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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. VOTE FOR CHAS. L. DAVIDSON FOR MAYOR. Because he will give Wichita a clean, economical, business administration. Because he is a safe, sound and experienced man of business. Because he believes in fair play and a square deal for every man. Because he has spent his life in helping build up Wichita. Because his thirty-four years residence in Wichita acquaints him with the needs of our city. Because he will make an honest, efficient, impartial, painstaking Mayor of Wichita. Because he has proven his interest in Wichita and is one of its heaviest tax-payers. Because, as Mayor, he will give Wichita citizens and Wichita labor an opportunity to do Wichita public work. Because he is the most logical and best fitted man for the office of Mayor. Because, in private as well as public life, he has proven worthy of the confidence of his fellow townsmen. Because he is NOT identified with any political clique or combination and is free to use his best energy for building up Wichita and making work for the laboring man. Because when you vote for Chas. L. Davidson you vote to make Wichita a better, busier and more prosperous place to live in. Mass Meeting A big mass meeting will be held at the Crawford Opera house Monday Night March 22ND in the interest of Hon. Charles L Davidson for mayor of wichita YOU ARE INVITED TENTH YEAR VOTE CHAS. L. FOR M Because he will give Wichita business administration. Because he is a safe, safe of business. Because he believes in fact for every man. Because he has spent his Wichita. Because his thirty-four acquaints him with the new. Because he will make an initial, painstaking Mayor of Wichita. Because he has proven he is one of its heaviest tax-payers, as Mayor, he and Wichita labor an oppo-lic work. Because he is the most for the office of Mayor. Because, in private as well proven worthy of the confid- men. Because he is NOT ide- clique or combination and energy for building up Wichita the laboring man. Because when you vote to make Wichita a be- perous place to live in. Mass Me A big mass held at the Crawford Monday Night in the interest of Davidson for man- YOU ARE Phillis What'eey's Poems One of the rarities in the library of Henry A. Smith of Milford, Conn. which was sold a short time ago, was a first editor of "Poems on Various Subjects, Reigi ous and Moral, by Philis H. Wheatley, Negro Servent to John Wheatley of Boston, in New England," a 12mo. pnblished in 1773 with a portrait of the authoress. Phillis was born in Africa about 1753 and was brought to the United States, by a slave trader in 1761. Her only recollection of her heathen mother worshiping the rising sun. Philis was brought in a slave market by John Wheatly of Boston, and was educated by his daughters. She learned to read and write English and studied Latin. --- In 1775 she addressed a poem and a letter to George Washington and recieved reply from him thanking her for the poem and saying that he whould be pleased to have her call on him in his camp if she ever happened to be near Cambridge, Mass. A few days before the British evacuated Boston she visited the American camp and was cordially recieved by General Washington. She married a Negro named Peter and lived in proPERTY. She died in Boston in 1784. In the library of Harvard is a copy of "Paradise Lost" which the lord mayor of London, England presented to her in 1774 while she was on a visit there. The genuineness of her "Poems on Various Subjects was attest- MARCH 20,1909 by such yrominent New Englanders as Governor Thomas Hutchison, John Hancock, the Rev. Samuel Mather, John Wheatly and Andrew Elict. The first editor was published in London in 1773 and the second editor in Albany in 1793. It was republished in Philadelphia in 1801, entitled "The Negro Equaled by Few Europeans. Sad Plight Of Colored Comedian George Walker, the playing as partner of Bert Williams, of the world-famous Williams & Walker troupe, arrived in New York City from Dayton, Ohio, under the care of his partner and manager Jack Shoemaker, and was placed in a private sanitarium. Walker's peculiar actions were noticed by Shoemaker, and after consultation the latter was advised that Walker needed a long rest and freedom from a mental care. PLEASED WITH HOME Presiding Elder M. Wooten of the Wiehita District, of the A. M. E. church who is also Chief Grand Orator of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, Kansas -Nebraska Jurisdiction is much elated with the "Taborian Home" in Topeka While in Wichita last week he expressed himself to a reporter for the Searchlight about the Home, as follows: "Yes" said he! I was in Topeka on Wednesday, March 3rd took advantage of the opportunity and made a visit to our Taborian Home. It is grand magnificent and stands as a perpetual movement of the life - work and zeal for our noble order by our matchless Chief Grand Mentor Sir Rev Frank Wilson. Words are inadequate to properly describe this magnificent Taborian Home. Situated in an ideal spot, surrounded by a patuisques landscape moulded by nature herself with its twelve or fourteen large and well appointed rooms, and its stair way of beauty, its out building carpenter shop, stable and in fact everything to make aideal Home such as a growing Order as the Tabors need it seems that it was designed and constructed especially for our needs. Every one Knights and Daughters should feel a keen interest in this Home it is a worthy one and a credit to our race as well as to our order. I wish to add my extreme pleasure of the very courteous treatment extended to me by Chief Grand Mentor Sir Frank Wilson and his esteemable wife. They extended to me a cordiality which I will long remember. I am pleased with my trip. Chas. L. Davidson the popular candidate for Mayor of Wichita, continues to reciev the testimony of his fellowmen of their confidence in his integrity as a citizen his worth as a man and of his capable fitness for this great office. The unsolicited pledge of support which Mr Davidson ie every day recieving from people of every walk of life and of all races would do honor to a king — but in his calm business -like- gentlemanly manner Mr. Davidson can only acknowledge his gratitude of the high estem in which the peogle of this city hold him nnd thank each and all alike to give Wichita a clean, honest, impartial, business and economical administration. One of the marvelous thing of Mr Davibson's campaign that the older settler, the people who have for years been dealing with him, the church people, the colored people, the heavy tax payers the laborers and the women are among Mr Davidson's staunchest and most earnest supporters To these people the means the highest standard of citizenship and manhood. In Chas. L. Davidson they realize a man whom possessess all of the ability, the training, experience and fitness to make an ideal executive officer of a city like Wichita. His record ft bears the inspection frisability has the calibse. With Chas. L. Davidson as Mayor the people of Wichita will have every reason to know that the interest of every citizen, rich or poor, white or th black, high or low will be sacredly guarded. He has the basic of principles of toe man needed. Having resided in Wichita for more than thirty years, Charley Davidson stands today before the people of this city with a clear record this of itself is a matter sufficient to prove his splendid fitness for Mayor. As a builder of Wichita and Wichita enterprises no man has done more than he. It is not a question anymore of his nomination and election this is conceded by all the question is a large majority befitting the character an standing of the man It is predicted that Chas. L. Davidson' Majority for nomination and election will be the larg- Chas L. Davidson fice in the history of Wichita. His name will be voted on for Mayor at the primary to be held March 29th. 09. Prof. Sam I. Hood SURGEON CHROPODIST Removes Corns, Bunions, In-grown Nails and all pedic troubles. Graduate American School Chropody of New York City. The colored people of Kansas who do not read the Kans. Magazine each month miss a rare of treat. It is always filled brimfull of notes pertaining to Kansas that makes good reading. If you have not read it go to the newsstand and get a copy for 15 cts. It's worth while Try it. Next Sunday March 21st is the first day of spring. That's good news. OF INTEREST TO MASONS Washington, D. C., Nov. 16.—One of the most important decisions ever rendered touching the interests of the negro Masonic order in this country was handed down by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia a few weeks ago. In this particular decision all of the rights and dignities of the Grand Lodge of Masons, which was established in 1848, were maintained and the so-called Grand Lodge that sprang up here about twelve years ago, known as the Jones faction, was enjoined in every respect from acting as a Grand Lodge of Masons or using the name of Masonic Grand Lodge on any occasion whatever. About two years ago the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the District of Columbia held a Grand Conclave in Washington, D. C. On the day of the celebration a bill was filed in the Equity Court to restrain the regular Grand Lodge of Masons, the Grand Commandery and the Grand Chapter from acting in their respective capacities as Masonic bodies. This bill was filed by the bqdy which the courts have now called "spurious." It was filed not because it was being disturbed in its work, but to humiliate the older body in the very presence of its brethren and guests from other jurisdictions. Grand Master Wm. H. Grimshaw, Grand Commander W. Judd Malvin and the Grand High Priest were made parties to the bill. Grand Master Grimshaw called together the craft in mass meeting and all of the subordinate lodges unhesitatingly contributed liberally to pay expenses of the defense in the action which had been brought against them. The best legal talent in the District of Columbia was employed. Grand Master Grimshaw worked diligently and assiduously in preparation of the testimony and had his attorney not only answer the bill of injunction filed against the Grand Lodge and represented by him, but instructed them to file a cross bill in the action so as to stop for all time any annoyance from the so-called Grand Lodge which made the attack, and who was represented by one who called himself Grand Master Scott. Grand Master Grimshaw was ably assisted in his fight by Past Grand Master John F. Cook, W. H. Myers, the present Grand Secretary, Leonard C. Balley, Robt. H. Terrell and Past Master John A. Gray. All branches of the craft gave him, the most loyal support throughout. Among the attorneys for the defendants (the regular Grand Lodge and others) were Mr. James A. Cobb, Assistant U. S. Attorney, and Mr. J. H. Stewart, both negroes and Masons. They did splendid work in the preparation and prosecution of the case along with their associates, Mr. Milton J. Lambert and Mr. J. Easby-Smith. The decree in this case is most sweeping in its terms. It not only refuses to grant the injunction prayed by the Jones-Scott faction, but completely puts that faction out of business by granting everything asked for by the regular body in its cross bill. The decree enjoins the faction which has heretofore called itself the "Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Free, Ancient and Accepted Masons" of the District of Columbia, a corporation, from using the name under which it has been acting, and further forbidden to use any signs, sybols, emblems, regalia, banners or insignia, the same as or similar to those which are now used by the cross complainants, the regular Grand Lodge, from in any way holding itself or themselves out to be, or operating as an organization of Free Masons under said name; and from collecting any dues or contributions, or from doing anything else in the capacity of an organized body of Free Masons under that name. The Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia of which Wm. H. Grimshaw, at present Grand Master, was organized in the year 1848, but Social Lodge No. 1, one of the subordinate lodges, has been in active existence in the dis- Washington, D. C. U. S. A. March 15, A. S. 5909 A. D. 09. J. W. Thompson Esp. Dear Sir and Mother some days ago I recieved a letter from you repuesting the Court's decision in the case of Compact Masons & John G. Jones sec. The decision is as follows, MrJohn G. Jones faction is hereby prohibited from using the name of Free Ancient and Accepted Masons, or from using sign, symbols, Eeblems, banners, or insignia," the same as one similar to those are now used by the regular Masons of colored men, or from in any a way holding itself or themselves out to be Masons, or operating as an orgainazation of Free Masons, under said name and from collecting any dues, or contribution, or from doing anything else in the capacity of an organized body of Mason. Sign Wright Justice. It will be some that this decision completely puts the compact and the John G. Jones, Bogus Mason out of business. I hope you Brethren will publish this decision throughout the South land and West. with high regard We Are The Men Get your Electrical Wiring Done now. Door Dells, Burglar Alarms A Specialty Bynum & Stradford Bell Phone 2467 It takes eight hours for work eight hours for recreation and 8, hours for sleep. The person who observes these rules will most likely have a long and prosperious life: Now how is it that many people spend a lot of their time medling and attending to other peoples business, such people dont generally succeed nor live long. THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, : : : : KANS. Vaudeville in airships is talked of. What won't the astronomers see? It is suggested that one of the new states of the southwest shall be called Lincoln. Good. It seems a good deal harder to get a jury these days than to acquit a murderer. Maxim's noiseless gun may be an ingenious contrivance, but it will not be pretty when carried by an assassin. The great constitutional lawyers of the senate may proceed to brush up a bit on the text of the constitution. Castro says he still wants to have a hand in Venezuelan affairs, that is, presumably Venezuelan pockets. "No great statesman can be born in New York," says Woodrow Wilson. Why, no. No baby is a great statesman. Utah has pegged along for 60 years without a capital building. What have her grafters been thinking about? No doubt an inventor will be along some day with a machine that will give us our cold waves steam heated. Probably true that little is known of South America, but what we know of it causes hesitancy as to extending the acquaintance. Spain is going to buy $40,000,000 worth of new battleships. This money will no doubt be charged to the sinking fund. The next thing to do is to invent speedometers that will not register a fraction of a mile every time a taxi-cab skids. A Colorado legislator has declared war on tips, but neglects to say whether he means hotel or cork. A New Yorker takes a plunge in the ocean every morning during the winter while others merely plunge in watered stocks. Marcel waves are said to be going out of fashion, but so far there is no sign that cold waves are going to follow suit. Tacoma burglars blew open a safe and stole a dog that was guarding it. They left the Tacoma police force intact. Under a Pittsburg suburb a fire has been burning for 40 years, but even that doesn't account for all of the smoke. Is this good old world of ours getting rickety or is the seismograph on a joint toot with the thermometer, barometer and social speedometer? "It is hard to get rich," says Mr. Rockefeller. Yes, and the trouble is the courts and the anti-trust laws are making it harder every day. Fish cooked in a hundred different ways will be served in the Alaska building at the Seattle exposition. This will be done to show the food value of Alaska fish. The wireless telegraph is still regarded as a good deal of a miracle, but has not yet been so perfected as to rescue men who skate on thin ice and fall through. The childlike way in which our jewelers leave $3,000 worth of diamonds where a man armed with a brick can get at them by breaking the plate glass goes to show that there is faith in the world which human experience would hardly justify. Tennessee has joined the ranks of the prohibition states. After July 1 it will be illegal to sell liquor within four miles of a schoolhouse. Now all that is necessary is for the people to see that schoolhouses are not more than eight miles apart. A New Orleans policeman arrested his wife because she was quarrelling with another woman and led her to the police station. Most men would hate to hear what he will have to listen to when the affair is a closed incident so far as the public is concerned. Bills to make compulsory wireless outfits on ocean-going vessels have been introduced in congress. They will be supported by public sentiment, after the splendid showing made by this service, and it will tend greatly to reassure those who either for business or pleasure go down to the sea in ships. The New York Times tells of a distinguished citizen, asked the other day to sign a petition favoring woman suffrage, who replied that he would do so if two changes were made in the document; first, that if the suffrage were secured by the women it should be taken away from the men, and, secondly, that all women over 40 years of age should have two votes. The ladies are thinking it over. Germany has a gun that will shoot higher than any balloon can go. This ought to be effective against skylarking. Great Britain would like to rid itself of rats. Recently a deputation from the Incorporated Society for the Destruction of Vermin, headed by Sir James Crichton Browne and the duke of Bedford, waited upon Lord Carrington at the offices of the British board of agriculture and urged him to apoint a commission to inquire into the destruction of crops by rats. KANSAS STATE NEWS Record Load of Farm Produce.—A new world's record for the most valuable load of farm produce was established at Garden City the other day, when George M. Dallas delivered to McBeth & Dallas, who are incidentally, the world's largest alfalfa seed dealers, a load of alfalfa seed valued at $3,000. Commission Government Valid.—The state supreme court has decided that commission form of government for cities in Kansas is valid. The test was made in a suit from Wichita asking that the supreme court order the officers of the city of Wichita to recognize a regularly nominated ticket for city officers on the old plan. Williamson Retains Championship—J. C. Williamson of Mt. Hope retains the Kansas checker championship by defeating John Dougherty of Ellsworth in their match at Witchita. The match for the championship consisted of thirty games. Dougherty won six games and the remaining seventeen were draws. The match was also played for a side bet of $100. Woodmen Circle Elect Officers.—The third biennial convention of the Woodmen circle closed a successful session in Wichita. The next convention will be held in Topeka on the second Tuesday in March, 1911. The following grand officers were elected and installed: Grand guardian, Lizzie Clark of Atchison; grand advisor, Jessie Beard of Topeka; grand clerk, Grace Kennedy of Kansas City; grand banker, Amelia wright of Atchison; grand chaplain, Emma Reed of Laharpe; grand attendant, Mary McGuire of Iola; grand inner sentinel, Ella Warhurst, of Newton; grand outer sentinel, Mary Ralston of Kansas City; grand managers, Iola E. Lowdermilk of Iola, Lulu Hart of Galena and Emma Garner of Wichita; delegate to supreme convention at Detroit in June, Emma Garner of Wichita; alternate, Jessie Beard of Topeka. Indictments by Federal Grand Jury—The U. S. federal court grand jury in session at Wichita, returned five indictments. The jurors were discharged. Mrs. A. H. Miller of 2528 East Second street, Wichita, was indicted on a charge of using the mails wrongfully. Mrs. Miller was arraigned before Judge Pollock after the indictment had been returned. She pleaded not guilty and was released on $1,000 bond. The case will be tried at the September term of court. Robert L. Pollard, a trainman of Wichita, was indicted on the charge of having defrauded Henry T. Sherman of $84. Pollard was Sherman's guardian. Pollard pleaded not guilty. His bond was fixed at $500 and the case was continued until the September term. A bill was returned against John Wahl of Mitchell, for using three two-cent cancelled postage stamps on a letter. Judge Pollock was lenient toward Wahl as he has a family dependent on him. He pleaded guilty and was fined $100. He paid the fine. J. W. Solter was indicted on the charge of having violated the anti-pass law in that he used a pass for transportation on the Santa Fe railroad from Wellington to Belva, Okla., with the agreed intention of going to work for the Santa Fe, when in fact he was not in the employ of the company. John Marshall, assistant attorney general of Topeka, who represented Salter, made a motion that the case be continued on $500 bond, which was done. Jesse Henry, 19 years old, was indicted on the charge of robbing a post office at Lamont, Okla. He pleaded guilty. Judge Pollock paroled Henry on $500 bond conditioned on good behavior. He Was Hunting Quail.—J. R. Morton, a farmer living near Coldwater, was arrested by D. S. Curtis, a deputy state game warden, for shooting quails out of season, and paid a fine and costs amounting to $38.90 and has promised to leave quail alone in the future during the closed season. Numerous violations of the game laws have been reported from that section of the state and more arrests will probably follow, as Mr. Curtis and his deputies are known to be in possession of considerable information regarding the game law violators. Interstate Threshermen Meet.—The Interstate Association of Operating Threshermen concluded a three days' convention in Wichita with the election of the following officers: Henry Robins, Wichita, president; O. P. Victor, Salina, vice president, from Kansas; O. H. Johnson, vice president, from Oklahoma; N. Walbury, Cleburne, vice president, from Texas; W. A. Anderson, Wichita, secretary-treasurer. The directors are: Henry Robbins and W. O. Anderson, Wichita; Lon Best, Sylvan Grove, Kansas; J. M. Simmons, Minneapolis, Kansas, and J. E. Wilcox, Belle Plaine, Kansas. Oldest Sunday School Scholar.—Samuel Freeman, aged 90 years, died at Abilene. He was the oldest Sunday school scholar in the state, and had been an attendant at the Sunday school for eight-five years. Up to a few weeks ago he rode horseback four miles to Sunday school every Sunday morning. Peldges $3,625 in Thirty Minutes.—The new $10,000 Methodist church was dedicated at Greensburg, Bishop J. L. Nuelson and District Superintend- to this effect in the supreme Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE, $1.00, retail. Laws Enacted by Legislature. Here is a list of the most important laws enacted by the 1909 legislature: Giving every county in the state representation in the lower house of the legislature. Requiring lobbyists to register. Requiring the filing of statements showing the contributions and expenditures of political campaign managers and candidates. Establishing a system of insurance for bank depositors. Making prohibition absolute and complete, even to the extent of preventing drug stores from handling liquor or alcohol. Reducing the tax levies to conform to the increased assessment under the new law. Providing a system for the construction both of dirt roads and rock roads. Making county assessors in all counties over 12,000 population elective, and making township trustees deputy assessors. Exempting mortgages from taxation and providing for a registration fee of $5 for every $1,000 mortgage filed. Giving cities of the first, second and third class a commission form of government upon a vote of the people. Providing for the rotation of names on the primary ballot so that no candidate's name heads the list on all ballots. Prohibiting children under 16 years from working during school months, or working at any time in theaters or public elevators. Requiring interurban lines to provide seats for motormen. Giving the board of health authority to preserve the purity of water of Kansas streams. Prohibiting fruit tree agents from misrepresenting the kind of trees they are selling. To protect school children from fire. To protect miners from coal mine disasters. Providing for the inspection of hotels and other public houses. Prohibiting the sale if cigarettes and cigarette papers. Making it a crime for a state employee to sell or give away advance copies of teachers' examination questions. Amending the drainage laws. Requiring newspapers to tell the truth about their circulation. Directing the attorney general to bring suits to clear the Kaw at Kansas City, Kan. Authorizing counties to maintain demonstration farms for the education of farmers in the science of farming. Fixing an excise tax on express companies of 4 per cent on their gross earnings. Requiring bank directors to swear to all reports and making them more responsible for the condition of their banks. Fixing a system of weights and measures and authorizing the pure food inspectors to see that people are given correct weights. Requiring railroads to haul passengers on freight trains and providing conveniences for such passengers. Making it a felony to operate a bucket shop or rent a building to one. Re-elected for Third Time.—N. H. Wolf of Topeka, well known in fraternal circles, was elected to the position of head clerk of the Woodmen of the World, at the meeting held at Leavenworth. This is the third time he has been elected to this office. The meeting was one of the most harmonious ever held. Train Hits Street Car.—In a blinding snow storm, a Wichita and Western passenger train crashed into a street car at Wichita containing six passengers. The motorman, Frank Clark, was injured internally, and C. H. Reeber, a passenger, sustained fractures of two ribs. Others on the car were not seriously injured. Sam Bitter Founted Guilty.—The jury at Dodge City brought in a verdict of guilty in the first degree in the trial of Sam Bitter, charged with the murder of Mrs. Rosenberger, in Kiowa county, last spring. Mrs. Rosenberger was returning from a shopping trip to Belvidere to her home south of Greensburg when the crime was committed. She was alone in a buggy. Teachers to Meet in Hutchinson.—The annual meeting of the Central Kansas Teachers' association will be held in Hutchinson, April 1, 2 and 3. The association is the largest district organization in Kansas. The territory covers fourteen counties and the attendance is from 400 to 600. An excellent program has been arranged and it is believed the attendance will be larger this year than usual. ext W. J. Martindale officiating. The balance of the debt due, $3,625, was pledged in just thirty minutes. This puts the church free of debt. --- Ground at $500 Per Foot.—Henry Schnitzler and Frank Gard have bought two feet of ground in Wichita from the International Harvester company at $500 a foot. The $1,000 purchase extends back from Douglas avenue the depth of two lots. The price is at the present rate of $12,500 per lot. It is considered worth the money. NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Miscellaneous Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coolidge has issued a statement in which he says the present condition of the treasury is better than for some time and that revenues show a marked improvement. Charitable associations of Los Angeles have passed resolutions asking that no more consumptive persons be sent there. President Taft in a brief message to congress calls attention to the immediate need for tariff revision and to the fact that his views are fully set forth in his inaugural address and asks that little or no other business be considered at the special session. Negotiations for the re-establishment of cable communication between Venezuela and the outside world were begun Tuesday when Senor Lorena, the Brazilian minister presented M. Brun, manager of the French cable company, to foreign Minister Guinan. The senate of Finland has passed a measure prohibiting the slaughtering of cattle in accordance with the Jewish ritual. Three men were discovered trying to blow open the safe of the Bland, Mo., bank. Citizens surrounded the bank but were unable to prevent the escape of the robbers. Former State Treasurer James Christiansen, has been arraigned at Salt Lake City on the charge of having embezzled state funds to the amount of $70,000. A bill to provide subventions for the ocean mail service will be introduced in the senate in the near future by Senator Gallinger. Judge Ralph E. Cambell of the United States district court of Oklahoma has ordered the discharge of the Uncle Sam Oil company from bankruptcy. The Hide & Leather association of New York has adopted a resolution demanding that hides be placed on the free list. The federal grand jury at Carson City, Nev., returned an indictment against the Southern Pacific railroad on a charge of granting secret rebates to the California Sugar & White line agency. More than 5,000 members of labor unions paraded the streets of Boston, and at a meeting at Faneuil hall criticised Judge Wright for his decision sending Gompers and Mitchell to prison. Two indictments on charging perjury and the other criminal conspiracy, were returned against Mayor Frank Chapman of Chester, W. Va., by the Hancock county grand jury Thursday The Mercantile club of Kansas City, Kansas, has decided to take another "Scatter Sunshine" trade trip in May. The last trip was in November, 1908, and was a success. In the Standard Oil case the government has announced its intention to abandon any further prosecution, as a result of Judge Anderson's decision. Western Kansas was visited by a heavy fall of snow which will prove a big boon to the farmers and increase their wheat yield greatly. Veterans in gray and veterans in blue marched side by side in parade at the fourth national encampment of veterans at Fitzgerald, Ga. Oscar Adkins with his wife and two-year-old child were drowned while attempting to ford a stream ten miles east of Ottawa, Kan. A public utilities commission, modeled upon the New York body, was introduced in the Missouri legislature Thursday. Over a foot of snow fell in western Nebraska and Wyoming Thursday. The resumption of the three cent passenger rate in Missouri to replace the present two cent rate, which was declared confiscatory by Judge McPherson, has been decided upon at a conference of traffic officials held in Chicago. The conference between the anthracite miners and operators held at Philadelphia failed to arrange a new agreement to go into effect at the expiration of the present working arrangement. It is announced that John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Jacob H. Schiff propose to finance an organization of civic societies for the purpose of uncovering graft and purifying city politics. By unanimous vote the Nevada senate passed the anti-gambling bill. Louis McClough, formerly president of the State Agricultural college of South Dakota is dead at the age of 73 years. At the opening of the special session of congress Speaker Cannon was reelected. Cannon received 204 votes to 166 for Clark of Missouri. The Deep Waterways convention at New Orleans next fall will be held November 18, 19 and 20. The disputes between the United States and Venezuela has been settled and Minister Russell has returned to his post thus resuming diplomatic relations between the two countries. The trial of the notorious Wyckliffe brothers for the murder of two United States marshals has commenced at Tahlequah, Ok. In nine weeks proceedings but six jurors have been secured for the trial of Patrick Calhoun accused of bribery at San Francisco. At Washington Thursday the court of appeals of the District of Columbia rendered a decision in the famous Bucks Stove & Range case against the American Federation of Labor, in favor of the latter. An agreement has been entered into between the naval department and an electric signalling company for the building of wireless signal aparatus that will send messages 3,000 miles or practically across the Atlantic. John Junken the confessed murderer of Clara Rosen, of Ottuma, Iowa was removed to the state penitentiary last Thursday for safe keeping. At a meeting of miners and operators in Philadelphia Thursday the operators refused to grant the miners' demands, claiming that any increase in wages would necessitate an advance in the price of coal. The miners and operators held a meeting at Philadelphia for the purpose of arranging a new agreement, but failed to agree. Another meeting is called for March 31. The legislature of Arkansas has appropriated $10,000 for the relief of the tornado sufferers at Brinkley last Monday. A national Corn exposition will be held in Omaha December 6 to 18. Owing to the continued disturbed conditions in Nicaragua and President Zelaya's failure to make serious efforts looking to the settlement of the Emery claim, diplomatic relations with that country have been practically broken off by the withdrawal of the American charge at Managua. Bejamin Cissel was arrested at Wichita charged with incendiarism. Robert L. Dean, former president of the Dean Rapid Telegraph company at Kansas City, was arrested in Chicago upon a charge of bigamy. He was living with the second wife at the time of his arrest. The hope of "making a stake" and improving his financial condition caused Fred Davis one of the most widely known young men of Galena, Kan., to attempt to rob the Miners' State bank. He was caught in the act by the police and was shot while attempting to make his escape. The heaviest fall of snow in the history of Southern Arizona was recorded Thursday at El Paso. More than eight inches fell at Bisbee and Tombstone, where snow is seldom seen. The snow continues in New Mexico, and railroads are still experiencing considerable difficulty. In the decision of the Bucks Stove & Range company against the American Federation of Labor both sides express themselves as satisfied with the finding, but will, however, take an appeal to the United States supreme court. At Wichita, Kan., Thursday night, during blinding snow storm, a Wichita & Western passenger train crashed into a street car containing six passengers, killing the motorman and injuring several others. A general strike of telegraph and telephone operators is threatened in Paris, which may also involve postal employes. The Japanese naval training squadron has sailed from Yokohama for Honolulu and will later visit San Francisco and other Pacific coast points. Robbers secured $1,700 by blowing open the safe of the Kramer State bank, Kramer, Neb. C. H. Greene, former business manager of the Kansas City, Kan., Daily Globe, has applied to the court of common pleas for a receiver for that concern. Personal James Degnen, of Wilburton, Ok., died there of a stroke of apoplexy. Arthur I. Verys, who was President Taft's campaign manager in Ohio, was at the White house as a dinner guest of Mrs. Taft. Henry Clay Cullom, brother of United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom is dead, aged 70 years. Henry Watterson has written a letter in which he says that he has no intention of retiring from active life. Ezra H. Bryner, president of section No. 7, oil company of California, and a pioneer in the oil industry of that state died Thursday at his home in East Orange, N. J., from pneumonia. Mrs. T. P. O'Connor, wife of the Irish parliamentary leader has arrived in New York with the object in view of establishing a depot for the sale of the products of the Irish industries societies. Thos. S. Kay, a Schotchman who made a fortune in the cattle business in the Hawaiian Islands, purchased a lot of the finer grades of stock in Kansas City last Thursday which he will send as presents to some of his friends in that place. A bust of former Vice-President Fairbanks has been placed in the senate chamber. The residents of Oyster Bay, gave ex-President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt a public reception in the town hall at that place Thursday. The guests were restricted to residents of the village. Robert O. Bailey a Washington newspaper man has been chosen as private secretary to Franklin MacVeigh secretary of the treasury. Mrs. A. G. Vanderbilt has donated $5,000 towards founding a childrens' hospital at Lausanne Switzerland. Ex-President Roosevelt attended a breakfast at the home of Robert J. Collier, of New York, Saturday. Many prominent literary men were present to greet him. H. T. Anderson, a stockman of Garden City, Kan., committed suicide at that place by hanging. President Taft has signified his intention of being present at the March meetin of the Yale corporation, which will be held Friday, March 19. at New Haven, Conn. For Colds and Grip. PE-RU-NA FOR CATARRH OF THE HEAD, THROAT, LUNGS, STOMACH KIDNEYS BLADDER AND FEMALE ORGANS. INSTRUCTED. Patient—But, doctor, didn't you tell me to take the pills in water? A CURE FOR FITS. The Treatment is to Accomplish What Science Has Been Struggling to Attain for Centuries. The intense interest that has been manifested throughout the country by the wonderful cures that are being accomplished daily by epilepticide still continues. It is really surprising the vast number of people who have already been cured of fits and nervousness. In order that everybody may have a chance to test the medicine, large trial bottles, valuable literature, Hispanic medicine, and other sent by mail absolutely free to all who write to the Dr. May Laboratory, 549 Pearl Street, New York City. What Alled Tommie. Tommie was eating walnuts. His mother cautioned him about eating many, fearing they would make him sick. Presently he came in his hand on his stomach and a very distressed look in his face. "Those ruts have made you sick, I see. I just knew they would," said the mother. "They haven't, either," whined Tommie. "I am not sick; it's just my pants are too tight."—Delineator. The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Alas. How True! "I often wonder," remarked Mr. Stubb, in solemn reflection, "if the last man on earth will have the last word." "Of course he will, John," laughed Mrs. Stubb. "But why are you so sure?" "Because the last woman will give it to him." Important to Mothers Important to mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Mitchell In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. It's the easiest thing in the world to point out the proper course for others to pursue. Some actors who claim to be wedded to their art have good grounds for a divorce. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMANISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES, BACKACHE EX 375 "Guaranteed" First Lady of the Land By MRS. EDWARD DUNROY- REED HAT manner of woman is Mrs. William H. Taft, whose name has been added to those of the women whose influence has made the social fame of past administrations? How does the White House regime with which history connects the name of Taft compare with the hospitality of Madison's, the elegance of John Quincy Adams', the simple democracy of Andrew Jackson's, or the stateliness of James Buchanan's? More quaint atmosphere of the early century. Becky Sharp, perhaps, temporarily deluded the same youthful group as she for a time deluded her own glad array of daughters, much of the MRS ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE ON CHRISTMAS EVE pertinently still, how does it measure with the record of the Roosevelt regime? own kith and kin. Henry Esmond embodied their THE WHITE HOUSE ON CHRISTMAS EVE These are to-day queries of absorbing interest, and nowhere has this phase of a new administration quite the significance that it has at Washington. Diplomats, and back of them the governments for which they stand, are as much interested in the personality of the rising American powers as their own countrymen. Mrs. Taft is neither the soft green of the soul of Burke's ideal feminine, nor is she Napoleon's abhorrence, intellect in petticoats. She is that rarer thing, a well-balanced woman. The Tories, said Wellington, when Victoria ascended the English throne, could hope for little headway under a female sovereign, because he had no small talk and Pitt had no manners. Mrs. Taft is a woman whom one might well imagine making allowances for both shortages, provided there were such compensations along other lines as Wellington and Pitt possessed. Given such a foundation in character, with youth, good health and ambition and the peculiar advantages her life has already given her, few women have gone into the White House so well equipped to meet the exactions of the position of "first lady of the land." Her regime, moreover, has not that negative quality which circumstances have infused into the social atmosphere of some previous administrations. She has tastes and enthusiasm which will give character to the social life at Washington, of which the White House is the center, for the next four years. Music, which has flourished at Washington under White House patronage during the seven years of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt's residence there, has even more emphatic encouragement under the social sway of a woman who was one of the founders of Cincinnati's famous musical organization, the Symphony orchestra. Not only is she a patroness of music, but is a musician. She kept up her hours of daily practice regularly until within recent years, when the frequent changes in her life and its many added duties made the continuance impossible. Though she does not regard herself as sufficiently in practice to perform for a critical audience, she has by no means lost her skill and frequently plays for her husband and children during their evenings at home. These are more than might be supposed, for Mrs. Taft is one of the women who stays usually at home unless her husband can go out with her. Other avenues through which her artistic taste finds an outlet are her love of pictures and her appreciation of wood carving. Charles Taft's art collection has no more appreciative friend than his sister-in-law. She is enthusiastic about every treasure he adds to it, and enjoys few things more than pointing out its beauties to others. Faces and figures appeal more to her than landscapes, and a recently acquired Rembrandt has given her keen pleasure. She has made a study of wood carving, and has the nucleus of a collection containing some excellent specimens. She is a connoisseur of the craft, and knows the fine points in the work of various schools and masters. She is a book lover, and has been a student all her life, first because she grew up in a home where books came down from the shelves and made the worlds they contain part of the domestic environment. Elizabeth Bennett and her sisters, with their heart affairs and all the incidental character delineations, stepped from a worn copy of "Pride and Prejudice," bringing into the Herron home in Cincinnati, with its G CHARLIE TAFT Springs last summer she made the tour of the course with Mr. Taft every day, a strenuous walk, as every one knows who has climbed the hills and descended the dales of the golf inclosure at that resort. Mrs. Taft has brains, and uses them, without being in any sense aggressive or pedantic. She talks well, and looks well when she is talking. Her smile has the charm of intelligence, that quick flash of recognition, distinct from the frozen, automatic smile peculiar to many women in official life, on whom social duties make many demands, even to that of continuously "looking pleasant." She has a generous mouth and handsome teeth, a straight nose, well proportioned to her other features, a broad forehead, above which her brown hair is arranged in a soft pompadour. In her knowledge of languages Mrs. Taft has an advantage over many of her predecessors. During their last winter as members of the cabinet circle, Mr. and Mrs. Taft were in mourning for Mr. Taft's mother, and they took no part in formal social occasions. They have many friends in many lands. Mrs. Taft, however, like many women who have grown up in a large family of girls among the tie of kinship is strong, has few intimate friends. She plays a scientific game of whist, and has gravitated here toward the women who take the game seriously. Of these Miss Cannon, daughter of the speaker of the house of representatives, is one who is frequently with Mrs. Taft. They drive together, one of Mrs. Taft's favorite diversions, and are often together at concerts. Mrs. Hallie Erminie Rives Wheeler, wife of the secretary of the American embassy at Tokyo, is another of Mrs. Taft's friends. She spent several months recently in this country, and during part of the time was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Taft. Their friendship goes back to days of travel in the east, when they saw many things together and discovered a sympathy in the point of view. own kith and kin. Henry Esmond embodied their ideal of chivalry, and Thackeray's whole world of characters were familiar figures on the horizon of their imagination. Mrs. Taft is loyal to her old literary friends, and still dips into their society George Eliot is one of the favorites of her later years. She is a general reader, the newspapers coming in for a daily share of her time. To any subject in which Mr. Taft is interested or of which he is making a study she also gives her attention. As few men of the period have had occasion to look up information on such a variety of subjects as the president-elect, Mrs. Taft has made herself a student of wide range. It has intensified the sense of comradeship existing between them, and is perhaps but another expression of the sentiment which takes her walking over the golf course with her husband, though she does not play. At Hot army circle at Washington, are all prominent figures at the White House. Mrs. Garlington and Miss Garlington were members of the little party who heard the result of the nominating convention at Chicago last June with Mrs. Taft in the office of the secretary of war. In addition to the sons and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Taft, there are plenty of young people at the White House from time to time, representing various branches of the family. The country became familiar with the names of Mr. Taft's nieces and nephews at the time of the convention in June, when they were on hand to cheer for "Uncle Will." Of Mrs. Taft's five sisters, four are married, as are also her two brothers, and all have families. Mrs. Taft's sisters are Mrs. Parsons of Columbus, O.; Mrs. Charles Anderson of Cincinnati, who has three charming daughters who are graduates of Bryn Mawr, where Miss Helen Taft is now a student; Mrs. Louis Moore of Cincinnati, who has one little son, and Mrs. Thomas Laughlin of Pittsburg, who has two small children. Her brothers, William Herron, who married Miss Janey Esby of Cincinnati, and John Herron, who married Miss Georgie Aldrich, both have young children. Much of the domestic machinery of the White House goes on automatically, with little variation from one administration to another. Mrs. Taft is a good housekeeper. In the home maintained until last June she had four servants, one a Filipino boy brought from the islands. The house was tastefully furnished, many souvenirs of travels giving it an interesting background. Mrs. Taft's room was decorated in blue, her favorite color. In matters of dress Mrs. Taft has quiet tastes. She does much of her own choosing and shopping, and patronizes local shops. For evening she wears white frequently, though pink is perhaps the color for which she has greater partiality. At a reception at the White House one afternoon last May, the last formal function she attend- Gen. and Mrs. Corbin and Gen. and Mrs. Edwards are prominent in the social entourage of the next White House regime. Gen. Corbin comes from Ohio. Mrs. Corbin was Miss Edith Patten of Washington, formerly of California. Their friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Taft is of long standing. They were all in the Philippines together. Gen. and Mrs. Corbin have recently completed a handsome country home at Chevy Chase, Washington's most fashionable suburb. Gen. and Mrs. Edwards are close neighbors of the White House. Their friendship with the Tafts has also a far-reaching and interesting background. With Gen. Edwards they have reminiscences in common of many lands. The chief of staff of the army and Mrs. Bell and Gen. and Mrs. Garlington, with their pretty daughter Sally, one of the ed there as wife of the secretary of war she wore a demi-toilette of black lace over white, with a black and white hat. She prefers hats to toques. The question has already come up as a matter of speculation in official circles of Washington society as to whether Miss Helen Taff will finish her college course or be a White House debutante within the next two years. The question undoubtedly will be left to her own inclination to settle. One afternoon last June, when the eyes of the nation were on Chicago, there emerged from one of the big, substantial brick houses in K street, Washington, a little group of figures, including a woman who led the way as they turned into Sixteenth street and walked southward toward the White House. She swung along with a step as elastic as that of the boy and girl accompanying her. They talked and laughed as they went, and their voices, all pitched to the same pleasant contralto tone, bespoke their kinship. Perhaps they noted through the green vista of Lafayette park the glistening columns of the north portico of the White House. The picture was a familiar one to all of them. That to the woman it stood for the moment as the concrete presentment of fate toward which her steps had turned 22 years before almost to the day, who shall say? Her clear, blue gray eyes looked as unblinkingly at the reality as they had at the vision. Though in no sense under the spell of that faculty which Thurlow Weed years ago declared had bewildered many men whose eyes were turned in that direction, she was too frank to feign an indifference to the alluring possibility of a residence within its walls. She had a candidate at Chicago that day, and if the question were put squarely to her she was ready unhesitatingly to ayow him. The woman and children made altogether an inconspicuous little group as they crossed Pennsylvania avenue and entered the big triple department building on the corner of Seventeenth street. The watchman at the door of the war department and the messengers in the corridors recognized them, however, as they made their way toward the office of the secretary, returning the grinning salutations that greeted them on all sides. Mrs. Taft wore a white linen suit. A flower-laden hat shaded her face, which retains all its girlhood contours. The door closed upon them, and it was five o'clock before they reappeared. Was it the same party, or had that history-making afternoon wrought some subtle change? Mrs. Taft, wife of the secretary of war, was now Mrs. Taft, wife of a presidential nominee. Her step was lighter, her eyes brighter. Happy? Surely. Her candidate had won the first approaches to ultimate victory. They went as they had come, on foot, stopping in the street to buy an "extra," for the pleasure of approaching the good news from another angle. The wife of a man already one of the most conspicuous figures in public life in America. Mrs. Taft became from that moment a national figure. The November victory of the Republican party but concentrated the attention which had been upon her for five months as the wife of its nominee. There were no longer favorites in the field. Comparisons were out of order. The names of the president-elect and his family became household words throughout the land. PRESIDENT TAFT'S TARIFF MESSAGE DELIVERED TO THE SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. IT IS SHORT AND TO THE POINT Session is Called by President for the Purpose of Enacting Tariff Legislation. Washington, March 16.—President Taft's message to congress today follows: "To the Senate and House of Representatives: I have convened the congress this extra session in order to enable it to give immediate consideration to the revision of the Dingley tariff act. Conditions affecting production, manufacture and business generally have so changed in the past twelve years as to require a readjustment and revision of the import duties imposed by that act. More than this, the present tariff act, with the other sources of the government revenue, does not furnish income enough to pay the authorized expenditures. By July 1 next the excess of expenses over receipts of the current fiscal year will equal $100,000,000. Pledged to Action. "The successful party in the late election is pledged to a revision of the tariff. The country and the business community especially expect it. The prospect of a change in the rates of import duties always causes a suspension or halt in business because of the uncertainty as to the conditions to be made and their effect. It is therefore of the highest importance that the new bill should be agreed upon and passed with as much speed as possible consistent with its due and thorough consideration. For these reasons I have deemed the present to be an extraordinary occasion within the meaning of the constitution, justifying and requiring the calling of an extra session. In my inaugural address I stated in a summary way the principles upon which, in my judgment, the revision of the tariff should proceed and indicated at least one new source of revenue that might be properly resorted to in order to avoid a future deficit. It is not necessary for us to repeat what I then said. Let Other Things Alone. "I venture to suggest that the vital business interests of the country require that the attention of the congress in this session be chiefly devoted to the consideration of the new tariff bill and the less time given to other subjects of legislation in this session, the better for the country. (Signed) WILLIAM H. TAFT. "The White House, March 16, 1900." Cheap Doughnut Recipe. The following is a carefully tested recipe for doughnuts, or what would be more correctly called cruders: Mix a scant cupful of sugar with an egg and a piece of butter the size of a butternut. After carefully creaming add a cupful of milk and two cupfuls of flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a pinch of salt. Stir together and turn out on a mixing board. If needed, add more flour—enough to roll out. Fry in smoking hot lard. After frying drain from grease and roll them in sugar. Ocean Depths Rich in Radium. Deep-lying sediments of the ocean are often exceptionally rich in radium. Pig's Foot Jelly. Take the liquor in which the pig's feet have been boiled, strain, and set away to cool until next day. Remove grease then return to fire, add to each quart of jelly one half pound of white sugar, juice of two lemons, a little cinnamon bark, and whites of two eggs. Boil all together about 15 minutes, strain again in a bowl, and set in a cool place. It will keep a long time. It can be eaten with cake and also cream. It is strengthening for invalids. An Economical Pudding. Heat to the boiling point a quart of milk. Add a generous half cup oat flakes, sugar to sweeten and a half cupful raisins. Flavor to taste, cook ten minutes, put in the cooker and cook eight hours. Serve either hot or cold. Tomato Stewed with Bacon Cook a can of tomatoes slowly with several slices of bacon. If already fried, all the better. Add an onion cut fine, bread crumbs and seasoning. Makes an appetizing change. Veal with Rice. Put 20 cents' worth of veal to stew with onions and a few leaves of celery; pepper and salt. In separate pan put rice with cold water and four or five pieces of celery, and as water boils down add the gravy of stew until rice is done. Serve separately with tomatoes and mashed potatoes. The Chantening of Experience. Wildows make the best wives, because they have learned not to expect too much from man.—Florida Times-Union. THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. MILLER.....Editor Residence Phone Bell 1641. red at the Post Office at Wichita. Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATION OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Tour (By Mail) ..... $1.00 Two Months (By Mail) ..... .75 Three Months (By Mail) ..... .50 All matters addressed to The Search- light for publication ust be signed by the party or parties writing. All mattersf or publication must reach this office not later than Thurs- noon to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. Communications received after Wednesday noon will not be published in the current issue. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to another give both the ned and the old. No new name will be placed on our books unless the money accompanies the name. Write plata. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 N Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if sought to the attention of the editor. To Live and Let Live" Is Our Motto. - If you have any legal matter you desire to have attended I will highly appreciate your favor. W. N. Miller, Attorney, office 634 N. Water. Bell 1641. Send your news in earlier The selection of a Mayor under the new form of government is of more than usal importance to the colored people. Under the new commission form all affairs of our city government are to be thoroughly over hawled and readjusted. In the re-ajustment of affairs with the proper man at the head of our city, the colored people may have some hopes of proper consiteration. The colored people of this city ought by this time have their fill of following in the wake of jingo-tin horn politicians and should be up and awake to the signs of the time. The time for chance work is over—and a mistake made now in beginning of this new order of things will set a piece dent which will be hard to change. We say to all men and wemon who will vote at the primary, March 29th, be not to hasty-consider and weigh well every condition and element of the candidates before casting your vote. Your vote should be cast in that direction in which it will do the whole race the most good. We have no personal interest in this campaign an speak only from that broad plane of interest of our whole race. Do not be misled or decieved by some one who has some selfish motive at stake. Think Well and act well your part in chosing a May osality candidate on March 29. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. For all of this unjust discrimination lynching and burning of Negroes in this land without Judge or Jurors will meet a just recompence of seward either heaven or in hell. Right will finally triumph the truth to crushed to the earth will rise again. God still lives. He is not dead. All Negroes are not criminals no more than all white men are. After all, right is might and might is bound to win. --- LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local openings to 601 North Main Street. YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Send your news in earlier. Dr. Farmer Dr. J. E Farmer has filed his petition as a candidate for Commissioner under our new former of government. Dr. Farmer is one of the colored practicing physicians and is a graduate of Mehara Medical College of Nashville Tenn. He will appreciate the vote of everyone on March 29th. The Searchlight $1. per year "Man born of a woman is of a few days and is full of trouble" of course some have more troubles than others - but tell all of them to W. N. Miller, Attorney, 634 N. Water. Opens Real Estate Office Jas J. Olden has opened the Wichita Land, and Investment Co with office at 613 N. Main. His company proposes to buy, sell and exchange real estate; to build houses and rent houses and do a general land business. Geo. Wilbur is slowly on the mend. W. M. Frazier is able to be out again after quite a spell of sickness. Floyd Porter who has been ill is reported on the mend. Ye editor is making extensive preparations for chicken raising and truck gardening, on his suburban home in the North end. Jas. Carter of Kenton Ohio, and Mrs Millie Knapper of Mt. Sterling Ohio, arrived Thursday to attend the funeral of their mother Mrs Sarah Carter. These nice, warm days are a gentle reminder of the approach of spring. The home Cooking Club met Mar. 12, at the residence of Mrs Will H. Jones, with Mrs Joner as hostress. The tables were spread for a large number. Those present were Mrs Ben Butler Mrs Jeff Thompson, Mrs Grant Ewing Mrs John Chinneth, Mrs Thoms Glover, Mrs H. Jones, Mrs Sam Collins, Mrs Jennie Wheeler, Mrs Lucy Anderson. The dinner was prepared by Mrs Ben Butler The desert by Mrs Jeff Thompson. The menu consisted of — dinner course—fried fish mash potatoes with cream gravy, Sweet potato crocquets with hot biscuits. Desert—Bremonge Tapico pudding with whipped cream Silver Cake with Lemon filling, Hot Coffee. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends for the expression of kindness shown during the illness and death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Sarah Carter. WM. CARTER. WILLIS CARTER, HATTIE CARTER, CORA CARTER, JULIA CARTER, I hereby announce myself a candidate for Commissioner subject to the primary March 29, 1000.—Thomas Glover. I am a candidate for re-election as a member of the Second Board from the Second Ward subject to the Republican primary Mareh 2nd 1909. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Mayor of Wichita, subject to the primary to be helb March 29th. 1909. J. C. Robb. For Commissioner I hereby announce myself a candidate for Commissioner, subject to the primary March 29th. 1909. A. J. Waddell. For Commissioner I hereby announce myself a candidate for commissioner subject to the primary March 29th, 1909 For Commissioner I hereby announce myself a candidate for city commissioner subject to the primary March 29th 09. J. M. Knapp. For Mayor For Mayor I am a candidate for re-election and earnestly desire the support of my friends. If elected for another term I will be — fair to the colored people as I've tried to be in the past. For Commissioner I hereby announce myself a candidate for city commissioner subject to the primary, March 29th 1909. Richard N. Dorr. For Mayor For Mayor At the earnest solicitation of my many friends I have decided to place my name before the people as a candidate for the office of Mayor subject to the primary, March 29. I will appreciate your vote. For Commissioner Dr. O. J. Taylor, the laboring man's friend, is hereby announced a candidate for commissioner and will appreciate any assistance from his friends at the primary, March 29. For Commissioner I hereby announce myself a candidate for commissioner subject to the primary March 29. J. H. Rice For Commissioner I hereby announce myself as a candidate for commissioner subject to the will of the people. FOR COMMISSIONER. I am a candidate for commissioner subject to the primary of March 29th I will appreciate your support. I hereby announce myself a candidate for City Commissioner subject to the primary March 29th, 1909.—Dr. W. W. Minnick. Low Prices We are making very low prices on Trunks before we move to our new location at 119-21 S. Lawrence Wichita Trunk Factory 319 East Douglas Ave. Misses Pansy Cox and Fay Oliver, were the guests of Miss Ethel Patton Sunday afternoon. All "gophers" are not of the four legs long, rusty tail tribe these are two legs "gophers" of the gray back clan more destructive and "pison" than thsir four leg cousins. Office Hours 9 a.m to 6 p.m Sundays by Appointment Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST ALL WORK GUARANTEED Bell Phone 2467 601 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 Send your news in earlier Stingley & Ayers Underakers Embalmers SEDGWICK BLOCK Either Phone 1619 Wichita Kansas Send your news n earlier W.N. Miller Attorney-at-Law NOTARY PUBLIC. Office 634 North Water Street Practices in all the Courts Of Kansas and Missouri Residence Phone - Bell 1641 Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Office Hours 9 to 11 a. m Residence 2 to 3 p. m. 513 N. Main St 7 to 8 p. m. 9 to 11 a.m Residence 2 to 3 p.m. 513 N. Main St 7 to 8 p.m. OFFICE 513 N. MAIN ST Phone 860 green BUY LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner Of 3rd & Main HOUCK HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Price. 116 East Douglas Avenue Use Use Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salv Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spices They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 803 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita - - - Kansas Job Printing We have installed a new line of JOB TYPE FACES and we would be pleased to use them on a job for you. Good Work--Low Prices to all 634 North Water St. Second to None The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Food are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law Register No. 1. It is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. Red Tag Sale ```markdown ``` E. D. SOUIRE Bell Phone 1837 245 - 247 North Main St., Chas. B. Merchant 339 North First-Class Making Cleaning, Pressing and Prompt Service Courteous A Chas. B. PATTON Merchant Tailor 339 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men's Garments Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing A Specialty Prompt Service Courteous Attention Your Trade Solicited K The Peoples Cleaning 131 North La Ind. Phone 178 The Biggest and B CHOICE We carry a line of choice m Fish, Game and Oysters FAVORITE M W. H. KELCH 406 East Douglas Ave The Peoples Cleaning and Dye Works 131 North Lawrence Avenue Ind. Phone 178 Bell Phone 175 The Biggest and Best in the Southwest CHOICE MEATS We carry a line of choice meats at prices that are right Fish, Game and Oysters in Season. Free Delivery Peerless Steam Laundry Peerless Steam Laundry Wlehita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER & BONS, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market Dr.J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children A Specialty Office 703 N. Main St. W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. TRY US For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO. At prices from 2c to 65c. Every piece of Enameled Ware is marked in plain figures. Here is your chance to get some HighGrade First Quality Onyx Enameled Ware at Tinware prices. We are factory agents on this line of Granite Ware and have put on sale a complete line at prices named. Ind. Phone 1837, Green Wichita, Kansas B. PATTON Cent Tailor Main Street Sale of Men's Garments and Repairing A Specialty Attention Your Trade Solicited There Is No Need Of letting your clothes look ragged or soiled, when you can have them dry cleaned, preressed and repaired to look like new at reasanable prices at Mining and Dye Works Lawrence Avenue Bell Phone 175 Best in the Southwest MEATS mcats at prices that are right ers in Season. Free Delivery MEAT MARKET HNER, Proprietor 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 Chil- dren's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery. Tapp & Hanshaw 255-257 N. Main St Phone 257 L. S. Naftsger, President, W. R. Tucker, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, C. W. Brown, Vice President, V. H. Branch, Cashier. Fourth National Bank WICHITA, KANSAS Capital $200,000 Surplus $125,000 Dirctors: W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L. Holmes, S. B. Amidon, J. M. Moore, L. S. Nattsger, H. W. Darling, A. G. Houston, E. C. Sheldon, C. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin, Henry Lassen, V. H. Branch. A General Banking Business Transacted Its the man who "sticks-to-it" who wins. YOUR GOODS SAFE if you store them with us.—Miller Storage Co., 634 N. Water. --- OF ENAMEL WARE CHEAP Phone 294 The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted DEPARTMENTS Theological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailorlng, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. Thorough discipline, Christian influence careful supervision Fine Military Band and Orchestra For full particulars write to Prof. Shelton French, ACTING PRESIDENT Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Residence Phone No. 15 Office Phone 1423 It excels in every respect,--color, flavor, and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. GRAHAM — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years milling experience in Wichita our products are the best that can be produced. Made froffi best selected grain only and putup in Special Packages, Ask Your Groce See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING Co. WICHITA, KANSAS Johnston's Hotel WICHITA 507 N. Main St. KANSAS Everything first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric Fans Transient Trade — Restaurant in Connection R. Johnston, Proprietor DEAM ABSTRACT CO. NORTH, WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors Straighten Your Hair DRARE SSRs:--I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it for it makes me feel so happy and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. M.S. W. W. Faker. SSA: I. Karnan, Tenn. Ford's Hair Pomade Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow. Fifty years of success has proved its merit. Its use makes the hair straight, glossy, soft and pliable, so you can comb it and arrange it in any style you wish consistent with its length. It makes the hair soft and glossy, accentuates the scalp, stops the hair from falling, or breaking off and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless—used with splendid results even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as lanes ofrement every where delicate. If you wantrement every where delicate. Don't buy anything else alleged to be "just as good." If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay you. Look for this name Charles Ford Press on every package. If your druggist will not supply you with the gamble send us a express or postal may any $5 cents for regular size or $25 cents for small size bottle and give us your druggist's name and for small size We will forward bottle prepaid to any point in U. S.A. by return mail on receipt of price. Address: The ozonized OX Marrow Sh. 153 East Kenzie St. Chicago, Ill. East Kenzie POMA is made only in Chicago by the above firm. For Everything in Building Material SEE BOTH PHONES 496 J.H.TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 333 TO 347 WEST DOUGLAS --- GOMS Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-day 329 East Center SALINA, KANSAS Thomas Glover one_of Wichita's pioneer colored citizens announces himself a candidate for Commissioner. Mr. Glover has been a resident of Wichita for more than thirty years and has a host of warm friends and admirersamong both white and colored. He was one of the founders of St. Paul A. M. E. church and has always taken an active part in all public enterprises. Sensation in "Mystery Ship." Sydney, Australia, has had a novelty in the shape of a "mystery ship." An American steamer, the Coronet, arrived by night in the harbor unsignaled and unannounced. It was peopleled by a strange-looking crowd of men, women and children. The officers were dressed in clerical attire—long coats and white ties. Nobody was allowed on board save the government medical officer and the harbor master. The Sydney reporters ascertained that the ship is connected with the newest American sect, the "Holy Ghost and Us," whose head, a man named Stanford, claiming to be the reincarnated Elijah, is on board. The Coronet has been cruising for some months among the Pacific islands. Sometimes More. "I see that a New York professor reforms bad boys with piano music." "I hope he bears in mind that some pianos need reforming quite as much as bad boys do." Made from the best material. Lasts longer, wears better and more durable than any other Cement Stone on the market. Prices Reasonable. PRICES 11c each laid in wall 8c each delivered 7c each in the yard Rock Face 8c each Plain Face 7c each Manufactured By W. L. HERMAN, 527 Ohio Ave., New Phone 1127 W. L. Herman CONTRACTING : PLASTERER 856 Eagle St., Wichita, Kan. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHT & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Comment tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice without notice in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any retailer in the country. $1. Sold by all newsletters. MUNN & Co. 361Broadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F. St., Washington, D.C. 1 SEEDS BULK GARDEN SEEDS:—Our buy from the most reliable house considered. PLANT THE BEST. SEED POTATOES:—Our stock Early Ohio. Do not delay buying higher. ONION SETS:—Should be planted lows and Reds, both bottom and FIELD SEEDS:—Alfalfa, Engl Bermuda, White and Red Clover shipped from Lexington, Ky. It kinds should be sown early. Quality at Right Prices. ASPARAGS, RHUBARB AND F right prices. ROSE BUSHES—We have made & Canard Rose Bushes. This firm for 60 years. We will furnish y Roses, adding extra three porch Rambler and Clotilde Soupert, a INCUBATORS AND BROODER Mandy Lee, Petaluma, Lindsley a these are cheap as you can buy a POULTRY AND STOCK TONS Lee's Conkie's, International and er will kill lice on your chicke Sprayers, Oyster Shells, and little If you are in the city, call a write for our illustrated catalogue orders. Any order sent us will be more than if you were at the store CENTRAL BULK GARDEN SEEDS:—Our stock is new fresh. We only buy from the most reliable houses, our prices are right, quality considered. PLANT THE BEST, IT PAYS. SEED POTATOES:—Our stock consist of Red River Minnesota Early Ohio. Do not delay buying too long—later they will be higher. ONION SETS:—Should be planted soon. We have Whites, Yellows and Reds, both bottom and top sets. FIELD SEEDS:—Alalfa, English Blue Grass, Orchard Grass Bermuda, White and Red Clover. Our Kentucky Blue grass is shipped from Lexington, Ky. It is the best. Grass seeds of all kinds should be sown early. Our stock is complete. Best Quality at Right Prices. ASPARAGS, RHUBARB AND FLOWER BULBS of all kinds at right prices. ROSE BUSHES—We have made arrangements to handle Dingle & Canard Rose Bushes. This firm has made a specialty of roses for 60 years. We will furnish you seven different kinds of Tea Roses, adding extra three porch roses—Crimson Rambler, Baby Rambler and Clotilde Soupert, all for $1.00. Mall Orders Filled. INCUBATORS AND BROODERS:—We are agents for Ciphers, Mandy Lee, Petaluma, Lindsley and Old Trusty. We will sell you these as cheap as you can buy at factory, thereby saving freight. POULTRY AND STOCK TONICS:—We handle only the best. Lee's Conkie's, International and Pratt's. Lee's Lipulid Lice Killer will kill lice on your chickens. Conkie's will cure Cholera. Sprayers, Oyster Shells, and little and big Chick Food. If you are in the city, call and see us before buying, if not, write for our illustrated catalogue. We make a specialty of mall orders. Any order sent us will be filled promptly and will cost no more than if you were at the store yourself. CENTRAL SEED CO. Kingman Items Earl Bundy of Arkansas City is the name of the new porter at the Baltimore. Mr Vaughn have moved out the edge of town and will try farming this summer. PHONE 543 John Floyd has opened an up todate ladies and gent shoe shining parlor. C. F. Floyd and family are expected to arrive in Kingman to live instead of Topeka. Miss Laura Ross departed for her home in Ill. after spends several months with her mother and other relitives. Miss Etta Floyd is visiting in St. Joe where she will remain until after Easter. J. C. Banks and sons are increas ing rapidly in cattle, they now have the neat sum of 52 head. Will Peoples and Ren Lewis of Pratt, visited at the home of Mr and Mrs Banks Sunday. ...Stationery... I keep a complete line of stationery, Box paper—the latest styles and color s—tablets, pens and holders. Box Paper from 10c to 50c per box. Tablets at all prices from 5c up. REMEMBER ALSO I keep a pure line of Drugs and make prescriptions and family receipts a speciality. O. R. Bissantz PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST INDEPENDENT PHONE 620 811 N. Main St. Wichita, Kan THE HUB Our Spring arrivals of SUITS are daily arriving and we invite the Public for iuspection. For workmanship and fit there are none better in the state. Our line of Furnishings and Hats cannot be evualed. Call at 114 N MAIN Our stock is new fresh. We only houses, our prices are right, quality BEST, IT PAYS. Stock consist of Red River Minnesota buying too long—later they will be anted soon. We have Whites, Yel- and top sets. English Blue Grass, Orchard Grass lover. Our Kentucky Blue grass is it the best. Grass seeds of all Our stock is complete. Best Qual- D FLOWER BULBS of all kinds at made arrangements to handle Dingle firm has made a specialty of roses in seven different kinds of Tea arch roses—Crimson Rambler, Baby all for $1.00. Mall Orders Filled. ERS:—We are agents for Ciphers, by and Old Trusty. We will sell you at factory, thereby saving freight. ONICS:—We handle only the best. and Pratt's. Lee's Lipuld Lice Kill-ckens. Conkle's will cure Cholera. little and big Chick Food. and see us before buying, if not, vague. We make a specialty of mail be filled promptly and will cost no store yourself. ALL SEED CO. Ft. Scott Nrws Rev. M. S. Jones delivered an excellent sermon Sunday. The revvial at the A. M. E. church is meeting with success. 243 N. MAIN Mrs J. Johnson, S. Jones Sarah Maxey, David Fleming and Ellen Nelson are on the sick list. Mrs Kate Reeves has returned home from Joplin. The Female Quartett of Geo. R Smith College rendered a fine programme at A. M. E. church Wednesday eve. Mrs J. Rosson entertained the Art Club Friday afternoon. Mrs J. Banks has retorned from Omaha. Mrs J. C. Wade entertaineb the pastor of Shiloh Baptist charch, and his family Sunday. Jessie Crouch returned Wednes day from Bates country Missouri where he went to see his brother who has been quite ill. He left his brother much better. While there on last Sunday they held a re-union with seven brothers and one sister present, and Monday they all went to a photo gallery and had a group photo of themselves taken. Mr Crouch is much pleased with his trip. Pratt News The Second Baptist church is engaged in a revival meeting, began Eeb. 24th. Rev B. J. Berry of Weir City is assisting the pastor Rev Wm Turner. Sunday at night March 21st Rev Berry will preach a Baptismal sermon at 11 a.m. at 3 p.m. the pastor will baptise the candidates at 8 p.m. Rev Berry will preach his closing sermon from the text "Run that you may obtain the prize" We have been blessed with the good weather. Pretty Prairie Fews Wheat in this vicinity is looking good in spite of bad weather. Ben Walker & family of Wichita has moved his house hold goods down in our vicinity, on a large farm, where he has a growing crop of wheat and he is planning for a successlul crop, we all wish him good luck. J. C. Banks and son bought some fine sows to specilate on. The infant child of W. Roberts died last week of pneumonia fever we all extend our sympathy for the brief family. Fred Banks and Bud Walker, have been spending a few days in Kiagman visiting Lewis Banks and family. We learn that Lewis Banks of Kingman Co. has moved in the city. Hattie Douglas visited Misses Banks Saturday. Mrs Lizzie Underwood has been reported on the sick list. Jim McCellan is reported on the sick list. E. N. Morrill, of Hiawatha, thirteenth governor of Kansas died in San Antonia Texas, Sunday, Gov. Morrill had only been in Texas a few weeks where he went in search of health. He came to Kansas in 1857 and helped to make Kansas what she is to day, the people lament for him The additional regret is that so good a man should have to die in the state of Texas. Texas does not desire the honor. BRAZIL IMMENSE SEARCH FOR RADIUM SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLIC ONE OF GREATEST IN WORLD. "Brazil is the country of liberty. It is a friend-brother of the United States, and lives in the most cordial relations with all the civilized nations." Thus spoke L. Baeta Neves, mining and civil engineer of Brazil and delegate from that country to the recent sixteenth annual irrigation congress, and he went on to point out some interesting facts which are not well known. Who has known that the united states of Brazil make it one of the greatest countries of the world in size, and that the territory constitutes about half of the total surface of the South American continent? Who has known that Brazil absolutely represents the largest territorial extension of the globe, that under the same flag makes a harmonious and homogenous whole, a single nation, where all over the same language is heard, the same people are met, without difference of habits and customs, and with the same spirit of nationality. A national type exists resulting from the amalgamation of Portuguese, African and American Indian, without any physical or intellectual inferiority, and which is capable of great labor, tenacious of purpose, with great depth of affection. Living among the Brazilian people are principally Portuguese, Italians, Spaniards, French, Anglo-Saxon, Poles and Syrians, who find in the country favorable conditions for the highest development, thanks to the advantage of its splendid climate and fertile lands. The population has doubled every 30 years, and now is about 22,000,000 inhabitants. More than half of this population consists of whites. One of the factors at work in Brazil for the betterment of the country are the American missionaries. Albert Hall, the author of "South America." HARD TO OSTAIN AND DANGER OUS WHEN SECURED. Less Than Two Grammes All Told in Existence To Day—Reputed Discovery of Chicago Doctor May Prove of Immense Value. Radium is priceless in value and the new item the other day which credited a Chicago doctor with having discovered a process of manufacture of Effect of Radium on Bacteria—A colony of bacteria (coli communis) as partly destroyed by the emanations of radium. The middle of the plate, where the emanations have been, is clear of bacteria. an element very like radium naturally causes a big stir in the scientific and therapeutic world, for radium is held to have great curative properties. Before the Southern Homeopathic convention at New Orleans, Dr. E Stillman Failey announced that he had discovered a substitute for radium which is available in such large quantities that it will be almost as cheap as ordinary lead. "I call it radiothor," said Dr. Bailey. "It generates the purple ray, the same which Finsen used so successfully in treating lupus, and which is given off by radium. The substance resembles kid leather and is made from pitchblende, of which 20 tons have been discovered near a Colorado mine, with 20 tons more in sight under the surface." Although radium, which burst on the popular imagination like the new star in Perseus a few years ago, and as quickly faded, has formed the subject of thousands of scientific treatises since its discovery by M. and Mine. Curie six years ago, yet we know remarkably little about it. The responsibility for our ignorance is largely due to the fact that there is so little isolated radium, or partially isolated radium, in existence. Mme. Curie has 15 milligrammes of radium. She and her husband once had more, but an unfortunate experiment robbed them of the result of several years' work. Sir William Ramsay has about 20 milligrammes, which was lent to him by the Vienna Academy of Science. Sir William Crookes had about ten milligrammes, which he has sparked away in spectroscopic work, and we may note in passing that the most important thing which science elucidated from the shy element is its spectrum. The two other important things are the number of atomic par has this to say regarding their work: Anyone who followed the colporteur on his by-path journeys across Brazil knows that it is not always contempt or bigotry which perpetuates ignorance, but that quite as often the native never before had opportunity to find out truth for himself. Anyone who has followed the daily round of the true missionary among rich or poor, cultured or unlettered, aristocrat or peasant, and has seen the eagerness with which progressive Christianity is received, knows that the Brazilian has plenty of grace in M. L. Baeta Neves, Mining and Civil Engineer, of Brazil. him. Our church envoys are teaching cleanliness as well as religion, chastity as well as good manners, industry as well as geniusfection, physical as well as spiritual uplifting; all this in the name of America. One of the most powerful agents in making familitr to Brazil the ambitions of our country is the American missionary, and a large proportion of the newer education offered to Brazilians comes from religious sources. ticles or "Alpha-rays" which it throws off and which last year were counted by Rutherford—a miracle of scientific research—and its atomic weight, which Mme, Currie seems to have satisfactorily fixed at the figure of 223.3, the heaviest element known. At the highest estimate the amount of radium in all the laboratories of the world is less than two grammes! Let us consider for a moment what that implies. Suppose that copper were a newly discovered metal and that no more than one ounce of it had been extracted. What should we know of all its properties, of its malleability, ductility, of its electrical conductivity or of its conduction of heat? Scattered over two continents there is less than the seventh of an ounce of radium. What science wants for further information is to assemble one ounce of radium in one place. Then we might begin to learn something about its properties. There is a remote possibility that we might learn something of these properties in a highly disconcerting manner. M. Carie, when alive, once burnt himself severely by carrying in his waistcoat pocket for a few days a glass tube which inclosed a tiny speck of radium. He said that if it became possible to isolate a considerable quantity of pure radium he Effect of Radium on Bacteria—This illustration shows the action of radium emanations on a colony of bacteria (prodigiosus) grown on potato. would not trust himself for an hour in a room containing a kilogramme of it, because he believed that in that time skin, tissue, internal organs and even bones of the human body would be burnt and fatally injured. Even So. First Hunter—That breech loader of yours is a good gun, but the sights are very bad. Second Hunter—Yes, that's right. In other words, it is more honored in the breech than in the observance.—Chicago Daily News. "Yes," answered Mr. Meekton. "My wife knows what I am going to think about some time before I have made my mind up on the subject myself."—Washington Star. Her Friends. Nan—Rather a pretty girl, don't you think? Fan—She used to be beautiful—before she found it out.—Chicago Tribune. 10 SCHOLAR IN A COLD WEATHER BAG THE SCHOOL ROOM Open air treatment for tuberculosis | boys and girls, and takes an individual as extended to the public schools, at interest in the little pupils. The wind was blowing at the rate of 40 miles an hour when the visitor recently climbed the four flights of stairs leading to the airy schoolroom, whose sides of white canvas flapped in the wind like wings of some strange bird. This slight protection is to prevent the copy books and papers on which the children write their lessons from being whirled away over the roofs and scattered broadcast about Franklin park. There is an inside school room which is reserved for the worst days, but it has never been pressed into service notwithstanding the fact that one or two blizzards have raged here this winter. The children themselves prefer the outdoor room. Possibly it seems less like the typical lesson room to them. Each boy and each girl is provided with a heavy blue ulster. The girls wear gray and pink hoods tied securely under their chins. The boys have skull caps, which they pull snugly down over their ears. The most interesting articles of their*attire are the brown cloth bags into which they crawl, hooking them around their waists. These bags look most complicated with their ropes, straps and buckles, but the children have so mastered the art of getting in and out of them that it takes only until the teacher counts four for them to discard them. For the benefit of the visitors Miss Mead asked the children various questions and they gave their ideas of the school in enthusiastic replies. The children are given a breakfast upon their arrival at 8:45. It consists of fruit, bread and butter and hot cocoa. While one section of the class is attending to work in the kitchen, the other section is studying in the class room. At 11 comes a recess of 20 minutes, followed by luncheon, consisting of some hot meat dish with vegetables, a dessert of nuts and homemade candy. Then back to the schoolroom where, on different days, sketching, cutting, painting and manual work are taught. Not all the time is devoted to study. The children play games in groups, and it does one good to hear their happy laughter and to watch their cheeks flush and their eyes grow bright! Again, before they depart for their homes, they are given a light lunch, consisting of hot milk and all the bread and butter they want. They also are given all the milk they will drink, but at night this is always given to them hot. Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE, $1.00, retail. THE CHILDREN SLEEP AN HOUR OUT OF DOORS AFTER DINNER THE SCHOOL ROOM Open air treatment for tuberculosis has extended to the public schools, at least this is so in Boston, which city is believed to be the first in this country to establish such open air schools. This experiment is being carried on jointly through the winter by the Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis, which organized it, and the Boston school board. Besides furnishing the teacher, the board has recently issued 200 street car tickets. These are for the children who are too poor to pay car fare, and for those who live a long distance from the school. The principal reason for starting the school, says Walter E. Kruesi, secretary of the Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis, was that there were many tuberculous children and nowhere to send them. The association hasn't money enough to take care of all the children in the public schools who are affected. The school board has signified its willingness to make an appropriation to increase the size of the school when assured of the permanent success of the scheme, and so great has been the improvement in the children in this school that the matter has passed, beyond the experimental stage. Mr. Kruesi would like to see the entire building, of which now only the roof and the dining hall in the basement are occupied, made over into an open-air school, accommodating 250 pupils. This could easily be done if the library which is maintained in the building at present were abolished. The progress made by the pupils in this open-air school is the same as that made by normal scholars in the same grade in the public schools, but if these same children were compelled to remain in the ordinary school they would not progress at all. Since this school was started, letters have come from Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, from men interested in the experiment, the principal expression from those interested being surprise that no one had thought of starting an open air public school before. There have been for a number of years open air schools for the children of the rich, private schools, and the one which was established in an abandoned schoolhouse in Providence, R. I., last fall, the first of its kind in America—which is not, however, a public school—another at Glen Gardner, N. J., while in California is located the Marinfeld school for boys. Dr. James J. Minot made a report to the school board in which he stated that there were 2,000 children who needed outdoor schooling, more than 250 of whom should have special nourishment and special attention to hygiene and should be allowed the maximum of fresh air. "Mayor Hibbard will be remembered for one thing." declared Mr. Kruesi, "and that is because he recommended to the schoolhouse commission the advisability of providing a fresh air room for tuberculous children to be built in the new Abraham Lincoln school, and in the architect's plans this provision has been made, although the plans have not yet been submitted to the schoolhouse commission." The superintendent of public schools, Stratton D. Brooks, heartily indoles the experiment, but believes the children affected by tuberculosis should be divided into three classes, as follows: First, those so ill that their disease is infectious. Such children shouldn't be allowed in the school room any more than a child with diphtheria or measles, or any similar disease. Secondly, those who are weak, and in such a condition that their diseases may become dangerous to other pupils; and thirdly, those who are slightly affected, who might never have been in that condition if they had not been confined in stuffy rooms. This last class of children will be the ones directly benefited by having an open air room built in every school house. Miss Helen M. Mead is the teacher of this interesting class of fresh air 1 There are many more applications for school attendance than can be accepted, for each case is being carefully studied and a record kept of the progress of each child in order that the value of this experiment may be ascertained. Magpies Eat Live Pigs Portland, Ore.—Ike Ely, farmer of Hover, Wash., is battling with a flock of magpies to keep the birds from devouring his pigs. His sty of 100 porkers has been repeatedly attacked during the past few days by the birds, made bolder by hunger. Because of deep snow they cannot get their usual food. They swoop down on the pigs and peck their ears, which had been notched by the owner and still showed blood. The birds have kept the ears of all hogs bleeding ever since, and Ely declares that in some cases half the ears are gone. The beasts are defenseless and Ely has so far been unable to keep the birds away. He does not dare use poison for fear the hogs will eat it. He Was Willing. "Young man," said the stern parent, "I have been greatly annoyed by your extravagant habits. Hereafter I shall expect you to pay your own bills." "All right, father," rejoined the youth. "I don't expect you to run about seeking my tailor, hatter, shoemaker and the rest of the bunch. Just hand me a good-sized check each month and I'll attend to 'he minor details myself.'" INHERITED KIDNEY TROUBLE. Could Feel It Constantly Gaining Ground as Time Passed. Mrs. Frank Roseboom, 512 W. Washington St., Moscow, Idaho, says: "Kidney trouble was hereditary, and my parents spent hundreds of dollars trying to cure me. I was nervous, my eyesight had failed noticeably, my circulation was bad, sleep fitful, heart ney trouble was hereditary, and my parents spent hundreds of dollars trying to cure me. I was nervous, my eyesight had failed noticeably, my circulation was bad, sleep fitful, heart action irregular, and my back so weak and painful I could hardly stand it. There was also an irregularity of the kidney secretions and a cold always made the whole trouble worse. I could tell many other symptoms, too, but shall only add that Doan's Kidney Pills made me free of all of them." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A STRONG NAME. "What's your name, messenger?" "Samson, sir." "Good! Just pop off with this box to the depot." TRAIN LOAD OF TOBACCO. Twenty-four Carloads Purchased for Lewa' Single Binder Cigar What is probably the biggest lot of all fancy grade tobacco held by any factory in the United States has just been purchased by Frank P. Lewis, of Peoria, for the manufacture of Lewis' Single Binder Cigars. The lot will make twenty-four carloads, and is selected from what is considered by experts to be the finest crop raised in many years. The purchase of tobacco is sufficient to last the factory more than two years. An extra price was paid for the selection. Smokers of Lewis' Single Binder Cigars will appreciate this tobacco. Peoria Star, January 16, 1909. Easy. Once there was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children that at first she didn't know what to do. A friend of the family who happened to come along just then, however, made the following suggestions: To put one of them in a factory. To have a couple more operated on and otherwise fussed over by the doctors. To put a couple of them in a coal mine. To send one to a modern public school. To bring up another on a pure food diet. Which no sooner having been carried into effect than the old woman settled down to a life of ease and lonescence—New York Herald. His Humorous Error. During one of the banquets of the Church Congress in London, a certain bishop had as his left hand companion a clergyman who was completely bald. During dessert the bald-headed vicar dropped his napkin and stooped to pick it up. At this moment the bishop, who was talking to his right-hand neighbor, felt a slight touch on his left arm. He turned, and, beholding the vicar's pate on a level with his elbow, said, "No, thank you, no melon. I will take some pineapple!" A Tabloid Fable. A man once collided with an opportunity. "Why don't you look where you are going?" growled the man. "Don't you recognize me?" asked the opportunity, pleasantly. "No, and I don't care to. You have trodden on my corns," replied the man as he limped away. Moral: Don't believe the people who say they have never had a chance. —New York Times. DIDN'T REALIZE How Injurious Coffee Really Was. Many persons go on drinking coffee year after year without realizing that it is the cause of many obscure but persistent ailments. The drug—caffeine—in coffee and tea, is very like uric acid and is often the cause of rheumatic attacks which, when coffee is used habitually, become chronic. A Washington lady said, recently: "I am sixty-five and have had a good deal of experience with coffee. I consider it very injurious and the cause of many diseases." I am sure it causes decay of teeth in children. "When I drank coffee I had sick spells and still did not realize that coffee could be so harmful, till about a year ago I had rheumatism in my arms and fingers, got so nervous I could not sleep, and was all run down. "At last, after finding that medicines did me no good, I decided to quit coffee entirely and try Postum. After using it six months I fully recovered my health beyond all expectations, can sleep sound and my rheumatism is all gone. "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pugs. Ever read the above letter! A new ones from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. WHAT A FORMER OREGON FARMER THINKS OF WESTERN CANADA. Albert Nelson left Benton Co., Oregon, in Sept., 1904, for the great Canadian prairies. To quote from his letter: "I was greatly surprised to find such an immense stretch of rich virgin prairie still almost unoccupied in the very heart of North America. The splendid crops of oats, wheat, barley, potatoes and hay I beheld in the settlements made me very eager for a piece of this rich soil, and I soon located in the Goose Lake country. We have here a great stretch of the rich, deep clay loam of the Saskatchewan—a soil heavy and hard to break, but particularly well adapted for the retention of moisture and production of the bright No. 1 hard wheat, and great crops of oats, barley, flax and potatoes. I had 60 bushels of oats, weighing 441 lb. to the bushel, per acre. Some of my neighbors had still greater yields. Wheat yielded from 20 to 30 bushels per acre. We have all done well here, and I could name many Americans who came here with means to go ahead, who have done big already. For homesteads one has to go further west, but the best prairie can be bought here for from $12.00 to $16.00 per acre. The climate is dry and healthy. This is the regular Saskatchewan fall weather—frosty nights, and bright, sunny days—ideal for threshing and hauling out of wheat. The trails are dusty, as thousands of wheat teams are moving towards the elevators. "The sight of it makes one stop and wonder what it will be in a few years when the immense prairies get under cultivation. Heavy snowfall is the exception here. Snow generally falls in December and goes off in March. It sometimes gets very cold, but the Saskatchewan farmer does not fear the cold. Winter is his season of rest. The first or second crop he builds a comfortable house for himself, and warm stables for his horses. He need not, like some, be poking about in the mud all winter attending a few beasts for a livelihood." ATTENUATED. He—See, Samantha, that shows how terribly thin some folks are. Eczema Came on Legs and Ankles— Could Not Wear Wears Because Of Bad Scaling and Itching. "I have been successfully cured of dry cozema. I was inspecting the removal of noxious weeds from the edge of a river and was constantly in the dust from the weeds. At night I cleansed my limbs but felt a prickly sensation. I paid no attention to it for two years but I noticed a scum on my legs like fish scales. I did not attend to it until it came to be too itchy and sore and began getting two running sores. My ankles were all sore and scabby and I could not wear shoes. I had to use carpet and felt slippers for weeks. I got a cake of the Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura Ointment. In less than ten days I could put on my boots and in less than three weeks I was free from the confounded itching. Capt. George P. Bliss, Chief of Police, Morris, Manitoba, Mar. 20, 1907, and Sept. 24, 1908." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props, Boston. "It cannot be," sighed the maid. "I respect you highly, Mr. Hunter, but we are incompatible." "Well, I suppose it cannot be helped," the young man replied, pocketing his chagrin and looking about for his hat. "But it defeats all my cherished hopes. I had planned a house, in which I fondly imagined we might be happy. It was to have had a pantry twice as large, as the ordinary size, with a roomy closet in which to stow away the new cooking utensils, and things that a woman naturally buys when a peddler comes around." "Stay, George," she said falteringly, "perhaps I have been too hasty. Give me a day or two to think it over. It is not impossible that—that—" GOVERNMENT CAREY ACT OPENING OF IRRIGATED LAND. MAY 6, the State of Wyoming WILL Sell 100 Irrigated Farms at 50 c per acre at Cooper Lake, Wyo. to those who have made applications for WATER RIGHTS NOW ON SALE at $5 per acre cash and $3 per acre annually for ten years. Free railroad fare, sleeping and dining car accommodations and FREE DEED to TWO TOWN LOTS to all applying BEFORE MAY 1. Applications and particulars furnished by TALLMADGF-BUNTIN LAND CO., Agents, Railway Exchange, Chicago. Agents wanted. Worse and Worse. "I tell you, mamma," cried Freddie, "I don't like that doctor's medicine." "But this is liniment, my dear," coaxed his mother. "Well," replied Freddie, very doubtfully, "isn't that rubbing it in?"—Harper's Weekly. STATE CAPITAL ITEMS Too Late to Fight Scale. At a meeting of the state entomological commission in Topeka to consider a plan for carrying out the instructions of the legislature to exterminate the San Jose scale, for which the sum of $9,000 was appropriated, it was decided that it was too late now to buy and receive machinery with which to spray the fruit trees and thus protect them from the ravages of this dreaded scale this year. In order to be effective the trees must be sprayed before the buds burst in the spring and the leaves come out. The commission will at once take steps to survey the fruit tree districts and locate the trees infected and burn them. Next winter, after the leaves have fallen from the trees, the commission will begin the work of spraying them and thus hopes to in a large measure exterminate the scale. Every tax bill prepared by the State Tax Commission was passed by the legislature. The Tax Commission is well satisfied with the work of the legislature. Every bill offered was for the purpose of strengthening the tax law. Like all new laws it had many imperfections and during the first year of its operation all of these developed. The purpose of the bills prepared and offered during this session was to remedy these defects and to strengthen the law generally. One measure passed gives the State Tax Commission authority to discharge any incompetent county assessor. The commission had considerable trouble with county assessors last year and the commission believes this amendment will be of great assistance. Bankers Interested in Guaranty Plan. J. N. Dolley, the newly appointed state bank commissioner, is confident that the guaranty deposit law is going to work successfully, that practically all of the state banks are going to participate in the guaranty fund as soon as the association is formed. "I am constantly receiving letters from bankers over the state," he said, "asking when the association will be formed and for all sorts of information about the new law. I received one letter recently from one of the largest and strongest banks in the state in which its president states that at a meeting of the directors of that bank they had ecided by unanimous vote to enter the bank guarantee association. I am confident that the new association is going to be a big success. The law as pased protects the depositor and at the same time works no hardship on the banker. Good as Far as They Go. "Are you satisfied with the antitrust laws enacted by this legislature?" was asked of Attorney General Jackson the other day. "Well, not exactly," was the reply. "They are all rights as far as they go, but—." Here he stopped and would say no more. He said he did not care to discuss the matter further. "As to the new civil code of procedure and the new receivership law, from all I discover, there is no conflict in the least. I have not had time to give the question thorough study," he said. But the attorney general thinks he has found a clash in the Stewart bill which regulates private corporations. His opinion was that the receivership bill was invalidated by the latter, as the Stewart bill was the last one passed. The attorney general, however, is quite certain that the new civil code and the receivership bill do not conflict. K. C. Southern Has Appealed Case. The Kansas City Southern Railroad company has appealed to the supreme court of the United States a case recently decided against it in the supreme court of Kansas. The case was brought by a commission company to recover excess paid to the company over the contract rates for grain shipments to points in Kansas. The railroad company maintains that it could not make the contract rates under the law, but the supreme court of Kansas held that since the contract was made before the law went into effect it was valid. An Appropriation Shy $299. State Accountant J. C. Gafford will not be able to pull off many stunts with his contingent fund for 1911. An investigation of the executive and judicial bill shows that he has been allowed only $1. The legislature intended to give him $1,000, but through an error of somebody a cipher was left off and the punctuation makes it read $1. The enrolled bill as signed by the governor is what governs, and it was in this that the $1 was appropriated.3 $2,993 From Oil Inspection The monthly report filed by State Oil Inspector L. T. Hussey with the State Auditor recently shows that during the month a total of 20,252 barrels of kerosene and 2,554 barrels of gasolene were inspected by the department. For these inspections the department collected a total of $2,933.08 in fees. The local inspectors were allowed a total of $668.61 and the amount of the check turned over to the State Treasurer was $2,307.22. SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS. This is the Sum Appropriated by Last Legislature. The 1909 session of the legislature cost the state of Kansas $7,000,000—or to be exact, $7,002,789.36. In other words this was a seven million dollar legislature. This is about $100,000 less than appropriated by the legislature of 1907. Not an appropriation bill was killed or lowered in the senate. The house was responsible for the death of those which were defeated. The liberality of the senate in the seed wheat fund is largely responsible for its death. The senate ways and means committee recommended a $30,000 appropriation. The senate raised it to $50,000. The house thought this amount too large and killed the bill. The house also vetoed the $20,000 to prevent the sprea of tuberculosis. The other bills killed were: $2,000 to the honorary educational institution, $1,000 to the stockbreeders and $1,000 to the poultry association. This $7,700,000 does not include the $200,000 to build the memorial hall in Topeka. As this money is to come from $425,000 recently appropriated to the state by the federal government and does not have to be raised by taxation, it was not included in the list. The $83,000 earned from the penitentiary twine plant which was appropriated back into the revolving fund was included among the appropriations. This by right should be deducted from the penitentiary budget. This legislature established a record for liberality to education and educational institutions. The total appropriations are as follows: Ogallah. 4,400.00 Dodge. 4,900.00 Emporta Normal. 324,000.00 Hays branch Normal. 89,000.00 Hittsburg Manual training. 195,500.00 Stet banning. 43,300.00 District No. 75. 2,000.00 Conveying prisoners. 10,000.00 Regents and directors. 31,000.00 Western university, Quindaro (colored). 66,400.00 Presidential electors. 540.30 Coal rights (penitentiary). 25,000.00 Pawnee Rock. 1,000.00 J. C. Nicholson. 7,375.30 J. C. Nicholson. 960.20 Sixteenth biennial report. 4,400.00 Deformatory, Hutchinson 237,820.00 Solitary jail. 210,680.00 Mother Bickerdyke home. 39,900.00 General Statutes. 3,000.00 Miscellaneous accounts. 25,000.00 Endowment K. S. A. C. 12,666.67 Penitentiary. 330,100.00 Private charities. 34,400.00 Bank commissioner, extra. 29,075.00 State Printing plant. 127,286.00 Furniture Rep. hall. 6,036.17 Reference law library. 8,125.00 Fifty percent, Normal school 41,000.00 Memorial, Decatur county. 1,500.00 Normal training in high school 100,000.00 Tablet, E. J. Ross. 240.00 Dairy commissioner. 12,000.00 Executive and judicial. 194,726.65 School Feeble Minded Winfield 185,650.00 State Blind school, Kansas City. 53,900.00 Orphans' home Atchison. 88,800.00 School for Deaf, Olatha. 112,700.00 Girl' Ind, school Baloit. 63,400.00 Osawatomi hospital. 417,800.00 Boys' Ind, school Topeka. 124,700.00 Epileptics' hospital, Parsons. 203,200.00 State hospital, Topeka. 439,100.00 Board of Control. 32,000.00 State Veterinary board. 1,000.00 Livestock Sanitary com. 26,900.00 Contingent funds, K. U. and K. S. A. C. 2,000.00 State paper 2,865.01 Constitutional amendments 8,000.00 Pension, J. H. McGuire. 480.00 Fuel, charitable institutions. 186,000.00 Destitute insane 3,126.06 House. $3,459,201.56 Senate. 3,543,837.56 Total. $7,002,789.36 Legislature a Stingy Bunch. Peter Johnson, county clerk of Republic county, and R. A. Short, county clerk of Cloud county, now understand what a heartless creature the Kansas legislature is. Those two officials had claims in for about $300 each for witness fees and expenses incurred in the Caldwell-Moore senatorial contest case. The legislature allowed Johnson only $79.49 and Short $83.35. Kansas Two-Cent Fare Safe. "Kansas will have the two-cent fare as long as any state in the Central West," said a Kansas railroad commissioner. "The Missouri passenger rate carried with it a most stringent freight law, which may have had something to do with the adverse decision in that case. The Nebraska case will be decided on the merits of the two-cent fare proposition alone. "Had Kansas had the two-cent law instead of the agreement for the two-cent fare the state would have likely paid three cents for transportation before it will have to do so under this agreement." Start Memorial Building. The committee provided for by the legislature to superintend the erection of the $200,000 memorial building will get to work early this spring. It will try and have the building completed before the next regular session of the legislature. It is the intention of the commissioners to select a site facing the state house grounds, if possible. The bill requires the building to be located so it can be lighted and heated by the state house plant. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE, $1.00, retail. But It Sometimes Is Bad for the Painting. When a property-owner knows nothing about paint it is bad for the property-owner, and bad for the painter. It would not be so if the property-owner would always hire a skilled painter, and then really leave everything to him. But the house-owner so often fools himself on one or the other of these things. The skilled painter in every community has some of the most incompetent competitors that ever vexed a conscientious workman or contractor, and the incompetents get jobs generally by working cheap. In the next place, when the skilled painter is hired, they do not leave everything to him, as so many property-owners boast they do. They interfere most ignorantly and most fatal. They insist sometimes on using paint materials without investigating whether they are good or not. Or perhaps they insist on the painter's hurrying the work. "I'm not going to have that painter's mess around my house a month," the wife says, and what wife says goes—at the cost of a lot of wasted painting money. If the painter stays away a few days to allow the paint to thoroughly dry the owner says: "That painter's neglecting this work—guess he's side-tracking me for Jones' work. I won't stand it." What chance does a painter have to do good work for a man who is continually nagging at him and otherwise handicapping him (without meaning it, of course)? A poor job is the inevitable result of such interference. Poor painting costs the houseowner money—don't forget that. It might pay you to get the practical paint book, painting specifications and instrument for detecting paint adulterants, which National Lead Co. are offering under the title of House Owner's Painting Outfit No. 49. Address National Lead Co., 1902 Trinity Blld. New York City. This company do not make paint (they leave that to the painter to do) but they make pure white lead ("Dutch Boy Painter" trademark kind), and they can tell you how to save money by securing durable painting. Ample Reason. During the trial of a man who had made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide, a lawyer had badgered the witnesses to an exasperating degree, and evidently intended to pursue the same course with a meek appearing little Irishman who next took the stand. "You say you talked with the accused an hour after his attempt?" the lawyer demanded. "Ol did," was the direct reply. "And did he give any reason for attempting to commit suicide?" "He did, an' it was a good reason." "Well, and what reason did he give?" "Sure, an' he said he wanted to kill himself." Pat answered, and for a moment even his honor could not control his laughter-"Harper's Weekly. STATE OF OHIO CITY OF TOLEDO, } 85. LIVING COUNTY. FRANK J. CHENY makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. CHENY & CO. doing business in the City of Tucson, Arizona, storeaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every use of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of CATARRH Cure. FRANK J. CHENY. 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This means a cure and only through Cascarets can you get it quickly and naturally. Cascarets-10c box—week's treatment. All druggists. Biggest seller in the world—million boxes a month. DEFIANCE STARCH easiest to work with and starchies clothes niches. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 12, 1909. Topeka Items The H. P. of Western Sun Tabernacle gave a reception in honor of Dtr. Lillie Robinett, H. P. of Fair West Tabernacle of Kansas City Kans. The hours were from 6:30 to 9 p. m. Dtr. Robmett made quite an address on the work of the order and Dtr. Kattie Thomas sang a touching solo. A three course lunch was served. All departed after hrving a fine time. J. H. Jones has returned from Topeka where he held a position during the session of the legislature. J.J. Olden has recieved the insurance from his stock of goods, which burned at 615 N. Main. J. W. Thompson has purched for $850.00 the Cox property at 918 N. Wichita St. Mr. Thompson is to be complimented on his business ability. Although yet a young man he is "making hay while the sun shines." Floyd Porter is reported quite ill at his home 1459 Sherwood. Rev. W. H. Tillman preached a splendid sermon at the A. M. E. church Sunday night. The people are always willing to hear Dr. Tillman. The lecture of Hon. Thomas Blodgett delivered to the colored Y. M. C. A. at the Tabernacle Baptist church Sunday afternoon March 14, will go down on the pages of history as the greatest lecture ever delivered in this city. To fully appreciate it, one must have heard it—as there are no means by which it can otherwise be told. In his plain conversation, easy and convincing manner Mr. Blodgett got the attention of his vast audience with his first few words. Step by step, word by words he carried them with him and as he neared the solemnity of his lecture there were few dry eyes in the church. Surely God was and is with the man. His audience sat aghast, silent, spellbound as word after word of the bible truths flowed from his lips which carried with them a backing from on high. Before he had finished he called for sinners who desired to become Christions and twenty came forward. It was a grand and gloruos rousing Christian meeting. Long live Thomas Blodgett to continue his good work. OMAHA, NEB Dtr. Ellen Golden, Luln Round tree and Maggie Brown, are able to be out again after having been on the sick list. The Past Arcanium Temple was unable to meet last week on account of the illness of so many of its members. D. G. M. A. M. Harrold has plans on foot which will prove a great benefit to the Order of Twelve. 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M. JONHSON, G. P. P. 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 416 E. 3rd, Ft. Scott, Kans. OFFICIAL ORGAN—The Wichita Searchlight, W. N. Miller, Editor, 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. NEXT PLACE MEETING—The Grand Temple and Tabernacle Kansas- Nebraska Jurisdiction, will hold its next Session (the 18th annual) in Topeka, Kans., on the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1909. TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses. Number. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addle Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. H. Tyler, 520 E. 9th Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 5 Mrs. Carrie Brown, 922 N. 10th, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Tues. (A) 9 Mrs. Katie Thomas, 117 E Laurett, Topea, Kansas. 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark, Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 323 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 19 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Hattle Warden, 124 N. Washington, Pittsburg, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 15 Mrs. Ellen Lee, Box 25 Weir City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Lizie Morton, 1308 Washington, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 24 Mrs. Angle Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Parsons, Kan., 1-8 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawatomie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 8 Sat. MRS. CARTER DEAD. Mrs. Sarah Carter one of the pioneer colored citizens of Sedgwick county died Monday night, March 15th, at the Carter home, 5 miles northeast of Wichita, at the ripe age of 82 years. Mrs. Carter had lived to rear up a large family and by her daily christian walk left an indelible mark on the sands of time. Surrounded by her loved chilknows no awakening, and her soul went home to the God who gave it and she is at rest in that land of bliss, prepared from the foundation of the world for those who know their Christ and do his commandments. Obituary. Sarah Carter was born in West Virginia, Dec. 23, 1827, died March 15, 1909, and was therefore 81 years, 2 months, 22 days old at the time of her death. Early in life she professed a hope in Christ and for more than fifty years she led a devout Christian life. In 1844 she moved to Jackson county, Ohio, and met and was married to Henry Carter, in Pike county, Ohio. Thirteen children blessed their home. With her husband she came to Sedgwick county in 1887, where she had since resided. She was a member of the Second Baptist church of this city. She is survived by ten children--the resi- 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1608 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 63 Mrs. Lille Robinett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 684 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) ita, Kan., Fridaya. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. B. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Wed. (A) 91 Mrs. Lulu Rountree, 1125 N. 19th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 908 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) TEMPLE8. Chief Mentors. 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Weir 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 3 J. G. Burdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 4 F. D. Early, Sherman Flats, Omaha Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. Dr. G. G. Brown, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Tues. A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Tue. Geo. L. Craig, 906 Cherokee, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 11 C. W. Giles, 617 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan., 1-3-4 Thurs. Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. Richard Clark, 420 N. 28th, South Omaha, Nebr. Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 19th, Coffeyville, Kansas. Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st\ Salt Lake City, Utah. W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. B. E. Easter, Box 156, Oswego Kans., 2-4 Tues. J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th, Cherryvale, Kans., 1-3 Tues. J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. E. C. Sqires, 1813 Jefferson, Topeka, Kans., 1-3 Mon. J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Leavenworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, F. Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) dence of two of them is unknown. Those known are: James Carter, of Kenton, Ohio; John Carter, of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Millie Knapper, of Mt. Sterling, Ohio; Wm. Carter, Willis Carter, Mrs. Hattie Hurst, Cora Carter and Julia Carter all of this county and city. She also leaves about 20 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Second Baptist church, Saturday afternoon, March 20 at 2:30. Interment will be in the family lot in Maple Grove cemetery beside the body of her husband and son. A ROUSING WELCOME. Rev. Dr. Edward R. Vaughn, dean of the Theological Department of Western University was faced by a large and enthusiastic crowd at the A. M. E. church Thursday night where he delivered a splendid lecture under the auspices of the Literary Society from the subject, "The Material from which Great Races are Built." Miss Lulu Parks, President of the Literary Society, presided and the lecture of Dr. Vaugh was preceded by several literary numbers. At the close of the lecture Dr. Brown presented a set of resolutions commending the lecture of Dr. Vaughn. --- TENTS. 2 Lizzie Weaver, 1133 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 2. Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walisa, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Sat. Mozn. 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 M. Santa Fe, Oofeyville, Kan., 2-1 Wed. (A) 6 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Iela, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 7 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Sat. (A) 8 Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 9 Mary Brown, 325 Mise, Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 11 Ethel Penn, 718 "Q" St. Atchison, Ks., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arle Stone, 828 Main, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Ks., 2-4 Wed. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Sarina, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Willis, 2108 Grand, Parsong Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark, Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsons, Kans., 1-3 Sat. 22 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kans- s City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnia, 217 Sherman, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 28 Louise VerJer, 813 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 36 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1318 N. Madison, Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 812 Washington, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Font is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Evening Star Temple and Military band will give a musical soon Lewis Harris died at the City hospital Sunday and was buried Thursday. Rev. J. A. Bingham officiating. Dtr, Lulu Burrell who has been quite ill is able to be out again. Dtr. Lulu Rountree entertained the Art club Wednesday afternoon. Charlie, the infant son of Dtr. Nettie Kellogg, arrived home Sunday from Los Angles California. Sir C. M. Johnson, G. P. P. arrived home Monday from an extended trip to Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago. He reports a fine trip. To the Sir knights and Daughters of Kansas — Nebraska Jurisdiction: — Greetings— After the trip covering four weeks I am again at my post of duty. During my absense I visited a number of citles in which each of I was cordially recieved. My visit in my own Jurisdiction was cut short on account of the snow storm. I visited Temples, Tnbernacles Palla tsumis and some Tents in the Jurisdiction of Missouri, Iowa, Illi. Ohio, Massachusetts and Colora, and in each I found the Order on the progressive move. I was welcomed every where and all were eager to hear something about the jurisdiction of Kansas Nebr. Great interest is manifested into every jurisdiction for the Order of twelve. Though many of the jurisdictions have far a greater membership than our own — yet in securing hall etc. the Kansas, Nebraska juridiction leads—and in establishing, 'Taboraian home for the aged and infirmed members indeed, Kans. Nebr. Jurisdiction is first. A fact of which we should all be proud. My trip was filled with instruction and afforded me opportunity to fully realize the great work being done in the Kans. — Nebraska Jurisdiction. I am Sencerly. Sir C. M. Johnson G. P. P.