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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT JUDGE TAFT TO NEGROES. Republican Candidate For President Speaks To A Large Audience of Colored People. SYMPATHY WITH RACE Cincinnati, O., —Judge Taft, publican candidate for president de- igned an address to an audience of ministers composing the Ohio confe- rence of the African Methodist Episcopal church, the first of his campaign to droves. The address was not politi- cal, but gave a clear outline of the empathetic understanding and find- er entertained for the struggles of the are possessed by the candidate. The candidate was escorted from the aft residence to "Allen Temple" in the evening, by a party of the clergy. He began his address by com- menting on his familiarity with the temple and the congregation. He was here, he said, for the purpose of ex- pressing his sympathy with the Negro one in its struggle for better things. "A sympathy," he said, "which I have had from the time I was a small boy, or I inherited it from my father Al- mos Taft, than whom the colored one never had a better friend." This interest, Mr. Taft said, had been populated through his experience in the Philippines. He reviewed the struggle of the race from the time of slavery. It had been the most progressive in agricultural pursuits and it was in this line they should continue." The education to be most sought for by the Negro race; he said "was primarily the rudiments of knowledge combined with ingested by higher education for a more limited number to furnish well trained ministers, doctors, teachers and lawyers. It will be greatly easier for him (the Negro) to secure his civil and political rights when he becomes useful to the community and a source of profit to many members of it." The candidate said he had not always been in favor of higher education for members of the Negro race, "but after full consideration of the needs of the race, I am convinced that I was in er- RACE PREJUDICE AND MOBS. On the subject of race prejudice and mob violence, Mr. Taft said: "I don't know that the race bitterness is any stronger today than it ever was. For a length of time it seems to be altogether abated, then thy will be formed, developing the most flendish cruelty, manifesting itself in the kindest and most unreasonable assault upon perfectly innocent people, because of their color. It is only fair to say that such bristish exhibitions are not confined to any one section. Talks About Mobs. "It is impossible to read accounts of its sort without having one's blood well with indignation that there can inside in the human breast such a strange and beastly motive. But we must remember two things: First, that in spite of our education and rement and progress toward Christ-like ideas, we still retain in ourself the original animal, and the spirit of much seems to be a different spirit from that of the individuals making aug, and to disclose a more insecure and inhuman state of impulses than it would be possible to find in any one of our members." Remedy for Mobs. The best remedy and the necessary care is an improvement in the administration of our criminal laws, and the helping to strict account the officers of the law who do not use all possible means to prevent and suppress such outbreaks. I cannot too strongly condemn the attitude of those public men who, in their discussions of the Negro question, use language calculated to arouse in the ignorant a deep contempt for the Negro race, and an altogether unfriendly attitude toward them. They must be made responsible for much of the feeling that manifests itself in the commonly heaped upon the Negro at times, and the actual cruelty exhibited toward him. On the other hand. I believe sincerely that all through the south a very much better feeling is growing toward the Negro." Let that Negro who has at any time thought of voting for William J. Bryan and Democracy compare this open, frank and candid public utterance of Judge Taft with the evasive, if not opposite views of Bryan. The Democratic party has never been, isn't and never will be a friend to the Negro and whenever and wherever Democracy succeeds carries disaster with it to the most vital interests of the Negro. A SUCCESSFUL YEAR. Is the Splendid Record of the Wichita District A. M. E. Church. WANT REV. WOOTEN RETURNED. There is no district within the confines of the Fifth Episcopal District of the A. M. E. church, over which REV. M. WOOTEN, Presiding Elder of the Wichita District A. M. E. Church. that most excellent bishop, the Rt. Rev. A. Grant, has the distinguished honor to preside, that has done a more remarkable work for Christ, the church and humanity, than has the Wichita District. Rev. M. Wooten, presiding elder of this district, has endeared himself to the people, both saint and sinner, and he is welcome everywhere. It may not be amiss to give a few words about the career of this splendid Christian. Born in White County, Tenn., in 1848, he remained in his native clime till 1870, when he joined the exodus for Ohio. On December 2, 1872, he was converted to Christ and was called to preach. In 1876 he moved to Kansas and worked on a farm for two years, afterwards joining the A. M. E. church in North Lawrence under Rev. Richard Rickett, presiding elder, and good Bishop Shorter. He was admitted to preach, his first apointment was Kansas City, Mo., which at that time was part of the Kansas conference. Rev. Wooten has the distinction of having served a church each year during his long and successful ministerial career. At the session held in Parsons, Kan., Rt. Rev. Abraham Grant elevated him as presiding elder of the Wichita District, a charge which he has well kept. In concerts and additions to the church Rev. Wooten has made an enviable record, starting with his maiden church 126, each will show from 3 to 95. But it has seemingly been left for this year as presiding elder of the Wichita district for him to make his crowning record of 256 additions in one year. His financial report will stand second to none. The greatest harmony prevails among the presidign elders, the ministers, the churches and the people and all join in wishing and hoping to see Rev. M. Wooten returned as presiding elder of the Wichita District. NEGO DISFRANCHISEMENHT THE DEMOCRATIC PURPOSE. From the West Virginia Democratic Platform, 1908. ANTI-NEGRO PLANKS. As a sample of the future objects and intentions of the Democratic party in regards to the Negro and his right of suffrage in this country, we here reproduce that part of the plank of the Democratic platform of West Virginia in which they pledge their party to disfranchise the Negro. With these many declarations against the Negro on the part of the Democrats we are, indeed, at a loss to find any reason a Negro who cares a snap for his rights can offer to induce him to cast his ballot for his avowed enemy. The plank referred to we print and it speaks for itself. Read it: JIM. CROW PLANK. We favor the enactment of a law requiring common carriers engaged in passenger traffic to furnish separate coaches or compartments for white and colored passengers. FRANCHISE PLANK. Believing that the extension of the elective franchise to a race inferior in intelligence and without preparation for the wise and prudent exercise of a privilege so vital to the maintenance of good government, was a mistake, if not a crime, committed by the Republican party, during the reign of passion and prejudice following the Civil War, for political ends and purposes, we declare that the Democratic party is in favor of so amending the constitution as to preserve the purity of the ballot, and the electorate of the state from the evil results from conferring such power and privilege upon those who are unfitted to appreciate its importance, as it affects the stability and preservation of good government. A WHITE PRESS SAYS. We here reproduce an editorial from the Franklin County Recorder, of Hampton, olwa, which is of note: THE NEGRO QUESTION. The recent riots in Springfield, Ill., the details of which filled the dailies last week, indicates that a race riot may break out in the north as in the south. The Negro is warranted in exclaiming, "No man cares for my soul," and to this might be added, nor for his person. While the general inclination is to blame the Negro, there are some things that should be remembered. The Negro is in the United States through no fault of his own. No Negro ever came voluntarily from Africa to America. He was hunted like a wild beast, captured like a wild beast, and brought to our shores where white men bought him as they would buy an ox, a muleo r a dog, and they treated him far worse. No such lashes were ever laid on to dumb brutes as were applied to the backs of the slaves for four centuries. They had no rights to property, nor the custody of their own persons. When the fortunes of war set them free, what could be expected? And worse than all, what is to be expected in the future% The four millions released from slavery are now ten millions. These ten millions will be, at the same rate, twenty-five millions in 1950. And the Negro problem is as far from solution as it was forty ears ago, and all the theories here toforge advanced for its solution are being exploded, one by one. But there is one thing certain, and that is if the Negro race is to be debased and brutalized by depriving them of civil rights, by murders and lynchings, are we not pilling up wrath and woes for the next generation? Putting aside the welfare and the interests of the Negroes, what of the future of the white race? These things are worth thinking about and we prophesy that in less than adozen years the Negro question will be one of the main factors in politics. JUGGANATH'S RING By W. A. FRASER (Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.) "You will have to wait an hour," said Dr. Balasto. "The tooth is broken, and some time will be required to fix it properly. Here is a magazine and, as there are no ladies about, a cigar if you like." Then the doctor, with the courtly manners of a Virginian, and the frank, pleasant smile of a downright good fellow, withdrew to prepare a gold cap for the broken tooth. When I had finished my cigar I felt too lazy to read, and as I sat glancing about, a gleam of prismatic coloring caught my eye. It was reflected from a ring upon my finger. A shot of sunlight had come down from an opening in the shutter just above my head, and the large diamond in the setting was dancing with fantastic coloring. "Where is he?" I gasped. "The thief—did you see him go out?" "What thief?" asked the doctor, looking at me quizzically. "I have been robbed," I blurted out. "Doctor, a man came in during your absence and stole a valuable ring from my finger." I gave the doctor a hurried account of the sudden appearance of the young man. He listened with increasing astonishment. "Can you describe him?" he asked. I did so minutely. "It is very peculiar," he answered. "You have accurately described my assistant, Mr. Valoy, but I can bear witness that he has not been here since I left you. He has been at work in an inner room, the only exit from which is through This ring was unique. It was a serpentine coil of gold; the head was a large Golconda diamond of unusual purity; this was hooded 'round with a slender gold band; the eyes were two pigeon-blood rubies. Two years before I had been in her majesty's service in India and for a period of ten months was stationed in the dependent state of Vizianagram. The state's business, which consisted chiefly in grinding more money out of the ryots (small-farmers), was carried on by the Dewan, and a grand severer collector he was, too. Judgath Raj was wealthy. From being clerk in the Dewan's office, he had risen to be Dewan himself. And when the ryots brought their families and begged him in the name of all their gods to be merciful, he spat at them and reviled them, and stripped the women of their jewels to pay the tithes. To the Europeans he was "Old Jug," but to the poor natives of the lower class he was "Sir P. Jugganath Sahib Gam Dewan." It was of this man I had the ring; not that we were friends—no man was a friend of Jugganath Raj—and that was the strangest part of it. When I was leaving I went to pay the farewell visit which native etiquette demands, he presented me with this ring, saying: "The Sahib is great. I am the Rajah's servant, but perhaps some time this will make you think of me. Do not lose it, Sahib, and," with a laugh like a hyena: "do not admire it too much." The snake's eyes fascinated me this afternoon as I sat in the comfortable leathern operating chair and gazed fixedly at them. It was as though I had been touched by the wand of a Hindu magician. The old life at Vizianagram opened up before me as one unfolds a Japanese screen. I was glad when I heard footsteps behind me. The newcomer was a tall, pale young man with a decided stoop, hair worn rather long and parted in the middle, when a serious eyes with a droop in the left eyelid, and I caught the gleam of heavy gold filling prominently displayed in his front upper teeth when he smiled. All at once the young man clutched my hand with a vise-like grip and began tearing the ring from my finger. I struggled desperately and tried to shout, but I was powerless and voiceless. Then I awoke with a start, and, staggering to my feet, was confronted by—Dr. Balasco! "Well, by Jove!" he said, with his pleasant laugh. "You have had a great sleep. I must have startled you when I put my hand on your arm." I stared stupidly at him a moment, then things began to take shape in my mind and assume their natural sequence. I glanced at my hand. No, I had not been dreaming; the ring was gone! IMPROVING SWEET CORN. IMPROVING SWEET CORN. Farmers and seedmen give more or less time and work to improving the quality of various seeds and plants, but the suburbanite rarely takes interest in any special product in order to better its quantity or quality. Some years ago I took up the study of sweet corn, as it grew in the garden. The earliest and finest ears "Where is he?" I gasped. "The thief—did you see him go out?" "What thief?" asked the doctor, looking at me quizzically. "I have been robbed," I blurted out. "Doctor, a man came in during your absence and stole a valuable ring from my finger." I gave the doctor a hurried account of the sudden appearance of the young man. He listened with increasing astonishment. "Can you describe him?" he asked. I did so minutely. "It is very peculiar," he answered. "You have accurately described my assistant, Mr. Valoyd, but I can bear witness that he has not been here since I left you. He has been at work in an inner room, the only exit from which is through my office, where I have been constantly engaged for the past hour." Dr. Balasco's manner was perfectly judicial, and he appeared to be weighing the matter carefully. "Come with me," he added. "We will investigate this affair at once." We proceeded to the inner room, where his assistant and the artisan who made and set up the teeth were at work, and as Valoyd turned toward us, I recognized with a thrill of recollection the long, lank hair, the sinister droop of the left eyelid, the stooping shoulders—in short, the man who had given me the chloroform. I could have sworn to him among a thousand. In a few emphatic words he utterly denied all knowledge of the transaction, and the artisan corroborated his statement so far as to ratify his assertion that he had not been absent from the room for the past hour. There could be, of course, but one result to all this. A detective was put upon the case; there was an inquiry; two or three consultations were held at police headquarters, and a searching examination made of all hands about the place. As the mystery deepened I saw that it was reflecting anything but credit upon myself. The loss of the ring dwindled to small importance, compared to the other features of the case, for it had come to this—either Valoyd was guilty or I had deeply wronged an innocent man on account of an hallucination which might hint at an unbalanced reason. But from all the investigation not a single clue was discovered. The mystery of the ring grew deeper and more inexplicable as time passed on. About this time, in an extremity of feeling, I wrote to my friend Dr. Hanson, at Vizianagram, asking him if he could gain any information concerning the ring of Jugganath Ra, and relating the circumstances of its disappearance. I knew the doctor had a certain hold over the Dewan—it was some crooked business that had happened long ago, in which the crafty old fellow had been involved. One morning three months later a letter was laid beside my bun and coffee, with the four anna six pie stamp in the corner. I tore it open and read: Dear Phillip: I have seen "Old Jug" about that infernal ring he gave you, and think tightening the whole thing out. It took considerable pressure to bring him to time. At first he sputtered evasively, and said he had given you "nice ring, very nice ring, because you were such a good Sahib, a bahut achcha lat Sahib." I knew this was a Hindu truth, and gave him until 4 p. m. to remember exactly what kind of a ring he had given you. The old sheltan! His memory was better at four o'clock, and with many salaams he told me all about it. He told me all he said, but the whole thing seems to be that he had it in for you, and gave you a ring that he got from the temple at Poree, and which, under certain conditions, has the power of kicking up no end of bob- were selected, marked and wrapped, so that they might not be molested by birds or other trespassers. The result of several seasons' selection was that I had corn which matured five days earlier than any known variety. The improvement was made by choosing the earliest ears, then using only those grains that grew on the bery (trouble). Some of their cursed Brahmical devilry. "Old Jug" wanted to stop at that, but I told him that as he had gotten you into a scrape, he would have get you out of it. Finally he gave me a curiously carved small green stone, which I forward to you per registered parcel. "Jug" says that if you take this in your hand and go to the place where you lost the ring, and allow yourself, as it were, to come under its influence, the thing will be cleared up or you will see again what occurred at that time. Now, old man, after the mystery is solved I think the best thing you can do is to chuck the ring into the sea or give it to the British museum. This was all the letter contained relating to the ring. The next day I received the registered parcel. It contained a small green stone, about the size of, and shaped like, the index finger of a child's hand. At a glance I saw it was a beautiful piece of jade. On it was engraved the Persian word "bakht," meaning good luck, and I surmised at once that there must be some great evil in the ring, and that Jugganath had sent this as a talisman. I lost no time in repairing to Dr. Balasco's office, and explained to him the situation, saying that with his assistance I hoped to clear up the mystery. The genial doctor was as much interested as I, and was eager to have the experiment take place at once. I took my position in the chair, just as I had sat that fatal afternoon, holding the jade talaisman grasped tightly in my hand, and concentrating my mind on the ring and what had occurred that day. I felt my senses being lulled to sleep; the din of the street died out from my ears; all my outer life was shut off. I could see about the room quite distinctly, but this did not distract me, for I seemed to have a double vision. I was aware that Dr. Balasco was standing there, but only as a statue or a figure in a mirage. Presently living figures began to people the room; old Jugganath peered at me from over my shoulder, holding up the lost ring, I saw myself approach him as a bird approaches the serpent which has fascinated it. The ring seemed to have hymnized me. Then the figure of Valoyd appeared, with a reproachful expression on his face, but he made no movement toward the jewel. Nearer my own form approached—it took the ring from Jugganath's hand, proceeded like one in a trance toward a grinning skull which was lying on a high shelf, and prying open the hideous jaws, I dropped it within, and coming back sat down in the operating chair. Awaking with a start, I found the doctor looking at me curiously. "What is it?" he asked. "You seem to have been under some strange influence." I looked around, and there on the high shelf was the grinning death's head I had seen in my vision. The doctor saw me looking at it. "That's a skull I use for showing the arrangement of the teeth," he said, with a smile. I rose without a word, and stepping on a chair lifted down the grewsome relic. There lay the gleaming demon ring of Jugganath! Reparation was due to Valoyd, and luckily it was not too late. He is again with Balasco, is doing well and is apparently happy. As for me, I did not take my friend's advice about the ring. I have it still, but though I value it as a curio, I take care that I do not "admire it too much." Bad Temper. Vulgar. It's bad for the spoiled favorite of society if she forgets to wear her armor. One must never lose one's temper. "When a woman of much wealth determines to be a leader in the social whirl, she must be sure of her equipoise," says an authority. "Achievement of social success is guaranteed only by perfect self-control." Locating the Time: Mrs. Dearborn—How long have you and Mr. Wabash been married? Mrs. Wabash—George, how long is it since you stopped kissing me?—Yonkers Statesman. middle of the cob, rejecting each end, then selecting only the largest, best shaped grains—Suburban Life. No Police in Heaven. Small Isabel's particular friend, the policeman on the beat, contracted pneumonia and died. Isabel was greatly grieved until her mother convinced her that he had gone to heaven. Even then she was not quite reconciled. "If heaven is such a good place," remarked the little skeptic, "I don't see what God wants policemen there for!" Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. One Year (By Mail).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mail).....75 Three Months (By Mail).....50 Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wed- nesday to reach publication in the cur- rent issue. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will not be published in the current issue. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to another give both the ned and the old. 6th. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 N Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. REPUBLICAN TICKET William H. Taft.....Ohio For Vice-President James S. Sherman.....New York STATE. For United States Senator J. L. Bristow.....Saline county For Governor W. R. Stubbs.....Douglas County For Lieutenant-Governor W. J. Fitzgerald.....Ford County For Secrary of State C. E. Denton.....Harper County For Auditor of State. J. M. Nation.....Neoosh County For Superintendent of Pupblic Instruc- tion E. F. Fairchild.....Ellsworth County For Attorney General F. S. Jackson.....Greenwood County For Treasurer of State Mark Tully.....Montgomery County For Superintendent of Insurance Charles W. Barnes.....Osage County For State Printer T. A. McNeal.....Shawnee County For Railroad Commissioners C. A. Ryker.....Reno County Geo. W. Kanavel.....Harvey County Frank J. Ryan.....Leavenworth County For Justice of Supreme Court A. W. Benson.....Franklin County Henry F. Mason.....Flinney County Clark A. Smith.....Mitchell County Victor Murdock..... Wichita COUNTY. State Senator..... J. H. Stewart Rep. 71st District..... E. B. Jewett Rep. 72 District..... Cliff Matson Rep. 73d District..... N. Gensman Co. Com. Second District..... S. B. Kernan Co. Com. Third Olstrict... .....A. M. Reichenberger County Clerk.....J. L. Leland County Treasurer.....O. W. Jones Register of Deeds.....Joseph Bowman County Attorney.....A. J. Adams Probate Judge.....E. E. Enoch Sheriff.....W. L. Appling Coroner.....M. M. McCollister County Superintendent. J. W. Swaney Surveyor.....John K. Brown District Judge.....Thomas C. Wilson Clerk District Court.....W. C. Malone Judge City Court.....Jones L. Dyer Clerk-City Court.....S. L. Barret Marshall City Court.....C. W. Root OUR COUNTY TICKET. The Republicans of Sedgwick county presents a splendid ticket to the November election. It is composed of strong men and men in whom the public can have implicit confidence, that each is most admirably fitted to fill the position too which he aspires. From top to bottom the whole ticket is a good one calculated to pool the full party vote. A vote for each man is a vote in the right direction. This is an age of "survival of the fittest" merit-if you do your part you need not worry about the results. Merits will win. LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to COF 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. For Sale—Four room house, four lots 25x225 feet on Sherwood ave. God place to raise chickens and hogs. will ake part payments. This is a snap. See W. N. MILLER, 634 N. Main Mrs. T. H. Cox, Mrs. S. W. Fleming and Mrs. J. T. Sanford were pleasant callers on Mrs. Elmer Johnson., 1650 S. Topeka acenue, one evening last week. A. NEW CHURCH. Rev. W. M. Smith of Caldwell, Ks., has arrived in the city to attempt the organization of another church. a branch of the M. E. church (white) among the colored people of this city. He will hold a meeting in the coroner's office in the basement of the court house at 3 p. m. Sunday, Sept. 27th. Mrs. Hattie Farner, of Moline, Ill. is visiting with er sister, Mrs. Chas Reed, 917 N. Water street. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson, 1650 South Topeka avenue, entertained a few friends Friday evening in honor of Miss B. Aurora Harding, who has been their guest for the past two weeks. The young people and friends express their regrets at her departure, and tendered her a cordial invitation to revisit our city. Miss Harding returned to Enid to begin her school work. TAKE NOTICE. The next issue of the Searchlight will go to press on Thursday morning, October 1st, instead of Friday, one day in advance. All who may have news items for this issue must have them in our office not later than noon Wednesday, Sept. 20th. W. N. MILLER, Editor. DIED AWAY FROM HOME. Mrs. Eugenie Smith, of Oakland, Calif., who was in our city visiting Mrs. C. Summytt, 1247 N. Mead, with her three children, contracted pneumonia, caused by a change of climate, and died Thursday, Sept. 17th, at the Summytt residence. Her death was a most pathetic one, away from husband, home and acquaintances, with her three small children. After a short but impressive service, at Mueller's undertaking parlors, her body was shipped to her bereaved waiting husband in Oakland, Calif. On the same train her three children were sent to their father. TABOR ENTAINMENT. The Knights and Daughters of Tabor of Mt. Nebo Temple No. 7 and Mt. Hope Tabernacle No. 3 will give an entainment at Young's Hall, 601 N. Main, Thursday night, Oct. 1st. Many interesting features are offered, among them are two cash prizes. Do not miss this as it will be well worth your time. HAVE TAKEN CHARGE Rev. Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor, on behalf of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor has taken charge of the Taborian Home near Topeka, Ks. Rev. and Mrs. Wilson have taken charge and will be pleased to meet all who come. The future address of Chief Wilson is Rural Route No. $ Topeka, Ks. A SPLENDID ORATOR. Hon. J. T. Settles, of Memphis, Tenn., was the welcome guest of Wichitans Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Mr. Settles comes as the principle speaker at the Emancipation Day celebration Sept. 22nd, and delivered a splendid speech at Garfield Hall. On Wednesday night he spoke to a crowded house at Young's Hall, 601 N. Main. While in our city he was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Van Leu, 630 N. Water. He left Thursday for his home in Memphis. Pay what you owe to the Searchlight. Be honest. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to show our appreciation and thanks to our friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy shown during the sickness and death of our beloved daughter and siter-in law, Mrs. Eugenie Smith. MRS. C. SUMMYTT, MRS. ANAA PRYOR, MRS. JANE SEVEL, MISS GERTY PRYOR, MRS. V. A. DEWSON. WOMEN'S CLUB A concise statement among the colored wo THE BOOKER WASH WICHITA, Hour of meeting 2:30 Engaged in needle, erary work. Special typewriting. Meets afternoon. Mrs. Thos dent; Miss Sallie Rav We are passing another conference milestone. The doings of another year are recorded in Eternity. St. Paul's A. M. E. church hasa dded an other year of prosperity and success to the thirty-two preceding ones. The report submitted by the trustees to the fourth quarterly conference showed their department to be in excellent condition, the current indebtedness being only $40.00. The building site for the new St. Paul is being looked after. Interest on the mortgage is paid for the year, and the banking committee has quite a neat sum on deposit, to be paid on the principle at the proper time. The steward's department reports an increase along all lines. While some of the old members have gone to other cities, many new ones have come to take their places. The membership has increased each quarter. The spiritual condition of the church is fair. The close of the year will find the steward's department free of debt. The church auxiliary societies have done well, and are succeeding without making God's house a houseof f menchandise. The official work of the church has been transacted without asingle instance of unpleasant ness or dispute. The pastor will carry to the annual conference an excellent report and the good wishes of the people whom he has served uring the year. The members of the Home Cooking club met with Mrs. W. H. Jones, 906 N. Water street, Friday afternoon, Sept. 25, for the purpose of installing the new officers and planing their work for the ensuing year. Theprincipal officers are Mrs. S. C. Collins, president; Mrs. M. Butler, secretary, and Mrs. Will H. Jones, reporter. A full list of the officers will be given later. The Home Cooking club did much effective work in spreading the culinary art during its last year work, and the members look forward to a renewed interest this year. All wisen them unbounded success. MAKING IMPROVEMENTS: MARKING IN MOVEMENTS. The Searchlight office is undergoing a general changing and making of improvements in order to better handle the increase of the volume of its business. This race enterprise of Wichita is making an heroic effort to keep pace with the needs of the hour in the news and printing line. Though not making a loud noise, it is going steadily forward. For our ability to do this we thank our many patrons, both colored and white, and say to each of them that we earnestly solicit continuation of the favor. When completed the Searchlight will have one of the most inviting and commodious offices of any Negro newspaper or print shop in the west, one of which the people of this community may well feel proud. It is strange that some of those Negroes who are so very anxious about Democratic success do not go South where the Democrats are in full power. Could they vote there? NIT! Find me a community where Democratic doctrine is taught and, in which the Negro has a "square deal" and I will show you a community which is not true to its teachings. Democratic success and Negro success are like oil and water—they won't mix. You Can Buy Dry Go ROSS We handle a large line of Underwear, Skirts, Suits, Children's Coats. We will a on Suits, Skirts or Coats - you and letting you pay in paid for. Remember we ca thing you buy of us You Can Buy Dry Goods Cheaper OF ROSS & SON We handle a large line of Dress Goods, Hoisery, Underwear, Skirts, Suits, Wrappers, Ladios' and Children's Coats. We will accept PART PAYMENT on Suits. Skirts or Coats — laying same aside for you and letting you pay in several payments until paid for. Remember we can save you money on anything you buy of us ... Ross & Son Corner Main and First Streets --- 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 DENTIST Bell Phone 2467 507 N. Main St Wichita, Kan Satisfaction POENISCH BROS., Agents 622 N. Main Street We also carry a complete stock of Hay, Grain, Feed and Coal. 530 - Both Phones - 530 Mr. Bryan declares that President Roosevelt's letter indorsing Mr. Taft is "irrelevant and immaterial." That is what a troubled lawyer always says of hostile testimony which he cannot refute. Mr. Bryan dodged the cameras in Baltimore for year that the photographer would catch im without his "victory expression." He clearly realizes that his "victory expression" won't pass at its face value in Maryland. Mr. Taft believes in revising the tariff with judgment. Bryan proposes to revise it with a bludgeon. Being scared to death and overconfident at the same time is the condition ascribed to Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock by Bryan organs. Those who have known hitchcock any length of time have ever known him to be either. Experienced business men say Bryan's bank deposit plan would seriously reduce prudence in banking. What's a little thing like prudence to Bryan when he is after votes? Out in Missouri there is a man who vowed he would cut neither his beard nor his hair until Bryan is electeu. Fine side attraction for the Nebraskan to take on his lecture tours next season. Yes, Mrs. Bryan, the people will rule, and they will select one William Howard Taft for their special agent at Washington. oods Cheaper & SON Dress Goods, Hoisery, Wrappers, Ladios' and accept PART PAYMENT laying same aside for several payments until save you money on any- --- ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco ... Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. 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Goods stored with us is safe. Rates the lowest MILLER STORAGE COMPAN 634 North Water St. Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Office Hours 9 to 11 a. m Residence 2 to 3 p. m. 703 N. Main St 7 to 8 p. m. 9 to 11 a. m Residence 2 to 9 p. m. 703 N. Main St 7 to 8 p. m. OFFICE 601 N. MAIN ST Phone £60 green BUY LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner Of 3rd & Main Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Choiceet Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men, Women and Children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery. Tapp & Hanshaw 255-257 N. Main St Phone 257 BOOST FOR WICHITA ENTERPRISES. SEARCHLIGHT This certainly does not seem to be much of a year for sultans. Holland may decide to use stone of its wooden shoes when it gets ready to spank Castro. The smart set is not likely to take up smuggling as a fad in view of re- cent developments. The woman mountain climber was lost just long enough to make a mag- azine article salable. Boston bank arms all employees and insists on daily target practice. Yet some people think Boston is slow. Preacher on vacation sends postal- card sermon to each parishioner every week. Here comes the mall-order church. A Pittsburgh girl offers $450 for a husband. Too much to pay. You can pick one up for $3.99 almost anywhere. A Georgia woman claims to be the original merry widow, though evidence is lacking that she is about $0.000 years old. Mr. Rockefeller says he is not nearly so rich as he is popularly supposed to be. In other words, he does not quite own the earth. Kentucky twins look like, think alike, act alike, talk alike, write alike, and are duplicates through all the rest of the list. Hope they don't fall in love with the same man. Pennsylvania man finds a dollar which he lost 54 years ago. And he's probably feeling sore because if he had put it out at interest he would now have four times as much. New York is planning a theater to exclusively for the managers and critics, the public being barred. The public will agree enthusiastically that in many cases this will fill a long-felt want. New York is still searching for methods by which to make its subway traction system endurable as well as rapid. The best way would be to pull it up by the roots and construct a good one. A clergyman of Bath, Pa., while on his vacation each week sends to each member of his congregation a sermon printed on a postal card. Next year his parishioners may time their vacations so as to be out of town when he goes away. There are scores of small crops which do not get in the regular reports, and yet which add materially to the natural wealth of the country. Here, for instance, is California sending to market an output of apricots which will net the ralsers the snug sum of $1,250,000. And there are scores of other small fruits which swell the impressive total. The fashionable wedding journey for British Columbia couples is a tour of the coast. The Canadian Pacific railway has just added to its steamship service a "honeymoon boat" which has 800 "honeymoon staterooms." There are only 30 second-class berths on the steamer, since, of course, no bridegroom would accept inferior accommodations. Bachelors may use the cheaper quarters. Woman says one of the results of the extension of the franchise to women in Norway is that henceforth women employed in the postal service are to receive the same pay as men. Norwegian women are greatly rejoicing over this victory. They deserve the pay, whatever it is, but it must be remembered that even men's salaries or wages in that independent country are small. The American wage earner would look cross-eyed at its postal remuneration. The "engagement bracelet" is a plain flat band of pure gold which is fastened tightly on the wearer's arm by an invisible spring or a tiny lock and key, the latter being worn by "the other one." In the former case when once on, the bracelet cannot be removed except by a small needle especially manufactured to touch the spring in a minute hole which is left for its insertion. Engagement bracelets may cost any price the flance chooses to give. Try one. Formerly when a man wished to marry in France it cost him not less than $10 for the 19 separate certificates which he was compelled to secure before the ceremony could be performed. The Abbe Lemaire concluded that this expense and the trouble incident to securing the certificates prevented many marriages, and succeeded in persuading parliament to change the law and simplify the marrying process. Since the new law went into effect, about a year ago, there have been nearly 9,000 more marriages than in any similar period since 1872. In a big swim from the New York Battery to Coney island the other day the women who participated seemed to have greater endurance than the men. Woman is certainly getting into the swim with both feet. Henorth any great event not only will live in song and story, but it will survive in the moving picture symposium and in the metallic tones of the 29-cent phonograph. With undying fame thus on tap there are strong temptations for the ambitious man to take a course in prize fighting. "Hello,Bo, Smoke?" Aldermen of Every Type in the City Council. By ERNEST McGAFFEY Expert Tells of Wide Range in Ability, Character, Mannersism, etc., of the Men Who Represent the People Locally — How Prestige Is Gained by Being a "Pal." MY duties as a member of the Board of Local Improvements, and, afterwards, as mayor's secretary, brought me daily in contact with yarn. ous members of the city council. This body had for some years previous to my sudden elevation to office enjoyed the reputation of being "out for the stuff." Not that there were no honest men in the council—far from it—but there was a clique of men in it who managed, one way and another, to "put over" ordinances which carried with them the strong suspicion of being "crooked." By cajolery, by party leanings, by straight-out bribery, by trickery and by many other methods there had been "smooth work" done, without a doubt. But that day had passed. In my official existence the council had an honest majority. Of course when I say honest, I do not mean to accuse each individual alderman of being honest. But one thing can be said for every individual of them, they were as honest as their constituents. They suited their wards, and if an alderman would not hesitate to "take his bit" whenever he got a chance, you may rest assured that his "constits" were of the same caliber. It was intensely interesting to watch the different methods they employed to gain a favor if they wanted one; and they usually did. Sometimes it was the hall-fellow-well-met salutation of "Hello, Bo," or "How are you, pal?" from the free and easy kind, or the pouter-pigeon assumption of importance of others as they stated their wishes. Occasionally a cigar was handed out, but when they found I did not smoke, this avenue of approach was abandoned. There was a leaven in the council of aldermen of genuine ability, lawyers, business men, politicians, who really made up the backbone of the body. They were usually the heads of the most important committees, and were not only good talkers, but men of affairs, executive ability, thinkers and workers. But these men could be numbered within a score of the 70 members. It spoke well for the frankness of the predatory class among the aldermen that they thoroughly respected ability, steadfastness and honesty. You could hear one alderman who was supposed to be "no better than he should be," break out into praise of some other alderman whose reputation was flawless. I remember my amusement on one of these occasions. One of the aldermen, giving vent to his feelings about honesty, remarked: "Yes, sir, I like an honest man. Give me on honest man. Give me one that will stay honest. I don't mean merely money honesty, but outside and inside honesty." Then he added rather irrelevantly: "There's so and so, (referring to a certain well-known and justly honored alderman) he's the only honest man in the council." Very ignorant and generally newly-elected members of the council had an idea that everything was "grafft" and that a five-cent cigar was the open sesame of the city hall, and that the mayor's secretary was a personage of secretly great power—which he was not, in my time. So they might be expected any time to drag in a wild-eyed looking "constit," ask for me, shove a cheap black cigar, into my hand, introduce the "constit" as a most particular friend, and then ask to have a city ordinance violated, or a state law abrogated, or the constitution of the United States set aside for the benefit of the said "constit." As for the mayor, these fellows did not believe there was anything on earth he could not do if he wanted to. In the council you could hear more varieties of oratory than Demosthenes ever dreamed of. Some of the aldermen were "wind-jammers," making a bellowing, frothing harangue, such as they were in the habit of making in their campaigns, but outside of their admirers in the gallery, they never amounted to anything. This body of 70 men, mind you, was shrewd as the very devil. They knew "hot air," when they heard it, and the "bunk," the "con," the specious argument, was something they detected instantly. Even the most ordinary among them had been educated in the school of men, and while they might be induced now and then to sell a gold brick, it was against their principles to buy one. Of wit, there was enough and to spare. Sometimes a coarse kind, sometimes biting and keen. Two or three of the aldermen were pleasant to listen to, for they always prepared themselves for their efforts and were very clear and terse in their statements. One of them in particular was very happy in his way of stating a proposition. He never wasted a word, and when he was through the council understood the situation exactly. Others floundered painfully about, knowing what they wanted, but word-bound as to vocabulary and slow in thinking on their feet. Some of them were thorough parliamentarians, and would remorselessly tangle up an opponent to gain an advantage. The helpless look of a new alderman when his motion, or order, or request was side-tracked by means of parliament- ary rules, when he was just going to make or had just finished an impassioned speech about it, was something instructive; and unique. There was always the ordeal of "learning the ropes," for every incoming alderman who had not served before in the council. This meant finding out about the regular order of business, learning how to draw and present orders and ordinances, and in general to get acquainted with the council's method of carrying on its business. It usually took an alderman about a year to get himself familiar with these things, so that his first two-year term meant actually one year which would be of any public value. On any night when there was to be a hot contest over any particular ordinance the galleries would be crowded, and police stationed there to prevent disorder. The respective champions of the different sides would be aloft, and they would cheer wildly at the speeches made for their various sides. Sometimes it was necessary to clear the galleries on account of the uproar, but usually a ferocious hammering of the mayor's gavel, and a threat to clear, was enough to hold the galleries in tolerable check. There were old-timers who always came to the council gallery, just as people attend the theaters, for the excitement, and to hear the speeches. These old-timers were usually on the alert for a reformer, especially if he had the gift of biting sarcasm, and fluent and sonorous oratory. When this was the case the clans would gather and cheer their champion on. Under the mayor's raised platform the reading clerk and the city clerk and his assistants sat, and below them the newspaper men were ranged in a half moon at the writing desks. The pages came and went with messages and papers, and the sergeant-at-arms, who had nothing at all in the world to do but "chew tobacco and draw a hundred dollars a month" salary, lounged easily around the outskirts. To the right, and raised from the council floor, was a set of reserved seats placed there for visitors, particularly ladies. There was usually something on hand that interested them, the piece de resistance in my time being a cigarette ordinance, which came and went and was mauled over and sent to committees and generally hopscotched and battledored and shuttle-cocked from one year to another. But its lady champions were always on hand, alert and determined, and apparently undiscouraged and indiscourageable. There was such a thing as aldermanic "courtesy," both in the way the aldermen addressed one another, and in extending privileges to each other during the sessions of the council. They never thought of disgracing the council chamber as the senate and the house of representatives has occasionally disgraced itself. Personal encounters were unknown, and I never even heard the word "ilar" exchanged, as I have in the courtrooms and elsewhere. There was plenty of dignity in this respect, although the irresponsibility of the "kidders" was always in evidence. The "kidders" were those aldermen who had made a reputation in that line in their various wards, and who rarely lost an opportunity to raise a laugh at the expense of an opponent. And as ridicule is so potent as a weapon, the "kidders" often won by a joke what a solid argument would never have gained. All aldermen who have an eye to re-election, and most of them have, are as tenacious as snapping-turtles for the improvement and benefit of their respective wards. To "be good T. M. Galleries Would Be Crowded. to your ward" was to be good to yourself. A few electric lights here and there, an improvement in the way of paved streets where your "constits" wanted it, or a paving proposition knocked out if they did not want it (no matter if it was needed badly) was just so much strength for the alderman in the next campaign. Then there was the ward "appropriation" to be fought for in the council. The bigger the appropriation the more money to spend for hiring men and getting in improvements. So an alderman who could get a large appropriation for his ward was a hero with "medals to distribute." Round about the council chamber were always lobbyists and spectators who were interested in the passage of some order or ordinance, and exalder- men and city officials more or less interested in the proceedings. Sometimes a visitor from some neighboring city occupied a seat alongside the mayor, and watched the proceedings. To rule successfully such a body of men required executive ability of a high order, and judicial fairness. The slightest symptom of "playing favorites" would get a mayor into hot water instantly. The aldermen wanted a man in the chair who knew his business and who would give a fair hearing to any question which arose. During my time the council was "with" the mayor. That is, they entirely respected and trusted him, although of course they did not all like him. But they never openly or secretly accused him of any favoritism, and they had confidence in his judgment and opinions. It was common knowledge, that at the conclusion of four successive terms, no appeal had been made from any one of his rulings to the body of J. M. Some of the Aldermen Were "Wind-Jammers." the council. And never during these terms had any veto of his been nullified by being afterward voted down. It was a remarkable record. It was a record that justified the council in giving him a grand farewell banquet by the entire body, and showing that party preference had no weight in determining questions of individual excellence. Aldermen quite frequently voted against one another even when from the same ward. As there were two from each ward, and often one Democrat and one Republican, there was sometimes shrewd rivalry as to which should most nearly suit the constituency. A new alderman was elected every year and one alderman "held over," the terms being for two years, and elections for the "incomer" being held each spring. Whenever a very important ordinance came up, it was a battle royal. The measure had always been first offered and then referred to committee, and then discussed and threshed out in the newspapers. Mass meetings in the various wards had been held, and a good many of the aldermen had been publicly and privately "feeling" out their "constits." Committee meetings sometimes were held in public, and even witnesses and experts examined as to the whys and wherefores of the proposed measure. Of course the champions of both the measure itself and the opposite side had been, busy log-rolling, persuading, threatening, writing letters, denouncing, praising, and otherwise making things lively, and aldermen by singles and doubles and in groups had been discussing the ordinance with the mayor and various heads of departments. When the night came to take up such an important measure there was a sort of invisible feeling of warfare in the air. The "gallery gods" hung far over the rolling and front seats were at a premium. All the reserved seats were occupied, and even the empty space behind was jammed with spectators. The doorkeeper was on the alert to keep out the mob that surged to get in after the gallery was filled. The officers in the gallery had been increased if number and admonished as to keeping order. Special newspaper representation was present and photographers fully bent on taking all sorts of ghastly "snap-shots" were on hand. And when the proceedings commenced, after the perfunctory rollcall and waiving of the reading of the minutes of the last meeting, there was "something doing" from start to finish. It was then, at times, that the men grew bitter. Crimination and recrimination were bandied back and forth, and real ginger was injected into the speeches, charges and countercharges. Yet even then some witty retort would occasionally clear the atmosphere. "Don't ever ask me for any more money to help out the party," said one indignant young alderman of paternally-descended wealth, "if that is your vote," pointing his finger scourfully at a certain alderman who had accumulated large gobs of filth lurked by means of the contracting route. The retort came as quick as lighting: "Oh, I guess I've got as much money as you have, and I didn't inherit it, either." It was a solar plexis, and the uncomfited and youthful alderman sank back in his seat amid the howls of the gallery. ERNEST M'GAFFEY. (Copyright, 1908. by Joseph B. Bowles.) BANK EXAMINERS WARNED. Comptroller Reads Riot Act to His Subordinates. Washington, Sept. 22.—"I say to you emphatically that your work must be improved. Embezzlements have failed of discovery, defalcations and dishonesty have been concealed from you, and in many cases you have failed to correctly or even approximately estimate the value of the paper and the securities held by the bank." This was the declaration made Monday by the comptroller of the currency Lawrence O. Murray in addressing the conference of national bank examiners, representing practically all of the territory east of Ohio. The conference, which is being held behind closed doors, is expected to continue several days and is the first under the comptroller's call of September 9, designed to discuss the bank examiners' work with a view to radical improvement. Later Mr. Murray will hold a conference with the western examiners, probably in Chicago. THE AMERICAN ROYAL. The Live Stock Show at Kansas City Will Exceed All Former Efforts. Kansas City, Sept. 23.—The Hereford, Shorthorn and Galloway entries for the American Royal Live Stock show breeding classes, have been received by Secretary Thompson. They show an average gain of more than 10 per cent over the same classes last year. The Herefords will have 350 individual pedigreed entries in the breeding classes and purebred fat stock classes, the Shorthorns 309 and the Galloways will have about 100 bulls and cows in the breeding classes. The Berkshire swine show will have more than 300 entries. The Berkshire association is making a special effort this year, and all the leading breeders of the country will have animals on exhibition, and stock entered in the sale. Killed in Automobile Race. Horton, Kan., Sept. 22.—Trying to make a sharp turn on the race track on the M. A. Low farm in a motor car race here Saturday afternoon, J. L. Robinson, chief train dispatcher of the Missouri Pacific railway at Atchison, Kan., was thrown from his capsizing car and fatally injured, dying before he could be taken to a hospital. Troops Parade In St. Joseph Troops Parade in St. Joseph. St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 23.—The 5,000 United States soldiers in camp here during the military tournament paraded the streets Wednesday morning, headed by Brig. Gen. Charles Morton, commanding the department of the Missouri. This was the largest body of troops ever seen in line in this country in time of peace. Boys in Coasting Accident Leavenworth, Kan., Sept. 23.—Andrew Larkin, 15 years old, was instantly killed Monday night when he, with four playmates, were thrown from the vehicle in which they were coasting down a steep grade on a paved street. One of his companions fainted at the death of the boy and has been unconscious for three hours. Bank Examiners Confer. Washington, Sept. 23.—The national bank examiners in the territory east of Ohio had another conference Tuesday at which they took up the reforms proposed by Comptroller of the Currency Murray. "What Constitutes Insolvency" was the subject of a general discussion. Hannibal, Mo., Quarrymen Strike. Hannibal, Mo, Sept. 22—Because of a strike of quarrymen which started recently all manufacturing departments of the Atlas Portland Cement company ceased operations Saturday night. The shut-down is caused by lack of material and affects 2,500 men. Died Ear From Home. St. Charles, Mo., Sept. 23.—William Meyersick of Seattle, Wash., father of William Meyersick, Jr., a prominent educator of that state, died suddenly at the home of a cousin near here Monday. MARKET REPORTS. **Live Stock.** Kansas City, Sept. 23—Cattle—Common steers, $3.15@4.35; heifers, $5.25@6.50; western stockers and feeders, $3.10@4.70; Hogs—Bulbs of sales, $6.60@7.05. Sheep—Lambs, $4.00@5.30; good to choice wethers, $3.60@4.00; ewes, $3.40@3.80. Chicago, Sept. 23—Beef—Steers, $4.29 4.60; cows and heifers, $3.25@4.25; stockers and feeders, $2.15@4.70; Hogs—Bulbs of sales, $3.50@4.00; sheep—Natives, $3.50@4.00; lambs, $3.50@5.70. St. Louis, Sept. 23—Beef—Steers, $2.75@6.25; stockers and feeders, $3.00@4.00; cows and heifers, $2.50@5.75; Texas steers, $2.75@2.25. Hogs—Pigs and lights, $3.50@6.00. Sheep—Natives, $4.00@4.15; ambs, $5.25@5.50. **Grain.** Kansas City, Sept. 23—Close: Wheat—Sept., 93% c; Dec., 94% c; May, 97% c; Corn—Sept., 73% c; Dec., 57% c; May, 88% c. Chicago, Sept. 23—Close: Wheat—Sept., 98% c; Dec., 99% c; May, 1.02% c; Corn—Sept., 77% c; Dec., 64% c; May, 44% c; Oats—Sept., 48 c; Dec, 48% c; May, St. Louis, Sept. 23.—Close—Wheat—Lower; track No. 2 red cash, $1.04@1.05%; No. 2 hard, 99@1.02%; Futures; December, $1.00%; May, 77@1.02%; Weak; track No. 2 red cash, $1.04@80%; Futures—December, $62@62%; May, 62% c. Oats—Weak; track No. 2 cash, 48% c. No. 2 white, 51% c. Futures; December, 48% c.; May, 50% c. **Produce.** Kansas City, Sept. 23.—Eggs, 23 c per doz. $1.00%; springs, 12 c; turkeys, 16 c. Butter—Creamy, extra, 23 c; packing stock, 16 c. Potatoes, 60@70c. SHE GOT HER MAN—HAPPY. Indian Woman Not Likely to Be Left Far Behind in life's Battle. Writing of the famous Dean Kaye of Topeka, in Suburban Life, Paul A. Lovewell, says: "Dean Kaye has had interesting experiences during his soujourns in the wilderness. Once an Indian woman came to his cabin. "You marry?' she asked. "Yes,' said the dean, 'I can marry folks. Have you got a man?" "Again the woman grunted, and departed. About sundown she returned, dragging with her an apparently abashed and reluctant brave. "Got him,' she remarked, laconically, producing her marriage license. The man knew no English, but the woman prompted him when it became necessary for 'him to give his assent to the dean's questions. When it was over the squaw paid the minister his fee and led her husband away in trulumh." DEEP CRACKS FROM ECZEMA Could Lay State-Pencil in One—Hands in Dreadful, State—Permanent Cure in Cuticura. "I had eczema on my hands for about seven years and during that time I had used several so-called remedies, together with physicians' and druggists' prescriptions. The disease was so bad on my hands that I could lay a slate-pencil in one of the cracks and a rule placed across the hand would not touch the pencil. I kept using remedy after remedy, and while some gave partial relief, none relieved as much as did the first box of Cuticura Ointment. I made a purchase of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and my hands were perfectly cured after two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap were used. W. H. Dean, Newark, Del. Mar. 28, 1907." Nailing Him. He—It's jolly nice to kiss one you like. She—(No answer). He—That is, of course, if she doesn't mind. She—(No answer). He—If she gets mad it's altogether another thing. She—(No answer). He—I'd like to steal a kiss now— She—(No answer). He—If it would be quite safe. She—Have you finished? Hê—Oh, yes! She—Then how can you make so many fool remarks when you see that I am alone and entirely at your mercy?—Young's Magazine. TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD. Pinxit—I have just finished the late Mrs. Peck's portrait. It's a speaking likeness. The Widower Peck—Would it be too much trouble to—er—change it a bit in that respect? More Important. "Ah! Mrs. Newcomb," said the upish Mrs. Subbubs, "my many social duties have prevented me from calling upon you as I should. However, I will surely return your visit some day—" "Oh! that doesn't matter much," replied Mrs. Newcomb promptly, "but I do wish you'd return the groceries you've borrowed from time to time."—Catholic Standard and Times. SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE will cure any possible case of DISTEMPER, PINK EYE, and the like among horses of all ages, and prevents all others in the same stable from having the disease. Also cures chicken cholera, and dog distemper. Any good druggist can supply you, or send to manufacturers. 50 cents and a 80-cent a bottle wanted. Free book. Spohn Medical Co. Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind. Let him who has bestowed a benefit be silent. Let him who received it tell of it.—Seneca. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents It's easy to get tangled up in truth's castoff clothes. The General Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians coulosanction for family use because its component parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its excellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remarkable success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-Informed. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine—manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle. THE TELEPHONE You won't tell your family doctor the whole story about your private illness—you are too modest. You need not be afraid to tell Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., the things you could not explain to the doctor. Your letter will be held in the strictest confidence. From her vast correspondence with sick women during the past thirty years she may have gained the very knowledge that will help your case. Such letters as the following, from grateful women, establish beyond a doubt the power of LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND to conquer all female diseases. Mrs. Norman R. Barndt, of Allentown, Pa., writes: "Ever since I was sixteen years of age I had suffered from an organic derangement and female weakness; in consequence I had dreadful headaches and was extremely nervous. My physician said I must go through an operation to correct my headache, and most Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I took it and wrote you for advice, following your directions carefully, and thanks to you I am today a well woman, and I am telling all my friends of my experience." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness, ornervous prostration. W.L. DOUGLAS $300 SHOES $350 W. L. Douglas makes and sells more merchandise and goods than any other manufacturer in the world, be- cause they hold their shape, fit better, and wear longer than any other make. Fast Color Eyedlets Use Exclusively. *Take No Substitute. W. L. Doughtas everywhere. Shoes made from factory to everywhere. Shoes made from factory to W. L. DOUGAS; 157 Spark St., Breckton. Mass. SICK HEADACHE CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Diss tress from Dyspepsia, Indig sion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect re edy for Dizziness, Nause sea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coat ed Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature Grant Wood REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. DIARRHOEA If you or some member of your family were taken suddenly to-night with Diarrhea, Flux, Cholera Morbus, or Cholera Influenza, would you be prepared to check it? Every home should have a supply of Wakefield's Blackberry Balsam It is a most reliable remedy for all loose conditions of the bowes. All drugrists sell it LIVE STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS Electrotypes IN GREAT VARIETY FOR SALE AT THE LOWEST PRICES BY WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION Kansas City, Missouri DEFIANCE STARCH never sticks DETANCE STATION IN CHOLERA'S GRIP DREAD DISEASE INCREASING AT ALARMING RATE IN ST. PETERSBURG. 400 NEW CASES ON SUNDAY Sale of Liquor Prohibited and Public Schools Closed—The Situation in Manila—Guarding Water Supply. St. Petersburg, Sept. 22.—St. Petersburg is in the grasp of the Asiatic cholera, which already has exceeded in severity and numbers the visitation of 1893. The disease is increasing daily at an alarming rate and unless the authorities show in the future a much greater degree of ability to cope with the situation than they have in the past there is every reason to fear that it will get out of hand. The government's threat to apply the provisions of martial law has driven the municipality officials to bend all their energies to clearing the city of the scourge. The aldermanic council Sunday voted $250,000 to enlarge the hospital space to purchase and distribute disinfectants, the supply of which in St. Petersburg is well nigh exhausted, and to expedite the interment of bodies which has been notoriously slow. The dead houses are overcrowded and many corpse lie unburied. Under his authority as prefect of St. Petersburg, Gen. Dracheffsky on Saturday prohibited the sale of liquor throughout the city, including the government vodka shops, until September 22, and he has further ordered that after that the sale of liquor shall be suspended at 2 p. m. on Saturday until 10 a. m. Monday. This action has been taken in order to diminish alcoholic excesses which very materially increases the liability to cholera infection and the general spread of the disease. A beginning was made Sunday when public schools were transformed into hospital wards. A number of the grammar schools were closed and 4,000 students sent to their homes. The department of war has opened stores to supply immediate needs, and army field kitchens have been dispatched to the poorer quarters to dispense free food. The situation assumes a graver aspect from the appearance Sunday of a very virulent type of the disease in two cases of which death followed within 15 minutes of the first symptoms. As announced by the official bulletins, the cases numbered 349 and the deaths 128 during the 24 hours between Friday noon and Saturday noon. This was a considerable decrease from the preceding day, but there is doubt of the accuracy of the official statement. The record for the same 24 hours ascertained from unofficial but reliable sources shows the actual number to have been far in excess of that. Whether or not, however, there was an actual decrease, the disease resumed its march on Saturday, the statistics posted showing that from Saturday noon until Sunday noon there were 398 cases and 141 deaths, this being the largest number so far. Manila, Sept. 22.—Fifty-eight new cases of cholera and 19 deaths are reported for the 24 hours ending at eight o'clock Monday morning. The infected areas in the city and suburbs are spreading somewhat, but the health authorities are still confident that they will be able to speedily gain control of the situation. Gov. Gen. Smith has summoned a special meeting of the members of the Philippine commission to discuss the plague situation and to lay plans for an extension of the campaign now being waged against the disease. Federal troops are at present guarding the sources of the city's water supply to prevent the throwing of any infected matter into the water and it is probable that the force thus engaged will be largely reinforced. The army transport Sheridan which has been detained at the harbor quarantine station at Mariveles for several days, owing to the discovery of two cases of cholera aboard, has been completely fumigated and given a clean bill of health. The Sheridan sailed Sunday for Nagasaki, Japan, on its way to San Francisco. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Four wagon loads of hogs were recently sold at Garden City, Kan., for $1,278. Five negroes were sent to the penitentiary in one day recently from Mexico, Mo., for various offenses. One suspected case or cholera is being watched at Stettin, Prussia, in the isolation ward of the public hospital. John Murray Dowie, father of John Alexander Dowie, founder of Zion City, who was repudiated by his son, is dead in Michigan. The Busch Glass Manufacturing company's plant at St. Louis, which has been closed since June 15, is to start up on October 1. A. J. Reynolds of Windsor, Mo., who was injured in the recent dynamite explosion at that place, is dead of his injuries, making the thirteenth fatality. Garden City, Kan., is to send a delegation of 25 to the National Irrigation congress at Albuquerque, N. M. A fine exhibit of the products of that part of Kansas is to be made. ONE KIDNEY GONE But Cured After Doctors Said There Was No Hope. Sylvanus O. Verrill, Milford, Me. says: "Five years ago a bad injury paralyzed me and affected my kidneys. My back hurt me terribly, and the urine was badly discolored. Doctors said my right kidney was practically dead. They said I could never walk again. I loved paralyzed me and affected my kidneys. My back hurt me terribly, and the urine was badly discolored. Doctors said my right kidney was practically dead. They said I could never walk again. I read of Doan's Kidney Pills and began using them. One box made me stronger and freer from pain. I kept on using them and in three months was able to get out on crutches, and the kidneys were acting better. I improved rapidly, discarded the crutches and to the wonder of my friends was soon completely cured." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. LEST HE FORGET. No Roseate Postcard Without Its Thorn of Suggestion. Harold's mother—we'll call him Harold—went abroad on month ago, leaving Harold under the somewhat unsubstantial control of his elder sisters. In spite of the itemized directions with which even unto the moment of final leave-taking she had not ceased to bombard him, Harold's mother was far from sure that her efforts would have any lasting effect. Her voyage was more or less disturbed by these doubts, but before she landed on the other side she had determined on a course of action. Like all small boys, Harold is most covetous of picture postcards and had looked forward to a harvest from his mother's trip. He got it. Every day she sent at least one card. And whatever else it bore in the way of inscription, there was not one which failed of this introduction: "Just as soon as you get this go and brush your teeth." WHEN YOU GET RICH. Only Then Are You Appreciated for Your True Worth. Upton Sinclair, the novelist, was talking about wealth at Lake Placid. "It is pleasant to be rich," he said. "Nobody can deny that. Many of the pleasures of wealth, though, are false and mistaken ones. "When I was making my living by the composition of blood and thunder tales for boys—and I could turn out my 8,000 words a day—I knew a pale, bent, ink-stained old chap who wrote love stories. "His stories did not pay; he was very poor; but an aunt died, and suddenly the old fellow found himself a millionaire. "He saw me one afternoon on Broadway. He stopped his red car and we chatted about old times. "And is it pleasant to be rich?" I asked. "Yes, it is,' he answered, as he lighted a Vuelto Abajos and handed me another. 'And do you know what is the pleasantest thing about it? You have an opportunity to make real friends, friends who can understand you. You get at last to people capable of esteeming you for your own qualities alone. You find, sir, that you are at last appreciated.' Populous China The population of the Chinese empire is largely a matter of estimate. There has never been such census of the empire as that which is taken every decade in this country. But the estimate of the Almanach de Gotha for 1900 may be taken as fairly reliable. According to that estimate, the population of the empire is, in round numbers, about 400,000,000. It is probably safe to say that if the human beings on earth were stood up in line every fourth one would be a Chinaman. AFRAID TO EAT. Girl Starving on III-Selected Food. "Several years ago I was actually starving," writes a Me, girl, "yet dared not eat for fear of the consequences. "I had suffered from indigestion from overwork, irregular meals and improper food, until at last my stomach became so weak I could eat scarcely any food without great distress. "Many kinds of food were tried, all with the same discouraging effects. I steadily lost health and strength until I was but a wreck of my former self. "Having heard of Grape-Nuts and its great merits, I purchased a package, but with little hope that it would help me—I was so discouraged. "I found it not only appetizing but that I could eat it as I liked and that it satisfied the craving for food without causing distress, and if I may use the expression, 'it filled the bill.'" "For months Grape-Nuts was my principal article of diet. I felt from the very first that I had found the right way to health and happiness, and my anticipations were fully realized. "With its continued use I regained my usual health and strength. To-day I am well and can eat anything like, yet Grape-Nuts food forms a part of my bill of fare." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye any garment without ripping apart. Write for free booklet-How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Garvey, Illinois. AVOID RISK IN BUYING PAINT. You take a good deal of risk if you buy white lead without having absolute assurance as to its purity and quality. You know white lead is often adulterated, often misrepresented. But there's no need at all to take any chances. The "Dutch Boy Painter" trade mark of the National Lead Company, the largest makers of genuine white lead, on a package of White Lead, is a positive guarantee of purity and quality. It's as dependable as the Dollar Sign. If you'll write the National Lead Company, Woodbridge Bldg., New York City, they will send you a simple and certain outfit for testing white lead, and a valuable book on paint. free. Women Fishermen On the coast of Holland, Belgium and Northern France the fisherwomen are a familiar sight, with their great hand nets and quaint costumes. Many of the towns have distinctive costumes by which their women can be recognized anywhere. Those of Mana-Kirkne, near Ostend, wear trousers and loose blouses, while their heads and shoulders are covered by shawls. They carry their nets into the sea and scoop up vast quantities of shrimps and prawns, with an occasional crab or lobster and many small fish. They often wade out till the water is up to their necks, and they remain for hours at a time in water above their knees, rarely returning until their baskets are full. ANNUAL SALES OVER NINE MILLION Good, reliable quality is appreciated by the smoker. Over Nine Million (9,000,000) Lewis' Single Binder cigars sold annually. The kind of cigar smokers have been looking for, made of very rich, mellow tasting tobacco. It's the judgment of many smokers that Lewis' Single Binder straight 60 cigar equals in quality the best 10c cigar. There are many imitators of this celebrated brand. Don't let them fool you. There is no substitute. Tell the dealer you wish to try a Lewis' Single Binder. Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill., Originators Tin Foll Smoker Package. Microscopic Writing. A remarkable machine made by a lately deceased member of the Royal Microscopical society for writing with a diamond seems to have been broken up by its inventor. A specimen of its works is the Lord's prayer of 227 letters, written in the 1,237,000 of a square inch, which is at the rate of 53,880,000 letters or 15 complete Bibles, to a single square inch. To decipher the writing it is necessary to use a 1-12-inch objective, which is the high power lens physicians employ for studying the most minute bacteria. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has not yet discovered. Catarch. Hail's Catarch Cure is the only positive treatment to the medical fraternity. Catarch be a constituent of the medical international treatment. Hail's Catarch Cure is taken in the form of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient the opportunity to recover in nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Address F. J CHENY & CO. Toledo. T Take Hall Family Pills for constation Fixity of Purpose. The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who, early in life, clearly discerns his object, and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigorantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.—Bulwer-Lytton. Close Quarters. The following extract from a letter of thanks is cherished by its recipient: "The beautiful clock you sent us came in perfect condition, and is now in the parlor on top of the book-shelves, where we hope to see you soon, and your husband, also, if he can make it convenient." By following the directions, which are plainly printed on each package of Defiance Starch, Men's Collars and Cuffs can be made just as stiff as desired, with either gloss or domestic finish. Try it, 16 oz. for 10c, sold by all good grocers. A Frugal Diner. Although the Austrian emperor eats very frugally his majesty pays his caife cook $10,000 a year. The court is noted for its elaborate repasts. TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM. Take the ONE Standard BRD. What you are taking CHILD TILLO. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it simply Quinine and Iron in a dasierless form, and the most effectual form. For grown people and children. 50c. Married life should be one grand, sweet song, but the divorce courts frequently make a duet of it. If you wish beautiful, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue, Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. People who are true blue never suffer much from the blues. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wound. 20c a bottle. He has no force with men who has no faith in them. 15 Cures While You Walk Allen's Foote-Ease for corns and buns, hot, sweaty acessible feet. 20c all Druggists. Love Joes not stop at the boundaries of liking. PILES - NO MONEY TILL CURED - SEND FOR FREE LIBRARY TREATMENT OR CERTIFICATE - DRS. 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Prior to the war with Russia a small coterie of men calling themselves socialists argued vehemently against the opening of hostilities and published a newspaper organ to propagate their creed. But they soon dwindled into insignificance, and although a periodical of so-called socialist views continues to be published it has no influence, nor does it serve any purpose, apparently, except to furnish material for occasional comment on the part of amused readers.—Japanese Weekly Mail. 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. Even the Hash. Embarrassed in the fashionable restaurant by the menu written in French, the Wall street man of business exclaimed: "Hang these froids, entrements and hors d'oeuvres—bring me a plate of good plain hash, if you've got such a thing on the premises." "You mean an olla podrida, sir," said the waiter, in a tone of dignified reproach. "And afterwards?" Wanted to Go the Same Way Wanted to Go the Same Way. We were taking a little trip into the country. The only vacant seats in the train were turned so as to face each other. I told my little girl, four years old, to take, the seat in front of me, as riding backward would not make her sick. She hesitated, and said: "I know it won't make me sick, but if I ride backward will I go to the same place you are going to?" Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Only Colony of Kind The colony of Barbary apes on the Rock of Gibraltar is the only one of its kind in existence, and is being protected by the British government. PILES NO MONEY TILL DRS. TWORNTON & MINOR FADELE other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye well—Slow to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Hutchens In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA A Carlyle Wedding. Craigenputtock, where Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" was written, has just been the scene of a notable wedding. The bride was Mary Carlyle of Craigenputtock, a grandniece of Thomas Carlyle, a farmer, of Pingle, Dumfrieshire, a son of Thomas Carlyle's favorite nephew. Pingle is about four miles from Eccléfechan, Carlyle's birthplace, and this village is the original of the Entuphil of "Sartor Resartus."—London Standard. Much Safer Size Mistress—Are you not rather small for a nurse? Nurse—No, indeed, madam! The children don't fall so far when I drop them!—Stray Stories. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES, BACKKINES 1875 "Guaranteed" SHEWERS Mumbra Pillow For Bitious & Liver Complaints KNOWN FOR OVER SEVENTY YEARS over the entire United States. 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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 Rock Face 8c each Plain Face 7c each Manufactured By W. L. HERMAN, 527 Ohio Ave., New Phone 1127 NEGRO INCONSISTENCY. It Would Be An Unusual Inconsistency For the Negro in the North to Vote For Bryan and His Southern Negro Haters. Would Mean National Negro Disfranchisement and Terror. BRYAN APPROVES THE SOUTH. One cannot conceive of a greater and more untenable inconsistency than for the Northern Negro to permit himself to be caught in the trap and be induced to cast his vote for Bryan and Democracy. It is a fact beyond dispute, that the "solid South" is the bone and sinew of Bryan's expectations; if he is elected be must first have the "solid South" and as president his official advisers would of reason be southern men. That the "solid South" really nad de facto, constitutes the Democratic party and Democratic ideas and strong-holds is a conceded fact. This being true, which it is, is it within the realm of consistency that the Negro in the north, who perhaps came north to escape the very most damnable condition in which the Democratic party in the South has surrounded the Southern Negro, is it consistent, we ask, that the Negro in the north would cast his vote for Democracy and within all probability make it possible that the same ignominious conditions of the Southern Negro be fastened upon the Negro of the North? We may find fault of the Republican party for either their omissions or commissions in regards to the Negro but facts are facts. A public record is public property and no Negro, North or South, can be heard to say that he Westrn U. The leading edu- stitute for Negro A faculty of eighteen thor- from the leading Inst MAGNIFICENT Steam Heated and DEPARTMENT Theological, Classical, Nor- cal, State Industrial, embr tecture, Carpentry, Mecha- Book-binding, Tailorling, I making, Millinery, Cooking, Thorough discipline, careful supervision Fine Military Bank For full particulars write Prof. Shelton Of Western QUINDA Residence Phone No. 15 MESSE FAMOUS AND ICE CHE WHOLESALE For Parties, Picnics, S Orders delivered to a BON-TON & BAKERY E. B. MESSE 146 N. Main St. The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west בית הספר הממוצע בית הספר הממוצע A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted Theological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailorling, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. 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 BAKERY E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. 146 N. Main St. Phone 15 has not been put on his guard and that he has not had opportunity to amply know the record of the two principal parties, the Republican party and the Democratic party. Read for yourself and see if the records will not reveal that "human freedom, human liberty and human rights," was not the promoting cause which gave birth to the great Republican party. Read in bold lines that ever since the day of its birth the Republican party has at all times championed "freedom's cause and manhood rights." It is idle gossip for a Negro to claim that he owes his present exalted manhood heights to any party save the Republican party. On the other hand the record of the Democratic party is as dark as the midnight darkness. It is the tenets and teachings of the Democratic party through its leaders who have in the past and who are today poisoning public sentiment against the Negro, and it is the Democratic party that is attempting to circumscribe the Negro to a position baser than that of the ox of the field. The Democratic party advocate taking the ballot from the Negro, taking the schol back from the Negro, taking religion from the Negro, taking the means of making a living from the Negro, and in fact taking from the Negro every opportunity and right which would show the Negro as a man. Parties are judged by the principles which they stand for as are annunciated through their party platforms. In this regard we present a comparison of the principles or platforms of the platforms of the Democratic party and of the Republican party on the question of the future rights of the Negro. Democratic Side. The only satisfaction which the Negro Democrat has that his future rights will be recognized is the declaration of the Democratic party of their belief in "State Right" which means a full and complete approval of the action of those Souhtern states who hve and who propose to disfranchise the Negro. Republican Side. Beside having an open record of beginning the Negro and as preservers of his rights, the Republicn party puts n Uniw ing educa Negroes in nteen thoroughly e leading Institutes in NIFICENT BUIL Heated and Electric DEPARTMENTS Messervie, Normal, Snail trial, embracing coor- dary, Mechanical Draw- tailoring, Business, Cooking, Laundry, discipline, Christian supervision Messervie Band and Regulars write to Shelton F. ACTING of Western University INDARO, No. 15 MESSERVIE JOBS AND CELEBR CREE MESSALE AND Picnics, Socials are delivered to any part BENTON & KANE MESSERVIE, B. MESSERVE, P. --- University educational in- poses in the west roughly equipped teachers institutes in America. BUILDINGS Electric Lighted MENTS Normal, Snb-Normal, Musi- racing courses in Archi- canical Drawing, Printing, Business Courses, Dress ing, Laundering and Farming. Christian influence and Orchestra Welcome to Mon 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 itself and its candidate on record on this issue in the following, plain, concise and open manner: The Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his note-worthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color; we declare once more, and without reservation, for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, which were designed for the protection and advancement of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone as unfair, un-American and repugnant to the supreme law of the land. Mandonia Tabernacle No. 93 is progressing nicely. We have no sick at this writing. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan will leave for a visit to Iola, Kan., in aef days to visit her sister and brother-in-law, and will also visit in Oklahoma City and Enid before returning home. Mrs. Smaria Cornell and granddaughter have returned from Denver, Colo., after a visit with relatives. Mrs. Sam P. Duncan and daughter, Miss Beattrice, spent several days in Hutchinson during the fair. Miss salie Bartlett left Saturday for Topeka where she will attend the Topeka Institute. A. Convention of Unemployed. A Convention of Unemployed New York, Sept. 19.—Invitations were sent out Thursday to labor organizations all over the country to participate in the second national convention of the unemployed, to be held in this city beginning on September 25 and continuing until October 2. Behind the movement are J. Eads How of St. Louis, chairman, and Alexander Law, secretary. NORTH TOPEKA ITEMS. PEABODY, KANS. VISITS WITH UNCLE BY C. The corn shocks stand upon the hills Like armies tenting in the fields— The rustling harvest, full and ripe, That rivals even Ceres' yields, The haze of Autumn blends with red That clings upon the trailing grape; The oak has put its color on And wears its glory as a cape. The grasses nod along the road And billow in the lusty gale. While everywhere the seal of fall Is spreading fancies through the vale. The crow aloft in noisy flight Is sailing like a ship at sea— A bold marauder of the sky With blatant, raucous minstrels. The crop is in and plenty smiles Upon a husbandman made glad The one who planted, tiled and reaped Has won the prizes Nature had. All vari-hued the Autumn comes To charm us with her glowing ways And lead us gently through the sere To chill and cold and winter days! If some of the rich old "geezers" would only quit writing stories for the magazines about "how to succeed," we might forget some of the horses that have been stolen. Scientists now claim that bacteria are able to cause the breaking down of stone walls. If this be true, there is still hope that the stony hearts of those proud and haughty Boston girls may yet yield to disintegration and love! ☆ ☆ ☆ A novelist has his hero kiss his lady's back hair. That's enough for me! A man might miss fire and kiss a girl in the bangs—but a fellow who will deliberately kiss a girl's back hair "a purpose" couldn't be a real hero in a million years! ☆ ☆ ☆ The Boston physician who advises us to eat but once a week must be trying to make heaven on earth for poets. The way to make life seem bright in the morning is to get out into the sunshine and hike. The same diagram may be used for rainy mornings. When a man's liver is active, his lights are always bright! ☆ ☆ ☆ Last night I walked by the lake. There was a harvest moon and a mist. The moonlight fell across the tips of the tree-banks and silhouetted fairy cities into the water—and over the fairyland was the shimmer and the spell of silvery mist. No artist ever has painted a picture like that! Art is peurile compared to the imagery and the mastery of the Real Artist. One staid old married lady of the party said the scene was food for her soul, while another could find no words to express her thoughts as she stood eloquently silent upon the threshold of the picture world and let its beauty charm her into an ecstasy of delight. As for me, it reminded me of the beautiful sentiment of the hungry poet who would sell one of his two loaves for a primrose with which to warm his longing heart! The moonlight has peculiar effects on people at times—but, honestly, it was great! Introducing Miss Julia "Miss Julia Courtney, of somewhere, has accepted the position of editor of the Fort Collins Review. Never met Julia, but hope she will be a winner, and just to put her next, want to warn her about getting mixed up in a jackpot with the Courier man." And we want to warn Julia, too, but we want taffy from Wilson. Wilson the editor of the Kremmling News which last week contained the above. The last comment was by Fuller of Windsor Poudre Valley, and since they do not seem to know just who Miss Julia is and where she's from, we'll say that she resided in Sallida for years and would indicate—Sallida (Colo.) Mall. --- Newspaper Ethics A Kansas widow lost a hog. I do not refer to the death of her husband. She lost a real hog and advertised for it. The editor says the hog must have read the paper, for he came hik ing home on a dead run as soon as the paper left the post office. This is not the first instance where a hog has read a newspaper—and incidentally forgotten to pay for it. THE RAILWAY This railroad will probably carry President Roosevelt to the great hunting ground in the interior of the dark continent when he takes the trip now being planned on the expiration of his term. SIXTH SENSE WARNS. 6 STRANGE INTUITION HELPED FU- GITIVE EVADE LAW. Escaped Convict Successfully Eluded Detective Twice, But Failed to Heed Third "Hunch" and Was Captured. Frankfort, Ky.—The man with the sixth sense, who knows from intuition that he is being chased is to be released from the penitentiary on parole. His name is William Rousey and he is serving a sentence of 21 years having been convicted in Boyle county of manslaughter for the shoot- SNORED AND WAS EJECTED Hotelkeeper Enforces House Rule Against Guest. Springfield, Mass.—Joe Abis was ejected from his boarding place at 26 Liberty street because he snored and said things in his sleep. Stephen Hello, the landlord, was the man who created considerable diversion for the neighbors by throwing the star boarder and his effects into the street. Abis slept on a cot in the kitchen, and before daylight in the morning he began to play a symphony on his nasal organ. He ran the scale so loud that he aroused all the sleepers in the house and they entered a protest. Hello made up his mind that the best way to stop the snorer was to throw him out, so an attempt was made to oust Abis. In the process tables were overturned and chairs hurled across the room. Finally Hello and Abis clinched in the street in front of the house, and the former exhibited red marks on his throat where he said the ejected boarder clutched him. Things quieted down before 12 o'clock, when Abis sought another boarding place. SUDDEN BATH DANCE FEATURE. Master of Ceremonies Hurled Into Pool by Alfred G. Vanderbilt. New York.—Ever since Alfred G. Vanderbilt's dance at Oakland Farms, Newport, those society people who were not present have been learning from their more fortunate friends what they missed. It was only the other day, however, that the secret got out. If fashion follows the lead set by Mr. Vanderbilt at his first dance following his divorce, it will hereafter insist that the master of ceremonies be chucked into a swimming pool, evening clothes and all, and made to swim for his life. That was what happened to Worthington Whitehouse, who led the cotilion at the Vanderbilt dance, and the host was the one that put him there. No, there wasn't any hard feeling about it. That is to say, there wasn't any as far as is known. While Mr. Whitehouse struck out boldly for the shore in his new evening garments the other guests, men and women, to the number of nearly a hundred, cheered uproariously. WANTS HIS WIFE TAMED. Long-Suffering Husband Appeals for Federal Aid. Washington.—In an imposing document, covering 42 solid typewritten pages and teeming, with reports of fistic encounters and contact with stove lids and other domestic weapons, a South Boston man appealed to the department of justice for assistance in triumphing over the temper and strenght of an amazonian wife. The harassed one, whose name is not divulged, depicts all the vicissitudes of an unusually strenuous married life, including four arrests "on trumped-up charges," conviction of perjury, heart-throbbing pen picture of his period in jail, stories of flying fatirons, a disobedient son who assaults him and a pleasure-loving daughter. The correspondent declares that, although the Boston police have slightly declared him insane, two allenists have examined him and swear it isn't so. However, he says, he really ought to be "after such a — of a life with such a — of a wife." NATIONAL LABOR LEADER Copyright by Walton Fawett. Dennis A. Hayes, prominent in the organized labor movement in this country. A RUMPUS IS MADE BY CLOCK. ing of one Mastin. The killing was a neighborhood feud and both men were using revolvers when the fatal shot was fired. Rousey comes of a noted family. His grandfather had seven sons. Of the seven only one met a natural death, the others being sent into eternity by bullet or knife wounds. All of the seven are dead, the last, Micajah Rousey, having been killed at Junction City by the marshal. Will Rousey is a nephew of Micajah Rousey. He has another cousin in the prison here who was convicted of killing an old man named Kiser in the courthouse at Danville. After Will Rousey had been convicted and sentenced to the penitent NATIONAL LA Copyright by Waldon Fawcett. Dennis A. Hayes, prominent in the org A RUMPUS IS M Man Tries to Steal it, But Old Timepiece Raises Objection. New York.—An antique clock, worth nothing whatsoever as a timepiece, but having a value of perhaps $50 from an antiquarian's point of view, stood silent on the mantelpiece of the drawing-room on the first floor of No. 7 West Twenty-sixth street. The old clock had stood there many years with its hands always pointing at 2:28 o'clock. It stopped at that hour about 25 years ago, and had declined to go ever since. About 2:15 o'clock in the afternoon Frank Williams, aged 28, found the door of Nc. 7 West Twenty-sixth street ajar. Prompted by a curiosity, possibly, he walked in and tiptoed into the drawing-room. There was no one there. Williams espied the ancient clock on the mantel. It looked pawnable, and he gently lifted it off the mantelpiece and started out with it. He got as far as the hall when the clock suddenly awoke from its Rip Van Winkle sleep and with a rattle and buzz and bang and clanging of bells screamed for help in its horological way. It was a French clock, and it screamed in the musical accents of France. Williams quickened his pace, but had not more than reached the front door when William Ling, the caretaker of the house, came bounding up the stairs from the basement to see what had broken loose. --- tiary he appealed his case to the court of appeals. While that appeal was pending he broke jail at Danville, sawing the bars in two and getting away. The man who escaped with him was captured, but Rousey seemed to have been swallowed up. He was a member of the Railway Trainmen's union and carried a card which would pass him on any railroad in the country. In this way he was enabled to make quick jumps about the country. Walter Fitzgerald was jailer of Boyle county, and he and Tom Heim, then chief of police, went after Rousey. Months passed and the people had forgotten that such a man as Rousey existed. More than a year after Rousey's escape he was arrested in a small town in southern California. He was brought back and when the court of appeals affirmed his case he was brought to the penitentiary here. During the year that passed after his escape, Helm was on the trail of Rousey and twice was within two hours of him, reaching a town only that length of time after Rousey had gone. The chase was from Illinois to southern Arkansas and back four times and then across Texas and New Mexico into California. During this time Rousey never had positive information that anybody was after him. He received warnings in some mysterious way. He says something told him Tom Helm was after him and would come to the town in which he happened to be at that time. As soon as this feeling came upon him, without questioning it, Rousey would leave. On the day before he was arrested, Rousey said, he was sitting by the railroad track in the yards where he was employed. He said the old feeling which said to him plainly: "Tom Helm is coming here after you." came per him. He said he went at once to the foreman of the yard and asked for his pay and also for a pass to Canada. This was on Thursday. The foreman persuaded Rousey to wait until Saturday and work the week out. The failure to obey the warned caused Rousey to be caught just at the edge of what would have been safety, and he went to the penitentiary, where he has made a good record. LABOR LEADER organized labor movement in this country. MADE BY CLOCK. Down the front steps went Williams, hugging the frightened old clock under his coat and sprinted toward Broadway. At the corner Ling caught him and turned him over to a police man. WAGES AND LIVING COST GROW. Report Showing Changes in Welfare of Workingmen in Year. Washington.—The average wages per hour in the industries of the country were 3.7 per cent. higher in 1907 than in 1906, while retail prices of food were 4.2 per cent. higher, according to the July report of the bureau of labor. The regular hours of labor per week were four-tenths of one per cent, lower, and the number of employees increased one per cent. The purchasing power of an hour's wage, as measured by food, was less in 1907 than in 1906, the decrease being one-half of one per cent. The report shows that, as compared with the average for the ten-year period of 1890 to 1899, the average wage per hour in 1907 was 28.8 per cent. higher, the number of employees 44.4 per cent. greater, with a decrease of five per cent. in the average hours of labor per week. The retail price of principal articles of food was 20.6 per cent. higher. Compared with the average for the same ten-year period, the food-purchasing power of an hour's wage in 1907 was 6.8 per cent. greater. 333 Official Knights & Da ```markdown ``` Knights & Daughters OF TABOR 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. G. M., 460 Horton, Pt. Scott, Kans. C. M. JONHSON, G. P. P., 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 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., 1-3 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 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. H. Tyler, 520 E 9th Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 5 Mrs. Carrie Brown, 922 N. 10th, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eya Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Selina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 2 Re C 3 J. C E 4 F. 5 Roh D W 6 A. 10 Ge 11 C 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark, Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodford, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 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, 1308 Washington, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 17 Rev. C 18 Jas. C 19 W. C 22 B. C 24 J. C 25 J. C 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thr. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Parsons, Kan., 1-8 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawatomie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 8 Sat. WANTED—A RIDER sample Latest Model "Ranger" bicycle upgrade your Writer low fuel NO MONEY REQUIRED until you to anyone, anywhere in the U. S. without allow TEN DAYS FREE TRIALS put it to any test you wish. If you are keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our FACTORY PRICES at one small price to $25 middlemen's profits by buying di- ante behind your bicycle. We do not receive our prices and remarkable special offers to YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED at low prices we can make you this year. We want our BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell double our prices. Orders filled the day receive usually have a number on hand taken in trade by promptly at prices ranging from $8 to $8 or $10. COASTER-BRAKES, single wheels, imported roder equipment of all kinds at half the price $8 50 HEDGETHORN PUNCT SELF-HEALING TIRES NO MONEY REQUIRED in particular and special offer at once. NO MONEY REQUIRED in particular and special offer at once. WE ship to anyone, anywhere in the U. S. without a cent deposit in advance, freight freight, and put it to any test you wish. You may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are then not pertinent to the keep bicycle it back to it us at our expense and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES at one small profit above actual factory cost to $3 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 unbeaten of factory prices and remarkable special offers to elder agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We sell the best hand bikes, but any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost, BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double the price, or SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually 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. We also have a number of bikes, mattins and pedals, parts, repairs and COASTER-BRAKES, equipment of all kinds at half the cost we pay. $ 8 50 HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 4 80 SELF-HEALING TIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE,ONLY The regular retail price of these lives is $15. You can sell your a sample pair for $9.80 (cash withorder $15.55). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, TROUSER 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 DESCRIPTION: In all sizes it is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing air to pass. We have 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 sides of the tire. We are advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same da Do not only 48 to 90 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will show a check in order to check making the price $4.55 per pair if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this address if you will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for us is as safe for any not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe for bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at 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. IF YOU NEED TIRES Hedgethon, Pundam-By the way, can be an important and approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. 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 approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined it. We will allow a week discount of a cent (between me and you) send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose thin a nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at O not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable bank. If you order a pair of tires you will find it better last longer and look finer than any you that know 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 Hedgedge Puncture 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 form anyone offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn every J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY 711195. 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses. 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. 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) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) ita, Kan., Fridays. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Wed. (A) 91 Mrs. Lulu Rountree, 1125 N. 19th. Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1178, Weir 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 3 J. G. Burdett, 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. 3 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 10 Geo. L. Craig, 906 Cherokee, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 11 C. W. Giles, 617 N. Water St., Wichita, Kans., 1-3-4 Thurs. 12 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 B. 12th Coffeyville, Kansas. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Law- rence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 22 B. C. Easter, Box 156, Oswego Kans., 2-4 Tues. 25 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 72 J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Leavenworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, Ft Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) REDGETHDRN RECORD FUYATURE PROOF REV HEALING TIRE CO. CHICAGO D14 ed 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 close this advertisement, we will also send one returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are exactly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a will find that they will ride easier, run faster, tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We tire you have ever used or seen at any price. Weence this remarkable tire offer. By any kind at any price until you send for a pair of oorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at write four oorn Fire and Sundry 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. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. TEMPLES. TENTS. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D." also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This is one of many other make-SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, La coln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Ida Kan., 2-4 Sat. (a) Fliora Patterson, 311 W. 271b. Omaha, ha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (a) 11 Ethel Penn, 718 Q' Q' St. Aitchison, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arle Stone, 823 Maln, Aitchison, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Wear City, Kan., 2- Wed. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Sanna, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Flush, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Willis, 2103 Grand, Parson Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1210 E. Clark Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2214 Morgan, Parson Kans., 1-3 Sat. 28 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, K ansas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Shannon, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 28 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawson, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 3b Hester Cornish, 811 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 813 N. Madison, Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 812 Washington, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Test is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at W. N. MILLER Editor. A Desperate Sunday Battle Near Prestonia, Ark. West Plains, Mo.—John Roberts and his wife Sunday resisted a sheriff's posse in a desperate battle near Prestonia, one mile south of the Miss Arkansas line, when the officers attempted to arrest Roberts for killing Obe Kessinger, a neighbor, Saturday night. As a result the woman and Sheriff Mooney of Baxter county, Ark., are mortally wounded, Roberts and two members of the posse—Max Lovery and his son—are all seriously hurt. Roberts may not survive. The murder of Kessinger was colloided. Roberts went to the house in the evening and called his vistim to the door. When Kessinger appeared Roberts fired deliberately and killed him. The cause of the deed has not been learned here. To Show Kansas Products. TO SHOW KANSAS PRODUCTS. Garden City, Kan.—A delegation of 25 from here is planning to attend the forthcoming Albuquerque national irrigation congress and industrial position in a private Pullman car Garden City will have displayed a model sugar farm of the United States Sugar and Land company, a lot of fine sugar beets and alfalfa seed, together with the Garden City reclamation project, which will be shown off by the government in connection with its other projects. Railroads Given a Stay: Chicago.—Railroads affected by the Missouri river rate case decision, requiring them to make effective the big rate reductions ordered by the Interstate Commerce commission, received word from Washington Monday that they had been granted a stay of 30 days. Hannibal, Mo., Quarrymen Strike. Hannibal, Mo.—Because of a strike of quarrymen which started recently all manufacturing departments of the Atlas Portland Cement company ceased operations Saturday night. The shut-down is caused by lack of material and affects 2,500 men. Kansas Congregationalists Adjourn. Wichita, Kan.-The Southern Kansas Association of Congregationalists finished a three days' session here Pri day and adjourned to meet in Welling ton next year. The Rev. W. F Harding of Arkansas City was elected moderator. Revenue Receipts For Washington, D. C.—The statement of the receipts from internal revenue for August, 1908, shows a total of $194, 094,687 as against $22,255,897 for August, 1907, a decrease of $3,141,210. A Congressman Will Not Run. Oakland, Cal.—Paul S. Gillette, Dem- ocratic nominee for congress in the Third California district, has notified the county clerk of Almeda county of his withdrawal as a candidate. Portions of Missouri Get Rain. Mexico, Mo.—A half inch of rain fell nere Tuesday morning. This is the first rain that has fallen here in any appreciable amount since the first part of August. Missouri's Drouth Broken. St. Louis, Mo.—Rain was general throughout Missouri Tuesday, thus creaking the prolonged drouth. The rain at Alton, Ill., was the first in 42 days. Drouth in West Virginia. Morgantown, W. Va.—On account of the scarcity of water 900 coke ovens save shut down, throwing nearly 1,000 men out of employment.