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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER Among Bla Methodis Bishop Quayles' Among Black Methodists in Texas Bishop Quayles' Splendid Report By courtesy of Hon. Thomas Blodgett we re-produce from the Christian Republic the report of Bishop William A. Quayle on his Texas Conference among the colored Ministry. The article speaks for itself. Read It. Among Black Methodists In Texas. By Bishop William A. Quayle Possible there are some advantages in being an iisnoramus. At least one, this one, hopes so. The ignoramus by his very immaturity of information brings two open eyes two open ears, one open brain and one open heart. His ignorance is his asset. He brings no preconcieved theory. He is down around "to catch" a theory. A brand new Bisnop has everything to learn, and the job is big enough as we all note; but he has yet nothing to unlearn of which ameliorates his task in part. I was a spy; howbeit, not to spy out the nakedness of the land. I bring back from this spying grapes of Eschol- at least to my brain and heart and democracy and Methodist hope they are grapes of Eschol. To be sure I affect no wisdom. I am still an ignoramus; but an ignoramus may set down what he has seen. His eyes and ears will work. His inferences may be defective; but his observations may be accurate This article is not given as specially illuminative to the Church, but as setting down how I man, an ignoramus, was impressed as he presided at Conferences of his OUR TEL OUR TELEPHONE Is at your disposal. Phone us and we will serve you just as promptly as if you came to the store in person. OUR PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE IS FREE IND. PHONE No.620 for your next Drug order OUR PROMPT DELIVERY IND. PHONE No. 620 Oscar R PRESCRIPTI 811 N. Main St J. H. ENG Lumber Dealer Successor to B.F. McLean 318 West Douglas Ave ELEVENTH YEAR brother ministers whose skins were black and whose hearts are white. (1) The two Conferences presided over were the West Texas and Texas. They include the black Methodist Episcopalians in Tex. a domain larger than Asia Minor One was held in Victoria, near Port Levaca on the Gulf of Mexico, the other at Paris, at the far north of Texas, near the Oklah line. In either Conference some preachers had journeyed 500 mls to answer to their names and to bring their reports. (2) One cabinet had five members the other six. One cabinet had every member as black as soot. They were deliciously black, answered to quaint old Andrew Fuller's definition "The image of God cut in ebony." This old ecclesiastic's phrase is apt description of these men. They have the image of God, Christian Gentlemen Of both the cabinets I may set down that no man could ask to be associated with a body of men of manlier mold a body of men of manlier mold. They did not spat. They did not whimper They were open in saying what they had to say. In no instance did a member of either cabinet come to me when others were gone and wish to put a gloss on some other man's work or remarks of church They impress me as manly and above-board, curteous and not MARCH 17 1909 crying. I was further impressed with their sagacity in judging men, their fairness in estimating them, and their tenacity in holding for what they wanted and each man fighing for the best of men for his District. To an ignoramus in the epicop this would apear to be a Distric Superndent's inseparable adjunct. This peculiarity argues sanity, sagacity and honor. In no instance did I hear any one of them speak disparagingly of each other or their fellow-ministers. They estimated but did not practice detraction. They were not snnbborn, but they were firm. (3) Though the Home Missions appropriation was reduced from the level which at its highest was never high, I heard no preache complain. These men whose salaries at best are but a pittance and to whom the 16 persent cut meant cut in its drastic sense there men made no whimper. (4) Apparently every evil that can happen within the bounds of these two Conferences. Repeated overflows and drowning out complete failures in crops compelling an exodus, in search of work repeated lynchings of inocent men which had terrorized other entire communities. (At a telephone pole in certain city where I was standing and talking to a District Supertintendent he said in voice whose weird pathos I seem not to forget, "From this pole not long ago one of my race was hung till dead, and for days his blood was red on the walk where we stand") ague yellow fever, boll weevils, catastrophes which read like excerpts from the bulletins of the Egyptian plagues had happened and were chronicled by 1 brave man of brawn of body the brain and faith; and after having set down a list of calamities and made tears rise unbidden to my eyes and a sob choke my throat he concluded his rehearsal by a sentence which, had it occurred in the Book of Job, we would set down as sheer genius. His concluding sentence of this inventory of disaster was, "Yet though all God has been with us and has been good, has given us His blessings." If sitting and listening to hero-talk like this, I said in my heart, "Thank God I am related by brotherhood in the ministry to such men as these," shall I be wondered at? Not once, but the many times a District Superintendent would rehearse what is Like the Book of Job happened to a preacher and the charge—sickness, deluge, vanishing of members, slaughter crops or of men of his race; and then a soberly remark: "But he brings up a good report." One man reported he had a salary of $70, and concluding said, "Bishop, I want you to send me back." One man whose wife had been wearying away for all the year at last had died, said, or sobbed "I have had a broken heart, but Bishop, have kept at my work." Men women, what think you of these brethren in black? I no better than to wonder at them and love them, and record in my memory that men had been set down heroes for less herohood than this. (5) Preachers by the score came up with salary receipts—a scrawny pittance — but they brought up a report, "All causes presented and many recieved in full;" and the benevolent collections ordered by the General Conference were in the West Texas Conference $6,337. An ignoramus in the episcopacy knows no better than to put to shame by bravery in sacrifice and service like these (6) The courtesy of these brethren of ours toward a President of a Conference is sometimes the equal of which I have not witnessed in the years of my attendance on Conferences as visitor & member. They were could teach the rest of us sundry and drives rules of fine behavior. (7) They were a band of the well dressed men. With few exception there was no slouchy man among them. They were tidy, clean genial, edgaging. I was proud to at them look and think they were Methodits. (8) They were quick to'catch on' No man deed change the character of his utterance to suit black audience. What he has to say they will understand if he will talk it out. No condescension is called for in being orator before these black Methodists. A Door Of Hope (9) To me, an ignoramus investigator, the Methodist Church to these shut-out men and women seemed like a strong, welcoming encouraging hand reached out of the sky. These men felt & feel that out of sight, far off across legues of prairie and of stream & hull, is a Brotherhood in Christ which believes in them, prays for them, plans for them, set up for What Think Ye? JOE STEWART MEAT MARKET For the best Meats, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Veal, Chickens and Sealship, Oysters, also Fresh Home Grown Cattish, and Halibut for your Lunch. Heinz Pickles, Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed or Dill, Baked Beans, and Cooked Meats. the black men and women the same standards in morals, intelligence and religion which white Methodists have for themselves. To these men, with handicaps very many, shut in by dangers that may mean death any moment, the Methodist Episcopals Church appears as a door opening outward and a voice calling upward. Methodists cannot be hesitant in serving with and serving these servents of the living God. "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. Strong City Kansas Misses Lulu and Cornelia Black well left Friday for a couple of weeks visit in Quindaro & Top. Nick Childs of Topeka was in the city Thursday on business. Miss Ida Duncan is home this week on account of the serious illness of her sister Rosetta Duncan. Miss Ida McLean who has so been on the sick list for some little time is rapidly improving. Miss Mayrne Levell left Thursday morning for Kansas City where she expects to have her eyes treated. Mr and Mrs Waller Jackson are occupying the house of Mr Scott Woods. Mrs Minnie Douglas of Emporia spent Sunday in the city. Mr and Mrs T. Woods & daughter Leta have moved to Council Grove. Mr Holly Evans of Emporia spent Sunday in the city. Mrs Callie Smith is visiting in the city from Kans. City. Pretty Prairie Kansas Lewis Banks of Kingman visit ed several days at his brothers J JOE ST MEAT M F. T. CULP, I For the best Meats, Beef, ens and Sealship, Oysters, Cattish, and Halibut for y Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed Cooked Meats. 241 N. Main Street. We Are The Men Get your Electrical Wiring Done now. Door Dells, Burglar Alarms A Specialty Bynum & Stradford Bell Phone 2467 NO.3 C. Banks and family. The school closed at Prairie Hall, last Thurs. Taught by Miss Emma Seyb. Mable Banks spent last week at Kingman visiting her aunt. A horrible fire broke out in an Implement store during the high wind Saturday. The Fire Department was called as soon as the fire was discovered, the building soon dismonished. Miss Ethel Taylor & Miss Walker were envited to an Easter dinner at the Misses Banks, Sunday, a delightful time was spent by all. Farmers in this vicinity have started to list corn and it begins to seem like spring. Leavenworth Kansas Crystal Tabernacle No. 29 met Tuesday April 9th. Quite a number of daughters were presut. The following officers were elected. Dtr Lulu Wood H. P. Dtr Nancy Trappner V. P. Dtr Della Harris C. R. Dtr Sarah Montaque C. T. Dtr Eva Chase Abasine, Dtr Maria Weaver Lybenus. The daughters presented Dtr Lulu Wood with a set of cups saucers and dinner plates for her earnest work for the past two years. The daughters are all well pleased with her work. And re-elected her for her third year. The New Hope Literary is progressing nicely. It meets every Monday night. An excellent program has been arranged for the next Monday night, Hpril 19th. Instead of a debate there will be a Mock Congress consisting of a House of Representative and Senate. The ladies will serve refreshments and have a "Old Fashion Supper" like mother used to cook Come over and help us out. For Sale — I have two very choice residence lots which I can sell at a good figure Price right W. N. Miller 634 N. Water st. EWART MARKET PROPRIETOR Pork, Lamb, Veal, Chick- also Fresh Home Grown our Lunch. Heinz Pickles, or Dill, Baked Beans, and Wichita, Kansas Prof. Sam T. Hood SURGEON CHROPODIST Removes Corns, Bunions, In-grown Nails and all pedic troubles. Graduate American School Chropody of New York City. 343 North Main Street By PROF. ERNEST HAECKEL, University of Jena, Prussia. The theory of the origin of the same being applicable to planetary life: The earth is sun, and Light is the source having been formed, water piles the carbon atoms—carbon being imaginable kind of existence combined by attraction into a of growing or extending the atomic mass overgrows and falls. From these monera, or single which is to culminate in man of the earth. For long—millions the earth was covered with the life possessing elementary one were absolutely simple in nature or cell of living matter by which the process known as segregation the cell. These were known—indec Greek protiston) that is to say was the first ancestor of mankind of a king or a duke, not only prepared with that scheme of the being. Like all simple life or atom, it say that in their particular case that makes them herd together, on a heat-principle, just as and so upward—also by attracting development and extension of the just again as the growth of man. Eventually the lowest form of existence. Then followed, in the creepers, a trifle more complex appeared the small skull-less worm, still more vigorous and more animal—the cranioton—with rise in their turn, the lower vertebrae, an-ape then the ape-man and ulti-embryo, when developing, goes, animal life has known upon earth that is, of course, in the direct life. In other words, at first there cell and the worm-like cell of the makes the growth develop in such that is like an eel, later like a fish, such a cat, afterward like a monkey and solution in the course of being born of a butterfly in the various stages, moneron, the single cell, which business. The theory of the origin of life is as follows, the same being applicable to all forms of known planetary life: The earth was thrown off by the sun, and Light is the source of all life. The crust having been formed, water promoted the activity of the carbon atoms—carbon being indispensable to any imaginable kind of existence. The carbon atoms combined by attraction into plasmic masses capable of growing or extending themselves. One small atomic mass overgrows and splits into two halves. From these monera, or single organisms, organic life, which is to culminate in man, is born upon the face of the earth. For long—millions of years, perhaps—the earth was covered with these simple pieces of life possessing elementary energy and elementary consciousness. They were a possessed a nucleus or cell of selves according to the process simple division of the cell. The protista (from the Greek proti) The protiston was the first the relative importance of a but when he is compared with human kind into being. Likely gregarious, that is to say that politic gregariousness that may by attraction, probably on an form molecules, and so up union of many, the development naturally to follow just againter from atoms. Eventually call it—came into existence, the simple cord-like creepers gastrula. Then appeared the let, or the amphioxus, still came the skulled animal—then the fish, and, in their higher, then the man-ape the Human embryo, we every stage that animal life protiston stage—that is, of protiston to man. In other stuff in the female cell and tition of the twain makes the period, this embryo is like an then like a dog or a cat, after man baby. Our evolution in than the evolution of a butter starts, then, from a moneron elementary consciousness. consciousness. They were absolutely simple in their construction but possessed a nucleus or cell of living matter by which they reproduced themselves according to the process known as segregation, that is, cleaveage or simple division of the cell. These were known—indeed are still known—as protista (from the Greek protiston) that is to say, the very first. The protiston was the first ancestor of mankind, so you can just see the relative importance of a king or a duke, not only in regard to yourself, but when he is compared with that scheme of the universe which brought human kind into being. Like all simple life or atomic stuff, the protista are gregarious, that is to say that in their particular case, it is not conscious or politic gregariousness that makes them herd together. They herd solely by attraction, probably on a heat-principle, just as the atoms combine to form molecules, and so upward—also by attraction. Given the social union of many, the development and extension of the principle of life was naturally to follow just again as the growth of molecules and larger matter from atoms. Eventually the lowest form of worm—gastrula, they call it—came into existence. Then followed, in the course of long ages, the simple cord-like creepers, a trifle more complex in structure than the gastrula. Then appeared the small skull-less worm known as the lancelet, or the amphioxus, still more vigorous and more aggressive. After that came the skulled animal—the cranioton—with rudimentary headpieces; then the fish, and, in their turn, the lower vertebrae, like birds, then the higher, then the man-ape then the ape-man and ultimately the tribal male. The human embryo, when developing, goes through in succession every stage that animal life has known upon earth since it was in the protiston stage—that is, of course, in the direct line of descent from the protiston to man. In other words, at first there is the simple plasmic stuff in the female cell and the worm-like cell of the mate. The combination of the twain makes the growth develop in such a way that at a certain period, this embryo is like an eel, later like a fish, subsequently like a bird, then like a dog or a cat, afterward like a monkey and ultimately like a human baby. Our evolution in the course of being born is not less wonderful than the evolution of a butterfly in the various stages. All this progress starts, then, from a moneron, the single cell, which has elementary life and elementary consciousness. "Good Fellows" Lack Initiative By JOHN A. HOWLAND. they would have us at all the dispensing cheerfulness for Not long ago I was pr with a large business when executive department of the "Jones never will get finality that was concurred all right in doing something sonally. But he's too easy is at all times at the dead level of fitness for the sake of cheerfulness. I was present in a small commission when the subject of a success of the house was up. "I will get the place," said son concurred in by everybody. "Jo something he is set to do and too easy going ever to be put in could have to manage in that deinquiries as to Jones' personal they would have us at all times at the dead level of "peace at any price," dispensing cheerfulness for the sake of cheerfulness. Not long ago I was present in a small company of men connected with a large business when the subject of a successor to the head of an executive department of the house was up. "Jones never will get the place," said some one with an air of finality that was concurred in by everybody. "Jones knows enough; he's all right in doing something he is set to do and is responsible for, personally. But he's too easy going ever to be put in charge of a bunch of men such as he would have to manage in that department." I made some inquiries as to Jones' personality. Every man in the group was a personal friend of his. They had known him for years and could vouch for his honesty and innate good nature in every circumstance of life. But in attesting to this consummate cheerfulness and kindness of disposition they were reading him out of the list of possibilities for the most advantageous opening in his line of work. This virtue which they conceded in the man at once was a potential vice in the official. As an executive, it was the one handicap chargeable against him, yet out of my knowledge of business it was a weakness more to be considered than would be a disposition to a periodical outburst if ill-temper. To-day one of the greatest dangers in the usefulness of the young man lies in the invitation so widely extended to him to become "a good fellow." He gets an exaggerated idea of this invitation in school. His fraternity invites him to its consideration. This greatest handicap of perennial good nature in a man does not come from its expression on its own initiative. The type of man who would impose upon it steps in and makes largest demands upon this good fellowship as a cover to his shortcomings. Confession of weakness or of design is easy where the confessor expects no measure of penalty. If the transgressor discovers that he may count upon shelter behind some one, incapable of meting out justice to him, that shelter must be a standing invitation to still larger transgressions. "Sure, I can fix that up for you," is one of the commonest of set speeches everywhere: "I know Jones well and he's a 'good fellow.' Don't worry about it—I can fix that up, easy." Everywhere in the world the promise of preference is to men of character. Easy good nature never will pass inspection as significant of character in man. Rather it is indicative of a lack of character. Passively, it may not be an unmixed evil, but it does not get anywhere in the world of initiative. Development Traced from the First Atom the theory of the origin of life is as follows, the being applicable to all forms of known life: The earth was thrown off by the Light is the source of all life. The crust been formed, water promoted the activity of carbon atoms—carbon being indispensable to any kind of existence. The carbon atoms led by attraction into plasmic masses capable of living or extending themselves. One small mass overgrows and splits into two halves. These monera, or single organisms, organic life, to culminate in man, is born upon the face of earth. For long—millions of years, perhaps—it was covered with these simple pieces of pressing elementary energy and elementary absolutely simple in their construction but living matter by which they reproduced them is known as segregation, that is, cleaveage or these were known—indeed are still known—as piston) that is to say, the very first. First ancestor of mankind, so you can just see seeing or a duke, not only in regard to yourself, in that scheme of the universe which brought all simple life or atomic stuff, the protista are in their particular case, it is not conscious or makes them herd together. They herd solely sheat-principle, just as the atoms combine to ward—also by attraction. Given the social and extension of the principle of life was as the growth of molecules and larger matter the lowest form of worm—gastrula, they then followed, in the course of long ages, a trifle more complex in structure than the small skull-less worm known as the lanceeire vigorous and more aggressive. After that the cranioton—with rudimentary headpieces; burn, the lower vertebrae, like birds, then the ape-man and ultimately the tribal male. When developing, goes through in succession has known upon earth since it was in the course, in the direct line of descent from the words, at first there is the simple plasmic the worm-like cell of the mate. The combinaworth develop in such a way that at a certain level, later like a fish, subsequently like a bird, award like a monkey and ultimately like a huhe course of being born is not less wonderful farfly in the various stages. All this progress the single cell, which has elementary life and Cheerfulness of speech and demeanor on the part of the man who must work among his fellow men long has been cited as one of the cardinal virtues. Volumes have been written and spoken upon the subject. But as in the case of so many other of the good things of life, these optimistic champions of cheerfulness occasionally exaggerate. They would have us believe that nowhere in social relationships is there need for a frown—for the expression of righteous wrath—for an explosion of anger based on a righteous indignation. So exaggerated is the position of these doctrinares of cheerfulness that ness at the dead level of "peace at any price," the sake of cheerfulness. Present in a small company of men connected the subject of a successor to the head of an house was up. The place," said some one with an air of man by everybody. "Jones knows enough; he's the one is set to do and is responsible for, perusing ever to be put in charge of a bunch of no manage in that department." As to Jones' personality. Every man in the field of his. They had known him for years. Mostly and innate good nature in every circum-ing to this consummate cheerfulness and kindly reading him out of the list of possibilities ening in his line of work. This virtue which at once was a potential vice in the official, one handicap chargeable against him, yetness it was a weakness more to be considered to a periodical outburst if ill-temper. Great dangers in the usefulness of the young is widely extended to him to become "a good rated idea of this invitation in school. His consideration. Of perennial good nature in a man does not its own initiative. The type of man who and makes largest demands upon this good shortcomings. Confession of weakness or professor expects no measure of penalty. If the may count upon shelter behind some one, in to him, that shelter must be a standing invi-sions. Up for you," is one of the commonest of se- Jones well and he is. --- P The Wheel BY CLINTON (Copyright, by J. The alarmed echoes caught up the crack of Carshalton's rifle, flinging the sound from rock to rock in the ravine below. A second shot followed the first so quickly that they might have been deemed one, but the effect was twofold, for with the first John Rexford reeled in his saddle, with the second his startled horse came crashing to the ground. The bursting of a rotten girth saved Rexford from being crushed to death, the horse rolling clear of him in its last struggles. As it was, his case was bad enough for his right leg was broken and over him stood Carshalton, seller of all properly unsalable things, who was just now about to close a deal on his well-salted "Lady Lu" silver mine which would make him some fifty thousand dollars richer, and the purchaser so much the poorer for the rest of his life. To be sure, Col. Wayne, the would-be buyer, had sent Rexford to give an expert opinion on the mine. And just here had grisen a serious difference of opinion between Rexford and Carshalton. Experience had so far justified Carshalton in the belief that experts were of two kinds; either they were fools who knew nothing about the customary mine ruses, and therefore were easily handled, or else they were wise men who, on the receipt of a due consideration, saw everything through rose-colored glasses. Rexford had disconcerted him by belonging to neither class, and had outraged Carshalton by his outspoken remarks concerning the worthlessness of the "Lady Lu" and by contemplatively refusing the heavy bribe delicately offered him. The victor now coolely proceeded to help himself to the fallen man's papers, especially a written message of warning which Rexford expected to send by wire the instant he reached the foot of the mountain. By a little work this message could be altered to satisfactory wording, and yet appear to be written in Rexford's hand all the way through, this copy being held for proof later. Rexford, despite his agony, drew his revolver on the vultured-faced sharper approaching him, but a snap was the only result. Carshalton laughed. "Didn't reckon I'd leave your pistol in fix to spoil the whole thing, did you?" he asked. "Come now—quiet with your hands. You can't stop me. All this is your own fault, anyway, you blamed fool!" Without more ado he went whistling down the steep mountain road to his horse, fastened 50 yards below. Once mounted, he made all speed possible, thugh the ground was villainously rocky, set with sharp limestone fragments. For a few seconds Rexford lay still, in exceeding bitterness of soul. Ordinarily the matter would have been bad enough, but to stand well in Col. Wayne's eyes was more than life to Rexford, since the colonel's pretty daughter idolized her father, and the best passport to her favor was the good will of the father and daughter onel. Now both father and daughter would despise him, for on the strength of the telegram he knew Carshalton would send at once, in the expert's own name, the deal would be closed and the colonel practically ruined. He looked around him in frantic desperation. To the right lay his dead horse, to the left the fragments of an old ox-wagon abandoned by some disgusted bark hauler, who had in vain endeavored to use the discarded mountain road. The wreckage seemed significant of how little hope he might have of passers-by. Rexford groaned aloud, his wound reminding him that he might die there, so far as Carshalton's mercy went. He shouted at the top of his voice, again and again, but only the echoes or the shrill cry of frightened woodpeckers answered him. His head dropped on his arms; he abandoned himself to despair for what seemed a century. Then suddenly the stillness of the mountain woods was broken. Plaintive, sweet, tuned to a monotone, came the voice of a woman. the melody, dropping like honey of strange sweetness from her lips, was only a wild camp-meeting hymn, but Ellen McArthur's thoughts were not on the church. Wrapped in a malden dream of her own, not less potently glamourous for its primeval qualities, she came on swift, bare feet around the corner, and found herself shocked from her visions of love to a comprehension of tragedy. "Was that you a-hollerin'?" she cried in quick repentance. "I never 'lowed there wuz anybody in trouble—jest thought 'twas one o' them valley hunters yellin' to his mates. The idigts air allers gettin' lost. What's the matter?" "My leg is broken," said Rexford feverishly. "Look here, girl, there's a man gone ahead of me. He wants to send a message by wire at the station below. Mine must get in first. Take it there before him, and you shall have $500 of your own." Her eyes flashed fire, not with lust of the money, but with the thought of how easily it would solve the problem of extreme poverty which had so delayed her wedding. "That feller who's 'tryin' to git his in fust," she returned rapidly, "was he in er gray suit, carryin' er rifle, ridin' a bay?" AS A TIME SAVER THE CHAFING DISH WILL BE FOUND OF DISTINCT VALUE. Especially to Be Appreciated by the Mother to Warm Baby's Milk in a Hurry — Some Dishes Easily Prepared. The, chafing dish is valuable not only as a graceful means of entertaining a or entertaining a few friends of an evening, but as a time-saving device to the mother who has to get up in few friends of an evening, but as a time-saving device to the mother who has to get up in the night to heat baby's milk, and to the business woman who dreads to go out for her meals in bad weather. Then, too, the chafing dish is invaluable of a Saturday or Sunday morning, when each member of the family comes down at a different time for his eggs and coffee. Everyone who owns a chafing dish knows how to make Welsh rabbit and fudge, but there are some more novel dishes for the informal little supper. The meal is of course not complete without a dainty little table and a frilly white apron for the hostess; and if she possess the true instinct of hospitality she will allow each guest to have some part in the savory preparations. Shrimp are good at this time of year. A good way to prepare them is to lay a good-sized can of them in water and let simmer for 20 minutes, then strain, and set the liquor aside for some future soup tureen. Next cut the shrimps in half and chill, making the usual white sauce in the blazer, adding a bay leaf and a blade of mace until it boils, add the shrimps, and when thoroughly heated, serve. If the shrimps are to be the chief or only hot dish, they may prove more palatable if mixed with an equal quantity of canned French peas, which are added to the white sauce at the same time with the shrimps. It is nice to serve this compound on crackers. Curried oysters are another great delicacy. These are prepared by browning one tablespoonful each of butter and flour with one teaspoonful of curry powder. Add gradually one-half cup of rich milk and one-half cup of strained liquor juice. Stir this mixture until quite thick and, if desired, add a few drops of lemon juice. Drop in 25 oysters, carefully examined. Cook until they are plump and serve at once. If one has on hand a respectable remnant of cold chicken or turkey, or even of veal, an appetizing chicken a la McDonald may be produced. Cut the meat into strips, cut firm, cold boiled potato into thin slices, cut one large truffle, if desired, into strips, and place in the blazer with three tablespoonfuls of butter. Now pour on a cup and a half of milk, season with salt and pepper, and serve as soon as hot. Bits of celery add to the flavor of the dish; whether coked with the milk or added raw at the last minute. Eggs with black butter are another substantial supper dish. The recipe calls for three tablespoonfuls of butter, half a teaspoonful of vinegar, salt and pepper to taste, and three or four eggs as you have room for them in the blazer. Cook the butter in the blazer until it is a dark brown—almost black. Break in the eggs then, one at a time, carefully, lest they should run, baste with the butter until they are done, adding the vinegar just before you take them up, and sprinkle with pepper and salt. Tapioca Cream Without Eggs. Soak in water till soft three rounding tablespoonfuls of pearl tiapoca. Put one pint of milk, one-half teaspoonful of salt and the soaked tiapoca, with the water in which it soaked, in a double boiler. Stir often until boiling to prevent the tiapoca from lumping, then only occasionally till it gets thick. Then add sugar to taste about one-half cup, and continue boiling till the consistency of heavy cream. This usually takes about two hours. When done remove from the fire, flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla; stir in a teaspoonful of butter if desired, and serve cold. Removing Scorch. An old negro laudress is responsible for the following cure for bad scorched places caused by too hot frons: A half pint of vinegar is put on the stove in a porcelain-lined saucepan. To this is added the juice of a large onion and two ounces of fuller's earth. The mixture is boiled for five minutes, strained, cooled and bottled. In removing the scorch a little of the mixture is put on a clean white linen rag and rubbed over the scorched place until it disappears. Several applications may be necessary. Two Suggestions. Rub bread and meat boards with cut lemons, then wash with cold water. It is much better than scrubbing or scraping. If the upper part or edge of the saucepan is well buttered you will find that chocolate, milk and other liquids will not boil over. String Bean Salad. String and wash one pint string beans. Boil till tender in boiling salted water. Drain and when cold put in a salad bowl, season with salt, pepper and paprika, pour one teaspoonful salad oil over, also one-half cupful vinegar, and serve. To Polish Damp Shoes. However damp boots or shoes may be they can be given a high polish if a drop or two of paraffin oil be added to the blacking. This also prevents the leather from cracking. The Wheel of Fortune (Copyright, by J. B. Lippincott Co.) "Too late." said the girl bitterly. "I seed him from the p'int up ynder 15 minutes ago. He'd git thar afora me best I could do!" Then a rich color flooded her face—she laughed out, mellowly, triumphantly. "No, he won't, neither! I'll head him off yet! Quick stranger, gimme your piece er writing." "I must write it first," gasped Rexford. "But how are you—" "Don't waste no time talkin'—do it!" Fired, in spite of his disbelief, with new hope, Rexford, in painful haste, managed to scribble his warning on the back of a torn envelope in pencil. That finished, he found the girl supporting one of the substantial old wheels of the ox-wagon. She had snatched a long, faded ribbon from her hair, letting down the tumbled masses of black, and now she bound the message firmly to the hub of the wheel and then dictated another to the astounded Rexford: "Mister Agent, send this soon's you clap eyes on it, er don't you never show yourself near Ellen." She tied this command securely to Rexford's message, observing sagely that he would understand, meaning the operator. "But surely," cried Rexford, "you are not so mad as to think you can roll that wheel down the side, blocked as it is by a thousand obstacles?" "Mad?" said the girl. "I don't git mad very often, stranger." She vanished behind a huge rock, which on the lower side partially cut off the view of the valley. Tormented beyond words by an agony of mind worse than that of his body, Rexford actually rose. He was near the boulder. By clinging to its rough surface he managed to attain the other side. Then he understood her idea. Fifty feet below them began an almost perpendicular tie-chute, or slide, once used for sending white-oak ties to the railroad below. It ran sheer to the track. As far as Rexford could see nothing stood in the way. The girl having struggled to a good starting point, now stood poising the great wheel. Her long hair blew backward in the wind, her wide eyes were fixed eagerly on the course. At last, after what seemed to Rexford an age, she loosed it. It bounded wildly forward, while she, glancing upward to her companion, cipped her hands joyously. "It's gwine!" she cried. "It's gwine! It'll go plum to the very kyar-track, plum into Seth's door! Thar it goes—thar! Thar!" In anguished suspense, Rexford clung to the bowlder, while his companion called out the progress his eyes were too dim to follow. "See how small it's gittin—no bigger than mammy's ole platter! You'll hatter go pretty fast, mister man down thar, if you git in fust. Hard work ketchin' up with a woman an 'a wheel! Thar, clip! hit's on the track, Hooray! Seth's seed hit—he's on her kyar-line himself. I'd know that red shirt of hison in a thousand. He's bendin' over hit!" She turned and climbed back toward Rexford, tossing the wind-tangled hair from her forehead with satisfaction as she talked. "Don't ye fret, stranger, hit's all right. I reckon I might ez well tell ye—Seth will do anything fer me. He's to be my man. I don't allers run ez wild-lookin' ez you ketched me, fer I had jest slipped down here ter peep at the office from that big rock. You bet he'll send it. You warn foolin' me 'bout that money—was you?" This query was not answered until later, when she met full assurance of her prize. Rexford had fainted. Below, the astounded agent had barely secured and promptly dispatched the message 'so cavalierly hurled at him (he happened to be lounging on the platform as the impromptu wheel struck the track)' when a horseman galloped up and swung into the narrow office. "Send that message, instantly!" he said imperatively, flinging a piece of paper on the table. "Mark it 'rush.'" The operator read it slowly aloud, to make sure he had deciphered it correctly, then as he sat down he said dryly, with the freedom of the provincial: "Sort of a contrairy-minded fel low! Air you his agent?" Carshalton nodded. "Why?" "Oh, nothin'; only I jest sent one from him to the same party sayin' the Lady Lu' wuz the biggest swindle out." Carshalton went purple. "You lie! He could not. I left him — that is, I know I got here first." "I ain't disputin' that," returned the agent coolly, his shrewd mind suddenly grasping an inking of the truth. "He ain't been here, but his message has. Thar's the copy ef you un don't believe me." Carshalton snatched up the shakily scrawled message. "How did it get here?" he asked, burning with suppressed rage. "How'd it come? It—say, do you want me to send this er not?" "Damn you—no! How did this come?" "By the partic'lar post," said the operator, grinning. "See that ole wheel out thar? Smartes' woman in the state sent it down the tie-chute! Come like greased lightnin', just afore you turned up, and—say, stranger, but you can swear!" No child can be well and strong unless its bowels move regularly every day at the same hour. Such regularity promotes good health. One passage is absolutely necessary, while two are not too many. There is one remedy that is especially adapted to the needs of children, and which thousands of American mothers are using to-day, and that is Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, the great herb laxative compound. Its gentle action, so free from gripping, its tonic effects, and its perfect purity, vouched for to the United States Government, makes it an ideal children's laxative tonic. Mrs. M. F. Cash, of Webb, Okla., is an old-time friend of this wonderful child's remedy and she says she could scarcely quaint with it through Dr. Caldwell's offer of a free trial bottle, which she always keeps it in the house. Mrs. K. Stout, of Louisville, Ky., also first used it in a free sample, then bought it of her druggist; at the regular price, which is about $10, she says she now discard salts, pills and powders. Where Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin once finds its way into the home she sells, they soon discard salts, pills and powders. Those who have never yet used Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin should begin to do so, because she has a good soothing friend. In order to acquaint you with its merits at no expense to yourself the doctor will send you a free test of the pepsin, which has been justly called the nation's safeguard to health in the cure of constipation, dyspepsia, heartburn, liver trouble, sick headache, sore stomach and similar conditions. M. B. H. "Oh, Willle! You're going to fall!" "Naw, I ain't! I'm tryin' a new fancy style of skatin'—dat's all." When George Ade was coming from New Orleans last winter he noticed, among the race-track men on the train, one tan-shoed sheet writer with the largest feet he had ever seen. And he furthermore testifies and affirms that the sheet writer, on rising in the morning, discovered that the reporter had shined one shoe and a suit-case.—Success Magazine. "No man ever maintained his life at a higher level of perpetual good humor," writes James W. Lee of Joel Chandler Harris in the Century. "The day before he died, when he was already beginning to pass into the dark valley of death, one of his sons came into the room and inquired: 'How are you this morning, father?' "Well,' responded Mr. Harris, 'I am about the extent of a tenth of a gnat's eyebrow better.'" PROBABLY HARDEST OF ALL. Wifey's Addition to List of Her Household Duties of Course Was Not Personal. After dinner the other evening Mr. and Mrs. Brown started to speak of their respective duties, and soon an argument as to whether the husband or the wife had the hardest work to perform was in full swing. First Brown warbled, and then wifey sang. "A wife," argued the good lady, "has to cook, wash dishes, clothe the kids, scrub the floors, sweep the house, make the beds, build the fires, carry up coal, nail slats on the back fence, dig—" "Is that all?" sarcastically interrupted Mr. Brown. "No," was the prompt rejoinder of Mrs. Brown. "In addition to those duties every wife has to keep her husband from making a fool of himself?"—Philadelphia Telegraph The food experience of a physician in his own case when worn and weak from sickness and when needing nourishment the worst way is valuable: "An attack of grip, so severe it came near making an end of me, left my stomach in such condition I could not retain any ordinary food. I knew of course that I must have food nourishment or I could never recover. "I began to take four tablespoonfuls of Grape-Nuts and cream three times a day and for 2 weeks this was almost my only food; it tasted so delicious that I enjoyed it immensely and my stomach handled it perfectly from the first mouthful. It was so nourishing I was quickly built back, to normal health and strength. "Grape-Nuts is of great value as food to sustain life during serious attacks in which the stomach is so deranged it cannot ingest and assimilate other foods. "I am convinced that were Grape-Nuts more widely used by physicians, it would save many lives that are otherwise lost from lack of nourishment." Absolutely the most perfect food in the world. Trial of Grape-Nuts 10 days proves. "There's a Reason." Look in pkg. for the little book, "The Road to Wellville." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are delicate, true, and full of human interest. ```markdown ``` If there is anything about your aliment that you don't understand, or if you want any more advice to the doctor, and he will answer you fully. There is no charge for this service. The address is Dr. W. B. Coulson, Caldwell Sldg. Monticello, Ill. WHY. OF COURSE. A. Eable. Perhaps. Harris' Great Good Humor. SICK DOCTOR ASHINGTON.-The senate of the United States has in its keeping an official document which contains one of the most splendidly graphic stories of Indian fighting ever written. The story in part WASHINGTON.—The senate of the United States has in its keeping an official document which contains one of the most splendidly graphic stories of Indian fighting ever written. The story in part is the account given by Gen. George A. Forsyth of his fight with the Sioux and the Ceyennes under the famous chief, Roman Nose, in eastern Colorado in the year 1868. Gen. Forsyth went into the army from his native city, Chicago. He is now living in Washington. The odds against his force in the fight with the band of Roman Nose were 20 to 1, and as the senate document has it—though this part of it was not written by Forsyth—the battle "was a splendid example of the hardihood, courage and capacity to adapt themselves to circumstances which so generally mark the conduct of American troops on the frontier." One of Gen. Forsyth's subordinate officers in the battle was Lieut. Frederick H. Beecher, a nephew of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Lieut. Beecher fought heroically and died just as the repulse of the Indians was assured. Gen. Forsyth's description of the charge of Roman Nose and his red band follows: "In a few moments after our preparations were completed Roman Nose and his warriors swept around the bend of the stream, out of and well beyond rifle range, with a front of about 60 men and a depth of six or eight ranks. Each warrior was, with the exception of his cartridge belt and box and moceasins, perfectly naked and hideously painted. They rode bare-back, with only a horse-hair lariat wrapped twice around the middle of their horses and passing loosely over each knee. Riding well in front of the center of his line, Roman Rose led the charge with a reckless gallantry that may have been equaled but could not have been excelled. Six feet three inches in height, and perfectly naked save for a super war bonnet on his head, a crimson silk sash around his waist, and his moccasins on his feet, showing immense breadth of shoulder, but, nevertheless, sinewy and slim, both in waist and flank, he sat well forward on his barebacked chestnut-colored charger, with his knees under the lariat that twice encircled his horse's body, and his rifle held just below the trigger in his left hand, its barrel in the hollow of his arm, while the same hand grasped both his horse's mane and bridle, leaving his right arm free to direct his men, and as he came charging on at the head of his command he was the very beau ideal of an Indian chief. "As soon as the charging warriors had fairly started toward us our immediate assailants, who lay under cover on the two banks of the river opposite an island, opened a rapid fire on us from both sides, with the intention of covering us to such an extent that we would not dare to rise from our rifle pits to open fire upon the attacking force, and so for a few seconds bullets fell everywhere around us. "This I looked for, but I well knew that once the charging Indians came within range of the bullets of their own men their fire must necessarily cease. Glancing back over my command, I saw that they had all turned in their rifle pits toward the foot of the island, the direction from which the charge was coming, and crouching low, with their knees well under them, their rifles closely gripped in their sinewy hands, their bronzed faces set like iron and their eyes fairly ablaze with wrath, they lay with nostrils all aquiver, impatiently awaiting the command to fire. "Suddenly the fire from the Indian riflemen ceased, and placing my back against my rifle pit and leaning on my elbows against its sides, I shouted: 'Now!' and Beecher, McCall and Grover echoed the cry. "Instantly starting to their knees, with their rifles at shoulder as they rose, and with one quick glance along the barrel, 40 good men and true sent the first of seven consecutive volleys into the onrushing savage horde. Welcoming the first and second volleys with reckless yell, the charging warriors came gallantly on, but at the third the most of them ceased to shout, and I could see great gaps in their ranks and men and horses going down, but still the mass of them bravely held their course, Roman Nose leading them and wildly waving his heavy Spring-field rifle over his head as though it were a wisp of straw, he alone shouting his defiant war cry as he swept toward us. "At the fourth volley their great medicine man, who was leading the left of the column, went/suddenly down, and for an instant the column seemed to check its speed, but only for a second, and then with a mad rush it came bounding and leaping onward. The fifth volley seemed to pile men and horses in heaps, and at the sixth Roman Nose and his horse went down in death together. "A hundred feet farther and they will be upon us! But now the commun hesitates and shakes, and the scouts pour in their last and seventh volley just as a few of the warriors reach the foot of our little island, and then springing quickly to their feet, with wild cheers and imprecations on their foes, the frontiersmen suddenly pour almost into the very faces of the mounted warriors a rapid fire from their revolvers, while the Indian column suddenly divides on each side of the island and breaks in all directions for the shelter of either shore, the now completely defeated and panic-stricken savages, cowering to their horses' backs, fearfully demoralized, and seeking only safety in eager and headlong flight." Gen. Forsyth was shot three times, but he dragged himself about to care for the wounded. Lieut. Beecher, shot in the side, turned to Forsyth and said, quietly and simply: "I have my death wound, general," and then as the commanding officer tells the story, he replied to his subordinate: "Oh, no, Beecher, no, it can't be as bad as that." "Yes. Good night!" I heard him murmur once: 'My poor mother.' In the sunset his life went out. After the failure of their attempt to override the little band of soldiers the Indians besieged the whites for nine days and the second chapter of the story has much of the stirring interest of the first, as it is told by the officer in command in that campaign on the eastern Colorado frontier. With Col. Forsyth were 51 officers and men. Before the Indian lines were broken, as they charged down on the detachment the bullets of the Cheyennes and the Sloux found 24 victims, one-third of them being killed and the others badly wounded. Col. Forsyth had a bullet in his right thigh, his left leg was broken below the knee and his scalp had been torn open by a ricochetting shot. Let Col. Forsyth tell the story of the siege: "Orders were issued to unsaddle the dead horses, to use the saddles to strengthen our works, to connect the rifle pits and to deepen them still more and to cut off large steaks from the dead horses and mules and to bury them deep in the sand to avoid putrefaction. "Having made the wounded as comfortable as possible with water dressings (the surgeon had been mortally wounded,) and a strong guard having been posted, I ate a few mouthfuls of raw horse flesh and dozed away until morning. The Indians, evidently believing that we would try to escape in the night, approached at early daylight to take up our trail. Owing to some one accidentally discharging his rifle they threw themselves flat on the ground and we succeeded in killing only one of them. The next day was very hot and we that were wounded suffered intensely. "During all this time I noticed that there was a steady beating of drums and death chants among the women in the main camp of the savages. It was a weary enough day for we were out of food save horse and mule meat, which we had to eat without cooking, but fortunately we had plenty of good water. . . . At noon, Scout Grover informed me that the Indian women and children were beginning to withdraw and I concluded at once THE FIGHTING that the Indians had decided to give up the fight. Accordingly I penciled the following dispatch: "Col. Bankhead, or Commanding Officer, Fort Wallace: I sent you two messengers on the night of the 7th inst., informing you of my critical condition. I tried to send you two more last night, but they did not succeed in passing Indian pickets, and returned. If the others have not arrived, then hasten at once to my assistance. . . . The Cheyennes alone number 450 or more. They are splendidly armed with Spencer and Henry rifles. . . We are living on mule and horse meat and are entirely out of rations. If it was not for so many wounded I would come in and take the chances of whipping the reds if attacked. . . . I can hold out here for six days longer, but please lose no time. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, George A. Forsyth. "P. S.—My surgeon having been mortally wounded, my wounded have not had their injuries dressed, so please bring a surgeon with you." "I confided this to two excellent men, Donovan and Pilley. They left our intrenchments at midnight, and as they did not return I was hopeful that they had escaped the vigilance of the Indian sentries and were on their way to Fort Wallace. It was these two men who fell in with Col. B. H. Carpenter's command two days later and gave the first intimation of our plight. "The wound in my thigh having become exceedingly painful, I asked some of the men to cut the bullet out, but as it lay very near the femoral artery they all declined to attempt it. Taking my razor, which happened to be in my saddle bag, I managed to cut it out myself, greatly to my almost immediate relief. On the fourth day our horse and mule meat became putrid, but one of the men shot a little gray Wolf that helped out somewhat. "I had the men raise me on a blanket to get a better view of affairs and suddenly the Indians sent in a fusilade of about 20 shots. The man who held the corner of the blanket upon which rested my broken leg dropped it, THE WOODS causing the bone to part and protrude through the flesh, much to my savagely expressed wrath. "On the sixth day I called the well men together and told them that as there was no certainty that our messengers could get through they were entitled to a chance for their lives. I believed that most of our enemies had withdrawn, and as the men were well armed I doubted if any ordinary body of Indians would dare attack them on their way to Fort Wallace. As for the wounded, we must take our chances if attacked. "For a few moments there was a dead silence, then rose a hoarse shout: 'Never! Never! We'll stand by you, general, until the end;' McCall saying: 'We've fought together, and, by heavens, if need be, we'll die together.' "The next two days—the Indians only keeping a vidette in sight, and most of them having disappeared—seemed to me to be almost interminable. We all became weaker for want of food. . . . On the morning of the ninth day one of the men lying near me suddenly sprang up, and shading his eyes with his hands, shouted: 'There are some moving objects on the far hills.' "Every man was on his feet in an instant, and then some keen-eyed scout shouted: 'By the God above us, it's an ambulance!' "The strain was over. It was Col. Carpenter with a troop of the Tenth cavalry." Not long afterward the sub-chiefs of the warriors who had surrounded and fought Col. Forsyth's band admitted that the Indians in the fight lost 75 killed and many wounded. There were 1,000 warriors in the band that attacked Forsyth's force of 51 men—and in the end the white men won. It was a great fight and the fact that the white men won proved a sure indication of final victory on the frontier, which came about a short time later. The records of the war office in ```markdown ``` Washington tell of these great battles and they are open to the curious public. While they are more or less in the form of reports and lack the romantic details which writers have wrapped around them, they still prove of great interest. KNEW ALL TO BE KNOWN. He was a middle-aged man who had graduated from the school of experience, who believed he was master of arts, with a diploma acquired by profound study of the world and so he went out to make a call on a leading citizen at his superior country place. The leading citizen was not at home, nor any member of the family except the youngest daughter, a child of 14 or taereabouts. She tumbled out of a hammock and surveyed the strange visitor with a cool, calculating eye. Sizing him up, and recognizing no sign of the book agent or burglar about his clothes, or his 'manners, she calmly bid him welcome, "until father should return." The visitor with a mental shudder prepared to entertain mademoiselle, but to his amazement she took that duty out of his grasp, and remarking that she presumed he would like to see "the place," somewhat haughtily indicated that she would take him en tour. So they walked to and fro, the middle-aged man vainly trying to label or to approve with the right word many beautiful objects on the millionaire's estate, but nothing fluttered or amused the youngest daughter. She called everything by its right title, knew the different breeds, the pedigrees of all the prize livestock, the botanical names of every tree and precious shrub, and reeled off information with all the icy manner of an expert and specialist. Nothing jolted her. Finally they arrived at a section of the garden where laborers were busy, and there against, the wall of a greenhouse stood a box filled with beer bottles. The youngest daughter glanced at them. With a tilt of the head and a wave of the hand, she said: "And this is the Anheuser Busch!" So they passed on to ped it, the next. THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, ¥ £ 3 F KANS. ———— W. N. MILLER................Editor Residence Phone Bell 1641. _tared at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class ‘Mail Matter. 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Any erroneous refiection on the haracter, standing or reputation of (My person which may appear in this waper will be gladly corrected if weught to the attention of the editor. ‘To Live and Let Live” Is Our Motte. Send your news in earlier ets eee | At 11:30 Rev C. A. Woods pre- ached a splendid sermon at 3:00, p. m, the Easter program render ed by the children did credit to them selves and teachers and/ brought to the parents. But the claimax remained to be reached | in the program rendered by the: young ladies and gentlemen. 7 8;80 in the eve, The program as follows: Opening Chorus - Choir Invocation— —__D. W. Williams Address G. H. Drumgold, Music Ark. Cy Quartette Oration May Calwell Solo Mrs A. Doty Reading Blanch Kemp Solo Mattie Corban Essay Pearl Sawyers Select Reading —Necie Andrew Recitation Nettie Wright. Rehearsal P. B. Andrews Recitation Addie Jones Solo Cora B. Carpenter Address Mrs S. J. Downs Closing Address Rev C. A. Wood The church was handsomely de- corated with flowers evergreens and birds, beautiful faces, Easter bonnets costumes. Miss Edna Barnett went to Wichita to spend Easter with friends. Geo. Parcell of Chicago broth. to Mrs B. Andrews is visiting in the city. Mrs Drumgold’s sister and her niece from Hanibal Mo. are visi- ting in the city. Low Prices We are making very low prices on Trunks before we move to ournew loca tion at 119-21 S. Lawrence Wichita Trunk Factory 819 East Douglas.Ave. | LOCALS ae RESUME OF THIS WEEK— [7™ Sond your news notes and lecal happenings to 601 Hort Main Street. iF IT EVER HAPPENED ‘YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Send your news in earlier. The Searchlight $l. per year Day Changed Prince Chapter No. 12, have changed their day of meeting of the second and fourth Tuesdays te the second and fourth Wed- nesdvy of each month at 2:30 p. m, Mrs Jennie Turner was stricken with paraiysis last Wednesday afternoon. She is now in quite a serious condition at the home of Cephas Richey 302 W. Murdock. The M, E. church, Rev Geo. T. Wooten, pastor, will hold servic- es at 636 N. Water next Sunday, April 18th. (All day.) At11a. m. preaching by the pastor from the subject “A Changeless Christ” Heb, XIII —8. Preaching at 8 p m. subjeet “ What is that in thy hand?” Ex. iv— 2. You are invit ed to attend these services. Rea. Geo. T, Wooten. “From Punkin Ridge” J. W. Thompson, Capt. of the “Porty Odd Club” of the A. M. E. church will present with his club a Comedy in oneact entitled “From Punkin Ridge.” The fol- fowing are the cast ofcharacters Jonathan Shruggins Milton Perry, Mr Brown Dr. A. K, Lawrence Augastus Semioy Pink Stradford Hurry Glifton J. W. Thompson First Police John D, Jones Second Police Alvon Foster Belinda J. A. Miss Wheeler Miss Elizabeth B. | Mrs Ida B. Clark Arrine Brown Miss Foster. The date has not been set yet when this play'will be presented Day, date and place given later. Notice Daughters Wichita Tabernacle No34 will have a special meeting Thursday atternoon April 29th. at 2:30, All members are requested to be present. Business of importance. ‘ By Order Dtr Joana Jones H. P. Mrs Lillie Thomas who has been visiting with her parents Rey and Mrs A Brown hasreturn ed to Kansas City. Rev J. T. Smith, pastor of the A, M. E. chnreh left Mon. night for Kansas City on a businessand pleasure trip. Rev Smith is doing agreat work at the A. M.E. church, He returned Friday eve. The high wind and dust was cruel on the Baster Bonnets and gay suits Sunday. Funny some-- thing always wrong on Easter. For Sale— Some bargans in acre ground from 10 acres up. see me. W. N. Miller 634 N. Water. | Jas. J. Olden is erecting two cottages on west 18th street. Robt Davis was laid up fora few days from aceidently choping his foot too hard with a dull ax. He is out again. Miss Mattie Turner eame down frora Kansas City Wednesday of last week to attend at the bedside of her mother, Mra Jennie Turner who is suffering from a stroke of paralysis. Chief Grand Mentor Coming Rev Sir Frank Wilson C.G. M. will make his 1909 amnual visit with the Kinghts and Daughters of Tabor of Wichita on the follow- ing dates. Wichita Tabernacle No34 Thurs. afternoon May 20th at 2:30 p. m. Taborian Temple No. 11, Thurs. night May 20th, 8 p. m. Mt Hope Yabernacle No. 3 Friday after- noon, May 2ist, at 2:30 p, m. Mt Nebo TempleNo. 7 Friday night May 21st, at8 p.m. There will also be a Joint Session during the visit of the Chief the date which has not been yet set. The Knights and Daughters are begining pre- parations to extend to their ven- erable Chief a splendid time. Parsons Kansas Items _ DtrCaroline Clayton visited her neice in Independence last week. - Dtr Lizzie Morton madea flying ae to Erie last week. ‘Dtr Tyson has returned home aft era long trip to Texas. _ Dtr N. Motley has been suffer- ‘ing with her throat and eyes. Silver Leaf Tabernacle No. 16, held their annual eleetion of offic ers Wednesday afternoon April, ith The following officers were elected: Dtr Lizzie Geary, V. P. Dtr Lizzie Morton H. P. Dtr Kat- tie Shakespear C. R. Dtr Palora Ballinger C, T. Dtr Jemis Smith, C. P. Dtr Maud Todd, Abesnia, Dtr Nola Robertt, Lybenus ‘“‘Iam paoud of Silver Leaf Tabernacle, No 16” said daughter Lizzie Mor- ton H- P. ‘its members are faith ful, trueand loyal. They have been around me as a wall of peace and harmony. ‘‘Not at the top but climbing’ is their motto. I feel ita pleasure to start out the new years work to serve Silver Leaf Temple No 16.” Atehison Kansas, Miss Ethel Penn has returned after a three weeks visit in Ken- tueky. On April tenth, Golden Tent, No, 11 held its election, Daught. Ethyl Penn was relected Queen Mother. Mary Burdette elected vice Queen Mother, and James Booker re-elected Father- The Easter Services at the A. M. E, ehurch New Hope and Tab ernacle churches were grand in every respect. Each chureh had appropriate services listened to by large attentive audiences. Nathan Copeland foreman in the Searchlight office will leave Sunday for Ft Scott Kans where he will spend one week visiting among relitives and friends. His many Ft. Scott friends will be glad to see him. sen Hours 9amto6pm Sundays by Appointment Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST ALL Work GUARANTEED Bell Phone 2467 601 N. Main St. Wichita, Kan lee Satisfaction — IN EVERY POUND OF — ichita’ | “Wichita’s Best Four 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 SS Stingley Underakers Embalmers SEDGWICK BLOCK Either Phone 1619 Wichita Kansas eee eee Send your news in earlier . W.N. Miller /W.N, Miller Attorney-at-Law NOTARY PUBLIC. _ Office 684 North Water Street Practices in all the Gourts | Of Kansas and Missouri Dr. E.' Harrison Physician & Surgeon “SURGERY A SPECIALTY- © fee Hours Ytollam Residence 2teop m 513 N. Main St Tt 8y.m. OFFICE 518 N. MAIN ST Phone 860 green W. H. Jones having anaddition placed on his homie 906N. Water. The new officers are in— we are waiting for the part te go to the Colored people. Hon. Thomas Glover one of the board of Trastees of Western U. left Wednesday might for Quin- daro where he will attend a meet- ing of the Trustees, Mr Glover is a valuable man on tne Board and is doing much good work in the interest of the School and of our race. Rey W. H. B.V. Taylor « wife agrivad in the city Wednes, from Kingfisher, Okla- and will spend several days in our city. _———SSana ee SYRINGES I carry a complete line of Syringes, Hot Water Bottles Combination Hot Water Bot tles and Syringes, Sprays, Douches, etc., ete., ete. My prices on these goods are very reasonable, indeed, and each article is fully guar anteed to give satisfaction or your money will be re- funded. 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Farmer, Physician and Surgeou —Diseases of — Women and Children : A Specialty en ron Office 703 N. Main St. per IS @. $. HENRION 01 X. Main se. Wichita, Kana. TRY US For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT Co. Use | Murray’s Reliable Nerve Balm | Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salv Marray's Reliable Extracts Murray’s Reliable Perfumes Murray’s Reliable Pure Spices These Goods Have No Epual _ They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. | J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 908 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita — — — Kansas Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE Wecurry a full, fresh gai 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 real L. S. Nafteger, President, W. R. Tuck er, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, 0. W. Brown, Vice Presi- dent, V. H. Branch, Gashier. WICHITA, KANSAS United States Depository Gapital $200,000 Surplus $125.006 Dirretors: W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, ‘R. L. Holmes, 8S. B. Amidon, J. M. Moore, L. 8. Naftsger, H. W. Darling, ‘A. G. Houston, B.C, Sheldon, 0. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin, Hen ry Lassen. V. H. Braneh. AGeneral Banking Business Transacted eS SR Its the man who “‘sticks-to-it”” who wins. YOUR GOODS SAFE if you store them with us—Miller Storage Co., 634 N. Water. Mire LUMBER cit METZ’S &™ 3rd & Main HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue REVENUE RECEIPTS GROW SINCE APRIL 1 THERE HAS BEEN DAILY SULPLUS OF $63,959. Since January 1 the Custom Receipts Have Nearly Reached the 1907 Figure for Like Period. Washington, D. C.—Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coolidge in speaking Monday of customs in regard to revenue and other treasury receipts and of expenditures this year, said the daily deficit is steadily diminishing. He said: "The daily average receipt from customs from January 1 to April 10 were $1,071,861. This is nearly up to the average for the corresponding period of 1907 which was $1,144,657. The average for the corresponding period of 1908 was only $890,072. The returns from internal revenue have not been so favorable. The average daily receipts since January 1 have been $750,223 as against $773,078 for the corresponding period of 1908 and $853,520 for the corresponding period of 1907. "The average daily total receipts from all sources have been $2,007,889 as against $1,897,134 in 1908 and $2,908,577 in 1907. The average daily total expenditure has been $2,303,808 as against $2,262,400 in 1908 and $1,855,500 in 1907. The daily deficit has continued to diminish steadily. The average daily deficit since July 1st, 1908, has been $374,900. Since January 1st, 1909, it has been $295,900. Since February 10, 1909, it has been $115,700. Since March 10, 1909 it has been $63,200. Since April 1st the average daily surplus has been $63,959. Railroads Would Issue Stock Topeka, Kansas.—Under the new law requiring railroads to get permission of the state board of railroad commissioners before issuing stock and bonds, the Rock Island and Santa Fe roads made application Monday the Santa Fe to issue $73,000,000 of common stock and the Rock Island to issue $220,000 refunding bonds to take up Chotaw, Oklahoma & Gulf equipment trust bonds, due April 1. At the time of issuing the bonds in question, the Santa Fe gave the purchasers permission to turn in the bonds and take common stock at any time they desired and the issue is to protect the road on this agreement. All Indians Look Alike to Them. Washington, D. C.—Word was received by Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leuppa from Eufaula Harjo, saying that the state militia, in its attempts to capture members of the Crazy Snake band who participated in the recent outbreak, are arresting full blood Indians, in no way connected with the Snakes or their troubles, and asking that federal government prevent the further arrest of innocent Greeks and demand the release of those already in custody. Instructions have been issued directing Agent Kelsey, in Oklahoma to protect innocent Indians. Injunction Hearing Postponed Jefferson City, Missouri—The hearing of the injunction suit against the 18 Missouri railroads to prevent the threatened increase of passenger rates to three cents a mile which was filed at St. Louis by Circuit Attorney Jones at the request of Gov. Hadley has been deferred for several days. The hearing was to have been held Monday. Gov. Hadley made the anouncement after he had conferred by telephone with Frank Hagerman attorney for the railroads. Cheap Fares in Kansas to Continue. Topeka, Kansas.—Attorneys representing nearly all the railroads operating in Kansas had a little secret conference in Topeka to d'scuss the two-cent passenger rate now in operation in the state. No formal vote was taken. There was a tacit understanding, however, that the two-cent fare should prevail in the state until the Nebraska upper courts have decided the constitutionality or unconstitution ality of the two-cent law in that state Haskell Cases Abandoned Muskogee, Oklahoma.—The statement was given out from the United States district attorney's office here Monday that Sylvester Rush, special attorney, and District Attorney Grega at Tulsa had decided to abandon any further prosecution of Gov. Haskell and the six other Oklahomaans recently involved in the Muskogee town lot cases. This course, it was announced, had been dictated from Washington. The Waters-Pierce Must Pay. Washington, D. C.—The supreme court of the United States Monday denied the motion for a rehearing in the case of the Waters-Pierce Oil company which the supreme court affirmed. This is the decision by the Texas courts which imposed a fine of $1,600,000 on the company and ousted it from the state. Four Tobacco Warehouses Burn. Mayfield, Kentucky—Fire of incendiary origin destroyed four large tobacco warehouses here early Sunday. The loss will reach about $25,000. There was about 300,000 pounds of tobacco lost. The Hurricane in New England The Hurricane in New England. Boston, Mass.—The hurricane from the Middle West passed over New England Thursday at velocities ranging from 50 to 92 miles an hour. Such a gale has not been experienced in this vicinity in many years. White House Washington Gompers of the of Labor, has ant labor co house next Fr special Master E. V. McKeever tied --- THE WILLING HELPERS. COVGRE 53 THE TARIFF INTERESTED PARTY CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Uncle Sam—I Hope They'll Soon Get That Critter Straightened Out! A REVOLUTION IN TURKEY DEMONSTRATION BY THE TROOPS CAUSED CABINET CHANGE. Sultan Issued Irade Announcing a a Pardon for Mutineers and Concessions to Their Demands. Constantinople.—The troops of the Garrison made a violent demonstration Tuesday before the parliament building against the committee of union and progress and the government. They demanded the dismissal of the grand vizier, Hilmi Pasha, the minister of war, and the president of the chamber. The outbreak was caused by an order issued to the troops to the effect that they must obey their officers under all circumstances, even if called upon to shoot down their co-religionists. The sultan's principal secretary read to the chamber an irade announcing that his majesty had accepted the cabinet's resignation and that a new ministry was in process of formation. Measures had been taken, the irade continued, to preserve order throughout the country. It announced that the mutoneers could return to their barracks and the people to their occupations. The irade was received with enthusiastic cheers for the sultan. First Arrest for Smoking. Galena, Kansas. — Ace Rains, 18 years old was arrested here Tuesday on the charge of smoking a pipe. The arrest was made based on the new law by the state legislature prohibiting smoking by minors or the sale of tobacco to minors. Rains is the son of Galena's postmaster and had the permission of his parents to smoke. Officers here declare that the law will be rigidly enforced. The boy will be given his preliminary hearing on Thursday. Snow Blockades Trains Sulphur Springs, Colorado. — The passenger train on the Denver & Northwestern and Pacific (Moffatt road), which left Steamboat Springs to Denver on Wednesday last and which was stalled at Fawn Springs by snow, returned to Sulpher Springs Tuesday. The train which left Denver for Steamboat Springs with 75 passengers Sunday morning is still snowbound at the Summit of Corona Pass. It is believed that the Blockade cannot be lifted inside two days. Disagree as to Benzoate. Madison, Wisconsin.—J. Q. Emery president of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy departments Saturday, on the authority of the executive committee of the association, appointed a committee of 11 from among various state food chemists to consider the use of benzoate of soda in food products. President Emery says there is a conflict of results among authorities and resultant chaotic conditions as to the use of the chemical in food. Six Out of Ten Have Tuberculosis. Six Out of Ten Have Tuberculosis. Des Moines, Iowa.—An investigation conducted by the Des Moines Tuberculosis association has resulted in the discovery that six out of ten children examined are infected with tuberculosis. Wife of Senator Davis Dead Wife of Senator Davis Dead. Little Rock, Arkansas.—Mrs. Jeff Davis, wife of United States Senator Davis is dead here. Mrs. Davis is survived by her husband and nine children. With Bubonic Plague Aboard. Antwerp.—Three cases of bubonic plague were discovered on the British steamer Rubens, which arrived here Monday afternoon. The Rubens sailed from San Nicholas, on the river Parana, Argentine Republic March 6. The steamer has been quarantined. White House Labor Conference. Washington, D. C. — President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, has arranged for an important labor conference at the White house next Friday afternoon. GREAT CATARACT SILENT. For Second Time in Memory of Man Falls Were Mute. Buffalo, New York.—The voice of Niagara was mute Sunday for the second time in the memory of man. The river is frozen solid from bank to bank. On Wednesday the worst gale of the season was recorded. The solid ice fields of Lake Erie were churned from end to end and piled in a huge mass at the lower end of the lake. At Niagara Falls there had been a heavy ice bridge in the pool below the cataract since the middle of winter. Under the impact of the mass of ice from the lake above and the added floes brought through by the wind, the bridge gave way and began to surge down the rapids. But before it could win freedom in the ample waters of Lake Ontario, the wind shifted to the north. Instantly the moving floes packed at the mouth of the river. Each instant of cold congealed the pack more solidly and each hour brought added pressure from above. Unable to escape by its natural channels, the level of the river rose by leaps and bounds. The highest flood level recorded from previous years is 28 feet above the normal. Friday night the river was 40 feet above normal. Conservative estimates place the damage at $1,000,000. Haskell Indictments Faulty. Tulsa, Oklahoma.—Gov. Haskell, Oklahoma's first chief executive, and the six other prominent Oklahomaans indicted by the federal grand jury on charges of fraud in Muskogee town lots, will not have to stand trial. The motion of the defendants to quash the indictments was upheld. The court quashed the indictments on the ground that they were returned by a grand jury composed of 23 men under the federal law, instead of by a jury of 16, as provided for by the Arkansas law, which was held to be in force in old Indian territory by federal enactment at the time when the alleged frauds were committed. Railroad Improvements. Kansas City Mo—The Missouri Pacific Railroad company has finished plans for rebuilding its main line between Kansas City and Pueblo. Bailast has been ordered for 750 miles of track, which will cover the distance between Kansas City and Pueblo, and some of the branch lines in the state. The track grades are to be widened and the roadway tiled and drained. It is estimated that the work will cost $3,500,000. Our Oriental Trade Washington, D. C.—Of Oriental commerce, amounting annually to more than $4,000,000,000 the United States enjoys five per cent of the imports and 10 per cent of the exports, according to figures available to the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. It is an "Airman's School" Now It is an Airman's School. Now. Berlin, Germany. The aerial navy league announces that it is making arrangements to found an "Airman's School," at Friedrichshafen, which, it is probable, will be opened in October. The course of study will cover three years and the pupils will be trained in the handling of dirigible airships. Protest Against Wheat Corner Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. — George Sward, one of the largest Pittsburg bakers, Tuesday sent a telegram to Secretary of State Knox appealing to the government to put an end to the wheat corner in Chicago and other stock speculation in food products. Run Over by a Switch Engine. Pittsburg, Kansas. — Antone Marchael, 19 years old, a freight house employee for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, was killed in Frontenac by a switch engine upon which he had been riding. E. H. Stannard Gets an Appointment F. H. Stannard Gets an Appointment. Topela, Kausas.—F. H. Stannard of Otawa has been named by Gov. Stubbs as a member of the state ontological commission. Mr. Stannard is a nurseman and a member of the legislature. LOYAL LEGION IN SESSION. Military Order Opens Quadrennial Convention in New York. New York, Apr. 14.—The eleventh quadrennial congress of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States opened here at ten o'clock his morning with a full attendance of delegates from the 21 commanderies of the order. Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, the commander-in-chief, presided. The Loyal Legion is made up of officers and ex-officers of the United States army and navy who served in the civil war, their sons and grandsons, and a few men who in civil life during that war were especially distinguished for their conspicuous loyalty to the national government. The membership of the order is in the neighborhood of 9,000. Victory for the Turbine Engines. New York, N. Y.—The scout cruiser squadron, consisting of the Chester, Salem and Birmingham, anchored Tuesday night off Tompkinsville, Station Island, the two former ships having completed a 24 hour full speed test in which the Chester came out the victor. The Birmingham was forced to drop out of the race because of a derangement of machinery. The accident was a blow to the adherents of the reciprocating style of engines, with which this vessel was fitted, while the fact that the Chester and Salem completed the race is looked upon as a signal victory for the advocates of turbines, which drive these cruisers. Fire Damage Rochester N. Y. Rochester, New York.—Swept along in the face of a 25 mile gale fire Tuesday destroyed several sections of the city and did damage estimated at $500,000. For a time it was thought that a great portion of the city would be swept, and aid was summoned from Buffalo and Syracuse. Tuesday night 100 families were homeless and militiamen guarded what little the people saved of their household effects. Killed While Playing "Wild West." Linton, Indina.—While playing "wild West" with five companions, Clifford Wolfford, 15 years old, was shot and killed by Loron Hamilton, 18 years old. Hamilton then tried to commit suicide, but was prevented by the other boys who took his rifle away from him. The boys had been taking the balls from cartridges. By mistake a loaded cartridge was placed in the rifle. Wheat Meetings in Kansas Wheat Meetings in Kansas. Manhattan, Kansas.—The campaign for better wheat and more of it in Kansas is to be helped along by general meetings of the 236 farm institutes of the state, Saturday afternoon, May 1. The call for these meetings has been issued by J. H. Miller, superintendent of this branch of the work of the agricultural college. Baseball Season Opens. Washington, D. C.—The American league season was opened Monday in a game between the Washington and New York clubs before what was said to be the largest crowd that has ever turned out in this city, there being about 15,000 paid admissions. The game was four to one in favor of Washington. Castro Expelled by France Castro Expended by France. Fort De France, Martinique—Cipriano Castro ex-President of Venezuela, was expelled from the island of Martinique by the French government. He protested to the last against his expulsion, but his protests were in vain. He is now on board the French steamship Versailles, bound for St. Mazaire. Argentine Will Celebrate Buenos Ayres.—Plans are maturing for the great exposition to be held in Buenos Ayers in May and June of 1910, on the occasion of the centennial celebration of the independence of the Argentine Republic. The rural society of Argentina will open on June 3 an international agricultural show. Carr Taylor's Place Filled Carr Taylor's Place Piled. Topeka, Kansas.—Governor Stubbs has appointed Richard R. Rice, superintendent of the city schools of Hutchinson, as a member of the state text book board. Mr. Price is named in place of Carr W. Taylor, also of Hutchinson, who refused to accept the appointment. Medal For San Francisco. Washington, D. C.—A medal in gold, the gift of the French government, commemorative of the restoration of San Francisco, from the fire and earthquake of three years ago is to be presented in person to the authorities of that city by Ambassador Jusserand between May 20 and 25. Cannot Direct Town Council. Lincoln, Nebraska.—The supreme court Tuesday handed down an opinion that a district court had no right to order a town council to reconvene to hear testimony in liquor cases. War on Mosquitos and Flies. New Orleans, Louisiana.—The entire South has notified the mosquito and the house fly that they are undesirable citizens. The health authorities are opening an early campaign against these disseminators of deadly diseases. A Buzz Saw Kills a Kansan. Alma, Kansas. — Clarence Wakefield, 23 years old, was caught and almost instantly killed by a buzz saw while sawing wood on the old Hull farm near Alta Vista. HUTCHINSON POLICE GET CAR OF "BOOZE" MEN SAID IT WAS CONSIGNED TO TWO LODGES. Now It Is All in County Court House Under Care of County Attorney Where It Will Remain. Hutchinson, Kan.—The police department confiscated one car and a half of beer, whiskey, wine and other liquors last night. A member of the City Transfer company, which was doing the unloading of the booze, said that part of it was to be used by two lodges in Hutchinson. Almost one car load of the beer was taken at the Rock Island railroad tracks in the local yards. A half car load of beer, whiskey and wine was found at the storage room of the City Transfer company on West First avenue. Part of it has been in storage for several weeks. Some of this liquor belong to Kansas City men. The raiding officers were George Hern, chief of police; C. B. Yost, assistant chief of police, and Patrolman John O'Farrell, Robert Cutshaw and Johnson. Word of the shipment first was brought to the attention of the officers last night. Chief Hern was notified of the fact that the transfer company was unloading beer at the storage rooms on First avenue. He and his men got busy and traced the night workers to where they were unloading beer at the Rock Island tracks. The transfer men had unloaded two wagon loads and were starting off with the third load when Chief Hern notified them to stop. RIOT IN MEXICAN TOWN. City of Mexico.—According to a dispatch received in this city yesterday, the rioting which occurred at V尔拉ena, the big coal mining camp in the state of Coahuila, last Saturday, was more serious than at first reported, thirty men being killed and many injured. The trouble was instigated by Father Ramon Valenzuela, the parish priest, it is asserted, who lies in a hospital hovering between life and death. Fourteen of the rioters have been summarily executed by the government troops and many imprisoned. Many Americans reside in Valardena, the camp being controlled by American capital. The mob avoided attacking Americans or destroying American property. The fighting occurred when the jefe politico of the town, an officer corresponding to a mayor, attempted to stop a religious procession headed by the village priest, the laws of Mexico forbidding such parades. A thousand parishioners followed the priest and when the orders of the town executive became known, the mob burned the house of the jefe. That official and his wife escaped by seeking protection in the American colony. The rioters then stormed a Chinese hotel, looting it of all liquors and foods and terrorizing the neighborhood during the night by their drunk enryo the police force, in an effort to restore order, fired on the mob, many of the members of which were well armed. The officers were forced to retreat, leaving six of their number dead in the main street. Later troops which had been telegraphed for arrived on a special train and a short but fierce fight between the troops and rioters ensued. There were thirty-two deaths and a number injured. Father Valenzuela was arrested. One of his followers succeeded in smuggling in a knife to his cell and the priest stabbed himself six times in a vain attempt to commit suicide. He is now in the prison hospital hovering between life and death. Quiet has been restored. Can't Find Crazy Snake. Kansas City, Mo.—"Ten thousand men could not find Crazy Snake in the region in which he is hiding," said Colonel Roy Hoffman, of the Oklahoma state militia, who arrived in Kansas City yesterday. He is in a wild, sparsely settled region thirty miles wide and one hundred miles long, extending to the Red river. It has been the successful hiding place of criminals for years. But it is only a question of time until we get him. William Tilighman, an old frontiersman and former marshal of Dodge City, is leading the chase." New Trial to Louis Glass. San Francisco.—The district court of appeals granted yesterday a new trial to Louis Glass, vice president of the Pacific States Telegraph and Telephone company. Glass was the first man convicted in the bribery graft cases and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. The new trial is granted upon the ground that certain instructions were given to the jury by the trial judge, and upon error in connection with the admission of certain evidence. Aeronautic Drills at Des Moines. Des Moines, Ia.—It was announced last night by Major March, of the military board, in session here, that an army balloon corps will be used during the maneuvers at Fort Des Moines, September 20 to 26. The aeronautic drills will be under the direction of Captain Ouray and the equipment will include a dirigible balloon of latest model. Attacks upon imaginary battleships will be made Characteristic Dishes of Cornwall That Are Fit to Serve by American Cooks. The Junket. Dictionary men are respectfully informed that the word junketing as signifying merrymaking arose from the custom of Cornish villagers to walk out in pleasure parties to farms, order junkets, bread and butter and tea and merrymake with all their might while the junkets were setting. To make a junket put a pint of new milk in a presentable dish and stand on the back of the stove until at blood heat. Sweeten slightly, add a few drops of any flavoring preferred or leave it without flavoring. Add a teaspoonful of rennet, obtainable of grocers and druggists. Stand away to cool and "set." It should be smooth like clabber without visible whey. Cream may be scattered over the surface, or sugar or nutmeg. The Pasty (peculiarly Cornish.)—It consists of a turnover pie, filled with raw beefsteak, onion and potato, chopped in bits not larger than a marble. Naturally onions and potatoes must be cut thin to bake well. Cornish pastry is made of fine chopped suet, flour and water, but Americans will prefer their own pastry. Cornish fishermen like to take pasties out for their suppers in the boats and indeed it would be difficult to think of any one article so well suited for picnics. SKIM MILK TO WASH LACE Nothing Better Can Be Found, and Its Cheapness Is Also a Recommendation. There is nothing so good to wash lace as plenty of skim milk. It can be had for small cost, so that the lace if much soiled can be put through several fresh supplies. Most persons make the mistake of rinsing out the milk. Instead do not use water at all and iron while still damp. This gives just enough stiffness, does away with the necessity of starch or gum arabic and prevents the limpness that follows if the lace is ironed dry without stiffening. The best way to dry lace that you do not wish to iron is to stretch it tight on a table covered with a clean white cloth, pull out the edges and pin into place with many plus. When dry it will look soft and almost like new. Apricot Sherbet. To make it, drain the liquor from a can of apricots and set aside. Press the fruit through a colander. Soak a tablespoonful gelatin for one-half hour in cold water then add a cupful of boiling water and stir until dissolved. Make a sipup by cooking together two cupfuls of sugar and one of water, strain the apricot juice, add to it the juice of two oranges or an orange and a lemon, and turn over the pulp. Then add the soaked gelatin and the sipup that should have been chilled. Put into the freezer and when partially frozen add the stiffly whipped whites of two eggs and finish the freezing. Dutch Applecake. Separate two eggs; add the yolks to a cupful and a half of milk, a tablespoonful of butter melted and half a teaspoonful of salt. Mix and add two cupfuls of flour that have been sifted with three level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, beat quickly, fold in the well-beaten whites of the eggs, and turn into a shallow greased baking tin. Cover the top with apples that have been pared, cored and quartered, putting the rounded sides up, and dust over with powdered sugar. Bake in a moderately quick oven for half an hour, or until the apples are tender. Serve with rich cream. Individual Meat Ries To use up cold roast beef or lamb, grind the meat up with a little onion, salt and pepper, to taste, and add a little gravy to make it moist. Butter as many cups as you will need, and half fill them with the meat mixture. Then fill the cups up with mashed potatoes, and sprinkle bits of butter on the top. Put in the oven and bake until heated through. I generally leave them in about 15 minutes. Serve tipped out on a platter, with the left over gravy poured over them, or if you have no gravy, use tomato sauce. Shred the Eggshells. Eggshells put into the coffee without crushing after the beverage is made don't clear it thoroughly. Wash the eggshell carefully before breaking the egg. In making the coffee shred the shell fine with the fingers and mix with the grounds before pouring on the water. The result is a clear, delicious looking cup with the use of even a small part of a shell. Cottage Cheese Pie. One cup of fresh cottage cheese mashed fine, two well-beaten eggs and enough rich milk or cream to make the whole of the consistency of thin batter, add a handful of currants and flavor with nutmeg or cinnamon. Pour over single crust as for custard pie and bake in a moderate oven. Flour Dumplings. Mix together one pint flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon salt. Stir in gradually one scant cup of milk to make soft dough. Drop by spoonful into kettle. Contents must be boiling. Cover closely and boil ten minutes without lifting cover. Serve. Makes Delicious Flavor. Makes Delicious Flavor. Some people like the unsweetened juice of a pineapple added to mayonnaise, especially when the mayonnaise is used on a fruit salad. THE AMERICAN HOME W-A.RADFORD EDITOR THE HOME OF THE FAMILY Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 144 Fifth Ave., Chicago, IL, and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. Gambrel or curb roofs are used a good deal in house construction nowadays. They were first built onto barns because of the extra mow room that the odd shaped roof afforded. It is a good style of roof and it deserves the popularity it has attained. Usually a sort of prejudice follows any invention that starts with a lowly origin, and for a long time gambrel roofs were associated with barns, for which reason builders of houses were slow to adopt them. But it is a sensible roof, it is right. The upper part of the roof receives less water than the lower part, because the water accumulates as it runs down. The upper part having less pitch, sheds the rain so far as necessary and the steeper action carries it off quickly, so it does not have time to soak in, which is a serious fault with some roofs. It is also a strong roof because it is braced from every direction. If a gambrel roof is properly designed it may be trussed and braced so thoroughly that lighter material and shorter lengths may be used. It may take a few more spikes and a little more labor driving them, but it makes a better job. One of the greatest advantages, however, is the extra room it gives. In a plan the size of this it requires careful calculation to get three good bed- 1 rooms and a bathroom on the second floor, but that is exactly what this plan offers. And the rooms are light, airy and well arranged. It is only in the last few years that houses as small as this were laid out with any idea of utilizing the space to the best advantage. A glance at the picture will easily give an idea of how the extra windows and space is provided without running into a great deal of extra expense. The size of the house is 24 feet in width by 25 feet in length, with the porches extra. The overlay of the second floor, which projects out over the porch, permits the third upper room. By referring to the plan it will be easi- PORCH PANTRY KITCHEN 11'6" X 8'0" SINK DINING ROOM 11'0" X 11'0" DOWNSTairs COAST CLUB RECEPT HALL 11'0" X 8'0" LIVING ROOM 11'0" X 12'0" GARDEN VESTGARDEN PORCH First Floor Plan ly seen that this is a great advantage in planning the upstairs. It is a puzzle often to get a stairway to fit in right on both the first and second floors. If you put the stair in front the upper landing comes in an awkward place to reach the bedrooms, but by placing the stair as shown in this plan, it leaves space for a splendid vestibule as an entrance to the front hall. On either side of this vestibule is a storage closet that may be used for coats or other purposes. The stairway is far enough back so the landing on the second floor comes almost in the middle of the house. This gives an opportunity to reach the different rooms with a very short hallway. Such features seem small when you undertake to describe them, but modern house comforts are made up of little things, and a great many comfortable little things when put together go to make up a modern house that is a great satisfaction for users to come. Although this hall is less than ten feet in length, and in the center of the house, it answers every purpose with- out any objectionable features. It is lighted from the stairway and it is heated from the same source, because the heat from the register in the hall follows naturally upstairs. The stairway to the cellar is convenient to the kitchen and there is also a doorway opening into the front hall which makes a passageway into the kitchen without passing through the other rooms. This feature is lacking in some large houses, but it is something that should not be overlooked. Every wom- DECK BED ROOM 14'0" X 8'0" CLOS HALL BED ROOM 9'6" X 9'6" DATH 9'6" X 5'6" CLOS BED ROOM 18'6" X 12'0" Roof Second Floor Plan an knows flow to appreciate an easy connection between the kitchen and the front door without going through the parlor. In the rear of the house we have a splendid pantry built in the projection which forms the back porch. There is 1 a great advantage in having a pantry arranged in this way. It is cooler than when built into the house, and you have a good, big window which makes it light, even on dark days. The old-fashioned inside dark pantries are a thing of the past. No architect who values his reputation will design a dark pantry in these days of architectural inventions. This pantry has a swinging door connecting it with the dining room. Swinging doors are a great convenience, but they are also a great nulsance until you get used to them. A good many women grumble about these double action doors, but they put up with them just the same, and the doors are becoming more common all the time. There is also a hanging door between the pantry and the kitchen which may be kept shut when occasion requires it, or left open to facilitate travel back and forth in the daily routine of serving the meals. These are other little things, but they all work in to make a comfortable dwelling. Out of Date. The manager looked the play over regrettely. "I hate to give this back to you," he said. "It's so well written, so hopeful, so appealing." The young dramatist nodded. "I must," the manager replied. "Some day this sort of thing will be in fashion again—at least I hope so." The young playwright frowned. "I wish you would tell me frankly just why you can't produce my work." The manager sighed. "My dear boy," he replied, "I can't produce it because it is so hopelessly clean and wholesome."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Slept While Legs Burnt. George Campbell of Sunnycale, Cal., is congratulating himself upon the fact that he is a cripple in both legs. The other night a fire broke out in the American hotel in Sunnyvale, which was discovered by the daughter of the proprietor. In her night dress and barefoot she ran a quarter of a mile to sound the alarm and probably saved Campbell's life. When the volunteer fire department arrived upon the scene they found that his wooden legs were burning, but he was sleeping blissfully unconscious of the fact. The blaze was practically confined to his room. Indications "How do you know that Mr. Bliggins plays poker and that his wife plays bridge?" "Because each is always trying to suggest methods by which the other can economize." You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE. $1.00, retail. Left Thousands of Veterans with Kidney Trouble. The experience of David W. Martin, a retired merchant of Bolivar, Mo., is just like thousands of others. Mr. Martin says: "I think I have had kidney disease ever since the war. During an engagement my horse fell on me, straining my back and injuring the sands of others. Mr. Martin says: "I think I have had kidney disease ever since the war. During an engagement my horse fell on me, straining my back and injuring the kidneys. I have been told I had a floating kidney. I had intense pain in the back, headaches and dizzy spells, and the action of the bladder very irregular. About three years ago I tried Doan's Kidney Pills and inside of a comparatively short time was entirely rid of kidney trouble." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ASKING SMALL FAVOR. "Papa, mamma says that if you're too lazy to do anything else, will you please sit near the clothes closet and blow the smoke in, so as to kill the moths!" NO NEED TO TAKE CHANCES There Is a Sure Way of Knowing Good Paint Material. There is really no need whatever for any property owner to take chances in the selection of his paint materials. It doesn't cost a cent to learn how to be on the safe side. Certainly every property owner has enough at stake to find this out. A complete painting guide, known as Houseowner's Painting Outfit No. 49, can be had free by writing National Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Building, New York. This company is the largest maker of pure white lead in the world. Its Dutch Boy Painter trademark is famous as a guarantee of purity and quality. The outfit includes a book of color schemes, for either interior or exterior painting, a book of specifications, and a simple little instrument, with directions for testing the purity of paint materials. Her Answer. An Atchison girl had a proposal of marriage Sunday night and asked a week to think it over. She went to all of her married sisters. One, who used to be a belle, had three children, did all her own work and hadn't been to the theater or out riding since she was married. Another, whose husband was a promising young man at the time she was married, was supporting him. A third didn't dare say her life was her own when her husband was around, and a fourth was divorced. After visiting them and hearing their woes, the heroine of this little tale went home, got pen, ink and paper and wrote an answer to the young man. You may think it was refusing him, but it wasn't. She said she could be ready in a month.—Atchison Globe. TOTAL LOSS OF HAIR Seemed Imminent—Scalp Was Very Scaly and Hair Came Out by Handa fuls—Scalp Now Clear and New Hair Grown by Cuticura. "About two years ago I was troubled with my head being scaly. Shortly after that I had an attack of typhoid fever and I was out of the hospital possibly two months when I first noticed the loss of hair, my scalp being still scaly. I started to use dandruff cures to no effect whatever. I had actually lost hope of saving any hair at all. I could brush it off my coat by the handful. I was afraid to comb it. But after using two cakes of Cuticura Soap and nearly a box of Cuticura Ointment, the change was surprising. My scalp is now clear and healthy as could be and my hair thicker than ever, whereas I had my mind up to be bald. W. F. Steeens, 5812 Broad St., Pittsburg, Penn, May 7 and 21, 1908." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. Took an Antidote. Percival came running to his grandma one day asking for a drink of water. "Quick, quick, grandma," he said, "give me a drink of water, quick!" After he got his drink he said: "The reason that I was in such a hurry, I thought I swallowed a worm while eating an apple and I wanted to drown it."—Delineator. In case of accident, cuts, wounds, burns, scalds, sprains, bruises, etc., nothing will so quickly take away all pain and soreness as Hammis Wizard Oil. Giving means self-enrichment as well as self-sacrifice.—Woolley. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in fammation, allays pain, cures wind colloid. Zoe a bottle. Stealing away from bad company is justifiable larceny. LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ MANY SMOKERS PREFER THEM TO 10¢ CIGARS 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, Hissett's Epilepsy and testimonials, sort by manual suitability, all who write to the Dr. May Laboratory, 548 Pearl Street, New York City. His Record. "Colonel," asked the beautiful girl, "did you ever ride a horse 90 miles in three days?" "No," replied the veteran of two wars, "but I once ran 20 miles in about 30 minutes, which I think was going some, considering the fact that the underbrush was thick and I was in so much of a hurry that I forgot to throw away a knapsack that weighed nearly 50 pounds." There is more Catarin in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and probed local remedies, but a failing cure was found. A famous pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catarin to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Catarin Cars, manufactured by F. J. Chester & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only Constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoon. "It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one drop of treatment and it fails to cure. Send for circulations and testimonials." Adult Catarin GHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The Scanegoat. "I wish our furnace were not so brave." "Brave! Who ever heard of a furnace being brave." 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Shoes can be stamped on bottom. Fast Color Eyelids Used Exclusively. W. I. L. DOLIIS A. 1627 Stark R. Rockton, Mass. Western Canada Western Canada MORE BIG CROPS IN 1908 ARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Another 60,000 settlers from the United States. New districts opened for settlement. 320 acres of land to each settler.—160 free 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Another 60,000 settlers from the United States. New districts opened for settlement. 320 acres offland to each settler.—160 free homestead and 160 at $3.00 per acre. "A vast rich country and a contented prosperous people." Extract from correspondence of a National Editor, whose visit to Western Canada, in August, 1908, was an inspiration. Many have paid the entire cost of their farms and had a balance of from $10.00 to $20.00 per acre as a result of one crop. Spring wheat, winter wheat, oats, barley, flax and peas are the principal crops, while the wild grasses bring to perfection the best cattle that have ever been sold on the Chicago market. Splendid climate, schools and churches in all localities. Railways touch most of the settled districts; and prices for produce are always good. Lands may also be purchased from railway and land companies. For pamphlets, maps and information regarding low railway rates, apply to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or the authorized Canadian Government Agent Hooper'sDon'tScratch sold and guaranteed by druggists to be a satisfactory treatment for Dandruff and all Scalp Troubles, Tetter, Eczema, Itch, Ringworm, Chapped, Sunburned Face and Hands, Pimples, Itching Piles, Sore, Sweaty, Blistered Feet, Cuts, and all Irritations of the Skin. Does not stain, grease or blister. Two Sizes, 50c and $ bottles. Trial Size 10c. 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By using SPONN'S LIQUID DISTEMPER Glove. Give on to the patient. Can be used in all forms of distemper. Best remedy ever known for maries in foat. One bottle mixture to cure one case. $oan'at' a bottle; $oan'at' a case; $oan'at' a case. Manufacturers. Cut shows how to pontificate. Our free home service. We want wanted. Largest selling home remedy in existence—twelve years. WOMEN'S CLUB DIRECTORY. A concise statement of the Clubs among the colored women of Wichita. THE BOOKER WASHINGTON CLUB WICHITA, KS. Hour of meeting 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Engaged in needle, charity and literary work. Special 1908 course in typewriting. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Thos. Glover, president; Miss Sallie Rawles, Sec. THE HOME COOKING CLUB, WICHITA, KAN. Engaged in the culinary art. Progressive ideas in fancy and home cooking. Meets 2nd and 4th Friday afternoons of each month. Mrs. Will H. Jones, President; Miss Jennie Wheeler, Secretary. THE W. T. VERNON CLUB, WICHITA. KAN. Hour of meeting 2:30 p. m. Engaged in needle, charity and literary work. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. B. Hockett, president, Mrs. S. Griggs, secretary. ALL THINGS ARE WELL. That ends well—so pay your subscription to the Searchlight and get good FOOK UMBRAGE AT ASPERSION. Citizens Resented Being Voted for as Town's "Meanest Man." Old Scrooge might be a philautthropic Carnegie alongside certain tight-wads in Mount Vernon, but William Friedberg has no license to determine publicly who are the men who would squeeze a dollar until the eagle yelled: "Help! I'm melting!" For conducting a voting contest to determine the meanest man in Mount Vernon Friedberg, who keeps a cigar store there, was fined five dollars by Judge Platt here. A warning went with the fine. Friedberg lives in Astoria, but does business in Mount Vernon. He placed in his window a placard: "Come in and vote for the meanest man in Mount Vernon!" This was followed by a list of names. Conspluous in the lot were the mayor and chief of police. Then came many solid and staid citizens. After every name was a number signifying the votes the owner of the name had received so far. Great was the wrath of the so-called "meanest men." Friedberg was ordered to take the sign out of the window, but he refused to do so. His indictment for libel followed. In court he pleaded guilty, but asserted he did not know he was violating any law. White Plains Cor. New York Sun. LEAD THE IDEAL SIMPLE LIFE Flims Devote Summer Months to Enjoyment and Pursuit of Health. In Finland everybody lives the simple life in summer time. They camp out on islands, in the forests and always somewhere near the water, for everybody swims and bathes. Almost all classes sleep and eat al fresco at this time of year, and the town councils of the towns in this progressive and altogether delightful little country provide public fireplaces and public bathing sheds in all places where the working classes go in search of fresh air. But the simple life is by no means dull with the frisky Finns. They combine it with a surprising amount of gayet. They eat, drink and are merry in their picturesque little log cabins outside the cities. When they are tired of bathing and splashing they dance, they sing, they watch fireworks and practice gymnastics, they all become like children and are the happiest, merriest, most good natured, most easily pleased and most healthy holiday makers in the world. We might take many leaves from the Finn's book.—Ladies' Pictorial. HIGH IN CIVILIZATION'S SCALE Jnknown Peoples of America Who Have Perished Utterly. Between the region occupied of old by the Aztecs and the realm far to the south over which the Incas ruled lies an immense stretch of territory, a thousand miles long and 800 wide, where the remains of unknown and wonderful civilizations are being discovered, says a writer in Van Norfen's Magazine. This region extends from the northern boundaries of Peru to the southern limits of Costa Rica. In one section alone along the coast of Ecuador six entirely unknown civilizations were recently brought to light by Prof. Marshall H. Saville, and a vast collection of relics has been brought to New York. This collection is to be the nucleus of a great American museum, which will represent the history of ancient peoples who attained an extraordinarily high degree of civilization, yet whose very existence has been hitherto lost in antiquity. The famed marble chairs of Rome at its zenith were not more symmetrical or beautifully carved than those of one of these unknown civilizations. No pottery of any other ancient race was more delicately patterned than that found in vast quantities, as numerous almost as pebbles, on the sites where these extinct peoples dwelt. Their cloth was of truly marvelous weave; in beauty of design, richness of color and fineness of texture no fabric of to-day surpasses it. Special Master E. V. McKeever Hled - THE WICHITA - SEARCHLIGHT PR $1.00 YEAR One of the Oldest and Best Negro Newspapers In the west ESTABLSHED IN 1898 Fresh. Reliable Race News Conservative in policy Firm in defense of our race Our policy of "The Higher Grade of News" has built for the Searchlight the reputation of being distinctly a "Family Newspaper". No slang, trashy or questionable items are found in the columns of the Searchlight. We make no "grand-stand plays" but maintain one even, sane, reliable and solid course in our work of "race up-lift" in dealing with those vital race issues. 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Good Work Guaranteed-First-Class Workmen Published Every Week We want active, wide-awake hustling men, women, boys and girls as Agents for the Searchlight in every city, town village and community. OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRASKA JU KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborian Home, R. F. D. No. S, Topeka, Kansas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kans. MRS SARAH FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St, Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M., 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kans. C. M. JONHSON, G. P. P., 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 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. NEBRASKA JURIS HTERS OF 24 Mrs. J ingt I, C. G. M. Thu ASKA JURISDICTION 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Wash- ington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) G. T. Kans. G. Q. M., Scott. Kans. I. P. P., Neb. DFORD, C. 52 Mrs. Ad. Kan., 68 Mrs. Li Kanss 77 Mrs. Sa Topeki tta, K 52 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 68 Mrs. Lilo Robinett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) ita, Kan., Fridays. TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses. Number. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. H. Tyler, 520 E 9th Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 5 Mrs Carrie Brown, 922 N. 10th, Atchison, Kan., 3-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mul- berry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. 2 Rev. Jo- feyville City, 3 J. G. B. Kan. 4 F. D. Ea- Neb. 5 Robt. M. N. To- 7 Dr. G. Wichi 8 A. J. Be- Kan. 10 Geo. I. Leave 7 Mrs. Alice Perry. 344 N. 5th, Sallina, 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, Topeka, Kansas. 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark, Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-8 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Hattie 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 Sat. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 24 Mrs. Angie Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Par- sons, Kan., 1-8 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawat- omie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 8 Sat. A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit a "bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are or full particulars and special offer at once. EED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. WEED on you receive and approve of your bicycle. TE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and if you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to to us at our exp use and you will not be on one cent. WEED on you receive and approve of your bicycle. ONE small profit after actual factory cost. You save $o by buying direct of us and the manufacturer's guardian. We sell a pair of tires from the manufacturer's catalogues and learn our unheard of factory offers to rider agents. FINISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and we sell a pair of tires from the manufacturer's catalogues and learn our unheard of factory offers to rider agents. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out our stock. We list mailed free, retailed roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and half the usual retail prices. PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 80 PIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY making money fast. Write for all particulars and special offer at once. We NO MONEY REQUESTS until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship bicycles to you at our express delivery and allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL dating which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our exp sale and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES at one small price above actual factory cost. You save $60 to $5 middelmen's profits by buying direct of us and the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone else. We do not sell bicycles from our unheard of factory prices and remarkable offers to rider agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We study our superb models at the wonderfully than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory costs. BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell your bicycles under your own name plate at double SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES, equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. $ 8 50 HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 4 80 SELF-HEALING TIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY The regular retail price of these tires is $3.50 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $4.80 (cash with order $4.55). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with MEUSE THORN RECORD MOUNTAIN THE CO. PHILADELPHIA SALOON SALOON SALOON a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and has no scrape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating that their tires have been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $5, so per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price of $10. eped same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on examined and found them strictly as represented. it (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you notice this advertisement we will the one returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are objectively reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a will find that they will ride easier, run faster, tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We ence this remarkable tire offer. pay any kind at any price until you send for a pair of tires when you want a bicycle you will give us your order, ence this remarkable tire offer. al today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You pay a not cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will send you a full price receipt and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, and have better traction. We will send you a full price receipt and know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. until you have examined and made sure of it 5 per cent (thereby making the ADER and enclose this advertisement to be returned at our office. We are perfectly reliable and these tires, you will find that the finer than any tire you have ever pleased that when you want a binder at order, hence this remarkable DES G hedgehog Puncture-Protected above; or write for our big binder and kinds of tires at about half the price we are postal codes. DO NOT pair of tires from anyone until you post a postal to learn everything. GLE COMPANY, TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses double o SECO usually have promptly at p 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av. South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan, 1-8 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm. Abilene, Kan. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Wed. (A) 91 Mrs. Lulu Rountree, 1125 N. 19th Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Ln- coln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 98 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. West- ern, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1178, Wein 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. 7 Dr. G. G. Brown, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kans., 1-3 Tues. 3 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 10 Geo. L. Craig, 906 Cherokee, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 19 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 16 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 M. 18th, Coffeyville, Kansas. 10 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Law- rence, Kan, 2-4 Thur. 22 B. C. Easter, Box 156, Oswego Kans, 2-4 Tues. 25 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 60 E. C. Sqires, 1813 Jefferson, Topeka, Kans., 1-3, Mon. 72 J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 1 Lillie Harden, 200 Fifth St., Leavenworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 210 W. Wail, Ft. Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) Directory TEMPLE8. Chief Mentors. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rubbing. This makes them easier to make- SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. 2 Lizzie Weaver. 1129 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walker, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Sat. Morn. 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Coffeyville, Kan., 2-1 Wed. (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 811 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Sat. (A) 11 Mery Brown, 325 Miss., Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 12 Ethel Penn, 718 "Q" St. Atchison, Ks., 2-4 Sat. (A) 13 Arle Stone, 823 Main, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Ks., 2-4 Wed., (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Saffna, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Flata, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Wills, 2103 Grand, Parsona Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark, Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tliggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsons, Kans., 1-3 Sat. 22 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kans- sas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Siermann, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thr. (A) 28 Louise VerJer, 818 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 36 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAddo, 1818 N. Madison, Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 812 Washington, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Sat. NOTICE TABORS. 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Owners of Property Have Right to Forbid Flight of Airships. A law framed thousands of years ago by the ancient Romans, and the only one bearing on the subject, may have to be amended or wholly nullified before airships go shooting about through space at their own sweet will. This important fact was brought out at a meeting of aeronauts in London. At present nobody has the right to fly across occupied land. The world is governed by the ancient Roman law, "Usque ad Coelum." It means that every landowner has a right to the air above his head as far up as he chooses to go, and can get an injunction to restrain anyone from flying through it. So far nobody has attempted to put the law in force. It would be most uncomfortable, not to say disastrous, for a farmer suddenly to emerge from his barn or smokehouse and pepper one's airship with buillets. The fact that the aeronaut from his lofty perch could not be expected to see the "No Trespass" sign might not prove a mitigating circumstance with the rural magistrate.