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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT TENTH YEAR NEW NAVAL CHIEF NEWBERRY SUCCEEDS METCALF AS SECRETARY. Has Held Post of First Assistant in Department Since 1905—Is a Business Man But Has Had Naval Experience. Washington.—Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf tendered his resignation to the president to take effect on December 1. The president accepted his resignation and appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy Truman H. Newberry as his successor. Ill health was the cause of Mr. Metcalf's resignation. He has been suffering for a year from nervous breakdown that has rendered it impossible for him to remain at his desk for any length of time, and the chronic nature of his trouble has caused him to abandon hope of recovery while burdened with the cares of office. In accepting Mr. Metcalf's resignation, the president recognized the impossibility of his retaining office, and expressed his reluctance to give up the assistance which Mr. Metcalf had given him both as secretary of commerce and labor and as secretary of the navy. The appointment of Mr. Newberry comes as no surprise, for it has been generally understood that he was the man for the navy portfolio should Mr. Metcalf find it necessary to retire. The appointment also is recognized as one which is almost certain to continue into the term of Mr. Taft. Mr. Newberry has been a close friend and stanch supporter of the president-elect. Secretary Newberry has had naval service. He took great interest in the Michigan state naval brigade a few years ago, serving successively as landsman, lieutenant, and navigator. He volunteered for service in the Spanish war and was given a commission as a lieutenant of the junior Truman H. Newberry. grade in May, 1898. He served throughout the war on the Yosemite. Mr. Newberry entered the naval department as a business man, having been director in several manufacturing concerns at Detroit. Several years ago Mr. Newberry served successively as superintendent of construction, paymaster, and general freight and passenger agent of the Detroit, Bay, City & Alpena Railway Company. As assistant secretary of the navy he has taken an important hand in the business work of the department and has held extremely close relations with President Roosevelt. Having held the position of assistant secretary of the navy at one time himself, President Roosevelt experienced satisfaction in advancing Mr. Newberry. PAID DEARLY FOR JOKE. How Pretender to French Throne Lost Aid of Sympathizer. A little story of the duke of Orleans is going the rounds in Paris. It is no secret that Duke Philippe is not always very careful of his jokes, and when a practical joker is the pretender to the throne of France he should be careful. Some time ago the duke of Orleans needed money for the cause. He was yachting at the time, and it WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, DEC. 5, 1908. IME out of mind it has been a common remark that the laws are made for the rich; that a man of means is rarely brought to suffer for gross misdeeds, while a trivial charge suffices to land a poor man in jail. More than any event in recent years the conviction of Charl W. Morse seems to have emphasized the fallacy of this contention; but with a view to getting at whatever truth might lie at the bottom of so prevalent an opinion, the New York World has not only sought the opinions of men close to the workings of the law, but from thousands of cases in point it has selected as an exhibit enough to put a more cheerful face on those pessimists who tremble for the continuance of democratic institutions. Those to whom it has seemed that wealth brings immunity from the consequences of crime or misdemeanor will be interested in the following statements and the list containing a few of the more notable cases, briefly stated, in which men of money, political power, or both, have gone behind the bars. Declared Powerless to Afford Security to the Wrongdoer. "There is a very widespread impression especially among the cynical," said Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Silcer, "that wealth gives security to the wrongdoer and goes far to give immunity from punishment. "It was openly boasted, in the case of the policy king, Al Adams, that his accumulated stealings from the poor would guarantee immunity, even if indicted. And this impression gains force when the criminal is not of low origin and mean practice, but has surroundings of elegance and associations of refinement. It is a relief to those who believe in the essential right-mindedness of the majority of our citizens to have distinct proof in such cases that wealth is no defense against justice and cannot always be made the reserve force in a conspiracy against honesty. "When the poor man pays the penalty of wrong-doing society is protected usually by the removal of one not a very dangerous member of its body. But the man of wealth and cunning using the ordinary avenues of business represents more than the individual. He represents power and pride and the infatuation which envy toward the well-to-do is sure to engender. His conviction, therefore, is in a far greater degree a rebuke to evil influences and a defense of the common weal. "We hope to reach the point after awhile where the mere facts of wealth and poverty will be not so interesting as they now appear. The really interesting consideration is this: "Is a man so poor that he hasn't the means of growth or hasn't the means of development? Or, on the other hand, is he so rich as to be crippled and encumbered? "Whatever removes the superstitious awe which surrounds the wealthy criminal and gives ample justice to each man, as simply a man, must reinforce the morals of the community." List of Prominent and Rich Offenders Now Wearing Stripes. Here is a partial list of wealthy men convicted of offenses against the law, who are behind the bars: A. F. BONELLI, formerly a banker of Cleveland, O., arrived in New York on September 17 last from Brazil, a prisoner, in custody of a deputy sheriff and an assistant prosecuting attorney of his home state. He is charged with the theft of $30,000 which it is alleged he received from laborers under the pretext that he would forward it to their relatives in Italy. The two state officers traveled all the way to Santos, Brazil, to get their man—and got him. have noticed it, and drank up the objectionable mixture. He took leave of the duke of Orleans without a word about the cause, and when he had been put ashore said quietly to the secretary who escorted him: "Pray tell his highness that I had the idea of offering him a—well—a little bit of sugar for the bird. I noticed at lunch eon, however, that he—er—prefers salt, so I refrained from doing so." His Satanic majesty finds flirting for idle girls to do. COMING WITH CHINESE THANKS. Emperor Gratified for Course Pursued in Collection of Boxer Indemnity. New York.—The influence of a western education on the Oriental of today is again evidenced in the fact that Yang Shao Yi, his excellency, the governor of Mukden, who is now on his way to this country at the head of one of the most important missions ever sent by China to the United States, is a graduate of Columbia, class of '82. Several of his accompanying suite are also alumni of leading American uni- [Illustration of a seated man in traditional attire, possibly a monk or a scholar, with a bald head and a mustache.] Tang Shao Yi. versities and colleges, and, naturally, they speak English fluently. The special object of Excellency Yang Shao Yi's mission is to convey the expressions of deep gratitude from the imperial government and the personal thanks of the Chinese emperor and his mother, the dowager empress, for America's action in remitting and exempting from payment the unearned portion of the Boxer fines. Tang Shao Yi is not only one of the most eminent of the younger school of Chinese statesmen and one of the most successful and modern of China's executive officials, but he is thoroughly imbued with western ideas, an educator and a reformer. NEW PRESIDENT OF CUBA. Gen. Gomez, Liberal Candidate, Honored by Countrymen. Havana.—Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, the Liberal candidate for president of Cuba, who has been elected to that office, is 53 years of age and a native of Santa Clara province, where he has always enjoyed extraordinary popularity and influence. He participated in two great revolutions, in the first of which he reached the rank of major and in the second that of major general. He was one of the commissioners sent to Washington to advise as to a practical method for dissolving the revolutionary army. Gen. Gomez was selected as governor of Santa Clara province by the government of intervention, and when his term expired he was elected governor as a Republican, or Conservative. During his term in the gubernatorial chair he won a high reputation for ability and progressiveness. In August, 1906, Gen. Gomez was arrested, charged with conspiring against the administration of the late President Palma. Gen. Gomez was unanimously nominated for the presidency by the Miguelista convention which was held last March at Havana. was arranged that a multi-millionaire who was believed to be willing to invest money in the fortunes of the Fleur-de-Lys should meet the duke and lunch with him on board his yacht. At table, to see what he would do, the duke had the bad taste to empty the contents of a salt-cellar into his guest's glass. "He has eaten my bread, and I wonder, he said, "whether he will drink my salt." The millionaire had seen the trick in a looking glass opposite him. He pretended not to ME out of mind it has been a common remark that the laws are made for the rich; that a man of means is rarely brought to suffer for WEALTH IS UNAVAILING. MALEFACTORS OF WEALTH. RICH MEN IN JAIL PAUL O. STENSLAND SHE GOT A PRIDS'S SUIT CASE Morse's Incarceration Adds Another Name to a Long List of Men of Money, of Power and of Both Money and Power Who Have Been Put Behind Jail or Penitentiary Bars. SAMUEL SEELEY was a prominent, respected and influential resident of Brooklyn. His position as cashier of the National Shoe and Leather bank in New York gave him prestige in financial circles. He was accused and found guilty of having defaulted with $354,000 of the bank's funds and served five years and four months in the Kings county penitentiary. CAPT. OBERLIN M. CARTER. CAPT. B. D. GREENE AND E. H. GAYNOR have all felt the iron hand of the law for having attempted to disobey its commands. Capt. Carter was one of the leading young officers in the engineering department of the United States army. When it was decided to make extensive improvements in the harbor at Havana Capt. Car PAUL C. STENG ter was appointed to take charge of the work. Certain revelations made started an investigation and Capt. Carter was found guilty of having conspired with Gaynor and Greene to defraud the government. After fruitless appeals Capt. Carter was taken to Leavenworth, where he served his sentence of three years and seven months. Gaynor and Greene, after their conviction, fled to Canada. They "Sight unseen" was the name of trading at the union depot recently. Two suit cases that looked "just exactly alike," a blushing bride and groom, and a matronly looking woman with four small children were the cause of all the trouble. "Oh! Oh!" said the matronly woman, rushing up to J. H. Wallenstrom, acting depot master, "some one has stolen my suit case." The depot master was sympathetic. Comments by Men of the Law and of the Church on the Popular Cynicism That Riches Keep Men Out of Prison While the Poor Have to Suffer the Full Rigor of the Law. were brought back to this country, however, and are now serving out their four-year terms. DAVID ROTHSCHILD, wrecker of the Federal bank, was convicted in 1905 and sent to Sing Sing to serve nine years. HARRY BRUNAUGH, formerly secretary to Mayor Bookwalter of Indianapolis, Ind., and superintendent of the Western Construction Company, was sent to the penitentiary last June to serve a term of from two to fourteen years for defrauding the city. WILLIAM O. MILES, ex-district attorney of Brooklyn, is now serving a term in the penitentiary for presenting fraudulent sewer claims to the city for payment. R. M. SNYDER, the promoter of the Central Traction bill in St. Louis, was O. ISLAND CHARLES W. MORSE convicted and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for bribery on October 4, 1902. This was the first conviction in the famous boole scandal of St. Louis, following a year's investigation. Snyder was accused of bribing Councilman Uthoff to vote for the Central Traction bill. Uthoff was to receive $100,000, but failed to collect more than $5,000. He was one of the state's witnesses in the trial. "They've left another in its place," she added. Mr. Wallenstrom opened the suit case. A marriage license was the first thing he saw and under it were the nicest, fuffiest, sweetest perfumed "things' imaginable. Mr. Wallenstrom blushed ever so deeply and gently took the license up to the depot balcony where the big megaphone is kept. "Mr. and Mrs. L. M Nash call at the LOUIS GLASS of San Francisco, vice-president of the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company, was convicted and sentenced to five years for bribery, September 4, 1907. He was charged with bribery. Glass, before conviction, was one of San Francisco's leading citizens and possessed of considerable wealth. HORACE E. HAND, a prominent lawyer in St. Louis and a leader of society in the fashionable suburb, Kirkwood, was arrested on January 17, 1907, at his home on the charge of forgery, while entertaining his pastor and a deacon of his church. He pleaded guilty on the next day to forgery, and by three o'clock in the afternoon was on his way to prison, sentenced to five years. CHARLES T. GROTEFEND was one of the most prominent young men in St. Louis. Although only 30 years old, Grotefend was teller in the Washington National bank, and generally thought to be one of the coming financial men of the city. It was discovered that he had embezzled more than $3,000 of the bank's money and he fled to Germany. He returned after a time, and upon pleading guilty was sentenced to five years at Fort Leavenworth. CHARLES H. THORNTON, note teller of the Hamilton National bank in Chicago, a man highly respected in business and social circles, upon the discovery of his thefts, plead guilty to having embezzled $10,000 from the bank. He was sentenced to five years in the government prison at Fort Leavenworth, and he is now serving that sentence. The following interesting roster is also to the point: EDWARD STOKES shot Jim Fisk; served term in prison. AL ADAMS, the "Policy King," sentenced in Sin Sing. SENATOR BURTON of Kansas served jail term of six months for appearing for a client for pay before a government department while still in the senate. FRANK G. BIGELOW, former president of the American Bankers' association, looted the First National bank of Milwaukee and was sentenced to the penitentiary. LEONARD IMBODEN AND JAMES A. HILL, Denver bank wreckers, received ten-year jail sentences. PAUL O. STENSLAND, Chicago banker, stole $1,500,000, fled to Europe and was brought back and sent to jail. JOHN R. WALSH, Chicago banker, sentenced to jail. WILLIAM F. WALKER, honored banker of New Britain, Conn., stole hundreds of thousands of dollars; followed to Mexico, brought back and sent to jail. MAYOR WILLIAM H. BELCHER of Paterson, sent to jail for embezzlement. GUY C. STRATTON, millionaire lumberman of Seattle, Wash., convicted of murder in the second degree for killing child with automobile. MRS. CASSIE CHADWICK, wife of prominent Cleveland physician, sent to jail for forgery. ABE HUMMEL, for years one of New York's most prominent lawyers, sent to Blackwell's island for one year. CHARLES T. YERKES, millionaire traction magnate at his death, was once convicted and sentenced to a jail term, which he served. J. A. BENSON, California millionaire, sentenced for land frauds, August 31, 1907, for one year and to pay a $1,000 fine in San Francisco. CHARLES S. CAMERON, president of the Pittsburg & Tube City Railroad Company, when called for sentence did not answer and court declared $12,000 bond forfeited. SENATOR MITCHELL of Oregon, convicted and sentenced to two years in jail. Died while appeal was pending. All of these and a host of others, to say nothing further of CHARLES W. MORSE and HARRY K. THAW. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless.—Paley. information bureau," yelled the announcer. "Listen, Lewis, they're calling your name," said Mrs. Nash, homeward bound to Dalhart, Tex., from her honeymoon. They went to see. Both suit cases were then laid open near the information bureau. "Did you ever," said Mrs. Clarkson, "what would I have done if we hardn't found you?" Mrs. Clarkson's case contained baby clothes. THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. MILLER.....Editor Residence Phone Bell 1641. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mail).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mail).....75 Three Months (By Mail).....50 Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication ust be signed by the party or parties writing. All mattersf or publication must reach this office not later than Thursday noon 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. 6th. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 W 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. NEGROES DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS Want Separate Sleeprs, Dining Cars, and Smoking Cars Under Colored men of Oklahoma have instituted proceedings before the State Corporation Commission to compel all the railroads of Oklahoma to furnish full and equal accommodation to Negro passengers by supplying separate sleepers dining and smoking cars under the state "Jim Crow" law. They contend that since they are required to pay equal fare with others they are entitled to as much for their money as others receive for the same price. Beyond all question the colored men are right, and it now remains to be seen what consideration of fair play they will receive. FATHER BURKE ON RACE PROBLEM. "White Man Must Keep Golden Rule—Negro Ten Commandments.—Makes Talk at Roman Catholic Congress. Chicago.—"There will be no race question when the white man keeps the Golden Rule and the black man has learned to keep the ten commandments." The above utterance was the keynote to a remarkably strong address delivered by Father Burke, the eminent Catholic missionary of New York, at the Roman Catholic Congress held in this city. This sentiment received the most prolonged applause of any sentiment uttered during the week's proceedings of the great Congress. Prominent Catholics from all parts of thee country and Canada were present, and when the race question came up for discussion the vast assemblage rose to the occasion with a great heartedness that was wonderful to see and quite overwhelming in its influence. There was no half heartedness, no evasions, no compromising, and no condecensions but a splendid soulfulness and sympathetic earnestness that was altogether unusual. There was no difference of opinion as to the assertion that the American people had not done their full duty toward the Negro people of America. It was in no patronizing spirit that Father Burke asked and insisted that there must be no such thing as failure in their efforts to give the Negro race the same rights of citizenship as other races receive. Among other things he said that "it was a sad sight to see a whole race go down to destruction without being given the opportunity of receiving the purest and highest form of Christian education. In behalf of his great church Father Burke insisted that his church is the only one that can bring unity and order and good citizenship out of the present chaos. He regards the present method of depriving Negro men of their citi- zenship rights as monstrously unchristian and insists that his great church address itself to this form of evil as vigorously as it addresses itself to other forms of injustice. It is reassuring that the great world-power of the Catholic church has taken such a firm and heroic position on the question of the citizenship equality and social uplift of the Negro. The Catholic church is a great power in the social and political interests of the world. LOCALS Send your news notes and local happenings to 001 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? 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. WANTED—Man to work on rail- road; wife to take in washing. House rent $4.00 per month. Call or write, C. R. WILFLEY, Box 138 Clearwater, Kan. WANTED—A colored lady school teacher at Harper, Okla. Write to R. W. Banning, R. F. D. No. 2, Harper, Okla. Or apply to J. J. Olden, 615 N. Main, Waltich, Kan. CROWDED WITH JOB WORK. Owing to the fact that the Searchlight office is being taxed to its very fullest capacity with job printing, which has required the time of our full force, we have been unable to give our news columns the usual attention. We know that our readers will indulge us in this progressive sign for a few days, after which we will be able to raise our news columns to their usual splendid standard.—Editor. MINISTERS' UNION. Monday morning the Ministers' League convened at 10:30 at the Second Baptist church, and held a very interesting session. The pastors made their reports, which showed a slight falling off in attendance and collection owing to the inclement weather. Rev. Fishback of New Hope Baptist church reported services morning and evening. Preaching by the pastor Sunday school at 3 p. m. B. Y. P. U. 6:30. Attendance fair. Collection $38.10. Morning subject, "Parable of the Great Supper." Evening subject, "A Repentance not to be Repented Of." Rev. W. S. Malone of the M. E. church, reported afternoon and evening services at Young's Hall. Attendance good. Subject "Watchfulness". Collection $7.60. Evening, Rev. Wright of the A. M. E. church preached. Sunday, Dec. 6th, the Rev. J. J. Cabbell, P. E. of the M. E. church will hold first quarterly meeting at 11 a. m. Rev. I. H. Jones, pastor of the Second Baptist church, Wellington, Kan., who has been called by the congregation and have not accepted reported services good. 11 a. m. Sunday school was addressed by Mrs. Tillman of this city. B. Y. P. U. well attended. 7:30 p. m., preaching by the pastor, subject, "All Mankind Bidden to Come to Christ." St. Paul A. M. E. church. Preaching 11 a. m., by Rev. Washington. Subject, "Walting for a Display of God's Power in Deliverance." Sunday school 3 p. m. Allen C. E. L. 6:30, led by Bro. T. Glover; 7:30 p. m., preaching by the pastor, subject "Divine Comfort." Collection $15.50. All services were interesting. Second Baptist church. Preaching morning and evening by the pastor. 11 a. m., subject, "The Constraining Influence of Christ's Love." Evening, "The New Birth." Sunday school at 3 p. m. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30. Attendance good. Collection $19.00. After which Rev. H. I. Jones gave an exegesis of the Scriptural plan of salvation which was very interesting in the discussion. Many points of interest were brought out. Rev. G. W. Smith announced December 6th as the day for the Rally and expressed a desire to have the pastors and their congregations present to assist. Rev. Malone announced Rev. J. J. Cabbel, P. E., would hold his first quarterly meeting at Young's Hall, Dec. 6, 11 a. m. Rev. J. T. Smith announced that Rev. J. C. Rogers, D.D., would preach at St. Paul's A. M. E. church at 7:30 p. m. The League adjourned to meet at St. Paul's A. M. E. church Monday morning at 10:30, at which time Dr. Rogers would deliver an address, subject, "Christ as a Preacher." WOMEN'S CLUB A concise statemen among the colored wo Roy Young of Peabody, spent a pleasant Thanksgiving in the city. Mrs. A. Glover, and the Misses Rowles and Butler were appointed as a committee to collect the assessment. Miss Rowles being the chairman of the committee. Mrs. H. C. Underwood, who has been confined to her bed quite ill, is reported to be improving nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Alexander entertained for their daughter Miss Birdle Davis Alexander at their residence, 727 South Meade, Thanksgiving day, for dinner. Misses Birdle Jackson, Helen McAfee,Edna Hammonds, Mary McAfee, and Rena Carrol, and Messrs. George Patton, Carl Jordan and Albert Minneweither. The evening was spent in music, after which all departed declaring the hostess an ideal entertainer. The W. T. Vernon club met at the residence of Mrs. A. Washington Friday afternoon. After the routine of business a most delightful lunch was served. The tables were filled with the market's choicest dishes. All had an enjoyable time. Mrs. Estella Patton made a trip to Kansas City last week on business. The ladies, together with Mr. Henry Braden who had charge of the Thanksgiving dinner at the A. M. E. church and made it such a success, deserve much credit. Robert Davis of Kingman, came to the city Monday to attend to some matters of business. Mrs. Elmer Johnson is reported ill. PRETTY PRAIRIE NEWS. We are having some winter in our country at present. Banks and daughter, ellief were in Pratt visiting. Fred and Pearl Banks purchased them a brand new saddle just for herding purposes. Mrs. H. M. Underwood gave a 5 o'clock dinner last Thursday are enjoyable time was spent. Mr. and Mrs. R. Roberts are down in Coffeyville visiting friends. Mr. Joe Banks has purchased his wife a fine new kitchen cabinet while she is absent. Augustus Underwood is in Wichita visiting friends at present. Lilie Baker spent Thanksgiving with Mabel Banks. Mrs. H. M. Underwood and Florence Banks were shopping in Kingman Friday. There is to be a box supper given at the Farollet schoolhouse Friday night. We understand that the Kingman salt work burned to the ground last week. Nathan Copeland of Ft. Scott, is in the city with the Searchlight at present. SOULS Will Ascend to the Stars Says Former Senator. Boston, Mass., Nov. 23.—William E. Chandler, former senator from New Hampshire, and former secretary of the navy, is the advocate of a new religious doctrine. He believes that after death our souls will go to some of the stars, there to be re-invested in physical bodies and have the same kind of existence as here, only to a greater perfection. "My faith in the future life," he said, "is strong and ever present with me. It is my only faith. We have no knowledge of it, and it is intended that we shall have no knowledge of it. We do not live as disinherited spirits; we go to one of the stars, where we inhabit new physical bodies which emprise ourp resent souls. We will see and hear, and have the senses of taste smell and touch, and, perhaps other new and more joyous senses. Admitting the future existence of the soul, the universe to take up their abode what more logical thought can we have than our souls go to some other part of their." --- SOULS WOMEN'S CLUB DIRECTORY. A concise statement of the Clubs among the colored women of Wichita. THE BOOKER WASHINGTON CLUB WICHITA, KS. Hour of meeting 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Engaged in needle, charity and literary work. Special 1908 course in typewriting. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Thos. Glover, president; Miss Sallie Rawles, Sec. THE HOME COOKING CLUB, WICHITA, KAN. 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 ALL WORK GUARANTEED 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 Before Letting Contract For your Cement and Side Walk work consult our prices We Do Good Work Our priceslow. Work Guaranteed McKEE & MINOR 346 North MainSreet ATCHISON ITEMS. We have had heavy rains for the last few days. On Sunday morning about nine o'clock it seemed as if we were having a closing shower. It rained very hard but the people seemed determined to go to church, and at 11 o'clock the Shilo church had a good crowd. Rev. W. S. Blake took for his text the memorable song "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord." He analyzed four words—I, love, kingdom, Lord. He preached a noble sermon from this text. Some of the members were heard to say that it was the best sermon they ever heard. His text at 8 o'clock "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood." He said "I purpose to preach from songs today." The people seemed to be over anxious to hear so came out such a gloomy day. Rev. W. S. Blake has done more for the Shilo Baptist church than any other minister we have ever had considering the le&nth of time he has been in Atchison. About one year ago he took charge of the church, and since then there has been wonderful progress made both spiritually and financially. In a few weeks we hope to give a final report through this paper of our year's work. Everybody seems to be carried away with the new church going up. The committee on Thanksgiving dinner served with credit and realized quite a sum. The day was pleasantly and joyfully spent with the people of Atchison. A few strangers visited the church on Thanksgiving day. We were proud to have Mr. and Mrs. Ewing of Leavenworth. The masked surprise party on Rev. Blake a few days ago was styled to be one of the happiest of his life. It was a surprise indeed. About forty masked persons formed the party. A delightful evening was spent. Everyone enjoyed themselves highly. A fourcourse luncheon was served and at a late hour the guests departed. Mrs. Nancy Banks of Hiawatha, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Creasy. Rev. W. M. Smothers is on the sick list. Mr. Brice Peoples was seriously hurt last Friday evening by jumping from a moving car. The man who isn't satisfied until he is married isn't always satisfied then Hope has been described as a "life preserver with most of the cork out of it." Prescriptions Filled with Care . . . Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . 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We will call for and Deliver Your Prescriptions 811 N. Main St. New Phone 662 STORAGE We have a nice, dry, san itary Storage Room..... Goods stored with us is safe. Rates the lowest MILLER STORAGE COMPANY 634 North Water St. Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Office Hours 9 to 11 a.m. Residence 2 to 5 p.m. 703 N. Main St 7 to 8 p.m. OFFICE 601 N. MAIN ST Phone 860 6120 LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner Of 3rd & Main Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Choicest Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men, Women and Children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery. Tapp & Hanshaw 255-257 N. Main St Phone 255 BOOST FOR WICHITA ENTERPRISES. A Dangerous Case of Kidney Com- plaint and How It Was Checked. Mrs. Lucy Quebeck, Mechanic St., Joe Valley, R. I., says: "Eight years ago I contracted se- vere kidney trouble and my back began to ache continually. Every day it seemed worse. The least pressure on my back tortured me, and I could not stoop with- out a bad twinge. ago I contracted severe kidney trouble and my back began to ache continually. Every day it seemed worse. The least pressure on my back tortured me, and I could not stoop without a bad twinge. The kidney secretions passed irregularly with pain, and I bloated badly, my head swam and spots flitted before my eyes. One doctor said I was invariable. However, I found prompt relief when I started using Doan's Kidney Pills, and the troubles I have relied gradually disappeared." Sold by all dealers. 50c a box. Fosmilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Diversion in the Country. "I visited E. R. Thomas and found him doing well after his motor ac- cident," said a member of the Auto- mobile Club of America. "Thomas, as usual, ralled against our bad roads. "He said that a friend who lived in the country had been to see him. "The country is all right in the summer," Thomas admitted, "but in the fall and winter don't you find it fall?" "Dull?" said the other. "No, ine- ed. Why, out our way some motor or other gets stuck in the mud every night." Catarrh Cannot Be Cured LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the best of the disease. Cataract is a blood or constriction of the eye, and to cure it you must take medicines. Hall's Cataract is a painful and acts directly upon the blood and mucous cells. Hall's Cataract Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in the city. It is composed of the best tones known, combined on the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the best blood purifiers and the best in curing cataract. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co. Props. Toledo, O. by F. J. CHENEY & Co. Props. Toledo, O. by Hall's Family Plus for combination. Reclprocity. "He's very quick to reciprocate." "Yes?" "Yes: I killed his dog yesterday and dried mine to-day." Some men seem to enjoy getting the short end of it occasionally so that they will have an excuse for register- ing a kick. The average woman can change her hand in half the time it takes a man to change his collar. **ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED?** Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. A man may follow his natural bent and yet be perfectly straight. Allen's Foot-Ease, a Powder brushmaking foot, direct instant relief. The final powder for the feet. 25c at all Druggists. Lots of wife may have been peppery store she turned to salt. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. children teething, softens the gums, reduces injunction, always pain, cures wind collo. 2ce a bottle. Friend, what you'd get, first earn.— browning. MISS. SOPHIA KITTLESEN. Miss Sophia Kittlesen, Evanston, Ill., uses: I have been troubled with catarrh nearly twenty-five years and have many cures for it, but obtained my little help. Then my brother advised me to try Peruna, and I did. My health was very poor at the time when I began taking Peruna. My throat was my sore and I had a bad cough. Peruna has cured me. The chronic earh is gone and my health is very improved. I recommend Peruna to all my needs who are troubled as I was." PERUNA TABLETS:-Some people pres-tablets, rather than medicine in a form. Such people can obtain Perun tablets, which represent the medicinal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet is one average dose of Peruna an-a-lin the Ideal Lative tak your Druggist for a Free Perunu mac for 1909. PISO'S CURES WHERE ALL ELSE PAILS PLEASE SYSTEMIZE. Use in time. Sold by drugrat. CURE DAWN. CIVILIZATION PROGRESS CHINA OKLAHOMA FLOOD HEAVY RAINS PUT STREAMS IN STATE OUT OF BANKS AGAIN. MANY HOMELESS AT GUTHRIE The Cottonwood River Overflowed Sunday Inundating Hundreds of Homes—Government Issues Flood Warnings. Guthrie, Ok., Dec. 1.—As the result of a 48-hour downpour in the section of the Cottonwood river and its tributaries, the Cottonwood overflowed here Sunday afternoon. Several hundred homes are partially under water in West Guthrie and 3,000 people Sunday night were homeless. The river at six o'clock was one foot higher than ever before in its history, and rising 12 inches an hour. Hundreds of people who refused to get out of the flooded district, believing that the river would not rise as rapidly as it did, fired shots of distress before sunset and hundreds of boats with an army of rescuers brought the tardy ones to places of safety. It is believed that a few persons are still in their homes but nothing definite is known. So rapid was the rise in the Cottonwood that 20 head of cattle in the affected district were drowned before they could be gotten out of the waters. Street car service is completely at a standstill. The city's water plant is under water. Five thousand dollars' worth of cotton belonging to the Farmers' Oil mill was washed away down stream and 2,000 bales are still in the water. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe roundhouse and shops are inundated. All railroad trains in and out of Guthrie have been annulled. Near Seward, Ok., the Santa Fe tracks are out and the railroad bridge at Redrock has been washed out. The Lissouri, Kansas & Texas and the Ft. Smith & Western railroads report many miles of track out near this city. The Denver, Enid & Gulf train is waterbound at Crescent. The Eastern Oklahoma railroad trains are being held at Stillwater. According to reports reaching this city many miles of track on these two roads are either washed out or, so completely under water that it is impossible to move trains. Vinita, Ok., Dec. 1.—Sixty hours of rain in Vinita and the vicinity has caused every stream near to rise to the highest point since the floods of last summer. Hundreds of acres of land, much of which still has a large amount of unhusked corn on it, is inundated. Sunday night all streams were rising. Railroad traffic has not been interfered with as yet. Tulsa, Ok., Dec. 1.—Following three days' rain, the Arkansas river is up 15 feet and early Sunday evening was rising at the rate of four inches an hour. It was within two feet of its highest point of last May, when so much damage resulted. Tulsa, Ok., Dec. 2.—The Arkansas river is slowly receding Monday night and the worst of the flood situation is past. Santa Fe train service had been tied up indefinitely by washouts near Bartlesville. Train service on all other lines entering here, however, is regular, the heaviest damage by storm was in the oil fields due to overflow of small streams. William J. Bryan, who is hunting in the mountains of Chihuahua, Mex., had a narrow escape the other day in an encounter with a bear. He escaped injury by jerking free of his coat which the animal tore to shreds. TO REVISE THE POSTAL LAWS TO REVISE THE POSTAL LAWS COMMISSION GETTING ITS BILL INTO SHAPE. A Director of Posts With Seven Assistants to Have Entire Charge of the Service. Washington, Dec. 2.—The four offices of assistant postmaster general will be abolished, a director of posts with seven assistants provided for and the entire postal service of the United States divided into 15 separate districts if the bill for the revision of the postal laws which is being prepared by the joint postal investigation commission of congress, appointed two years ago, is passed by congress. The commission has been in in session for the past week and by holding daily meetings expects to complete the work this week. It is claimed that a director of posts appointed to hold office until removed for cause and who shall receive a high salary, will tend to improve the service through a continuity of policies for the benefit of the postal service. By providing for seven assistants the disadvantages due to frequent changes and the appointment of inexperienced men to the four offices of assistant postmaster general can, it is believed, be obviated. The assistant directors are also to hold office during good behavior. To perfect the system of management the provision for 15 superintendents to have direct charge of the 15 separate postal districts has been decided on. Another provision of the bill is the assignment of certain duties now performed by the third assistant postmaster general to a commission of appeals. This commission would issue all fraud orders and pass on the admission to the mails of second class matter. The codification of the postal laws is also a part of the work required of the commission. MOURN FOR LINDSAY Gridiron Club Adopts Resolutions of Regret—Funeral Arrangements. Washington, Dec. 2.—The Gridiron club Tuesday adopted resolutions voicing regret over the death of one of its prominent members, Richard H. Lindsay, Washington correspondent of the Kansas City Star, who died here Monday. Pall bearers who will serve at the funeral Wednesday afternoon are: James S. Henry, Philadelphia Press; John S. Shriver, Baltimore Amerian; James P. Hornaday, Indiana, Ill News; Scott C. Bonie, Washing on Herald, representing the Gridiron club; D. H. Macadam, St. Louis Republic; Otto Carmichael, New York World; Angus McSween, Philadelphia North American, and Maurice Splain, Philadelphia Record, representing the press gallery. The Gridiron club appointed the following to attend the funeral: Samuel G. Blythe, London Daily Mall; John P. Miller, Baltimore Sun; Ernest G. Walker, Boston Herald; W. E. Curtis, Chicago Record-Herald; P. V. Degraw, assistant postmaster general; Alfred J. Stofer, Montgomery Advertiser; John M. Carson, John Rankin Young and Henry L. West. The New York Senatorship. Hot Springs, Va., Dec. 1.—Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the New York Republican state committee, Sunday eliminated himself from the senatorial race in favor of Secretary of State Elihu Root. This action was taken after a protracted conference with President-elect Taft and was followed by statements from both Messrs. Taft and Woodruff. Aside from these statements, each of which concedes the election of Mr. Root to succeed Senator Platt on January 19 next, no details of the conference were made known. WAS VERY FULLY OCCUPIED. Situation In Which Bibulous Irishman Had His Hands Full. Some one asked George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury, if he intended becoming a candidate for governor of New York. Now, Mr. Cortelyou had an especial aversion for leading questions, so he answered by telling the following story: Two Irishmen celebrated St. Patrick's day and started home together, but became separated. Finally they discovered themselves hugging lamp posts on opposite sides of the street. "How are ye, Pat?" called Mike. "Fair," says Pat, "how are yez?" "I dur-o," says Mike; "come over and see. "I can't come," says Pat. "Why can't yez?" says Mike. "I've got me hands full shtayn' where I am," says Pat—N. Y. Herald. BAD ITCHING HUMOR. Limba Below the Knees Were Raw— Feet Swollen—Sleep Broken— Cured in 2 Days by Cuticura, "Some two months ago I had a humor break out on my limbs below my knees. They came to look like raw beefsteak, all red, and no one knows how they itched and burned. They were so swollen that I could not get my shoes on for a week or more. I used five or six different remedies and got no help, only when applying the burning was worse and the itching less. For two or three weeks the suffering was intense and during that time I did not sleep an hour at a time. Then one morning I tried a bit of Cuticura. From the moment it touched me the itching was gone and I have not felt a bit of it since. The swelling went down and in two days I had my shoes on and was about as usual. George B. Farley, 50 South State St., Concord, N. H, May 14, 1907." ACCURATE INFORMATION. Fortune Telier—This line here shows that you will die in a year. Client—Good heavens! In a year? "H'm—yes—but in which year I can't quite tell you." A Dead Bird. Samuel Butler, the witty but eccentric author of "Erehwon"—which means "Nowhere"—and of many other remarkable and suggestive books, is now more read than during his lifetime. He died in 1902. In one of his notebooks he tells this incident, which must have amused the great Charles Darwin: Frank Darwin told me his father was once standing near the hipopotamus cage when a little boy and girl, aged four and five, came up. The hipopotamus shut his eyes for a minute. "That bird's dead," said the little girl. "Come along."—Youth's Companion. Smile's Face Value. Although most of us would hesitate to express what might be termed the face value of the "modern smile," we certainly realize at times that it is a form of currency which is depreciating. In the "modern smile" we recognize the crude, official thing which neither illuminates, cheers nor bridges awful gaps of silence. It may savor of suggesting a wave of imbecility to declare that we ought all to smile more, but it is certainly true that the charm of a woman's smile was once esteemed even above beauty. LIVING ADVERTISEMENT Glow of Health Speaks for Postum. It requires no scientific training to discover whether coffee disagrees or not. Simply stop it for a time and use Postum in place of it, then note the beneficial effects. The truth will appear. "Six years ago I was in a very bad condition," writes a Tenn. lady, "I suffered from indigestion, nervousness and insomnia. "I was then an inveterate coffee drinker, but it was long before I could be persuaded that it was coffee that hurt me. Finally I decided to leave it off a few days and find out the truth. "The first morning I left off coffee I had a raging headache, so I decided I must have something to take the place of coffee." (The headache was caused by the reaction of the coffee drug—caffeine.) "Having heard of Postum through a friend who used it, I bought a package and tried it. I did not like it at first but after I learned how to make it right, according to directions on pkg., I would not change back to coffee for anything. "When I began to use Postum I weighed only 117 lbs. Now I weigh 170 and as I have not taken any tonic in that time I can only attribute my recovery of good health to the use of Postum in place of coffee. "My husband says I am a living advertisement for Postum. I am glad to be the means of inducing my many friends to use Postum, too." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are online, true, and full of human interest. BREAKS A COLD PROMPTLY The following formula is a never failing remedy for colds: One ounce of Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla, one ounce Toris Compound and one-half pint of good whiskey, mix and shake thoroughly each time and use in doses of a table-spoonful every four hours. This if followed up will cure an acute cold in 24 hours. The ingredients can be gotten at any drug store. Is This True? "I wouldn't do for politics, I guess," said the pretty girl. "I'd simply vote the way papa votes." "In that," remarked an observer, "you wouldn't differ so very much from most men." The Language of the Plants. "He didn't care to write to her when he wanted her to arrange for a secret marriage, so he sent her a running vine." This woman says that sick women should not fail to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as she did. Mrs. A. Gregory, of 2355 Lawrence St., Denver, Col., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: "I was practically an invalid for six years, on account of female troubles. I undowent an operation by the doctor's advice, but in a few months I was worse than before. A friend advised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and it restored me to perfect health, such as I have not enjoyed in many years. Any woman suffering as I did with backache, bearing-down pains, and periodic pains, should not fail to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." 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? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Graduates earn $500 to $1,000 the first year, Positions furnish. Scores of students Students earn all every week. One of America's foremost schools. Nothing like it in Kansas and states adoring. Write to their teachers just out, free. Mention this paper. 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A railway will shortly be built to Hudson Bay, bringing the world's markets a thousand miles near these wheat-fields, where schools and churches are convenient, climate excellent, railways close to all settlements, and local markets good. "It would take time to assimilate the revelations that a visit to the great empire lying to the North of us unfolded at every turn." Correspondence of a National Editor, who birthed Western Canada in August, 1908. Lands may also be purchased from railway and land companies at low prices and on easy terms. For pamphlets, maps and information as to low railway and agricultural expenditure of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, the authorized Canadian Government Agent J. S. CRAWFORD, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Lung Trouble How Easy It is to catch a Cold on the Chest. To let that Cold develop into Consumption. DON'T DO IT. Safeguard yourself with a bottle of Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup A medicine your Grandfather used. Easy to take, pleasant to the taste. Contains no opiates to make you feel good. Sold by all druggists. 80c. and $1.00 per Bottle. Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. CANDY For famous and delicious candies and chocolates, with the tasting alog, wholesale or retail. Gunther's Confectionery 212 State Street, Chicago, IL W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 49, 1908. M. B. BURGESS MADE ROACHES HIS FRIENDS. Act of Artemus Ward That Had Far Reaching Effect. George V. Kelcey, a veteran Journalist of Cleveland, remembers Artemus Ward well. "Ward called on me," he said the other day, "the night before one of his panorama lectures. There were some three or four large roaches scurrying about my room, and they attract ed his attention. "I am very fond of roaches," he said. 'Once, in my own home, I found a roach struggling in a bowl of water. I took a half walnut shell and put him in it; it made a good boat; I gave him a couple of toothpicks for oars. Next morning I saw that he had fastened a hair to one of the toothpicks, and had evidently been fishing. Then, overcome with exhaustion, he had fallen asleep. The sight moved me. I took him out, washed him, gave him a spoonful of boiled egg, and let him go. That roach never forgot my kindness, and now my home is full of roaches.' ^ TWO GOOD STORIES BY BARRIE. One Told by Successful Author Is Decidedly Against Himself. Mr. J. W. Barrie, the author of "What Every Woman Knows," tells a good story against himself. A lady of his acquaintance had taken a friend to see one of his plays, and, quite astonished, he asked her why she did so. "Oh," was the reply, "it's such a quiet street for the horses!" He also tells of a playgoer who received no response to his repeated requests to a lady in front of him to remove her huge hat. At length, exasperated, he said: "If you won't take off your hat, my dear madam, will you be so kind as to fold back your ears?"—Woman's Life. 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. At the Riding School "Mount your horse on the left side." "Why? What difference does it make?" "It's the rule." "But why should it be the rule?" "Because in the past horsemen wore swords. They wore them on the left hip. Hence, had they mounted on the right side, the sword would have got in the way. So they mounted on the left, and we still mount on the left. Horses are accustomed to it, and if you try to get up from the right you are liable to be kicked." Speaking for the Chickens. A southerner, hearing a great commotion in his chicken-house one dark night, took his revolver and went to investigate. "Who's there?" he sternly demanded, opening the door. No answer. "Who's there? Answer, or I'll shoot!" A trembling voice from the farthest corner. "Deed, sah, dey ain't nobody hyah 'ceptin' us chickens."—Everybody's Magazine. The Dissatisfied The happy people in the world are those who enjoy what they have. Those for whom nothing is good enough are neither fit for earth nor would be satisfied in heaven. Here they are restless. There their halos would be damp or would not set straight. The third domain, which rhymes with well, would not be well for them, for the best would be too invariable or attending to fires would be too monotonous. With a smooth iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt-walst just as well at home as the steam laundry can; it will have the proper stiffness and finish, there will be less wear and tear of the goods, and it will be a positive pleasure to use a Starch that does not stick to the iron. Explained. "What's the difference between valor and discretion?" "Well, to go through Europe without tipping would be valor." "I see." "And to come back by a different route would be discretion."—Kansas City Journal. Wheeler Lithographing Co. WICHITA, KANSAS Lithographing, Printing, Embossing, Loose Leaf Systems, Office Supplies. Write us before placing your order else- where. We can save you money. For a dalty lunch, try a package of Western Biscuit Co.'s Vanilla Wa- fers. 10c. at your Grocer's. Hot, Hot, Ginger Snaps—a treat for the children. 5c. at your Grocer's. WANTED YOUNG MEN TO LEARN Telegraphy and Railway Business Strongest institution of the kind in the west. Positions given to you who lead, manage, or engineage a Bridgeway's WICHA TELLERAGE BUILDER, All South Main St. W. D. Airey, Ave., Wichita, Kans Get a fresh, crisp package of Try sum Biscuit at your Grocer's. 5c. Supplement to The SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, : : : : KANS. There is the usual cold comfort for all parties in the returns from Medicine Hat. Customs officers in New York had a big job on hand lately. They seized 10,000 kid gloves. A scientist tells us that "metals get tired." Now you know why the gold gave out before it got to you. There is one advantage in looking for the north pole. In the face of the gravest danger one can always keep cool. At a spiritualist seance in New York, we are told, a man's arm was lengthened two feet. That's stretching it some. Anybody who doubts the ability of the American Indian to be as civilized as anybody should observe him in a football game. That man who is going to cross the ocean in a balloon should pause to consider that the water in the Atlantic is still deep and wet. The inventive Yankee is still at it. During the last fiscal year the United States patent office received some 58,527 applications for mechanical patents. Kissing, declares Dr. Napoleon Boston, spreads more disease than files. We scorn his statement because we don't like his name. Reminds us of Waterloo and Bunker Hill. A way has been found to make paper out of cornstalks. This will create a pleasant harmony for the man who likes to combine his reading with the pleasures of a corn-cob pipe. The plan of the proposed Henry Hudson memorial bridge at New York calls for a reinforced concrete span of 710 feet, and represents one of the boldest engineering projects of the time. The Highways Protection league reports 932 automobile accidents occurred in Great Britain in 1907, killing 215 persons and injuring 275. For these accidents and other motor car offenses 2,270 persons were summoned, of whom 2,046 were convicted. There are at present on duty in the main thoroughfares of Paris 21 policemen who speak English, nine who speak German, and six who speak Spanish, and their usefulness has been so clearly demonstrated that the prefect of police has decided to add to their number as opportunity may arise. Brazil has spent $15,000,000 in the effort to hold up the world's price of coffee by government purchasing and warehousing of the Brazilian production. The theory that a national government can do anything it chooses in commerce occasionally gets a very rude jolt. It is not surprising that Kaiser Wilhelm should invent an alr-brake. He has done many things wisely, if not too well, and as he begins to slide down the years, turning inventor of a motor brake is a becoming climax to his other accomplishments. Whether it is a truly practical stopper remains to be proved. According to the Scientific American the fact that our macadamized roads don't wear as well as those in Europe is because we don't apply the theory of the stitch in time. European highway departments watch the roads and mend them wherever and whenever they need it without allowing the damage to become important. Now a medical expert comes forward to assert that the French heel, considered one of the greatest outrages inflicted by feminine vanity upon suffering nature, is not only proper, but highly desirable. Still, feminine vanity will not make so much of this practical vindication, as, in any event, it would have kept on wearing the French heel. Felicitations to the cranks! Ambassador Bryce's tribute to them as not infrequently the first pioneers of great causes, is distinguished appreciation. It is scarcely so enthusiastic, however, as Dr. Holmes' earlier observation that there never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank. Horace E. Bixby, 82 years of age, still at the wheel after 60 years as a Mississippi river pilot, enjoys the distinction of having taught Mark Twain the art of navigation on the "Father of Waters." He says Mark Twain became a good pilot, having but one fault—the excessive use of tobacco. Capt. Bixby is still hale and hearty and enjoys telling of the various episodes of his eventful career upon the river. During the five years preceding 1904-05 the total acreage annually under indigo cultivation in India was 755,900. In 1905-05 this area had decreased to 330,400 acres, or a falling off of a little less than 44 per cent. The Mecca railroad is being constructed rapidly, solidly and methodically. Foreigners are employed in positions of leadership and management. By imperial order it is now proposed to complete the line from Medina to Mecca, a distance of 280 miles, before the next pilgrimage. THE HAITIEN WAR THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY UN DER GEN. SIMON ARE NEAR- ING PORT AU PRINCE. FOREIGNERS ARE UNEASY Residents of the Capital City Are Becoming Panic-Stricken And Business Houses Are Being Barricaded. Port Au Prince, Dec. 2.—Every hour brings the revolutionary army nearer to Port au Prince, and a feeling of impending disaster has taken possession of the people. The advance guard of Gen. Antoine Simon's forces is now not more than 25 or 30 miles from this city and up to the present the insurgents have swelt all before them The government losses at Ansea-Veaun on Friday and the rout of the loyal troops have caused consternation among the officials of the government, with possibly the exception of President Nord Alexis. Every effort to have him take himself out of the country has proved a failure and the aged president, who has faced revolutions before, announces his determination to fight to the last. It may be that President Alexis feels the confidence he expresses in his ability to check the advancing army, but the residents of Port au Prince certainly are not of the same mind. Many of them are panic stricken and the great majority of the natives have closed and shuttered their stores and business houses, and have put bars across the doors and windows of their residences. There is an uneasy feeling among the foreigners, notwithstanding the presence in the harbor of the warships of the United States and France, from which forces unquestionably will be landed if the insurgents succeed in passing the gates of the city, or at the first sign of disorder and pillage. Flags of different nations are flying from the homes of many foreign residents, the markets are deserted, and the country people, upon whom the city depends for its sustenance, have fled precipitately and refuse to return. The situation has become so grave that an official proclamation has been issued convoking the chambers in extraordinary session, so that measures may be taken to preserve the government, or, at least, to effect a compromise with the revolutionary leaders. Throughout the day and Monday night the streets were patrolled by bodies of troops, who maintained order. So far as can be seen all of the officers and soldiers here remain loyal and are facing the coming of the revolutionists calmly. Three divisions of troops are entrenched at the convergence of three roads, several miles outside the city and it is not expected that Gen. Simon's force will reach the cross roads until possibly Wednesday. The vanguard of the revolutionists occupied Grand Coave, a town of 16,000 inhabitants, about 30 miles west of Port au Prince, without firing a shot and it is expected that this force will be sent ahead to clear the way if any obstruction is offered. A DEFICIT IN SIGHT. The Government Expenditures increase Faster Than Receipts. Washington, Dec. 2.—Although the government receipts from custom internal revenue and other sources, continue to show gratifying increases over last year, the increases in expenditures are materially greater. For the month of November, 1908, the receipts were $45,002,630, as against $45,529,325 for November last year, an increase of $2,500,000. The expenditures for the month are shown to have aggregated $57,938,133 as against $42,362,208 for November, 1907, an increase of $15,600,000. Taking the last seven months as a basis of calculation, the deficit for the present fiscal year will probably be from $112,000,000 to $115,000,000. A Kansas City Church Burns. Kansas City, Dec. 2.—Fire was discovered shortly after ten o'clock Tuesday night in the rooms of C. McCahen in the rear of the William Jewell Baptist church, 2128 Madison street. Before firemen could get it under control the fire spread to the church, which is a frame building. It burned to the ground. The damage is estimated at $4,000 for the church, $500 for its contents and $225 for the two rooms of C. McCahen. The cause of the fire is not known. Wish the Colleges Exempted. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 1.—An effort is to be made by the presidents of the Kansas colleges to have the tax law amended so that all college property, used exclusively for the endowment or work of a college, will be exempted from taxation. Some assessors are now listing all college property in excess of ten acres for taxation. The college presidents held a meeting here Saturday and will further work out their plans at a later meeting. The November Coinage. Washington, Dec. 2.—The monthly statement of the director of the mint shows that during November, 1908, the coinage at the mints of the United States amounted to $8,817,710 as follows: Gold, $7,993,740; silver, $820,000; minor coins, $3,470. There were also coined 3,475,000 pieces for the Philippine islands. MONEY IN KANSAS DAIRIES THE RECEIPTS ARE MORE THAN $10,000,000 A YEAR. State Commissioner's Report Shows That There Are 63 Creameries in the State. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 2.—The dairy and creamy business of Kansas is considerably in excess of $10,000,000 a year, according to the annual report of D. M. Wilson, state dairy commissioner, made public Tuesday. Mr. Wilson has accurate reports from all creameries of Kansas, but he can only estimate the business of the small farm dairies and the business of dairies outside the state which draw some supplies from Kansas. There are 63 creameries in Kansas, and these transacted a total business in dairy products of $7,772,248.42. This is divided as follows: Milk, 33,055,471 pounds. Cream, 90,134,392 pounds. Total value milk and cream, $6,982,186.10. Total value ice cream, $282,212.50. Total value skimmed milk, $507,849.50. In his report Mr. Wilson will ask the coming legislature to provide some rules and regulations for those in charge of dairies and creamy stations. He believes that the Kansas dairy products will be cleaner and better if some sort of examinations are held under state supervision by which the men who actually do the work will have to be trained in their profession before they are eligible to take charge of a creamy for dairy. He would also provide for helpers and workmen and have certain requirements for them. KANSAS SCHOOL LANDS OPENED. Many Leases Made Void by Ruling of State Officials. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 2.—All Kansas school lands which have not been revalued since the first five-year leasing period were declared open for settlement, and hundreds of school land leases were declared void Tuesday under a ruling of J. M. Nation, state auditor, and Fred S. Jackson, attorney general. For years the Kansas school lands have been leased to the highest bidder and not according to valuation. The school lands were valued once and there is a constitutional provision that all school lands must be revalued every five years and a new lease made under the new value. As far as any records go there never has been a revaluation of the school lands since they were first granted to the state. Under this provision of the constitution all leases made after the five-year period, for which the land was originally leased, are void, and, under the school land laws, when a lease is void or is given up, the land is at once open to settlement. The decision affects thousands of acres of lands in the western half of the state. There is little school land left in the eastern counties, but there is a large amount in many western counties. Under this ruling any one that desires to take up a quarter section of land in western Kansas can do so at once. All county clerks were notified Tuesday that they must not accept leases for school lands and that all the present leases where there has been no revaluation are void. AN HONEST KANSAN. Colby Man Pays Back Money Wrongfully Collected When a Boy. Laporte, Ind., Dec. 2.—Believing that his "eternal welfare is at stake," C. Vail, a contractor at Colby, Kan., sent to Geo. Link, clerk of the Laporte county circuit court, a draft for $11.90, principal and interest on a sum which he says he collected wrongfully from Laporte county 40 years ago. Accompanying the draft which was received Monday was the following letter: "About 40 years ago, when a mere lad, I obtained a bounty wrongfully from Laporte, county on seven fox scalps and I now want to make restitution, as I believe my eternal welfare is at stake. If necessary, I am ready to appear in person before you. I received $3.50, which at 6 per cent interest for 40 years amounts to $11.90, for which I inclose a draft." The amount was credited to the bounty fund and marked "conscience money." Hadley at Kansan Banquet? Topeka, Kan., Dec. 1.—At a meeting of the executive committee of the Kansas Day club, steps were taken to have Gov-elect Herbert S. Hadley of Missouri deliver the annual address at the banquet of Kansas Republicans January 29—Kansas day. Mr. Hadley is a native Kansan and a graduate of Kansas university. The other speakers for the banquet are: Native Kansan toast, O. W. Brown, Lenexa; O. C. Hull, Eldorado; B. H. Grigsby, Chanute; J. U. Brown, Hutchinson; W. D. 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Talking through a man's hat, at long range, is going to be the merest commonplace. As long as German bankers can be found who leave $7,000,000 fortunes to the encouragement of science the eminence of the German nation in the scientific field is not likely to be lost. An expedition organized in Boston by George M. Boynton will explore the great unknown regions of the southern watershed of the Amazon river between the fourth and tenth parallels. An educational institution has gained, its faculty declares, by the elimination of its "co-eds." "Co-education seems to be falling on parous times. It may be that the feminine contingent, far from being grateful for the concession, are now no longer willing to be the "Co." Charolles, a small town 30 miles from Macon, in France, has recently been visited by a shower of sulphur. The roofs, gardens, fields, vineyards, rivers and ponds were covered with a yellow dust, and for some time the peasants in the fields were troubled by a sulphurous biting odor which made breathing difficult. The manager of one of the Atlantic steamship lines is trying to do away with the rivalry among the lines and to arrange a schedule of sailing from the chief European ports which will give a daily service and insure to each company a fair share of business. He says the plan will be much more profitable than the present system. It looks as if it would be more satisfactory to passengers also, and seems a sensible arrangement. --- DEPARTMENTS C. R. Wilfley has given up working in Wichita since the rainy spell. Hunting party: Mr. Reed of Wichita Mr. John McGuire and C. R. Wilfley, were out hunting Thanksgiving and got a few rabbits. Rev. C. G. Cole of Wichita was down and preached an able sermon calling his little flock together. We hope Rev. Cole much success and will do all we can to help along in the good work. Mrs. Annie Black is somewhat better and we hope a speedy recovery. Born to Mr. and Mrs. McGrue a 10-lb baby boy. Mother and baby are getting along fine. Mrs. Vina Bates has moved back to Wichita after living in ourl little city 14 months. Her friends were sorry to see her leave. Says Mrs. Blake—Negroes Will Be White 100 Years Hence. New York, Wednesday.—Mrs. Lillie Deveraux Blake created something of a sensation at a meeting of the Society for Political Study at the Hotel Astor in a discussion on "Criminal Study," by saying, after reference had been made by others to the record of Negroes in criminal annals: "White blood is now so mixed with Negro blood that the real Negro is being wiped out. In 100 years from now I don't suppose there will be one left, and everybody, broadly speaking, will have a strain of Negro blood in their veins. I cannot say that I will regret it." Beat three eggs with a pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of sugar. Work into it as much flour until stiff. Knead like bread until it becomes stiff and finely grained like noodle dough. Roll out into a tibn sheet and cut into either squares or fancy shapes. Fry in hot lard until a delicate brown and sprinkle with powdered sugar. If prefed they may be cut with a cookie cutter, two being pressed together lightly in the center and fried. Then in the center of each add a teaspoonful of jelly. CLEARWATER NEWS. Crisps. VISITS WITH UNCLE BY Didn't Know Him. The love of a southern negro for his hunting dogs is depicted in a story C. When President Roosevelt was hunting bear in the Mississippi river bottoms recently, the sport was poor. There seemed to be plenty of bear but the dogs were an inferior lot. One of the party said that "Old Man" Dunham, who lived on the flat, had a fine bunch of bear hounds and the president suggested they go over and borrow them. They rode into the old negro's clear- and halloed the house. A shriveled-up colored man, with a growth of white stubble on his copper-colored face, came to the door and gave greeting. "Good morning, Mr. Dunham," said the president, riding up alongside, "Good mawnin', sir." "Uncle," continued the president, approaching the subject in the usual impulsive, Roosevelt way, "I understand you have a fine bunch of bear hounds." "Yes, sah, ah reckon Ah have th' best passel o' pucles in this here hull country." "Well, you see, uncle, we have been hunting over here on the bottoms and our dogs don't seem to be doing good work. We thought maybe we could induce you to—" "No, sah! No, sah! Ah can't go huntin' to-day. Ah's all bunged up wif de rheumatiz, Ah is." "That's all right, Mr. Dunham. Just let us take the dogs and—" "No, sah! Ah don't let nobody hunt wif my houn's 'ceptin' Ah'm along, sah!" "Perhaps, uncle, you don't know who I am," ventured Mr. Roosevelt. "No, sah, I don' never reckon I seeon yo' befo', sah." "I'm Theodore Roosevelt." The darky scratched his head moment and responded gallantly: "Yes, sah. I'se glad t' meet ye, but Ah—Ah don' ever remembah of knowin' who all is, sah." "Why, uncle, I'm president of the United States." "That don' make no diffuse, Mr. Roosevelt. That don' make no diffuse. Yo' all couldn't borrow my houn's ef yo war Booker Washington, hissel sah!" ★ ★ ★ I have rhymed about summer and fall, I have rhymed of the wilds and their call, I have rhymed about reason, Of love and of treason, And have pulled out the stop labeled "GALL." I have mused on the Muses and Hope Of the smoke that arises from rope, I have rhymed, just between us, Of Hesper and Venus And have loaded the mails with my dope. I have rhymed of the beautiful snow, Of the breezes that sough to and fro, I have rhymed of the people, The church and the steeple, Of the linnet, the hen and the crow. I have rhymed about maidens galore; Oh, of eighty odd wrongs—and some more! I have rhymed of the fashions, The fobles and passions, Of the statesman, the crook and the bore! But with all of my rhyming of bliss, Of the hills and the maids and the kiss, Still I find, in the papers— There are holes to be filled—well, like this! By the Way. STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH It is almost time for Little Willie to join the Sunday school, "gist afore Christmas." A correspondent wants to know if wearing queer clothes makes one a poet, or if being a poet makes one wear queer clothes? Neither, it is being a poet and not having the price of new ones that is to blame. An editor, weary of dunning back subscribers, climbed a high mountain and said to a monk: "Why should a man live?" The hoary disciple took the editor by the hand and led him afar back into the innermost recesses of the mountain, to where a deep cavern yawned. Down below the waves of an inland lake beat madly. "Ha! ha! Why should a man live! mocked the monk. And the publisher went away and wondered. Rayon Williams ```markdown ``` Light Freights By W. W. JACOBS TO HAVE AND TO HOLD (Copyright, Dodd, Mead Company.) The old man sat outside the Cauliflower inn, looking crossly up the road. He was fond of conversation, but the pedestrian who had stopped to drink a mug of ale beneath the shade of the doors was not happy in his choice of subjects. Conversation languished; the traveler rapped on the table and had his mug refilled. He nodded courteously to his companion and drank. "You're another Job Brown," said the old man, irritably, "that's wot you are; another Job Brown. I've seen your kind afore." He shifted farther along the seat, and, taking up his long clay pipe from the table, struck a match and smoked the few whiffs which remained. "Wot I said just now about you being like Job Brown was only in joke like," he said, anxiously, as he tasted the brew. "If Job 'ad been like you he'd ha' been a better man." The philanthropist bowed. "He was one o' the 'ardest drinkers in these parts," began the old man, slowly, filling his pipe. The traveler thanked him. "Sometimes e' used to get pitiful over it, and sit shaking its 'ead at 'em for drowning theirselves in beer, as he called it, when they ought to be giving the money to their wives and families. He sat down and cried one night over Bill Chambers' wife's toes being out of 'er boots. Bill sat struck all of a 'aep, and it might 'ave passed off, only Henery' White spoke up for 'im, and said that he scarcely ever 'ad a pint but not somebody else paid for it. There was unpleasantness all round then, and in the row somebody knocked one o' Henery's teeth out. "And that wasn't the only unpleasantness, and at last some of the chaps put their 'eads together and agreed among theirselves to try and help Job Brown to give up the drink. They kep' it secret from Job, but the next time 'e came in and ordered a pint Joe Gubbins—aving won the toss—drank it by mistake, and went straight off 'ome as 'ard as 'e could, smacking 'is lips. "He 'ad the best of it, the other chaps 'aving to 'old Job down in 'is chair, and trying their 'ardest to explain that Joe Gubbins was only doing him a kindness. "He kept a very tight 'old' the next pint, and as 'e' set down at the table he looked round nasty like and asked 'em whether there was any more as would like to do 'im a kindness, and Henry White said there Was, and he went straight off 'ome arter fust dropping a handful o' sawdust into Job's mug. "I'm an old man, an' I've seen a good many rows in my time, but I've never seen anything like the one that 'appened then. It was no good talking to Job, not a bit, he being that JACKSON There Was Unpleasantness All 'Round Then. unreasonable that even when 'is own words was repeated to 'im he wouldn't listen. He behaved like a madman, an' the langwidge 'e used was that fearful and that wicked that Smith the landlord said 'e wouldn't 'ave it in 'is house. "Arter that you'd ha' thought that Job Brown would 'ave left off 'is talk about being teetotaler, but he didn't." "It was through that at last 'e came to offer five pounds reward to anybody as could 'elp 'im to become a teetotaler. He went off 'ome one night as usual, and arter stopping a few seconds in the parlor to pull hisself together, crept quietly upstairs for fear of waking 'is wife. He saw by the crack under the door that she'd left a candle burning, so he pulled hisself together again and then turned the 'andle and went in and began to try an 'take off 'is coat. "He 'appened to give a 'alflook towards the bed as 'e did so, and then 'e started back and rubbed 'is eyes and told 'imself he'd be better in a minute. Then 'e looked agin, for 'is wife was nowhere to be seen, and in the bed all fast and sound asleep and snoring their 'ardest was little Dick Weed the tailor and Mrs. Weed and the baby. "Get up,' ses Job, 'ardly able to speak. I'm surprised at you. Get up out o' my bed direcly'. "Your bed? screams little Dick; 'you're the worse for licker, Job Brown. Can't you see you've come into the wrong house?" "Eh?' ses Job, staring. 'Wrong ouse? Well, where's mine, then?" "Next door but one, same as it always was,' ses Dick. 'Will you go?' "Job began to go downstairs, say ing 'goo'-night' as 'e went, and he'd got pretty near to the bottom when A "Mind Your Own Business," Ses John Brown. he suddenly wondered wot 'e was going downstairs for instead of up, and laffing gently at 'is foolishness for making sich a mistake 'e went upstairs again. His surprise when 'e see Dick Weed and Mrs. Weed and the baby all in 'is bed pretty near took 'is breath away. '“Wot are you doing in my bed?” he ses. '“It's our bed,’ ses Dick, trembling all over with rage. 'I've told you afore you've come into the wrong 'ouse. '“Wrong 'ouse,’ ses Job, staring round the room. 'I bieve you're right. Goo'night, Dick; goo'night, Mrs. Weed; goo'night, baby.' "They 'ad the neighbors in then, and the trouble they 'ad to get Job downstairs wouldn't be believed. Mrs. Pottle went for 'is wife at last, and then Job went 'ome with 'er like a lamb, asking 'er where she'd been all the evening, and saying 'ed been looking for 'er everywhere. "There was such a to-do about it in the village next morning that Job Brown was fairly scared. "He wasn't like hissef that night up at the Cauliflower. 'E sat up in the corner and wouldn't take notice of anybody, and it was easy to see as he was thoroughly ashamed of hissef. "'Cheer up, Job,' says Bill Chambers, at last; 'you ain't the fust man as has made a fool of hissef.' "'Mind your own business,' ses Job Brown, 'and I'll mind mine.' "Why don't you leave 'im alone, Bill?' ses Hency White; you can see the man is worried because the baby can't talk. "Oh,' ses Bill, 'I thought 'e was worried because 'is wife could." "I'm going to give it up, Smith," he sees, 'and I'll give five pounds to anybody as'll prevent me tasting intoxicating licker for a month." "Bill Chambers wasn't satisfied then. He pointed out that earning the five pounds, and then getting it out o' job Brown afterwards, was two such entirely different things that there was no likeness between 'em at all. Then Job Brown got so mad 'e didn't know wot 'e was doing, and 'e 'anded over five pounds to Smith the landlord and wrote on the paper that he was to give it to anybody who should earn it, without consulting 'im at all. Even Bill couldn't think of anything to say again that, but he made a point of biting all the sovereigns. "There was quite a excitement for a few days. Henry White 'he got a 'eadache with thinking, and Joe Gubbins, 'he got a 'eadache for drinking Job Brown's beer agin. There was all sorts o' wild ways mentioned to earn that five pounds, but they didn't come to anything. "Arter a week had gone by Job Brown began to get restless like, and once or twice 'e' said in Smith's hearing 'ow useful five pounds would be. "He used to ask Smith for it every night, and Smith used to give 'im the same answer, until at last Job Brown said he'd go an' see a lawyer about it. That frightened Smith a bit, and I b'live he'd ha' 'anded it over, but two days arterwards Job was going upstairs so careful that he fell down to the bottom and broke 'is leg. "It was broken in two places, and the doctor said it would be a long job, owing to 'is drinking habits, and e gave Mrs. Brown strict orders that Job wasn't to 'ave a drop of anything, even if e asked for it. "There was a lot o' talk about it up at the Cauliflower 'ere, and Henry White, arter a bad 'eadache, thought of a plan by which e' and Bill Chambers could 'ave that five pounds atween 'em. The idea was that Bill Chambers was to go with Henry to see Job, and take 'im a bottle of beer, and list as Job was going to drink it Henry should knock it out of 'is 'ands, at the same time telling Bill Chambers 'e ought to be ashamed of hiself. "It was a good idea, and, as Henry White said, if Mrs. Brown wzs in the room so much the better, as she'd be a witness. He made Bill swear to keep it secret for fear of other chaps doing it arterwards, and then they bought a bottle o' beer and set off up the road to Job's. The annoying part of it was, arter all their trouble and Henry White's 'eadache, Mrs. Brown wouldn't let 'em in. They begged and prayed of 'er to let 'em go up and just 'ave a peep at 'im, but she wouldn't. She said she'd go upstairs and peep for 'em, and she came down agin and said that 'e was a little bit flushed but sleeping like a lamb. "Job promised that 'e would give liquor up; but the fust day 'e felt able to crawl on 'is crutches he made up 'is mind to go up to the Cauliflower and see whether gin and beer tasted as good as it used to. The only thing was 'is wife might stop 'im. "You're done up with nursing me, old gal," he ses to 'is wife. "I am a bit tired.' ses she. "You go, my dear," ses Job. I shall be quite 'appy sitting at the gate in the sun with a glass o' milk an' a pipe. "He persuaded 'er at last, and, in a fit o' generosity, gave 'er three shillings to go shopping with, and as soon as she was out o' sight he went off with a crutch and a stick, smiling all over 'is face. He met Dick Weed in the road and they shook 'ands quite friendly, and Job asked 'im to 'ave a drink. Then Henery White and some more chaps came along, and by the time they got to the Cauliflower they was as merry a party as you'd wish to see. "Every man 'ad a pint o' beer, which Job paid for, not forgetting Smith 'isself, and Job closed 'is eyes with pleasure as 'e took his. "And I'll trouble you for that five pounds, Smith,' e ses, smiling. 'I've been without anything stronger than milk for seven weeks. I never thought when I wrote that paper I was going to earn my own money.' "Has your wife gone shopping today? ses Smith, looking at 'im very solemn. "Job Brown put 'is mug down on the table and turned pale as ashes. Then 'e got up and limped over to the bar. "Wot d'yer mean? he ses, choking. "She said she thought o' doing so, ses Smith, wiping a glass; 'she came in yesterday and asked for that five pounds she'd won. The doctor came in with 'er and said she'd kept you from licker for seven weeks, let alone a month; so, according to the paper, I 'ad to give it to 'er. 'I 'ope I done right. Job?' "Job didn't answer 'im a word, good or bad. He just turned 'is back on him, and, picking up 'is crutch and 'is stick, hobbled off 'ome. Henery White tried to make 'im stop and 'ave another pint, but he wouldn't. He said he didn't want 'is wife to find 'im out when she returned." NATURE AS A FAKER. Sometimes Deceives Even the Trained Eye of the Scientist. On the so-called Table Mounds of Iowa are numerous impressions of what look exactly like cloven feet. It is not surprising that superstitious people should attribute them to the devil, taking his walks abroad, though as a matter of fact, they are not footprints of any kind whatsoever, but merely weather-worn impressions left by a species of mollusk-like animal known to science as pentamerus. To the Smithsonian institution not long ago somebody sent from the Bad Lands of Nebraska what purported to be a fossil ham. It did in very truth look like a ham, and, to render the verisimilitude complete, the bone was actually sticking out at one end of it. Nevertheless, an investigation showed that the alleged bone was in reality a "vaculite"—an extinct mollusk's shell, rodlike in form—and the rest of the "ham" was a mere accidental agglomeration of stony stuff. One day, quite recently, a young man walked into the National museum at Washington and presented to the anthropologist in charge a petrified foot. It was received with many thanks, though recognized at a glance as a water-worn fragment of rock which had accidentally assumed a shape resembling a foot. Such chance imitations as these frequently occur in nature. Another one, deposited in the same institution, was supposed by the finder to be a petrified oyster. It looks as if on the half shell; all its parts are wonderfully distinct, and there is even a small pearl in it seemingly. Yet it is not an oyster at all. Many years ago the "ozooon" was introduced as a fossil to a wondering world by Sir William Dawson, an eminent geologist. It was accepted by science for quite a while as the earliest and oldest of known animals—the "dawn animal," as its name signifies. Recent scientific investigation, however, has proven that it is not, and never was, an animal at all. It is merely a curious crystalline combination of two minerals which has the look of something that once upon a time was alive. It has recently been proved that many markings on sedimentary rocks, long supposed to be fossil prints of algae and other plants, are in reality tracks left by insects, mollusks and worms. Some of these alleged "plants" had actually received names and been classified into genera and species. Saturday Evening Post. 777 Directory ts & Daughters 333 Official Knights & Da 333 777 Official Directory Knights & Daughters OF TABOR KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 1715 Clark Ave., Parsons, Kan. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kans. MRS SARAH FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St., Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M., 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kans. C. M. JONHSON, G. P. P., 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 34 M 35 Mr. 36 Sc 37 Mrs. 38 Mrs. 39 Mr. 52 Mrs. 68 Mrs. 77 Mrs. To itu 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, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mul- berry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th Salina. 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NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES ```markdown ``` 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan., 1-2 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Wein City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) ita, Kan., Fridays. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Wed. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) TEMPLES. 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1178, Woln 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffe- villey, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 3 J. G. Purdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 4 F. D. Early, Sherman Flats, Omaha Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 7 Dr. G. G. Brown, 517 N. 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This makes any other make—SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walken Kansas City, Kan. 1-3 Sat. Mo. 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Coffeyville, Kan. > Wed. (A) 6 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Ida Kan. 2-4 Sat. (A) 7 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb. 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Ethel Penn, 718 "Q" St. Atchison Ks., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arie Stone, 823 Main, Atchison Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Ks., 4 Wed. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Sam Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Carr Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsons Kans., 1-3 Sat. 29 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kans sas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherman Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 28 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawren Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 36 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1318 N. Madison Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 812 Wash ton, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Test is not in this Directory, or if it is any error, please notify me at W. N. MILLER. EDITOR The plan of the proposed Henry Hudson memorial bridge at New York calls for a reinforced concrete span of 710 feet, and represents one of the boldest engineering projects of the time. The Highways Protection league reports 932 automobile accidents occurred in Great Britain in 1907, killing 215 persons and injuring 675. For these accidents and other motor offenses 2,270 persons were summoned of whom 2,046 were convicted. There are at present on duty in the main thoroughfares of Paris 21 police men who speak English, nine who speak German, and six who speak Spanish, and their usefulness has been so clearly demonstrated that the prefect of police has decided to and to their number as opportunity to arise. Brazil has spent $15,000,000 in the effort to hold up the world's price of coffee by government purchasing and warehousing of the Brazilian production. The theory that a national government can do anything it chooses in commerce occasionally gets a very rude jolt. It is not surprising that Kalser WI helm should invent an air-brake. It has done many things wisely, if not too well, and as he begins to slide down the years, turning inventor of motor brake is a becoming climat to his other accomplishments. Whether it is a truly practical stopper remains to be proved. According to the Scientific American can the fact that our macadamian roads don't wear as well as those in Europe is because we don't apply the theory of the stitch in time. European highway departments watch the roads and mend them wherever and whenever they need it without allowing the damage to become important. Now a medical expert comes for ward to assert that the French hee considered one of the greatest out rages inflicted by feminine vank upon suffering nature, is not only proper, but highly desirable. Still feminine vanity will not make so much of this practical vindication, as in an event, it would have kept on wearing the French hee. Felicitations to the cranks! An bassador Bryce's tribute to them is not infrequently the first pioneers of great causes, is distinguished appreciation. It is scarcely so enthusiastic however, as Dr. Holmes' earlier or servation that there never was a idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank. Horace E. Bixby, 82 years of age still at the wheel after 60 years as Mississippi river pilot, enjoys the direction of having taught Mark Twain the art of navigation on the "Father of Waters." He says Mark Twain became a good pilot, having but on fault—the excessive use of tobacco Capt. Bixby is still hale and heart and enjoys telling of the various episodes of his eventful career upon the river. During the five years preceding 1904-05 the total acreage annually under indigo cultivation in India was 755,900. In 1905-05 this area had creased to 330,400 acres, or a fallin off of a little less than 44 per cent. The Mecca railroad is being constructed rapidly, solidly and methodically. Foreigners are employed in positions of leadership and management. By imperial order it is now proposed to complete the line from Medina Mecca, a distance of 280 miles, before the next pilgrimage.