Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Rev.R.N. Countee Died in California A Noble Man Is At Rest ELEVENTH YEAR Rev. R.N. Died in A Noble Ma Thousands of people all over this broad land will be sorry and regret to learn of the death of Rev. R. N. Countee, who died in Pasadena, California at 1:45 a.m., Wednesday, April 21, 1909. For this past four years or so, Rev. Countee has been in very feeble health and at the time of The Late Rev. R. N. Countee Who Died in California this Week Pastor Emeritus Tabernacle Baptist Church, Wichita, Ks his death he was in California in the interest of his health. Rev, Countea was a most remarkable man—he was a scholar of much note. During his life time he had a useful career as a teachr, a minister of the gospel, an editor, an inventor and a man of business. In the early re-construction days in the southland Rev. Countee gave the advantage of his great intellect to the less fortunate of his race. He was well favorablp known in this city and where he organized and established the Tabernacle Baptist church of which he was pastor emeritus for life. He was a thorough race man and never missed an opportunity to speak an encouraging word for a struggling Negro enterprise. Truly a great man has fallen—his place can never be filled—the world is brighter and better by his having lived in it. Peace be unto his memory. J. H. ENG Lumber Successor to 318 west D OUR CHURCH STATISTICS The most recent statistics and repsrts relating to Afro-American churches, their number, membership and value of church property, gives the following by denominations: Baptist 12,566 churches, valuation $9,082,598, members 1,352,564; A. M. E. 2, 481 churches, valuation $6,463, 280, members 525,000; C. M. E. 1,759 churches, valuation $1,715 300, members 129,383; Presbyterian, 224 churches, valuation $193,826, members 31,500; Congregatini Methodist, 9 churches valuation $5,250, members 319; Roman Catholic, members 200, 000; Congregational 6,135 members; Episcopal 4,900 members. These figures give a grand total of 17,039 Negro churches, valued at $17,460,254, with a growing membership of 3,249, 666. Most of these denomination support schools and colleges and some maintain their own publishing house. The unreasonable critics of the Negro who try to prove that the Negro is growing "bad" so fast will find little consolation for his argument in these figures. Probably the oldest living Mason in the west is C. Summers a former Kansan now living at Foraker, Okla. He is now 91 years old and has been a Mason seventy years. The new Negro Masonic Temple, of St. Louis, Mo., was formally dedicated in that city last week. The dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev. A. A. Gilbert of St. James A. M. E. church The event was a grand affair. APRIL 24 1909 Eugene Caldwell, a jet black native African is the wonder of amusement to the people of Little Rock, Aik. where he now is. Caldweil is complete master of 21 languages all of which he can speak and write fluently and with eaee. He is said by whites blacks to be one of the best, if not the best linguist in the south regardless to color. He has visited many nations, provinces and continents and has been to 5,000 islands of the sea. His ancestors were born in Abysinia. Caldwell is 33 years age. He was born in Africa and reared in Germany. He has only been in the south a few months. Rev. Erank Wilton, C.G. M, will make his 1909 annual visit with the Temple, Tabernacle and Tent of Salina on Tuesday May 25th. SCOTTISH RITE RE-UNION Ill. J. W. Thompson, $ 3 3^{\circ} $ , Commander-in-Chief of Western Star Consistory No.18, has issued his proclamation for the semi-annual conclave of Masons of the thirty-second and thirty-third degree to be held in Wichita May 27.28-29-30 1909. This will be a most noticeable occasion and a large class of Master Masons are preparing to take the higher degrees. Ill. Allen P. Smith, $ 33^{\circ} $ of Topeka, Sovereign Grand Inspector General of Kansas, Scottish Rite and Ill. Wm. G. Curtis $ 33^{\circ} $ of Abeline, Imperial Deputy Potentate, of Kansas of Mystic Shriners will both be present during the session and aid in putting on the work. As this is the first re-union of the Scottish Rite and Shriners great interest is being manifested in masonic circles to make the event a great success. The conclave will be held under the auspices of Western Star Consistory, Hiram Lhdge of Perfection and Jonathan Chapter Rose Croix. Those desiring to take these higher degrees should send their application in at once. The session will close with a big banquet. Ben Tillman paid a visit to the White House this week and was received with open arms by President Taft. Everyone hopes that this will not mean that the country is to be made a victim of another epidemic of Tillmanism. SALINA MAY 25th YOUNG PEOPLE AND The young colored people are driving like mad over fine clothes and at any expense. At any expense? Well, at too much expense The fact has become so patent that it is now recognized as a trait—right in line with red rags and variegated beads. It is an aristocracy of good clothes, and the greater number is fighting their way to be decorated with the insignia of that nobility. The hat is lifted high to good clothes—higher to better clothes and so on so as if the whole of life were clothes. It teaches a fearful lesson, and especially to those who can ill afford it—the girls; and the boys for that matter, who should convert them into houses and lands, horses and hogs, plow and planes, and be substantial props and stays to their community, to their relatives. Many a young man has a horse on his back, a hog on his head, and, to tally, on his whole person, as represented in money, a house and lot, a garden spot, an orchard—an investment for life. The parent knows that her daughter will not be received 'in it' unless she comes up to Mrs.-Sc-and So's daughter. Here is where the competition starts which never ends, but increases with contributions from here and there, and sometimes from God knows where. So the thing has got a going, and the whole race is swept, caught up in the vortex, in the whirligig of finery which means poor houses, crazy asylums in the end, or, the God send, early death. But, if good clothes must rule, an insane passion that can only be appeased by throwing clothes at it—in its capacious maw—it does not say that we should also be clowns. Genteel clothes call for gentility else we mistreat them. These are the little things, some of them not only demonstrate traits, but contribute to racial inflammation through the inconsistencies. Shakespeare says "rich as thy purse can buy" not richer; affecting the manners of the fine without purse in keeping—it counts. -Ex. For Sale — I have two very choice residence lots which I can sell at a good figure Price right There is no man in business to day that has an easier time than an editor ot a newspaper. All he has to do is to forecast the weather, answer questions about every thing and everybody, be personally acquainted with every man, woman, child, cat and dog in the town, saw wood, beg for his subscription money, work night and day, be a social swell, abuse liquor, praise the gambler, join clubs, subscribe to charity, wear diamonds and good clothes, overlook scandals, appraise babies, minister to the afflicted, pet the old maids and widows, and tell them they are handsome, take cursing and abuse and not resent it, set type, solicit adds and subscriptions, mold opinion, tell a girl she is beautiful when she is uglier than home-made sin, sweep the office, be a ready stumps speaker, speak in class meetings, take up collection, praise the minister whether right or wrong, hold political meetings, organize liter ary societies, tell a fellow he is a big man when he is a runt, and stand in with everybody by agreeing with everybody's opinion. — Portland Advocate Edward Allen, of Chicago, has been appointed manager of the colored business for the North American Accident Insurance Co He is also considered the leading expert colored insurance man in the United States, having won several prizes. James R. Thompson, who recently opened a five and ten cent store in New York, is meeting with much success. It is a new business venture among Negroes JOE ST MEAT JOE STEWART MEAT MARKET F. T. CULP, PROPRIETOR For the best Meats, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Veens and Sealship, Oysters, also Fresh Horse Cattish, and Halibut for your Lunch. Heir Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed or Dill, Baked H Cooked Meats. 241 N. Main Street. 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. We Are The Men Get your Electrical Wiring Done now. Door Dells, Burglar Alarms A Specialty Bynum & Stradford Bell Phone 2467 and its progress will be watched with unusual interest by all classes in the upper section of the city where there are hundreds of similar stores among the foreign element. The key to succese has been well put by one who said, that "by persistency alone can we hope to over come all obstacles" The sad news reached Rev. J. H. Vanleu by telegram from Pasadena, California, that Rev. Robert Nelson Countee died in Pasadena, Wednesday morning. Dr. Countee organized the Tabernacle Baptist church, of Memphis, Tenn and built a fine edifice there; and after pastoring that people a number of years he came to Wichita and brought quite a number of his members with him and organized the Tabernacle Baptist church of this city. His health not being good here, he did noi pastor the church here rtgularly, but always took much interest in the welfare of the church. His family resides in K. C. At this writing they have not made funeral arrangements. The campaign is over and the so-called Negro Business (?) league is sleeeping peacefully. The Negroes of Wichita need a Business League that means business and not a political organization dominated over by two or three men for their own selfish interests, regardless to the welfare of our race and sailing under the false non de pume of "Business League." It is too thin gents—it won't work. The race asks for and demands a squarer deal. The Searchlight never fights a colored man who may be appointed to any job; but in giving out the places this year the Searchlight believes that the May or and Commissioners should "pass the jobs around" among the colored men. Try some good new men. Give them a chance. It won't hurt—but will do good. EWART MARKET PROPRIETOR Pork, Lamb, Veal, Chick- also Fresh Home Grown our Lunch. Heinz Pickles, or Dill, Baked Beans, and Prof. Sam T. Hood SURGEON CHIROPODIST Removes Corns, Bunions, In-grown Nails and all pedic troubles. Graduate American School Chropody of New York City. 343 North Main Street Wichita, Kansas PEPITA By GEN. CHARLES KING The "chief" and the staff were away, somewhere out along the line of blockhouses at the Santa Ana front, for matters military were looking squally as did Manila bay this January afternoon. Aguinaldo's brown-faced soldiers were obviously spoiling for a fight, and as obviously striving, by taunt, insult and defiance, to provoke the big Americanos to strike the first blow. On the ground floor of the breezy mansion two or three clerks were at work. Over the hardwood floor of the beautiful, spacious salon, Manuelito, "No. 1 house boy," was skating in soft woolen galoshes, while Victo and Jose, brethren of the craft, leaning their arms on the broad window sills and their brown chins on their snowy sleeves, stood on the bayside veranda supervising his efforts and looking, barring pompadour hair and preposterous grins, for all the world like a Tagalog replica of Raphael's cherubs. At the side of the servant's quarters, close to the iron fence atop of the seawall, Manuelito's tiny helpmate was giving their little brown brood their third bath for the day—three pigmy Tagalogals, duly baptized and registered in the Roman faith and the venerable church, a few squares up the Callo Real. A blithe, smiling little woman was Pepita, white of tooth, despite wholesale consumption of black-skinned cigars, and immensely proud of her trio of sturdy young Christians. Pepita would have worked her slim little hands to the bone to serve the bridegale commissary or the junior aide-de-camp, who were especially the friends of her little ones, and if Pepita had a ranking sorrow it was that she couldn't do the washing for the whole staff, and that Manuelito's first cousin, the wife of Hilario Bellarmino, with the only one "peek'ninnie," had been appointed laudress in ordinary to the general and most of the officers, and Hilario's wife was prettier than Pepta, was cordially hated by Pepta, and thereby hangs a tale. On this very January afternoon, while the Olympia was signaling to the Monadnock down the shoreline, and mounted orderlies were spurring at top speed along the Calle Real, Mrs. Hilario appeared at the iron gateway to the Casa Arellano, a huge basket of white clothing on her prettily poised head, a big-eyed little brown boy clinging to her left hand. In the general commotion no one saw her enter the building. Mrs. Hilarlo—whose own pet name was Pancha—peered into the general's room, then down the stairs, then tip-toed across the salon; scouted the dining-room, the quarters of the brigade commissary adjoining it, the highly ornamented apartment of the adjutant general over the porte cochere, the narrow corridors surrounding the main building. She found a box of duces in the commissary's room. This she deftly raided in the interest of her pigmy progeny. Busily as worked the slender hands of the little laundress, her eyes were everywhere about the room. As she deposited a stack of white trousers on the doctor's oaken chest she contrived to try the lid and found it securely locked. As she laid the doctor's snowy shirts upon the top of his trunk she deftly tugged at the same, and it opened. One instant's glance about her, another tiptoed reconnoissance of the veranda and dining-room, then back she came, and, kneeling, peered eagerly into the open tray. The brown hands stole within and came back laden with a purse of network laden with gleaning gold. The bunch of keys hung in the keyhole, and quickly, softly, she locked the trunk; slipped the keys in a skirt pocket, together with the purse; snatched up her, baby boy, and started for the door just as a sputter of pony hoofs sounded in front, and the voice of the bride-surgeon shouting for Victor. Pancha was trapped. Down from the roof came the dusky house-boys, Victor leaping in the lead. Not 20 minutes before, from the Second reserve hospital, had the doctor dispatched him with orders to get his khaki, uniform and await his coming. There lay the khaki on the bamboo couch as the doctor came springing up the stairs. Like rabbit into a burrow, Pancha dove down the spiral to the closet below. Noiselessly she dropped the keys into a dark corner, felt for the latch, let herself and baby out into the lower room, slipped her brown feet into the little wooden clogs, and went smilingly by the gate guards and up the street to the Singalong road. There she turned to the right, and for that day at least was no more seen. ten minutes later, clad in khaki and girt with his pistol and sword-belt, the brigade surgeon came clattering down the steps, swung into saddle at the doorway, clapped his hand to his thigh, and shouted: "Victor, my keys!" But Victor came not. "Run up and see what he is doing and tell him to fetch my keys at once," called the doctor to a member of the guard, but Victor had vanished. The guard so reported, and the surgeon bade the sergeant hunt him up without delay. As for him, he must needs gallop at once to the front—a row of some kind and arisen at Concordia bridge; the whole brigade was under arms. The guard searched and found no Victor—only little Pepita curiously examining a moist lump of nougat. There was no Victor to pull off the special Master Ei. V. McKeever lied report to this effect in the supreme doctor's boots when the doctor came galloping back at 8 p. m., but there was Pepita, big-eyed and trembling, and Pepita held forth a bunch of keys, pointing to the spiral stairway hole, and said—nothing. The surgeon hurriedly unlocked his trunk, threw off the shirts, threw open the lid, stirred things a bit, then tore into the general's room . "By George, sir, Gen. Hughes was right! I oughtn't to have kept a cent about the house. Victor has robbed me of $200!" Whereupon Pepita began to cry and say; "No Victor! No Victor!" until the doctor bade her be silent and clear out. The next seen of Victor was two days later, when the battle had begun in good earnest. He was lying, face upward, in the light-blue uniform of Aguinaldo's army, shot dead in front of Santa Ana, and there wasn't a cent in his pockets. Among the interesting papers, memoranda, etc., captured in the victorious rush of the big Americanos on Ricarte's headquarters was a guard detail of the previous evening, setting forth among other things that the sergeant on duty at Concordia bridge bore the name of Hilario Bellarmino. The brigade surgeon was very busy caring for the many wounded on both sides when this was shown him by an aide-de-camp. "Humph!" said he; "they're all in it, I doubt not." But the aide-de-camp went back to the bridge and examined the half dozen bodies stretched about the ruins of the bamboo guard house. There lay the officer of the guard in his broad striped blue trousers and braided coat. There lay a corporal and three or four private soldiers, but the sergeant had escaped, and so the men told his wife, who came, silent and searching about the spot, big-eyed little Hilario, too weary to walk, sitting astraddle at her hip. Then they compassionately let her pass on to Santa Ana to examine other groups of dead lying here and there over the still smoking field, and Corp. Cassidy of Hawthorne's battery saw her look down into the livid features and staring, sightless eyes of one young Tagalog victim, then deliberately spit into the helpless face. He grabbed the girl by the arm and shook her roughly, for a moral man was Cassidy, who wore over his gallant heart the mate to the Agnus Dei that, bathed in Victor's blood, protruded from the breast of the pale-blue uniform. Cassidy shook her to some purpose, it would seem, for after she had broken from his clutch and scurried away into the village, and an officer galloped up to arrest Corporal Cassidy for brutality to natives, both captain and corporal were amazed at the sight of American eagles gleaming red-yellow in the dust about Victor's body. "Here," said the captain, "is at least $60 of the money that black thief stole from the doctor!" and rode away to tell the general. And then came little Pepita, sobbing her heart out, to throw herself upon the lifeless, dishonored clay, and to lavish caresses on the sightless face. It was more than Cassidy could stand. He knew Pepita and the "peek'ninnes;" he knew their friend the aide-de-camp, and seeing him, notebook in hand, counting the insurgent dead but a little distance away, Cassidy ventured to interrupt. The fight about the village was long since done. The sound of the pursuit far up the river was dying away with the declining sum. Two or three jackies with the Olympia ribbon on their hats wandered about the field, when suddenly one of them was seized by the arm by a weeping, disheveled little native woman and dragged over to where Victor lay. Thither, too, hastened Cassidy with his captive, the aide-de-camp, and then came excited colloquy in the marvelous jargon already established—a species of trans-Pacific "chinook"—a lineal mixture of English, Irish, Spanish and Tagalog, to the end that Pepita's sailor boy presently delivered himself as follows: "Yes, sir; it's so, sir. I waded ashore from our boat with a letter for the general, an' as I went round to the front of the house everybody had run out to the gate an' there was a little woman come out of that back room. Yes, she had a red skirt on, as this girl says, and a little chap astraddle on her hip—" But here Pepita, with blazing eyes, burst impetuously into the case and nearly pulled the lieutenant off his pony in wild effort to drag him into the village. So they followed her, almost on a run, and, straight as a die, she led them to a new house, half Spanish, half native, at the rear of the big church, and right into a group of native women and children huddled together in the courtyard under the wing of a priest. And there, in her red skirt, was Pancha, whose face turned an awful color at sight of Pepita and her following. "Shall I shake her again, lieutenant?" said Cassidy, panting, as he grabbed the girl by the arm, heedless of the shrill postulations of Hilario, Jr. "No," said the aide. "We'll settle this through the medium of the church." Five minutes later, despite kicks, and screams, and vicious scratchings, Mrs. Hilario was in the hands of half a dozen of her sex, and Mrs. Hilario's red skirt in those of the good padre and several brutal Americanos. The sailor boy had identified Mrs. Hilario as the woman in the case, and the search for stolen property began forthwith. Some ignorantus of a man once wrote that a woman could never find the pocket in her skirt, but neither man nor woman could search Pancha's skirt without finding pocket after pocket. In some were cigars, in others silver, in one—a smaller one—a quantity of gold-eagles and half-eagles to the amount of $130. "Little woman," said the alde-de-camp, as he led Pepita away, "it is too late to save your brother's life, but you have saved his name." ICE 60 FEET HIGH 12 MILES LONG WILL USE TWO CARLOADS OF DYNAMITE. METHOD TO FREE NIAGARA JAM Residents Along River Bank Fear Rise in River May Break the Jam and Destroy Their Niagara Falls, N. Y.—Acting with the approval of the war department, dynamiters today will attempt to blow up the ice jam in the Niagara river. The jam is 60 feet high and 12 miles long. Residents along the bank from Queenston to Lake Ontario are panic stricken, fearing not so much a further rise in the river as the sudden breaking of the jam. The ice, which during the past few days has uprooted huge trees and carried away docks and boat houses, would, in a sudden rush, erase acres of territory along the upper banks of the river. Two carloads of dynamite will be rushed to the scene and the work will begin at dawn. Largest Ever Known. In the meantime the ice remains passive and threatening. The key to the jam apparently is the mass of ice lodged on the sand-bar at the mouth of the river. Pressed forward against this as well as latterly toward either bank is a mammoth field of ice varying in thickness from 30 to 70 feet and intermingled with it are great rocks, pieces of timber from shattered docks and the trunks of trees. Between Lewiston and Queenston the mass is a splendid bit of polar scenery in miniature. Interest at the Falls yesterday centered in the huge mounds of ice at the hem of the Bridal Veil Falls, where the body of a supposed suicide has been exposed. Attempts to recover the body were unsuccessful. Alleged Wife is Helen McDermott. Mercer, Pa.—Mrs. Boyle, the alleged wife of James H. Boyle, the abductor of Willie Whitla, is a mystery no longer. Last night it developed that she is Helen McDermott of Chicago. Previous reports to the effect that she was a member of a prominent and wealthy family are without foundation. Last night Attorney T C. Cochrane, representing the prosecution, admitted that Mrs. Boyle was Helen McDermott. It was said last night that it had been the intention of the prosecution to make public Mrs. Boyle's real identity before the beginning of the trial. Attorney Stranahan said last night that Mrs. Boyle's brother had visited her once. This was some time ago. At this time he had a lengthy talk with his sister and returned to Chicago to prepare means for her defense. Since that time funds have come from Chicago regularly for Mrs. Boyle. During the latter part of the week a deposit of $1,000 was made in Mrs. Boyle's favor here. Facts in regard to her alleged visits to Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver, East St. Louis, Cleveland, St. Joseph and Brooklyn are to be made public by the prosecuting counsel. Cruisers to Asia Minor. Washington.—Word has been received from Guantanamo that the two cruisers, the North Carolina and the Montana, which are to be sent to Asia Minor for the protection of American interests, are now being coaled and provisioned. They will get started on their journey as soon as possible. Bad Storm in Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio.—Six persons were killed, nine fatally hurt, at least fifty-sustained injuries, and property valued at more than $1,000,000, was destroyed in a tornado which swept through Cleveland and northern Ohio yesterday. The storm arose suddenly and lasted but five minutes. At 12:30 the sun was shining brightly. At 12:33 the city was shrouded in darkness. From the northeast of the lake came a gale blowing at the rate of 66 miles an hour. In its wake followed a sheet of rain and hail which fell with terrific force. In the blinding rain pedestrians were blown off their feet and hurled against buildings, in many cases to be struck down by flying bricks and timber which filled the air. Roofs were lifted off houses, walls hurled down, strongly braced smoke stacks picked up and chimneys demolished. In some instances roofs were carried for a distance of 300 feet and then set down. The loss was especially great to school property. Twelve school buildings were damaged. Cincinnati Youth Held for Ransom. Cincinnati.—Leo Mulhern, the 123 year-old son of Mrs. John Mulhern, 413 West Fifth street, is missing, following the receipt by his mother of two letters threatening to kidnap the boy. The police fear that the boy has been kidnapped. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Mulhern received a third letter saying that the boy had been kidnapped and that he would not be returned to his home until she deposited the money in the place designated in the former letters. GOOD FOR DESSERT SPECIAL DISHES WITH WHICH TO FINISH MEAL. Tara's Nectar May Be Something New for the Hostess to Serve—Best Recipe for the Making of Bread Pudding. Tara's Nectar.—One pint of unfermented juice of white grapes, diluted and slightly sweetened; juice of two oranges, half a cup of pale green malagas, seeded and halved; mix and chill. Serve in tall glasses with green sweetened; juice of two oranges, half a cup of pale green malagas, seeded and halved; mix and chill. Serve in tall glasses with green ribbon tied in dainty bows around the stems. Bread Pudding—Two cups bread crumbs, one and one-half cups granulated sugar, one-quarter cup butter, one-half cup sherry wine, one-half cup seeded raisins, one-half cup English currants, three pints sweet milk, three eggs beaten yolks and whites together; one-quarter teaspoon ground cinnamon, one-half teaspoon lemon extract, one-quarter teaspoon nutmeg, one-quarter teaspoon salt. Mix all the ingredients together and put in a buttered pudding dish and bake one-half hour in a moderate oven and serve hot. This does not need any sauce; it makes its own sauce. Whipped Cream Pudding.—To one pint whipped cream add two tablespoons sugar; beat until stiff. Dissolve one package gelatin with three-fourths cup boiling water. When cool add to whipped cream, to this add green grapes cut in half (or any fruit cut fine), and chopped walnuts. Mix all together well, and set aside for half hour to cool. This will be sufficient for six people. Delicious Apple Pudding.—Peel, core and cut in halves four or five apples and place them in bottom of baking dish. Then rub together a tablespoon of butter and two tablespoons of flour and wet this mixture with about three-quarters of a cup of cold water; then add one cup of sugar, cinnamon, and a little salt. Pour this over the apples and bake until tender. Serve with cream, and you have something good. Brown Pudding.—One-half cup molasses, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half cup suet chopped fine, one-half cup raisins, good half cup of flour, one-half teaspoon soda, a little salt, spices to suit taste. Steam two hours. Hard sauce: One-half cup sugar, one-quarter cup butter. Stir to a cream; yolk of one egg and white beaten to stiff froth added. Whipped Cream Sauce.—Beat the whites of two eggs until stiff and dry, add three-fourths of a cup of powdered sugar, using egg beater to mix, and beat thoroughly. Stir in the unbeaten yolks of the eggs, one teaspoon vanilla, and one-half pint cream which has been well whipped. Be sure to use the eggbeater to mix all ingredients. Clam Chowder. Cut one-half pound of fat salt pork into tiny dice, and fry crisp in a large pot. Remove the bits of pork with a skimmer and fry a large onion, sliced in fat left in the bottom of pot. Have ready 12 potatoes, peeled and sliced, and a quart of canned tomatoes and, as the onion browns turn these in upon it and add two quarts of water. Stir it together and season with a big pinch of cayenne and salt to suit taste. Tie up 12 whole allspice and 12 whole cloves in a small square cheese cloth and drop in pot. Cook slowly but steadily three and one-half hours, then add two quarts of long clams, chopped coarsely, and half a dozen pilot biscuits, broken in pieces and soaked in milk. Boil a half-hour longer, remove spice bag and pour chowder, smoking hot, into a soup tureen. Dressing for Grape Fruit Salad. If the grape fruit is used with white grapes, use a cream mayonnaise instead of a French dressing. A very nice sauce is made by taking the same quantities of white wine and sugar, mix well together and pour over fruit. Grape fruit on lettuce is very good served with the following boiled dressing. Beat up two eggs, add one cup vinegar, seasoning of salt, pepper and sugar and quarter cup butter. Cook in double boiler. Sifr, constantly till dressing has thickened. Cool and serve. To Wash Dough Pans When washing crocks or pans that cake or dough has been mixed in, they can be easily and speedily cleaned up by moistening all over inside and turned upside down in dishpan or on table for a few seconds to steam, when the sticky substance can be washed off, thus saving time and doing away with so much scraping and scouring. Peanut Candy. Two cups sugar, one-half cup water. Let it boil, then add one-quarter teaspoon cream tartar dissolved in a little cold water. Cook until it is brittle in water, then add butter the size of an English walnut. Cook a few minutes. Pour over the shelled nuts and spread in a buttered dish. Creamed Celery. Cut into pieces two inches long ten nice large stalks of celery. Cook in boiling water until tender. Drain off the water and pour over the celery a sauce made of two tablespoons of butter, one and a half tablespoons flour, and a pint of milk. Salt and pepper to taste. Let Me Tell You Something A woman who is sick and suffering, and won't at least try a medicine which has the record of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, is to blame for her own wretched condition. There are literally hundreds of thousands of women in the United States who have been benefited by this famous old remedy, which was produced from roots and herbs over thirty years ago by a woman to relieve woman's suffering. For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. No sick woman does justice to herself who will not try this famous medicine. Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit. If the slightest trouble appears which you do not understand, write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., for her advice—it is free and always helpful. Tortoise—What, have you started a motor car? Snail—Yes, one must move with the times, you know. Too Literal. "Well, yes," said Old Uncle Lazzenberry, who was intimately acquainted with most of the happenstances of the village. "Almira Stang has broken off her engagement with Charles Henry Tootwiler. They'd be goin' together for about eight years, durin' which time she had been inculcatin' into him, as you might call it, the beauties of economy; but when she discovered, just lately, that he had learnt his lesson so well that he had saved up 217 pairs of socks for her to darn immediately after the wedding, she 'peared to conclude that he had taken her advice a little too literally, and broke off the match."—Puck. Question of the Hour. "We are really at a loss to know how to punish Earle," she said. "We have tried all the punishment in our kindergarten list without effect. We have reasoned with him and told him that he will cease to be our pretty pet and will grow up to be a bad, bad man, and—" "Madam," interrupted the gentleman of the old school, who was visiting them, "you will find on the trunk in my room a very excellent strap that I shall not need temporarily." But, of course, he didn't know anything about modern methods. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. Cutting Humor With cap and bells jangling, he burst into the king's presence. "Have you heard my last joke, your majesty?" he cried. "I have," was the reply, as the royal ax descended on the neck of the court jester—Life. Unlikely. Whale—What are you going to tell your wife when you get home? Jonah—I don't know; I don't suppose she would believe me if I should tell her that I had been to a fish dinner.—The Bohemian. Let Me Tell Me Something A woman who is sick and suf try a medicine which has the reco Vegetable Compound, is to blam condition. There are literally hundreds of the United States who have been old remedy, which was produced thirty years ago by a woman to Read what these women say: Camden, N. J.—"It is with pleas nial for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta may induce other suffering women benefit of this valuable remedy. "I suffered from pains in my bad no appetite, was tired and nervous could hardly stand. Lydia E. Pink made me a well woman—and the always have my praise."—Mrs. W. Ave., Camden, N. J. Erie, Pa.—"I suffered for five year at last was almost helpless. I tried me no good. Mysister advised me Vegetable Compound, and it has m hope all suffering women will just Vegetable Compound a trial, for it—Mrs. J. P. Endlich, R. F. D. 7, Er Since we guarantee that all to PERUNA For Catarrch of the Throat of Two Years' Standing. "I was afflicted for two years with catarrch of the throat. At first it was very slight, but every cold I took made it worse. "I followed your directions and in a very short time I began to improve. I took one bottle and am now taking my second. I can safely say that my throat and head are cleared from catarrch at the present time, but I still continue to take my usual dose for a spring tonic, and I find there is nothing better."—Mrs. W. Pray, 260 Twelfth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. The Missionary Mule. "That mule," said the old farmer, "is what I call a 'missionary mule,' an I'll tell you why: It thrown one man on his head, an' when the man wuz able to be up an' about ag'in, he went to preachin'; an' the last time the sheriff come to levy on that mule the critter kicked him 'cross the county line, what they wuz holdin' a campmeetin' an' I'm blest of the sheriff didn't git religion an' quit runnin' fer office—wich wuz oncommon hard to do, seein' that the office habit run in his blood. I tell you, nuthin' in this here wirst' is to be despised, wen as humble a critter as a mule kn be a missionary!" Starch, like everything else, is being constantly improved, the patent Starches put on the market 25 years ago are very different and inferior to those of the present day. In the latest discovery-Defiance Starch—all injurious chemicals are omitted, while the addition of another ingredient, invented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never approached by other brands. One Thing She Was Sure Of. Grace-Really, mother, you seem cross this morning. Mother (sternly)—How often have I told you not to let that young man kiss you? Grace-I don't know, mother, but certainly not as often as he has kissed me. Skill to do comes of doing. knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power.—Emerson. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c. Many smokers prefer them to 10c cigars. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Ninety per cent. of the neuralgic headaches are attributed to eye defects. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. It doesn't take much to satisfy most people who are self-satisfied. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 20c bottle. He who is buried in thought dodges the undertaker. suffering, and won't at least record of Lydia E. Pinkham's blame for her own wretchedness of thousands of women in been benefited by this famous need from roots and herbs over to relieve woman's suffering. pleasure that I send my testimonium vegetable Compound, hoping it men to avail themselves of the back and side, sick headaches,ous all the time, and so weak Pinkham's Vegetable Compound this valuable medicine shall W. P. Valentine, 902 Lincoln years from female troubles, and buried three doctors but they did come to try Lydia E. Pinkham's as made me well and strong. I just give Lydia E. Pinkham's it is worth its weight in gold." Erie, Pa. I testimonials which we pub- to suppose that if Lydia E. ground had the virtue to help my other woman who is suffer- Sam's Vegetable bard remedy for does justice to nous medicine. and herbs, and credit. appears which he write to Mrs. her advice—it is LVEIA E PINKHAM WITH THE DERELICT DESTROYERS BY WALDON FAWCETT succor not only to imperiled navigators but also to vessels in distress from one cause or another. The need of such a vessel as the Seneca has been keenly felt for years, the more so because with the increase in the commerce of the world there has been a proportionate increase in the number of derelicts sighted each year—those nearly submerged hulks that float hither and thither on the high seas and constitute perhaps the most serious menace to modern navigation partment has, during recent years, devoted an increasing amount of attention to the destruction of derelicts and relief work of all kinds at sea. Indeed, during the winter season, the various revenue cutters that can be assigned to the work form a regular cruising fleet, the ships of which continually traverse the highways of oceanic commerce, prepared to offer aid as needed to vessels in distress. The regular revenue cutters have, on occasion, performed creditable work in the destruction of derelicts but they are none of them so well equipped, of course, for this unusual occupation as is the Seneca, and furthermore, the new "battleship of peace" has exceptional steaming radius—a most important consideration in derelict hunting—and will at all times carry sufficient coal, fresh water and other supplies to enable her to steam across the ocean if necessary. Comforts of a Snow House HE ocean disaster which resulted in the loss of the steamship Republic, and the prominent part played in the rescue work by the United States steamship Seneca has served to focus public attention for the first time upon a magnificent new government vessel—nephaps the most novel and interesting craft flying the stars and strings T 1 This newcomer, the Seneca by name, is officially designated a "derelict destroyer" and not only is she a novelty among American ocean-going craft, but is unique in the world, being the first and only vessel of the kind ever designed or constructed. The primary function of the Seneca is, of course, indicated by her title, "derelict destroyer," but the usefulness of the powerful vessel is by no means confined to the removal of derelicts, wrecks or other menaces to navigation, as was eloquently proven by the part she played in the relief of Republic. Indeed her role is to be that of a missionary of relief at sea—affording succor not only to imperiled navigator sets in distress from one cause or anot such a vessel as the Seneca has bee years, the more so because with the inerce of the world there has been a crease in the number of derelicts sig those nearly submerged hulks that thither on the high seas and constitute serious menace to modern navigation and one of the most difficult to avoid. The agitation of shipping interests etc., for some definite plan of campaign against the deadly derelicts began many years ago and as long as eight years ago a crusade had taken definite form to the extent of almost unanimous advocacy of a derelict destroyer, such as is the cruiser which has recently gone into commission. However, like many another innovation, the project took form slowly and it was not until the Fifty-ninth congress that the national legislature made an appropriation of $250,000 for the construction of the "gun cotton cruiser" which was recently completed at the great ship yard at Newport News, Va. It was美inently appropriate that this good angel of the high seas should be placed under the jurisdiction of the United States revenue cutterservice for this branch of the treasury de- partment has, during recent years, dev amount of attention to the destruction relief work of all kinds at sea. Indeed season, the various revenue cut assigned to the work form a regular ships of which continually traverse oceanic commerce, prepared to offer aids in distress. The regular revenue occasion, performed creditable work of derelicts but they are none of them of course, for this unusual occupation and furthermore, the new "battleship cephalical steaming radius—a most imitation in derelict hunting—and will at al cient coal, fresh water and other supp to steam across the ocean if necessary Comforts of The experience of those who tent in the arctic during the colder winter months is to be summarized about as follows: When the tent has been pitched the temperature within it is some 15 or 20 degrees higher than outside, or 30 degrees below if it is 50 below in the open; one is damp and warm from the strenuous exercise of the day, but soon becomes cold, and shivers; one crawls into his sleeping bag and makes entries in the diary clumsily with one's mittens on; the heat from one's body forms hoar frost on everything in the tent, and congeals in the sleeping bag, so that it becomes stiff and heavy with ice during the day's travel, when it freezes, and soaking wet when one gets into it at night and thaws it out; this in turn wets one's clothing, and the trousers and coat freeze stiff as sole leather when one breaks camp in the morning; the 24 hours are a round of wretchedness, and the ice-crusted tent and ice sleeping bags become a heavy load for the sled. When one follows Eskimo methods the conditions are markedly different. On any treeless open (unless it be perhaps during the first month of winter) an area of compactly drifted snow is easily found; the snow knives of bone and iron, according to circumstances, are brought out and the surface of the drift is divided into blocks of domino shape, say 14 by 30 inches and 4 inches thick; these are then placed on edge and end to end in a circle the size of the desired ground The Seneca which has lately undertaken her ingenious patrol of the Atlantic ocean is a spar-deck vessel, 204 feet in length over all, and 34 feet beam, schooner rigged with two pole masts without gaffs. It is of course very important that this ever-ready relief ship shall be readily recognized at great distances by imperiled mariners or other in- tated an increasing of derelicts and w, during the win- ners that can be cruising fleet, the the highways of as needed to ves- cutters have, on the destruction so well equipped, as is the Seneca, of peace" has ex- portant considera- tions time carry suffi- lies to enable her terested persons, a to render the ship. The hull has been n lower shear molding the upper works a smokestack yellow the top and red, w lower guy band. A ficient to arrest a yard, from each ar- cal shape about th At night the Se- in the form of tw foremast and whit 15-second flashes powerful wireless t A Snow House terested persons, and to that end effort has been to render the ship thoroughly distinctive in appearance. The hull has been painted a dark green, with a lower shear moldings light in color from stem to the upper works and boats are white; and the smokestack yellow, the latter having a black top and red, white and blue vertical stripes lower guy band. As if this unusual color were sufficient to arrest attention, the foremast carries yard, from each arm of which is displayed a blackical shape about three feet in diameter. At night the Seneca displays a distinguishable in the form of two occulting truck lights, red foremast and white on the mainmast, with simi-15-second flashes and 15-second intervals. I powerful wireless telegraph outfit enables comm THE NEW DERELICT DESTROYER SENECA an increasing rebelists and the win that can be fleet, the highways of needers have, on destruction well equipped, the Seneca, once it has exist considerations carry suffi- enable her terested persons, and to that end effort has been made to render the ship thoroughly distinctive in appearance. The hull has been painted a dark green, with upper and lower shear moldings light in color from stem to stern; the upper works and boats are white; and the spars and smokestack yellow, the latter having a black band at the top and red, white and blue vertical stripes to the lower guy band. As if this unusual color were not sufficient to arrest attention, the foremast carries a signal yard, from each arm of which is displayed a black spherical shape about three feet in diameter. At night the Seneca displays a distinguishing signal in the form of two occulting truck lights, red on the foremast and white on the mainmast, with simultaneous 15-second flashes and 15-second intervals. Finally, a powerful wireless telegraph outfit enables communication area of the dome-shaped hut; then, on the principles of architecture that apply to domes, whether made of store or snow, the bee-hive house is completed. Two men can in an hour build a house large enough for eight to sleep in. When the house is completed a doorway is cut in its side near the ground, skins are spread over the floor, one brushes himself as clear of snow as possible and crawls inside. The oil lamps are then lit, and the house is soon brought to a temperature considerably above the freezing point; for snow is one of the best-known nonconductors of heat, and the intense cold of the outside penetrates the walls only to a very slight degree. But when the house gets warm the inner side of the snow dome begins to thaw, and the water formed is sucked into the snow, blotter fashion; when this water penetrates far enough into the snow to meet the cold from the outside it freezes, and your snow house is turned into an ice dome so strong that a polar bear can crawl over it without danger of breaking through. When once inside the house the Eskimos strip naked to the waist and hang their clothes to dry on pegs in the wall. On some journeys we had sheet-iron stoves (procured from whalers in former years), which we installed in the snow houses, and in which we built roaring fires. One is well placed to take comfort in the ingenuity of man overcoming a harsh environment when, sitting snug, warm and lightly clad, one listens to an arctic blizzard whining --- and to that end effort has been made thoroughly distinctive in appearance. painted a dark green, with upper and lights light in color from stem to stern; and boats are white; and the spars and, the latter having a black band at white and blue vertical stripes to the. As if this unusual color were not suffention, the foremast carries a signal of which is displayed a black spherice feet in diameter. neca displays a distinguishing signal to occulting truck lights, red on the face on the mainmast, with simultaneous and 15-second intervals. Finally, a telegraph outfit enables communication helplessly over the ice vault that two hours before was an oval snow bank. I longed for a dressing gown and slippers, but one cannot burden his sled with such luxuries. There was no cold to make the hands numb in writing the diary, no frost to congeal on the bedclothing and make them wet, none of the night's discomforts and THE BABY, THE LITTLE BRO I. II. III. IV. V. VI. DECK OF THE DERELICT DESTROYER at all times with other ships and with shore stations. As tools of her trade the Seneca carries an equipment the like of which was never heretofore to be found on any one vessel. Foremost among these aids are a varied assortment of explosives in various forms, for use in blowing up derelicts. The capacious magazine in the hold of the Seneca can accommodate sufficient dynamite and gun cotton to blow up a whole fleet of ships, but it is intended, of course, to use this destructive energy only in the interest of humanity. For most of her derelict destroying operations the Seneca will make use of the standard United States navy mine and the appliances provided include all the necessary electric cables, etc., for exploding these mines. Complete as are the facilities of the Seneca for visiting the morrow's forebodings that have been the stock in trade of the makers of arctic books. And when we broke camp in the morning we did not burden the sled with an ice-stiffened 100-pound tent, but stuck in our belt the ten-ounce snow knife, our potential roof for the coming night.—Harper's Magazine. of its menace, once the rescuer Seneca has steamed alongside in response to an alarm sounded by wireless telegraph. This new friend in need to the world's shipping carries eight officers and a crew of 65 men. She is in command of Capt. William E. Reynolds, a veteran of the revenue cutter service and unquestionably one of the ablest and most conscientious officers who has ever worn Uncle Sam's uniform in any service. The Seneca has her permanent station at Tompkinsville, N. Y., and her cruising district will comprise all that portion of the North Atlantic ocean between Portland, Me., on the north and Charleston, S. C., on the south. Of course the vessel will go beyond these limits of occasion demands, but the Gulf stream carries practically all derelicts within this radius. Young Hunters Lose Sleep Now that the hunters are returning from the mountains many are the tales told of pranks played. One old hunter was telling his friends the other day of a prank he played on a young and energetic hunter from New York, a man who believed he knew all there was to be known of wild animals of the woods. Every day this ambitious young hunter would go on the hunt for deer alone and return with tales of the hoofprints and other signs he had seen of deer within a short distance of the camp. Every depression among the leaves on the ground, every leaf turned over and every twig snapped was a sure sign, to his mind, that deer had been on the ground, perhaps a whole herd of them. Early, very early, one morning the old hunter arose quietly and took with him the hoof of a deer that he carried with him for luck—a big buck's hoof and crept to the tent of the young hunter, where he made imprints on the soft ground all around it. Many times around it went the hoofprints, and then off into the woods. When the young hunter arose in the morning and saw the prints, clear and distinct, he said nothing, but decided that he would sit up that night and shoot the big buck and so get ahead of his companions: especially the old hunter, who thought he knew so much. He sat up at night and many other nights in the bitter cold while his companions slept peacefully and comfortably under good warm blankets. The old hunter, after six nights, was destruction upon menaces to navigation they are more than paralleled by her means of affording succor to disabled ship or sailor. There is a machine shop, manned by men experienced in quick repair work, and a hospital, thoroughly modern in equipment and in charge of a skilled surgeon. A powerful derrick and other similar appliances make the Seneca the equal of any wrecking tug now afloat. Diving apparatus renders possible under-water repairs to damaged vessels and as an alternative in case a damaged craft can not be put into shape to limp into port under her own steam the Seneca has a full complement of steel and manila hawers and towing machines Finally, to turn to yet another phase of the Seneca's versatility, it may be mentioned that this interesting new good Samaritan of the high seas is, in effect, a floating life-saving station. She has line-carrying guns, breeches buoys, life and surf boats and, in short, all the utensils of a modern life-saving corps, and her boat crews are trained to handle heavy-sea working boats under all conditions likely to be encountered in rescuing imperiled persons from stranded or foundering ships. Moreover, the Seneca will, at all times, carry an extra supply of provisions for suffering mariners and has surplus quarters where rescued persons may be accommodated until they can be landed at some convenient port. The Seneca is as powerful as she is staunch. This is essential, for the ship has been designed to be capable of steaming 5,000 miles without once stopping to replenish fuel or other supplies. Obviously she will find her greatest need for activity in stormy weather and she has been designed accordingly. Mention has already been made of the fact that her 1,800 horse power, triple expansion engines may, at any time, be called upon to put forth the extra force necessary to drag a ship as large or larger than the Seneca through long leagues of unruly seas, and energy must also be furnished to operate extra powerful wrecking and fire pumps. Incidentally, it may be noted that the crew of the Seneca is as thoroughly drilled in fire fighting as in life saving and a ship afire at sea will be robbed of much e, once the rescuer Seneca has inside in response to an alarm wireless telegraph. This new friend in old's shipping carries eight officers and a she is in command of Capt. William E. eran of the revenue cutter service and unite of the ablest and most conscientious ever worn Uncle Sam's uniform in any Seneca has her permanent station at N. Y., and her cruising district will comparison of the North Atlantic ocean be me., on the north and Charleston, S. C., of course the vessel will go beyond these on demands, but the Gulf stream carries relicts within this radius. ers Lose Sleep : merciful and told the young man that e it was all a joke. Sending a young hunter on a cold, windy night to a tree on the edge of a pond a mile or so off and telling him to sit there during the night, as on such a night the deer, and perhaps moose, were sure to appear is another favorite scheme. Of course he is told that the rest of his companions are to be in other trees a few rods distant, but he is to be sure not to call, and if he did they would refuse to answer him. Then his companions go back to camp and sleep well and long while he sits all night in a tree. First Use of War Balloon. At the battle of Fleuris, June 26, 1794, in the French revolutionary period, the balloon was for the first time used in the service of the army. The Austrians, stupefied, saw the captive alrship Entreprenant above their heads at a height of 300 meters. This apparition greatly angered the Austrian, Gen. Cobourg, who cried out: "Is there anything these scoundrels will not invent?" Left Blooming Alone. "If you only knew what to expect," sighed the hostess; "but you don't and can't. Last month I went out and bought flowers for my party. Then my friends all sent me flowers—roses, carnations, some orchids. This month I didn't buy myself flowers, expecting the same, and, my goodness! There wasn't a single blooming flower in the flat. Not a one of them sent even a bud." red at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mail).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mail)......75 Three Months (By Mail)......50 Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication ust be signed by one party or parties writing. 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Lawrence Wichita Trunk Factory 319 East Douglas Ave. A SPLENDID CHANCE Mayor Chas. L. Davidson and the four City Commissioners now have a splendid opportunity in the re-adjustment of the list of city employees under the new system to give the colored people of this city their fair proposition. We have full confidence in Mayor Davidson and believe he will do the right thing by the colored people and in his effort to do so we believe he will have the sup port of all the Commissioners. All that the Searchlight asks for the colored people of this city is that they be given a square deal and fair play and that in making their choice of colored men for positions that the Mayor and Commissioners select our most representative, capable and competent men for the places. We've no special names to suggest and speak generally for the whole of our race, leaving the personel to the judgment of the Mayor and Commissioners. There are ample numbers of colored men in this city who are competent, capable and who possess every qualification to fill any position in the gift of the city and it is such men whom we trust the Mayor and Commissioners will appoint. After a long dry spell a steady down pour of rain visited this city and vicinity Tuesday. THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to CGI Merthi Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Send your news in earlier. The Searchlight $1. per year Dr. E. Harrison, one of our prominent colored physicians has closed a real estate deal by which he purchases for his two sons, John and James Harrison, a 240 acre farm twelve miles of Wichita. The farm is well improved and 140 acres of the land is under cultivation. "From Punkin Ridge" J. W. Thompson, Capt. of the "Forty Odd Club" of the A. M. E. church will present with his club a Comedy in one act entitled "From Punkin Ridge." The follow- ing are the cast of characters Jonathan Shruggins Milton Perry, Mr Brown Dr. A. K. Lawrence Augustus Semloy Pink Stradford Harry Clifton J. W. Thompson First Police John D. Jones Second Police Alvon Foster Belinda J. H. 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. Mrs. I. J. Porter left Sunday for Chetopa where she was called on account of the serious illness of her brother-in-law. She will be absent several days. Rev. Jas. T. Smith, pastor of the A. M. E. church returned Saturday from a pleasant trip to Kansas City. During his trip he was a visitor at Western University at Quindaro. Thomas Glover returned Sunday from Quindaro where he attended the meeting of the trustee board of Western University. He reports the school doing good. Mrs. Robt. Davis came near losing her left eye last Friday by accidently running against a piece of plank which was protruding from her her house. She was lucky in sustaining only a flesh wound which is healing nicely. The W. T. Vernon club met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. M. C. Brown, 311 N. Mosly ave in a very interesting session. After their business was transacted the ladies devoted their attention to needle work. A fivecourse lunch was served. The club adjourned to meet next Thursday with Mrs. Frances Walker 1434 N. Mosley ave. Rev. J. H. Vun Leu left this week for his field of labor. For Sale—Some bargans in acre ground from 10 acres up. see me. W. N. Miller 634 N. Water Club No. 2 of the A. M. E. church will give a "Dumb Masked" social at the church Monday night, April 26th. The proceeds go to the building fund. Refreshments will be served and a general good time. Mrs. Amanda Dixson is Captain of this club and solicits for the club the patronage of all. Admission 10c. The Home Cooking Club met with Mrs. Sam Collins, April 9, with Mrs. Ed Miller as hostess The tables were beautifully decorated, a large punch bowl was in the center. Cards with blue ribbon attacued was at each plate. As each drew the ribbon a tiuy yellow chick came from the bowl as an Easter greeting. The ladies enjoyed this feature very much. The cooks were; Mrs. Ed Miller, dinner course, Mrs. Nellie Clark, salad, Mrs. W. H. Jones, deserts. Menu Chicken Crhquetts Peas Cream Gravy Mashed Potatoss Biscuits Pear Salad Dry Peach Ro. The club met April 20 with Mrs Stratford. Rev. Jas. T. Smith, pastor of the A. M. E. church delivered a splendid and interesting sermon Sunday night from the subject, "The Power of Thought". It was highly enjoyed by all. M. E. Price is very ill at his home, 1420 N. Mosley. New Hope Baptist church rais ed $60.00 at their rally Sunday On Wednesday, April 21st, Mr and Mrs. W. N. Miller had been married twelve lucky years. They are both spring chickens yet. Those who heard Dr. Copeland at the Tabernacle Baptist church Sunday say that he preached an excellent sermon. Theme "Humiliation as a means of Exaltation." Mrs. Lottie Bell and daughter of Enid, Okla. spent this week in the city visiting relatives and friends. Prayer meeting is being carried on at the Tabernacle Baptist church nightly in connection with Bible reading. The meeting in interest, dnd it is hoped that a great revival will be the result of these prayer meetings. Where does the "pull" come in at that a man, black or white can work for the city and get drunk whenever he pleases? This is a little question. We wait for an answer. The recent induction of the pastor into office and the grand reception given by the Tabernacle Baptist church and the good people of Wichita seems to have been the means of giving an impetus to the church. Miles Parker has been quite ill but is now on the mend. Satisfaction IN EVERY POUND OF "Wichita's Best"Four POENISCH BROS., Agents 622 N. 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Main St. Wichita, Kan We are informed that Wichita colored people are to be harrassed with a "blue-vein", exclusive society among some of our would-be, up-to-date "upper-ten" Negroes Now,what do you think of that? Who ever heard of a "blue-vein" Negro? Such rot. We are going to watch and see. Mrs. Jennie Turner is reported improving. Richard Pritchard of Medicine Lodge was in the city Wednesdy Who will be Wichita's next colored policemen? Can you tell Second to None PLEASES ALL Good Bread Makers It Is White As Snow—TRY IT The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Food are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. 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When the traveler visit Spain some of the very first of its inhabitants his eye will be attracted to at the frontier station will be a couple of members of the Civil guard. And throughout his wanderings in that infinitely delightful land he will ever be haunted by representatives of that force, which he will come to look upon as the chief guardians of life and property and liberty in this strange, half-Oriental country. From the very start the Spanish corps has had enormous difficulties to grapple with. The country was absolutely lawless when first the Civil guard came into being. They were handicapped by extremes of climate, by huge stretches of roadless and almost trackless country, by the ferocity, ignorance, almost savagery of many of the inhabitants. For a member of the Civil guard to fall in the supremely high standard of duty set before him is considered by his comrades and his rulers as almost impossible. Everything is expected from him. Everything with the rarest exceptions may be expected from him. And his government carries this to its logical conclusion by giving him an absolutely free hand, without which he could not possibly wield the influence essential to the carrying out of his duties. A couple of Civil guards—they are always in couples—often find themselves few amongst many, and then it is that there must be no wavering or hesitation if their enemies show fight. Some of their duties in the mining districts of Spain, and in those parts of the country infested by gypsies, are amongst the most onerous. Especially are they in danger when conducting prisoners across country. A friend of mine who many years ago, held a host in connection with a mine and desolate and mountainous part of Spain, told me how a couple of Civil guards mapped in the bud a very unpleasant state of affairs in the village close by. It seemed that a miner, exasperated by some reproof, had drawn his knife on his employer, who had luckily managed to evade him, but had retorted with all the energy a powerful Briton is able to put into a sudden act of self-defense when it merges into retribution. The other miners resented the thrashing their comrade had received. The man himself was handed over the authorities, and a couple of Civil guards were conduct him to the nearest town. The way led over the mountains by a wild and lonely track, and the night had to be spent at a rough inn. The kninkeeper, by an unlucky chance, was the brother of the prisoner, and when the little company arrived he at once realized the state of affairs and began to plot a rescue. Together with his son, he determined to try and contrive that the prisoner should slip out into the forest by a back door late in the evening, while the occupiers distracted the attention of whichever of the guards was taking the night watch. They professed the greatest hospitality to their uniformed guests, and of course pretended that the prisoner was a total stranger to them. Their plans were well laid, and with the quickness of their race were carried out with considerable smartness. Nor were the opponents only two to two. A hanger-on, none too well dis-posed to the guardians of law and or- It is now time to plant Peas, Beans, Salsify, Carrots, Parsnips, Radishes, Lettuce, Turnips and Irish Potatoes. Red River Valley of Minnesota Potatoes produce the most satisfactory crops. We are selling. "Acron Brand" Seed Corn at $1.75 per bushel shelled—sacks extra—this corn is well worth the price, because it was grown and handled especially for seed. Should be grown on every farm to increase the fertility of the soil. Also as a forage crop. At reasonable prices. It is rightly named and will prove satisfactory to you. Higginsville Hives and a complete line of supplies always in stock. and Inspect Our Stock. RS SEED HOUSE, WICHITA, KANSAS. der, was quite willing to use his knife in the cause of the family, and when the prisoner and his guard found themselves in the passage for a moment before settling down for the night, they were hustled apart, the door close by, within which was the other guard, was locked, and in the sudden darkness as the lamp, seemingly by accident, fell from its bracket, the prisoner slipped out into the open air. But almost at the same moment there was a report, and in an instant a second revolver shot rang out, while the ping of a rifle from the back of the inn proved that the other guard had used his brains as well as his weapon, and dropping through the window to the ground just outside had placed himself near the back door's time to get a good aim at the dark form that could just be seen gliding out of it. The next patrol over that mountain track found the inn tenanted by but two living people, and their comrades instructed them to send the necessary functionaries to remove and inter the bodies, while they remained, a vision of grim destiny, pointing the object lesson that in Spain he who interferes with the duties of the Civil gun must be ever ready to pay the . . . The circumstances of the formation of this splendid corps came about as follows: It seems that in 1833 the poet Martinez de la Rosa was robbed by brigands on a journey between Granada and Madrid. When, in later life, he became a minister under Queen Christina, he bore in mind the perils he had gone through as a wayfarer, and determined to try and make the highways safer in the future. Accordingly he organized a force of 5,000 guards, and equipped them in a uniform not unlike that of the Italian carabiner. They were trained to act both as soldiers and police, and when on foot carried a rifle and revolver; their equipment included also a large and beautifully made sword, and they were when mounted allotted magnificent horse. Their ranks are now recruited from the sons of those who have served with credit, or died by violence, in their country's service. They are educated free in the college of the Civil guards. Any soldier who has served for many years in the regular army, if he can read and write, is of unblemished character, and of the proper height and build, may volunteer into the Civil guard. When superannuated, he is pensioned or otherwise provided for. The members of "that very noble body of men' are under extremely strict regulations, and so great is their esprit de corps that any backsliding is of the utmost rarity. They are grave and serious in demeanor, but always courteous. "Honor must be the chief object, declares the written regulations of the organization, "and it must be preserved spotless and intact. Once lost, it can never be regained." "Bad language, bad manners, bad habits, and rude words, must never be indulged in by the Civil guards, who must, before speaking, ever consider the honored uniform they wear." MRS. AUBKEY LE BLOND Keep Busy. Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment—Hunt. 452 North Main St It is noticeable that the German papers have made no outcry over the fact that King Edward has personally written to Andrew Carnegle. There is a bank clerk in Elyria, O., who never has any difficulty in striking a balance. His father was a slack-rope walker, and his mother was a trick bicycle rider. Were the Mrs. Gilman brand of sociology to come into vogue there would soon be no society for sociology to operate upon and the exuders of guff would be among the unemployed. Miss Ross Becker has been appointed a claim agent and United States pension attorney at Missouri. She has been known for years as one of the most successful women in St. Louis, being a notary public and an insurance agent. Massachusetts has a law to prevent recklessness and speeding in automobiles, which law may be rendered ridiculous by its wrong punctuation, as it forbids driving over roads "laid out under the authority of the law recklessly or while under the influence of liquor." Boston, in consequence, is in rhetorical spasms. The secretary of the Colorado state bureau of child protection believes that a bad child gets its start from an ill-ordered home or from parents who possess evil traits of character, and wants a law passed making parents responsible for the misdolings of their minor children. But as bad traits of character are often inherited, what would the secretary do in case of an adopted child? In a fire panic in a New York cheap theater, a so-called exit was found to be a veritable trap, barring in the feeling crowd instead of letting them find a way to safety. One would naturally suppose that the holocaust in Chicago would have prevented this dangerous practice for all time; but the lessons of catastrophes are quickly lost, especially when they are followed by no retributory measures. There will naturally be much feminine sympathy for the New Jersey woman who has appeared in court to complain about her husband's cruel treatment, relates the Washington Star, and who says: "I am a graduate of a cooking school. I make biscuits, pies, cake and all sorts of dainties to please him, and he calls it all 'indigestion folder!'" The judge adivsed the woman to cook corned beef and cabbage occasionally, and she said she would. A Minneapolis woman is suing the Western Union Telegraph Company for damages because when she telegraphed to her brother that "Pat," her husband, was drinking, and "to come at once," the message was made to read "Pat is dying," and a horde of relatives, notified by her brother, came from far and near to attend the wake, and she had the expenses to pay. If Pat had had anything to say in the matter he would probably have permitted them to pay their own expenses. Said an anxious mother to the family doctor: "What shall I do with my daughter Mary? She is simply candy crazy and, of course, eating nothing substantial makes her pale, if not downright yellow." Said the wise physician to the anxious mother: "Put Mary into a sweet shop, and she'll soon abbor the stuff! It is heroic treatment, but it will cure her appetite for candy." Poor Mary! says the Indianapolis Star, how much pleasure she is going to lose for lack of a little self-denial. Now that a grocer In Belfast who has been doing business for more than 50 years has decided to close out his stock and retire, it will be interesting to know whether he still has in his store any goods that he bought when he first went into business The Argentine ant, newly arrived at Oakland, Cal., and well settled in Louisiana, near New Orleans, is said to be the least in size but the most pugnacious and destructive of the family. It is small business for a future great country like Argentina to send out such emigrants. It is no organ of monopolists but an agricultural paper which declares that the high price of meat is due, not to any trust, but to the demands of young married women, who, dreading the hackneyed jokes about the culinary attempts of novices, have taken to serving their husbands with steaks, "which anybody can cook." From the Grosi (Cal.) Offer we learn the interesting fact that "Ed Morell, who broke into the county jail in 1894, has gone to Millwood to recuperate, having been pardoned after serving 14 years in prison. Morell received a patent on a life saving suit, invented while in prison, on which he hopes to make a sum of money." Mr. Morell appears to be a peculiar and original sort of person. His future career will be watched with interest A Knowing Dog. "Now," said the narrator, "I've got a dog here I would not take $100 for. You can believe me or not, but what I am going to tell you is the gospel truth. In the early part of last spring I lost about a score of very valuable sheep, until one day as I was looking across from my house to the edge of the range opposite, about two miles away, I noticed some sheep. I got my telescope, and assured myself that they were mine. I placed the telescope in a suitable position, and made Bob, our best colle, look through it. After about a minute the dog wagged his tail and made off. In less than two hours he brought the sheep home safe and sound." AN OKLAHOMA LYNCHING FOUR MEN TAKEN FROM JAIL AT ADA, OK. AND HANGED. They Were Accused of Having Killed a Deputy Marshal—Coroner's Verdict. Ada, Oklahoma.—A mob organized in the rooms of the Commercial clut of the town went to the jail at 2 o'clock Monday and took out and lynched four prisoners who were held there on a charge of murder. Little attempt at concealment was made, few of the lynchers wearing masks. There were about 100 men among the lynchers. The victims of the lynchers were all widely known in this section. They were J. B. Miller, a cattle dealer who lived in Fort Worth, Tex.; B. B. Burrell, of Duncan, Ok., a ranchman; A. C. West, of Canadian, Tex., a ranch owner, and L. C. Allen, also a ranch owner of Canadian. The four men were suspected of the murder of A. L. Bobbitt, a deputy United States marshal and rich ranchman, near Ada last February. They were arrested in Fort Worth two weeks ago and brought here for trial. They were arraigned last week, but because of the intense feeling which had been created, the court forbade the publication of the evidence in the case, and no indictments were made public. The coroner's jury met Monday afternoon and returned the following verdict: "We find that Jim Miller, B. B. Burrell, Joe Allen and Jesse West met their death by being hung by a rope and that the death of each was caused by strangulation produced by the ropes placed about their necks by parties whose names are to the jury unknown." The jury makes no recommendation that the matter be investigated. The county attorney declared Monday that he will investigate but asserts that there is no evidence and that there probably will be no prosecutions. Some of the leading business men talked Monday afternoon of holding a mass meeting of protest, but this idea was finally given up. Fifteen Students Poisoned. Des Moines, Iowa. — Seven Des Moines college co-ends and seven male students Sunday night were in conulations and one of them may die following an attack of mysterious poisoning after dinner at the Kamaraderie and Altruaria clubs Sunday. Milk is the one article of diet taken in common by all the 15 sufferers but an examination of the fluid by State Chemist W. S. Frisbie and State Dairy Commissioner H. R. Wright failed to disclose ptomaines or other injuries bacteria. The Hains Trial Begins. Finishing, New York.—That the "unwritten law" will not figure in the trial of Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., U. S. A. for the murder of William E. Annis, at the Bayside Yacht club, last August, was the positive statement made Monday by John F. McIntyre, chief counsel for the defense, at the opening of the trial before Justice Garreson in the supreme court here Monday. Joan of Arc to be "Blessed." Rome, Italy—Joan of Arc, the heroine of France, is to be beatified in St. Peter's at Rome, and the interesting function will be witnessed by a large number of Roman Catholic dignitaries from France and other countries of Europe. The pope has approved the miracles attributed to the Maid of Orleans, and a papal decree permitting her to be called "blessed" will be read at' the beatification. Gov. Haskell Will Punish. Guthrie, Ok—Gov. Haskell in an authorized statement Monday night assures the people of Oklahoma that those who were implicated in the Ada lynching would be punished to the full extent of the law if identified. A complete official investigation is to be made of the affair. All the men hanged are said to be desperate characters with killing records in three states. Dickinson Off to Panama Washington, D. C.—Secretary of War Dickinson and his party who are to accompany him to Panama left here Sunday night by the Norfolk boat on their way to Charleston, S. C., where they will embark on the president's yacht Mayflower for the isthmus on Wednesday morning. The secretary expects to get back to Washington about the Middle of May. Smallnox in State Prison McAsterer, Oklahoma. -- Smallpox has appeared among the state convicts confined in the stockade at this place. The prison officials are trying to stamp out the disease. The stockade has imperfect equipment and the sanitation is bad. Police Captain Indicted Los Angeles, California.—An indictment was returned Tuesday against Capt. of Police Thomas H. broadhead by the special grand jury that has been investigating the "red light" scandal. Father of Waterways Dead. Peoria, Illinois. — Colonel Isaac Taylor, conceiver of the lake-to-the-gulf deep water way idea, died here Tuesday, at the age of 74 years, of an attack of heart disease, brought on by over-exertion. special Master E. V. McKeever filed report to this effect in the supreme CASTRO VENEZUELA HOELAND ENGLAND FRANCE DENMARK MILWAUKEE SENTINEL THE CUDAHAYS INDICTED THE CUDAHAYS INDICTED KANAS S CITY PACKERS ACCUSED BY FEDERAL GRAND JURY. It is Alleged the Government Has Been Defrauded Out of Large Amounts of Revenue. Topeka, Kan., Apr. 17.—The federal grond Jury which has been in session in Topeka for several days returned an indictment with 737 counts against Cudahy Packing company of Kansas City, Kan., Friday afternoon for violating the United State revenue laws. The specific charge is that the packing company defrauded the government out of a large amount of money by using quarter-cent revenue stamps on packages of oleomargarine when ten-cent stamps should have been used. The punishment for each offense is a fine of not more than $1,000 or two years in jail. As a corporation cannot be sent to jail the maximum punishment that can be imposed is a fine og $737,000. In addition there is a final count in the general indictment on which the government will demand about $100,000 due it for the misuse of the quarter-cent stamps instead of the ten-cent stamps. The revenue laws provide that every pound of oleomargarine manufactured without coloring matter, that is "white" small carry a quarter-cent revenue stamp, but that when the artificial butter is "yellowed" or artificially colored to resemble the real article, the stamp shall be for ten cents a pound. Kansas City Man Buys Road Chicago, Illinois.—The sale of the Chicago and Milwaukee electric railway to George Mindeman of Kansas City who is said to represent an extensive southern traction syndicate, may be accomplished within a few days as a result of negotiations now pending here and in Milwaukee. The value of the property is estimated at from $16,000,000 to $17,000,000. The Negroes Appealed. St. Louis, Missouri.—The validity of Oklahoma's "Jim Crow" railroad regulations is left to the United States court of appeals by a petition filed here Monday by negro residents of Oklahoma. They appealed from the United States circuit court of Oklahoma where the railroads demurrier was sustained. All Speed Records Broken. Los Angeles, Cal.—One haundred miles, including three stops, in 97 minutes, 59 3-5 seconds. This is the new world's record for speed—locomotive, motor car, trolley car or any other power propelled vehicle—established on the Coliseum track Sunday afternoon by Jake de Rosier, riding a seven-horsepower motorcycle. Iowa Threshers Meet. Des, Moines, Iowa.—Owners and operators of threshers from almost every town and hamlet in this state were present Tuesday when the Threshermen's association of Iowa opened its annual convention in Des Moines. The meeting is the largest ever held by the organization, the delegates numbering about 2,000. Gotch Won at Waterloo. Waterloo, Iowa—It took Champion Gotch 18 minutes 20 seconds to get the first fall Tuesday night at Waterloo when he met and defeated Dan McLeod in a wrestling match. The second fall came in five minutes 16 seconds. Will Legalize Sunday Ball Will Leganize Sunday Bail: St. Paul, Minnesota—The house bill legalizing Sunday base ball passed the senate Monday. It is thought that Gov. Johnson will sign it in which case the games of the St. Paul team scheduled for this city which have been transferred will be played here. The Loaves Get Smaller. Des Moines, Iowa—Des Moines oakers Monday cut the size of wheat bread leaves from 16 to 13 ounces. This move is due to the rise in the price of flour. TWO AMERICANS KILLED. They Were Missionaries Stationed at Adana, Turkey. Constantinople, Turkey.—Confirmation has been received here of the killing of two American missionaries at Adana. The murdered missionaries were Mr. Rogers and Mr. Maurer. The others connected with the missions are safe, including Mr. Charistie, who is at Tarsus. Three French warships are hurrying to Mersina, where the situation is desperate. Foreigners and many christians have taken refuge in the consulates. The local troops and the governor are doing their best to protect the town, but there is great fear that it cannot hold out much longer against the invasion of the Moslems who are sweeping down in large numbers. The American vice-consul at Mersina, John Debbas has been unable to proceed to Adana, owing to the interruption of communications. A British warship is proceeding to Alexandre, which is threatened by the Mosdems. Several Armenian farms in that neighborhood have been destroyed. Alarm is felt at Khorput because of serious depredations by the Kurds in the surrounding villages, although the town itself has not been the scene of any particular disorders. Not So Many Accidents. Washington, D. C. — There were 184 people killed an 2,924 injured in train accidents during the three months ending December 31 last, according to the Interstate Commerce commission report Monday. Other kinds of accidents including those to employees while at work, and to passengers in getting on or off cars, etc., bring the total number of casualties up to 17,644 (798 killed, and 16,846 injured). This shows a decrease of 2,814 in the total number as compared with a year ago. There were 1,373 collisions and 1,311 derailments causing $1,940,133 damage to cars and road way. Four Death in Des Moines. Des Moines, Iowa.—M. M. Flam, 50 years old, a well known traveling salesman for a St. Louis vinegar house and a resident of Corydon, Iowa committed suicide by shooting at his room in the Kirkwood hotel Sunday night. About the same time Axel F. Borg, 60 years old, a grocer on the East Side was found dead in his room. He had taken rat poison. James M. Sims, an engineer dropped dead Sunday night of heart failure while crossing the street and Daniel Sullivan, an Oskaloosa candy maker visiting here dropped dead Sunday, night in his room. Smuggled $1,000,000 Each Year New York, N. Y.—Further investigation of the systematic smuggling of Paris gowns into this port led the customs house officials Tuesday to declare that the syndicate has probably smuggled in $1,000,000 worth of goods each year for the last ten years thus defrauding the government out of $600,000 annually in customs duty. Dickinsons Sail for Colon Charleston, S. C. — Secretary of War Dickinson and Mrs. Dickinson went aboard the U. S. S. Mayflower here Tuesday and sailed for Colon, where the secretary goes to inspect the progress on the Isthmain canal. They will return in about four weeks. A Marathon Race in Honolulu Honolulu.—A Chinese long distance man took fifth place in a full distance marathon course which was run here Sunday. Nigel Jackson won the race, his time being three hours 48 minutes. Another Panama Junket. Washington, D. C.—Representative W. P. Borland of Kansas City will sail at once from New York for Panama with the congressional party that is to make the trip. Representative Anthony and Representative Campbell of Kansas will be in the party. Four-Cent Drop in Wheat. Chicago, Illinois.—A drop of 4 cents a bushel occurred in the wheat market Tuesday morning, following a break of 2 cents the day before. EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO. An Eruption of Colima Volcano Preceded the Shock. Mexico City, Mexico.—A severe eruption of the Colima volcano, followed by an earthquake shock has spread error and confusion among the inhabitants of nearby towns and villages, a number of whom deserted their homes and fled to points outside the affected zone. News of the convulsion reached here Tuesday. The eruption began at 5:10 Monday morning. It covered a wide area with ashes and lava and only subsided at nightfall. Just as confidence was being restored, the region was shaken by a violent earthquake and hundreds who had returned to a sense of their security once more were thrown into a panic. The quake was first felt at 8:40 in the evening and lasted eight seconds. The oscillatory movement was from east to west and was accompanied by oud subterranean rumblings and deformations. No loss of life has been reported. THE SULTAN JUST WAITING. Invading Soldiers Surround Turkish Capital—Officials Are Passive. Constantinople, Turkey.—Sultan Abdul Hamid is waiting in his palace for whatever may befall. He has not taken to flight, and his grand vizier, Jewfik Pasha has announced that, without fear, the sultan will remain with his family and accept resignedly the fate which has been prepared for him and his country. Tewfik Pasha and the minister of war, Edhem Pasha, who sent in their resignations to the sultan late Monday night, decided to withdraw them Tuesday and the grand vizier is spending most of the time with his majesty. Nazim Pasha still is in command of the garrison, but no preparations have been made to offer any resistance to the advance of the Saloniki troops. The Constitutionalists lines now envolve the city, but the commander in chief, General Husni Pasha, is still at Hademkol. Reward for the Man Who Staved. Syracuse, Kan.—Hamilton county's $23,000 issue of 20-year four per cent bridge bonds has been bought by Jesse W. Powell, a farmer and ranchman, at $700 premium. Mr. Powell came to Hamilton county in the early '70s as an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad laborer. He stayed and has kept on staying. He made his home on a fine farm in the Arkansas valley east of Syracuse. For some time his income was from his work as a section laborer on the railroad. After a time enough was gathered together to make an investment in cattle. Since then the raising of crops and stock and the buying of more land to raise more crops and stock has been a regular program with Mr. Powell. Col. Augur Dies in Manila. Manila, P. L.-Col. Jacob Augur, of the Tenth cavarly died very suddenly of apoplexy at Fort McKinley Sunday. He had called a meeting of the officers of the regiment at 10 o'clock in the morning and soon after they had begun to gather, he was stricken and died at 7 o'clock in the evening. According to private cablegrams received \in Manila Sunday it was the intention of President Taft to appoint Col. Augur a brigadier general in the near future. Iowa Hail and Wind Storm. Des Moines, Iowa.—A terrific hail and wind storm struck Des Moines and Central Iowa Sunday afternoon doing heavy damage to budding fruit trees. Polk county court house here was struck by lightning and slightly damaged. Plate glass windows in downtown stores were blown in and cellars were flooded. Tax Dodger a Suicide. Marysville, Kan.—Fearing that the county assessor would find that he had not listed all his property for taxation James Clarke, owner of three quarter sections of land in Marshall county, drowned himself in the Blue river near here Saturday night. The Netherlands Boat Launched. Amsterdam, — The ship "Halve Maan" which the Netherlands will present to the United States on the occasion of the Hudson-Fulton fetes, was launched Saturday. She will be completed and sent to New York in the early part of July. Harriman Needs A Rest. New York, N. Y. —A summer trip to Europe for a stay of indefinite length has been decided upon by E. H. Harriman. This will be his first visit abroad since he was operated upon for appendicitis several years ago and will give him opportunity for a rest. Price of Shingles Advanced. Vancouver, B. C.—British Columbia shingles advanced in price ten cents Tuesday. Scandal in Japan Also. Tokio, Japan.-The official scandal disclosed by the arrest of nine members of the lower house of the diet in connection with the alleged misconduct of the officers of the Japanese sugar company,. is steadily growing and more arrests among the legislators are expected. Russian Will Also Fly. St. Petersburg, Russia.—The Russian war office has ordered a dirigible balloon of the Republic type from Paris. Its cost will be $60,000. 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS CHILDREN Promote's Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral NOT NARCOTIC Recipe of Old Dr SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alx Senna - Rockell's Salts - Artichoke Seed Peppermint - Bi-Corbonate Soda - Worm Seed Coriandral Sugar Winkgreen Flavor Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles Pitcher. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DROPS - 35 CENTS Guaranteed under the Food and Exact Copy of Wrapper. POTATO MAKES PROUD BOAST. Humble Vegetable Used for Many Other Purposes Than Recognized Dinner Essential. Whenever you lick a postage stamp you partake of me, since all lickable gums are made from dextrine, one of my products. Your neck caresses me all day—for the starch that stiffens your collar is made from the potato. The bone buttons on your underwear are probably "vegetable ivory"—compressed potato pulp. My leaves, dried, make a good smoke. You have often smoked them "unbeknownst," mixed with your favorite brand. Potato spirit is a very pure alcohol. It is used to fortify white wines. Many a headache is not so much due to the grape as the potato. I yield a sweet syrup. In this form I am often present in cheap cocoa, honey, butter and lard. Let the corpulent try as they will, they cannot escape yours truly. When Courage Failed. "Duke," said the heiress, eagerly, "did you see father?" "Yes." "Well?" "We talked about the weather." "What? Lose your nerve again? Why don't you brace up and talk like a man—a subject of a king on whose domain the sun never sets!" "Can't," moaned the duke. "All the time I was in your father's office he kept grinning at a big painting." "What painting?" "The battle of Bunker Hill."—Liplincott's. Foolish Question. A New York chap wants to be told why theater tickets in that city do not indicate the hour of the beginning of the performance. Should think he would know. The hour is not mentioned because nobody is ever on time at the beginning of the performance. What would be the good of wasting printer's ink? "COFFEE DOESN'T HURT ME" Tales That Are Told. "I was one of the kind who wouldn't believe that coffee was hurting me," says a N. Y. woman. "You just couldn't convince me its use was connected with the heart and stomach trouble I suffered from most of the time. "My trouble finally got so bad I had to live on milk and toast almost entirely for three or four years. Still I loved the coffee and wouldn't believe it could do such damage. "What I needed was to quit coffee and take nourishment in such form as my stomach could digest. "I had read much about Postum, but never thought it would fit my case until one day I decided to quit coffee and give it a trial and make sure about it. So I got a package and carefully followed the directions. "Soon I began to get better and was able to eat carefully selected foods without the aid of pepsin or other digestants and it was not long before I was really a new woman physically. "Now I am healthy and sound, can eat anything and everything that comes along and I know this wonderful change is all due to my having quit coffee and got the nourishment I needed through this delicious Postum. "My wonder is why everyone don't give up the old coffee and the troubles that go with it and build themselves up as I have done, with Postum." Easy to prove by 10 days' trial of Postum in place of coffee. The reward is big. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Char. H. Hitchin. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA Uncle—How is it, young man, that you failed again in your examination? Nephew—Why, the wretches asked me the very same question I could not answer last year! AILING WOMEN. Keep the Kidneys Well and the Kidneys Will Keep You Well. Sick, suffering, languald women are learning the true cause of bad backs and how to cure them. Mrs. W. G. Davis, of Groesbeck, Texas, says: "Backaches hurt me so I could hardly stand. Spells of dizziness and sick headaches were frequent and the action of the kidneys was irregular. and how to cure them. Mrs, W. G. Davis, of Groesbeck, Texas, says: "Backaches hurt me so I could hardly stand. Spells of dizziness and sick headaches were frequent and the action of the kidneys was irregular. Soon after I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills I passed several gravel stones. I got well and the trouble has not returned. My back is good and strong, and my general health is better." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Grief That Kills. "My poor boy," said the beneficent old clergyman, who had encountered a young waif sobbing in the streets, "what ails you? Some case of dire distress has touched your heart-chords, no doubt." "No," sniffed the lad, "you're clear off your base, old kazzozicks. Me an' Snippy an' de rest of de fellies tincanted the mangy, old yellow cur up at Schwarz' grocery, and while old Schwarz an' de gang followed the dog, I sneaked back to the grocery to swipe dried apples. De Fido chased into Schmitt's orchard and de gang cribbed de swellest peaches you ever seen, an' then dy smoked grape-vine cigarettes and set the barn a-fire. I made a sashay into de apple barrel at de grocery, an' de delivery boy pasted me with a bed-sat and it hurts yet, and I didn't get to see de fire, and didn't get nothin' to eat, and I wisht i wuz dead—dog-gone it all!"—The Bohemian Magazine. It Jarred Him. Howell—How did you come to break your engagement with that girl? Powell—I had reason to think that she hadn't enough practical knowledge to make her a good helpmeet. Howell—What gave you, that idea? Powell—I told her one day that the hens weren't laying, and she said she supposed that would affect the price of egg coal. Offensive Advice. "Madam," said the medical man, gravely, "you must practice filling your lungs with deep breaths of pure air." "An' bust the smithereens out of my new directry gown," sniffed the lady. "I think I see myself." And turning on her high heels she haughtily left the apartment.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Usually They Are: "Professor, what is the meaning of the word 'monologue?'" "My dear sir, consider the derivation of it. 'Mono' is slang for 'money', and 'logos' means 'a word. Monologue, words for money.' WOMEN'S CLUB DIRE7CTORY. A concise statement of the Clubs among the colored women of Wichita. THE BOOKER WASHINGTON CLUB WICHITA, KS. Hour of meeting 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Engaged in needle) charity and literary work. Special 1908 course in typewriting. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Thos. Glover, president; Miss Sallie Rawles, Sec. 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 Jannie 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 TOOK UMBRAGE AT ASPERSION. Citizens Resented Being Voted for as Town's "Meanest Man." Old Scrooge might be a philanthropic 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. Consplucuous 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 Finns 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 schools 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 Finns' book—Ladies' Pictorial. WIGH 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 Norlen'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. Mckeeever met report to this effect in the supreme. .SUBSCRIBE FOR.. - 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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R. 717 "C" St. Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BEGSIE 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. 69 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Ablene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 68 Mrs. Lille Robinett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 684 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) ita, Kan., Fridays. Chief Mentors. 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1178, Weir 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 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 Frl. (A) 2 Rev. f C 3 J. C. E 4 F. N 5 Rob 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 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., 1-3 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 Wed. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 19 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Leav enworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Parsons, Kan.. 1-3 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawattomie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 3 Sat. A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit a new bicycle furnished by us. Our agreements there are for full particulars and special offer at once. DED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship E TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and if you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to buy you can furnish the biggest grade bicycles it is possible to make a small profit above actual factory cost. You save $20 by buying direct of us and the manufacturer's guard bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory offers to rider agents. NISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and we are satisfied with $10.00 profit above factory cost this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money. We are satisfied with $10.00 profit above factory cost our bicycles under your own name plate at day received. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out and we do not regularly handle mail mailed free. Weed roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and half the usual retail prices. PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 80 RES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY WANTED—ARIDO sample Latest Model "Range" bicycle made for full partici to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. without a NO MONEY REQUIRED, and you do not put it to any test you wish. If you are keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our e FACTORY PRICES We furnish the h to $25 middlemen's profits by buyi duate behind your bicycle. DO NOT at any price or remarkable special offers YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED wh low prices we can make you this year. We than any other factory. We are sati BICUCKLE MAILERS, you can sell double or order new SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our promptly at prices ranging from $10 to $80 or single wheel, imported roller COASTER-BRAKES, equipment of all kinds at half the una $8.50 HEDGETHORN • PUNCT SELF-HEALING TIRES The regular retail price of these tires is $8.50 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $8.30 with order $4.55. NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES mobility models have been fitted furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are trained to handle your bicycle. We will write to you and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U. S. without a cent deposit in advance, prexy freight, and hand it to you. We will accept any payment you 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 use and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES We furnish the high grade bicycle it is possible to make at $35 middelmena'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 at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory secrets. You will be astonished when you receive our beautiful catalogue and YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We sell the most wonderful low prices we can make this year. We sell the most beautiful grade bicycles than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double 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. MURCHE-HORN RECORD PUSKETTEE TRAIL LU PROP 10 WACO 20 SELF HEALING 10 A NO MORE THROUGH THE NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now use. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lightweight and easy riding. Very durable and insulated. Includes rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers who have purchased our products or twice in a whole year. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared rubber on top of the tire. The rubber is 10 per cent of the advertising purposes we are making a special factory price. pressed same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. one examined and found them strictly as represented. (it thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you close this advertisement, we will send them are returned at OUR expense if for any reason it is not exactly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a will find that you will ride easier, run faster, tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We tire you have ever used or seen at any price. Weence this remarkable tire offer. Any kind at any price until you send for a pair of corn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at write for our price and Sundry Catalogue which costs at about half the usual prices. All today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, IL 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 cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will send you a certificate of approval 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, wear better, last longer and that they you have seen at any price. We will send you a certificate of approval that when they bicycle you give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, this remarkable tire offer. the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined the card. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent thereby maintain SELL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this s nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at G not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable you order a pair of these tires, you will find wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you know that you will be well pleased that when you want We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this ren IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal day. DO offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn every IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all main features, but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful 333 TABERNACLES. Chief Precaptresses. 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1508 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. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Wed. (A) 98 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 908 N. West- ern, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 3 J. G. Burdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 4 F. D. Early, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 908 N. Western, N. Topea, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 7 Dr. G. G. Brown, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kans., 1-3 Tues. 8 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 10 Geo. L. Craig, 906 Cherokee, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 11 C. W. Giles, 617 N. Water St., Wichita, Kans., 1-3-4 Thurs. 12 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 15 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. Is', Salt Lake City, Utah. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J. Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 24 J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th, Cherry- vale, Kans., 1-3 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. 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, FW Scott, Kan, 2-4 Sat. (A) TEMPLES. TENTS. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strip "B" and "D." also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. "H" may be any other make—SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1123 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 924 Walken, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Sat. Morn. 5 Ada Gibart, 405 N. Santa Fe, Coffeyville, Kan., 2-1 Wed. (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 S. Wakut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Mary Brown, 325 Miss., Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 11 Ethel Penn, 713 "Q" St. Atchison, Ks., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arie Penn, 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, Sarina, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Willis, 2103 Grand, Parsona Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark, Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsona, Kans., 1-3 Sat. 29 Charlottal Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kans- sas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherman, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 23 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 26 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 27 Jannie McAdoo, 1318 N. Madison, Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 312 Washington, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Seat If your Tabernacle, Temple or Text is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once W. N. MILLER, Editor. WINCHESTER THE RED W BRAND LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS "LEADER" = "REPEATER" Loaded with Smokeless Powder "NBLACK" = "NEW RIVAL" Loaded with Black Powder Used by the Most successful shots SOLD EVERYWHERE WINCHESTER NO. 12 REPEATER 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & COPYRIGHTS Anyone sending a sketch or description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is patented or not. Applications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Manus & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the MAKES KNOTTY POINT IN LAW. 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 builts. 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.