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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. Negro Farmers Activity Among Blacks To Farm Successor to B.F. McLean 318 west Douglas Ave ELEVENTH YEAR Negro Big Increase in Activity Among The census of 1900 gives the total number of farms owned and operated in the United States by negroes as 746,715,25 per cent of which they own; the total of number acres of farm land tilled 38,233,950, and the value of the farm property including animals $499,934,734. The value of the farm products for 1899 was place at $255,751,145. If a farm land operated by negroes was placed acre to acre it would encircle the globe like a huge belt two miles wide. The farm acreage owned would make a strip of land five miles wide which would reach from New York to San Francisco or would constitute a country larger than Denmark, Belgium or Liberia, The value of one year's crop is equal to the capital invested in the publication of 21,394 daily weekly and monthly newspapers and periodicals in the United Sts (1905 report). It would pay for duplicating the land, building & machinery equipment of every brick and tile yard or flour and grist mill in the United States (1909 report) and is equal to the gross earnings of the great street and electric railway system of the country. To have the crops and animals reported for one year would have required approximately 281,293 freight cars,thirty tons capacity (21 per cent of the total number of revenue cars for the year 1900) and the total length of undroken line of cars would have been about 1865 miles MISSOURI LAND OPEN FOR HOMESTEADERS Springfield Mo, April 29.— According to statements issued by the Land Office at Washington, based on reports forwarded J. H. ENC Lumber Successor to 318 West D by the Land Office in Springfield which is now the only Federal land office in the state, there 57, 480 acres of public land in Missouri still open to settlement an acquisition under the law of the United States. These lands are scattered throu. the counties of South Missouri but much of it is of little value save for grazing purposes and goat ranches. The largest amount of land open to entry is in Iron county. There's 3080 acres in that county owned by Uucle Sam The amount of land in other South Missouri countries still open to homestead entry is large. Colored Jurors There has been much talk among the colored citizens of Sedgwick county criticising the fact that out of the large colored population of colored people who pay taxes in this county, the name of no colored man has yet been drawn as a juror in the District Court for several years past Their citicism is a just one and they have reasons for complaint Most of those whom we have heard lay the blame on the Judge of the District court. In doing this they blame the wrong man as the Judge of the Distric courts of Kansas have nothing whatever to do with either the annual selection of the jurors from the tax roll or in drawing the names of the jurors to serve at the different terms of the Distric Court The Judge of the District Courts of Kansas have nothing to do the jurors until they are summoned by the sheriff to serve in his court. There is undoubtedly something extremely strange that the name MAY 1 1909. of no colored man has been drawn in recent years. This is due to one of two conditions—First the Mayor has either neglected to place the name of colored men in the jury box or second they have failed to be drawn by the county clerk—both of which would seem strange. For the benefit of our readers we publish the law on these points so all may readily see where the blame—if any lies, Chapter 94 paragraphs 1-2-8-9, General statutes of Kans reads: "The trusees of each organized township and the Mayor of any city not included in the corporation limits of any township shall at his office during the month of April of each year make a list of persons to serve as jurors for the ensueing year as herein after provided. They shall select from those on the assessment roll of the preceding year suitable persons having the qualifications of electors and in making such selection they shall choose only of those who are not exempt from serving as jurors, and who are possessd of a fair character and approved integrity, and in possession of their natural faculties and not infirm or decrepit and who are well informed, and free from legal exceptions—xxxx "At least thirty days before any term of the court at which a petit jury shall be required by law or a grand jury ordered by the court, the clerk of the county where such court is to be held shall draw from the jury box the names of fifteen persons to serve as grand jurors and the names of twelve persons to serve as pet it jurors" It is readily seem by the fore going law that the Judge of the District court cannot be blamed for who is selected as jurors in his cours. There is unquestionably names of colored men on the assessment roll and there seems to our mind no real good reason why they are skipped for so long a time. This is an apparent over-sight or discrimination which should be rectified. Prof. Sam T. Hood SURGEON CHIROPODIST Removes Corns, Bunions, In- grown Nails and all pedic troubles. Graduate American School Chropody of New York City. 243 North Main Street 343 North Main Street Get your Electrical Wiring Done now. Door Dells, Burglar Alarms A Specialty We Are The Men Massachusetts Holds Record For Largest Number of Surplus Massachusetts has long held the record of possessing the greatest proportion surplus of women of any state in the union. There are said to be no less than 100, 000 spinstels and widows in the Bay State who must look out for themselves, and there has been much discussion of schemes for their benefit and relief. Recently prominent business and professional women of Boston have organized for the purpose of getting the state to aid in purchasing small tracks of land on which lone women can engage in agricultural pursuits. The Women's Massachusetts Homestead Association intends to have its beneficiaries cultivate small plots and raise flowers herbs musk rooms strawberries, vegetable squabs chickens, bees and pigs. Cheap comfortable homes will be built on these plots and necessary implements also will be supplied. A wealthy New York woman stand ready to contribute $300,000 to the project, and a Rooklyn (Mas) philanthropist has offered to lend his big farm for experiment along this line.-Leslie's Weekly. Saint Marie Tab, No. 10, met Wednesday April 14, in their regular meeting. Quite a number of Daughters were present and the following officers were elected. The C R got a petition for Dtr. Ida Wallace and she was re elected as H P for the 4th year. Dtrs. Ida Wallace H. P. Carrie Davis V. P. Edith M. Brown C. R. Alice Monroe C Treas. Ollie Gibson Abasine Pollie Hill Lybenus and we are glad to say we have been able to re-elect our same H. P. and we also feel that she has a good set of officers will stand firm with her in every thing thats right. St. Marie Tab. is moving along fine we have two sick Dtrs but they are able to be up. And Viola Tent No 11 is all doing nicely and also have a little Maid sick and are able to be up again. Buerdean Gipson and Dtr Edith M. Brown has been re elected as Queen Mother also Dt Pollie Hill V. Q. Mother and Sir William Hughes Father of Viola Tent No 11 are out for another years work to do all the good they can for the building of the order. Remember the Musical of Mt. Olive Court No 9 at the Young's Hall May 6th. Lawrence Kansas These three valuable Cough Syrups are manufactured only by myself. Each one is a gcm in itself. A trial of either will convince you of their merit or your money will be cheerfully refunded They are put up in 25c and 50c bottles JOE STEWART MEAT MARKET For the best Meats, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Veal, Chickens and Sealship, Oysters, also Fresh Home Grown Cattish, and Halibut for your Lunch. Heinz Pickles, Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed or Dill, Baked Beans, and Cooked Meats. N. TOPEKA NEWS Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93 is progressing fine. And is in a healthful condition. Peace and harmony prevail among all the Daughters. The Twelve Star Club met at Mrs R. Ida M. Jordon's 903 W. Ave. April 15, club was called to order by the president, Mrs. Ida M. Jordan Visitors Rev. W. H. Housely Mrs Ella Brown Mrs Kiza Bell Mrs L. Lyman. After the routine of business a dainty repass was served. And they all adjourned to meet with Mrs Jordon again April 30, and all are pleased when it comes time to meet with Mrs Jordan president for she makes it pleasant for every one in her home. Will elect officers on the next meeting. Excelior Club met at Mrs L. C Lyman last Friday evening visitors Mrs Ida M. Jordon Mrs Susie Robinson Mrs Ella Brown and Mrs Laura Bradford. Mt. Hope Tabernacle No. 3 held their annual election of officers Friday afternoon April 16. The following officers were elected. Dtr Salia Tillman H. P, Dtr. Daisy Horton V. P. Ellen Roach C. R. Grace Madison Asist. R. Fannie Baker C. T. Mary Parks C. P. Alice Bluett I. S. and Dtr. Luella Mickleberry O S. Bynum and Stradford two of our enterprising young colored men have been granted permission to open an employment agency at 601 N. Main St. Mrs Austin, mother of Mrs Lizzie Madison is very ill at the home of her daughter 1651 Sherwood. "White Pine Syrup White Syrup Tar and These three valuable Co ufactured only by myself itself. A trial of either w merit or your money will They are put up in Oscar R. PRESCRIPTION 811 N. Man. JOE ST MEAT M F. T. CULP, I For the best Meats, Beef, ens and Sealship, Oysters, Cattish, and Halibut for y Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed Cooked Meats. 241 N. Main Street. FRIENDLY CONTEST IS ON The friendly contest between the Captains and members of the various Clubs of the A. M. E. church to see who will raise the largest amount of money for the building fund is getting quite interesting. While the Literary Society is not a club, yet they have entered the contest and it looks as though they are going make sand hot around the feet of all the Clubs. Its going to take the official count at the rally to tell just who's who and what's what. Queen O' "May! This beautiful cantata will be presented at the A. M. E. church Monday Eve. May 3rd by the young people with sweet music and dialogue and all the bright features that usher in this lovely spring month. Come! See! Hear!! Characters: Qneen Grace Hathman 1st Maid of honor Verna Hall 2nd Leah Wilson, 3rd Anna Green 4th Clementine Wilson Florence Myrtle Flemings Frederick Milton Perry Flower Girl Bertha Bynum Vivian Glover Edith Garrett Hazel Green Flossie Neely 10 - HYMN POST CARDS- 10c Something new, A beautiful reminder for your friends. Set of ten different subjects; beautifully illustrated "Rock of Ages" "Lead Kindly Light," "Just as I am," "Nearer my God to Thee," etc. etc. 3 sets for 25c Lawrence Co. Dept. 205, Chicago Ill. P. S. If you order 3 sets for 25c at once we will send you absolutely FRFE a beautiful Post Card entitled "Auld Lang Syne." The ladies of the M. E. church will give a festival Saturday night May 1st. For the benefit of said church on 636 N. Water St. G. T. Wooten Pastor. Expectorant" Pine with Tar" and wild Cherry' ough Syrups are manu- f. Ea ch one is a gum in will convince you of their I be cheerfully refunded 25c and 50c bottles Bissantz IN DRUGGIST EWART MARKET PROPRIETOR Pork, Lamb, Veal, Chick- also Fresh Home Grown our Lunch. Heinz Pickles, or Dill, Baked Beans, and Wichita, Kansas SEEN and HEARD NEW YORK Hetty Green at Outs with Her Bank NEW YORK—Financial men in Wall street are looking on in amused wonder at the continued strained relations between Mrs. Hetty Green and the Chemical National bank, an institution that she has used without let or stint for over a quarter of a century. Speculation as to the final outcome rather favors the bank. Just at present Mrs. Green is having a period of forgetfulness as to the existence of the Chemical National bank, 270 Broadway, where she formerly maintained a safety deposit box, and from which institution she transacted her loan business for 24 years. The richest woman in the world does not have an office—she is like the curb offshoot of the New York stock exchange, and transacts her affairs from where she may stand when a proposition is presented for her decision. Two months ago Mrs. Green ceased to keep her mortgages and stocks and bonds at the Chemical. She surrendered the key to her safety deposit box to President William H. Porter Romantic Sister Dissappoints Mrs. Astor MRS. WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR, Jr., of New York city, sister of Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, and one of the original "Gibson girls," has met the most bitter disappointment of her life. One of the most ambitious young women in society, this Virginia beauty, who was born Nannie Langhorne and whose first matrimonial experiment with Robert C. Shaw of Boston fell short of her expectations, has seen her dream-castles topple one by one. In addition to mapping out her own matrimonial affairs, and finally landing a Waldorf-Astor, the young woman carefully planned the lives of her equally attractive sisters. She intended to have at least two European titles in the family—good, unimpeachable titles that could get past the guardline of the royal courts. The remaining sisters were to get into the very inner ranks of American exclusives. Some way, the other sisters fell little short of the prospectus. They Big Suit Over Dyeing of Poodle Dog Big Suit Over Dyeing of Poodle Dog TRADESPEOPLE, servants and other plebeians are interested in Princess de Montglyon's $50,000 damage suit against Mrs. Ada Olive Van Heusen, society member, who has a similar suit against the princess. Their interest in the princess' welfare dates back to last January, when she filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. Her liabilities were placed at $10,000. Her assets were represented by nothing. The $100,000 worth of litigation is all because of a little Chinese poodle. Once white, the dog is now a deep mahogany, and in the dyeing lies a mystery which the American Kennel club, of which August Belmont is president, is trying to solve. The princess says that she did not dye the dog. It was intimated she did. She sued, and in suing said some things which caused Mrs. Van Heusen to retaliate with similar proceedings. The dyeing would not have caused Famous "Bowery" Gets NamefromHome Famous "Bowery" Gets NamefromHome NEW YORK CITY'S great East side thoroughfare gets its name of the "Bowery" through an ancient lineage that has come down through some ten thousand years, from the time of our Aryan ancestors, who planted the root that has grown into the well-known name. At the head of that street stood the home of Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of New Netherlands, and it was known as "Stuyvesant's Bowyer," which was another name for Stuyveant's home, the grounds of which stretched southward toward Chatham square. special Master E. V. Mckeever tried to make a slight effect in the supreme and transferred all of her securities to the safety deposit vaults of the National Park bank, 214 Broadway. Here Mrs. Green was given the use of an office over the bank, her nearest neighbor being another tenant, Stuyvesant Fish. Eleven years ago the Chemical National bank assigned one of its most valued and faithful employees to the beck and call of Mrs. Green. Then came an incident the character of which is still a carefully guarded secret. Some ascribed it to the fight between E. H. Harriman and Stuyvesant Fish for control of the Illinois Central. Others put it to decided views Mrs. Green held concerning certain financiers in Wall street. Since Mrs. Green and the National Chemical bank came to the parting of the ways Wall street has speculated as to how long it would be before she would get over her huff and return to her old bank. Some weeks ago, when it was announced that Mrs. Green was housed in new banking quarters, there were denials issued that any breach existed between her and her old bankers. But time has failed to heal the wound, and this wonderful woman, who still appraises in person the value of every piece of real estate upon which she makes a loan, herself has said to intimate friends that she will remain in her present quarters. married Americans, good enough, but not quite near enough the throne, so to speak. Mrs. Astor's last hopes were pinned to beautiful Nora Langhorne. This, the youngest of the group, was to anex a peer of the proudest rank. The investments in titles of the Vanderbilt and Gould girls were to be shoved into a faded background. Mrs. Waldorf's cash gave her little sister all the benefits of European travel, introductions, opportunities innumerable. But Miss Nora didn't seem properly impressed. Her elder sister waited, planned and hoped. Now it's all off. Nora has consented to marry Paul Phipps, an architect of London. No duke, nor earl, nor prime minister, nor marquis. Not even a French pretender. An architect who is poor, with only his professional earnings. He isn't even one of the Pittsburg Phippses, multi-millionaires, He's half English, half American, and little Nora Langhorne has declared herself matrimonially with an emphasis which has forced her ambitious sister to give a reluctant consent rather than risk a scandal. But the dream castles of Mrs. Waldorf Astor, years in the building, have tumbled to earth in ruins and her disappointment is of the bitterest. such commotion, but as the mahogany entry of the princess the dog won the blue ribbon at the New England kennel show in Boston. Then came the discovery that the mahogany was like that of the present-day furniture and that a subterfuge had been perpetrated. Then the prize was given to Mrs. Heusen's entry. The word war and suits followed. The princess, who is a relative of the king of Belgium, has gained publicity before because of her dogs. Once in Chicago she demanded that the program be reprinted so that her entry might be shown. After this was done, causing delay, rearrangement, and expense, the princess withdrew her entry without explanation. Princess de Montglyon comes of a noble Belgian family, whose ancestors had vast wealth. She is the divorced wife of the Duke d'Avaryal and daughter of Count Eugene de Marcy de Argentau, with the title of Montglyon, and a cousin of Prince Joseph de Chimay, who married Clara Ward of Detroit. Princess de Montglyon became the bride of Capt. "Jack" Bonavita, the animal trainer, in the office of the American consul at Paris, April 26, 1905. The growth from the Aryan root was simple enough, for it was only the expansion of "bu" into "bowery." This root "bu" meant to grow, dwell, be, become, or build, so we see how "bower" and "bowery," carrying the idea of a home, naturally grew from it. When that root "bu" began to grow there was no such thing as a collection of houses into a city or even a village, but where our ancestors lived was among the shades of forest growths, where branches and leaves were bullied into coverings that became homes. This word "bowery" came directly to us through the Anglo-Saxon "buan," which meant to dwell. They also had the word "bur," which signified chamber, a covering in which to conceal or cover yourself, and from this Anglo-Saxon came our middle English "bower." In the Dutch, as it was used in New Netherlands in Peter Stuyvesant's time, it was "bowery." Taken Away Under Cover Of Darkness. ACCOMPANIED BY TWELVE WIVES American Woman Missionary at Haddin Sends a Telegram to Constantinople Telling of Dangers Surrounding Herself and Companions—Her First Messenger Shot by Fanatics. Constantinople, Apr. 29.—Abdul Hamid, the deposed sultan of Turkey, left the capital last night for Saloniki as a prisoner. He is accompanied by 11 women of his harem. Saloniki is the stronghold of the young Turks. Abdul Hamid was conveyed under civer of darkness form the imperial palace at Yildiz to the railroad station in Stamboul: Shortly after he was installed on board the train pulled out for the west. Many believe that the deposed sultan is going to his death. London, Apr. 29.—Halli Hailid Bey, the local representative of the Young Turks, declared today that when Abdul Hamid reached Saloniki he probably would have to stand trial on the charges set forth in the Fetwa deposing him. "A sentence of death is not probable," continued Halli Hailid Bey, "but he probably will be imprisoned." Abdul Hamid has, however, been voluntarily practically a prisoner, so this will be no great punishment. "His property acquired illegally will be confiscated by the state. I do not anticipate serious trouble in the province, except possibly in Northern Albania, where Abdul Hamid recruited his personal bodyguard." Constantinople, Apr. 29.—The following telegram was received here today from Miss Rose Lambert, one of the besieged American women missionaries at Hadjin. It sets forth the danger surrounding Miss Lambert and her companions, who are quite alone. The messenger who first started with the message to the telegraph office was shot down on the way. The communication is dated Hadjin, April 26, and says: The rising against the Christians at Hadjin began nine days ago. The government sent troops to suppress the fighting between Mohammedans and Christians, but the men were not strong enough numerically to restore order. Many are dead and wounded on both sides. Desperadoes occupied the American cloister five days ago and have been firing on the people without interruption since. The Armenian churches are now showing white flags, indicating that there will be no further resistance; yet the shooting and the plundering continue. Many shops have been robbed and others undoubtedly will be. The Armenian settlements and villages in the province have been burned and many persons killed. Hadjin is almost entirely without food, and animals in the city are dying of starvation. The provincial authorities have been appealed to both orally and in writing to send more troops to Hadjin, but thus far without result. The messenger who first started with this dispatch to the local telegraph office was killed on his way. The American women at Hadjin are: Miss Virginia A. Billings of Kirtland, O.; Miss Emily E. Richter of Chicago; Miss Lambert, who is a daughter of Bishop Lambert, and a Miss Baldwin. The two last mentioned women were sent out by the Mennonite Brethren in Christ of Ohio. Massacre is Resumed. London.—A special dispatch from Mersina, dated Monday night, says: The Turkish regiments which landed here Saturday proceeded to Adana, where they resumed late Sunday night the wholesale murdering of Armenians and the burning of their property. Thousands were killed to death while those who attested to escape were shot down by the troops. The destruction of the town of Adana is complete. The loss of life in the whole province of Adana is estimated at 80,000. The losses of Europeans in property are enormous. British and foreign warships here are inactive. Four Germans previously reported as having been killed at Bakdjah have arrived safely at Mersina. All the Armenian population at Rakdjah have been massacred. Oldest Ex-Governor Dies. Brattleboro, Vt.—Grederick G. Holbrook, former governor of Vermont, the oldest ex-governor in the country, and one of the last of the civil war executives, died last night, aged 96 years. Bribery Against Chickasha Officials Chickasha, Okla.—Open charges of bribery were made against the election judges of the Sixth ward in Chickasha about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon by one of the most influential men living in the ward. It is very probable that the warrants will be issued for the arrest of the members before the end of the week and it is generally understood that a special jury will be called immediately, at which time much excitement will be turned loose in the city. A LITTLE GIRL'S KINGDOM By VIRGINIA TATNALL PEACOCK When I life the veil and disclose to you the identity of Patsy's children I fear you may not see them with her eyes nor love them with her heart. But to one endowed, as was Patsy, with the priceless gift of the gods that turms darkness into light, gives life to the inanimate, and peoples with the good and the beautiful a world of its own, across the threshold of which a more mundane vision may not trespass, all things are possible. In her time, which amounted to six years, Patsy had many dolls, not one of which, however, had survived her motherly solicitude, and in their disrupted state much of the duplicity of doll nature had been revealed to her. There was a baby who did not go to sleep because she was sleepy, but because of a leaden ball at the back of her eyes, and there was another with her head full of stale crumbs of cake, which Patsy, self-denyingly, had so often gently forced between the parted lips. There was still another, beautiful Annabel Lee. These were Patsy's dolls. Patsy's children were different. She had touched them with the magic of her thought, and they lived and moved and were hers. Back in the dim ages of Patsy's memory her son, her daughter, and her baby had had another existence, but so gradually had their identity as children of hers dawned upon her that there had been nothing shocking or inartistic in their transformation from the cover of a sewing-machine, the drawer of a yellow table, and a red carpet footstool. Nobody nowadays ever mistook them for other than Patsy's children. Her boy had been succeeded by an old shawl which covered the machine when it was not in use. Her little girl was no longer related to the yellow table, and as for her rosy, chubby baby, though it spent many happy hours on the floor, no one confounded it with a red carpet footstool. Even Patsy's father, who was a busy man with many things to think of, never forgot about her children. "Come, Patsy," he would say, "take your baby away from papa's desk and get him a stool for his feet." "I think," said her mother as she watched Patsy laboriously assisting her little family up the stairs one night. "that I shall have Emily come and bring the children, and see if Patsy cannot learn from them how to play and be like other children. She is too much alone, poor little child." They came, and the old garden rang with the joyous peals of Josephine's laughter Helen and her well-dressed doll-babies permeated the house with an air of well-ordered little girlhood that was very gratifying to one's sense of the fitness of things. "Come, Patsy," she said, as she sat upon the drawing-room floor dressing her dolls one morning shortly after her advent into Patsy's life, "get your dolls and we'll play." Patsy shook her head. "I haven't any," she said. "No dolls!" exclaimed Helen. "Don't you play with dolls?" "No," said Patsy. "Then I s'pose you play with Bobby Bennett, like Josephine is," suggested Helen. "No, I don't play with Bobby; I don't like Bobby every day," said Patsy. "And don't like dolls, either?" asked Helen. Now, Patsy was a little lady, and she did not wish to say no in the very face of two such nice dolls as were Helen's, especially strange dolls, so she said only: "I think yours are very nice." "Yes, they are," acquiesced Helen, as she took them both into her anxious arms. "But I couldn't lend you one of them, Patsy. These are my newest ones, and I am afraid you might break them. Josephine does. She breaks them dreadful." "Oh, no," said Patsy. "I don't want them. I have my own children." "But you just said you hadn't, Patsy," said Helen, slowly putting her dolls back on the soft-cushion again. "I will go and get them," said Patsy, and she went. Presently she came back and put a red carpet footstool down beside Helen and went away again. She had been gone a long while, when she came back quite out of breath, dragging the lid of a sewing-machine in one hand and a yellow table-drawer in the other. Helen laughed. "I thought you were never coming," she said. "Couldn't you find them?" "Yes," said Patsy, "these are my children. This is my boy and this is Susie, and this—" Patsy stopped speaking and turned to look for her baby. Helen's dolls were leaning against a red carpet footstool. Patsy moved them gently away. "I think," she said, "your little girls are too old to play with my baby. They look about Susie's age." Helen looked at the strange children and said nothing. Then she put her head down on Patsy's boy and laughed. She looked up at Patsy, but Patsy did not even smile. "I don't think, Patsy, that I can 'low my little girls to play with such funny children as yours,' said Helen, as she gathered up her dolls and stood up. "No." said Patsv. There followed a long, solemn moment, during which nobody said anything. Then Patsy put her head down lovingly on her baby, and two hot tears rolled down her cheeks and were dried by the baby. Helen was sorry for her. She screwed herself back into a big chair and tried to explain. "You see, I could not possibly, Patsy. They couldn't come to my tea parties, 'cause they haven't any mouths to eat with, and they couldn't go out to walk with my little girls, 'cause they couldn't take hold of their hands. And they couldn't be undressed and put to bed, 'cause they don't wear clothes. I'm very sorry for you, Patsy, but you see they aren't any kind of children at all. They're just boxes and drawers and stools." The more lucid Helen made her explanations, the faster the tears rolled down Patsy's cheeks, and when Helen said they weren't children, Patsy screamed. It was a very bitter moment, when all the world seemed arrayed against her and her children. Bobby had never before seen Patsy cry. Of course, he knew that little girls did cry sometimes, but he could not think that any had ever cried in the dreadful way in which Patsy was crying now. It frightened him, and when he again leaned out the window, he somehow dropped quite all the way out. Josephine, to whom the situation was not novel, and in whose experience the antidote for tears had been laughter, now sat down on Patsy's little boy and laughed at Patsey. Patsy sat up and stopped crying, though her eyes were still blinded with tears, and her voice trembled as she tried to speak. "You don't know anything about my children—you don't! No, you don't! They have got mouths! Don't I know? I've fed them myself. And they have got hands—real hands that feel to me; and they do so wear clothes—yes, they do—and you get off my little boy this mint!" I fear Patsy shrieked this concluding admonition in a very loud voice as she sprang fiercely at Josephine. Josephine's laughter ceased. She discreetly moved away, and leaning out the window she went out heels over head, just as Bobby had done. Helen was going away too. She stopped in the doorway and said: "I cannot play with you any more myself, Patsy. My mamma wouldn't have me to play with little girls who tell stories about their children, and fight the way you do." With this she closed the door, and whatever Patsy said only her children heard, and they never told. She sat among them on the floor and thought, with her head leaning on her little boy. After a long time she got up, and helping Susle and the boy up by either hand, she said: "Helen likes hers, and I like mine. Well, I suppose we must all be satisfied with the children the Lord sends us. I am." Her children were seen no more in the days of Helen's and Josephine's visit. Once only were they spoken off, and then by Bobby. The shortness of Bobby's legs caused him so much difficulty in running his express wagon that he was wont frequently to dwell upon the time when they should be longer. "When I'm a man," he said, "I'm going to be a carpenter like Mr. Berry, and have a horse and wagon to go about in. On Sundays I'll come and take Patsy and her children for a ride." There was a pause, and then Josephine said: "When I grow up I shall ride in a circus without anything on the horse, and just wear fluff skirts myself." "I shall have a carriage," said Helen, "when I grow up, and dresses—so many dresses—velvet and silk and lace ones, and my children shall too. I shall have Miss Fisher to take care of my children like she takes care of me and Josephine. I'll have to be riding about in my carriage all the time, 'cept when I'm getting dressed. I shall be a very beautiful lady. What kind will you be, Patsy? I've spoken first to be beautiful, so you can't be like me." Patsy shook her head. Patsy shook in her neck. "I don't know," she said, "but I think I shall just be a mother. I shall have a little boy and a little girl and a baby. I'll have Agnes to take them out to walk, but I'll always stay by the window looking out till they come back." Whatever hopes Patsy's mother may have cherished of the benefits to be wrought by the presence of other children the long non-appearance of Patsy's family strengthened. The night after Josephine and Helen dropped below the horizon of her life, however, her mother was brought to realize the fact that a concession to public opinion does not always mean a surrender. Patsy had gone to bed. Her mother went softly into the room to kiss her good-night. She was asleep. In the bed with her were her three children, and Patsy screwed into a little bunch so as to give them plenty of room. Patsy's mother shook her head sadly. "I wish," she said, "that Patsy were more like other people's children. She is such a queer little girl." Patsy's father shook his head, too, and he said quizzically: "We shall have to learn from Patty to be satisfied with the children the Lord sends us." WHAT COLORS SHALL I USE? This Question Is Important in Painting a House or Other Building. A proper color scheme is extremely important in painting a house. It makes all the difference between a really attractive home and one at which you wouldn't take a second glance. And it makes a big difference in the price the property will bring on the market. As to the exterior, a good deal depends upon the size and architecture of the house, and upon its surroundings. For a good interior effect you must consider the size of the rooms, the light, etc. You can avoid disappointment by studying the books of color schemes for both exterior and interior painting, which can be had free by writing National Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Building, New York, and asking for Houseowner's Painting Outfit No. 49. The outfit also includes specifications, and a simple instrument for testing the purity of paint materials. Pure White Lead which will stand the test in this outfit will stand the weather test. National Lead Company's famous Dutch Boy Painter trademark on the keg is a guarantee of that kind of white lead. ANOTHER BORING QUESTION. "I say, pa, is a man from Poland called a Pole?" "Yes, my son." "Then, pa, why isn't a man from Holland called a Hole?" CURED ITCHING HUMOR. Big, Painful Swellings Broke and Did Not Heal—Suffered 3 Years. Tortures Yield to Cuticura. "Little black swellings were scattered over my face and neck and they would leave little black scars that would itch so I couldn't keep from scratching them. Larger swellings would appear and my clothes would stick to the sores. I went to a doctor, but the trouble only got worse. By this time it was all over my arms and the upper part of my body in swellings as large as a dollar. It was so painful that I could not bear to lie on my back. The second doctor stopped the swellings, but when they broke the places would not heal. I bought a set of the Cuticura Remedies and in less than a week some of the places were nearly well. I continued until I had used three sets, and now I am sound and well. The disease lasted three years. O. L. Wilson, Puryear, Tenn, Feb. 8, 1908." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. Awake to Danger of Tuberculosis Awake to Danger of tuberculosis. The number of state and local antituberculosis societies in the United States has shown over 100 per cent. increase during the past year; the number of sanitoria and hospitals for tuberculosis, nearly 30 per cent. increase; and the number of special tuberculosis dispensaries and clinics, over 40 per cent. increase. The rate of increase in the number of workers is estimated at over 200 per cent., and the amounts given for tuberculosis relief have been doubled during the year. Thirty-three legislatures, out of 39 in session up to May 1, 1909, have been considering laws pertaining to the prevention or treatment of tuberculosis. In a large number of states legislation affecting this subject has already been enacted, and more laws will be passed before the close of the spring session. PROOF FOR TWO CENTS. If You Suffer with Your Kidneys and Back, Write to This Man. G. W. Winney, Medina, N. Y., invites kidney sufferers to write to him. To all who enclose postage he will reply, telling how Doan's Kidney Pills cured him after he had doctored and had been in two different hospitals for eighteen months, suffering intense pain in the back, lameness, twinges when stooping or To all who enclose postage he will reply, telling how Doan's Kidney Pills cured him after he had doctored and had been in two different hospitals for eighteen months, suffering intense pain in the back, lameness, twinges when stooping or lifting, languor, dizzy spells and rheumatism. "Before I used Doan's Kidney Pills," says Mr. Winney, "I weighed 143. After taking 10 or 12 boxes I weighed 162 and was completely cured." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn C., Buffalo, N. Y. A lady came on an odd-looking bag the other day in one of the fashionable London shops. It was in expensive leather, and seemed too large for an ordinary hand-bag; also it had a curious opening cut at one side towards the top. "Ladies use it for carrying their little dogs," the salesman explained. A Time Mix-Up. Author—What kind of a play has the best chance now of acceptance? Manager—The one with a future is that of the lady with a past at present. The man who is able to say: "The Lord is my strength," will never break down under his load. PARDONS ALL BUT YOUTSEY GOV. WILLSON CLEARED COURT RECORDS OF GOEBEL CASE, He Does Not Believe There was a Conspiracy or That Others Were Concerned in Murder, rrankfort, Kentuehy.—Goy. Willson, , six o'clock Friday evening clear- | the Kentueky court records of charges growing out of the mur- y in January, 1900, of Senator Wil- on Goebel, Who was declared to have en elected governor, except those using over states evidence wit- sses, in the alleged conspiracy, by anting pardons before trial of for- Gov, W. 8. Taylor and former <ocretary of State Cuarles Finley, who been fugitives in the state of In- a for nine years; to-John Powers, ser of Caleb Powers, who is be- | to be in Honduras, to Holland tiaker, of Butler county, John wvis, of Louisville and Zach Steele, Vell county, under indictment and o did not flee the state. rhese over whom indictments are et hanging are Wharton Golden of snox county, now in Colorado; Frank | of Bell county, now a railroad cuve in St. Louis, and William H. ston, of Owsley county, said to have din the West a few months ago. \cese cases, with the possible excep- on of Cell, will be dismissed, leav- ¢ ilenry EB, Youtsey, now serving a sentence in the state penitentiary, ve only person to suffer for the tak- ft of Goebel. iterating the belief he expressed months ago when he granted us to Caleb Powers and James u. Howard, that no one but Youtsey | part In the murder, and that it uot a conspiracy, Gov, Willson says that he believes it a “sacred duty, 1 | must no longer delay, to carry velief into effect.” Colorado's Unique Law. Denver, Colorado—Goy, Shalroth luesday signed the campaign ex- vses bill passed™py-the last legisla- and the unique measure becomes «law in 90 days, The Dill, provides nit the state shall contribute for sipaign expenses every two years, un equal to 25 cents for each vote at the preceding general election, ig sum to be divided among the olitieal parties according to the vote cast for their respective candidates for governor, Only the state and candt- dates shall be permitted to contribute to campaign expenses at general elec- tions and a candidate is prohibited from contributing more than 40 per cont of his first year’s emolument, She Thought the Stock Worthless, San Franeiseo, California.—Sixty shires of stoek in the Bell Telephone company, purchased in 1882, have been vrousht to ght in this elty and the puvehaser, @ Woman, whose name is Withheld, and who invested $1,500, is believed to be in position to dispose 1 her property for. $1,750,000 which snn sie mast divide with the alert of a commereial company who wed the valuable securities after v had reposed in a trunk, regarded 5 worthless during a period of 27 Changes in Grain Inspectors, ‘Topeka, Kansas.—About the first of July there is going to be a re-organiza- » of the grain inspection depart- eat. John ‘T, White of Ada, the new seain inspector, while in Topeka Mon- Jay, said (hat he would not make any es in the department at present \evp! those to better the service, but out July 1, when the new wheat to come in, he expects to re- ze the department. Priest (Gets auaiaheaina.: Wallace, Idaho—Dissention in St. Mpaonsus parish of the Catholic “ 1 reached a climax Saturday iB when Judge W. W. Woods is- sul a temporary injunction restrain- = the recently appointed board of » from interfering with Father Fa ker the parish priest, in col- ! vew rents and voluntary. offer The Burlington Leads, i ‘so, Ilinois.—A_ maximum rate ‘2! cents a mile in Missouri will go ‘Mo “fleet May 10 on the Chicago, Bur- Mn “ Quiney railroad and several o uls according to a decision re were Tuesday at a meeting of UA ¢\-cutive officials of the Missouri __ A Jefferson Davis Memorial. K ville, Kentucky.—It was an- i | Sunday that options have been closed for the purchase of 16 x ‘ the farm on which Jefferson Davis was born and whieh it $8 propos SI | Couvert into a memorial park. ‘e ‘Jetferson Davis homestead is lo- fated Fairview, 12 miles from here. President Taft Talke af Grent. mi ‘hia, Pa—Presiddent Taft Tesisy “night was the principal gy tks a the Grant birthday dinner Putts Ywloa league in this elty: and Tail a sriking tribute to the soldier rest |. ©. 0. Fis 90th Anniversary. Kansis City, ‘Mahe manetleth juletsocy of the founding of the Ine omelet Order of Odd Fellows was served vpropriately Tuesday by Kansas (1 members of the order and ‘Qlilies at the Academy of Music, COMING EASY! WZ (YZ Zp AN? he E ees \ =. Nea, SZ | ene wee] cw \ Gye PRaVs Sess a ) HeO7 A SAX (Ae LEK es) eas ae SY WAS EL re’, ; < SN (as ie 8a ae eee os YW o|o s YY 3 THE, RMER SO tbe ajo ssraons Oo) ge sess | oo oF s | Bie Po ES ip Pee ee ae Sees HE REQUIRES NO BOND NO PROVISION MADE FOR INDEM- NIFYING MISSOURI ROADS. Injunctions Against Three Dismissed —Judge Williams to Decide Jur- isdiction Late. St. Louis, Missouri—Cireutt Judge Williams Monday held that Circuit Attorney Jonés need not furnish bond to indemnity the railroads against loss by reason of the injunction suit filed by Cireuit Attorney Jones at the instance of Gov. Hadley. Judge Wil- liams told the railroad attorneys he would tell them within a few days whether he has jurisdiction in the cases. The dismissal of the restrain- ing order will be decided May 15. Injunction suits agamst the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chicago & Al- ton and Kansas City Southern rail- roads were dismissed in Judge Wil- liams’ court Monday by Circuit At- torney Jones. ‘The injunction suits against the ether 15 roads, to restrain them from enforcing an alleged agree- ment to restore the three-cent passen- ger rate, were not taken up on acconnt of Judge Philips’ federal injunction, ordering all state eourts and officials not to undertake to regulate railroad passenger rates under penalty of con- tempt of federal court, Kansas City, Mo—S. W. Moore called Gov. Hadley in Jefferson City Monday by telephone and advised him that the Kansas City Southern de- ‘sired no controversy with the state, and that it would put into effect May 1 the two and one-half cent rate as agreed. Gov. Hadley notified his rep- resentative in St. Louis to dismiss the injunction suit against the Kansas City Southern, Gafford Again Kansas Accouatant. Topeka, Kansas.—J. C. Gafford has deen appointed state accountant by Goy, Stubbs to succeed himself for a four years’ term, In the last year a great deal of the work of the depart- ment has been in checking over the school land sales of recent years and seeing whether or not the county off zlals have made full payments to the state of money received from the sale of the land. The accountant checks up the account of all state depart- ments, Puteriained the davaneee. Los Angeles, Cal—The conclusion of the two day’s entertainment ex tended the officers and men of Admiral Wich’s training squadron now at San Pedro, was crowned Tuesday night with a magnificent banquet by the chamber of commerce at the Jonathan club, where 40 officers and 90 promin- ent citizens gathered. Admiral Ijichi and Commander Sato and Ishii, sat.at the speakers table. Oklahoma Grand Jury at Work. Ada, Oklahoma—Monday morning the special grand jury ordered through instructions from Gov. Haskell, to in- vestigate the lynching of Jim Miller, Jesse West, Joe Allen and W. T. Bur- cell, April 19, commenced hearing evi- dence. Attorney General West, fol lowing wishes of the governor, con: ducted the examination of witnesses For Burial of Late Emperor, Peking, China,—The ceremonies connected with the final interment of the late empéror in his tomb began Sunday with the presentation of cre- lentials by the special ambassadors of foreign powers, The United States was represented by Mr. Rockhill, its minister, Hanaed Himself in Orchard. Edgerton, Kansas.—John Middle- ton, a farmer about 65 years old, whose home was three miles“east of here, committed suicide about 12 yrelock Sunday night by hanging him- self to a tree in his orchard. Down Goes Wheat Prices. Chicago, Illinois.—Wheat Prices de- clined still further Monday from ‘the low point touched during the severe slump of last week, the July delivery dropping to $1.05% per bushel. Sultan Has Been Deposed and His Brother Takes His Place. Constantinople, Turkey—The reign of Abdul Hamid If ended - Tuesday with his deposition and the accession of his brother Mehmed Reschad Bf fendi, as Mehmed V., a variation of Mahamet, it being considered inap- propriate to assume the precise name of the prophet. Mehmed “V. is the 3th sovereign of Turkey, in male de- scent, of the House of Osman, the founder of the empire and. the 20th sultan since the conquest of Constantt- nople. ‘The two houses of parliament, meet- ing as a national assembly, in the forenoon approved the deeree of dep- osition, which was read by the Sheik- UFIslam, chief of the Ulemas and supreme judge on ecclesiastical ques- tions, The document recites that ab- dul Hamid’s acts were contrary to the sacred law, and set forth a long list of crimes, the whole making a terrible indictment, The assembly chose Meh- med-Reschad as sultan and appointed committees tc notify the dethroned sovereign and his successor of its ac- tion, The firing of 101 guns gave no- tice to the waiting people that a new sultan had been proclaimed. ( Sisktais AMEE Gtnase: ata) Manin” Topeka, Kansas.—After receiving an opinion from Attorney General vack- son that his action is authorized by law, State Bank Commissioner J. N, Dolley Tuesday announced that here- after he will refuse to grant applica- tions for charters for new banks and refuse to allow new banks to do bust- ness when there is no room in a com- munity for another bank without in- juring those already established, when there is any doubt about the reliability of the organizers or when the bank is opened for speculative purposes. Heretofore there has been practically no restriction on the opening of new ‘bantes a Washington, D, C.—An important series of rates was Monday filed with the interstate commerce commis- sion affecting west-bound traffic to Pacific coast terminals. The rates which are to become effective on June 5 next, make an average reduction of ten cents per hundred pounds on all commodity tariffs from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific coast. No re- duction yet has been made in the east- bound tarfic from the Pacific coast but it is expected that tariffs soon to be filed will make a correscponding re- duction on such traffic. Washington, D, C.—If a bill in troduced Monday by Representative Dwight of New York, becomes a law, the United States will own a complete railway train consisting of a baggage car, a sleeping car and a private car for the exclusive use of the president of the United States. The.sum of $60,000 to be expended by the secre- tary of war is provided, Another indiana County Dry. Muncie, Indiana.—Delaware coun- to Tuesday voted dry in a county option election. Munele, the county seat, gave the “drys” a majority of 213. Muncie is so far the largest city to vote on the saloon question. Wighty- two saloons will be closed, Faculty Objected to Cartoons, Des Moines, Ia—The annual edition of the “Quax,” Drake university's ‘student publication was confiscated by the faculty and its editors threaten- ed with possible expulsion unless two objectionable cartoons were with- iis. Meadville, Pa—Jack Cronin, in jail awainting trial for the murder of Harry Winters last Christmas eve, died Sunday night from the effects of thrusting half a dozen needles into his abdomen. Washington, D. C—The census appropriation bill introduced by Rep- resentative Tawney will be the only measure aside from the tariff bill which the house will consider during the special session, v TURKEY’S NEW RULER. Reducing Freight Rates. sould Own a Special Train. A New Suicide Route Only Two Bills. 4 EVERYBODY ENJOINED. 4 Sweeping Order in Missouri Pas- senger Rate Cases, — Kansas City, Mo—The railroads + Missouri obtained still another fed- eral court weapon Saturday for us in the controversy with the state over passenger rates. Judge John F. ‘Philips, at the solicitation of Frank Hagerman, special counsel for 16 rail- roads in the rate litigation, sued a sweeping injunction Saturday that absolutely ties the hands of every offi- cial arid every private citizen in the regulating of railroad rates. Any such attempt will constitute contempt of the federal court. If the state decides to oppose it, Missouri may witness a federal and state court clash such as North Carolina underwent. The di- rect effect of the Philips order Is to dissolve the injunction against the railroads pending in the cireuit court e St. Louis. ‘ Wrecked Oklahoma Town. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. — One person was fatally injured, 19 others sustained broken limbs and bruises, 12 houses were almost totally wreck- ed and every building in the town more or less damaged by a storm of rain, hail and wind, in which a twister was interwoven, that passed over the vicinity of Centrahoma shortly atter noon Monday. Centrahoma is in Coal county and has a population of 600 to 800 persons. Not a building in the town remains wholly intact. Perishing by Thousands. Belrut, Turkey.—The situation in Asiatic Turkey is one of extreme gravity. How many thousands have been massacred cannot even be esti- mated, because the disturbances have been so widespread that it is impossi- ble to secure details of the happenings during the past ten days. The latest estimates of the number killed in the vilayet of Adana reaches-approximate ly 25,000 and thousands have heen done to death in the towns of oth er districts. ‘And the “White Town” Won. Oklahoma City, Ok-—A, FF. Me- Garr, Democrat, was elected mayor of Muskogee over Ira L, Reeves, Republi- cam, by a small majority, after one of the most spectacular campaigns in the city’s history. J. F. Ledbetter was re- elected city marshal on the Demo- cratic ticket and the Demoerats won a majority of the council. Interest was intense throughout the day, Ow- ing to the issue of “white town” against “black town.” Great Northern Blocked. Kalispell, Montana—Earth and snow slides which have continued intermit: tently for the past 16 hours at a point of the Great Northera one mile east of Nyack, have completely block- ed traffic and a dozen trains, includ- ing four passengers, are tied up om either sige. Large crews of men are endeavoring to open the road, but little progress can be made against the repeated slides, The damage to the tracks cannot yet be estimated. Sultan Must Quit. Constantinople, Turkey.—The tide is running strong against the sultan, Abdul Hamid If. A caucus of senators and deputies Monday determined to make an effort to compel him to ab- dicate under the ecclesiastical law by the terms of which a decree may be issued by the Sheik Ul “Islam, and highest authority of Mohammedanism next to the sultan, pronouncing the sultan fneapable of ruling. Senator Stewart's Body Cremated. Washington, D. C—The body of William M. Stewart former United States senator from Nevada, who died here Friday was cremated Sunday in accordance with a wish expressed just before his death, The ashes will be sealed in an urn and as soon as Mrs. Stewart recovers from an illness they will be taken to Nevada for in- terment, Armenians Are Starving, Alexandretta, Asiatic Turkey. — Refugees who have made their escape from Deurtyu!, which js a small town not far from Alexandretta, bring most alarming accounts of the situation there. They affirm that 100,000 Armenians are beleaguered by 50,000 Moslems. - The besieged _are half starving and the conditicns within the walls of the city ure pitiful. Japanese Training Squadron Lands. Los Angeles, California —For the first the in ten years warships of Japan enterea a Pacific coast port of the United States, when the cruisers Soya and Aso, comprising the Jap- anese training squadron commanded by Rear Admiral H, Ijichi, steamed Into San Pedro at noon Sunday, A Reception for the Japanese. San Francisco, Calitornia.—Arrange- ments for the reception and entertain- ment of the officers and men of the Japanese training squadron soon to ar- rive in this port, are being perfected. Low Prices for Steel Products. New York, N. Y.--The keen com- petition among the steel mills for orders of finished products has re* sulted in the placing of a large volume of business during tie week at very low prices. In some fustances, not- ably for steel pipe, the fowest prices ‘n 11 years have been made, Suffragists of the World. London, England.— Women from aearly a score of lands were present when the meeting of the International Woman Suffrage assoclation opened WESTERN CANADA'S HAPPY PROSPECTS. In no year since the development of Western Canada began has spring drought a brighter outlook than it wings this year. In no preceding spring has there been greater assur- ance of advancing development .and prosperity. ‘The movement of immi- gration has already assumed large pro- portions, and Is as desirable in char- acter as it is satisfactory in volume; from across the Atlantic sturdy, indus- trious and thrifty newcomers are ar- riying in large numbers, homeseekers from Ontario and the other older Provinces are coming in a steady stream. and from across the interna- donal boundary a movement is al- ready in full flow, which, it 1s confi dently predicted, will beat the records of all previous years; special settlers’ ‘trains are crossing the line, loaded with effects, actual material wealth being thus brought into the country at the rate of millions of dollars’ worth monthly. | ‘The movement is so unprecedented- ly large that extra Dominion Immigra- tion officials have had to be provided at both North Portal and at Emerson, and it {s estimated that the total num- ber of new settlers from the United States this year will be 70,000, at least, and may run well up toward 100,000. Last year's total of new set- tlers from the South was 53,723; thus the area that will be placed in wheat and other grains this year will greatly exceed that of last year. Settlers are making extraordinary efforts to get on their lands and begin seeding opera- tions. The price of wheat now, away above the dollar mark, is incentive enough, and when one has in view the splendid results that the past few years have shown, it is not to be won- dered at that the present will be the banner year for Immigration to Can- ada, Ask your nearest Canadian Gov- ernment Agent for rates of transporta- tion, and he will also send you illus. hacen aaa ea The Irreparable Loss. “What has happened to me?” asked the patient when he had recovered from the effects of the ether. “You were in a trolley car accident,” said the nurse, “and it has been found necessary to amputate your right hand.” He sank back on the pillow, sob bing aloud. “Cheer up,” said the nurse, patting him on the head, “you'll soon learn tc get along all right with your lef hand.” “Oh, it wasn’t the loss of the hand itself that I was thinking of,” sighe¢ the victim. “But on the forefinger was a string that my wife tied around it to remind me to get something fo1 her this morning, and now I'll never be able to remember what it was.” Putting It Gently. The sages of the gcueral store were discussing the veracity of old S! Per kins when Uncle Bill Abbott am: bled in. “What do you think about it, Uncle Bill?” they ‘asked him. “Would you call Si Perkins a liar?” “Wall,” answered Uncle Bill, slowly as he thoughtfully studied the ceiling, “I don't know as I go so far as to call him a lar exactly, but I do know this much: When feedin’ times comes, in order to get any response from his hogs, he has to get somebody else te call ‘em for him.”—Everybody's Maga zine. ils Conscience. “Will you have a cocktail, Mr. Snidgerly?”~ “No, my wife does not permit me to drink intoxicants of any kind.” “Let me buy you a cigar.” “My wife has made me promise that 1 will never smoke any more.” “Well, well. I wish there was some. thing I could do to make it pleasant for you.” “Ig there a naughty show of any Kind in town? If so, take me to it. ‘My wife will not be able to smell it on my breath.” FOOD FACTS What an M. D. Learned. A prominent Georgia physician went through a food experience which he makes public: “It was my own experience that first led me to advocate Grape-Nuts food dnd I also know, from having pre- scribed it to convalescents and other weak patients, that the food is a won- derful builder and restorer of nerve and brain tissue, a8 well as muscle. It improves the digestion and sick pa- tients always gain just as I did in strength and weight very rapidly. “I was in such a low state that I had to give up my work entirely, and went to the mountains of this state, but two months there did not improve me; in fact I was not quite as well as when I left home. “My food did not sustain me and {t became plain that I must change. ‘Then I began to use Grape-Nuts food and in two weeks I could walk a mile without fatigue, and in five weeks returned to my home and __ practice, taking up hard work again. Since that time I have felt as well and strong as I ever did in my life. “As a physician who seeks to Yelp all sufferers, I consider it a duty™to make these facts public.” Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts, when the regular food does not seem to sus- tain the body, will work miracles. “There's a Reason.” Look in pkgs. for the famous little book, ““The Road to Wellville.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. ‘They are genuine, truc, and full of human nae DOCTOR ADVISED OPERATION a eee dee bly from female ills, including inflam. mation and conges- tion, for several years. My doctor said there was no hope for me but an operation. I tégan taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta. ble Compound, and Tean now say I am a well woman.” Rarnra T)paprer, Be ee Bae _. = ineluding inflam- | 3 | mation and conges- lager e es | tion, for several ftee® ii | years. My doctor FJ said there was no [ee me ee | hope for me but an Hee GS Fd operation. 1 i¢gan [ee feitaking Lydia EL . ~ gf 4 Pinkham’s Vegeta. © 4 ble Compound, and SS | Lean now say Tam =s ..- } | 8 well woman.” Bre ffs Another Operation Avoided. Chicago, TH“ want women to know what that wonderful medicine, Lydia E. Pinkham’s: Vegetable Com: ound, has done for me. ‘Two of the Best doctors in Chicago said T would die if I did not have an operation, and I never thought of seeing a well day again. Ihada small tumorand female troubles, so that I suffered day and night. A friend recommended Lydia ¥, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and it made me a well woman.”—Mrs. ALYENA SPERLING, 11 Langdon St, Onieago, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, made from roots and herbs; as proved to be the most successful remedy for curing the worst forms of female fils, including displacements, Inammation, fibroid tumors, irregu- larities, periodic pains, backache, bear- ing-down feeling, flatulcucy, indiges- tion,andnervous prostration. Itcosts but a trifle to try it, and the result has been worth’ millions to many poe ripe te. _ A FACER, Cat SZ eg Res si * on | <7 oe fa He—You have looked on my face for the last time! She—Why? Are you going to grow a beard? 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 neces sary to use s0 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 wear Ing quality of the goods. This trow ‘ble can be entirely overcome-by using Deflance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of ite great | er strength than other makes. eg get Teacher—Lennie, if you were to take your father’s razor and leave the steel blade open out in the grass over- night, what would happen? Learned Lennie—It would get ay rev sult oxidation of the steel or what is commonly called rust. Teacher—Quite right. Now, Willie, if you would put your mother's dia mond ring in the fire, what result would you get? Wise Will'e—1'a get a lickin’, Impending Strife. “I want to buy a clarionet,” sald the man with a steely look in his eye. “Ab,” said the dealer in musical wares, “here is a perfect instrument, absolutely true in tone.” “I don't want ft. I want one that'll produce nothing but blue notes. There's a man next door who is studying the trombone. I'm going to play the clar- fonet in self-defense.” The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great im- portance. Defiance Starch, being free from -all injurious chemicais, is the only one which fs safe to use on fine fabrics, Its great strength as a stiffen- er makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that whon the aiculan Serenlos Glare Snubbed In Town. “What are you doing now?” “Striving for recognition.” “Seeking fame, eh?” “Not exactly. I'm striving to get om speaking terms with a girl who prom- ised to be mine at the seashore.” po YOUR CLOTHES LooK YELLow? If 80, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. A true friend 1s one who makes us do what we can.—Phelps, es >, lg Xa B&B DODDS Y f y ¢~ KIDNEY y \Z} ih \ \7A oe ASOT Sy NUT RUNS ENO ary a MN oe ied Hy RS oe al ay THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, 1 t % 1 KANS, ——_— W. N. 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We are simply human- not mind readers and mighty poor guessers about what you want. Life is too short to stop by the wayside and tickle you under the chin to find out if you have some “new”. Send your news items to the Searchlight if you want them made public. ROY PRICE POLICY PAID ‘The endowment of the late Ray Price, son ot Mr and Mrs M. E, Price, was paid to his mother «1 the A. M. E. church Sunday night by W.N. Miller 0: behalf of the Grand Temple and Tabernacle Knights and Daughters of Tabor Ray Price was a member of Clin. ging Rose Tent No. 23, of Law-- rence Kas. and carried the endow. ment provided for the children of that department of the Order. The ‘Tent endowment is filling a long felt want among children of colored societies. pecial Master B.-V. McKeever med: We Have No Pets - LOCALS —THS RESUME OF THIS WEEK— E™ Sond your news notes and lecal bepponiage to G81 Meri Main Strest. IF IT EVER HAPPENED ‘YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Send your news in earlier. The Searchlight $l. per year HAVE YOU SEEN “ BELINDA JANE AND JONATHAN?” They Are Strangers In Town | “From Punkin Ridge” GARFIELD HALL, MAY 12th The “Forty Odd Club” of the A. M. E. church J. W. Thompson Capt. will give a very laughable and entertaining play at Garfield hall on Wednesday night, May 12th entitled “Belnida Jane and Jonathan from Punkin Ridge.” You will certainly enjoy it. Sure cure for the blues and removes that tired feeling. Yon should not fail to see and here “Belnida Jane and Jonathan” they are peaches sure. The price ot admission is small and in the reach of al — only 10c and 15¢ or two for 25¢ On behalf of the members of the Company, Capt. Thompson ex- tends a special invitation to all the lodges churches clubs ete tc come out May 12th. The proceeds will go to the building fund o! the A.M. E. church, Give them a large house. Refreshments will be served after the play. Come out early. Remember—the time— the place—the play. Cast of Characters Jonathan Shruggins Milton Perry, Mr Brown : Dr. A. K. Lawrence Augustus Semioy Pink Stradforc Harry Clifton J. W. Thompsot First Police John D. Jone Second Police Alvon Foste Belinda J. H. Miss Wheele: Miss Elizabeth B. 2 Mrs Ida B. Clarl Arrine Brown Miss Foster Mrs Lottie Bell left Saturday night for Kansas City where she will spend a few days visiting with her mother. Nathan Copeland foreman in the Searchlight office returned Monday from a weeks visit with relatives and friends in Ft. Scott Kansas, M. Mayo and Mrs Sason Will- iams were pleasant caller at the at the suburban home of W. N. Miller and wife Sunday. ' Keep your ears and eyes open to hear and see ‘‘Beluida Jane & Jonathantrom Punkin Ridge” at Garfield hall Wednesday night May 12th. __ Mt. Olive Court No. 9 Hof Ji will give a Musical at Young's Hall on Thursday night May 6. = igvite everyone to come. On Friday evening the D. W. Club will entertain Lbeit husbands and their friends at the residence cf Mrand Mrs Kilmer Johnson. This is their first entertainment of the kiad and pron - ises to be one of the most dejightful affairs of the s: ason. For Sale— Some bargans in acre ground from 10 acres up. see me. W. N. Miller 634 N. Water. The May elect bride Miss Eula James was made guest of honor atalinen shnwer on Thureday evening April 22, by Misses Mos- sie and Goldie Crouch and bed Crouch at their home 1623 N To- peka Ave. Cut flowers and potted plants adorned the sooms and beautiful carnations were.in pro- fusion especially in the dinning room and on the table were placed the gifts to the bride elect. During the evening several in— strumental numbers were rend- ered alsointeresting games ;lay- ed Later in the evening the host « hostesses servep’ a luncheén consisting of sandwiches pickles walsdorf salad Iee—Cream Cake Coffee. The following is the list of presents. . Misses:— Vera James, lace che mise; Myrtle Fleming, lmen tow- els; Vina Dulley, Swiss side board cover; Irma Clark, hem-stitched side board cover; Eva Harris, embroidered corset cover; Violo Ruth, one dozen mercerized nap- kins; Mae Triplett, one-half doz- Jen linen napkins; Ida Hill, Luu Parks; Bettie Hallf onedozen lin |en napkins; Sally Rawles, Wesly | Rawles, Frank Childs and wife, Jlinen table cloth; Grace Price, hem-stitched dresser scarf; Rosa '|Norwood, drawn work center | piece; Luna Fauver, linen doiley |and six individual doilies, Alma Fauuer and Clarence Patton, lin en table cloth; Fern Phelps, large | clung doiley with two individu. Jal doilies; Peael Hackley and J. / Dulley, linen initial linen table cloth; Ella Roach, linen towel; || Ethel Patton, drawn work cen- ||ter piece; Mrs. M. Robinson, lace | princess slip; Mrs. W. Robinson, '|lace underskirt; Mrs. Thos. Glo- -| ver, combination suit; A. Thom. as, three Swiss doilies; B.* Ver. non and wife, linentowel; Watt Morris, liften towel; Mrs. Lucy Anderson, hand embroidere¢ linen waist; Dr. H. T. Bolden anc >| wife, embroidered corset cover C. A. Glover and wife, lace cor: | set cover; Harold Fleming, liner ,| towel; J. Downs, side board cox er; Thos. Anderson, linen towel s| P. Stradford and wife, hem-stiteh ed side board cover; Fay Ander ‘!son, 3 linen embroidered hand. .|kerchiets and pair lace hose; F Clark, drawn work Buffee cov. ‘{ers; Mrs. J. A. Martin, one-hal dozen linen napkins and drop- ‘|stitched hose; Mrs. E. Wyems hem-stitched linen towel; Mrs. H Hurst, N. Hurst, H, Hurst, hem 'l stitched linen table cloth witl :|drawn work center; N, Brown | linen towel. Chas. Patton Five G. W. Robinson Tw Dollars Wirt Wilson, Silk Japenes Kimona Mre Stella Patton, Five pai 1! of hose, 2 damask towels pair of whit | kid gloves, + doz linen handkerchief ,{—2 cards lace pins. Rev. and Mrs | Rey Frank Wilson C. G. M. wiii make his 1909 annual visit with the Tabernacle and Temple of Wichita on May 20th to 24th He will visit each number as fol- lows. Wichita Tabernacle No 34 o1 Thursday afternoon May 20, at 2:30 Taborian Temple No 11 Thursday night May 20 at 80c. Mt Hope Tabernacle No 3 Fridy afternoon May 21st at 2:30 Mt. Nebo Temple No 7 Friday night May 21st at 8 oclock, There will ba joint session of all the num- bers'at a time and place is to he s2t, e M. E. Price is still very ill. Tae D. W. Glib held its weekly meeting on last I'riday afternoon with Mice Ida Hill hostess. ee Hours 9amto6pm ‘Sundays by Appointment Dr. H. T. Bolden | | DENTIST ALL Wonk GUARANTEED Bell Phone 2467 601 N. Main St. Wichita, Kan [eceneseneROeN eS) Satisfaction — INEVERY POUND OF — “Wichita’s Best ”Four POENISCH BROS.,, Agents 622 N. Main Street We also carry a complete stuck of Hay, Grain, Feed and Coal. | 580 — Both Phones — 530 Send your news in earlier SS Stingley 2 Cares ae Underakers Embalmers SEDGWICK BLOCK Either Phone 1619 Wichita Kansas SS Send your news in earlier \. Miller W.N. Miller Attorney-at-Law NOTARY PUBLIC. Office 684 North Water Street Practices in all the Gourts Of Kansas and Missouri Residence Phone - Bell 1641 Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon “SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Oftee Hours Ytollam Residence 2teop m 513 N. Main St te 8.m, OFFICE 518 N. MAIN ST Phone 860 green I carry a complete line of Syringes, Hot Water Bottles Combination Hot Water Bot tles and Syringes, Sprays, Douches, ete., etc., etc. My prices on these goods are very reasonable, indeed, and each article is fully guar anteed to give satisfaction or your money will be re- funded. Remembrr Us With Your Next Prescription O. R. Bissantz PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST INDEPENDENT PHONE 620 811. N. Main St. Wichita, Kar Club No. 4 of A. M. E. church Mrs W. M. Knox Capt. will give a“Hard Time” or poor man’s Social at the church on Wednes— day night May 5th, A prize of one dollar will be given the pere son best representing ‘hard times’ —second prize fifty cents. There will also be another prize. Come out and see who the lucky ones may be. Fun for all. Retreshments served. You will certainly enjoy yourself at this social. Tell your friends and be sure to be there yourself, Admission only 10cents Capt. Knox on behalf of herclub extends an invitation to all to b: present. Proceeds will go. to the building fund. Come out on May 5th. Second to None ”: puras*s. Good Bread Makers It ls White As Snow—TRY IT : The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Food § are all guaranteed-nder the United States Law, a Serial No. 18415 and under the Kansas State Law Register No. 1. It Is The Gheapest and BEST FOUD on the Market. Reececececcececcececccceee eeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeetts Chas. B. PATTON Merchant Tailor 8389 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men’s Garments Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing A Specialty Prompt Service | Courteous Attention Your Trade Solicited a |e Pk PT rm , * AW Ay B) There Is No Need G y Nit N Ms = OO Of letting your clothes look i, ] ragged or soiled, when you I WI [ can have them dry cleaned, Ni i 1 hd preessed andrepaired tolook } Wed A Vi) Hh like new at reasanable prices ui i | at nS ih NY ee Bl The Peoples Cleaning and Dye Works e Ss 131 North Lawrence Avenue Ind. Phone 178 Bell Phone 175 The Biggest and Best in the Southwest We carry a line of choice meats at prices that are right Fish, Game and Oysters in Season. Free Delivery FAVORITE MEAT MARKET W. H. KELCHNER, Proprietor 406 East Douglas Ave Phone 294 Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita’s Oltest, Most Re Mable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK 1M THE CITY All Work Guaranteed | SELOVER f :}ONS, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children & Specialty Office 703 N. Main St. ur @. S$. HENRION 01H. Main 3s Wichita, Kana. TRY US For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO. Use Murzay’s Reliable Nerve Balm Murray’s Reliable Antiseptic Salv Murray's Reliable Extracts Marray’s Reliable Perfumes Murray’s Reliable Pure Spices These Goods Have No Epual They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 808 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita —- — — Kansas Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE We curry 9, full, fresh | line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Choicest | Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men, Women and Chil- | dren’s Shoes cannot be | excelled in quality or in priee- Free Delivery. ‘ Japp & Hanshav 255-257 N. Main St Phone 257 [i ee en Cena een ere JL. 8. Nattager, President, W. R. Tuck er, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, C. W. Brown, Vice Presi- ee Vv. H. Branch, Gashier. | | Fourth National Bank | wicnITa, KANSAS | United States Depository | Gapital $200,000 Surplus $125,000 | Dirretors: W. R. ‘Tucker, W. E. Jett, | R. L. Holmes, 8. B. Amidon, J. M. | Moore, L. 8. Naftsger, H. W. Darling, [as G. Houston, E. C, Sheldon, C. W. | Brown, J. W. Metz, B.'T. Battin, Hen ry Laseen. V. I. Braneh. ser Banking Business Transacted eT | 5 s | Its the man who “‘sticks-to-it” ; who wins. YOUR GOODS SAFE if you store ‘them with us.—Miller Storage Co. 634 N. Water. BUY ce: Ginn. AT METZS Sem 3rd & Main ~ . HOUCK ‘Hardware store First Class Goods at | Lowest Prices 6 East Douglas Avenue The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west EAST MAIN HIGH SCHOOL A faculty of eighteen thorough'y eq nipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted Theological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailorlng, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. Thorough discipline, Christian influence careful supervision Fine Military Band and Orchestra For full particulars write to Prof. Shelton French, ACTING PRESIDENT Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Residence Phone No. 15 Office Phone 1423 Excellence Counts..... THEN USE "U·KNEAD·IT" FLOUR it excels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. WICHITA, KANSAS GRAHAM — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years milling experience in Wichita our products are the best that can be produced. Made froffi best selected grain only and put up in Special Packages, Ask Your Groce See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING Co. WICHITA. KANSAS Johnston's Hotel WICHITA 507 N. Main St. KANSAS Everything first class. Electric Lighti, Electric Fans Transient Trade — Restaurant in Connection R. Johnston, Proprietor DEAM ABSTRACT CO. NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors Straighten Your Hair DEAR SIRS:—I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it for makes up and cream and easy to comb and also start a new growth. MRS. W. F. WALKER. Sta. I. Hartman, Tenn. Ford's Hair Pomade Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow. Fifty years of success has proved its merit. Its use makes the hair straight, glossy, soft and pliable. It is also used in any style you wish consistent with its length. Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking and gives it new life and vigor. Splendid results even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as ladies of refinement ever where declare. For pomade. Formula always to be "just as good." If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay you. Look for this name on every package. If your druggies will not supply you with the genine send us, express or postal money order to the office of your drugstore, we supply to small bottle and give us your druggist's name and address. We will forward bottle prepaid to any point in U.S. A by return mail on receipt of price. Address: The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 183 East Kenzie St. Chicago, IL. FORPS HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. For Everything in Building Material SEE SEE J H TURNER 333 TO 347 WEST DOUGLAS 6083 Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-duy 829 East Center SALINA, KANSAS Use Herman's Cement Stone Made from the best material. Lasts longer, wears better and more durable than any other Cement Stone on the market. Prices Reasonable. PRICES 11c each laid in wall 8c each delivered 7c each in the yard Rock Face 8c each Plain Face 7c each Manufactured By W. L. HERMAN, 527 Ohio Ave., New.Phone 1127 W. L. Herman CONTRACTING : PLASTERER 856 Eagle St., Wichita, Kan. Job Printing We have installed a new line of JOB TYPE FACES and we would be pleased to use them on a job for you. Good Work--Low Prices to all 634 North Water St. To The Wichita Public We have just opened a Cash Grocery and meat market at 452 N. Main (corner Central Ave) and we wish to announce to the public that we shall not only keep a sanitary, modern and up-to-date establishedment, but shall make it our earnest endeavor to carry in stock everything the market affords in its proper season, and anything you want that we have'nt on hand we'll cheerfully order for you. All we ask is to give us one fair trial and if we dont please you we shall not ask you to call again. E. E. Bates Grocery and Meat Market Seeds Seed Corn Cow Peas Square Deal Fence Bee Supplies Come to Our Store a ROSS BROTHER 309 E. Douglas Ave. When the traveler visits 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 infultuely 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 fail 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 oterous. Especially are they in danger when conducting prisons 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 part of Civil guards nipped 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 minkeeper, 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 contrain that the prisoner should slip out into the forest by a back door late in the evening, while the captors 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 guardian 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 in 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 guards 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 Martnez 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 carabinier. They were trained to act both as soldiers and police, and when on foot carried a rifle and revolver; Their equipment included also 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 back sliding 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." Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment--Junt 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 Carnegie. There is a bank cerk 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 misdoings 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 fleeing 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, ples, cake and all sorts of dainties to please him, and he calls it all 'indigestion fodder!'" 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 abhor 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 Orosi (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." FEEDING the ROOSEVELT HUNTING PARTY business of supplying hunting parties, and there are men who will take charge of everything at so much per month. A hunting party with porters and attendants is called safari. The battery for each hunter, to be sufficient for all needs, should consist of a 450 express, a 303 sporting rifle, British model, and a 12 bore shotgun; and I should think 250 rounds of 450 (50 hard and 200 soft), and 500 12-bore cartridges of, say, the six and eight sizes, sufficient for a three months' trip. The hunter's kit should include a good pith sun hat, a couple of suits of khaki, leather gaiters or a couple of pairs of puttees, wash leather gloves to protect the hands from the sun, and two pairs of boots with hemp soles; long Norwegian boots will also be found very useful. The usual underclothing worn in America in the fall is all that is required, if the shooting is to be done in the highlands, as the temperature there corresponds to our October. A good warm overcoat will be much appreciated up-country, in the cool of the evenings, and a light mackintosh for wet weather ought also to be included. The caravan for one sportsman—if he intends going far from the railway—is usually made up as follows, though the exact numbers depend upon many considerations: 1 headman ..... 50 rupees per month 1 cook ..... 35 rupees per month 1 gun bearer ..... 35 rupees per month 1 "boy" (personal servant) ..... 20 rupees per month 2 Askaris (armed porters) ..... 12 rupees per month 30 porters ..... 10 rupees per month If there are five or six men in the party double the porters and add a gun bearer and a personal boy for each hunter. Thus if the president has a party of six, he will need about 70 men altogether. This would necessitate about 150 pounds of rice a day. It is three days across to Kilimanjaro, for example. The sportsman is obliged to provide each porter with a jersey blanket and water bottle, while the gun bearer and "boy" get a pair of boots in addition. A cotton shelter tent and one cooking pot must also be furnished for every five men. The food for the caravan is mostly rice, of which the headman gets three pounds per day, the cook, gun bearer, "boy" and askaris $2\frac{1}{4}$ pounds, and the ordinary porters $1\frac{1}{2}$ pounds each per day. It is the duty of the headman to keep discipline on the safari (caravan journey) both in camp and on the march, and to see to the distribution and safety of the loads, the pitching and striking of camp, the issue of posho (food) to the porters, etc. He always brings up in the rear of the caravan and on him depends the general comfort of the sportsmen. The cook is also an important member of the caravan, and a good one should be procured if possible. It is wonderful what an experienced native m'peshi (cook) can turn out in the way of a meal in a few minutes after camp is pitched. In camp the duties of the askaris are to keep up the fire and watch at night, and to pitch and strike the Ewana's (master's) tent. On the march one leads the caravan, the other brings up in the rear; they give as- A 12.16.13 A.W. much appre- sions, and a light be included. Contends going up as follows, any considera- per month per month per month per month per month per month by double the national boy for party of six, which would ne- It is three an porter with the gun bearer A cotton be furnished of which the gun bearer, primary porters discipline on and on the safety of the the issue of the brings up in the general the caravan, possible. It is peshi (cook) few minutes keep up the and strike the one leads the they give as- bountiful supply of rice of the Indian stores at- ting 60 pounds of canned Mombasa. Among the pears, peaches and ar- tongues from South A tralia and deviled ham extract of beef must be I saw many of the nati- nally pierced, wearing ear and an extract of be- supply of condensed ma- and plenty of tea, coffee the rice one should take India from the mango f- shutney is said to be a When starting from Nairobi, the party will large quantity of banana sugar cane. Some of the Wachagga and the upon a few heads a day. Along the way they will round balls, resembling mixture of white ants flour is beaten up in m sava root, which grows eat these puff balls with For the white traveler ens, which can be bough out the country. Of co- President Roosevelt wi- delicious viands from a orders of Grant gazel (Jackson's hartebeest) the paa, smallest of all, some morsel to the h eat all the disjecta m killed. They are espe- cial animals, which they ro the offal. Zebra steak is palatale are wild boars in abu something like corned special Master E. V. McKeever fitted report to this effect in the supreme S THERE is so much big game hunting in British East Africa there is no trouble in finding a man or a firm, either at Mombasa or Nairobi, to procure all the necessary porters, tents, ammunition and food for a party going into the wilds. There are several mercantile firms which make a A hunting party usually carries a bountiful supply of rice, which can be bought in many of the Indian stores at Mombasa. Chop-boxes, containing 60 pounds of canned goods, will also be purchased at Mombasa. Among these canned goods will be found pears, peaches and apricots from California; pickled tongues from South America; corned beef from Australia and deviled ham and chicken from Chicago. An extract of beef must be a favorite with the hunters, for I saw many of the natives, whose ear lobes are abnormally pierced, wearing a condensed milk can in one ear and an extract of beef jar in the other; an abundant supply of condensed milk is necessary for the journey, and plenty of tea, coffee and cocoa, especially tea. With the rice one should take chutney, a hot sauce made in India from the mango fruit mixed with red pepper. This shutney is said to be a great preventative of fever. When starting from large towns like Mombasa or Nairobi, the party will carry as food for the porters, a large quantity of bananas, cocoanuts and long stalks of sugar cane. Some of the native tribes like the Wataveta, the Wachagga and the kikuyu can live almost entirely upon a few heads a day of common coarse maize or corn. Along the way they will purchase from native vendors round balls, resembling popcorn balls, made from a mixture of white ants and cassava flour. This cassava flour is beaten up in mortars and is made from the cassava root, which grows in all the gardens. The natives eat these puff balls with eager voracity. For the white travelers there will be plenty of chickens, which can be bought for eight cents apiece throughout the country. Of course in such a party as the one President Roosevelt will take there will be no want of delicious viands from antelope steak, for there are hunreds of Grant gazelles, Thomson gazelles, kongoni (Jackson's hartebeest) Chandler's Reed buck and the little paa, smallest of all deer, which forms a very toothsome morsel to the hungry hunter. The natives will eat all the disjecta membra of any of the wild game killed. They are especially fond of the entrails of the animals, which they roast over fires without removing the offal. Zebra steak is palatable to the white man and there are wild boars in abundance. Elephant steak looks something like corned beef but it is very tough. The sistance In the event of any trouble with the loads, see that no desertions take place, allow no straggling, and generally do what they can to protect the caravan. They are each armed with an old Snider rifle and ten rounds of ball cartridges, and generally very dangerous men to their A THE TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA WACHAGGA WOMEN POUNDING CORN IN WOODEN MORTER friends when they take it into their heads to fire their weapons. The ordinary porters will carry their 60-pound loads day in and day out, without complaint, so long as they are well fed; but stint them of their rice and they at once become sulky mute-neers. In addition to carrying the loads they pitch and strike camp, procure firewood and water, and build grass huts if a stay of more than a day is intended to be made at one place. On the whole the Swahili porter is one of the jolliest and most willing fellows in the world, and I have nothing but praise for him. In crossing from German to British East Africa on the Vol-Kilimanjaro road, one of the first considerations in the outfit of a party of sa' 70 porters will be the water supply. Water will have to be carried across the Serengeti desert between Burra and the Iumi river at Taveta, a distance of 50 miles. When we crossed this Yaru, as it is called, I told one of my boys to make the water clean and he went and put soap in it to make it clean, making soapuds. There is no water at all in the Yaru. THE TOMB OF THE MARTYR ERRORS MADE BY LIBRARIANS flavor is not very good. It always reminded me of a combination of stewed cobblestones and sawdust. When a band of German hunters with us last year shot over ten tons of elephant meat in the Kilimanjaro region, the natives came for 200 miles, and almost every ounce of available meat was by them eagerly devoured. The natives draw the line at eating the dead lions, and the Mohammedan portion of the safari will eschew the pig in all its forms. My Swahili tent boys absolutely refused to eat anything cooked in pig lard, when they discovered the picture of a pig on the Chicago tins. When the president starts from Kisumu for the Mandi plateau and the Elgon district, his attendants can buy their food in the market place of the Kavirondo, the naked natives on the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza. The Masai will sell them curdled milk in long gourds. In districts where English farmers have settled, white men of the party will be able to procure good milk and butter. At Nakuzu, near the railway, in the region of the Rift valley, there are 500 Boer farmers, and good fresh meat will be easily obtained for expeditions towards the Mau Escarpment and the Eldama ravine. In the neighborhood of Nairobí there are nearly a thousand Englishmen and at such farms as that of Mr. Heatley, nearly all the English cereals and vegetables can be bought. The potatoes of the Nairobí district are becoming famous throughout East Africa. They cost about $2.50 a bushel The Hindoos have splendid vege Some Little Stories That Prove the Guardians of Literature Are Not Infallible. It is usually the ignorant or confused frequenters of a library who are responsible for amusing mistakes, but occasionally an overhaughty guardian of literature gives occasion for a quiet smile to those she serves. To a request for "Prometheus Unbound," one such replied, with chilling decisiveness: "We have no unbound books." More recently, a school teacher, wishing to extend her rather scanty knowledge of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, in view of the centenary of his birth, inquired at the delivery desk of a rural library for "The Gold Bug," adding: "I can't seem to find it in the catalogue, but I'm sure you have it. A friend of mine had it out last week." WAKAMBA·WOMEN EMPLOYED AS WATER CARRIERS The librarian glanced at the card catalogue drawer over which the teacher had been poring, and smiled a superior smile. "No wonder, Miss Jones," she explained with patient gentleness. "You're looking under 'Fiction.' Turn to 'Entomology' and you won't have any trouble." Smiling in her turn, a different and more genial smile, the teacher turned to "Entomology," and there, indeed, duly classified with learned work on Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, she found the unscientific but fascinating insect invented by that master of mystery tales, who did not even know that a beetle is not a bug. It was almost too good a joke to spoil, but instruction and correction become second nature to a teacher; and, besides, there was her duty to the public. When she departed with TRANSPORTING TENTS AND ROOD THROUGH JUNGLE table gardens at Nairobi, where celery, Brussels sprouts, potatoes, tomatoes and nearly all the garden vegetables of the temperate zones are grown. In the wilder districts around Mount Elgon there is plenty of honey to be had from the wild natives of Bukedi. Native sheep and goats will be found in nearly all the villages, even in the wildest parts. The natives, however, do not like to sell any of their domestic cattle, because such animals are used in the purchase of wives and are supposed to be a sign of wealth. In the Uganda country there are good Indian stores, both at Kampala and at Entebbe. There are also English and Italian merchants in both of these Uganda towns. Plenty of rice and canned goods can be purchased for the president's hunting trip through Uganda to the Congo forests. There is a 'rickshaw line being established, for 1909, across the Uganda nearly 200 miles to Lake Albert Nyanza. All the country abounds in game and there are plenty of wild guinea fowl and plantain-eaters, besides abundance of partridges and pigeons. Among the animals they will be able to shoot in the Uganda are the Speke's tragelaph (a water loving animal) of a dark mouse-brown or chestnut color, the Pallah antelope, Baker's roan antelope, the white-eared kob of Unyoro, the steinbuck, the Duyker antelope of the unwooded plains. These are some of the game which will provide the party with food on its journey through Uganda. It is said that the president's party will need to pay $40 per day for each white man of the party. This, I think, is an exaggeration. My friend Mr. Dutkewich and myself traveled very comfortably through most of the country over which the president is going and it did not cost us over $10 or $12 a day apiece. I should say then that $20 per day for each of the white men of the party would be ample allowance, even if the price of chickens went up to 16 cents apiece, which they are very likely to do with such a distinguished party. Eggs may even attain the enormous price of three cents apiece, and potatoes may cost five cents per pound. A good deal of the food will be supplied by the native chiefs, who will expect rather elaborate presents in return. But I remember receiving a very handsome goat from Sultan Sulima of the Wachagga tribe for which, at the advice of a German officer I gave him three cans of condensed milk and a half pound tin of Van Houten's cocoa. Along the Nile there will be a steam-er connection from Lake Albert to Khartoum, except for a six days' march from Wadelai to Gondokoro. On this trip there ought to be good antelope hunting, there will be plenty of lions and hippopotami and the president may even shoot an okapi. This strange animal seemingly coming in between a zebra and a giraffe is eaten by the natives. But it will not do for the president's party to depend on okapi meat for a six days' safari, since only one or two specimens of this animal have ever been seen by white men. These, then, are some of the means by which the party of Mr. Roosevelt will be fed during his year in Africa. There will be rice, chickens, chutney, and some kind of rough bread as the staple in the camp for the white men. Greek bakers in Mombasa now supply hunters with bags of hard biscuit which are extremely good upon the march, because insects cannot pierce their indurated surace. e e i i t t d h v t n t w s h t c w f h d o i v e v i n t e o r is v e i n t e o g "The Gold Bug" under her arm, she left an enlightened but crestfallen librarian. Oddly enough, a mate to this anecdote comes, at almost the same time from the other side of the continent. The president of a western woman's club, also brushing up her knowledge of Poe before writing a paper on his life, sought at the local library for that weird tale of horror, "The Pit and the Pendulum." She was referred to the card catalogue, and advised to look under "Mechanics" or "Horology." — Youth's Companion. To Thine Ownself Be True. Take it not grievously if some think ill of thee, and speak that thou wouldst not willingly bear. Thou oughtest to be the hardest judge of thyself, and to think no one weaker than thyself. If thou dost walk righteous, thou wilt not much weigh fleeting words—Thomas a Kemps. AMERICAN ae = HOME egreys gle WA RADFORD at pall =—. EDITOR g Se ws A: aan - . 4 os fe ‘a eo Ec? wa 74 eee i ee (a ay Oe os | cll lel) ee oe Wet ee) all a a Ce ee eee) & ee a eG Chek p Lo i ee 2 ie ‘“ a ae mee | a cinceanieel cameras ‘Mr. Willlam A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF “Ost on all subjects pertaining to the cutject of bullding for the readers of this Super. On account of his wide expe- Renee as Editor, Author and Manufac- fuser, he $8, without doubt, the highest huthority on all these subjects. Address Dil inquires to Wiliam A. Radford, No. 14 Fifth Ave, Chicago, TM, and only enclose two-cent stamp for réply, A large and rather pretentious house {s shown in thig design, It is 33 feet in width by 46 feet 6 inches in length, exclusive of porches, a size that is sufficient to permit the working in of every modern conyenience with the addition of a few luxuries. Such a house has a fine appearance; in fact, it Is a distinguished-looking residence, and it is just as valuable as it looks. it is set well up on a solid cellar wall, the first floor being nearly four ft above grade, A house like this set down near the ground would have a squatty appearance, Besides the gcneral appearance there is a great ad- vontage in earrying the foundation wall well up, and that is the oppor- tunity to make a splendid basement. ‘sements got a black eye some s ago because of the imported iasuion of building basement kitchens, no of the worst features ever worked a dwelling. Basement kitchens pave caused the deaths of a great many women, The extra labor of running up and down stairs in their-ambition to have things as near right as. pos sible overtaxed many delicate consti tutions. When doctors became thor oughly disgusted with basement kitch ens they talked against them and wrote up their bad effects. The beast ly things were disearded and the new Ay fe fsa oe Pe] - ~ Te fi onaee ae t mx bere 3g oe | ve nee mene First Floor Plan on rainy days and light and mrv fiovsh to work in. with comfor at «ny time, The laundry is partitioned off, es all laundries should be, and it is casily reached from the outside by the grade entrance door shown al the lett of the first-floor plan. This oor may also be seen just back of the bar window in the perspective design. ‘The front end of the basement is di Viled into fruit cellars with partitions to make separate rooms. Under the middle of the house in the center of the basement fs a heating plant, Which, in a house as big as this, shoull be either steam or hot water; hot water is preferable. The hot-wa. ter plint costs a little more, but it 4s cheaper to run afterward, so the real expense is very little difference. Hot Water offers an advantage in mild Weather because you can haye a small fire and cireulate the water at a low temperature and the heat remains for hours, whereas steam must have a temperature of at least 212 degrees in order (o start it, 4 sery nice feature about this house 's the screened-in rear porch. It is the, Deasant to sit out in the summer ae until the mosquitoes become too *ersistent, “There 1s only one way to aw out doors at might and avold ‘ema and that is to fit the porch with od wire screens. This is a fashion LAXATIVE FOR WOMEN FREE There is a great difference in the purposes to which @ laxative should be put. 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The old, well cured tobaccos used are so'rich in quality that many who formerly smoked 10c cigars now smoke Lewis’ Single Binder Straight 5e. Lewis’ Single Binder costs the dealer some more than other 5e cigars, but the higher price enables th!s fac- tory to use extra quality tobacco. There are many imitations; don’t be fooled. There is no substitute! Tell the dealer you want a Lewis “Single Binder.” “Step this way, ladies and gentle men,” exclaimed the lecturer in the dime museum, “and gaze upon one of the greatest wonders known to modern science—the ossized man, a human be- ing, perfectly normal in every other re- spect, but who has truned to stone.” “How did he get that way?” came a yoice from the awe-stricken throng. “Love,” replied the lecturer, low- ering his voice, confidentially; “love did it. He fell in love with a beau- tiful maiden, tried to make himself solid, and overdid it. 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One must not imagine it is all work and no play with the Labrador Eski- mos, writes Clifford H. Easton, in ar, article on “The People of Labrador.” in Recreation. Much to my surprise, I found that our good old game of football had taken hold_in Ugava. The game is played with a ball of sealskin stuffed with grass. The goals are placed much the same as is our own game, and each player is armed with a short-handled sling made of several thongs of seal hide bent in loops and attached te a wood- en handle. The ball may be either tossed in the sling, kicked, or, should opportunity offer, picked up and car- ried. Rough tactics are not barred. I have seen a man tossed in the air and pitched head foremost into a snow bank, while pushing, tripping and blocking are all freely indulged in, ‘A Poor Memory for Names. 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Land may also be purchased from railway and land companies, For “Last Best West” pamphlets, maps a: 4 way euten apgly to Superintendent of imate gration, Gttawa, Canada, of the authorised Gabadian Government Agent: 3.8. cRAWFORD, Mo.125W. Ninth Stree, Kansas City, Missourt, % gq This Trademark \\ i Eliminates All Mae > Uncertainty ea is in the purchase of PEAS paint materials. Cane Fis an absolute frre 5) pcre pe CPS ity and quality. a7 a3 aoe your oe ed ie # protection, see a that it is on the side of every keg of white lead fs outsy: NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 1902 Trinty Bulldiag, New York @ | | Vypte7e TOILET ANTISEPTIC —— NOTHING LIKE IT FOR—— THE TEETH fcr ery cents femoving tartar from the teeth, besides destroying all germs of decay and disease which ordinary, tooth preparations cannot do. THE MOUTH fostsxy2nenent ‘and throat, purifies the breath, end kills the germs which collect in the mouth, causing sore throat, Lad teeth, bad breath, grippe, and much sickness. shen inflar tin ‘he THE EYES sin, tens ed. ate telicved and strengthened by Pextine. Paxti il the GATARRH ttc bate eee ep the ischarge. It is a sure Pastine is a harmless scndaham ne See ici‘ baking t decoys odor wd SRA leaves the body antiseptically clean. SaPUlana FOR SALE AT DRUG STORES,50c. ¢ a) 4 ‘OR POSTPAID BY MAIL. 2 i LARGE SAMPLE FREE! p THE PAXTON TOILET 0., BOSTON, MASS, THE GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR Used by More Than Two Million Men No STROPPING No HONING. KNOWN: THE itt ‘WORLD OVER Herecronuses Fhompson’s Eye Water W. N. U., WICHITA, NO, 18-1909. 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. Engaged in the culinary art. Progressive ideas in fancy and home cooking. Meets 2nd and 4th Friday afternoons of each month. Mrs. Will H. Jones, President; Miss Jennie Wheeler, Secretary. 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 Miss Eula James is the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Mr & Mrs H. W. James, she was born in this city and attended the Wichita High School. Miss James is a musician of no small ability having for several years been an organist for the Second Bhptist church and was noted for her amiable and sweet disposition. She left on last Tuesday afternoon for Los Angeles California to become the wife of Mr Irving Lyde; the groom is a young man of splendid qualities having resided here for several years. The young people have a host of friends in the city who wish them the greatest amount of happiness. Mrs W. N. Miller recieved a telegram Wednesday annoucing the death of her mother, Mrs. Winnie Anthonthy who died in St Lousis, Mo. on Tuesday night She left Wednrsday night for St. Louis via Missouri Pacific. Mrs. Anthony was about 85 years of age and died principally of old age. Sunday May 16th is the date of the rally at the A. M. E. church in the interest of the building fund. No certain amount is set to be raised and each member is asked to raise $5.00. Much interest is being manifested by the members and friends of the church and the rally now promises to surpass the expectation of all. The date is Sunday May 16. Club No. 3 of A. M. E. church Mrs Thos Glover Capt will give a musical recital at the churce on Monday night May 10; by two little girls 11 and 6 years old. This will be one of the novel attractions and every one is invited to come out and see what two little girls can do. On behalf of her club Capt. Glover invites everyone. The admission will only be 10c. Remember the place the day the two little girls. Come out. Quite a number of Wichita people went to Kansas City to attend the funeral of the late Pev R. M. Comtee. Those whose names we were able to learn are Mrs A Patton Mrs Eliza Lea, Rev and Mrs J. H. Van Leu, J. Mitchem Rev M. L. Copeland Mrs Blanch Givn Mrs Kittie Coleman Pev. Wm. Turner of Pratt Kans. special Master E. V. McKeever nced report to this effect in the supreme .SUBSCRIBE FOR.. 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Our subscription rate-one dollar per year-is within the reach of all. You will never have reasons to regret it. AGENTS WANTED GOOD MONEY can be realized by the right persons as Agents and Correspondents of the Searchlight. In this Department we make a specialty of High - Grade Commercial Job Printing... Mail Orders We give prompt attention to all Orders sent us by mail for Job Printing. No Job Too Small-No Job Too Large. Good Work Guaranteed-First-Class Workmen Address all communications to SEARCH W. N. MILLEE 634 N. Water St., W.N. MILLEER,Editor 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kansas ESTABLSHED IN 1898 Published Every Week We want active, wide-awake hustling men, women, boys and girls as Agents for the Searchlight in every city, town village and community. OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRA KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS TABOR. PEV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborian Home, R. F. D. No. 8, Topeka, Kansas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kans. MRS SARAH FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St., Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. G. 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. TEMPLES. 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., 1-8 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-2 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. H. Tyler, 520 E 9th Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 5 Mrs. Carrie Brown, 922 N. 10th, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-8 Tues. (A) 2 Rev. for C 3 J. C K 4 F. I N 5 Rob N 7 Dr. W 3 A. J K 10 Geo. L 11 C 12 Lee. K 9 Mrs. Katie Thomas, 117 E Laurett, Topeka, Kansas. 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 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., 1-8 Sat. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 24 Mrs. Angle Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Pars- sons, Kan., 1-8 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawat- omie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 8 Set. A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to a bicycle furnished by us. Our agents wherever are or full particulars and special offer at once. 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 to us at our exp. age and you will not be out one cent. We make a small bicycle and learn our unheard of factory offers to rider agents. INSisted when you receive our beautiful catalogue and our cost. We make a bicycle and learn our unheard of factory offers to rider agents. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory costs you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear our own bicycles and maintain its mailed free. We roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and half the usual retail prices. PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 80 RES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY WAITED—A RIDER sample Latest Model "Ranger" bicycle for making money fast. Write for full partici- pation. Send your order to U.S. mail to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. without a allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL dupe put it in any test you wish. If you are the keeper of the bicycle ship it back to our store. FACTORY PRICES. We furnish the hi- tle price to make mildness a special offer to E- mployees behind your bicycle. DO NOT HAT at any price until you receive our cat- prises and remarkable special offers to E- mployees. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED low prices we can make you this year. We e- sist in the factory. We are satisfied BICYCLE DEALERS, you can call o- nline or double our prices. Orders filled the day received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not re- promptly have a number on hand taken in made by our promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. Single wheels, imported roller equipment of all kinds at half the usual $8.50 HEDGETHORN PUNCT SELF-HEALING TIRES 100 The regular retail price of these tires is $3.50 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $8.00/casinhour order $.55. NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES Nailless Tecks or Glass will not kill the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with MEDGE THORN SPECIAL PURPOSE TIME 60 SHAPE SIZE 60 a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satis-faction writers, and we have been up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $5 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to padded same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on examined and found them strictly as represented, i.e. (they make the price $4.55 per pair) if you unclose at advertisement. We will also send one returned at our expense if you any reason they are reliable and money sent to us is as safe as you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We then you want a bicycle you will give us your order, since this can be a nice gift offer. Any kind at any price until you send for a pair oforn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which sits at about half the usual price. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you knob the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on approval. You pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will send you a letter with a full cash WITH ORDER 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. You order a pair of tires and we ride to us easier, ruler faster, better fit and look finer than any tire you have ever used or ordered. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. IF YOU NEED TIRES but at any price until you send for a pair of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT 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 offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL the rider on your bike. You do not pay a cent until you have examined all approval. You will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby may send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this application to send us a total order at once. We will be grateful if you do not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find the wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have know that you will be so well pleased that you want. We want you to send us a total order at once, hence you will buy IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at the special introductory price quoted above. Hedgethorn Puncture describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about him DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO we offer we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everyly J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY 333 TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1508 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1175, Welk City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 42 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 63 Mrs. Lille Roblett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-2 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) ita, Kan., Fridays. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Wed. (A) 91 Mrs. Lulu Rountree, 1125 N. 19th Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 3 J. G. Purdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison Kan., 1-8 Fri. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 N. Hur. 7 Dr. G. G. Brown, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kan., 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, Kan., 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. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 M. 12th Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1s\ Salt Lake City, Utah. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 22 B. C. Easter, Box 158, Oswego Kans., 2-4 Tues. 24 J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th, Cherryvale, Kans., 1-3 Tues. 28 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 60 E. C. Sqres, 1813 Jefferson, Topeka, Kans., 1-3. Mon. 72 J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 1 Lillie Harden, 200 Fifth St., Leavenworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 210 W. Wall, Ft. Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 777 TEMPLE8. TENTS. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D." also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This helps you make-SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. 3 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb., 2 Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walken, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Sat. Morn. 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Coffeyville, Kan., 2-1 Wed. (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 811 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 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, 718 "Q" St. Atchison, Ks., 2-4 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Ks., 2-4 Wed., (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Saffna, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Flata, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susle Wills, 2103 Grand, Parsona Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark, Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 26 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsons, Kans., 1-3 Sat. 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherman, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thr. (A) 36 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 27 Jannie McAdoo, 1818 N. Madison, Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) If your Tabernacle, Temple or Tent 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 & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly obtain our Opinion Service. This information is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents from Oldest agency in research. Communications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents from Oldest agency in research. Patents taken through Munn & Co. to receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Tarnals, $ a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newdealers. MUNN & Co. 3618roadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D. G. Salina May 25th. Rev. Frank Wilson C.G.M. will make his annual 1909 visit with the Temple Tabernacle and Tent in Salina on Tuesday May, 25th. Have you seen Belinda Jane & Jonathan of Punkin Ridge? They will both be at Garfield Hall on May 12th. Taborian Temple No 11 will hold their election of officers for the ensuring year on Tuesday night May 6th. All members are urged to be present.