nearest elevators. We also threshed 9,000 bushels of first class oats out of 160 acres. Eighty acres was fall plowing and YIELDED NINETY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. We got 53 cents a bushel clear. All our grain was cut in the last week of the month of August. We will make more money out of our crops this year than last. For myself, I feel compelled to say that Western Canada crops cannot be checked, even by unusual conditions." An itemized account shows a single year's earnings of this settler and his son to be as follows: 2,500 bushels of wheat at 90 cents a bushel.....$2,250 9,000 bushels of oats at 53 cents a bushel.....4,770 Total ..... $7,020 It will be seen by the above that this man's oat crop was worth twice as much as his wheat crop. While the provinces of western Canada will for all time to come be the world's greatest wheat growing regions, oats are running the former grain a close race for supremacy. The soil and climatic conditions in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are particularly favorable to the production of oats, and this grain, like the wheat, runs a far greater crop to the acre than in even the best grain producing states of the union. Ninety bushels to the acre is not an unusual yield, whole homesteads frequently running this average. And this is not the only advantage Western Canada oats have over those of the United States, for in weight they run between forty and fifty pounds to the bushel, while No. 1 wheat goes to sixty-two pounds to the bushel. In fact, so heavy is Canadian grain of all kinds, and especially the wheat, that throughout the west one will see cars with great placards upon them, which read: "This car is not to be filled to capacity with Alberta wheat." When I made my first trip through the Canadian West a few years ago I found thousands of settlers living in rude shacks, tent shelters and homes of logs and clay. Today one will find these old "homes" scattered from Manitoba to the Rockies, but they are no longer used by human tenants. Modern homes have taken their place —for it has come to be a common saying in these great grain regions that, "The first year a settler is in the land he earns a living; the second he has money enough to build himself a modern home and barns; the third he is independent." And as extreme as this statement may seem to those hundreds of thousands of American farmers who strive for a meager existence, it is absolutely true. I am an American, as patriotic, I believe, as most of our people—but even at that I cannot but wish that these people, whose lives are such an endless and unhappy grind, might know of the new life that is awaiting them in this last great west—this "land of greater hope," where the farmer is king, and where the wealth all rests in his hands. As one American farmer said to me, "It is hard to pull up stakes and move a couple of thousand miles." And so it is—or at least it appears to be. But in a month it can be done. And the first year, when the new settler reaps a greater harvest than he has ever possessed before, he will rise with 200,000 others of his people in Western Canada and thank the government that has given him, free of cost, a new life, a new home, and new nopes—which has made of him, in fact, "A man among men, a possessor of wealth among his people." All isn't singing that is gurgled. MUCH UP AGAINST IT. Old Lady's Description of Ils Somewhat Confusing. Mrs. Rhoda Holmes Nichols, the artist who spends the summer at Gloucester, Mass., where she teaches a numerous sketch class, tells of an old woman who lives on the out skirts of the town and whom she has known for a number of years. The old lady has often been sketched by the students of Mrs. Nichols' class, and is known to them and to everybody else as Aunt Sally. When Mrs. Nichols went to Gloucester this year she called at the quaint little cottage and found the old woman rather more bent than last year and looking a good deal older as she tootled along her little garden leaning on a stick. "Well, Aunt Sally," said the artist, "how have you been since last summer?" "Oh, not very well," she replied, shaking her head, "not very well." "How has the situation still been?" "Oh, yes, miss, it's that bad nowadays I can't set and I can't scarcely lay." Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. Not Guilty. "Now, Mrs. McCarthy," said counsel for the defense, "please tell us simply as you can your version of this affair. It is alleged that you referred to Mrs. Callahan in disparaging terms." "Not a bit av it. I didn't say anything about disparaging nor disparagus nor any other garden truck, except that I said she had a nose loke a squash and her compulsion was as bad as a tomato in the last stages. Yez can see for yersilif if it ain't the truth." STATE OF OHIO OF CITY OF TOLEDO, O. I. SS. LUCAS COUNTY. FRANK J. CHENEY & Co., doing oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State foreseen, and that suit will pay the sum of $100,000 DOLLARS in case of CATARH that cannot be cured by the use of HALL's CATARH CURB. FRANK J. CHENEY. Swn to before me and curbed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. 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Coleman a very beautiful crystal water set. The gift was highly prized by the pastor and much appre- THE WIGH 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.. NOTICE PHONE 496 J.H. TURNER 533 TO 547 WEST DOUGLAS It Is Right To Economize, Even In Small Matters. If You Trade At The Economy Grocery Store you can always get fresh goods at reasonable prices. To trade with uswill convince you. " Once our customer, always our customer " We are at the corner of Pine and Water st Call to see us D. K. Mickleberry, Proprietor Hickerson's Restaurant 339 N. Main St. Meals 20c and 25c Cigars, Tobacco, Lunch Fish Game and Oysters in Season Your Trade Wanted J. W. Owens SHOEMAKER With The WICHITA SHOE CO., 144 N. Main St. Your Patronage Solicited All Work Guaranteed Use Herman's Cement Stone Made from the best material. Lasts longer, wears better and more durable than any other Cement Stone on the market. Prices Reasonable. PRICES 11c each laid in wall 8c each delivered 7c each in the yard Manufactured By W. L. HERMAN, 527 Ohio Ave., New Phone 1127 Mrs. John Lawson who has been visiting in California for several weeks returned to her home in this city a few days ago well pleased with her trip. While in the state of the yellow metal she did not forget her many friends, but as a token of respect sent them many souvenir post cards. Mrs. D. and Roy Garrett her son, and Miss Mary Gray started on a thirty day trip through Mexico, California and other western states but they had gone as far as Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Garrett became so cery ill they had to return with her to this city. Since returing home she is somewhat improved. Miss Gray says Kansas is the state for her. If the paramour of the far west wishes to complete matters began in the Golden state he had beter turn his attention toward the land of Sunflowers. Rev. J. W. Gordon of Iola, Kans., and ex-Pastor of the Second Baptist church of this city, preached last Tuesday night to Rev. Garnett and his people. All present went away much refreshed from the able discourse. The Missionary and Bee Hive Sewing Circles of the Second Baptist church met at the home of Miss Esther Garneet on E. 12th street last Thursday afternoon. It was lunch day. All went away feeling much better than they did when they came. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. J. Phelps. Mrs. S. Dickerson left last Friday for several weeks visit with relatives and friends in Chicago, Ill. The C. E. M. people and their pastor J. W. McClain is to be congratulated for the addition recently made ti their parsonage. It is now a very beautiful home for the Shepherd of the flock. This ought to be in every town, city and hamlet where the messengers of God are located. Rev. Garnett has just returned from Westrn U The leading e stitute for Negro A faculty of eighteen thore from the leading Inst MAGNIFICENT Steam Heated and Westrn University The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG PERSONS A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted Theological, Classical, Nor- cal, State Industrial, embras- ture, Carpentry, Mechani- Book-binding, Tailorlng, B making, Millinery, Cooking, Thorough discipline, careful supervision Fine Military Bank For full particulars written Prof. Shelton Of Western QUINDA Residence Phone No. 15 MESSEN FAMOUS AND ICE CHE WHOLESALE For Parties, Picnics, Orders delivered to BON-TON & BAKERY E. B. MESS 146 N. Main St. 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. Prof. Shelton French, ACTING PRESIDENT Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Residence Phone No. 15 Office Phone 1423 MESSERVE'S FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Churches Orders delivered to any part of the city BON-TON & KANDY AKERY ITCHEN E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. 146 N. Main St. Phone 152 Medicine Lodge where he assisted Rev. Dunn in a corner stone laying service last Sunday and reports a great meeting. He says the foundation is completed and ready for the structure. PARSONS KANSAS Editor of the Wichita Searchlight: We hope that you may find space in your paper to print the following: your paper to print the following: The Young Men's Political League of Parson, Kansas, has now passed its hundredth mark in number. Young men who are destined to never allow their franchise to trail in the dust, who are determined to stand for their rights and privileges, politically, as other men; whose boundary is like an endless chain. This league has for its leaders such men as P. E. Tipton, A. H. Morton, E. Percy Roberson, Wm. Shakespear, N. T. Ransom, S. O. Clayton, and James Brown. We don't always believe as Booker Washington has said, "plow the cotton and corn, and ralse potatoes and chickens, stay out of politics that they would take care of themselves." We believe that it is high time that ten and half million of Negroes upon American soil has the right, politically, to say and see how this republic shall manifest herself politically and by whom the manifestor shall be. It has been said that the nation or nations that think shall never be engulfed. YOUNG MEN'S POLITICAL LEAGUE OF PARSONS. ELDORADO KANSAS. A delightful surprise party was given in Eldorado, by Mr. and Mrs. M. Reynolds in honor of the Misses Deboach and Luella. Mickleberry of Wichita, Miss Nettie Puichern of Marion and Mrs. Jno. Gracy, of Chicago, Ill. A splendid time was had by all, the house was beautifully decorated with ferns and carnations and at a reasonable hour refreshments were served. Those present were: Misses Deboach and Luella Mickleberry, Nettie Puichern, Goldie Reynolds, Ethel Winson, Carrie Wills, Buelah Duke, Deliah Findley, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bland, Mrs. Anna DEPARTMENTS ```markdown ``` Loonet, Miss Edna Keeling, Mr. and Mrs. Jas, Searcy, Mrs. Tom Neely, Mrs. J. Neely, Mrs. Pinchem, Messrs. Jno. Gracy, Gus Laws, Geo. Smith, Ray Walker, E. Adrashut. (Too Late for last week.) Lawrence, Kan. Mr. W. N. Miller. Kind Sir;-I would like for you to kindly print these items in the searchlight for Saint Marie Tabernacle No. 10. We are glad to say that the Tabernacle is doing nicely and that the Sir Knights and Daughters Malds and Pages of Honor have about completed paying for their building. The tents are going to give a union picnic Friday at the poor farm; we are sorry to say that since our last Grand Session we have lost one of our best members, Dr. Enna Young, but our loss is Heaven's gain. We are glad to say that our sick daughter, Soulsa Watkins, is doing nicely and that Viola Tent No. 11 has one sick page, David Rice, but he is better and that they had a very nice meeting Saturday. Dr. Carrie Davis has returned home after an extended visit in the west. ONLY ON ENEGRO BISHOP ONLY ON ENEGRO BISHOP INCLINES TN DEMOCRACY. Race Will Stay Republican Majority View. Bishop Caldwell of Philadelphia and W. T. Vernon Discuss Plans to Hold the Negro Vote in Line for Taft. New York, Sept. 1.—Bishop J. S. Caldwell of the Philadelphia diocese of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, comprising Illinois, Kentucky, California and parts of Alabama, gave an interview at Republican headquarters today regarding the attitude of the Negro towards the presidential nominees of the Republican and Demo- Lawrence, Kansas Respectfully yours, MISS EVA BROWN, 325 Miss St. The bishop said that the voters of his race were supporting the republican presidential nominee because of the belief that the salvation of his race and the country in general depended upon such action. He further added that the Negro race has nothing to hope from the Democratic party. Bishop Grant of the African Zion church of Kansas City, Kas., which diocese comprises all the states west of the Mississippi river, was said to be in harmony with a plan today outlined by Bishop Caldwell. Bishop Caldwell was at the national republican headquarters to hold a conference to discuss plans for carrying on the campaign among the colored voters. W.T. Vernon, registar of the treasury, Washington, D.C., took part in this conference. "Our people," said Bishop Caldwell, "have always been republican since that party was first organized, and we see no reason for change in the coming campaign. The rank and file will stand by the republican party. Among the twenty-five bishops of the three colored Methodist churches in America I know of but inclined towards democracy. Unsettled by Brownsville. "These twenty-five bishops represent the active Methodists throughout the country. The bishops are organized to bring the minis tersinto line and through them the members. "Present unsettled conditions among the colored people is perhaps largely due to the Brownsville episode. We, however, are carrying on the campaign showing them that they are mistaken and losing sight of larger issues. I shall hold a conference in Kentucky next week and following that, one in Missouri, where we will conduct an active campaign. "There is an understanding among our bishops to work in harmony in this campaign. A mammouh mass meeting has been planned for Philadelphia on September 10." Mr. Chafin Notified Chicago.—At Music hall Tuesday evening in the presence of a large and enthusiastic audience, Eugene W. Chafin of Chicago accepted the nomination for the presidency by the Prohibition party. The address formally notifying Mr. Chafin of his selection as the head of the Prohibition ticket was made by Prof. Charles Scanlon of Pittsburg on behalf of the committee on notification appointed at the national convention in Columbus, O., July 16. A New Wireless Telephone. Paris, Aug. 17.—The naval lieutenants, Colin, Jeance and Mercer, the inventors of a wireless telephone apparatus which recent tests have shown to be superior to anything existing achieved remarkable successes with their new instrument Sunday, communicating with the wireless station at Raz de Sehne, Department of Finistere, a distance of about 310 miles. A Champion Lost a Trophy. St. Joseph, Mo.—A big silver cup awarded O. V. Vernon of St. Joseph, Mo., tennis champion in the Central Fennish tournament in St. Louis last month, for finishing first in singles, was levied on Tuesday by the constable to satisfy a judgment against Vernon for $46.64. The cup was on exhibition in a shop window. The trophy will be sold at auction. A Suit Against Gov. Haskell. Guthrie, Ok.—A suit for $9,900 attorneys fees was filed Tuesday before the federal court of the Western Oklahoma district by John P. and Daniel M. Bailey, attorneys of Ottawa, Ohio, against Gov. Haskell. Plaintiffs in this action represented the governor in former Ohio law suits. The service rendered covers a period of ten years. Negroes Form Law and Order League. Chicago.—A law and order league, composed of negro residents of the South side, to stamp out lawlessness and crime in the "Black Belt" of Chicago and to prevent any such happenings as have marked the last three days in Springfield, will be formed at a mass meeting in the Institutional African M. E. church. Situation at Springfield Relieved. Springfield, Ill.—That the race war situation in this city is considered much less serious was evidenced Tuesday night when Gov. Deneen issued orders for the return of the First and Fourth infantry regiments to take trains for their homes Wednesday. Died in Jail of Broken Heart Died in Jail of Broken Heart Pittsburg, Pa.—Because police authorities refused him permission to attend his father's funeral, Robert Shankey, 35 years old, died in a cell in jail Monday of a broken heart. He was sentenced to 48 hours in jail for boisterous conduct at a picnic. Five Heat Deaths in St. Louis: St. Louis, Mo.—Five deaths, an attempted suicide and more than a dozen prostrations were results of the intense heat that prevailed over St. Louis Monday. THE FLOORING OF THE TOWN'S NEW HOTEL. The towns and villages of the Alpine districts in Switzerland are crowded just now with climbers of all nations, who elect to spend their holiday time in the conquest of the mountain peaks. The climbing season is in full swing, and has already been attended, unfortunately, by the usual crop of serious accidents. In our illustration a group of French mountaineers are shown standing by the Janssen observatory, on the summit of Mont Blanc. The mountain is snow-capped all the year round, and the observatory itself is built on a foundation of snow, deep borings having failed to disclose any rock. A LOST SEA BATTLE. ```markdown ``` 4 FIGHT NEVER BEFORE RECORDED BROUGHT TO LIGHT. Historian Maclay Learns of Naval Action Occurring in 1779 in Which Yankees Were Defeated by Scotch Vessel. New York.—Edward Stanton Maclay, author of the "History of the United States Navy and American Privateers," announces that he recently discovered in the archives in Edinburgh, Scotland, the record of a naval action in which an American ship figured that was never mentioned in any American history. The combat was between the Yankee privateer Skyrocket and the Scotch vessel Sharp, and occurred in 1779. Mr. Maclay's story of the action follows: A sea fight between an American and a Scotch armed vessel, which seems never before to have been recorded in American annals has just BEES DELAY THE MAIL. Rural Carrier in Indiana Has a Strenuous Experience. Logansport, Ind. — William Slagle, rural mail carrier of route No. 34, out of this city, was attacked by a swarm of angry bees while covering his route, and was so badly stung that when he returned to the post office fellow employees were unable to recognize him. Goaded to fury by the sting of the angry bees, Slagle's horse ran away, and the United States mail was scattered along the roadway for two miles. The bees settled about the fleeing horse, and they made merry, jabbing their stingers into Slagle and the animal. In an effort to bat the bees from his face and head Slagle dropped the reins, and the horse in swaying the light rig from one side of the road to the other, dumped out the mail. The fleeing animal finally outdistanced the bees, and slowed down to a walk. First assuring himself that the bees had gone, Slagle turned the animal about and drove back and picked up the scattered letters and other pieces of mail. As the result of the attack he is in pretty bad condition. TOWN WHERE NOBODY DIES. Six Undertakers Move Out in Despair and Doctors Turn to Plow. Carver, Mass.—This town is now known as the "undertakers' despair," and there are those who actually believe that the town pump is a veritable fountain of youth, which the Carver people have all to themselves. All of this because of the phenomenal health record of the 2,500 population. Two years ago Carver stood about on a par with other Massachusetts towns of the same size. Then came a marked decrease. In 1907 but 16 deaths were reported, and all of these were over 50 years of age. This year, however, in the last six months the climax has been reached when not one single death has occurred. A year ago there were six undertakers and four physicians in the town. The undertakers have dwindled away until the other day the last one sought more paying fields. All but two of the physicians have gone and these two do farming on the side. HOME OF CARDINAL GIBBONS THE MUSEUM OF THE WEST Residence of the Well-Known Catholic Prelate at Baltimore, Md. KAISER'S SON CHOPS WOOD. been brought to light by the discovery in the library archives of Edinburgh, Scotland, of a copy of a letter from the commander of the Scotch craft to his employers. The name of the Scotian boat was the Sharp, Capt. Archibalt Bogg, owned by merchants in Glasgow, while the name of the Yankee craft was Skyrocket, Capt. Burke, a brig, mounting 16 guns and manned by more than 120 men—an armament and complement that made the Skyrocket more formidable than many of the regular American warships in those days. The Sharp, according to the letter of Capt. Bogg, was armed with 14 carriage guns, six of them 12-pounders, besides six swivels. The only note there is of the Skyrocket in American records is the bare mention of her name in Emmons' Statistical History of the United States Navy, which was published in 1850. But the most important feature of the Scotian's armament was that six HOME OF CAR Copyright by Waldon Fawcett. Residence of the Well-Known C KAISER'S SON Prince Eite! Takes to Hard Work as Cure for Obesity. Berlin.—Hard work is the proper cure for obesity, thinks Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son of the emperor, who is threatened. At present he is staying at his summer residence, Ingenhelm castle, near Charlottenburg, where from morning to night he engages in the most strenuous labor. He applies himself with the utmost assiduity to gardening, tree felling, cutting hedges, sawing wood, carpentry, and the building of potting sheds. The gardeners and other workmen connected with the estate, which consists of a fair-sized natural park on the banks of the Havel, obtain little leisure while the prince is in residence, as he exacts from them a full day's work every day in the week. For several weeks past he has taken a leading part in the construction of a riding school, and on one occasion --- of the carriage guns were carronades—a new weapon in those days and one that at first carried consternation to the enemy—as will be seen in a letter from Capt. Bogg. The carronade was a gun of large bore, having a shorter range, but greater smashing power. It was claimed, and with truth, that the smashing force of a 12-pounder carronade at short range was equal to that of a 24-pounder. In fact, the invention which took its name from the town of Carron, France, was quite as much of an advance in ordinance in those days as is the rifled shot of today over the solid round shot of 40 years ago. In Capt. Bogg's report of this action is had the first account of the effect of these "new" guns in actual battle. It appears that the Sharp was bound on a voyage to Jamaica, but had scarcely proceeded beyond sight of the Irish coast when she was attacked by a hostile craft—whether an American or Frenchman Capt. Bogg was unable to state. He reported: "On the 17th (March, 1775), being a little to the westward of Tulker, a cutter privateer passed the Sharp; she dogged up till the 18th at night, when she attempted to board us. I hailed her with a broadside, which made her crew cry out in a most horrible manher, but did not understand what she said. She immediately sheered off and I saw no more of her." Six days after this encounter, or on March 24, while the Sharp was standing off from the Old Head of Kinsdale, Capt. Bogg discovered a sail ahead of him steering westward. About two o'clock in the afternoon the stranger (which afterward proved to be the Skyrocket) by her superiority of sailing managed to gain the weatherage of the Sharp, and then, working her way to an advantageous position of the Sharp's quarter, wore ship and crowding on all sail came up with the Scotchman at little after four p. m. Down to this time neither craft had showed colors. When Capt. Boggs hailed and asked: "What ship is that and where do you hail from?" the answer was: "From America," upon which the American unfurled his flag and delivered a broadside. The Skyrocket then displayed the "13 stripes" and "returned the fire smartly." According to Capt. Bogg's report, the battle lasted "four glasses" or two hours, "when the privateer thought proper to sheer off, crowding on all sail." Bogg says that he gave chase, "but was soon left astern." It appears from this same record that, previous to the Skyrocket's action with the Sharp, the former had captured the British merchantman Betsy, Capt. McArthur. The Betsy was from Clyde, bound for Oporto, when she was overtakeen by the Yankee and captured. Capt. McArthur was a prisoner aboard the Skyrocket when that craft fought the Sharp. Subsequently McArthur was released, and arriving at Greenock, reported that "the weight of the Sharp's metal," together with the quickness of firing, particularly of the carronades, threw the privateer's people into the utmost astonishment; and that the execution on board the privateer was such that they would have struck to the Sharp had she been able to come up with them." CARDINAL GIBBONS catholic Prelate at Baltimore, Md. CHOPS WOOD. during the great heat was gently remonstrated with by the princess for working so hard. "Oh," he replied, "this kind of work is a splendid cure for obesity," and continued his task as though he were a paid laborer. When not working in the grounds he and the princess set out for long rides on horseback, leaving the house before seven in the morning without a groom, and taking a light lunch with them, which they eat in the forest, and return to the castle just in time to dress for the evening dinner. Sometimes they drive together in a dog cart with a tandem team and picnic in the woods. The princess takes her sketch book with her, and, as she is a trained artist, she has made quite a collection of landscapes of her own work. On these occasions the prince, after his return, always applies himself for some hours to manual labor about the castle. 333 Official Knights & Da 333 777 Official Directory Knights & Daughters OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, I ington, Wichita REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 1715 Clark Ave., Parsons, Kan. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kan. A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kans. MRS SARAH FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St., Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M., 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kans. C. M. JONHSON, G. P. P., 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 416 E. 3rd, Ft. Scott, Kans. OFFICIAL ORGAN—The Wichita Searchlight, W. N. Miller, Editor, 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. NEXT PLACE MEETING—The Grand Temple and Tabernacle Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction, will hold its next Session (the 18th annual) in Topeka, Kans., on the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1909. Number, 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wiohita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. H. Tyler, 520 E 9th Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-8 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th Salina, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-8 Tues. (A) 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Hattle Warden, 124 N. Washington, Pittsburg, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 15 Mrs. Ellen Lee, Box 25 Weir City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Lizie Morton, 130$ Washington, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 24 Mrs. Angle Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Par- sons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawat- omie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 3 S making money fast. Write for full particulars and special offer at once. • NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. 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If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, and have better performance than any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined it. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making it less expensive) for all WWW OR MMAk sales when you sell a plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at G not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have know that you will be so well pleased that when we want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remit IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about $DO NOT WAIT$ but write us a postal today. DO offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn every J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any interest at any price until you send for a pair of the special introductory price quoted above, or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all the tires. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful tires. 711R514 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. TABERNACLES. Chief Precoptresses. Number. double o SECOND usually we promptly at p 777 Directory Daughters 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 63 Mrs. Lille Robinett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) itta, Kan., Fridays. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Wed. (A) 98 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 98 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Weir 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 3 J. G. Purdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 4 F. D. Early, Sherman Flats, Omaha Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Thur. 7 Dr. G. G. Brown, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kans., 1-3 Tues. 8 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 10 Geo. L. Craig, 906 Cherokee, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 19 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 15 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 22 B. C. Easter, Box 156, Oswego Kans., 2-4 Tues. 24 J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th, Cherryvale, Kans., 1-3 Tues. 25 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 29 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 60 E. C. Sqires, 1813 Jefferson, Topeka, Kans., 1-3, Mon. 72 J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Leavenworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, Ft Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) RIDER TOWN IN EACH TOWN and district to FIRE and water" bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are full particulars and special offer at once. EIS, without a cent deposit in advance, prepay freight, and E TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and you can order the bike to us at our expense and you will not be one out cent. furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's GARDO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone offered to rider agents. NISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. We are satisfied with bicycles under your own name plate at day received. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out and bargain lists mailed repair. ted roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and half the usual retail price. PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 80 RES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE ONLY NECFCTIDEN RECORD LAPTOP DE RECORD TIME OF RECORD used same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on examined and found them strictly as represented. (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you have a new bicycle you will also send one returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not exactly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a deal. AND that they will ride easier, run faster, tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We then you want a bicycle you will give your order. Hence this remarkable tire offer. Any kind at any price until you send for a pair of bicycles you have approved and trial at write for our big Tire and Sunday Catalogue which lies at about half the usual prices. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. EMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. TEMPLES. Chief Mentors TENTS. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This contrast any other make-SOFT LASTIC and EASY RIDING. 3 Lizzle Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, La- coln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walker Kansas City, Kan., 1-9 Sat. Moor 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe Co- fevley, Kan., N- Wed. (A) 6 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Ida Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 7 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 21th, Oma- ha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 911 Brent Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Mary Brown, 325 Miss, Lawrens Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arle Stone, 823 Main, Atchin Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Weir City, K. Wed. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Sus Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Pa. Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Willis, 2103 Grand, Pars Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. C. Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Pars Kan., 1-3 Sat. 22 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, K as City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella Kinninis, 217 Sharon Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Toward 23 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawr Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 36 Hester Cornish, 911 Western Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1818 N. Ma Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 313 W ton, Kansas City, Kan., 1-1 NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or is not in this Directory, or if any error, please notify me at W. N. MILLER BIG TREES BURNING Forest Fire Sweeping Through California Grove. Stockton, Cal., Sept. 2. —News on special to the Independent in Murphy, which is connected by with the Calaveras Big Trees that a forest fire has got into grove of mammoth trees at Upper near where the mother of the stands, a monster Sequoia, 327 high and 78 feet in circumference. The famous trees named after men of history are below the poin attack and the only hope for the sufficient monsters of the forest change in the wind, as the fire flies are powerless to stop the flames get into the grove of big trees fire had to cross the road lead Gardners, which it did Tuesday. There is little undergrowth in grove and that may be the mean checking the fire but its is through the grove is greatly The valley in which the grove is nested contains of the Sequoia monster trees. Interfered With Food Inspect Junction City, Kan., Sept. 2- justice court here Monday, C. H. Gregor was fined for interfering a state food inspector. The inspe- last week demanded samples for carload of beer. Before he could to the depot the beer had been billed to Kansas City. The ince has developed four cases for courts—a violation of the revenue of the prohibitory law, the pur- law by misbranding and the end of the inspector. Kansas City Bank Reinstates Topeka, Kan., Sept. 1.—J. Q. state bank commissioner, Sunda instated the Central National bank Kansas City, Mo., as a reservation for Kansas banks. An assis- sion of the charges made by that incorrect information was nished an inspector and an ex- tention were made by the bank cials, Joyce accepted them and scinded his former order. Emmet Dalton Married. Bartlesville, Ok., Sept. 2.—E. Dalton, who was recently par- while serving a life sentence in Kansas penitentiary, and Mrs. Lewis, widow of Ernest Lewis, was killed in a bloody battle United States marshals here months ago, were married here day night. Charged With Wife Murder Seattle, Mont., Sept. 2.—Ch with the murder of his young whose body was buried in the ment of his cabin at Nome, L. Johnstone, a well-to-do mining Nome, Alaska, was arrested in S Monday. Mrs. Johnstone was Gilchrist, a young society wom Butte, Mont. Kansas Boy Fatally Injured Salina, Kan., Sept. 2.—John rison, a 13-year-old boy, was injured Monday in a runaway dent. His team, hitched to a m machine, became frightened and was thrown in front of the sickle was horribly cut. The Population of Kansas Topeka, Kan., Sept. 2.—Office turns compiled by Secretary of culture Coburn show the popu- of Kansas to be 1,656,799, an in- over last year of 6,659.