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Southwestern District Baptist Association Holds a Splendid Session at the Tabernacle Baptist Church —Wichita. The Southwestern District Baptist association, convened in Wiehita at 5:30 o'clock. Tuesday. There are about seventy delegates from the different churches of the district. The first day was devoted to Sunday school work. President J. E. Lewis of this city, presided during the session. Many interesting papers were read and each worker had some advance thoughts to present. There were many prominent Sunday school workers among these people present who add much to the interest of the meeting. At 11 o'clock Rev. E. H. Lee of Jettore preached to a large congregation. The president then appointed the different committees. The afternoon was devoted to hearing the reports of the treasurer, Mrs. L. Jones of this city, and the various committees and election of officers. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President E. Lewis, Wichita; vice president, Mrs. Cortrude Wells, Great Bend; secretary, Miss Leatha Underwood, New; treasurer, Mrs. Leona Gordon, Matt. At 7 o'clock last night a large audience assembled to hear a literary program rendered by the convention. There were delegates here from Buchinson, Great Bend, Garden City, Carmed, Pratt, El Dorado, Caldwell, Arkansas City, Wellington, Winfield, Medicine Lodge, Newton and Kinsley, and many more will be present by the time the association adjourns. WEDNESDAY MORNING. B. Y. P. U. Convention Session. Devotionals ... Mrs. B. E. G'vens, Wichita Mrs. R. McQuarry, Hutchinson Remarks by President..... J. Jackson, Newton Appointment of Committees. Greetings from the District. Report of Enrollment Committee. President's Annual Address. Report of Cor. Sec'y..... Mrs. M. L. Copeland, Arkansas City. Mrs. Wm. Coleman, Newton Wednesday afternoon and eevning was devoted to the work of the women's Home and Foreign Mission work. The annual address by the very president president, Mrs. H. F. Frazier Wichita was a master piece of night; at night the following pro- blem was rendered. Devotionals ..... Miss Marguerite Sanford, Wichita Paper—"The Need of Christian Education" ..... Mrs. M. L. Copeland, Arkansas City Chorus ..... Choir (Program subject to changes.) Offering. Announcements. Benediction. Thursday morning the ministers and Deacon Union held a very interesting session and at 2 p. m. the convention proper assembled, with Rev. J. H. Rainey, president, of Great Bend. During the session some very able and interesting papers were read. Also some excellent sermons have been preahed by the following ministers: Rev. H. Smith of Paris, Tex., Rev. E. H. Lee of Jettmore, Rev. Warder and the association sermon by Rev. M. S. Copeland, D. D., Arkansas City. Rev. E. A. Watson, D. D., D. H. D., of Kansas City, Kas., preached very interestingly Thursday afternoon. Rev. J. F. Washington of Garden City, conducted the Devotionals on Thursday evening. The address of welcome was made by Bro. Jas. Hardper, on behalf of the city. Bro. Hicks, on behalf of the churches and Bro. R. T. Counter, D. D., on behalf of the Tabernacle Baptist church. The president's annual address and the report of the corresponding secretary, were important features. A few of the ministers are appointed: Rev. W. H. Denton, Garden City. Rev. W. H. Garnett, Newton. Rev. H. I. Jones, Wichita. Rev. W. H. Tilman, Wichita. Rev. J. H. Raimey, Great Bend. Rev. B A Smith, Winfield. Rev. M. L. Copeland, Arkansas City Rev. I. H. Hughes, Caldwell. Rev. Wm. Turner, Pratt. Rev. E. H. Lee, Jetmore. Rev. C. O. Smith, Hutchinson Rev. James Dunn, Hutchinson. Rev. R. R. Howard, Hutchinson. Rev. S. S. Bandy, Wellington. Rev. R. Williams, El Dorado. Rev. Bacoto of Oklahoma. Rev. Smith, of Texas. Rev. E. A. Wilson, D. D., P. H. D., Kansas City, Kas. The meetings are being held at the Tablernacle Baptist church, corner Eighth and Water streets; preaching each days at 11 a. m., 4 p. m. and 8 p. m. Rev. R. T. Countee, D. D., pastor. The choir of the A. M. E. church of this city pastored, by Rev. C. H. J. Taylor, furnished music for Thursday morning Mrs. R. E. Countee of Kansas City, Mo., prescribed at the piano. Session will continue until Saturday noon. Rev. J. L. Washington of Little Rock, Ark., the original bog preacher, will begin services at the Tabernacle Baptist church on Sunday on the of the 20th. James repeats 536 chapters of the Bible from memory, he is a great preacher and a prodigy. He has been preaching since he was 5 years of age. THIS WHITE MAN'S TRICK NEARLY COST HIS LIFE Disguised as a Negro to Follow and Watch His Suspected Wife. Des Moines, Ia., Sept. 11.—Burnt cork smeared profusely over the face of Roy Henry, giving him the appearance of a negro, so that he might follow his wife and her suspected "affinity" without being suspected, nearly resulted in his lynching in a downtown business street at 11 o'clock last night, when he attacked the erring ones. James Beering, the "affinity" in the case, was defending himself manfully, unable to understand why the supposed negro was pounding him. Mrs. Henry screamed and a crowd gathered. The sympathy of the crowd was with the white man, so the negro was pulled off the "affinity" and given some rough treatment. ome one yelled, "Lynch him!" and the crowd began to hustle the black toward a tree. "Hold on here, men; I'm a white man and that's my wife, and I've caught her with another man," yelled Henry. He brushed his coatsleeve over his face and held up his white wrists. The crowd then turned him loose. Beering fled and Mrs. Henry was hysterical, but went home with her husband. WON'T ATTEND NEGRO SCHOOL. to Study With Whites. Alton, Ill., Sept. 9.—(Special.) The Negro school population of Alton is on strike to enforce the state supreme court's recent decision in favor of mixed schools. Seventy-five Negro pupils were refused admission to white schools here yesterday when the term began, and many more today, the superintendent accepting their applications, but transferring the pickanies to the Douglass and Lovejoy Negro schools, claiming that the white schools lack room. Today only twenty-six of the 400 Negro pupils attended the Negro schools. Negro mothers swarmed at white schools today, insisting on their children's admittance. Police maintained order. WORK DONE FOR GOD. Though scoffers ask, Where is your gain? And mocking say your work is vain, Such scoffers die and are forgot. Work done for God, it dieth not! Press on! press on! nor doubt, nor fear; From age to age this voice shall cheer; Whate'er may die and be forgot, Work done for God, it dieth not! (Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.) It was in the gable room that we found it—our bewildering moon table—our dear, dingy, shaky-legged moon table! "Take any piece of furniture you fancy from the rooms above," sweet Aunt Persis had graciously said, and Millicent and I had spent the livelong, dreary September afternoon in a soul-satisfying revel among treasures of Sheraton and Clippendale, and Heppelwhite. A moon table! Our heart's desire! Our dearest dream! My great-aunt Persis was waiting, very erect and dignified in her carved oak chair. "Did you find anything that pleased you, dear children?" she asked. "The moon table. Oh, the moon table!" we cried in unison. My great-aunt's fingers trembled ever so slightly as she lifted the teapot. "Owen's table," said she, slowly, "my little brother Owen's moon table." "Can you really part with it?" we ventured, breathlessly. "I should not like it to go out of the family," said Aunt Persis, "but I am willing that any of my dear nephews or nieces should have it; and to please you, Neville and Millicent, I will give it with especial pleasure." "We will put it in the book room," sald Millicent. "Assuredly, in the book room," I agreed. "Aunt Persis, this is magnificently generous of you!" "Owen's table," went on Aunt Persis, unheeding our expressions of gratitude and delight. "Pretty little Owen . . . your little granduncle, Neville. . . He was just ten years old the very day he died. . . If you weary of the table, Neville and Millicent, my dears, you can send it back, remember." "Weary of the moon table!"—"Aunt Persis!" "He was a still, old-fashioned child—my little brother Owen," continued Aunt Persis. "Fond of books and music—very fond of music. . . He had a sweet, high voice, and his little fingers touched the piano keys so lovingly. He found our grandmother's old spinnet up in some dark attic corner and dragged it down to the gable room. And, oh, the hours and hours he would sit at the moon table making notes! . . . Queer little notes, with such crooked stems, and bulging, out-of-shape heads. . . There are ink stains on the mahogany now. I've never washed them off." "We never will, either," promised Millicent. "And if you weary of the table, and wish to send it back to the gable room, and select a chair or a mirror, or anything else instead, remember to pack it very carefully. Wrap it up well with burlap, and use plenty of straw. I have given it away five times." "Given it away five times!" "Yes, Neville and Millicent." "And it has been returned!" "Always returned." Callers were announced and the moon table subject was closed. We gave the moon table the place of honor in the most artistic corner of An Insect That Throws. An Insect That Throws. The African explorer put on a pair of smoked glasses, for he found the August sun on the white sand too bright even for his eyes, used to the full blaze of the Sahara. "In the Sahara," he said, "there is a little insect that throws sand like those children there. Only it throws better; its valleys slay; they call it the fourmilion. "The fourmillion digs itself a funnel-shaped hole of the circumference of a silver star. It lies hidden and watch- TABLE BOY OCTAVIAN the book room. We dusted it diligently several times a day, we kept bowls of flowers always upon it, and we religiously cherished the ink-stains that commemorated little Owen's musical aspirations. True to my grandaunt's predictions, baby Fay, our three-year-old daughter, liked the table. Oddly enough, it seemed to possess for her a subtle charm, a mysterious allurement, and much of her time was spent in standing beside it, patting it lovingly, caressing the spidery legs, and tracing the inlaid design over and over again with her wee forefinger. If we missed her for a little while, she was always sure to be found in the book room, close to the moon table. Often she would walk round and round it, examining it with the gravest attention, and apparently looking for something. "What is it, baby?" I asked. "What is Fay looking for?" "Es, dwawer. Baby want dwawer." "This table has no drawer, my pet," said I. "Es, dwawer," persisted Fay. "Boy's dwawer." "Oh, what nonsense, baby!" I laughed, rumpling her chestnut curls. Not long after this we heard Fay humming a strange little air. An elusive minor thing, with a haunting motif, and a fascinating rhythm, with just a hint of syncapation. Neither her mother nor I had ever heard it before. "What are you singing, Fay?" I asked. "Moon table boy song," said she. "And whom did you hear singing it, O Fayrie mine?" "Moon table boy," said she, and went on humming. "It is very strange," said Millicent, unaseilly. One night the preparation of a lecture kept me at my desk till very late. A heavy rain was falling, the wind wailed and moaned around the house, and dead sprays of woodbine rattled drearily against the window panes. My desk was a curtained recess at one end of the book room, and in the corner diagonally opposite, near the fireplace, and just beside Millicent's old English clock, stood the moon table. I was using but one light this evening—the green-shaded electric lamp above my desk—and had partly drawn the Japanese curtain. Midnight came and passed, and my work was still unfinished. The rain dripped monotonously upon the veranda roof, and the woodbine rattled weirdly. As I opened a book to verify a quotation I heard a soft voice. There was singing in the room. Singing—low and dreary. A sweet, familiar strain. Parting the curtain gently I glanced across the dim spaces of the room to the corner faintly illuminated by the firelight. He was sitting upon the moon table—the sweet singer. A frail slip of a boy, in black velvet, with a deep lace collar and silver-buckled shoes. He had dark hair, and hazel eyes—long spirituelle eyes—and a very Roman ful in the bottom of this hole, and when a spider or ant or beetle comes cautiously prospecting down the steep and slippery sides the inhospitable fourmilion launches upon its guest volley after volley of sand—a hall of stinging sand so abundant, so suffocating, so blinding that the visitor loses his head; he rolls unconscious for the nonce, to the bottom of the hole, and the fourmilion calmly dismembers him before he has time to come to himself again and puts him in the larder for the next meal." ```markdown ``` profile. He drummed lightly upon the table with his long, nervous fingers, and sang in a plaintive soprano. It was Fay's haunting, minor melody. The tune she hummed. The rhythm she tapped. Fay's strange moon table boy song! The old English clock in the corner struck the half hour, and the boy, pausing in his song, regarded the tall time-piece gravely. The strands of the bamboo curtain that I had been holding aside slipped through my fingers with a faint rustling noise, and when I parted them again the moon table boy had vanished. The fire-light cast ever-changing shadows upon the wall; the rain dripped heavily, heavily, upon the roof, and the woodbine was tapping—tapping—tapping. "Dear child," said I to the invisible presence, I felt might still be lingering in the moon table corner. "your music is sweet indeed, and I like you passing well, but I cannot have my wife fall prey to hysteria, neither can I permit my daughter to hobnob with ghosts—ergo, my charming moon table boy, I find myself compelled to send your favorite article of furniture back to the gable room." So, for the sixth time the lovely Hepelwhite table journeyed back to its donor, carefully packed with plenty of straw, and a lavish supply of burlap, and accompanied by a note telling Aunt Persis that, after all, we found that the oak settle would be more in keeping with our room. The New Year found me again at my grandaunt's. No allusion was made to the exchange of furniture. In the gable room I found the moon table. Somehow I was glad to see it there in the cobwebby window-nook once more. Somehow it seemed a very fitting thing that Owen's table should be back in Owen's room. "Good-by, beautiful table," I murmured, as I turned away. "Good-by, old gable room. . . . Good-by, pretty moon table boy!" . . . And then I tarried yet a moment to brush away a large spider that was crawling slowly across the delicate inlay. Came a click—came a rattle—and then a scraping sound—and lo, before my eyes a tiny drawer sprang open! Somewhere in the ornamentation was concealed a spring which my thrust at the spider had set in motion. Yes, little Fay, there was indeed a "dwaer" in the moon table. In the drawer was a scrap of paper, yellow and torn and soiled. I unfolded it eagerly, yet very gently, lest it crumble beneath my touch. It contained several bars of closely-written music, very evidently the work of an inexperienced composer. Very badly made were the notes, with crooked stems and blurred and ill-shaped heads. Crazy rests were sprinkled here and there adown the page, and many blots rendered parts of the manuscript illegible. Turning to the spinnet I picked it out laboriously. Tinkle—tinkle—tinkle — came the hollow, ghostly tones. Faintly—very faintly—in a whispering, spiritlike planissimo, sounded the plaintive melody, the halting, half-syncopated rhythm of the moon table boy song! I put the paper back, closed the secret drawer, and went down to five-o'clock tea. Problem In Anatomy "I wonder if these menu writers know how much a leg-of lamb costs," said a lady the other day, as she read for the fifth time a menu in a newspaper having that part of the young sheep as the meat for dinner. "It is all very well to get a leg of lamb if you have a large family," she said, "and can pay the price, but for a small family a shoulder of lamb is much better." Rooster aa Scarecrow Fred Small, on his farm in Swanville, Me., has a successful method of scaring crows from his cornfield, having a bantam rooster in a wire cage, with nest attached, and, as everybody knows, the cockerel is an early riser and starts crowing at once, which keeps the crows from interfering with the corn. Go to the woods, cut a medium-sized sapling, peel the bark off, and lay the sapling where the fleas abound—in hog bed or stable. The fleas will jump on the white wood and be so busy with the sap or moisture that the sapling can be taken up, carried away, and dropped with its full passenger list of fleas. The operation may be repeated until all the fleas are carried off. That is the plan of a great cypress brother in black—Barnwell (S. C.) People. oe eee Tht SEARCHLIGHT. —— mma - cana OM WR, STR RTE AR SO 7. N. MILLER...............--Baltor Batered 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. @ue Yoar (By Mail)..............61.00 Bix Months (By Mail)............ 46 ‘Whree Months (By Mail).......... .50 Advertising Rates “dade Knowm on Avplication. a ae “All mu ters addressed to The Searcnugh. for publication must be signe by the party or parties writing. 4. matters for publication must each this office not later than Wee- mesday to reach publication in the cur- rent Lasue, RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 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If this is good republicanism and tion in republican polities of Sedgwick heedful that the colored voters of this If it is alright for the white man, it barm. In order to get the most menial rec- ognition from 2 party point, a colored counted “off” forever, But the rule tet the members and candidates on the blacks, both votes counts. The colored people have been whip-sawed, bull-rag- and when it comes to attempting to make the colored people, who have al- ways in the past been loyal to the re- publican party, ifs principles and its candidates, dance to the music ef those whose skirts are still stained with “party defeat, we sy plainly itis car ete dese Gi a te de rying a good thing a little too far. | Fair play, a square deal, human treatment, recognition of past party loyalty and an encouragement for the future is all the colored people of this county asks—no more, no less. A,WORD TO THE COLORED VOTERS. At the proper time the Searchlight will take up and thoroughly discuss the issues, candidates and principals involved in the present campaign. In doing so we propose to present thes in a clear, concise and lucid manner, and it is our purpose to conduct an exhaustive presentment including na- tional, state and county affairs. At this time, however, we wish to take this opportunity to thank our readers for the attentions given our political discussions of the past, and we offer to them as a guarantee of our future good intention, our record of ten years standing of presenting to them un- biased and unadultered facts, and in the present campaign we propose to lay the facts before our readers and leave to thelr sound and sane jude- ment to act thereon. It is time that the colored people of this community were opening their eyes—wake up! In our prosecution of the issues, candidates and principals of this campaign we throw our columns wide open and especially invite any of our readers to furnish us with short campaign writing for publication. Let us get the opinion on these matters. Write and tell us and we tell the world. a LOCALS —THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK— eee FT Sand your news notes and lecal happenings to 601 Morth Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? 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. | Vote for 8. B. Kernan for County Commissioner from the First, Second and Third wards. < Prof. Guy of Enid, Okla., was in the city last week the guest of Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Johnson, 1650 South ‘To- peka ave. ‘Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Price entertained at their home, 1420 N. Mosly, Sunday with a five course dinner in honor of Mrs. D. Garden and daughter Maggie, of (Boley, Obla., jand Mrs. Amanda Jones of St. Joe, Mo. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Coffee, Mrs. L. Covington and Maurice Jones. Mrs. E. P. Whitby of Goliad, Tex., spent several days in the city this week. Mrs. Sam Duncan and daughter of Peabody, Ks., came to Wichita and at- tended the fair Tuesday. They also attended at the Baptist Association, M'ss Nora Hyder left Tuesday for Enid, Okla, where she will attend school, Mrs. B.D. Drain has gone to Okla- homa to visit with her husband and their farm. She will be gone several weeks. Pay what you owe to the Search- light. Be honest. 88 © THE WICHITA STZARUHLIGH, For good accoyimodations go to) WOMEN’S CLUB f Johnston's hotel, 507 N. Mam. A concise statement among the colored wor THE BOOKER WASHi P. Rickman of Valley Center, brought WICHITA, two wagon loads of potatoes to town! sour of meeting 2:30 t Saturday. Engaged in needle, ¢ erary work. Special typewriting. Meets The Wichita Fair was good this year. | afternoon, Mrs. ‘Thos, dent; Miss Sallie Raw Misses Ruble and Bobie McBride and Miss Edna Tillman left Monday for!THE HOME COO ‘Topeka, where they are to attend WICHITA, t school. Miss Rosa Tillman will leave | Engaged in the culi the latter part of this month for Em- | gressive ideas in fancy ; poria where she will take a course in|ing. Meets 2nd and 4t pedagogy in the State Normal school.|noons of each month. Jones, President; Miss. [Sena ae ae Secretary. GONE FOR HER REWARD. Mrs. Elizabeth Youngblood Peacefully THE W. T. VERN’ Passes Away. WICHITA, | Like the rose, which today is, and tomorrow is not, so silently, so calmly, Mrs. Elizabeth Youngblood in obedi- Maker quit the life of mortal man and joined that great majority of travelers |who never return—she has gone for No setting sun with its rays of na- lay down to her peace. She is not lasan but slepeth. Born in 1834 in Bal- /timore, ‘Md., she was 74 years of age at the time of her death, Saturday, She came to Kansas in 1879, locating this city her home till her death. She J. Ed. Duke of Hutchinson, and one city; eleven grand children and one Monday, Sept. 7th, Rev. E. G. Fish- back officiating. CARD OF THANKS. i We wish to thank our many friends, the members and pastor of New Hope Baptist church for the marks of sym- pethy shown us at the death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Young- blood. We especially wish to thank Rev. E. T. Fishback, pastor of New Hope for the very feeling words ex- pressed, MR. AND MRS. J. H. McBRIDE, MR. AND MRS. J. B. DUKE, MR. JAMES R. DANDRIDGE. With the Fair, a Colored and White Baptist Association, Wichita was filled with visitors this week. ALONZO MILLER DEAD. Alonzo Miller, one of the well-known colored men of this city, died Monday morning at St. Francis hospital, He had been sick about three months. He was born in Gallatin, Tenn., about fifty years ago, and came to Wichita about twenty years ago. Four chil- dren and a brother survive him. Fun- eral services were held at the Second Baptist church, Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. L. Copeland of Arkansas City, Kas, Mrs. Lottie Bell left Thursday for her home in El Reno, Okla., after spending several weeks in the city visiting, Miss Jessie Bates entertained at a 6 o'clock dinner Wednesday evening complimentary to Mrs. Wm. J. Jones of Kansas City, Mo. ‘The dining room was artistically decorated in eut flow- ers| Covers were laid for seven. Miss Baes was assisted by Miss Sizzle Bates, Mrs, Thos. Glover and Mrs. C. A, Glover. Those present were: Mrs. M. A, Young, Miss Mary Robinson, Miss Lots Wilson, Miss Sallie Rowles, A. T. Glover and C. A. Glover. One of the prettiest receptions of the season was given Wednesday evening at Young's hall by Mesdames M. A. Young, Peter Coleman and Jno. Hall, complimentary to Mrs. Wm. J. Jones of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. J. Fines of Denver, Colo. The evening was spent in pleasant conversation and several Instrumental and vocal numbers were rendered. Frappe was served during the even- ing and later ice cream and assorted cakes, ‘The invited guests were: Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Bolden, Ed Landrum, J. T. WOMEN’S CLUB DIRE7CTORY. A concise statement of the Clubs among the colored women of Wichita. ‘THE BOOKER WASHINGTON CLUB WICHITA, KS. Hour of meeting 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Engaged in needle, charity and lit- erary work. Special 1908 course in typewriting. Meets every Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Thos. Glover, presi- dent; Miss Sallie Rawles, Sec. THE HOME COOKING CLUB, WICHITA, KAN. Engaged in the culinary art. Pro- gressive ideas in fancy and home cook- ing. Meets 2nd and 4th Friday after- noons of each month, Mrs,, Will H. Jones, President; Miss Jennie Wheeler, Secretary. THE W. T. VERNON CLUB, WICHITA, KAN. ‘Hour of meeting 2:30 p. m. Engaged in needle, charity and literary work. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. B. Hockett, president, Mrs, S. Griggs, secretary. Office Hours 9a m to 6 pm Sundays by Appointment DENTIST 507 N. Main St — Wichita, Kan Chinneth, Alex. Paul, Juluis Gaines, W. N. Miller, Wm. Turner, Thomas Cox, James Harper, Louis Carr, W. H. Jones, Mrs, Holmes, Mrs. Gordon of Pratt, Mrs, E, Dondridge of Pratt, Mrs, M. Williams of Pratt, Mrs. Mary Park, Mrs. Harriett Lewis, Rev. J. F. ©. Taylor, Misses Lulu Parks, Sallye Rowles, Winnie Ray, Grace Baker, An- na Butler, Jessie Bates, Bettie Mae Hall, Ida Hill, Bertha Hardin of Okla- homa, Messrs Wesley Rowles, Leroy Huff, Ora Taylor and H. A. Graves of Pratt and Mrs. Clayton of Spring- field, Mo. A SPLENDID SESSION. The Sunflower Grand Court Order of Calanthe, just closed its 14th an- nual session at Galena, Kas., on Thurs- day evening, Aug. 20—WiIth on to ‘Hutchinson in 1909. This was one of the most successful harmonious ses- sions ever held in the women’s de- partment of K, of P. and the attend- ance by far the largest. There being many visitors from Joplin and Spring- field in attendance at each session. Among the honorded and distinguished visitors was the P. G. W. C. of state of Missouri, Mrs, Eliza M. Curtis and G. K. of D, Miss Nannie Burris, who resides in Joplin, ‘The female relatives of K. of P., who constitute this de- partment, are making this department count for something in the uplifting of our race as a race. They are put- ting their best work into it, and in spite of the financial strain which our entire country has recently undergone, this department, with Mrs, Mollie Cox of Wichita, at the head, is in a better condition, financially, and numericially than ever before. The following of- ficers were duly elected and installed by the Grand Lecturer of the state of Missouri, B. 'T, Adams for the ensuing year: Mrs, Molile Cox, G. W. C., Wichita; Mrs, Lulu ummers, G. W. Ix., Kansas City, Kas; Mrs. M. E. Matley, G. W. I, Topeka, Kas.; Mrs. Millie Drum- gould, G. S. D., Arkansas City; L. T. ‘Taylor, G. J. D., Weir, Kas.; Mrs. Mary B, Glenn, G. W. E., Galena, Mrs. Josie Ware, G. T. E. B, Lawrence; Mrs. Agnes Persley, G. 8. E. B, Topeka; Miss Mary Jordan, G. C., Wellington; Miss Mary Pickens, G. A. C., Pitts- burg; Mrs. Wilmarth Anderson, G. L., Topeka; Mrs, Nannie Holmes, G. H., Cherokee; Mrs. Bettie Bailey, G. P., Arkansas City; Mr. W. W. Plumb, Suprem Rep. Heavenly City. Berlin 1s said to be the quietest elty tn Europe. Railway engines are not allowed to blow their whistles within the city limits. There is no loud baw!- ing of hucksters, and a man whose wagon gearing is loose and rattling is subject to a fine. The courts have a large discretion as to fines for noise. making. Strangest of ali, piano play- ing is regulated in Berlin. 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L. Herman CONTRACTING : PLASTERER 856 Eagle St., Wichita, Kan. That ends well—so pay your subscript to the Searchlight and get good 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... NOTH PHONE: 496-- J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 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 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. 11c each haid in wall 8c each delivered 7c each in the yard Manufactured By W. L. HERMAN, 527 Ohio Ave., New Phone 1127 THEIR FIRST ANNIVERSARY. Rev. and Mrs. Frank Wilson Celebrate the First Anniversary of Their Marriage in Parsons, Kas. SUCCESS TO THEM. Rev. Frank Wilson and wife, celebrated their first anniversary on Friday evening, Aug. 28th. Forty invites were sent out in the city. A number of their friends were present. The devining passed away very pleasantly with innocent amusement of a "gate game." Mrs. E. A. Tiggs was presented with the first prize, a beautiful Japanese plate, Mrs. A. R. Ray received the second prize, a pretty little Japanese cup and saucer. After which each were invited to partake of a palatable luncheon and refreshments which were served. The host and hostess were recipients of many useful tokens of various articles, of which were most highly esteemed with much appreciation by the couple. All departed and expressed their joy of being present at such a pleasant affair. Rev. Wilson and family are preparatory to leave this week for Topeka, Kas., their anticipated future home. They regret to part with their many kind friends, but the best of friends must part some day. THIS HAPPENED IN ARKANSAS. Man Who Employed a Negro Ordered to Leave Town. Fayetteville, Ark., Sept. 9.—(Special.) Fearing punishment at the hands of an angry mob, C. G. Krause, who has been running an open air moving picture show here this summer, this afternoon announced that he would quit business. 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Main St. Prof. Shelton French, ACTING PRESIDI Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Evidence Phone No. 15 Office Phone MESSERVE'S FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Church Orders delivered to any part of the city BON-TON & KANDY BAKERY & KITCHEN E. B. MESSERVE, Prop, Main St. Prof. Shelton French ACTING PRESIDENT 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 BAKERY E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. 146 N. Main St. Phone 15 Krause has had Miss Edith Crenshaw a young lady of this city hired to sing illustrated songs Saturday night. A young Negro from Muskogee appeared. He is an artist on the piano and can sing as onl ya Negro can. Krause hired him and released Miss Crenshaw. She was dissatisfied, and it was said that Krause said that the Negro was as good as she. This got out, nd when the show opened last night, a crowd formed with the intention of whipping Krause and demolishing his place of business. It was with difficulty that the older heads restrain them. This morning a committee waited on Krause, and he denied making any such statement. His wife then spoke up and said it was she who had said the Negro was as good as she, and she was as good as anybody. "Who knows," she dded, "but God may be a Negro when you get to heaven." Business men of this city then advised Krause to get out to avoid trouble. Krause had a monopoly on the business and was making lots of money. Krause has been gentlemanly and courteous, and has many friends. ADMITS HE LED MOB. Ex-United States Senator Proud of Helping Lynch Negro Murderer. Oxford, Miss., Sept. 9.—(Special) "I led the mob which lynched Neise Patton last night, and I'm proud of it." said former United States Senator W. V. Sullivan today. "I directed every movement of the mob, and I did everything I could to see that he was lynched. Cut a white woman's throat. And a Negro? Of course I wanted him lynched. I saw his body dangling from a tree this morning and I'm glad of it. "When I heard of the horrible crime I started to work immediately to get a mob. I did all I could to raise one. I was at the jail last night and I heard Judge Roane advise against lynching. I got up immediately after and urged the mob to lynch Patton. I aroused the -DEPARTMENTS --- University educational in- poses in the west roughly equipped teachers institutes in America. T BUILDINGS I Electric Lighted MENTS—— Normal, Snb-Normal, Musi- racing courses in Archi- canical Drawing, Printing, Business Courses, Dress Laundering and Farming. Welcome to Lyon French, ACTING PRESIDENT University ARO, KS Office Phone 1423 ERVE'S CELEBRATED REAM AND RETAIL Socials and Churches any part of the city & KANDY ITCHEN ERVE, Prop. Phone 15 mob and directed them to storm the jail. I had my revolver, but did not use it. I gave it to a deputy sheriff and told him: 'Shot Patton and shoot to kill.' He used the revolver and shot. I suppose the bullets from my gun were some of those that killed the Negro. "I don't care what investigation is made, or what are the consequences, I am willing to stand them. I wouldn't mind standing the consequences any time for lynching a man who cut a white woman's throat. I will lead a mob in such a case any time. Orange and Strawberry Salad. Orange and Strawberry Salad. Peel the oranges and remove the pulp neatly, and without having any of the white membrane left upon it; divide it into half-inch pieces, saving all the juice. Hull the berries, then cut into halves. Set the whole aside to become chilled. When ready to serve, mix the pieces of berry and orange with a little sugar. Put the orange juice in a glass dish with a glass of sherry and a tablespoonful of meraschino; put in the sweetened fruit, stir up with a fork and spoon, set on ice for half an hour, serve with whipped cream. Rice Chocolate Pudding. Scald a quart of milk with three ounces grated chocolate. Add one cupful hot boiled rice, a cup of sugar scant, and the yolks of four eggs well beaten. Bake until set, then draw to the mouth of the oven, which should be cooled down, and spread with a meringue made by shipping the whites of the egg stiff with four table-spoonfuls sugar. Flavor to taste. Let the meringues puff and color a golden brown, then set away to cool. When quite cold set in the ice box until ready to serve. Baked Potpourri. Add to two teacupfuls of macaroni left from dinner (when preparing it cook a little more than needed and lay aside) a cupful of tomato bisque and enough very thin slices to fill a small pudding dish. Stir in a table spoonful of butter; cover with bread crumbs and brown in oven. Opium Users in New York. There is evidently a large growth in the use of opium in New York city. It is estimated that at least 5,000 white persons use the drug. VISITS WITH UNCLE BY Reversed. He came home tired and hot from the office to find her husband fretting because the milkman had left cream when he ordered buttermilk. He was His came home tired and hot from the office to find her husband fretting because the milkman had left cream when he ordered buttermilk. He was hypochondriacal and didn't see what there was in life, sayhow. The baby had swallowed aick and the maid had given notice st) was going to get married in September ber. He growled that he hadn't been anywhere this summer and was making a domestic slave of himself. Then she got mad and told him there was the bani; account—and why didn't he go some where! She wasn't holding him! She said if he had to stay down in the torrid city all day and wrestle with things almost too big for him, he would appreciate his home and be happy in it instead of finding fault all the time. She sassed him good and hard and suggested that he didn't know when he was well off! Then she slammed her hat onto a peg of the halltree and went in to eat a silent dinner. After the meat course, the husband arose with a sob in his throat, choked down a gulp and went off to have his cry alone. She sat around all evening and scowled as she smoked four strong cigars and wondered what in thunder she was working for anyhow! And thus they made home happy! This is the time to git Pethibals fer fun! we got sum yesterday up in the Run. we took them inthew schoolroom, you see— That wuz the reSon it happened 2 ME! Stubbie and Fatty and Bill hid them there leaving a very big one in Her chair! when she sat down it wuz quite a good joke! there wuz a POP! and a lot of brown smoke! she wuz quite mad when she got up, I guess. "Come to thee hall!" and her face was all red! Stub and thee Fellers ast, "How did it feel?" I sed, "o shaw! it wuz almost like play! wood like 1 for a change every day!" wait till Stub's licked! O, i bet he will sing! onest, it hurt like the very old jing! shall knot tell them a tall, though, bege! et them get licked for their own se and see! did not think that a teacher so gay ever would lay on thee Stingers that Lyre Strums. When a man gets so good that his wife suspects him, it is time for a reform. ☆ ☆ ☆ Now that the Standard doesn't have to pay that $29,000,000, the people may look for the price of oil to go down—maybe. ```markdown ``` The people suffer from stage fright quite as much as the actress when she becomes frightened in the upper trem- eloes—whatever that is. The small Pittsburg boy who slapped a fly with a barrel stave is doing as well as could be expected. The fly was on his father's nose. ☆ ☆ ☆ Those seven-day clocks that are advertised to run seven days without wading, ought to run at least twice when they are wound. ☆☆ A Chicago woman wants a divorce from her husband "because he kissed her goodbye" "June 10, 1903, and has not been seen since." Maybe he forgot something at the office and had to go back downtown on Chicago's streetcar line. ★ ★ ★ The man who takes a little dip And goes out on a "ripper." Is apt to feel he's paid too much In headache for the dipper! ★ ★ ★ A Lesson to Lige. Lige Green set out to take his usual summer scrub last week. Lige allius scrub hisbiss thoroughly twict a year, once in the spring and once in the fall and has did so for many years. Lige says he can't recolleckt that he ever mist. He has been so tarnashion bizzy this spring that he had given wife an earlobe. Lige Lige heret he up a whole warb' boiler full of warb' tub, then he got the scrubbin' brush and went to work on hisself. The next day after Lige took his warb' he begin to git hoarse and his head was all stopped up and now he has sich a turrible bad cold that he can't talk above he whisper and his sneezes be he sneezes his shoulders. Lige he would of never took a warsh if he had of knowd he would ketch sich a cold as that and he calkulates he never will again.—Bingville Bugle. ★ ★ ★ Same Old Coal Man. Summer brings the leaves of abscense, Winter brings no leaves at all, And the coal man leaves us nothii But an I O U in Fall: Bryon Williams BIRDS WAR WITH MYRIAD MITES WARBLERS MOST PERPLEXING, MOST FASCINATING FAMILY TO STUDENTS. FORTY DIFFERENT SPECIES The Winged Creatures, and Their Manner of Migrating—Their Colors, Habits and Good Work— Flight of the Hawks. BY EDWARD B. CLARK. (Associate Member American Ornithologist's Union.) (Copyright, Joseph B. Bowles.) Late September is the warbler season. Untold thousands of the birds forming this family hurry southward. Save to the keen observer their presence is unsuspected. They keep as a rule rigidly to the tree tops, where they carry on unending war against the myriad of insect foes of the foliage. The warblers are mites of creatures, the largest of them being about the size of the English sparrow, while the great majority are but a trifle larger than the kinglet, which is the smallest bird we have, barring only the ruby throat hummer. Search all the bird families and you will find few members that are arrayed like unto these industrious little laborers on man's behalf. There are something like 40 species of warblers, and in their colors they shade into one another so perplexing. ```markdown ``` THE EAGLE Rough-Legged Hawk and Red-Tailed Hawk. ly that if the novice in the observing field take them up as his first study, he is much more than likely to conclude before the season is half spent that the bird lesson is too hard to be learned, and to put his glass back into the case and to forego for all time his trips afield. ground lover. It is northern country in beauty which occa nest in the unsave a fact which led me to declare that I lieved the bird's old lacking. Possibly. On the other hand, for the person who has learned his alphabet and his first, second and third book of birds, the warblers constitute, so to speak, a volume of the rarest interest. An observer may scrape acquaintance with the warblers in the springtime and think that he has mastered them so completely that he will not be obliged to hurry after each field trip to some museum of birds to make sure of his identifications. September comes and the springtime enthusiast goes again to warbler highways to meet his friends of the vernal year as they come hurrying from the north when the year is in the sere and yellow. He finds a multitude of warblers in a tree, and lo, he is in luck if he can name one of them. Many of the males have changed their plumage with the changing season; the young of the year look unlike either parent, though in most instances bearing some resemblance to the adult female, and the result is that the warbler student, not knowing the idiosyncrasies of the warblers' fall fashion in dress, is inclined to believe that he has struck a score of new species. As a matter of fact, in the fall one must learn the warblers all over again. After two "sets of seasons" with plenty of closet study over colored plates and stuffed specimens in the winter time, the observer becomes fairly familiar with the warblers, and from that time forward he is much more than likely to neglect his sparrow, thrush, hawk and plover friends for an intimacy with the many-hued warbler mildets. I have seen a tree so filled with myrtle warblers (Dendroica coronata) that it appeared actually as though there were a bird for each leaf. During the migration period the warblers do little, when not journeying, to lisp and to eat. The bird, otherwise well mannered, is given to talking with its mouth full. The warblers are so 4 busy food gathering that they are fearless. It is possible to approach within a few feet of them and to watch them at their labor. This, of course, applies to the warblers which feed in the shrubbery and in the lower branches of the trees rather than to those which prefer the topmost foliage Touching the matter of the warblers' plumage, nothing that can be said of its beauty can be deemed extravagant. Take the blackburnian warbler (Dendroica blackburniae), a bird that may be seen at this season in both city and suburb. There is no hue in feathers, to one mind at least, that in point of brilliance can be compared to the throat of this gorgeous creature. The books put the color down as an orange yellow, but print is cold. Burnished gold is better, and yet does scant justice to the beauty of the subject. Other warblers and other bird families have yellow throats, but the beauty of the blackburnian's feathers is a thing apar. The sauciest of warblers is the Maryland yellow-throat. This yellow-throat, like the blackburnian, is a beauty. With the other bird out of the question the yellow-throat might be awarded the palm. It is not hard to scrape acquaintance with this little fellow. He is always dressed for a masque ball, and as he peers at you from out the bush where he has taken refuge his eyes twinkle through the top of his black mask and he seems to say: "Find out who I am if you can." The Maryland yellow-throat is a ```markdown ``` ground lover. It inhabits the whole northern country in summer. It is this beauty which occasionally builds its nest in the unsavory skunk cabbage, a fact which led me in another article to declare that I more than half believed the bird's olfactory nerves were lacking. Possibly, however, it is a case of all things being sweet to the sweet, for the yellow-throat is a sweet-tempered little fellow, withal his voice is occasionally querulous. Its note sounds something like "Witchity, witchity, witchity," though it may be translated to suit the fancy of the hearer. John Burroughs, who is always apt, thinks the yellow-throat positively asks the wayfarer: "Which way, sir?" One of the fascinations of advanced study of the warblers is the possibility that one may stumble upon a rare species. Frank M. Chapman touches upon this point in his "Teachers' Manual of Bird Life." He says: "To the field ornithologist warblers are the most difficult as well as the most fascinating birds to study. Long after the sparrows, fly-catchers and vireos have been mastered there will be unsolved problems among the warblers. Some rare species will be left to look for—it may be a member of the band flitting about actively in the branches The mind of the man is like the sea, which is neither agreeable to the beholder nor the voyager, in a calm or in a storm; but is so to both, when a little agitated by gentle gales; and so the mind, when moved by soft and easy passions and affections. I know very well that many who pretend to be wise by the forms of being grave are apt to despise both poetry and music, as toys and trifles too light for the use or entertainment of serious men; but whoever find themselves wholly insensible to these charms would. I think, do well to keep their own counsel, for fear of reproaching their own temper, and bringing the goodness of their natures, if not of their understandings, into question; it may be thought at least an ill sign, if not an ill constitution; since some --- Love of Music. above us—and in the hope of finding it we eagerly examine bird after bird until our enthusiasm yields to an aching neck." Let the student, however, content himself at first with the more common of the warblers. The black and white warbler is striped with the colors which give him his name. In seeking its food it creeps over the limbs and trunks of trees. It is easily identified. The myrtle warbler, more commonly known perhaps as the yellow-rumped warbler, lingers late. It may be known by its bright yellow crown patch and the equally bright yellow spot just above the tail. The rest of the upper parts are bluish-gray, streaked with black. The throat is white, while the rest of the under parts are black, yellow and white. Don't get this bird confused with the magnolia warbler, which has the same general colors differently distributed. In the fall and winter the more brilliant colors of both birds are partly concealed by a cold weather feather growth of somber hue. Other easily identified warblers are the black-throated green (Dendroica virens), the black-throated blue (Dendroica caerulescens), the cerulean warbler (Dendroica caerulea), the redstart (Setophaga ruticilla), the yellow warbler (Dendroica aestiva), and the chestnut-sided warbler (Dendroica pennsylvanica). Students of the warblers should go to a museum and there study the specimens which are on exhibition. In the best collections the birds are shown in all the variations of plumage. This purpose of alding in the identification of their fellows is the only good service which a dead bird performs. He is much more useful in life than in death, and let not the bird observer get the desire to possess a collection of dead birds of his own. The instant that he does he knocks much of the poetry out of the pursuit of bird knowledge. The start of the swallows on their southern trip is the sight of a lifetime. The birds will congregate in myriads above some chosen meadow. In ranks formed in close order they will circle about brushing the tops of the meadow grasses with the tips of their wings. Round and round they go in dizzy flight until suddenly from some point in the whirling column there is an upward movement and like a great cloud with a hurricane pressing at its rear, the mass of birds mounts upward, and then breaking into open order streams southward across the sky. The warblers coming to us from the north in September pass southward and then follow the great congregation of native sparrows, the hawks, the hermit thrushes and the rest of the scurrying throng. The golden-crowned kinglet is a notable species. If we treat him well this little fellow may consent to remain with us all through the cold of winter. The kinglet is the smallest bird we have, with the sole exception of the ruby-throated hummingbird. The golden crowned kinglet is a bird of particular interest. He bears the distinction of having been named by the philosopher Aristotle, who something like twenty-three hundred years ago, met the little fellow and, observing his golden crown, called him Tyrannos, which in the Greek of that day meant "kindly royalty" rather than "tyrant," the significance which it holds to-day. The bird retains the name in the form of kinglet, as it retains the golden crown until this very hour. The golden-crowned kinglet has a cousin who wears a ruby crown. Every bush and tree in the great city parks and along the residence streets will bear a burden of kinglets. They drop down from their night flight by the tens of thousands, and taking station in the foliage of shrub and tree begin their work of insect eating. The kinglets are so utterly fearless of man that they will perch upon his shoulder or his hand. A workman last year who was helping to dig an excavation for a building on a crowded thoroughfare had a kinglet light upon his hat and stay there for fully five minutes while he kept up his measured strokes with the pickax. When the ducks, the geese and the wading birds begin their southern journey every wing stroke of their way is punctuated by the report of a shotgun. The flight of some of the ducks is so rapid that the eye seemingly has difficulty in following their course. Unfortunately for the birds, however, they have not yet succeeded through centuries of training in acquiring the rapidity of locomotion sufficient to distance the projectiles which man has designed to overtake, them and to cut short both flight and life. of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven it self.—Sir William Temple. Makes a Prophecy. "Soon there will be in the United States a college-bred sister for every college-bred brother." is the prediction of President M. Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr. She calls attention to the fact that even the Catholics have been won over and are now strong in the belief that women should go to college, although they have long opposed it. Educated men and educated women, working together, she says, will right the wrongs which educated men working alone have been unable to put right. 333 Official Knights & Da OF TARC KANSAS—NEBRASKA JU Knights & Daughters KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION 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. 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. NO MONEY REQUIRED until you purchase a custom offer at once. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U, S, without a cent deposit in advance, breeze freight, and keep it to you. We will not keep it to you if it is not to your test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES are at one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $25 middlemen's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory prices and remarkable special offers to Rider agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We sell our superb models at the wonderfully than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost, double BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at the day received. We do not handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. single wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and coaster-brakes COASTER-BRAKES, single wheels, imported roller equipment of all kinds at half the usual $ 8 50 HEDGETHORN PUNCH SELF-HEALING TIRES The regular retail price of these tires is $ 8 50 HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 4 8 SELF-HEALING TIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing water to seep in. The rubber of our customers stating that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of tint, specially prepared fabric on the surface of the tire. The advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same da the rider of only $4.85 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval, you will not receive it unless you are examined and found them strictly as represented. We do not offer a discount on any letter or per pair you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will send nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us as safe as in a car. We will not charge you for any tire to us easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or 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 draw a much discount of $1 per cent (by means of a send FULL CASH WITH ORDER) and enclose this nickel 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 worse better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have known that you will be so well pleased that when you want. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this rent. IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind of the special introductory price quoted 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 or a pair of tires from anyone offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn every J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY DO NOT WAIT today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from from a new and wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Wrinkle Now. ```markdown ``` KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. PEV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 1715 Clark Ave. Parsons, Kan. * MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topaka, Kas A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 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. TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Frl. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (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) 15 Mrs. Ellen Lee, Box 25 Weir City, Kan. 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft Scott, Kan. 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 74 So. 14th Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawattomie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 3 Sat. double o SECOND wavily o promptly at r $3.50 per pair, but to introduce we sell you a sample pair for $4.90 (cash with order $4.55) NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: In all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with 777 Directory Daughters TABOR NASKA JURISDICTION 777 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1503 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1178, Weir City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 68 Mrs. Lille Robinett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Wed. (A) 92 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) TEMPLES. 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Weln 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., 1-3 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, 908 Cherokee, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 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) A RIDER AGENT in EACH TOWN and district to ride a bicycle furnished by us. Our agents advise and exhibit are or full particulary and special offer at once. We ship a bicycle approve of your bicycle. We ship a bicycle with a cent deposit and E TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and if you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to buy a bicycle in advance for any fittings and furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $6 by buying direct of us and the manufacturer's guarantee. You may buy or a pair of tires from anyone receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory offers to rider agents. NISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and we sell the highest grade bicycles this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. Our 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 we stock our supplied models free. Weed roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and half the usual retail prices. PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 8.00 PIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY HEDGYHORN RECORD PROFESSIONAL SERVICE REALING TIME 10AM TIME 10AM shout allow- from satis- ten pumped materials be- given being given abric on the pair, but for Notice the thick rubber trend "A" and pumpee tape for and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This the will outlast any other make. SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. peed same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on examined and found them strictly as represented. If (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you any item at any price, we will return one at OUR expense if for any reason you choose it is exactly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a car or a bike. We ride easier, run faster, you have it ever you have even or seen at any price. When you want a bicycle you will give us your order, hence this remarkable tire offer. When you send for a pair of worn Puncture-Proof tires on approval for a pair of our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which about has the usual prices. Do not think on BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. EMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, La coln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Lennon, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Ida Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 81 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 911 Eversall, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Mary Brown, 225 Missa, Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 11 Ethel Penn, 718 "Q" St. Atchison, Ks., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arle Stone, 823 Main, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Ks., 2-4 Wed., (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Sanna Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzle Herrold, Sherman Fuchs Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Wills, 2103 Grand, Parens Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark, Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsons, Kans., 1-3 Sat. 29 Lcollatt Dalton, 1228 Barnett, K asas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 817 Sharra Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 28 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawrens Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 30 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, K. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1318 N. Madison, Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 312 Washington, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Te is not in this Directory, or if you any error, please notify me at W. N. MILLER, Editor NEWS OF THE WEEK NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Miscellaneous. The Missouri Pacific Railroad company has filed an application with a Kansas railroad commissioners to permission to haul seed wheat free farmers in the western part of a state. Editors representing 150 labor papers recently met in Chicago to discuss plans for unity in the press campaign. The cities of Kansas got only 12 percent of the 6,639 gain in the state population for 1908. Six thousand persons are reported be in actual need of clothing and other supplies as the result of the recent flood in Augusta, Ga. A shortage of more than $400 has been discovered in the post office at Havana, Cuba. Ricardo Rodriguez chief of the supply bureau has dispeared. The Franco-American joint task commission has finished its labor in Paris. 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. Forest fires are burning in the grove of big trees in Calaveras county Cal. Senator Daniel and Representative Vreeland and Overstreet, a subcommittee of the National Monetary commission, have returned to New York after a thorough study of English and French financial systems. The crew of the racing balloon Vde Dieppe, which started from Colorado bus, O., attempted to land during storm at Niagara Falls. The thirteen men were badly shaken up and had narrow escape from death in Whirlpool rapids. Seven summer visitors out of party of ten were drowned in Pescot bay, off Deer island, by the sizing of a sloop in which they were out for a sail. The party was posed entirely of eastern people. The Vermont election resulted in victory for the Republican ticket by plurality of 28,000 votes. The Republican vote fell off 8 per cent from 15 and the Democrats lost about 2 cent. Official returns compiled by Secretary Coburn show the population in Kansas to be 1,656,769, an increase over last year of 6,639. The McKinley Traction system absorbed the Cairo (Oll.) Electric Traction company and the City Company. All the coal mines in Wyoming have been closed owing to a disagreement between operators and mines. About 8,000 men are affected. Fred Proctor, a life convict in Kansas penitentiary from Oklahoma dressed in a suit of clothes belonged to Frank Haskell, son of the wards succeeded in making his escape other day. George G. Perry, United States shal of Alaska, has been summ removed for disobedience of order Mrs. Minera Chapman, 11 years age, tried to end her life at the bo cf her son-in-law near Mercet, during a time of meiancolia.