Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT TENTH YEAR THE NEGROES—WE SHOT THEM; WE KILLED THEM; WE STUFFED BALLOT Extract from speech of Hon. B. L. Tillman, of South Carolina, printed in bound Congressional Record, 59th Congress, 2nd Session, page 1410.) We reorganized the D emocratic party with one plank, the named, that "This is white man's countryan d white men must govern it." Under that banner we want to battle." Clashes came. The Negro militia grew unbearable and more and more violent. I am not speaking of what have read; I am speaking of what I know, of what I saw. There were two militia companies in my township and regiment in my county. We had skis with these Negro militiamen, the Hamburg riot was one clash, in which seven Negroes and one white man were killed. A month later we and the Ellenton riot, in which no one ever knew how many Negroes were killed, but there were forty or fifty or hundred. It was a fight between urbanism and civilization, between the African and the Caucasian, for mas- it was then that "we shot them;" it was thenth at "we killedd hem"; it was then that "we stuffed ballot arms." After the troops came and did us "You must stop this rioting" we decided to take the government away from men so dabaseda s were Negroes—I will not say baboons; never have called them baboons; I believe they are men, but some of them so near akin to he monkey that scientists are yet looking fort he miss-站 link. We saw the evil of giving the ballot to creatures of this kind, and giving that one vote shall count rebellious of the man behind the vote and whetherth at vote would kill mine. We thought we would let you see that it took soemthing else besides giving the shape of a man to make a man. it is undoubted that the Republicans will assume all responsibility for the coalition in the South at that time, they have never shirked it. The Senator from Wisconsin acknowledged his articulation in it the other day. He has no anology to make for it. I do not ask anybody to apologize for it; I only justifying or own action. I want to say nowt hat we have not shot Negroes in South Carolina on account of politics since 1876. We have found it necessary. Eighteen hundred and seventy-six happened to be the hundredth university of the Decoration of Independence, and the aca- son of the white men of South Carolina in taking the State away from the Negroes we regard as a second decla- sion of independence by the Causlan from African barbarism. of the white men of South Carolina had been content to obey the laws which had been forced down our streets at the point of the bayonet and permit to the reconstruction acts which had thrust the ballot into the hands of ignorant and debased Negro slaves five years before, and only for three generations removed from barbarians of Africa, the State of South Carolina today would be a howl-wilderness, a second Santo Doctoro. It took the State fifteen years to recover and begin to move forward along the paths of development and progress, and in consequence of the white man interpreting the word "liberty" to mean the liberty of the entire people and not the license of back ones, the State is today in the very vanguard of southern progress, and can point to the result as the abate justification for every act which performed in '76. TRACT FROM MR. TAFTS SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE. The Republican platform refers to the amendments to the Constitution that were passed by the Republican party for the protection of the Negro. The Negro in the forty years since he was freed from slavery, has made remarkable progress. He is becoming a more and more valuable member of the communities in which he lives. The education of the Negro is being expanded and improved in every way. The best men of both races, at the North as well as at the South, ought to rejoice to see growing up among the Southern people an influential element disposed to encourage the Negro in his hard struggle for industrial independence and assured political status. The Republican platform, adopted at Chicago, explicitly demands justice for all men without regard to rac eor color, and just as explicitly declares for the enforcement, and without reservation, in letter and spirit, of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution. It is needless to state that I stand with my party squarely on that plank in the platform, and believe that equal justice to all men and the fair and impartial enforcement of these amendments are in keeping with the real American spirit of fair play. REPUBLICAN SENTIMENTS The Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gives 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 noteworthy 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."—From Republican platform adopted at National Convention 1908. DEMOCRATS OPEN NEGRO QUARTERS IN CHICAGO. It seems that the Democratic Party has opened headquarters for its Negro contingent in the city of Chicago at 3160 State St. The leading spirit in this movement seems to be Dr. Henry C. Cross who is given as the chairman of the advisory committee. It is not known how many positions Dr. Crros fills in this August body, but it has been hinted that Dr. Cross and one other constitutes the strength of the Bryan movement among the colorer people in the city of Chicago. The stationary that they send out bears this striking inconsistent motto and heading: The motto is "With Malice toward none and charity for all." The heading is: "Cook County Executive Committee—The Lincoln Loyal League." This executive committee has been doing all it can to attract attention, even to the extent of attempting to disturb Republican meetings by hisses and ungentlemanly interruptions. Unable to secure an audience of its own, they struck upon the novel plan by which their chairman hoped to secure an audience through the assistance of the National Republican Committee. With this brilliant idea in mind Dr. Cross sent a challenge to Mr. Walter M. Farmer, a member of the Speakers' Bureau of the National Republican Committee, for a joint discussion. Below is Dr. Farmer's answer to this challenge. Dr. Henry C. Cross, Chariman National Executive Committee, Negro Anti-Taft League, Chicago. Dear Sir:— Your communication of September 30, embodying a challenge to a joint debate on the following subject: "Resolved that the success of the Democratic party, in the pending election, through aid of the Negro, will prove more advantageous to him than the success of the Republican party," has been received. Believing as I do that there is only one side to the resolution you suggest, I can not accept your challenge. It is difficult for me to believe that you are serious in your contention that the Negro has more to gain by supporting the party of Bryan, Ben Tillman, and Vardaman, than in supporting the Republican ticket. I believe that the Negro man who advises the race to support the Democratic party at this crucial period in our history is either too reckless in his conclusions to be trusted as a leader (Continued next week.) TABORIAN HOME While in Topeka last week the editor of the Searchlight in the company of Rev. Sir J. W. Warren and Mr. C. E. Floyd made a trip to the newly acquired Taborian Home on West 6th street one-half mile beyond the city limits. We say on the off-start that words are not at our command to properly describe this beautiful and well appointed place. We went out on West 6th Street and just as we cleared the state asylum grounds we looked to our left and saw standing in all its grandeur—as a monument of the twenty-five years of strenuous effort of the Noble Chief Grand Mentor of this jurisdiction—this home—this Taborian Home. As we neared the mansion we saw plainly the large, massive columns of the Julius Caesar style. We caught a glimpse of the spacious overhead veranda—and the large wide, appropriate porch. As we came closer our eyes caught the open archway over which hung in letters—black and white—"Taborian Home"—telling to the world that at last, yes, first of all, the Knights and Daughters of Tabor of Kansas and Nebraska had a home—and a home indeed, it is. We were met at the door by Rev. Sir Frank Wilson. Chief Grand entor, and his pleasant wife, who welcomed us. We were shown through the building. On the first floor are large rooms well proportioned for parlor sitting room, bed rooms, bath rooms, dinign room, kitchen, hallways, study, pantry, cellar, closets, with all modern conveniences, up to the minute, on the second floor are large living rooms, each containing closets. The large veranda, spacious windows and exquisite arrangements make this floor ideal in itself. From the house we inspected the pump, the clistern, the work shop, the coal house, the barn and behold the young fruit trees which only need the hand of "Father Time" to enable them to furnish abundant fruit. Indeed it was agreed by all that we were within the confines of a palace and on a palace ground, instead of a home. In the words of the famous Queen of Sheba we can only exclaim, "The half has not been told." To fully realize what Taborian Home is one must see it with their own eyes. We can only ay toy out it is grand—grand—grand. All honor to Rev. Frank Wilson, our matchless chief, who for twenty-five years—in season and out of season—in sessions and out of session—in prosperity and in adversity—with encouragement and with discouragements has at last seen the heights of his ambitions realized, the one aim of his life accomplished. Moses was not permitted to see the promised land, but Rev. Sir Frank Wilson has been permitted to see the accomplishment of his greatest aim in life. Surely he can say with his faithful Knights and Daughters, as did the Kansas pioneers, "Ad Astra Per Aspera". Miss Deborah Mickleberry is reported on the sick list this week. Mrs. Robert Davis and Mrs. W. N. Miller were pleasant callers on Mrs. A. Brown, 24th and Sheldon, Wednesday. TAFT IN TOPEKA. The Taft parade in Topeka last Saturday night was grand and imposing. The parade was most conspicuous for the small number of colored men in line—the smallest number we have ever seen in a Republican parade of that size in Kansas. Evidently the Topeka colored Republican workers are unable to make a telling effect on the colored voters of that city—something is wrong, somewhere. Conference Notes. Rev. Dr. E. T. Fishback of Wichita stopped over at the conference Monday enroute to Atchison to attend the Baptist state convention. Much credit isdu e Rev. Dr. J. E. Edwards, Presiding Elders J. R. Ransom and H. W. King, and the people of Topeka, for the excellent care of the conference. Mrs. S. W. Jones and son, Jno. D Jones of Wichita, were daily attendants at theconf erence. The Searchlight was very popular amongst both ministry and laity at the conference. Judge Jas. H. Guy, the popular Topeka attorney, attended conference so often that he was often mistaken for a preacher. In advocating the "square deal" "fair play" and an "honest, open and upright" opportunity for all men, the minister of God's gospel should lead. It has oftimes been proven that when politics is mixed with religion it always takes from religion that "purity and fairness" which is religion's foundation. "The Morning Cometh" is the title of a pamphlet byR ev. W. T. Biggers. It is well written, nicely printed and is well worth reading. Secrue one. Dr. W. R. Carter of the Topeka Institute, seemed as much t home in a Methodist conference as in a Baptist convention. The Doctor evidently believes in taking a little of both. That's right. Many subscribed for The Searchlight at the conference. CLEARWATER NEWS. C. R. Wilfley was down at Enid, Okla., last week, and reported times prosperous downhill ere, but didn't like the lookso f those Jim Crow places. Mr. and Mrs. AaronWh ite is having quite a sad experience with their daughter, Miss Ida White a lmosti osing her eyesight. We hope her a speedy recovery. Mrs. C. R. Wilfley and Mrs. Vina Bates were out calling on Mrs. A. White Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Black went to Wichita Saturday shopping. Geo. Barton is sowing his fall crop of wheat. Mrs. Barton isdoin g a land office business in chicken raising, about 250. C. R. Wilfley is tryingt o get a hall at Clearwater for the purpose of having a preacher come to our town once a month and preach to us. There are 36 colored people here. A Missouri Tornado. St. Joseph, Mo., May 14.—A tornado which swept the country half a mile north and half a mile east of Watson, Mo., in the northwest corner of the state, completely demolished the house and barn on the Good farm. The occupants, Mel Cox, wife and son, escaped serious injury by seeking refuge in the cellar. Several other barns are reported blown down but no loss of life has been reported. GREAT LABOR SAVER GET PAIR OF SCISSOR$ FOR USE IN KITCHEN. Better Than Knife for Cutting Up Vegetables or Even Meats—Easily Dispose of Chicken Joints and Lobster Shells. If you want to see a pair of scissors put to all sorts of queer uses just watch some young housekeeper getting vegetables ready for dinner or preparing a salad. It is declared that in nine cases out of every ten things can be cut better with the scissors than with a knife. Especially in the preparing of salads should the kitchen scissors appeal to the housekeeper looking for labor-saving schemes. Dicing apples and celery is a matter of only a moment when done in this way, and a few green peppers may be snipped up in less time than it takes to tell about it. The easiest way to dice green peppers is to cut off several long slivers the whole length of the pepper. Hold these firmly in one hand and with the scissors clip through the entire bunch. Several stalks of asparagus may be clipped through in the same way. For hollowing out a tomato previous to stuffing, a pair of scissors enables one to remove practically all the pulp without breaking through the skin. For fruit salads scissors are equally useful, as the fine skin which separates the sections of grape fruit and oranges is easily clipped off in this way. But fruit and vegetable salads are not the only kinds for which the kitchen scissors may be brought into use. Cold boiled chicken and lobster are easily cut into pieces, and, surprising as it may seem to those who haven't tried it, chicken joints and lobster shells are no obstacles when scissors are used. The hard parts of oysters and clams are neatly removed with a pair of scissors, and slices of cold tongue and ham are often much improved in appearance if, before sending to table, they are trimmed into shape in the same way. When it comes to preparing cold vegetables for reheating in cream sauce, or for the many popular dishes au gratin, the kitchen scissors are again a blessing. Cold boiled potatoes, cauliflower, asparagus, oyster plant, in fact any and every vegetable, may easily be snipped into pieces of the required size. Doing such work with a pair of scissors is not only much quicker and easier, but the saving of one's hands is important. No woman will believe until she tries for herself how great a labor saver a pair of scissors may prove in her kitchen. Sweetbread Sausage. Parboll two pairs of large sweetbreads. Put in cold water for 20 minutes, then remove all skin and pipes. Drain a can of button mushrooms. Put the sweetbreads and mushrooms with a clove of garlic through a meat cutter and add a bunch of parsley minced very fine. Also add a can of deviled ham, the yolks of two hard cooked eggs mashed well, a large pinch of salt, about a dozen drops of tabasco, two tablespoonfuls of butter, salt and one raw egg beaten. Mix all together well. Clean hog casings well and fill with the mixture, making them about three inches in length. Can be fried or boiled, and are nice cold. Always Ready Pie Paste. Enough for four pies. Sift four cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of baking powder, into a bowl and mix with eight tablespoonfuls of shortening until dry and crumbly. Put away in fruit jars or bucket in cool place until ready for use. Then water to make stiff dough, or about a quarter of a cupful to one cupful of flour. This will keep until water is added. Vanilla Crab Apple Jelly. When putting up crab apple jelly get ten cents' worth of vanilla beans from any drug store. When the juice is strained and measured, throw in the piece of vanilla bean and let it boil until jelly is made. It gives apple jelly a fine and delicate flavor. Pear Toast. Slice stale sponge cake and toast both sides, heap whipped cream on top and lay halved pears which have been cooked in sirup on top, placing an almond meat in the core cavity. TO PREPARE POTTED FOODS. European Ideas That Are Now Being Adopted Here. Potted foods are among the valuable additions to the storeroom closet that Americans are just beginning to appreciate. These potted foods, which must not be confused with the commercially tinned foods, are largely used in France and England at hunting breakfasts or for the picnic hamper. The food selected, mushrooms, fish game, meats and vegetables of all kinds, is simply cooked as if for immediate service, seasoned palatably, then packed lightly in jars and covered with a sauce in which there is plenty of butter. If to be eaten within 24 hours, this is all that is needed. If to be kept several days, a layer of clarified butter or melted suet, quarter of an inch thick, is poured over the top after pressing into jars. RECIPE FOR INDIA RELISH. Recommended to Those Who Are Fond of a High Seasoning. Those who like high seasoning are very fond of India relish. It can easily be put up. Two quarts of green tomatoes are taken with a small head of cabbage, six onions and 12 green peppers. One cupful of salt is sprinkled over them, and the mixture is allowed to stand for 24 hours. It is then drained and put into a porcelain-lined kettle and barely covered with vinegar. To this add half a cupful of mustard seed, a teaspoonful of celery seed and half a cupful of sugar. It is cooked for five minutes, removed from the fire, and one tablespoon of English mustard is added. If you care for sweet pickles, it is better that you should add a whole cup of sugar rather than a half cup. Keep all the kitchen utensils in one place and a small one at that. It will save time and steps. Don't throw away your scraps of velvet. They can be used as cleaners for all sorts of things. Alcohol and whiting make a good silver polish and is excellent for polishing plate glass or mirrors. Olive oil will remove tar stains from dress goods. Wash afterward with white soap and tepid water. New lamp wicks, if boiled in vinegar and thoroughly dried before using will not smell bad when burning. A weak solution of turpentine poured down the water pipes once a week will drive the water bugs away. Rub the white spots made by wet or hot dishes on your polished tables with spirits of camphor. It will remove them. A teaspoonful of butter put into the water in which vegetables are boiling will prevent them from bubbling over. Tomatoes Stuffed with Anchovies. Select nicely-shaped tomatoes of equal size. Peel them and scoop out as much of the inside as possible without destroying their shape. Purchase Italian anchovies in oil, allowing two or three to each tomato, according to its size. Wipe the fish dry with soft cloth and rub off all the skin. Then split through the middle and remove the middle bones. Cut an equal quantity of hard-boiled eggs and a little tarragon, also chopped, and moisten the whole with French dressing. Stuff the tomatoes with the mixture and place each on tender green lettuce leaves with the opened side down. Pour a spoonful of mayonnaise dressing over each and serve cold. American Cream. Half box gelatine, one quart milk. Set on back of stove to heat gradually. Boil a minute or two. Take off stove and stir in yolks of four eggs well beaten with three tablespoons sugar and two tablespoons vanilla. Put in dish ready for table. How to Clean Tinware. Stains and discolorations on tinware can be removed by dipping a damp cloth in common roda and rubbing briskly. Then wash thoroughly and wipe dry. MA THE SEARCHLIGHT. THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. MILLER.....Editor Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mail).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mail).....75 Three Months (By Mail).....50 All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wed- nesday to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. 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. 4th. No new name will be placed on books unless the money accompa- pares the name. Write plain. 5th. 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. "To Live and Let Live" Is Our Motto. REPUBLICAN TICKET Election, Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 1908. NATIONAL. For President William H. Taft.....Ohio For Vice- President James S. Sherman.....New York STATE. For United States Senator J. L. Bristow.....Salline county For Governor W. R. Stubbs.....Douglas County For Lieutenant-Governor W. J. Fitzgerald.....Ford County For Secretary of State E. Denton.....Harper County For Auditor of State. J. M. Nation.....Neosho County For Superintendent of Pupblic Instruc- tion E. F. Fairchild.....Ellsworth County For Attorney General 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.....Finney County Clark A. Smith.....Mitchell County CONGRESSIONAL. Representative in Congress Victor Murdock..... Wichita COUNTY. State Senator.....J. H. Stewart Rep. 71st District.....E. B. Jewett Rep. 72 District.....Cliff Matson Rep. 73d District.....N. Gorsman Co. Com. Second District...S. B. Kernan Co. Com. Third District... .....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 It is strange that some of those Negroes who are so very anxious about Democratic success do not go South where the Democracies 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. Pay what you owe to the Search light. Be honest. LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK— Send your news notes and local h openings to 601 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Vote for S. B. Kernan for County Commissioner from the First, Second and Third wards. Mrs. Dr. Grant G. Brown has returned to the city after quite an extended visit to Atchison and other points. She had a splendid time on her trip. Dr. A. K. Lawrence is in Kansas City on a muche arned vacation and visit among friends. Taborian Temple No. 11 held an initiation of six candidates Thursday night. Governor Chas. E. Hughes of New York spoke to a large and nthusiastic audience Thursday night. A splendid parade preceded the speaking. The B. T. W. club held the first meeting for theyear at the residence of Mrs. Thomas Glover's. Had a very interesting meeting. Officers elected are as follows: President, Mrs. Wm. Bowers; vice-president, Mrs. C. A. Glover; secretary, MissA. Butler; assistant secretary, Mrs. Free Martin; treasurer, Mrs. M. Butler; corresponding secretary, Mrs. A. Dixon; chaplain, Mrs. C. Barker; critic, Mrs. S. C. Collins; director, Mrs. T. Glover. Closed to meet with Mrs. T. L. Hackley next Thursday. When you want cement stone or plastering done, call up new phone 127 and give W. L. Herman a chance. His work and prices are both right. TABERNACLE BAPIST CHURCH NOTES. Our Sunday service was well attended and you are invited out this Sabbath, coming to worship with us. Our Biblec lass of Tuesday nights is growing very nicely and mayn are becoming interested in Bible study. The Tabernacle Baptist church will not be represented at the State Convention this year for obvious reasons. Rev. R. N. Countee, D. D., our pastor, will deliver a politico-religious sermon next Sunday night and will discuss the Democratic slogan "Shall the People Rule?" Every Negro voter in our city should hear this sermon, and it will help him to decide the stand he should take in this strenuous campaign. Services will begin promptly at 8 p. m. text 2 Samuel 23:3—"He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." CHARGED WITH INSANITY. A complaint was filed in the probate court Wednesday by M. W. Madison, charging his son Fred Madison with insanity. There has been much speculation for some weeks as to the sanity of young Madison, many being of the belief that Fred is not of sound MRS. WATSON DEAD. Mrs. Margueritte Watson died Thursday night at the home of her daughter Mrs. Ambrose Morris, 1447 Barwise. Mrs. Watson was one of Wichita's most highly respected citizens and had made her home in this city for a number of years. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon, Oct. 10th, at the Second Baptist church. Mrs. Mollie Cox, G. W. C. of O. O. C. was in Winfield last Tuesday in the interest of the Calanthe. Mrs. H. W. Winlock of Denver, Colo., who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson, 1650 South Topeka, left Saturday for her home in Denver. This was Mrs. Winlock's first tript o Kansas and wasm uch pleased with Kansas and especially Wichita. Mrs. Mollie Cox and daughter, Pansy, visited in Kansas City to attend the Priests of Pallas. All The Searchlight asks for is "Fair Play"—a "Square Deal." THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE. The thirtieth annual session of the Kansas conference of the A. M. E. church held in Topeka, Sept. 30th to October 5th, 1908, goes down in history as one of the most pleasant, business-like and important ever eld by that church in this section. The session was presided over by Rt. Rev. Bishop Abraham Grant, D. D., bishop esident of the 5th Episcopal district. The reports from the various churches gave much encouragement and was a splendid index of the progress of Methodism. By the courtesy of the mayor and council of Topeka the session was held in the spacious auditorium, with the exception of the Saturday sessions which were held in the Metropolitan hall on Kansas avenue, owned by the Colored Masons of Topeka. Aged Preachers' Home. Aged Preachers' Home. One of the important steps taken by the conference was to pledge its support to the proposed "Home for Aged Preachers" which is to be erected on a plot of ground in Colorado Springs, Colo., which was donated to the A. M. E. general conference by Gen. Palmer of Colorado Springs, Colo., for a "National Home for Aged Negro Preachers." The conference raised a pledge fund by popular subscription for the Home. Subscription List. The following is the list of those who subscribed to the "Preachers' Home Fund" to be paid in one year. Bishop Abram Grant $100; Thos. Glover $10; B. R. Ross $25; S. Norris $5; A. Thomas $25; E. Bailey $25; J. W. Williams $10; J. E. Flecher $5; Grant Kibby $25; R. B. Frazier $25; J. H. Clark $25; J. F. Sage $25; S. W. Alexander $20; E. J. Malone $5; W. T. Green $10; J. W. Banks $5; J. W. Lavender $15; R. P. Christian $25; K. P. Bond $10; J. J. Watson $5; Jno. Allen $5; P. D. Davis $10; H. S. Henry $10; Jas. Holmes $5; S. S. Washington $5; Jno. A. Gregg $25; J. J. Pleasant $10; R. F. Green $5; E. R. Vaughn $10; J. L. Dudly $10; A. Sunims $10; Wm. Mitchell $5; W. B. Johnson $5; A. H. Brooks $5; W. H. H. Jones $5; J. W. Thomas $10; E. H. Adams $5; Mrs. Lee Bowan $5; T. M. Reeves $5; Mrs. T. M. Reeves $5; A. Gamble $5; THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT $5; H. N. Davis $10; S. Robinson $5; A. E. Edwards $25; J. W. Warren $5; Little Irene Reeves $1; Wm. Moore $5; W. H. Mance $10; W. Wooten $10; J. F. C. Taylor $5; J. W. Wilson $20; H. W. King $15; J. R. Ranson $25; W. T. Hatewood $5; J. B. Brown $5; J. L. Crawl $10; A. C. Terrill $10; T. J. Ross $5; Alex Abeshey $10; W. W. Dyett $20; C. A. Wood $5; W. T. Biggers $25; J. W. Johnson $15; J. S. Sheppard $5; J. W. Green $10; B. R. Grey $15; T. W. Kidd $10; B. A. Morgan $5; T. T. Bradley $5; C. R. Runyon $10; J. M. Brown $15; O. J. Burkhardt $5; F. M Pope $10; Sister Friend $5; F. L. George $5; Nellle Morgan $5; Sister M. Ewings $5; May McClain $5; Lee Bowers $5; Eliza Dupre $5; H. M. Rivers $5; M. E. Luers $10; Etta Scott $5; Mrs. C. E. Schnelby $5; O. E. Jones $10; J. B. Hously $5; A. J. Krissell $5; Polly Stewart $5; H. Barnett $5; Paid F. Gleed $5; Sidned Allen $5; R. Barton $10; A. Wagons $10; Jas Rivers $5; Mrs. Jennile Spencer $5; A. Chinn $10; Hiram Blair $2. Total amount subscribed $1,123.00. Auxiliaries. The Sunday school, the Allen Endeavor, the Woman's Mite Missionary auxiliaries of the church, all made splendid reports and demonstrated that they are doing much good work. During intervals Prof. Jno. A. Gregg pleased the large audience with vocal selections. Prof. Gregg is a singer who charms. His clearness of voice and accurate tones stirs the soul of his hearers. Dr. W. T. Vernon, registrar of the U. S. treasury, Prof. W. R. Carter, dean of the Topeka Institute, Rev. Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor of the Knights of Tabor, Prof. W. W. Fisher, fiscal agent of Western University, Prof. Shelton French, acting president of Western University, Mrs. C. R. Collett of Philadelphia, Dr. J. Frank McDonald, Prof. R. H. Wade of Topeka and others addressed the conference. Bishop Abram Grant preached Sunday morning and was listened to by an audience which filled the auditorium. Dr. O. E. Jones, pastor of the A. M. E. church, Kansas City, Kansas, and former professor of theology at Wilberforce, Ohio, preached Sunday night to a large congregation. Appointments. Monday morning Bishop Grant announced the following appointments for the year: EVANGELISTS—Mrs. Etta Scott, Eliza Dupree, Polly Stewart, M. E. Lucas, Lizzle Morgan, L. Stewart, Lettie Alien, Sarah Friend, Mary Train, Lucile Merrit, Revs. Lee Bond, C. H. Caldwell, O. J. Buckhart. TRANSFERS—A. W. Chinn, Tuscon, Ariz. K. P. Bond to Colorado; J. B. Brown and H. Ramsey to Missouri. Kansas City District—Rev. H. W. King, Presiding Elder, H. Sheppard, Iola; J. W. Warren, Cherryvale; J. E. Fletcher, Chanute; J. L. Dudy, Galena; J. J. Watson, Pittsburg; R. F. Reeves, Weir City; T. B. J. Barkly. WOMEN'S CLUB DIRECTORY. A concise statement of the Clubs among the colored women of Wichita. 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 Rawls, Sec. Engaged in the culinary art. Progressive ideas in fancy and home cooking. Meets 2nd and 4th Friday afternoons of each month. Mrs. Will H. Jones, President; Miss Jennie Wheeler, Secretary. THE W. T. VERNON CLUB, WICHITA, KAN. Hour of meeting 2:30 p. m. Engaged in needle, charity and literary work. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. B. Hockett, president, Mrs. S. Griggs, secretary. Office Hours 9 a.m to 6 p.m Sundays by Appointment Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST Bell Phone 2467 507 N. Main St Wichita, Kan Satisfaction IN EVERY POUND OF "Wichita's Best" Flour POENISCH BROS., Agents 622 N. Main Street We also carry a complete stock of Hay, Grain, Feed and Coal. 530 — Both Phones — 530 Baxter Springs; E. J. Malone, Oswego and Mineral Springs; J. W. Banks, Cherokee, and Chetopa; Jas. Holmes, Pleasanton; Jno. Lavender, Humboldt; J. J. Pleasant, Coffeyville; A. H. Brooks, Parsons; J. F. Sage, Ft. Scott; O. E. Jones, Kansas City, Kan. Topeka District—Rev. J. R. Ransom, Presiding Elder; F. L. George, Junction City; Grant Kirby, Bethel Chapel, Kansas City, Kan.; Prince Williams, Manhattan; H. B. Harris, Ottaw; C. R. Runyon, Paola; Wm. Mitchell, Olathe; T. W. Green, Eudora; A: Gorman, Osage and Council Grove; G. A. Griffith, Argentine; J. L. Craw, Emporia; J. D. Brown, Rosedale; J. W. Williams, Garnett; R. P. Christian; N. Lawrence; J. M. Brown, St. Luke, Lawrence; P. D. Davis, Brown's Chapel, Topeka; J. M. Pope, St. Mark, Topeka; J. E. Edwards, St. John's, Topeka. Wichita District—Rev. M. Wooten, Presiding Elder; T. M. Reeves, Salina; J. A. Gamble, Ablene; J. W. Johnson, Hill City; O. H. White, St. John; A. Sinims, Sterling; J. W. Krissell; Wellington; W. H. Mance, Bassett; S. Robinson, Nicodemus; S. S. Washington, Newton; S. W. Alexander, Great Bend; W. T. B. Harewood, Winfield; C. A. Wood, Arkansas City; B. R. Ross, Hutchinson; B. R. Guy, Pratt; A. C. Terrill, Wichita. Omaha District—Rev. J. W. Wilson, Presiding Elder; J. A. Allen, Oskalosa; H. M. Rivers, Nebraska City; Jordan Allen, Ellinwood; J. A. King, Edwardsville; E. Bally, Tonganoxie; W. B. Johnson, Quindaro; S. H. Barker, Highland; W. T. Biggers, Atchison; A. J. Gregg,L eavenworth; J. F. C. Taylor, Lincoln; Wm. Ously; So. Omaha; W. W. S. Dyett, St. John, Omaha. PRINTING THE MINUTES. For the pastt hree or four years there has been a most griveous complaint from the ministers and churches about the extremely poor class of minutes furnished the conference at exorbitant and extravagant prices each year. To put it mildly the minutes were "mighty bad", the price paid "high", just the reverse from the work. Not only was the workt he poorest possible, but the churches and preachers have heretofore had to wait from three to four months before the minutes were out. At the earnest request of scores of ministers and church people the Searchlight representative went to Topeka and n person placed a bid in writing in the hands of the Printing Committee, guaranteeing first-class work and to complete the minutes within thirty days from the time we get the copy. Work Held Up. After the adjournment of the conference just after noon Monday, October 5th, the committee met in due form and after considering all the bids submitted awarded the work of printing the 1908 minutes to the Searchlight. But just as the Secretary was about to draw up the agreement word came to the committee that it was the "de- ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco .... Your patronage solicited. + Ones a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. 615 North Main st. " Second to None " PLEASES ALL Good Bread Makers It Is White As Snow—TRY IT The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Food are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Price 116 East Douglas Avenue Dr.J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children A Specialty Office 703 N. 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Free Delivery. Tapp & Hanshaw 255-257 N. Main St Phone 2 BOOST FOR WICHITA PRISES. The Attractive Side of Dirt. The scientific dictum with regard to dirt is merely that it is "matter out of place." Economically considered, however, it may be said to possess excellent qualities. "What an easy task we should have if there were no dirt!" said a lady to her washerwoman. "I shouldn't, ma'am. I should care!" replied Bridget, and she would for hundreds of thousands of women the world over. It would be interesting to discover how many hours of wage-earning work which may be called cleaning—including washing, ironing, scrubbing, sweeping, dusting, polishing—are done in one hour among millions upon millions of people. A single institution like a big public library will probably give 20,000 hours of work each year to charwomen alone. In cities the work goes on day and night. Apart from the sweeping and dusting in the homes, an army of women with pails and mops invade the shops and offices, where they fight against dirt from night till morning. Holland excels in this direction. Here the housewives scrub not only doors and windows and steps and sidewalks, but fences and electric light poles, and one may even see a strong-armed maiden using hot soapsuds and brush on a white tip-cart. Horses and cows are cleaned in Holland with unmishing assiduity. Those who need for cleanliness do a double service—to the wage-earners as well as to the mankind at large. Fortunately for all concerned, the desire to be clean is very deep in the noblest qualities of human nature. An epidemic of suicide has existed more than a year past. It has not been confined to this country alone, or to any particular class or condition of people. Records of the all too prevalent self-destruction that has locked society show that death is night by rich and poor, educated and ignorant, moral and immoral, alike, blind most of them is left a story of disease, disappointment or sadness. So great has become the practices during the past few months, and the trivial the reasons advanced or disheered afterward, that the situation would engage the most serious attention of society. Unfortunately it is one the crimes against which neither inventive nor punitive legislation can reflect. It is well enough to enact law against self-destruction, but the deed is committed there can no possible recourse to law. States providing punishment for attempted suicide are of little more use and effect than would be no relation on the subject whatsoever. Only, the remedy for the crime must self and society is not in the spring of the blind goddess of jus- is unquestionably true that one of greatest obstacles in the woman's path of industrial progress has been aown apathy, writes Edith Abbott the Atlantic. She is reproached by women in her trade for her lack of patience—her seeming willingness to unmask skilled and underpaid. But this new movement for the fran- weave the women who are ally in the ranks of the skilled work- and who have long since proved capacity for organization taking other great step forward. They are at last learned that their industrial regeneration can come only through their own efforts and the im-ience of this new spirit of independence, this enlarging of the woman's sphere of activity to demand justice in the laws that regulate her would be difficult to over-esti- the daughter of a wealthy and noble man, whose matrimonial applications have been matter of normal interest, contracted what she needed as a fake marriage to avoid, leading to her own testimony, being bled by her family into marriage a titled foreigner whom she dis- tincts. This ambition of which she ac- celerates parents, of trying to sacri- lize happiness for the sake of saving a title into the family, is one which they have been bitterly pun- ished by the notoriety which has rest- tenon the case, but it is a punish- ance which the offense, if really com- es, deserves. The un-American upon of titles can be excused some- times in a silly girl, but in men and of this republic it is unpardon- Just William M. Chase, whose male of himself by himself is to in the Uffizi gallery at Florence, done at a sitting of three hours. Yet, there's nothing like having an equal to his subject and a sub- equal to the artist. woman physician in London says the women who wear low-neck or open-work stockings are healthier than those who do not. a woman she ought to know-- TEMPERANCE UNION TO BE BUSY Crusade Against Interstate Shipments Revived—Secretary of State Union Recommends That Legislative Agent be Maintained at Capital. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 14.—The Kansas State Temperance Union, no doubt, will send its attorney, John Marshall, to Washington this winter to lobby for the passage of a bill to prevent the interstate shipment of liquor into prohibition states. This suggestion is made by Secretary Norris in his annual report, which he will submit to the state convention today and the respectful consideration which has been given to his recommendations in the past justifies the prediction that this one will be adopted. In his report Secretary Norris, speaking of the enforcement of the law and the desire for additional federal legislation, says: "Kansas has fought the battle of law enforcement and won, so far as her people are concerned. The fight henceforth will not be so much against forces that are within as against forces that are without. Open violation of the law is confined to Leavenworth county and the mining districts of Crawford and Cherokee counties. "Other violations of the law are of a mushroom character that spring up here and there and are gone. From the best information that can be obtained through careful investigation there is not now a city or town in the state taking revenue from the unlawful sale of liquor. "In bringing about this result the legal department has not attempted to supplant an prosecuting official, but has given aid in every place possible, and only where open hostility on the part of officials was shown were they disregarded or made the subject of ouster. This department has been under the strong right arm of Attorney General Jackson, and has enabled him to push the work many months ahead of what it would have been had he been compelled to rely wholly on the state for it. "The great need at this time from without is some relief from the interstate commerce shipment of liquor into our state. The federal government is in the position of sponsor and protector of the liquor dealer against our prohibitory law, which has been declared by the supreme court of the United States to be in harmony with the constitution of our country. "Attorney General Fred S. Jackson will discuss this question in his address on the subject. Mr. Marshall should be sent to Washington this winter for a hearing before the committee that considers the interstate commerce question, and for the purpose of lining our delegation for the bill that may be drawn. Mr. Marshall will give the report for the legal department. "Experience has proved that there are some points wherein the law needs strengthening and bills will be presented at the coming session of the legislature covering these points. There is need of amendments to the drug store law, and the inquisition law should be re-enacted. Regarding the union's position in the pending campaign, Secretary Norris says: "the union wastes no time in the blickerings of party strife. Party machinery and party discipline are not among its burdens. The one issue is pressed and the union stands only for such candidates as embody in themselves its principles. It does not hesitate to go into party caucuses or primaries and work for the nomination of such candidates as embody its principles as against candidates who do not. "But when candidates of contending political parties both embody its principles the contest must be fought out by the parties without the union's interference. A particularly fortunate condition exists in our state this year. A finer lot of men never was nominated for offices than those whose names appear on the different party tickets of our state. In fact, the time has come when men can not be elected to office in Kansas and entertain adverse views on the question." ESCORTED BY THE MILITIA Greensburg, Kan., Oct. 13.—Sam Bitler, who is charged with the murder of Mrs. Rosenburg last May, and who has since his arrest been kept in the Hutchinson jail, was brought here this morning by Sheriff Stephenson and two deputies, assisted by thirty-four of the state troops in command of Colonel Holsington of Newton. The assistance of the state troops was asked for by the sheriff on rumor of organized violence to the defendant. The rumor was proven false in the hearing on a motion for a change of venue. Many affidavits were made by citizens of this county that a jury could be obtained here, but the judge allowed the change on the grounds that the state troops had been called here and having been called, that matter alone would prejudice any jury that might be summoned to this place. Much dissatisfaction has been expressed here on the action of the sheriff as no one seems to think the prisoner in an danger of mob violence. Bitter will be again conducted to Hutchinson by the sheriff and troops to await his trial at Dodge City in Ford county. No violence has manifested itself here. IN A SPECIAL TRAIN Company E of K. N. G. at Hutchinson to be in Wichita. Hutchinson, Kan., Oct. 14.—Company E. K. N. G., is ready for the trip to Wichita this week. The company goes down on Thursday to help out in a big military display on that day. They will leave here on a special train over the Santa Fe. The Newton company will be added to the train at that place. These two companies, with the two stationed at Wichita, will make quite a showing. MILLIONS FOR TROLLEY LINE. Foreign Capitalists Invest in a Kansas City-to-Topeka Project. Kansas City, Oct. 14.—A dispatch from London says that English financiers have invested $12,000,000 in a project involving the construction of an interurban electric railroad between Kansas City and Topeka and Independence, Kan. The loan, it is said, was negotiated by Whitsed Laming and Charles Gould, Mr. Laming is a resident of Tonganoxie, Kan., and Mr. Gould also is a western man. The amount involved is $12,000,000 for bonds of the Kansas City and Kansas Southwestern Railway company. The company is the successor of one organized two years ago under the name of the Kansas City, Stranger Valley & Western railroad. The mileage of the proposed line between Kansas City and Topeka is 64 miles, three miles less than the shortest steam railroad between the two points. The survey carried the line west from Kansas City, Kan., through Wyandotte county and to Tonganoxie in Leavenworth county. From Tonganoxie the survey ran in a southwesterly direction to Lawrence, thence west to Topeka. It was proposed to connect with the Metropolitan Street railway in Kansas City. THREE TRAINS WRECKED. Passenger Train Dashes into Freight Wreck at Buffalo, N. Y. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 14.—Three trains were wrecked in the New York Central yards Monday night. A yard engine with a string of cars attached, a freight train coming into the city and Michigan Central passenger train No. 3, were in the mix-up. John W, Kenney, engineer of the switch engine, was caught between the tender and boiler and probably fatally injured. None of the passengers was hurt. The switch engine and freight train collided at the junction of the Niagara Falls line, and a siding. Both engines were ditched and several freight cars piled up. Before a flagman could be sent back, the Michigan Central passenger train came along on the Falls branch of the New York Central and crashed into the wreckage. None of the passenger cars left the track. The debris from the freight cars caught fire but the passenger coaches were pulled out of danger. Another New York Riot. New York, Oct. 13.—A number of persons were injured and windows in the Hotel Knickerbocker were broken Sunday night in a riot that followed an attack made on Albert Lind, a strike-breaker, employed by the New York Taxicab company. A crowd of 500 persons, sympathizers with the striking chauffeurs, hurled stones, sticks and other misiles at the chauffeurs. Guests of the Knickerbocker fled from the dining room in panic. A dozen arrests were made. Bryan Resting at Home. Fairview, Lincoln, Feb. 12.—Having spent several active days last week on the stump William J. Bryan Sunday devoted most of his time to resting up preparatory to a hard week of campaigning in Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming. He arrived here at 10:30 Sunday morning direct from St. Joseph, Mo., where Saturday night he got a rousing reception. The westward journey will be begun early Tuesday morning. Attacked the Prosecuting Witness St. Louis, Oct. 14.—Patrick Clancy, a former policeman, who was convicted last week of fraudulent registration and now out on bond pending an appeal, was shot Monday night by H. V. English, who testified against him in the trial. Clancy will recover. Clancy and two or three other men, it is said, entered the store of English at 2023 Olive street and attacked him. Convicted of Assaulting Umpire. Chicago, Oct. 14.—Robert E. Cantwell, an attorney, Monday was found guilty by a jury in Judge Foster's court of assaulting John Kerin, an ampire in the American baseball league, on September 28, over a decision of a game. The court will fix the amount of the fine at a later date. A motion for a new trial will be heard on October 24. MARKET REPORTS. Live Stock Kansas City, Oct. 14 — Cattie—Common steers, $1.45@4.25; heifers, $1.55@6.14; western stockers and feeders, $3.10@4.10; Dogs—Bulk of sales, $5.50@6.10. Sheep—Jambs, $4.35@5.90; good to choice wethers, $4.00@4.10; ewes, $3.80@4.10. Chicago, Oct. 14 — Beef—Steers, $4.40@7.75; cows and heifers, $3.25@4.25; stockers and feeders, $2.60@4.15. Hogs—Bulk of sales, $5.70@5.85. Sheep—Natives, $4.45@4.75; lambs, $4.75@5.15. Dogs—Bulk of sales, $5.70@5.85. Sheep—Steers, $2.75@6.25; stockers and feeders, $3.00@4.00; cows and heifers, $2.50@6.25; Texas steers, $2.75@5.40. Hogs—Pigs and lights, $3.00@5.60. Sheep—Natives, $4.00@4.35; ambs, $5.25@5.75. Grain. Kansas City, Oct. 14 — Close: Wheat—Dec, 94%; May, 97%; July, 92%; corn—Dec, 57%; May, 68%; July, 58%. corn—Chicago, Oct. 14 — Close: Wheat—Dec, 1.00%; May, 1.03%; July, 92%; corn—Dec, 64%; May, 63%; July, 62%; cows—Dec, 48%; May, 50%; July, 66%. St. Louis, Oct. 14.—Close: Wheat—Lower; track, Oct. 2 red cash, $1.05@1.06%; No. 2 hard, 99c@$1.03. Futures: December, $1.00%; May, $1.03@$1.03%. Corn—Lower; track, No. 2 cash, $74 new, 76c old; No. 2 white, 76c@$76 old; Futures: Decere, $76c@$76 old. Futures: track, No. 2 cash, $48@$49; No. 2 white, 51%c. Futures: December, 47c; May, 49%@49%c. Produce. Kansas City, Oct. 14.—Eggs, 24%c per doz. Poultry-Hens, 9c; springs, 11; urkneys, 13c. Butter-Creamery, extra, 29c; packing stock, 16c. Potatoes, 0. Habitual Constipation Habitual Constipation May be permanently overcome by proper personal efforts with the assistance of the one truly beneficial laxative remedy, Syrup of ligns and Eliair of Senna, which enables one to form regular habits daily so that assistance to nature may be gradually dispensed with when no longer needed as the best of remedies, when required, are to assist nature and not to supplant the natural functions, which must depend ultimately upon proper nourishment, proper efforts, and right living generally. To get its beneficial effects, always buy the genuine FIG SYRUP CO. ONLY SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGCISTS one size only, regular price 50¢ per bottle Found When Hope Had Gone. It was when capital and hope were allke exhausted that a last desperate stroke of the pick revealed the fabulous riches of the Big Bonanza silver mine in 1873—a treasure house which has since yielded ore valued at $150,000,000. Riche Found by Accident. Peter Terreros, a muleeer, discovered by accident the Real del Monte deposits in Hidalgo, and at the end of 12 years had won $15,000,000, and a Spanish title of nobility; and, to give another example, two brothers named Bolados, who earned a miserable livelihood by carrying fuel, found in a crevice opened by earthquake, an enormous block of silver worth $1,250,000. Expressions of a Cynic. Walter Pater, an old man at 50, bald as a coot and grotesquely plain, regarded every woman much as did Dean Swift, who wrote: "A very little wilt is valued in a woman, as we are pleased with few words spoken intelligibly by a parrot." "You don't aprove of marriage?" a friend once observed to Pater. "No," he replied, "nor would anybody else if he gave the matter proper consideration. Men and women are always pulling different ways. Women won't pull our way. They are so perverse." The Allurements of the City. Mrs. Perkins and her daughter Mandy from the country were in the city one day, and as they walked along together they came to a window in which was displayed a variety of women's apparel. Mandy glanced wisfully at the different articles of clothing and started into the store. But a sign in the window which read: "Clothing One-Half Off During This Sale," caught Mrs. Perkins' eye. She selzed her daughter by the arm, hurried her along down the street, and exclaimed in a loud voice: "W'y, land's sake, Mandy, that ain't no decent place for a girl to go!"—Judge's Library. A The Rejected—And will nothing make you change your mind? She—M'yes, another man might. WANTED TO KNOW The Truth About Grape-Nuts Food. It doesn't matter so much what you hear about a thing, it's what you know that counts. And correct knowledge is most likely to come from personal experience. "About a year ago," writes a N. Y. man, "I was bothered by indigestion, especially during the foremono. I tried several remedies without any permanent improvement. "My breakfast usually consisted of oatmeal, steak or chops, bread, coffee and some fruit. "Hearing so much about Grape-Nuts I concluded to give it a trial and find out if all I had heard of it was true. "So I began with Grape-Nuts and cream, 2 soft boiled eggs, toast, a cup of Postum and some fruit. Before the end of the first week I was rid of the acidity of the stomach and felt much relieved. "By the end of the second week a.l traces of indigestion had disappeared and I was in first rate health once more. Before beginning this course of diet, I never had any appetite (or lunch, but now I can enjoy a hearty meal at noon time." "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. TROOPS GUARDED BITLER DANGER OF KANSAS LYNCHING SEEMS AVERTED. Kiowa County Murderer Given a Change of Venue to Ford County. Greensburg, Kan., Oct. 14.—The possibility of a threatened outbreak and a lynching at the trial of Samuel Bitler, charged with the murder of Mrs. John Rosenberger, were practically eliminated Tuesday afternoon when Bitler was granted a change of venue to Ford county and later safely escorted from the city. The trial will be held during the January term of court. Fear of a lynching induced Sheriff Stephenson to request a guard of militia from Gov. Hoch Monday night and Bitler was brought here Tuesday morning handcuffed to Sheriff Stephenson and marched to the jail and courtroom in a hollow square formed by his guards. The crowd which met the train numbered about 200 but was not demonstrative. The guard and officers consisted of 36 men of company E, of Hutchinson, and remained near the prisoner all day. Bitler was escorted to the train Tuesday night and taken to Hutchinson where he has been confined since his arrest OLD LIBEL SUIT DISMISSED. Case Against Ex-Gov. Lon V. Stephena Dropped. St. Louis, Oct. 14.—The libel suit of Col. Edwin Batdorf against former Gov. Lon V. Stephens for $40,000 was dismissed in the circuit, court here Monday for want of prosecution. The suit was filed October 21, 1899. Mr. Stephens was at that time governor of Missouri. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war Batdorf, who had been colonel of the First infantry, Missouri national guard, was refused a commission as colonel in the United States volunteers by Gov. Stephens. In his petition for damages, Col. Batdorf said that the governor had given, out interviews in the press reflecting on his fitness as an officer. Stephens in his answer admitted that he had inspired the interviews. Kansas Slayer on Trial. Independence, Kan., Oct. 14.—The trial of Henry Besner, a farmer for the murder of Tobias Sawyer, a neighbor in the latter's own door yard, in sight of his wife and children one Sunday last summer, was begun here Tuesday. A story of illicit relations between Sawyer and the 16-year-old daughter of Besner and the girl's confession angered Besner and he deliberately sought and killed Sawyer. The girl went on the stand in her father's defense Tuesday afternoon. Emotional insanity is Besner's plea. Mrs. Sawyer, widow of the murdered man, also appeared as witness carrying a babe only a few months old in her arms. Work to Begin on a Kansas Road. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 14.—Following a meeting of the board of directors of the Topeka Southwestern Railroad company Tuesday C. K. Holliday, president announced that construction work on the line between Topeka and Council Grove will be begun next Monday. Lamprecht Bros. & Co. of New York City will start work Monday if $5,000 in subscriptions is collected. Eight thousand dollars have been subscribed and the directors voted to wire Lamprecht Bros. & Co. a promise that the money will be in the bank by Monday. Coburn Leads "Dry" Forces Topeka, .an., Oct. 14—F. D. Coburn presided over the State Temperance union meeting here. A feature of the Tuesday's proceeding was the declaration of war on the interstate shipments of liquor. The annual report declared that the federal government was in the position of sponsor and protector of the liquor dealers against the prohibitory law. A lobby will be sent to Washington to fight the measure. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon told of his "observations of the liquor question in Great Britain." Rut Ban on Elks' Teeth. Lawton, Ok., Oct. 14.—The national convention of the League of American Sportsmen Monday passed resolutions that the order cease the use of elks' teeth as emblems and discourage their sale as such among members, it being believed that the custom encourages destruction of the animals simply for the teeth. Judge Wood Has Resigned. Jefferson City, Oct. 13.—Judge John M. Wood of St. Louis, member of the state board of bar examiners, sent his resignation to the judges of the supreme court Tuesday to take effect at once. Judge Wood resigned that he might devote his entire time to the practice of law. Bonner Springs Building Burned. Bonner Springs, Kan., Oct. 14.—Hard work by a bucket brigade finally stopped a fire in the business center of Bonner Springs Tuesday morning after nine buildings had been destroyed with a loss of about $70,000. The insurance is $22,000. Chicago Atmosphere Bad. Chicago, Oct. 13.—The health department in a report issued Saturday by tests just taken, is three times as the atmosphere of Chicago, as shown by tests ust taken, is three times as great as that in the atmosphere of London. DRAGS YOU DOWN. Backache and Kidney Trouble Slowly Wear One Out. Mrs. R. Crouse, Fayette St., Manchester, Ia., says: "For two years my back was weak and rheumatic. Pains ran through my back hips and limbs. I could hardly get about and lost much sleep. The action of the kidneys was much disordered. I began using Doan's Kidney Pills and the back was weak and rheumatic. Pains ran through my back hips and limbs. I could hardly get about and lost much sleep. The action of the kidneys was much disordered. I began using Doan's Kidney Pills and the result was remarkable. The kidney action became normal, the backache ceased, and my health is now unusually good." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. DIDN'T WANT TO WASTE TIME. Colored Fisherman Most Satisfied When the Bites Were Few. Riding across the country one day, Dr. Blank noticed an old negro who had been for quite a while perched motionless upon a little bridge, fishing silently from the stream beneath. For some time he watched him from a distance, but finally, overcome by the old fellow's unmoved patience, he rode up and accosted him. "Hello, Wash! What are you doing up there?" "Fishin", sah, "came the reply. "Not getting many, are you?" "No, sah." "Well, it seems to me you'd get tired fishing so long without a bite." "I doesn't want no bite, cap'n." "Well, that's funny. Why don't you want a bite, Wash?" "Hit's this-a-way, cap'n: when I gits a lots o' bites, hit takes all meh time to git the fish off'n meh line, an' I doesn't have no time foh fishin'"—Success Magazine GIRL WAS DELIRIOUS With Fearful Eczema—Pain, Heat, and Tingling Were Excruciating—Cuticura Acted Like Magic. "An eruption broke out on my daughter's chest. I took her to a doctor, and he pronounced it to beeczema of a very bad form. He treated her, but the disease spread to her back, and then the whole of her head was affected, and all her hair had to be cut off. The pain she suffered was excruciating, and with that and the heat and tingling her life was almost unbearable. Occasionally she was delirious and she did not have a proper hour's sleep for many nights. The second doctor we tried afforded her just as little relief as the first. Then I purchased Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, and before the Ointment was three-quarters finished every trace of the disease was gone. It really seemed like magic. Mrs. T. W. Hyde, Brentwood, Essex, England, Mar 8, 1907." Imaginary Holidays. I know a man who cannot afford to travel, and yet has a delightful way of deceiving himself. He learns about the cost of traveling, the proper clothing to he worn, gets a time table, and arranges excursions for himself to various places, and then reads about them in books of travel. To the man with imagination it is a captivating occupation—Hearth and Home. A SUDDEN GOLD. MISS HELEN SAUERBIER Miss Helen Sauerbier, of 815 Main St. St. Joseph, Mich., writes an interesting letter on the subject of catching cold, which cannot be of value to all women who cannot cool easily. It Should be Taken According to Directions on the Bottle, at the First Appearance of the Cold. St. Joseph, Mich., Sept., 1901.—Last winter I caught a sudden cold which developed into an unpleasant catarrh of the head and throat, depriving me of my appetite and usual good spirits. A friend who had been cured by Peruna acutely to try it and I sent for a bottle of wine. And I am glad to say that he has a phlegm had bloomed and is better, my appetite returned and within nine days I was in my usual good health. —Miss Helen Sauerbier. Peruna is an old and well tried remedy for colds. No woman should be without it. After suffering for seven years, this woman was restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Read her letter. Mrs. Sallie French, of Paucaunla, Ind. Ter., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: "I had female troubles for seven years—was all run down, and so nervous I could not do anything. The doctors treated me for different troubles but did me no good. While in this condition I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice and took Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I am now strong and well." 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, or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it? Don't hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there is anything about your sickness you do not understand. She will treat your letter in confidence and advise you free. No woman ever regretted writing her, and because of her vast experience she has helped thousands. Address, Lynn, Mass India's Precious Metals. It is estimated that $1,500,000,000 in gold, and perhaps as much in silver, is hidden away in the Hindu stocking. Vast quantities of the precious metals are known to be kept in the form of personal ornaments. From time immemorial India has been a reservoir into which the precious metals have flowed from all quarters of the globe, only to disappear from statistics. Could the idle wealth be drawn upon, the effect on the industrial and commercial life of the country would be very great. It is, therefore, a matter of concern to try to turn India's dormant capital to active use. It may be impossible to do it. The Oriental mind views everything in a way incomprehensible to westerners. But if only a title of the concealed hoards of India were vitalized a new aspect might be given to the conditions of life in England's great eastern empire. IF YOU USE BALL BLUE: At the time he casts his first vote a man is too young to realize that he doesn't know it all. You always get full value in Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Occasionally a listener hears good of himself—after talking into a phonograph. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES, BACKACHE 151375 "Guarantee" SICK HEADACHE CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Digestion from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. For Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. PISO'S Throat and Lungs need just the protection against cold and disease that is obtained from Ear, Cure. If you have a cough or cold, sight or sepsis, begin taking Fino's Cure today and continue until you are well. Cure the cough if you are sick. If Fino's Cure may be all that you will need. Famous for half a century. Pleasant to taste. Free from opiates and harmful ingredients. At all drugstores, 25 cts. CURE If afflicted with; Thompson's Eye Water more oyen, use NATIONAL BASE BALL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES THE PUBLIC F.J. WILLIAMS NEWS DESERTED HIS WIFE DESERTED HIS WIFE WARRANTS SERVED ON LIEUT COL, TUCKER OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY. IS GEN. LOGAN'S DAUGHTER In Her Complaint Mrs. Tucker Declared Her Husband Had Left Her in July, Chicago, Oct. 14.—Lieut. Col. W. F. Tucker, paymaster of the department of the lakes, was served Tuesday with warrants charging him with wife abandonment. Mrs. Tucker is the daughter of Former United States Senator John A. Logan. The warrant was read to Col. Tucker while on a train at Decatur, Ill., by Sergt. O'Brien of the Chicago police department, but no effort was made to place the army official under arrest. Chief Shifly declared later that he had learned that Col. Tucker was on his way to a Hot Springs sanitarium under a general order issued by the commander of the department of the lakes and that his subordinates had been instructed not to interfere with the journey. Army officials informed Chief Shippy Tuesday that Col. Tucker was seriously ill and that a return to Chicago at this time might be fatal to him. Col. Tucker in accepting service on the warrant had promised to return from St. Louis if his presence was demanded in Chicago. Chief Shippy said this was unnecessary and the Chicago detectives who had accompanied Col. Tucker to St. Louis were ordered to return without him. "If those wanting him arrested are determined to have him brought back," said Chief Shippy. "They can present the case to the grand jury and have indictments returned. Col. Tucker undoubtedly can be reached at any time." The warrant for Col. Tucker's arrest was obtained Saturday before Municipal Judge Gemmill by Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, who declared that her husband had deserted her July 25, 1907. The First Union Volunteer Dead. Washington, Oct. 14—Dr. Charles Franklin Rand, the first volunteer to enlist in the Union army after President Lincoln's call for troops, and the first soldier to receive from congress a medal of honor for bravery on the field, died here Tuesday aged 70 years. He was born in Batavia, N. Y. He spent three months in Libby prison, Later President Lincoln appointed him provost marshal of the District of Columbia. He will be buried at Arlington in lot No. 1, which was set aside about 40 years ago for the first volunteer when he died. Manila Cholera Situation Manila, Oct. 14.—The number of new cases of cholera has declined to about five cases daily and these are chiefly confined to one or two of the congested native districts. The health authorities are vigorously fighting the disease and besides guarding against it and disinfecting the houses where it occurs, are disinfecting the entire city. The disease is gradually disappearing in the provinces, but few new cases being daily reported from Rizal, Laguna, Cavite and Palawan. Many Patents Issued. Washington, Oct. 14.—Commissioner of Patents Edward B. Moore in his annual report says there were issued during the past fiscal year 41,952 patents, trademarks, labels and prints, as against 44,121 in the previous year. Murder Trial is Delayed. Neosho, Mo., Oct. 14.—The trial of Bessie Davidson, who shot her sister's sweetheart, Roy Ramsour, which was to have come up Tuesday, has been definitely postponed until the April term of the circuit court. WILLIAM A. ROTHWELL DEAD WAS DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COM MITTEEMAN FROM MISSOURI. Chairman Mack Designates Committee men to Attend the Funeral of Their Colleague at Moberly. Moberly, Mo., Oct. 13—William A Rothwell, Democratic national commit teeman for Missouri, died at the home of his brother-in-law, Horace E. Watts at 6:30 o'clock Sunday morning or Bright's disease. He had been ill, nearly a year and for several days he had been unconscious. His funeral is to be held here Monday afternoon at three o'clock. The Masons will have charge of the funeral. Mr. Rothwell was born in Callaway county 45 years ago. He came to Moberly when he was 10 years old and lived here ever since. His father was Dr. W. A. Rothwell. He was an alumnus of the University of Missouri and taught for a time in the Moberly high school. --- Chicago, Oct. 13.—Word was received by Chairman Mack here Sunday night of the death at Moberly Mo., of Democratic National Committeeman W. A. Rothwell. Mr. Mack appointed the following committee to attend the funeral at Moberly Monday: National Committeeman J. M. Tomlinson of Alabama, Roger Sullivan of Illinois, Guy B. Tucker of Arkansas, R. E. L. Mountcastle of Tennessee, A. A. Jones of New Mexico, Dr. P. L. Hall of Nebraska, vice chairman of the national committee; Urey Woodson of Kentucky, secretary of the committee; Moses C. Wetmore of St. Louis, chairman of the fiancee committee, and John I. Martin, sergeant-at-arms. Mr. Mack sent his sympathy to the family. Mr. Rothwell was a prominent lawyer. St. Louis, Oct. 13.—The death of William A. Rothwell, Democratic national committeeman from Missouri, will result in the first employment of the new method of filling vacancies on the committee prescribed at the Denver convention. Heretofore vacancies have been filled by the national committee itself, but under the new rules the successor to Mr. Rothwell will be selected by the state committee of Missouri. A special meeting for this purpose will soon be called. The Chicago Registration. Chicago, Oct. 14.—A total registration of 410,242 was listed by Chicago voters Tuesday, being an increase of but 5,006 over the city registration of four years ago. Republican leaders expressed entire satisfaction with the result and declared it indicative of a great Republican vote next month. There was a noticeable falling off of the registration in the heavily Democratic wards. Lockjaw From Dental Work Belvidere, N. J., Oct. 14.—Mrs. Arthur Walters, 25 years old, died here Tuesday of lockjaw. Last Sunday she had 14 teeth drawn. The next day she became quite ill and it was thought this condition was due to the anaesthetic she took when the dentist operated upon her. Monday unmistakeable signs of tetanus developed and the woman suffered frightful agony. Father Shot His Two Sons. Macon, Mo., Oct. 14.—Prosecuting Attorney S. S. Durham received a telephone message Tuesday morning saying that D. Oscar Seaman, a young farmer of Drake township, had gone to the district school near Goldsberry, called out his two sons, boys of 10 and 12 years, shot one of them dead, mortally injured the other, and then shot himself. Mr. Kern in Indianapolis Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 13.—John W. Kern, Democratic nominee for vice president, returned to Indianapolis Sunday noon after a two weeks' campaign tour of the south and the southeast. Mr. Kern stood his trip well and expressed his gratification at the friendly reception accorded him. Malaria Makes Pale Blood The Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL, TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless, and the most effectual form. For adults and children. 500c. OPPONENT EASY TO BEAT. Slight Accident Put Edmonia's Rival Out of the Running. Mrs. S.— was in a Richmond hospital, and she was lonely, so welcomed the advent of a very black and very languid maid, who came in one morning to wipe up the floor. Some one new to talk to, so no time was lost. "I have not seen you working here before. Aren't you a new girl?" Edmonia willingly let the cloth slip back into the bucket, and sat flat upon the floor before answering. "Yas'm, I'm new. I jest washin' ap de floor; but I don't work, I'm edikated." "And where were you educated?" was the next question. "In a seminary." Then, with a burst of confidence: "There was me an another girl workin' in a house. She was cook and I was chambermaid, and we had great times about who would gt de prize, but I beat." Then, after a pause, "She was easy to beat, 'cause she got smothered to death with gas de night before de 'zaminations come off."-Harper's Magazine. 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. Animal Food. Doctor (upon finding his patient weaker than before)—What does this mean? Haven't you been following my instructions? Patient (feebly)—Yes, doctor. Doctor—Been eating animal food right along, have you? Patient (grimly trying to smile)—Well, doctor, I tried to, but somehow it did not seem to agree with me very well. I managed to worry down the hay and the clover tops all right; but the thistles kind of stuck in my throat, and I had to give it up.—Judge. 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. Rival Dignities An Englishman, fond of boasting of his ancestry, took a coin from his pocket and, pointing to the head engraved on it, said: "My great-great-grandfather was made a lord by the king whose picture you see on this shilling." "What a coincidence!" said his Yankee companion, who at once produced another coln. "My great-great-grandfather was made an angel by the Indian whose picture you see on this cent."—Ladies' Home Journal. Johnnie's Position "Yes," began Mr. Peters, Sr., "John Peters, Jr., has quit school and accepted a position in Davis' general store." "Indeed!" commented the summer visitor. "What are his duties?" "He is superintendent of the cracker and cheese department," replied Mr. Peters, Sr., with guarded satisfaction. "He has the entire charge of wropping up the cheese."—Youth's Companion. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney of Hall's Catarrh, all his transactions and financialable to carry out any objections made by his firm. WALDING Wholesale Drugs, Toledo. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the surface of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 72 cents per bottle. Sold by all Drugsellers. The Last Straw. Caesar was about to enter Rome in triumph. Just as he was climbing into his charlot Cicerole yelled in his ear: "Step lively, please!" Angrily tearing up his transfer, the great conqueror got out at the next crossing.—Illustrated Sunday Magazine. 10 DRIVE OUT MALARIA G AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM. Take the AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM. CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking showing it simply printed on every bottle, showing it simply printed on every bottle, showing it simply printed on every bottle. For grown people and children, use a formal form. Cheap Labor in Ceylon. The wages of the coolies who raise tea in Ceylon vary from 8.33 to 11.66 cents a day. They are, however, housed free, and get rice at cost price. Instant Relief for All Eyes, that are irritated from dust, heat, sun or wind, PETTIT'S EYE SALVE, 25c. All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. At some period in a man's life he firmly believes that all his friends have conspired to injure him. 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS' CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral NOT NARCOTIC Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alx Sunna - Rochelle Salts - Anise Seed - Papermint - HCl Corbonate Soda - Worm Seed - Cloridied Sugar Wintergreen Flavor A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP Fac Simile Signature of Chas H. Flutcher. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS Guaranteed under the Foodand Exact Copy of Wrapper. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chas H. Flutcher. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Let Me Send You a Package of Defiance Starch with your next order of groceries and I will guarantee that you will be better satisfied with it than with any starch you have ever used. I claim that it has no superior for hot or cold starching, and It Will Not Stick to the Iron No cheap premiums are given with DEFIANCE STARCH, but YOU GET ONE-THIRD MORE FOR YOUR MONEY than of any other brand. DEFIANCE STARCH costs 10c for a 16-oz. package, and I will refund your money if it sticks to the iron. Truly yours, Honest John, The Groceryman DEFIANCE 16 OZ FBR 10¢ ALL OTHER BRANDS GROCERY OFFICE 12 OZ Defiance STARCH WILL NOT STICK TO THE IRON He Apologized. Henry, aged three, was left alone with his three-months-old brother. His mother, hearing the baby cry, returned to find out what had happened. "Oh," said Henry, "I choked him a little, but I asked him to 'scuse me.' The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Sometimes Peppery. Spicy conversation should be handled gingerly. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. The wise man who has a good opinion of himself keeps it to himself. Lewis' Single Binder costs more than other 5c cigars. Smokers know why. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. It's a pity some people can't marry for brains instead of money. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colds. 25c a bottle. The love of money is the easiest of all roots to cultivate. Feet Ache—Use Allen's Foot-Ease Over 30,000 testimonials. Refuse wired package. A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. A successful man isn't necessarily a contented man. ria Makes Pale L TASTELESS CHILL, TONIC, drive are taking. The formula is plainly p LIVE STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS Electrotypes IN GREAT VARIETY FOR, SALE AT THE LOWEST PRICES BY WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION Kansas City, Missouri Broom Corn Shippers or Broom Corn Associations Correspond with us. We want Broom Corn. COYNE BROTHERS 160 South Water Street, Quick Answer. Readers of this paper desiring to buy anything advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask for, refusing all substitutes or imitations. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanse and beautifies hair Browns a beauty growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to cleanse and color. Curve up dyeers & hair falling 80c, and $1.00 or Drugs CALIFORNIA Abalone Pearl Shell Jewelry Novel designs. Fine for Christmas presents. 20 stamp for catalogue. Reasonable agents wanted. Los Angeles Specialties Co., 1200 Sq Ft, Los Angeles, Cal. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 42, 1908. Blood es out Malaria and builds up the intended on every bottle, showing it 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Excellence Court THE "U - KNEES FLO It excels in every respect, and read per barrel. MAD Watson WICHITA, DEAM ABSOLUTE IN NORTH-WEST COURT Bonded A IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL GRAHAM — CORN MEAL With thirty-five years milling products are the best that can best selected grain only and Ask You See that you get THE IMBODEN'S WICHITA VERTICAL 814 NORT HAY, FEED, GRA CUSTOM GRINDER We sell Corn Chops, Bran, ed Wheat, Kaffir Corn, Stor ORDERS TAKEN FOR COA C. O. VARNE ILLENCE COUNTS..... THEN USE U·KNEAD·IT'' FLOUR mels in every respect,—color, flavor, and p barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. WICHITA, KANSAS AM ABSTRACT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors BODEN'S IMPERIAL FLO BHAM — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST With thirty-five years milling experience in Wichita Products are the best that can be produced. Made selected grain only and put up in Special Pack Ask Your Grocer See that you get IMPERIAL IMBODEN MILLING WICHITA, KANSAS VERTICAL, MILL 814 NORTH MAIN FEED, GRAIN and O CUSTOM GRINDING A SPECIALTY Corn Chops, Bran, Hay, Oats, Alfalfa, Meat, Kaffir Corn, Stock Foods, Meal and IS TAKEN FOR COAL. We solicit your C. O. VARNER, Proprietor DEAM ABSTRACT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR GRAHAM — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years milling experience in Wichita our products are the best that can be produced. Made froffi best selected grain only and put up in Special Packages, Ask Your Grocer See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING Co. WICHITA, KANSAS VERTICAL MILL HAY, FEED, GRAIN and COAL CUSTOM GRINDING A SPECIALTY We sell Corn Chops, Bran, Hay, Oats, Alfalfa, Sceen- ed Wheat, Kaffir Corn, Stock Foods, Meal and Flour ORDERS TAKEN FOR COAL. We solicit your trade C. O. VARNER, Proprietor KINER'S European Hotel Newly Furnished. Nice, Clean Rooms $1.50 and 352 North and RESTA 346 North Good Home Cooking, Prompt S Johnston ICHITA 507 N. N Everything first class. Elo Transient Trade — Re R. Johnston Furnished. Nice, Clean Beds 25c and 50c p Rooms $1.50 and 2.50 per week 352 North Main Street and RESTAURANT 346 North Main Street e Cooking, Prompt Service — Meals — S Chas. L. Kiner, P. Johnston's Hotel A 507 N. Main St. K thing first class. Electric Lighti, Electric ransient Trade — Restaurant in Connecti R. Johnston, Proprietor Newly Furnished. Nice, Clean Beds 25c and 50c per night Rooms $1.50 and2.50 per week 352 North Main Street and RESTAURANT 346 North Main Street Good Home Cooking, Prompt Service Meals Short Orders Chas. L. Kiner, Proprietor Johnston's Hotel 507 N. Main St. KANSAS Everything first class. Electric Lighti, Electric Fans Transient Trade — Restaurant in Connection R. Johnston, Proprietor Straighten Your Hair Staas I—I have used only one bottle of it, and now I would not be without it for it his hair soft and straight and easy to comb his new growth. I. W. P. K.—Herrmann Tenn. Many known as Ozonized Ox Marrow. The variety of osseus has proved its merit. It is a rich source of vitamins, so you can combine it and arrange it in your own combination with its length. It prevents dandruff, invigorates blood, soothes it and of or of, and gives it new life and vigor. It is very hardness - used with splendid rebenefits - youngest children. Perfectly permeable, pleasurable, as a refinement everywhere declare. The osseus have has imitators. Don't mistake them as clichés, because the best results, buy the best Pom-pom will pay you. Look for this name on every package. First drugs will not supply you with the same send us, express on postal money order and even equal size or 25 cents for small size and your drugs' name and address. Forward bottle prepaid to any point in U. Return mail on receipt of price. Address. Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. Lake Kennie St. Chicago, IL. Hair POMADE is made only in Chi- tle the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. nts.... USE "AD-IT" UR color, flavor, and pounds of BY Mill Co. KANSAS TRACT Co. CORNER OF THE HOUSE abstractors RIAL FLOUR BREAKFAST FOOD ing experience in Wichita our can be produced. Made froffl put up in Special Packages, or Grocer MILLING Co. KANSAS AI. MILL TH MAIN MAIN and coal NG A SPECIALTY Hay, Oats, Alfalfa, Sceen- k Foods, Meal and Flour L. We solicit your trade R, Proprietor In Beds 25c and 50c per night 2.50 per week Main Street and REURANT Main Street Service — Meals — Short Orders Chas. L. Kiner, Proprietor n's Hotel Main St. KANSAS Electric Lighti, Electric Fans restaurant in Connection Proprietor 6045 Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-day 829 East Center SALINA, KANSAS W. L. Herman CONTRACTING : PLASTERER 856 Eagle St., Wichita, Kan. ALL THINGS ARE WELL. That ends well- so pay your subscription to the Searchlight and get good THE WIGH SEARCHLIGHT A Smoke Talk At Home With green wood in the stove or fire place isn't what its cracked up to be We have lots of nice dry Wood cut in 16 inch and 2-foot lengths. Also plenty of GOOD COAL always on hand.. BOYT PHONE: 496 J. H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 533 TO 547 WEST DOUGLAS It Is Right To Economize, Even In Small Matters. If You Trade At The Econcmy Grocery Store you can always get fresh goods at reasonable prices. To trade with uswill convince you. " Once our customer, al- ways our customer " We are at the corner of Pine and Water st Call to see us D. K. Mickleberry, Proprietor Hickerson's Restaurant 339 N. Main St. Meals 20c and 25c Cigars, Tobacco, Lunch Fish Game and Oysters in Season Your Trade Wanted J. W. Owens SHOEMAKER With The WICHITA SHOE CO., 144 N. Main St. Your Patronage Solicited All Work Guaranteed Use Herman's Cement Stone Made from the best material. Lasts longer, wears better and more durable than any other Cement Stone on the market. Prices Reasonable. PRICES 11c each laid in wall 8c each delivered 7c each in the yard Rock Face 8c each Plain Face 7c each Manufactured By W. L. HERMAN, 527 Ohio Ave.. New Phone 1127 'WINCHESTER THE RED W BRAND LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS 'LEADER' AND REPEATER Loaded with Smokeless Powder 'NUBLACK' NEW RIVAL Loaded with Black Powder Used by the Most successful shots SOLD EVERYWHERE NO WINCHESTER 12 REPEATER The Annual Conference sire" of Bishop Grant to "hold" the work a week of two. A great howl of disappointment went up from everyone when this was heard. Westrn U. The leading edu- stitute for Negro A faculty of eighteen thor- from the leading Insti- MAGNIFICENT Steam Heated and DEPARTMENT Theological, Classical, Nor- cal, State Industrial, embr tecture, Carpentry, Mecha- Book-binding, Tailorlng, Ic making, Millinery, Cooking, Thorough discipline, careful supervision Fine Military Banc For full particulars write Prof. Shelto Of Western QUINDA Residence Phone No. 15 MESSEE FAMOUS AND ICE CHE WHOLESALE For Parties, Picnics, Orders delivered to a BON-ION & BAKERY E. B. MESSI 146 N. Main St. Westrn University The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west MECOY A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted Theological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailorlng, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. 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-ION & KANDY BAKERY E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. 146 N. Main St. I phone 15 As soon as this "hold order" from Bishop Grant was learned several who were thoroughly disgusted with previous minute work urged the Searchlight representative to go to Kansas City and see Bishop rGant and, if possible, learn why he took the matter from the committee, especially when the committee had regularly let the work, and for our expense to Kansas City a free offering of $5.10 was raised and given us. We left Topeka at 5 p. m. and on our arrival in Kansas City went at once to the home of Bishop Grant, 532 Washington. The Bishop was at home. After a few preliminaries we made our mission known. The Bishop treated kindly, and that is about all we can say. We are still in doubt and although our bid was accepted fair and square, the future must say whether we will be given the work. All we ask for is a square deal. We know not why the matter was held up —therefore cannot say now, but may learn later. We Are Grateful. We are more than grateful to the many ministers and church men who urged that we "be given a chance". We thank each of them from the bottom of our heart, and should we yet be granted what we have won, we will endeavor to give the conference a first-class work within the time specified. FRANKFORT, KANSAS. Frank Clay is recovering nicely from typhoid fever. Two unknown girls were drowned near here this week. A banquet wasgi venb y the C. M. E. church Friday night, one dollar per plate. Rev. Warfield preached an inspiring sermon Tuesday night, subject "Judgment Day." The church was crowded. During his stay here Rev. Warfield made many warm friends. Ben Tillery passed through our town Thursday enroute to his home in Seneca, Kansas. He had been our west buying stock. Mrs. George Brewer and son John- Prof. Shelton French ACTING PRESIDENT --- university Educational in- stances in the west roughly equipped teachers institutes in America. BUILDINGS Electric Lighted MENTS Normal, Snb-Normal, Musi- cing courses in Archi- cical Drawing, Printing, Business Courses, Dress Laundering and Farming. Christian influence and Orchestra to Bon French, ACTING PRESIDENT University RO, KS Office Phone 1423 ERVE'S CELEBRATED REAM AND RETAIL Socials and Churches any part of the city KANDY KITCHEN ERVE, Prop. Phone 15 nie of Centralia, spent a few days visiting at the home of Mrs. P. Montgomery. There hasn't been any school fort wo weeks on account of the furnace not being in good condition, and it is too cold to sit in these chool building and study. Mr. Winfred Montgomery left Saturday for Kansas City. Mr. Fred Miller left Saturdayfor a few days' visit at Seneca, Kan. Mr. Chestine Hickman and Miss Minnie Parks will bej oinedi n wedlock Wednesday, October 7th at eight o'clock p. m. Rev. January pastored at the First Baptist church Sunday. He is passing through on his way to Blue Rapids, where he will perform the ceremony of Mr. Chistine Hickman and Miss Minnie Parks. Rev. and Mrs. Scott passing through on their way to Junction City last Sunday stopped over and Rev. Scott preached an able sermon Sunday night and Mrs. Scott rendered one of her beautiful solos which touched the hearts of every one. While Miss Da Medna Montgomery played for her. Rev. Scott also reorganized the Knights and Ladies of the Orient." Quite a number left today to attend the Priests of Pallas at Kansas City this week. This is all. I will take the paper for six months longer—that will be until February. Mrs. Thomas Martin left Tuesday for Oklahoma and will visit in Dover and other points among relatives and friends. Mrs. Viny Demon and Mrs. R. N. Countee left Monday night for Kansas City, where they will visit and attend the Priests of Pallas. Rev. J. H. Van Leu, Rev. E. T. Fishback, Rev. G. W. South, Jno. E. Lewis and Mrs H. F. Frazier are Wichitans attending the Baptist State Convention in Atchison his week. . VISITS WITH UNCLE BY HE'S NEVER TO IT The boss complained because the new man threw from the ditch but one shovel of dirt to the old man's two, whereat the new man remarked that the old man ought to, because he had been on the job twice as long. This reminds of the brawny Irishman who, when reprimanded for the same defect, replied: "Well, hadn't he ought t? He's smaller and nearer to it!" Those Wrights are highfliers, all right, all right! Sometimes you can buy a woman a beautiful fall hat and make her forget that she wanted an automobile! A Michigan fisherman has invented a rubber angleworm. In other words, when the fish "rubber" they "get the hook." A Nebraska newspaper tells us that "an old woman's stocking is nice for rubbing up shoes after you have put the polish on." Does the editor mean that the young women are wearing theirs, or did he write it "woolen" stocking? Ah, where the shade its lure has spread, The spell of peace is on the bank- The peace that knows no bickering, No greed, no curse of creed or rank. Where ripples sing a rustle psalm The pumps the dozing mind to dream. The brown-eyed cattle, half asleep, Are idling in the babbling stream. The sun that sparkles on the food And fashion diamonds in the sand. In weaving tracery divine Along the leafy border land! The stream runs on in rhythmic rune. The moments drift their passing way, And all the world along the shore Is peaceful as an Autumn day! Ah, give to me a heart that's filled With incense of the border land-- The peace and gladness of the stream Where dozing, brown-eyed cattle --- Go it while you're young, my boy! Establish yourself in the town annals as a high stepper. Then go to the city at the first opportunity and get city broke! Then go it some more! Keep right on going! Get in with the fast ones! One way to prevent infirmity in your old age is to die young. The way to die young is to burn out all your reserve centers while you have youth and vitality to help you make a fool of yourself. Pitch into the carmine of life. Then pitch the carmine into yourself and spit paint all over town! Keep right on in the paint business until your nose is a headlight and everybody knows at a glance that you are running wild on an open-switch track! Toot to beat the band! Run over all the hopes and ambitions of your poor old father and mother. Don't stop for red lights or crossings or a cow on the track! Go it while you're young! After a while you can't go so very fast, because you will have to stop so much oftener for fuel. That's why you want to go as fast as you can now. Burn up the track! When you strike an extra running wild, your old cronies will slobber over you and go back to the brothel for "more of the same." They are going some, too! Lead a gay life and lead it while you are young. It is the only thing that pays in misery and disgrace a million fold! Don't forget, my boy, to go it while you're young! An Illinois editor warns the young ladies of his town who propose getting directoire gowns that they should be careful to keep their stockings well darned. On general principles, this is good advice, directoire or no directoire. THE GOLF CROSSING Growing rice is one of the leading industries of the natives of our island possessions in the far east. The above photograph shows a typical rice field near the city of Manila. The island in the distance is Corregidor. SMITHY WINS A WIFE May Duplicate Homes of Rich. ```markdown ``` From stereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N.Y. Growing rice is one of the leading industry possessions in the far east. The above photo near the city of Manila. The island in the di SMITHY WINS THE FORMER CONVINCED THAT HORSESHOES ARE LUCKY. ready the st Heiress Takes Father's Horse to Shop and Falls in Love with Youth —Now "Driving a Tandem for Life." Spokane, Wash.-Lyle G. Cameron, the young first mate of Charles Staley's horseshoeing parlors, on Main avenue, is convinced horseshoes are lucky. He has returned this verdict because it was a young woman's quest for horseshoes which made him the happiest man in the world. It was only a few days since that she consented to allow him to provide shoes for her, as well as her horse, in the future. Cameron took out a license to wed Miss Edna West, 21, and now, as the husband expresses it, they are "driving a tandem for life." "Whether I build a house or rent one," said Cameron, "one prominent feature of the interior decorations will be horseshoes. Wherever one looks I am going to have a good luck sign. Just to do the thing up right I think I will have all the doors and windows fashioned in the shape of horseshoes." It was while Staley's stalwart smith was hammering away on an anvil back in Virginia, Minn., a year ago that his eyes first encountered those of Miss West, daughter of a rich resident of the mining town. While she was driving one of her father's high steppers about town one summer's day the horse threw a shoe. She drove into Cameron's shop to have it replaced. Cameron did the job up to the queen's taste, at least she smilingly said it was all right. They exchanged significant glances when she left. Then and there the courtship commenced. She was fair to look upon. Cameron's brown eyes and broad shoulders looked good to her. Cameron became ambitious. He longed to be making about twice as much money as his trade was then netting. Hearing of a good opening in Spokane, where people pay more for horseshoeing, Cameron came west, but not until he had arrived at an understanding with Miss West. "She said she was willing to do team work with me as long as it was a horse aplece," explained Cameron, "so when I wired her to come on she was May Duplicate Hoe Judge Says Residences of Wealthy Cannot Be Copyrighted. San Rafael, Cal.-It is now the sacred law of Marin county that homes of architectural rarity may be duplicated. Superior Court Judge Lennon has ruled that Armond de Courteux, a butcher, may have built for him the same sort of house that F. V. Madison, an attorney practicing in San Francisco, dwells in. The court also held that Edgar Mathews, the architect of San Francisco may duplicate his designs, for, Judge Lennon held, Mathews has a certain personality which he expresses in the houses he builds, and to restrain this personality by an injunction would mean to deprive him of his means of livelihood and stifle art. The question of architecture came up in an injunction suit brought by Madison to restrain Mathews from constructing for De Courtieux, the local butcher, a home near the Madison domicile on the same quaint lines that had made the Madison mansion a joy. Madison claimed that the peculiar old English cut of his home should not be duplicated. Judge Lennon ruled: "If this injunction were granted it would have the practical effect of put- ready for the bell, and she came down the stretch on the North Coast Limited without a break. I was waiting at the depot when she crossed the tape, and we decided to double up as soon as possible. She's the finest girl that ever stepped into shoe leather, and I didn't keep her waiting at the church, you can bet on that." $100 BILL BED FOR MOUSE. Bank Clerks Spend Several Hours Trying to Locate Shortage. Oklahoma City, Okla.—For a short time great excitement prevailed in the First State bank of Prague over the discovery of a considerable loss of money. The shortage was found when the books were balanced at the close of banking hours. The clerks spent several hours trying to locate the shortage, but were unsuccessful. B. F. Whitmore, president, conceived an idea that the money might have fallen behind the baseboard. Ripping it up with a hatchet, he found the money. A mouse had it for a bed—a $100 bill and a $10 bill for a pillow. The animal had gotten it off the counter and took it to its hiding place. The mother mouse had just given birth to half a dozen little ones. TO COOK ON THE MARCH. Russian Stew Pot Will Be Used by United States Army. Washington.—In any future campaigns in which the American army may be engaged the Russian stewpot is to stand next to the colors in importance. The commissary department after much thought has decided upon that order of precedence. The Russian pot is a recent discovery, so far as the subsistence officers are concerned. The Russians have known of it a long time and used it in Manchuria. The only objection to it there was that it was too empty. It has been adopted here as a part of the field equipment. The pot is put on wheels and it has a firebox so that the making of a savory stew can proceed during the last few minutes of a march and be ready for the tired soldiers when they go into camp. ting Architect Mathews out of business, because his personality expresses itself in a certain type of house, and this injunction seeks to restrain him from constructing that type. The application for a restraining order is therefore denied." WOMAN ACTIVE FARMER AT 84. Personally Directs All the Work on Her 160-Acre Tract. Hillsboro, Ore. — Mrs. Rebecca Tongue, 84 years old, personally conducts the operations on a 160-acre tract of cultivated lands on the plains north of the city. She does her own planting and directs two hired men the year round; does her own housework; markets her butter and eggs, and from the income of these two products alone, together with veals, pays for all her help. This leaves her the income from the product of the entire farm, net. Mrs. Tongue came to Washington county from England 48 years ago, and all this time has resided on this place. She is at present having plans drawn for building a large farmhouse, the old one having burned some months ago. The home place is now worth $100 per acre and Mrs. Tongue has a snug bank account. 111111 PEV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 1715 Clark Ave. 717 "C" St, Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M. 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kans. C. M. JONHSON, G. P. P. 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 416 E. P. 3rd, Ft. Scott, Kans. OFFICIAL ORGAN—The Wichita Searchlight, W. N. Miller, Editor, 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. NEXT PLACE MEETING—The Grand Temple and Tabernacle Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction, will hold its next Session (the 18th annual) in Topeka, Kans., on the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1909. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1209 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Mrs. Katie Thomas, 117 E Laurett, Topeka, Kansas. 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark, Law- rence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 823 Free- man, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Hattie Warden, 124 N. Wash- ington, Pittsburg, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 15 Mrs. Ellen Lee, Box 25 Weir City, Kah. 16 Mrs. Lizie Morton, 1308 Washington, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessle Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 24 Mrs. Angie Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawat- omie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 8 Sa. WANTED—ARIDEN sample Latest Model "Ranger" bicycle for making money fast. Write for full partici- pation. NO MONEY REQUIRED until you buy. You will allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRAIL du- put it to any test you wish. If you are ther- e keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our ex- port to $5 middlemen's profits by buying de- and selling us two amounts that we will pay at any price until you receive our cai- prices and remarkable special offers to YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when low prices we can make you this year. We than any other factory. We are satis- tized by BICYCLE'S. You can buy it at double our prices. Ordered the day the recei- se SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not usually have a minimum our latest model. We prompt at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. I single wheels, imported roster COASTER-BRAKES, equipment of all kinds at half the usual $8 50 HEDGEHORN PUNCT SELF-HEALING TIRES 40 SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. We clear our out promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES. equipment of all kinds at hell the several. $8.90 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $4.80 (cash or wither $4.55). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes worn. The rubber is durable and not allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied 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 to the tire. The tire is also durable and tread. The regular price of these tires is $8.90 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day the rider of only $4.85 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on approval, you will be examined and sound them strictly as represented, and we will not discount of your order if you are not on our per pair if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will not nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, and are more durable than or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle, we give you your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby m m send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose a nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at O not satisfactory on examination. Tires are reliable bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have know that you will be so well pleased that when you want we want you to send a trial order at once, have this eum IF YOU NEED TIRES Hedgehorn Puncture the special introductory price quoted or; write for our describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about DO NOT WAIT or a pair of tires from anyone offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn every J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY **IF YOU NEED TIRES** don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry. Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. **BUYING a bicycle** DO NOT WAIT or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the price. PASSING OF YANKEES RECENT CENSUS SHOWS NEW OF REAL STOCK LEFT. Total Disappearance Seems Not Far Distant—Cape Cod, Mass., Center of Yankeeedom, Where They Still May Be Found. Providence, Mass.—Recent census investigations, together with the result of genealogical researches, have brought to light the surprising fact that the real Yankee is fast disappearing. Like his predecessor, the American Indian, this original stock of the first white settlers in New England is passing, with this difference, that while the Indian has been eliminated the Yankee is being absorbed. Abroad, particularly in England, the custom still holds of referring to all Americans as Yankees, and this accounts for the survival of a term which will soon have no real application. The day is not far distant, it would seem, which will mark the last of the real Yankees, when a chronicler may tell of their passing as Cooper told of the last of the Mohicans. Indeed, the disappearance of the real Yankee from New England is in many ways similar to the disappearance of the Indian. Each race in turn, after dominating a very large territory, centered more and more in one small district. With the red men of New England this was the territory on which King Philpil made his last stand; with the Yankee it is Cape Cod. On Cape Cod, indeed, the Yankee is still to be found. It was there that he first settled, and it seems likely it is there that he will last survive. For more than 200 years this sandy spit of land has been the center of Yankeedom, generation following generation with less change in all that time than has occurred in the last two decades. It was at Provincetown that the Pilgrims landed nearly three centuries ago, so that the cape comes naturally by its Yankee stock. Indeed, it is only of recent years that Cape Cod has felt the encroaching effect of modernity. From this sea-washed stretch of land the early Yankees sailed forth to cover the world of trade with their fleet of clipper ships, just as their forefathers did from the "tight little island" on the opposite side of the Atlantic. These original Yankees took to the sea like young ducks, almost as soon as they were able to leave their mother's wing. They manned and officered the little home-built merchantmen, which sailed from Boston and the New England ports in the colonial days The infant navy of the colonies in the revolution was alive with them in every sense of the word. During the war of 1812 scarcely an able-bodied man remained in a cape village; young and old they were afloat, either in the regular service or on privateers, to harass the British flag on the high seas. Thereafter, from the close of that conflict through the civil war and until the late seventies, wherever an American ship was cruising—and that was in almost every sea—her skipper, mates and crewmen were likely to be Cane Coders, born and bred. Later in life, if they escaped the perils of storm and wreck, and mutiny and hostile natives, they became shipowners. Then they maintained, some of them, offices in Boston or New York or New Bedford, and their fleets sailed forth and came home laden. The foundations of some of America's greatest fortunes were made in this way. But whether fleet owners or mere sea captains, they one and all cherished a love for the sturdy sand spit which had been their home and intended some day to return to it and settle down. That they did this the hundreds of handsome, substantial dwellings on the cape now testify. It is a curious fact that in the old days there was scarcely a house on the main street of a Cape Cod village which was not the home of a "captain" somebody or other. That was Yankeedom as it used to be. But Cape Cod has changed greatly in the last quarter of a century. Its sons no longer go to sea. There are a few steamship captains in active service and a few—a very few—skippers of fishing schooners. But even the fishing industry has left the cape to find new quarters at Gloucester or Boston. Cranberry growing and the taking of summer boarders are the chief occupations in the cape villages nowadays. CATS TO DEFEAT PLAGUE. Japanese Discovery Puts New Value on Tom and Tabby. Washington.—As a result of recent discoveries made by the marine hospital scientists and health officials of the Japanese government there is about to be a strong bull movement in the cat market. It has been proven that the feline family is immune from the ravages of the bubonic plague, and that the most effective way of eradicating the disease from all Oriental countries and certain Pacific coast states is to set loose an army of pussies to wage war to death on rats and chipmunks, the medium through which the disease spreads most rapidly, while it has been found that cats devour infected specimens and grow fat on them. As a consequence, the Marine hospital officials advise all who have "Thomases" and "Tabithas" with four sound legs and good eyes to "hold them for a rise." ```markdown ``` Knights & Daughters OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF 24 Mrs. Joana Jones, I TABOR MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kans. MRS SARAH FORBES, C. G. R. s. 63 Mrs. Lille Robinett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) ita, Kan., Fridays. 3 krs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan. 1-3 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-8 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Salina, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive all catalogues and special offer at once. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U, S, without a cent deposit in advance, drop off freight, we will pick up and deliver you may ride the bicycle and keep it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly prepared to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will not be out one cent. We will deliver the factory PRICES at one small profit above all factory cost. You save $200. We direct the object of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT pay any price at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unbeached of factory. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. We also offer our bicycles under your own name plate at our prices. Orders filled the day received. MEDGE THORN RECORD PURCHASE TIME LOB MUSIC TIMELAND SELF HEARING apped same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on examined and found them strictly as represented, it (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you buy it at OUE expense. We will also send one returned at OUE expense. If any issues they are really reliable and money sent to us is as safe as they will find that they will ride easier, run faster, when you have used or seen at any price. We then you have a bicycle you will give us your order. Hence this remarkable tire offer. Buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of worn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at OUE expense. If any Catalogue which prices at about half the usual prices. A modern, today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. TABERNACLE& Chief Precantresses 24 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) 25 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1503 Archer Av., South Omaha, Ne'raska. 27 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 28 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 29 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 32 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Aye, Tonkea, Kan 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ids M. Jordan, 908 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Weir 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-8 Fri. 3 J. G. Burdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-8 Fri. 4 F. D. Early, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Thur. Dr. G. G. Brown, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kans., 1-3 Tues. A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-8 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 S. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 15 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 22 B. C. Easter, Box 156, Oswego Kans., 2-4 Tues. 24 J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th, Cherryvale, Kans., 1-3 Tues. 25 J. H. Downs, 423 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-2 Thur. 60 E. C. Sqires, 1813 Jefferson, Topeka, Kans., 1-3, Mon. 72 J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 777 TEMPLES. Chief Mentors TENTS. Queen Mothera Notice the thick rubber treads "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This makes almost any other make- SOFT, LASIC and EASY RIDING. 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, La- coln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walka- kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Co- feyville, Kan., 2- Wed. (A) 6 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Wainut, Ilo- kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Oma- ha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Ethel Penn, 718 "Q" St. Atchison, Ks., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arle Stone, 823 Main, Atchison Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Wadkins, Weir City, Ks., 2-4 Wed. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Saffna Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsons Kans., 1-3 Sat. 28 Louise Verder, 813 N. J. Lawrences Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 30 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1818 N. Madison Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 813 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, Editors Apple Dumplings Declared to Be Pen fection of Cookery. To one pound sifted four add the slightly beaten yolks of two eggs, a half level teaspoonful salt, and enough water to mix into a batter. Take can not to use more water than is necessary, as the dough must be firen enough to hold its form when dropped into cold water. Stir the batter well until smooth, then add four small pies cut into small cubes and min thoroughly. Have ready a pot of rapidly boiling salted water. Drop the batter in by the spoonful and boil without stopping, from 20 to 30 minutes, according to size. Stir around once or twice so that none will adhere to the bottom of the pot. Then cover up again. Take out one by one, and cut in even slices. Have ready a pot of hot butter, drop in each slice and brown slightly on both sides. Serve immediately with butter and cinnamon or fruit sauce. This recipe from an old German cook book was sent with the assurance that it "was delicious." WHEN FLOOR NEEDS PAINTING Best Results Achieved by Doing It Following Manner. Have floor well scrubbed and free from tacks and lime and thoroughly dried before applying paint. Give a coat of floor paint of any desired color every other day until three coat have been applied. Then get a varnish the color of the paint and apply two good coats of that and the floor will look fine and smooth. To clean the floor, if a border only, first sweep the carpet and let dust settle. Make a duster by wrapping an old piece of flannel around a broom handle so that it forms a round ball and over this a piece of eiderdown. Go over the painted portion of the floor with the duster, every once in a while shaking out the dust. In this way the floor will always look nice and it will not be necessary to clean with water which always dulls the paint. Meat Roll. One quart of flour, two teaspoonful baking powder, one teaspoonful salt, two rounding tablespoonful drippings, mix these ingredients until the consistency of cornmeal, the work in enough sweet milk to form dough easily handled. Cold water may be used instead of the milk, be a tablespoonful more of dripping must be used in this case. Roll the dough into a sheet one-fourth in thick, using flour on the molding bead to prevent the dough adhering. Spread minced meat or fowl over this and add salt and pepper, begin at one end, roll up as for a jelly roll; pinch ends together, using water to make them adhere, thus preventing the meat from oozing out. Place in a butter dish and set in a steamer over boiling water for one hour; remove serve with left-over gravy or make tomato sauce. Cut into slices who serving. Vegetable marrow squash, a green favorite in England, is coming in favor here very rapidly. The squash are white and mottled green varieties and should be gathered before the seeds harden. Too long on the vine tends to toughen the meat. Vegetable marrow should be peeled and cut small pieces, the seed part cut out and thrown away. Drop cut pieces in water, and cook until tender. Drop and pass through colander. Return pan uncovered, and allow to steam back of stove. Add one teaspoon butter and little pepper. Serve in Vegetable marrow can also be fried baked and stewed. Supplement to The SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, : : : : KAM9 As Between Father and Son. Grant that "dad" was as a rule a child's name for father; where is the disrespect in the use of it by any son, however old he may be? We have often heard the word used when the relations between father and son were unusually tender, when the two were close companions, when there was complete understanding and the strongest love. There was a time in New England when a son addressed his father in writing, "Respected Sir." The father was then of the Roman order. There was little thought of any possible intimacy. The son stood in awe of the sire. Hence, too often domestic tragedies. When you hear a lad speak to-day of his father as "the old man" you may reasonably infer that there is no sweet companionship. If a boy mentions his "dad," says the Boston Herald, there is a world of affection in the word. There is a touch of hardness, a suspicion of fear in the term "governor." "Pop" is a cheap term, if it be not vile. City celebrations are usually dreaded by property-holders and municipal authorities who have to deck buildings with flags and streamers. The National Society of Fine Arts, the Washington Architectural club and the Washington branch of the American Institute of Architects have offered prizes for plans of decoration to be used in Washington during the inaugural exercises next March. Whistler, the American artist, looking at London during the celebration of the queen's jubilee, said that Londoners displayed the beauty of their city by wrapping it in rags and then sitting on it. A sane scheme of decoration for a holiday would be welcome in all cities, and it is to be hoped that Washington will find it and set the example. The ingenious Saxons in their efforts to save their forests from devastation have utilized the well-known fondness of moths for the light. Two powerful search-lights were mounted on a pillar in one of the cities of Saxony a few weeks ago where the moths were most numerous. The light was turned on the forests half a mile away. The moths flew toward the light, and when near it were caught in a current of air created by powerful exhaust fans and drawn into bins prepared for them. According to the cable dispatches, three tons of moths were caught in this way the first night. The crop of leaf-eating caterpillars will be much smaller in that part of Germany next year. Every American had a great-grandfather who once owned a farm on Broadway, New York, or almost bought the place where Chicago now stands, if we may believe the boasts of their descendants. It is interesting to see these magical opportunities in embryo at the present time. The population of the town which will be the terminal of the Hudson Bay railroad is said to consist of four half-breed families, one mounted policeman and one white settler, who is entitled to 160 acres. Will he sell out, or will his grandchildren own the sites of enormous business blocks when the metropolis of the north is built? Explorers who go into far countries are sure to be out of touch with the easy world and to cause worry to their friends at home. Exploration is not necessary in the vicinity of post offices. An American who tramps the angles of the South American Amazon was reported lost a year ago; but a few months he turned up and got the mail that had been waiting for him. Sven Hedin was lost in Tibet for several months, and his friends were alarmed. He has lately been found from and is safe. He has been waiting for the source of the Indus, and "there ain't no 'buses runnin'" to interesting summer resort. The Emperor William has approved decree of the Prussian parliamenting equal educational advantages in men to the women and girls of kingdom. He must have changed mind since he pronounced that three "K's," as they are in Ger—church, kitchen and children—are objects enough to fill a woman's life. Or perhaps he has had his mind for him. The women of the present age are not backward in asking for what they want and insisting getting it. If the population of the United States becomes 140,000,000 by 1950 it is to feed them? At the present average rate of seven bushels of wheat each they will eat a billion bushweed every year. We will have to raise production just one-third. according to the Engineering Rese a concrete tank at the San Ant las works has been in service for the years, holding heavy Texas of most showing any leakage wha CENTRAL AFRICA JUNE 18, 1889 AMERICA IN AMERICA THE ROOSEVELT TWO MEN WHO WANT SMALL IN HUMBLE NOT MORE THAN SEVEN OR EIGHT. LORD FASTON AKANSANITSHEAD TRANS-MISSISSIPPI COMMERCIAL CONGRESS READY FOR BUSINESS AT SAN FRANCISCO. J. B. CASE WILL WIELD GAVEL Abilene Man Will Sound the Keynote of Conference in His Introductory Address on Tuesday. San Francisco, Cal. Oct. 7.—Thronging the corridors of the leading hotels viewing the massive creations of steel and concrete that have replaced the desolate area of two years ago and participating with enthusiasm in the conferences preliminary to the ninth Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress nearly 1,000 delegates to the five days' session of that organization Monday night awaited the call to order. J. B. Case of Abilene, Kan., will wield the gavel at Tuesday morning's opening in Dreamland pavilion and his introductory address is expected to sound the keynote of the conference wherat the western half of the United States through its commercial and promotion organizations will form not only its demands upon congress but the policy of its new membership upon the conservation of natural resources; irrigation and scientific care of the soil, rivers and harbors, the need of a merchant marine and a fleet to make possible its advent, trade relations with the Orient and the western hemisphere and a score or more of sectional issues considered of sufficient importance to affect the welfare of tue west. The congress is expected to include representatives of 18 states, four territories and dependencies and six foreign countries. While many districts will be represented by the officers of their foremost commercial bodies, Utah, Washington and Colorado, together with California, will send their official representatives and the national administration will be represented by William R. Wheeler, assistant secretary of commerce and labor. Tuesday's session will be confined to organization and a cruise about the San Francisco bay. Business men from Washington and California united Monday in formation of an organization that will in the future pass upon national legislation to be asked by the three states. It is the purpose of the new association to enlist as a unit for every coast measure considered of sufficient importance, the services of all senators and representatives from the three states. Cholera Decreasing in Manila. Manila, Oct. 6.—There were nine new cases of cholera and two deaths Sunday, but only two new cases up to noon Monday. It is believed that the cooler weather which has followed Sunday's typhoon, has had a good effect in decreasing the number of new cases. G. D. Mitchel, the American dentist, who became ill October 2 and whose case was diagnosed as cholera, has been discharged from the hospital, his aliment having proved not to be cholera. Punished for "Pernicious Activity." Punished for "Permissive Activity." Washington, Oct. 7. The civil service commission Tuesday issued a statement announcing that Paul W. Cox, a substitute clerk in the Robinson, Ill., postoffice, has been removed from office and to H. B. Thomas, clerk in the Orangeburg, S. C., postoffice, severely reprimanded and reduced in salary from $900 to $700 a year beginning last Thursday, both because of "bernicious political activity." A Child of 14 Months Burned. Trenton, Mo., Oct. 7.—While his mother was out of the house for a few minutes Monday the 14-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Buster lighted a match and ignited his clothing. He was dangerously burned. READY FOR AMERICAN BOYAL READY FOR AMERICAN BOYAL ALL ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETEE FOR KANSAS CITY'S BIG SHOW. Students of Agricultural Colleges to Engage in a Stock Judging Contest. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 7.—Practically all the live stock entered in the record-breaking tenth annual American Royal Live Stock Show at the Kansas City stock yards, which starts next Monday, October 12, will be in place by Saturday, when the students of agricultural colleges and the farmers' sons will engage in the stock judging contest. Teams of students from the Kansas and Missouri state colleges will contest with a team from the Iowa college for the Kansas City Stock Yards Company trophy, a silver cup valued at $500. The cup was won by the Ames, Iowa, school last year, but must be won three years in succession before it becomes the property of any school. The Royal this year will exceed in number of purebred entries in nearly every department all its predecessors The night shows, Tuesday to Friday will open with parades of live stock but will consist mainly of the horse show, for which all the best strings of light harness and saddle horses in this part of the country are entered The arena will be larger this year, and will allow plenty of room for the maneuvering of the numerous entries in each class, and of the packers' teams of draft horses and the ponies. The capacity of the show tent has been doubled, and 6,600 persons will have comfortable seats. Of this number 2,000 seats will be reserved and 30 will be chairs in reserved boxes. Adquate street car service is promised from all parts of the city direct to the show grounds, so that visitors from out of town will have no difficulty getting there. Sales of cattle and swine and range sheep will be held during the week, the range sales especially being assured of success since they will contain carlots shown for prizes of the best feeding stuff of the northwest and southwest ranges. Wants Live Stock Cases Advanced. St. Louis, Oct. 7—James R. Gray, clerk of the United States circuit court, Monday received a communication from Attorney General Bonaparte asking that the injunction suit filed by 55 western and southwestern railroads to restrain the interstate commerce commission from inforcing an order reducing livestock rates on shipments from the southwest to Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph be advanced on the docket ahead of all other litigation. The attorney general also asked that the papers in the case be sent as soon as possible to Judges Vandeventer, Hook and Adams. New Road for Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 7.—The Omaha, Lincoln and Southeastern railroad was Tuesday incorporated with a capital of $100,000. Its termini will be Lincoln and Omaha. It is a competing project for the Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice, which is partly completed. Two of the incorporators, D. V. Sholes and C. L. Dundey are Omaha men, the other are residents of New York. They Ban Out of Tickets Chicago, Oct. 7.-Almost 5,000 delegates and visitors to the Lakes-to-the Gulf Deep Waterways association were registered at Chicago hotels Tuesday and the demand for tickets for the first session, at which William H. Taft will make an address exceeded the supply. W. A. Rothwell Very III Moberly, Mo., Oct. 7.—W. A. Roth well, the Democratic national committeeman for Missouri, who has been in a dangerous condition here for several days, was no better Tuesday. He is not expected to live. THE BALKAN ROW AN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION OF THE BULGARIAN SITUATION BY FOREIGN MINISTER. GIVES CAUSE OF REBELLION Turkey Charged With Not Respecting the Rights of Bulgaria Under the Berlin Treaty Treaty. M. Poprikoff, the Bulgarian minister of foreign affairs, has sent a cable dispatch to the Associated press, giving an authoritative explanation of the Bulgarian situation, which is now absorbing the attention of Europe and the world at large. The dispatch is in reply to a cablegram requesting M. Poprikoff to send an official statement of the facts. His answer, dated Tuesday at the ancient capital of Bulgaria, is as follows: "Tirnovo, Bulgaria, Oct. 7.—Pursuant to the treaty of Berlin, Bulgaria has been a principality, tributary to Turkey. Many years ago Bulgaria acquired the right to have diplomatic representatives accredited to all the great powers. She maintained such a representative at Constantiople. Until recently the diplomatic representative of Bulgaria to Turkey was invited, with the other members of the diplomatic corps in Constantiople to all official ceremonies, receptions and dinners. On the twelfth or last September, the occasion being the anniversary of the sultan's birth day, the Turkish minister of foreign affairs gave a dinner to the diplomatic corps to which the diplomatic representative of Bulgaria was not invited. Steps were at once taken to secure an explanation of this neglect. The Ottoman government replied that the Bulgarian representative had no right to expect an invitation to this diplomatic dinner, as Bulgaria was a vassal state of Turkey. "There then followed a diplomatic conflict between Bulgaria and Turkey, Bulgaria considered that Turkey was not respecting the rights acquired by her and she desired to defend these rights. This was the first incident. "The Oriental Railway company operates 300 kilometers (150 miles) of line in Bulgarian territory. The same company operates also about 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) of line in Turkish territory. A recent strike on the property of the Oriental Railroad company in Turkey spread at the same time to Bulgarian territory. This strike was decided upon and directed from outside of Bulgaria. Following an understanding with the representative of the Oriental Railroad company the Bulgarian government took over temporarily the running of the road. The strike, however, spread until the national security of Bulgaria was threatened, and the people became discontented with the state of affairs. "The situation imposed upon the Bulgarian government the necessity of fixing definitely the relations between the principality and Turkey. The new regime in Turkey made it imperative for Bulgaria to maintain the best of relations with her neighbors, especially as this fictitious condition of vassalage created feelings of suspicion and distrust which might at any moment result in disturbing the peace of the Balkans. "Bulgaria understood clearly that Austria-Hungary soon would annex the occupied provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the general situation was such that Bulgaria was obliged without delay, to declare her complete independence. "Consequently, Tuesday, October 6 Bulgaria was proclaimed an independent kingdom Prince Ferdinand accepted the title of king 0 Bulgaria. This act was communicated to all the great powers by proclamations declaring that Bulgaria was independent. "Bulgaria has made no aggressive acts. She has given regular form to a situation that already existed de facto." A. St. Louis Rabbi Dead. St. Louis, Oct. 5.—Rabbi Solomon H. Sonnenschein, one of the best known Jewish rabbis in the Mississippi valley, died at his home here Saturday night. Death was due to the bursting of a blood vessel in the brain. Dr. Sonnenschein first officiated at a Jewish temple in Budapest, Hungary, but 50 years ago he was called the Shaare Emeth temple, St. Louis. St. Louis Germans Celebrate. St. Louis, Oct. 5.—The allied German organizations of St. Louis Sunday celebrated the anniversary of the first landing of Germans on American soil 225 years ago. The feature of the day was a monster parade Sunday afternoon in which 25,000 persons took part. In the parade were many elaborate floats illustrative of the history of Germans in America. A. Record in Cattle Receipts. Kansas City, Oct. 7.—More than 36,000 cattle and calves were yarded at the Kansas City stock yards Sunday and Monday. This is the largest number ever offered for sale on a single day and exceeded the former record of September 14 by 5,000. A Kentucky Liquor Dealer Dead. A Kentucky, Ky. Louisville, Ky. Oct. 7.-Major W.H. Thomas, for many years one of the most widel ykwned wholesale liquor dealers of Louisville, died Tuesday at the age of 83 years. HURRICANE IN MANILA BAY BATTLESHIP FLEET SAFELY OUT- RODE THE STORM. Wind Blew for 12 Hours and at Times Reached a Velocity of 100 Miles. Manila, Oct. 6.—The Atlantic battleship fleet has safely outrode a hurricane which swept Manila bay for 12 hours and did much damage ashore. Typhoon signals were displayed early Sunday morning but the storm broke over the bay suddenly and unexpectedly at noon. It was impossible to hoist the cutters and launches belonging to the fleet because of the danger of smashing them against the steel sides of the battleship and the little craft were sent scurrying inside the breakwater into the Pasig river where they remained all night. The storm quickly increased in intensity and the potential rains shut in the ships. At eight o'clock Sunday night the storm had reached its height and it then gradually tapered down until at midnight it was comparative calm although heavy seas swung across the harbor. During the storm all the battleships had steam up ready for any emergency. Rear Admiral Sperry finally ordered the flagship Connecticut and the Kansas, Minnesota, Vermont, Virginia and Ohio under way. They were close to the breakwater and Admiral Sperry feared they might drag anchors. The six vessels steamed down close to Cavite where they anchored. At times the wind blew at the rate of 100 miles an hour, all communication with shore was cut off. It was impossible during the height of the storm to see the warships through the haze of rain and spray. On shore it was dangerous to go about. Several carriages were overturned by the wind, trees were blown down, electric wires were prostrated and several buildings are unroofed. Among the buildings unroofed was the depot of the commissary. Several naval officers ashore on various er-ands were compelled to remain ashore all night. Carried Over Niagara Falls. Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 6.—Brewster Cameron, who was carried to death over the Niagara Falls Saturday night, was one of the best known men in the southwest, naving large property interests in Arizona, Texas and Mexico. He became prominent a number of years ago when assisting his uncle, Attorney General Brewster, to prosecute the Star Route cases. He was formerly United States marshal for Arizona. He is survived by a wife, a son, Brewster Cameron, Jr., now of Kansas City, and two daughters, one the wife of Capt. Briggs of Fort Riley, Kan., and one the wife of Capt. Brady of the Presidio, San Francisco. Kansas After Missouri Pacific Topeka, Kan., Oct. 7.—In a letter addressed to George J. Gould, president of the Missouri Pacific, the Kansas railroad board Tuesday reiterated its threat made to General Manager Sullivan to publish weekly bulletins of the condition of the road, if steps are not taken to improve it at once. An answer Monday received from Mr. Sullivan failed to declare any intention on the part of the road of improving conditions and brought forth the letter direct to Mr. Gould Tuesday. In the letter the board alleges the Missouri Pacific has failed in nearly every instance to obey the orders of the board. Harvester Case Postponed Topeka, Kan., Oct. 7.—The criminal case against the International Harvester company has been continued until the November session of the supreme court. This was done on account of the illness of Chief Justice Johnston. The attorneys for the company asked that the case be continued until the full court was on the bench. This is the case in which the company was fined $12,600 on 42 counts for violations of the anti-trust law in the Shawnee county district court. The case was appealed. To Oust Hutchinson, Kan., Mayor. To Oust Hutchinson, Kann, mayor Topeka, Kan., Oct. 7.—Attorney General Jackson will Wednesday morning file two ouster suits in the supreme court, one against the city of Hutchinson and the other against its mayor, John P. Harsha. Both are brought under the provisions of the prohibition law. The suit against the city asks for an injunction to restrain it from receiving fees from keepers of joints and disorderly houses in lieu of licenses and the suit against the mayor asks that he be ousted from office. Distributed Billions of Fish. Washington, Oct. 7.—Commissioner of Fisheries Bowers had a conference with the president Tuesday and told him that the federal fish commission during the last fiscal year distributed 2,811,000,000 fish and eggs throughout the country, which broke the record by 30,000,000. An Early Kansas Settler Dead. Salina, Kan., Oct. 7.—Cyrus Urmey 80 years old, and one of the first men to settle in this county, died at his home, three miles north of Salina Monday. Senator Beveridge will speak in Kansas October 17, in Oklahoma City the following day and in Kansas City October 19. Platform speeches will be made between principal stops. After All Hope Had Vanished. Mrs. J. H. Rennett, 59 Fountain St. Gardiner, Me., says: "My back used to trouble me so severely that at last I had to give up. I took to my bed and stayed there four months, suffering intense pain, dizziness, headache and inflammation of the bladder. Though without hope, I began using Doan's to trouble me so severely that at last I had to give up. I took to my bed and stayed there four months, suffering intense pain, dizziness, headache and inflammation of the bladder. Though without hope, I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and in three months was completely cured. The trouble has never returned." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. MINISTER A TRIFLE MIXED UP. Consequently There Was an Awkward Perhaps in Funeral Oration. It was at the funeral of a man who had left his young and attractive helpmeet a widow for the third time. At the time of his death their clergyman was away on a European trip, and in this emergency the Rev. Dr. Blank was called upon. A neighbor instructed him hastily as to the admirable qualities of the deceased, his benevolence plety and kind disposition, and gave him various points as to his family relations. During the funeral discourse no outsider would have suspected that the clergyman had not been a lifelong friend of the dead man. When, however, he came to mention the widow in his prayer, it was evident that his data in regard to her had become a trifle confused. He said: "And now we commend to thy care this widowed handmaid, who has been bereaved again and again and again." Then hesitating an instant, he added: "And perhaps again." HE REMEMBERED. ANTHOR GUILTE "And did your uncle remember you in his will?" "Well, he remembered me, all right, but that was why he didn't mention me in it." Arrange for Pure Milk. Chicago has a medical cow. She was bought by a woman health department inspector. Dr. Caroline Hedger, to produce pure milk for desperately sick babies in a crowded tenement district, and, according to reports, this latest Chicago experiment in municipal ownership has been a great success. "I purchased the cow for the department," said Dr. Hedger. "I told Commissioner Evans I needed a cow to save the lives of the sick babies out my way, and he told me to buy one; so I did. Some friends of mine are taking care of her, milking her and taking the milk direct to the sick infants. It doesn't go through a dozen hands before it reaches the babies. We get enough milk to supply the babies of 14 families." Australia's Wild Oysters. Oysters are sometimes regarded as dangerous but they are not usually considered savage. A Queensland judge, however, has decided that they are wild beasts. Before a royal commission on the pearling industry, which has been sitting at Brisbane, a witness stated that eight years ago he had laid 100,000 shells in the neighborhood of Friday island. The Japanese stole the shells, and the district court judge held that as pearl shell oysters were wild animals there was no penalty for stealing them. NO GUSHER But Tells Facts About Postum. "We have used Postum for the past eight years," writes a Wis. lady, "and drink it three times a day. We never fire of it. "For several years I could scarcely eat anything on account of dyspepsia, floating after meals, palpitation, sick headache—in fact was in such misery and distress I tried living on hot water and toast for nearly a year. "I had quit coffee, the cause of my trouble, and was using hot water, but his was not nourishing. "Hearing of Postum I began drinking it and my ailments disappeared, and now I can eat anything I want without trouble. "My parents and husband had about the same experience. Mother would often suffer after eating, while yet drinking coffee. My husband was a great coffee drinker and suffered from indigestion and headache. "After he stopped coffee and began Postum both alliments left him. He will not drink anything else now and we have it three times a day. I could write more but am no gusher—only state plain facts." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Welvliel," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. CALLED FOR SOME PUNISHMENT. Prisoner Altogether Too Deliberate for Life in Arizona. Arizona Judge (to defendant in an assault-and-battery case)—You say the complainant called you a liar and horse thief at least a dozen times before you knocked him down, eh? Defendant—Yes, sir. Judge—He said you were a coward and quitter? Defendant—He did Judge—All right. I'll let you off on the assault charge; but—don't be in a hurry, mister—I reckon I'll have to fine you jest about $50 for not knocking him down sooner! The sheriff will take you in tow and see that you cough up the dust before you pass out—Illustrated Sunday Magazine. SKIN TROUBLES CURED. First Had Itching Rash—Threatened Later With Blood-Poison in Leg—Relied on Cuticura Remedies. "About twelve or fifteen years ago I had a breaking-out, and it itched, and stung so badly that I could not have any peace because of it. Three doctors did not help me. Then I used some Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent and began to get better right away. They cured me and I have not been bothered with the itching since, to amount to anything. About two years ago I had la gripe and pneumonia which left me with a pain in my side. Treatment ran it into my leg, which then swelled and began to break out. The doctor was afraid it would turn to blood-poison. I used his medicine but it did no good, then I used the Cuticura Remedies three times and cured the breaking-out on my leg. J. F. Mennen, Milan, Mo., May 13, 1907." Filial Devotion. A southern congressman tells of a darky in a Georgia town whose best quality is his devotion to his aged parent. Once the congressman asked Pete why he had never married. "Why, boss," explained Pete, "Ise got an ole mudder. I had to do for her, suh. If Ef doan' buy her shoes an stockings she don't git none. Now, boss, you see of I was 't git married I'd have t' buy 'em f' mah wife, an 'dat'd be takin' de shoes an' stockings right outer my ole mudder's mouf."—Harper's Weekly. Nobody Else Loved Her. In her new autumn gown she regarded her complexion complacently in the long glass. "I must confess," she said, "that I am in love with myself." "Then you should be happy," said her chum, tartly, "for you haven't a rival." How often do smart clothes excite shabby remarks! ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. Self-realization comes through service for social redemption. WOMAN'S BACKACHE The back is the mainspring of woman's organism. It quickly calls attention to trouble by aching. It tells, with other symptoms, such as nervousness, headache, pains in the loins, weight in the lower part of the body, that a woman's feminine organism needs immediate attention. In such cases the one sure remedy which speedily removes the cause, and restores the feminine organism to a healthy, normal condition is Mrs. Will Young, of 6 Columbia Ave, Rockland, Me., says: "I was troubled for a long time with dreadful backaches and a pain in my side, and was miserable in every way. I doctored until I would never get well. I read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had done for others and decided to try it; after taking three bottles I can truly say that I never felt so well in my life." Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East Earl, Pa., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: "I had very severe backaches, and pressing-down pains. I could not sleep, and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured me and made me feel like a new woman." 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, fatulency, indigestion, dizziness or nervous prostration WANT DEEP WATER WANT DEEP WATER AKES-TO-THE-GULF CONVENTION WILL OPEN AT CHICAGO NEXT WEDNESDAY. WILL BE A RECORD BREAKER More Than 3,000 Acceptances to Invitations Have Been Received—Taft and Bryan to Speak. Chicago, Oct. 6.—The National Deep Waterway convention, organized to promote the building of an inland ship waterway from Lake Michigan through the Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico, will open in Chicago on Wednesday for a three days' session. Delegates, including governors, members of congress, engineers and prominent men from all parts of the country, are expected to be present. It is announced that 3,000 acceptances to invitations have been received. W. H. Taft and W. J. Bryan are to be among the speakers. Mr. Taft will speak at eleven o'clock on Wednesday morning, while Mr. Bryan will speak at the same hour on the following morning. Illinois already has expressed a practical interest in the Lake-to-Gulf plan by arranging that the voters of the state at the November election shall determine whether $20,000,000 shall be expended by them in building that section of the waterway which would extend from Chicago to the Mississippi river. For this reason Gov. Deneen of Illinois has been selected to preside at the opening session. The opening address will be delivered by President W. K. Kavanaugh, who will be followed by Mr. Taft. At 1:30 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon the delegates are to be taken by special train down the Illinois drainage canal to Lockport, Ill., the canal being the proposed route of the deep waterway. Explanations of how the drainage canal came to be built will be made by Robert R. McCormick, president of the canal district, Lyman E. Cooley, Engineer and Isham Randolph, chairman of the Illinois state waterways commission. On Wednesday night the officials of the convention will attend a banquet to be given by the Chicago Association of Commerce. Following Mr. Bryan's speech on Thursday, an address will be made by Gifford Pinchot, chairman of the national conservation commission. In the evening of that day a smoker will be given at the Coliseum. The general arrangements for the convention are being made by Secretary W. F. Saunders of St. Louis and Assistant Secretary George E. Plumbe of Chicago. These officials declare that every state in the Union will be represented, Missouri heading the list in the size of its contingent. The Missourians will come by a special train. The first waterway 'convention was held in St. Louis. At the last previous one held at Memphis, President Roosevelt attended. Taft Saw Veiled Prophets St. Louis, Oct. 7. The annual parade of the Veiled Prophet, a pageant of brilliantly lighted floats, illustrative of historical events, took place here Tuesday night and was witnessed by thousands of people. The parade was viewed by Judge William H. Taft, Republican candidate for president. Immediately after the parade the Veiled Prophets' ball was held at the Merchants exchange. Perished in Manila Storm. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 7.—According to a telegram received by Mrs. C. W. Rush of this city, her son, Frank Rush, perished in the hurricane near Manila Friday. Rush was a civil engineer and went to the Philippines last fall. He and a companion were in an open boat when the storm broke and both were drowned. Missouri Postmasters Meet Sedalia, Mo., Oct. 7.—The fourth class postmasters of Missouri are holding their third annual meeting here. The meeting will close Tuesday. The address of welcome was delivered by Mayor J. L. Babcock. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Anatomy hall of the Minnesota State university at Minneapolis was recently destroyed by fire. A Kansas City company is to put 30 taxicabs on the streets of that city within the next 30 days. The Operative Plasterers' association in national convention at New Orleans has decided to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate for president, spoke before a large and enthusiastic audience at Concord, N. H., Tuesday night. Sixty-five thousand cattle were marketed in Kansas City in two days recently making a new high record in that or any other market. The Wonderland Amusement company who conducted the largest summer amusement resort in Milwaukee, has made a voluntary assignment. The Burlington Railroad company has restored the ten-hour day in the shops at Havelock, Neb. The order affects 700 men. Surveyors are at Emerson, Manitoba, just north of the boundary with equipment to locate a new branch of the Great Northern from Emerson to Winnipeg. WORLD'S COAL PRODUCTION. United States Furnished 40 Per Cent of Entire Output. Washington, Oct. 6.—The United States produced 60 per cent more coal than Great Britain in 1907, over 100 per cent more than Germany, and exclusive of Great Britain produced more coal than all the other countries of the world combined. The Geological survey in a report Sunday on the world's production of coal, estimates such production at 1,209,184,109 short tons, of which the United States furnished almost 40 per cent. More than 98 per cent of the total world's production of coal is from countries north of the equator, the countries south of that line producing less than 20,000,000 tons annually. During the past 40 years the percentage of the world's total production by the United States has increase from 14.32 to 39.73 and since 1899 this country has held first place, having distanced Great Britain so far that that country can no longer be considered a rival. BRYAN'S TOUR OF MISSOURI A Short Stop Will Be Made in Kansas City Saturday. Chicago, Oct. 7.—The itinerary of William J. Bryan on his forthcoming tour of Missouri was announced here Tuesday as follows: At Hannibal, October 9, nine o'clock in the evening; at Monroe City, October 10, 7:28 o'clock in the morning; at Stoutsville, 8:08 o'clock; at Paris, 8:30 o'clock; at Madison, 9:05 o'clock; at Moberly, 9:45 o'clock; at Higbee, 10:45 o'clock; at Armstrong, 11:17 o'clock; at Glasgow, 11:37 o'clock; at Gi..am, October 10, 12:05 o'clock in the afternoon; at Slater, 12:15 o'clock; at Marshall, 12:47 o'clock; at Blackburn, 1:42 o'clock; at Corder, 2:07 o'clock; at Higginsville, 2:20 o'clock; at Mayview, 2:50 o'clock; at Odessa, 3:10 o'clock; at Oak Grove, 3:38 o'clock; at Blue Springs, four o'clock; at Independence, 4:27 o'clock; at Kansas City, 5:20 o'clock; at Weston, 6:40 o'clock; at St. Joseph, 7:55 o'clock. WORK OF KENTUCKY MOB. Entire Family of Negroes Shot Down and Home Burned. Hickman, Ky., Oct. 6—Dave Walker, a negro, his five-year-old daughter and his baby child were killed outright, the mother, who was holding the babe in her arms, was fatally shot, and three other children will probably die, as a result of a mob's visit to the Walker home, near here, late Sunday night. In addition, the oldest son is missing, and is supposed to have been burned with the negroes cabin, which was fired by the mob. Walker had cursed a white woman, and threatened a white man with a pistol. When the mob of about 50 men ordered him to come from his house, he replied with a shot. The torch was then applied to the house, and as the occupants came out they were shot down. Rural Carriers at Omaha. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 7.—The National Rural Letter Carriers' association begins its sixth annual convention in Omaha Tuesday. Delegates are gathering from all parts of the country. Portland, Ore., Dayton, O., and Milwaukee are sending delegations to make a fight for the next convention. The subject of good roads will be one of the leading topics of consueration for the convention. A. Kush of Land Seekers Chamberlain, S. D, Oct. 6.—The passenger trains, one of 12 coaches and one of 14, Sunday night brought in the vanguard of the rush to be registered for the Tripp county opening, the total number of arrivals on both trains being estimated at about 1,200. Hundreds had already arrived during the last couple of days, so that the city has assumed an air of unusual activity. Kansas City Alderman Dead Kansas City, Oct. 7.—While sitting in a chair on the porch at his home 3123 Woodland avenue, Alderman John Francis Eaton was stricken with heart disease and died at eight o'clock Monday night. He was a past grand commander of the K. P. lodge of Missouri and was a thirty-third degree member of the Masonic order. Mr. Eaton was born in 1849 in St. Louis. MARKET REPORTS. Live Stock. Kansas City, Oct. 7.—Cattle—Common steers, $3.00@4.25; heifers, $5.15@6.40; western stockers and feeders, $3.10@4.70; milk cattle, $6.00@4.10; Sheep Lamb, $4.60@6.25; good to choice wethers, $4.00@4.00; ewes, $3.80@4.10. Chicago, Oct. 7.—Beef—Steers, $4.40@7.50; cows and heifers, $3.25@4.25; stockers and feeders, $2.60@4.65. Hogs—Bulk of sales, $6.30@4.00. Sheep—Natives, $4.25@4.50; lambs, $4|75@4.50. St. Louis, Oct. 7.—Beef—Steers, $2.75@4.00; milk cattle, $4.00@4.00; cows and heifers, $2.50@5.75; Texas steers, $3.75@5.25. Hogs—Pigs and lights, $3.25@6.15. Sheep—Natives, $4.25@4.50; lambs, $6.00@6.25. Grain. Kansas City, Oct. 7. -Close: Wheat- Corn -Dec. 15, May 15, July 15, july 15, july 15, St. Louis, Oct. 7 — Close—Wheat—Lower; track No. 2 red cash, $1.02@1.03; No. 2 hard, 98c@$1.01%; December, 98%@$c; May, 1.01%; Corn—Lower; track No. 2 cash, 74@75c; No. 2 white, 72%@$c; May, 1.01%; Corn—Lower; track No. 2 cash, 48c; No. 2 white, 51c; December, 47%c; May, 50%@$5%c; Produce. Kansas City, Oct. 7—Eggs, 24c per doz. Poultry—Hens, 9c; springs, 11c; turkeys, 11c. Butter—Creamery, extra, 26c; packing stock, 16c. Potatoes, @60/75g. Gave It to Them Straight. At a heavy transfer point on Sixth avenue, says a letter to the New York Times, few seats being vacant on a Twenty-third street car, a youth darted under the arm of a stout woman and plumped himself down in the seat she was about to occupy. Glaring, she hurled at him: "If I wasn't a perfect lady I'd swat you one on the mouth." Another young man arose, raised his hat, and begged her to sit down. When seated she beamed upon him and said: "Sir, you're a gentleman; them others is hogs." 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. Where Great Writer Lived. Craigenputtock, where Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" was written, has just been the scene of a notable wedding. The bride was Miss Mary Carlyle of Craigenputtock, a grand-neice of Thomas Carlyle, and the bridegroom James Carlyle, a farmer of Pingle, Dumfrieshire, a son of Thomas Carlyle's favorite nephew. Pingle is about four miles from Eccléecan, Carlyle's birthplace, and this village is the original of the Entuphil of "Sartor Resartus." Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury. Same Feeling. 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