Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. WELCOME WELCOME That is a word which we want you to feel is said to you when you enter our store. It doesn't matter whether you come to buy Drugs, Cigars, leave a prescription or to simply wait for a car, our welcome is just as sincere. PRESCRIPTIONS Come to us. Why? Beeause we have a reputation for the purity of our Drugs and the skill we use in compounding. Our Prescription Department is well equipped and you get just what your prescription calls for without the slightest deviation. If you have a prescription that demands extreme care, bring it to us. We charge you more than where less precautlon is used Come to us. Why? Beeause we have a reputation for the purity of our Drugs and the skill we use in compounding. Our Prescription Department is well equipped and you get just what your prescription calls for without the slightest deviation. If you you have a prescription that demands extreme care, bring it to us. We charge you no more than where less precaution is used. Sick Room Supplies We have about everything that has been invented to lessen the suffering of the sick. Hot Water Bottles, Family and Fountain Syringes, Bandages, Medicated Cottons, Gauzes, Lint, Soap, Etc. ...Quality Always Foremost... Pure Drugs and Medicines, Choice Pertunes, Toilet Articles, Etc. If you are too busy'phone us. We do the rest. Free Delivery. Oscar R. Bissantz PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST 811 N. Main Ind. Phone 620 High Class Surgery Special Attention Given to a Specialty Canine Practice All Calls Promptly Answered—Day or Night Veterinary Physician & Surgeon The Finest Equipped Hospital In the City Both Phones Office and Hospital 1730 236 N. Market St., Wichita, Ks, J.H.ENGSTROM Successor to B.F. McLean 318 west Douglas Ave 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. 241 N. Main Street Wichita, Kansas ELEVENTH YEAR That is a is said to doesn't n Drugs, C simply w as sincer Come to utation the skill scription you get j for with you have treme ca no more ...Quality Pure Drug Toilet Art have a rep- dugs and Our Pre- capped and action calls on. If you hands ex- charge you on is used. remost... the Perfumes, poussy'phone ntz EST d. Phone 620 ention Given to the Practice Day or Night Wildes, Surgeon The City Hospital ., Wichita, Ks. FROM dealer on S Ave ART KET ATOR , Veal, Chick- Home Grown Heinz Pickles, ked Beans, and Wichita, Kansas JUNE 12 1909. Negro Out of Place? Negro Out of Place? Tallahassee, Fla. June 4.—The spirit which prompted the senate to strike out a $25,000 appropriation from the funds allotted the negro Agricultural and Mech anical college of this state was voiced by the speech of Senator Cone: "Take these brass buttons and chevrons away from these negro boys and make them plow the fields. "Think of it, men, negroes wearing uniforms and walking around the streets of our capital city. Why, Mr. President, I have even seen them sitting up here in the senate. Negro captains We had better be making farmers out of them. Patent leather shoes red neckties, brass buttons and chevrons are breeding in the brest of every negro out there the ambition to be a Booker T. Washington, and eat at some white man's table. It is not right to appropriate to them all of this money to be used in this way. Why, they even have tennis courts out there. Why not make them plow these courts up and plant cotton in them. It's called an agricultural school, not a military college Let's make them wear homespn shirts, jeans breeches and get in the fields and plow. We'll cut all this appropriation down and say to our state board of control, 'You take these uniforms from these negroes, or we will ask the governor to remove you.' We've got to stop them, or we will have trouble with them pretty soon." TEETH CLEANING FREE Dr. H. T. Bolden Has An Offer For Next Twenty Days The standard price for cleaning teeth is $1.00, but for the next 20 days, begining with Monday, May 24th. I will clean all teeth that are brought to me AT HALF PRICE. Dr. H. T. Bolden 601 N Main NOTES OF RACIAL PROGRES As Reported By The National Negro Business League In Greenville, S. C. there are quite a number of prosperous colored men engaged in the professions, business and trades or various kinds. Among the business men perhaps the most successful are Messrs. Homer and Blake Goldsmith who have been conducting a grocery store about fifteen years, doing an annual business of neary $20,000; Pink Send your news in earlier Chapel twenty years in business $10,000 a year; John Thompson fresh meat merchant, $6,000 a year; Andrew Harris aud Brother grocers $10,000 annually; of William Payne, $5,000. Mr. L. D. Bowman does a good buisness in the shoe trade, with a $3,000 stock Mr. William Bulimane is the promoter of a very successful insurance company in the state of South Carolina, and also the leading furneral director here. The negro contractor has a chance and is evidently makin good in this city. For instance: A. D. McDaniel a first-class plasterer, won out in competition with sevecal white contractors in securing the job of plastering the rooms of one of the finest hotels in the South erected here at a cost of $125,000. Mr. McDaniel worked about fifteen men on this job some of whom were well also white men. Then there are Messrs. W. R. Sewell and James Dayley, carpenter contractors, who each emply from six to ten workmen. The professions are represented by Drs. William T. Smith E. A. Boyd, and G. W. Harvey, the latter a dentist as well as a medical practitioner. There is a drug store, the proprietors of which are Dr. E. A. Boyd and Mr. James William a gratuate pharmacist of Leonard Medicine College, RaleN. C. The Atlantic State Saving Banks 185 Auburn Avenue opened up for business January 6th. It authorized capital is $25,000. The officers are Messrs J. O. Ross president; H. R. Butler M. D. vs. president H. Strawbridge sec't. H. E. Perey assist. sec't. D. T. Howard Sr. treasure, The amount of business transacted since its doors first opened is about $12. A few of the successful mechanics of Atlantia are Messrs Murphy & Sons 514 Decatur St. who are engaged in the grocery business enjoyed a patronage of probably $25,000 a year W. H. Scott 205 Little Street grocery $15,000 J. O. Ross 375 West Hunter Street groceries and fresh meats $30. 000 annually. Here is also shoe store 30 South Board Street Daniel T. Howard manager doing a fairly good business while Mrs. Goodrum & Co. own a stove, tin and plumbing establishment at 108 Edward Avenue, and conduct a flourishing business in their line. C. P. Cochran is the proprietor of a well furnished shoe dry goods and variety store at 138 Auburn Ave. The Standard Life Insurance Company (old line) recently organized and chartered with capital stock of $200,000 is meeting with much success Shares are being subscribed for right along by those who are in sympathy with the movement in different parts of the country. It will not be ready for business Mr. H. E. Perry is the secretary Rucker of Building Auburn Avenue Atlanta Georgia. Mr. B. Jackson of Jacksonville, Fla. landed there twenty-five yrs ago with only $5.00 in his pocket; today he is regarded as man of wealth. His county and city taxes amount to $350 per annum He is one of the largest contractors and builders in the city. Besides he operates and owns one of the largest wood mills in the city. He carries a life policy of $50,000 ann lives on Jesse & Van Buren Streets. Mr. J. D. McDufy of Ocala. Fla; is a very successful truck farmer Eleven years ago he started with a rented 3 acre farm now he owns over sixhundred acres of land. Last season he shipped ninty cars of cantaloupes to North eighteen cars of watermelons to Northern markets. In connection with his fruit farm, Mr. McDuffy is also stock raiser. The proceeds from the latter business amounts to nearly ten thousand pounds of pork anually. In the fruit season he employs about one hundred and 25 hands. —Exchange A SWELL WEDDING The social event of the month of June was the pretty eladorate and fashionable wedding of Miss Lulu Ellen Parks to Mr. Benjamin Franklin Hill two of Wichitas very prominent colored society young folks. The wedding took place at the residence of brides mother Mrs Mary Parks 1045, Ohio Wednesday night June 9th. 09 the wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. Jas. T. Smith D. D. pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church. The wedding march was played by Prof. N. Clark Smith. The home was beautifully artistically and daintily decorated in the wedding colors and the contracting parties presented a fashion plate in wedding attires when accompanied by their aides they stood under the solemuly lime-light of matrimony to take vows that would make two hearts as one. At 7:30 p. m. the wedding w.s solemnized. The friends and relatives of the happy couple had prepared an elaborate wedding reception at the youngs hall and from 8:30 to 10: the wedding party and guest exchanged congratulations with the nswly married and wishes them many happy married days. The hall was decorated with palms, potted plants and sweet scented flowers and was a most beautiful place to be. Here the large and profusely presentations of valuable and useful wedding presents were made and displayed. In variety value and usefulness the gift eclipsed any previous wedding collection for many years past. The bride Miss Lulu Ellen Park is the accomplished daJghter of Mrs Mary parks and is recognized as one of our most cultured, well educated and refined young ladies while the groom Mr Benjamon Franklin Hill is one of the Wichitas foremost sons. He is a member of Hose Company No.3 and is a $32^{\circ}$ Mason of high standing. He is a most exemplary man and has a host of warm friends. He has a home all paid for and furnished at W. Pearl to take his bride. The Searchlight wished to add its well wish that the happy couple may have a long and hapy married life. THE SHIPP CASE. Sheriff Ship of Chattanooga is convicted in the Supreme Court of the United States on a contemp charge in connection with the lynching of Ed. Johnson colored. The opinion which was handed down by Cheif Justice Fuller directed that an attachment issue for Shipp, his deputy Gibson and defendants Williams Nolan Padgett and May. The informations as to Deputy Sheriff Galoway and Justic and Warp three of the defendants was dismissed. The cheif justice presented a complete review of the Johnson case. He concluded that neither Shipp nor his Deputy Gibson had made any effort to prevent the removal of Johnson from the jail to prevent his killing after he'was taken out nor to discover the participats in the lynching after it took place. The rnle was made returnable on Tuesday June 1st. The penalty is either a fine or imprisonment. NOTICE H. H. Garnett Temple No. 2, of Coffeyville. Kan., has been suspended for not paying their Endowment for four [4] months. All Temples and Tabernacles are hereby notified to send their Quarterly Report to the C. G. M. and the Tents their report to the G. Q. M I feel the Lord is blessing our work, The KITCHEN CABINET He says he would protect me from the public rush and shout. (Yes, I am taking boarders now, to help John's business out.) The C. G. looked up smiling. "I haven't the blues; I'm only replying to my critic of to-day who said that I was too free with my sympathy. In the matter of alley tradesmen and peddlers, for instance, I am a so-called 'mark' for them, and buy pointless needles and rotten thread because I feel the injustice of their having to tramp all day for a bare living." "But suppose they don't need to do it? Suppose they have a bank account, as some cynics declare?" Then continuing, more soberly, she said 'No, 'the sorrow of others throws its shadow over me,' and it is only when doing my best to lighten the sorrow that I can enjoy the fire. So you see, everything I do is selfish, after all.' LL in the pomp of sum- mer, I walked where the flowers grow. Where elder-blossoms beckon with their parasols of snow. Where, over the hedge in all its pride of gay wistaria drest. The sunflower bowing to the sun, its theft of gold confest. The butterfly sprang from a wild-rose heart and shook its trammeled wings. Free of the dust of pollen and tangle of spider- web strings. And I passed the mullein in proud dis- dain. Of the juicy milkweed's pearly rain. Special Master E. B. V. McKeever nud report to this effect in the supreme THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION. INTERVIEWED a work once, upon the $ frage Question: Said she: "That to spoils our meals; ruined John's dig tion, He says he would protect me from the p u rush and shout. (Yes, I am taking boa rses now, to l John's business o "He says that voting hard work (Jane g eer up the clothes! Sald she: "That topic spoils our meals; has ruined John's digestion. "He says that voting is hard work (Jane gather up the clothes!) And we were made for ornament (There! I must darn John's nose). The children? Yes, they're in my care; for better or for worse Their future on my shoulders rests. And, yes, I keep the purse, "Because, in money matters, I do better far than he, And so I manage the expense and pay the bills, you see. But Female Suffrage? No, we ought to let the question rest. We are the 'weaker vessels,' and I'm sure my John knows best!" A Household Familiar The housewife's best friend and servant, kerosene. Infinite are its uses, and wonderful its help. It not only keeps away the dirt and its attendant germs, but it is a cheap and simple way to rid the home of any and all vermin. Wipe the beds with it; sprinkle a bit along the route chosen by red or black ants; pour a few drops down the pipes to keep the bugs away, and wash the kitchen walls once in a while (wipe with a damp cloth around the sink), to scare off the cockroaches. The barrel or standing pool near the house or barn is a good breeding place for mosquitoes, and this can be materially helped by pouring a bit of oil over the surface of the water. Kerosene will clean porcelain with little labor, and is excellent for laundry purposes. Chinese Menus. A recent lecturer on the food eaten commonly in China, asks in conclusion: "How can they hope to rise from laundry to laboratory, from soap suds to science, when they eat as they do, and what they do?" Note their most elegant banquets: "Birds, with bamboo sprouts; hogs liver and crab fried in castor oil; shark's fin hash; stale eggs, preferably three months 'high'; horny nuts, mysterious sweet things and sugarless tea." This does not sound inviting to occidental palates, but we are not exactly prepared to lay all the Chinese peculiarities and shortcomings to the eccentricities of the diet. HEARTS-EASE. 141 But, best of all, at the farthest end, away from the gaudy crowds, Where the lane, like a long green ribbon, ties up a bunch of clouds, Some scarlet popples tipped, to Heartsease in purple shroves. ease in purple shrouds. He is found from the world apart. Drowse contentment from the heart of Rabbit Stock Rabbits make excellent stock, but they should be soaked in salted water 12 hours before boiling to get rid of the "rabbity" taste which so many find objectionable. To make the meat still more delicate, soak the jointed rabbit in milk for an hour. Rabbit Casserole—Joint the rabbit, larding the breast and legs with strips of bacon. Fry these in the casserole with a bit of butter, sliced onions and cubes of bacon. When browned, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with an ounce of flour and brown again. Then add a pint of stock, a glass of white wine, if liked, and cook in the oven till the rabbit is tender (cook in the casserole, covering tightly.) A bunch of herbs may be cooked with it if high seasoning is preferred. Skim well, and serve in the casserole. A. Hint to the Eat An exclusive diet of milk is declared to be a positive, cheap, and comfortable remedy for excessive fat. According to a German professor, Moritz, of Strasburg, milk, and no other article of diet except a very little water, will absolutely reduce flesh, and with no danger. The allowance varies, from a bit over two pints, to three and a half pints daily, taken at stated times. It is declared to be filling and satisfying, and the patient suffers from neither hunger nor thirst. Prof. Moritz says that "One patient lost 56 pounds in 81 days of treatment." The cure is said to be especially beneficial when the patient has heart or kidney trouble. A TRIBUTE. H The daily life. Where every day, in her appears New smile for joy, new balm for tears, In her, my wife! Whose love is broad, whose faith is much, I pledge this toast! A Talk with the "Cheerful Grouch." "As I remarked before, the world is all topsy-turvy." "What's the Grouch now?" her friend interposed, "here we sit by a cheerful fire, as cosy and happy as—" "Exactly; that's just it; here we sit, and there are lots of folks just as good as we who haven't any cheerful fire to sit by." "But I thought, you scorned the blues, and prided yourself upon being cheerful, in spite of a settled inclination to grouchiness?" "Then I'm sorry for their moral and mental obliquity," returned the C. G. "Aren't your theories a bit mixed?" somebody asked. "Maybe, I haven't thought." "It sounds, doesn't it, as if your theory were at variance with your practice?" "Isn't everybody's?" retorted the C. G. THE RAINBOW 1 And through the violet's mourning, This cherished truth appears, How often in this world of ours, The sun will shine through tears! "Costermongers" Much has been written about the English costermonger, yet few realize how important a part he is of London life, and how old and well-established is the caste to which he belongs. In the first place, the word originally meant "Costard-monger," or appleseller—costard being early English for apples. They number about 40,000 to-day, men, women and children. Some are stationary, some nomadic, some have stalls which are kept in the family like plate and jewels. Indeed, there is an aristocracy of costermongers, and there are rules of class and lines of caste which are strongly marked. A legitimate costermonger would not sell sprats if he were dying; those are relegated to the illegitimate classes who also are permitted by the unwritten law to deal in oranges. Sometimes, too, they sell periwinkles but always and for ever sprats. On the other-hand, the legitimate costermonger peddles English fruits and vegetables. There is, too, a well-known rule as to nationalities, the Irish selling, by common consent, oranges, while the Jews would feel outraged if any other race sold cocoa nuts. They are born and bred in the business, and their education (except the street gamin is educated in worldly wisdom) is always sadly neglected. The prices charged are usually enormous because of the terrific usury most of them pay—their stock-intrade being often bought on borrowed money and heavily mortgaged. Three Letters and a Note By Albertine Crandall TAKEN FROM A PACKAGE OF LET- TRE OUITE DE, MISS, FELTH RALSSEY "San Francisco, Jan. 24, 1901.—My Dearest One: Just one week ago tonight I was bidding you good-by in New York; now 3,000 miles divide us. When I look forward to the long, weary months of waiting before I can go for you they seem endless. Will they ever creep by? To keep up my courage I am continually repeating, 'January, February, March, April; January, February, March, April.' And then—May and You. What a beautiful bride you'll be, Edith, and, please God, a happy one, if a man's love and devotion count for aught. I can see you now as you'll look on our wedding day, all gowned in white, your hair like satin, your eyes like stars. I am glad your hair is dark, Edith, for no real reason except an absurd fancy that the people who have light hair are not always to be trusted. Speaking of blondes reminds me of George's guest and her strange story; also that my purpose in writing this evening isn't merely to tell you how much I love you—that would be impossible—but to fulfill my promise—to write you just how, where, and with whom I have passed my time since I left you. "If my numerous notes reached their destination, you know how deadly uninteresting the overland journey was, and how correspondingly enthusiastic I became when George boarded the train at Sixteenth street. While crossing the bay we held a regular Harvard post-mortem, ending, as in 'ye old times,' with an argument. 'Just like you,' do I hear you say? What else could be expected of two lawyers? Our argument was over where I was to live. As usual, George won; for though I preferred staying at a hotel, he wouldn't listen to it. He said, as the senior member of the new law firm of Bell & Belmont, his wishes were the first to be considered, and a lot more nonsense, until I, as the junior member of the aforesaid illustrious firm, conceded the point, and the court adjourned to meet later at 1602 Broadway—George's residence—where I shall stay for the present. Already, in the two days I have been here, they've made me feel at home. "The Bells are a most interesting family. George you have met; Mrs. George is a rosy-cheeked, matronly looking lady with a kind heart and charming manners; the two children—a boy and a girl—are animated interrogation points. Madge Dargie—the guest—is fair, petite, and rather pretty—under gaslight. As she and her mother are clients of George's, or, as she kindly puts it, 'of ours', the young woman's history may interest you. Educated in a convent, when 17 years old Miss Dargie married a worthless rake of a fellow in direct opposition to her mother's wishes. For two years she led a wretched existence. Six months ago she obtained a divorce, when, by a decree of the court, she resumed her malename. Soon afterwards the ex-husband renewed his lovemaking. To prevent a re-marriage, Mrs. Dargie took her daughter away from Santa Barbara, where all the interested parties reside, to some springs in the northern part of the state. There they remained in comparative quiet—barring the fact that a young man who was staying at the springs developed a most persistent fondness for Miss Dargie's society—until Mrs. Dargie was called home on business. Not wishing, under the circumstances, to leave her daughter at the springs, Mrs. Dargie brought her to San Francisco, where, after placing her in George's care, she left for Santa Barbara, promising to return in one week. That was two weeks ago. George says, "Playing chaperon isn't what it is cracked up to be." I can see he is tired of the responsibility and will be glad when the mother returns. "But enough of this old woman's gossip. Good-night, sweetheart, sweet dreams. Now and forever, your "ROY." "San Francisco, Feb. 27, 1901—My Dearest: How I longed for you Saturday—not that my longing is intermittent, but that day I took a long walk out to the Presidio Heights, where a great many houses are being built, and selected our home. That is, it shall be ours if you like it as well as I do after seeing the plans. One great advantage is that, as the house is not yet completed, you can make your own selections for the interior finishing. "By the way, I've been proxying for George lately in the capacity of watchdog and general utility man, much to his secret amusement. George is an A. No. 1 fellow, but he has one fault: he can't say 'No.' Instead, he invariably promises to do whatever people ask of him and, when it suits him, as invariably turns the job over to someone else. When I first arrived he began by enlisting my sympathies in Miss Dargie's behalf, gradually getting into the habit of asking me to do this and that errand for her until—presto!—before I realized it I became the one she asked favors of, not George. Confound him! "You ask if the young man from the springs is as much in evidence as ever. More so; at least the stream of theater tickets, candy, and flowers has flowed steadily on ever since his arrival in San Francisco. Mrs. George says he is too nice a boy and too much in love to be played with and then thrown aside: that's what she a Note andall J. B. Lippincott Co. thinks Miss Dargie is doing, and she may be right, for there are numerous mysterious telegrams and telephones arriving daily. "Mrs. Dargie has just arrived. I can hear her now in George's private office. There's a perfect babel of tongues. Every one seems to be talking at once. I wish they'd leave me out of it. But they won't; Miss Dargie's wants have become chronic. What is a man to do under the circumstances? He can't be a boor. George is calling me through the speaking-tube. Dearest, that means that I must say good-by for this time, and I haven't even said—I love you. Now, as always, your "ROY." "San Francisco, Mar. 29, 1901.—Dearest: What did you imagine my last letter meant? Surely the March winds must have been playing sad havoc with your fancy, for I never intimated that I desired to control your actions any more than you have—or ever will, I hope—desire to control mine. Why should I? We are both free agents. Does the fact of the existence of our engagement give either one of us, the right to pass judgment upon the other? No; for, as individuals possessing differing personalities, how can we grasp each other's point of view? As lovers—ah, that's a different story! Then, we forget and forgive. "You say, 'Write me all about your clients and cases.' Don't I, always?' My letters are so full of my work and the people I am working for that sometimes I'm ashamed of them; still, I rumble on, secure in the thought that you will understand. "For the past month, ever since Mrs. Dargie's return, neither she nor her daughter has scarcely dared move without consulting George. The last few days have been unusually exciting, which accounts for the brief note I wrote you Sunday. A friend telephoned from Santa Barbara stating that Mr. Gray had started for San Francisco, threatening to kill both Mrs. Dargie and Madge. At that, Mrs. Dargie asked George to inform the chief of police, and the ladies' apartments at the Palace have since assumed some of the characteristics of an army post. A ferret-eyed, undersized detective does triple duty as commandant, sentry and striker, while the role of scout is alternately filled by George, the young man from the springs, and myself—when it can't be helped. So far we haven't succeeded in locating Mr. Gray, though we've had all the trains from the south watched. We think he didn't come; but the ladies are positive he is in the city, hiding, lying in wait for them. Meanwhile the young man from the springs, who is a fine fellow and desperately in love, urges immediate marriage, pleading that if Madge is once his wife he will have the right to protect her. Mrs. Dargie, fearing a possible reconciliation between her daughter and Mr. Gray, approves of the marriage if it can be carried out—the laws of this state requiring one year to elapse after divorce is granted before either party can remarry—but Madge objects. "I was called away just then by a telephone from Mrs. Dargie. She said that George had found an old clergyman friend who was willing to perform the ceremony—they were to charter a tug and go out to sea—if only they could gain Madge's consent. Would I come over at once to the hotel and add my influence—which she was kind enough to say was considerable—to theirs towards hastening the marriage? How could I refuse? Well, I went and found Mrs. Dargie alone. She had grown thin and pale. Somehow my manner must have told her I was sorry for her. In that, and that alone, before God, Edith, was I to blame for what followed. After we had shaken hands I briefly stated my errand. Although she was extremely nervous, she did not speak until I had finished. "You say that my marriage will simplify matters?" she asked. "That it will be best for me—for my mother, who has done so much for me? I should do as she wishes? That is your advice?" "I bowed affirmatively." "Even if I don't love the man? and then, before I could answer, she added, coming close, and gazing at me as if she would look me through and through. 'If—if it were—you'" "Edith, upon my honor, I never was so at a loss for words. I couldn't think. The only thing to do was to come away." "George, who has since joined me at the office, says they found her in a swoon. They didn't know what had passed between us, but as she has promised to marry the young man from the springs day after to-morrow they think that I influenced her. Perhaps I did. I have told George that I will not be a witness at the marriage ceremony, but I did not tell him why. "Oh, if you were only near me! If ever I've needed you, it has been this past month and now—now, Edith! Why aren't you here? "ROY." "Hotel Rafael. Apr. 3, 1901—To Miss Edith Ralston—I enclose a newspaper clipping that will tell you all. I don't know how it happened—but it's done. God forgive me! I'm a brute. Married at sea, April 2, 1901, by Rev. Abel Abercrombie, Royal D. Belmont of New York city, to Margaret Dargle of Santa Barbara, California, Boston and "ROYAL BELMONT" OT every young man is going to make a success at money getting. Inevitably that young man who tries hardest to do so and who by the law of averages as inevitably fails, must be most grievously disappointed. These are facts that were inescapable when society was on a far simpler basis and when the accumulation of $100,000 represented a fortune. They are facts to be multiplied by ten in this age when a million dollars does not make a rich man in the accepted term. Virtually the same ratio exists all down the line of accumulations from business and professional efforts. "What medium line shall I fix upon in the choice of my life's work?" to-day is one of the greatest questions which the young man has to answer for himself. Ordinarily it may be settled as fact that the young man entering the field of merchandising trade does so for the "money there is in it." He has decided to work for money only. He may have the merchant instinct, but if it promised no money reward it is questionable if he would go into it. That man deciding upon manufacturing as his occupation may have a greater personal incentive, in that it will feed an ambition to excel in mechanical tastes and talent. Yet sooner or later the manufacturer, through competitive forces, must make his concessions to money getting. If he become a man of family the luxury and extravagance of the times will be a further inducement to the concession. Yet on the same basis of the law of averages, comparatively few of the business men of the country succeed at money getting. Flinging tastes and ideals to the winds and becoming wholly consecrated to the accumulation of riches, by far the greater number of these workers fail. With ideals gone and with the hope of wealth destroyed, what is left for them? Compare with this type of man the worker who, in choosing his occupation, concedes everything for the privilege of doing his chosen work. He accepts this opportunity as a privilege. It is an invitation to his particular talent—perhaps genius. Naturally he can expect of it a compensation which will enable him to follow the work. He will take that chance. It is incidental to the main question. Yet from whatever high, idealist point of view such a man makes his choice of a life work he may anticipate the time when in his own heart he may have to question that decision. Almost inevitably he must expect competitions. Men with less of the ideal in them will be following this chosen occupation. As these men lack idealism, they will be tempted to money getting. Ways and means to that end not only will be in collision with the young man's idealism, but later in life when he may have a family dependent upon him and may seek for them some of the material things with which his family must enter a social competition, he finds himself disappointed and hurt at conditions. Idealism in business largely is unsalable. It is always a handicap to money making efforts. "Business is business." That is the business man's definition of his calling. Relenting from the harshness of the dictum always is a tax upon the profits. To measure idealism, then, against money becomes an impossible comparative absurdity. his studies. A man who takes a course of four years of social life at some university has thrown away four years of that natural power to work which descended to him from his great progenitor, Adam. He now finds himself face to face with actual work in its true sense, and he also finds that he is not ready to work; his faculties are undeveloped, his fund of information is limited and very hazy; he is a college man, but he is not a trained man, nor an educated man. It is a singular fact that our universities are standing upside down, not on their heads—which might be not altogether a bad thing—but on the wrong end. Pleasure is business, and business is pleasure. As a matter of fact, a man's chief duty to himself and to society is to get his brain into such shape that he can use it, and certainly one function of a university is to show the applicant whether or not he has any brains. Men are too ready to assume that they can be educated, that they have brains. says Dr. William Lee Howard in the Housekeeper. This injury to growing boys and girls in trying to educate them together is well known to physicians and psychologists. Many doctors have tried to carefully explain these important matters to parents and teachers, but so wrongly impressed have been these parents and teachers of the past, that many physicians have given up in disgust, and some of them have lost patients by attempting to tell the truth. Ideas are changing; truths are forcing themselves to the surface, and in the young generation of parents and teachers I find eagerness to have the doctors tell of the false method this country has followed in mixing the adolescents in classes at the public high schools. Older and wiser countries know better. N efforts. "What medium line work?" to-day is one of the great answer for himself. Ordinarily it may be said the field of merchandising to He has decided to work for a stinct, but if it promised no go into it. That man decidely have a greater personal incertion in mechanical tastes and talk through competitive forces, if he become a man of family will be a further inducement. Yet on the same basis of the business men of the county and ideals to the winds and biond of riches, by far the great ideals gone and with the hope Compare with this type occupation, concedes everythin work. He accepts this oppose his particular talent—perhaps compensation which will enail that chance. It is incidental. Yet from whatever high choice of a life work he may may have to question that a competitions. Men with less chosen occupation. As these money getting. Ways and me with the young man's ideal family dependent upon him a things with which his family himself disappointed and hurt Idealism in business He is always a handicap to a "Business is business." The definition of his calling. Reness of the dictum always in To measure idealism, then, an impossible comparative ab College Is But Part of Life By PROF. WOODROW WILSON his studies. A man who take university has thrown away which descended to him from himself face to face with act that he is not ready to work formation is limited and very trained man, nor an educated sities are standing upside down altogether a bad thing—but business is pleasure. As a man and to society is to get his certainly one function of a u not he has any brains. Me educated, that they have brai Dangers of Both Sexes in Schools By WILLIAM LEE HOWARD says Dr. William Lee, injury to growing boys a gether is well known to phys tried to carefully explain the ers, but so wrongly impressed past, that many physicians have lost patients by attempt Ideas are changing; t and in the young generation have the doctors tell of the mixing the adolescents in c wiser countries know better By JOHN A. HOWLAND young man is going to make inevitably that young man by the law of averages asusuously disappointed. There facts that were inescapable basis and when the act a fortune. They are facts when a million dollars do not accepted term. Virtually the one of accumulations from line shall I fix upon in the greatest questions which be settled as fact that the trading trade does so for the for money only. He made no money reward it is deciding upon manufacturing incentive, in that it will for talent. Yet sooner or later, must make his concern family the luxury and eximent to the concession. basis of the law of average country succeed at money and becoming wholly const the greater number of the hope of wealth destroyed type of man the worker everything for the privilege opportunity as a privilege perhaps genius. Naturally, enable him to follow the mental to the main question, high, idealist point of view may anticipate the time what decision. Almost in less of the ideal in these men lack idealism, and means to that end not idealism, but later in life him and may seek for the family must enter a social hurt at conditions. Less largely is unsalable. to money making effect That is the business mng. Relenting from the haws is a tax upon the pro then, against money become absurdity. man is going to make a success at money only that young man who tries hardest to do the law of averages as inevitably fails, must be disappointed. Tests that were inescapable when society was on its is and when the accumulation of $100,000June. They are facts to be multiplied by ten a million dollars does not make a rich man term. Virtually the same ratio exists all accumulations from business and professional shall I fix upon in the choice of my life's greatest questions which the young man has to settled as fact that the young man enteringade does so for the "money there is in it." money only. He may have the merchant in-money reward it is questionable if he wouldg upon manufacturing as his occupation may live, in that it will feed an ambition to excelnt. Yet sooner or later the manufacturer must make his concessions to money getting by the luxury and extravagance of the times to the concession. If the law of averages, comparatively few of my succeed at money getting. Flinging tastes becoming wholly consecrated to the accumulater number of these workers fail. With so of wealth destroyed, what is left for them? of man the worker who, in choosing hising for the privilege of doing his chosenunity as a privilege. It is an invitation to his genius. Naturally he can expect of it a able him to follow the work. He will take to the main question. idealist point of view such a man makes his anticipate the time when in his own heart he decision. Almost inevitably he must expect of the ideal in them will be following this men lack idealism, they will be tempted toans to that end not only will be in collision, but later in life when he may have a and may seek for them some of the materialy must enter a social competition, he finds To a man who spends the greater part of his waking hours on the gridiron or enjoying comradeship, his study, popularly so called, is really his pastime, his recreation, for a man's real interest lies in what he does longest and hardest, and everything else is of minor importance. So after a hard afternoon singing songs on the campus, our tired student sits down to refresh himself with a few logarithms or a little Greek syntax. His real energy, his fresh enthusiasm, his initiative have disappeared. Business has occupied so much time and strength that there is very little left for o takes a course of four ye away four years of that, from his great progenitor with actual work in its true work; his faculties are und very hazy; he is a collec educated man. It is a singe side down, not on their hea but on the wrong end. Is a matter of fact, a man his brain into such shape of a university is to show Men are too ready to a brains. is a course of four years of social life at some four years of that natural power to work in his great progenitor, Adam. He now finds final work in its true sense, and he also finds his faculties are undeveloped, his fund of in- hazy; he is a college man, but he is not a man. It is a singular fact that our univer- wn, not on their heads—which might be not in the wrong end. Pleasure is business, and matter of fact, a man's chief duty to himself train into such shape that he can use it, and university is to show the applicant whether or are too ready to assume that they can be s. We have reached that point in human knowledge, or, in other words, we are getting back to common sense, where ever the inexperienced must acknowledge that a change is needed in our educational method of mixing the adolescents of both sexes in the high schools. We are now fully awake to the great mental and psychological variations at this age due to the differentiation of the sexes. The past hypocritical denials of the great psychologic and physiologic changes and moods which are constantly surging in the adolescents, have done much harm. Lee Howard in the boys and girls in trying to physicians and psychology in these important matters pressed have been these patients have given up in distempting to tell the truth; truths are forcing theiation of parents and team of the false method this in classes at the public better. Howard in the Housekeeper. This and girls in trying to educate them toicians and psychologists. Many doctors have these important matters to parents and teachers have been these parents and teachers of the have given up in disgust, and some of theming to tell the truth. Truths are forcing themselves to the surface, of parents and teachers I find eagerness to false method this country has followed in masses at the public high schools. Older and PABLO MAYORAL social life at some power to work me. He now finds and he also finds his fund of in- n, but he is not a that our univer- which might be no he is business, and duty to himself we can use it, and plicant whether or that they can be pousekeeper. This educate them to Many doctors have parents and teachers of the and some of them as to the surface. Trailing the Erie Criminals T the beginning of the year 1867 John Wilson Murray became one of that famous body of experts appointed by Uncle Sam to wage war against wrong doers whose speculations excite the attention of the federal government—the United States secret service. It was then, tive. Murray walked toward the creek and came to a halt at one of the spots where the sod had been turned. "There's no sense in digging here," remonstrated Knapp; you won't find any worms. It was dug over the other day. Come a bit further down." "Not for me," returned Murray. "I the kind of worms I'm after are right here, and it's easier work than in the hard places." Knapp said nothing in reply, but the perspiration broke out on his wrinkled face. Murray drove the creode into and a great quantity of silverware taken, and soon after the Skinner robbery, the home of Mr. Bliss was entered and a rich haul of jewelry made. Murray and his brother officers worked vigorously. They forced every stranger in town to account for himself. They sent out the drag net and gathered in all the "regulars" in the suspicious character line. Patrols at night were doubled and a vigilant, unceasing watch kept, but the burglaries continued as usual. One night a house in one end of the town would be T the beginning of the year 1867 John Wilson Murray became one of that famous body of experts appointed by Uncle Sam to wage war against wrong doers whose speculations excite the attention of the federal government—the United States secret service. It was then, at the age of 26, that he began to accumulate a rich store of experience in dealing with counterfeiters, the arts of burglaries and other varieties of thieves, and the training thus acquired was destined to be of incalculable value to him in after life. He spent nearly two years as special agent for the government and was then persuaded to go to Erie, Pa., where, during his early days on the lakes, he had made many friends. Mr. Thomas Crawley was chief of the Erie police force at that time and at his invitation Murray became a detective under him. Shortly after his arrival there a wave of sneak-thieving swept over the town and assumed very serious proportions. Even the furniture of private houses disappeared as if by magic. Clothing took to itself wings and vanished into the great unknown. Ploughs made strange and unaccountable exits from the farmers' fields leaving no trace behind. Horses cantered away unseen by their owners and their stables knew them no more. Whole contents of stores were carried off, and from one of them 20 dozen pairs of shoes appeared to have walked into oblivion in the full glare of noon. It was all so mysterious as to be almost amusing—except to the unhappy losers and the outraged members of the police force who were totally unable to appreciate the humor of the situation. Finally Murray met a farmer who had seen a fellow drive by his house in a new "democrat" about the time that Tolwarthy's wagon disappeared, and the description of both wagon and driver convinced him that he was at last upon the right track. Accompanied by Crawley and an officer named Snyder, Murray hired a team and drove along the road the stranger had followed with the missing wagon. For fully 15 miles they traveled, stopping at every farm, but found nothing to reward their exertions. Deciding to feed and rest their horses they turned off the main road, and in a secluded clearing with several acres of pine woods around it perceived a lone house. No one was in sight, but in response to a hall a buxom woman, about 25 years old, made her appearance and inquired if the party wanted anything. Chief Crawley asked for the man of the place, saying that he wanted to feed his horses. The woman whistled shrilly, and from behind a clump of bushes near the barn, there came a little weazened man about 50 years of age. The instant Murray saw the newcomer his eyes brightened. The boy's description of the stranger who left the ancient wagon in the shed exactly fitted the mar who stood before him. "What is your name," Murray asked. "George Knapp," replied the with- ered individual. "Have you lived here long?" Have you lived here song: "Me and my wife have been here about a year," was the reply. "Is that your wife," inquired the detective, glancing at the young woman who was standing in the doorway of the house. Knapp grinned and nodded assent. He was not disposed to be communicative and his eyes twinkled cunningly as they met Murray's steadfast gaze. The detective yawned and looked around in a nonchalant, uninterested fashion. Presently he returned to the attack. "Have you seen anything of a stranger driving past here in a new democrat wagon lately?" he inquired, but Knapp shook his head. "I ain't seen anyone drivin' past here," he responded. "Not likely that I would either, for there's no place to drive to, seein' that this is the end of the road." Plainly Mr. Knapp was armed at all points against curious seekers for information. The officers proceeded to make a thorough search of the premises but their explorations of barn, house and outbuildings proved fruitless. Murray, however, felt intuitively that the wily Mr. Knapp was not as innocent as he would have them believe. Strolling past the barn and surveying the ground carefully the detective took note of a stretch of cleared land running down to the creek and saw that the sod had recently been turned in one or two places. Slight indications frequently lead to big results and a sudden suspicion flashed across Murray's mind. "Knapp," he said pleasantly, "I mean to try my hand at fishing in that creek. Lend me a spade." "What do you want with a spade?" asked Knapp, tightening his lips. "To dig bait with, of course," replied Murray readily. Knapp looked uneasy, but produced a spade and handed it to the detec- By George T. Pardy tive. Murray walked toward the creek and came to a halt at one of the spots where the sod had been turned. "There's no sense in digging here," remonstrated Knapp; you won't find any worms. It was dug over the other day. Come a bit further down." "Not for me," returned Murray. "The kind of worms I'm after are right here, and it's easier work than in the hard places." Knapp said nothing in reply, but the perspiration broke out on his wrinkled face. Murray drove the spade into the ground, and smiled as he felt the blade strike something hard. He turned back the soil with a few vigorous strokes, and there came to view one of the wheels of the missing democrat wagon, buried beneath a foot of earth. Murray looked at Knapp who grinned in sickly fashion. The detective called his companions and placed Knapp under arrest. He was told that the best thing he could do was to confess his thefts, and after reflecting a few moments he nodded and led the way to the house. His wife met the party at the door. "Get me the shingle," said her husband. The woman obeyed without a word of piotest. She went indoors and returned with a broad shingle, covered with red dots, which Knapp explained were made by chicken blood. One broad, red blotch signified where the barn stood, and the smaller marks indicated the spots where Knapp had buried his plunder. The detectives selected one of the marked places and began to dig. The first thing to come to light was a large coffin. This looked as though some tragedy lurked behind, and they lifted the casket out of the earth. It was very heavy and hastily they removed the lid, expecting to see the mutilated form of one of the robber's victims. But instead of the remains of a human being several dozens of boxes containing shoes were revealed. The weazened thief standing beside them laughed harshly. "Corpses ain't the only things found in coffins" he remarked sagely. The officers pursued their search digging up every place indicated on the shingle map, and great and varied was the list of property that came to light. Among the things unearthed were a shroud, toilet set, a baby carriage, 40 silk dresses, gold watches, seven ploughs, a harrow, surgical instruments, a churn, a log chain, a grandfather's clock, a set of grocer's scales, hats, overcoats, pipes, a barber's pole, even a policeman's shotgun, which Knapp had stolen from the owner's house. The men took turns at digging and even the thief himself was pressed into service, until fully ten wagon loads of plunder lay in sight. It was truly a fine exhibition of wholesale thieving, and the marvel of it all was that Knapp swore to having it single handed. Subsequent developments proved his statement to be correct. Knapp and his wife were taken to Erie and placed in prison. A large vacant store was hired and all of the recovered property placed on exhibition therein to be identified by the rightful owners. There was no room to spare, for Knapp had stolen enough stuff to equip a small department store. For several years, it appeared, the cunning veteran had been plying his piffering trade. In burying his plunder he had boxed it up securely, preparatory to sending it away. His methods were sweetly simple. He would drive into town in a wagon, apparently for the purpose of selling farm produce or garden vegetables, and in that way obtaining a thorough knowledge of different houses, always managing to sneak in later and carry off whatever he could lay his hands on. Nobody knew anything about him, who he was or whence he came. A year prior to his capture he had settled in the secluded belt of timber and kept entirely to himself. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to 16 years in the Alleghany penitentiary, and his wife, against whom nothing could be proved, was released. But Knapp was of far too original a turn of mind to rest satisfied with serving out his time. He simulated insanity, was transferred to a lunatic asylum, and soon after saw the bars of a window, escaped through the opening thus provided, and was never caught. It was not long after the Knapp episode before thieving on a pretty large scale began again in Erie. This time it was burglary instead of sneak work, as was demonstrated by the marks of jimmies on doors and windows, and the disappearance of quantities of fine silverware and jewelry. Chief Crawley was at first of the opinion that Knapp, who had escaped from the asylum in the meantime, was operating again, but Murray did not share this opinion, knowing that Knapp, who prided himself upon his unique methods, would consider burglary a clumsy way of stealing. After the third robbery it became evident that no lone burglar was at work. Obviously there was a gang engaged in the depredations, for some of the jobs required the services of a watcher or lookout on the outside, while a pal was inside the house. A Mr. Skinner's house was plundered GOD BLESS OUR HOME. A SUDDEN SILENCE SUCCEEDED THEIR UPRORIOUS MERRIMENT. and a great quantity of silverware taken, and soon after the Skinner robery, the home of Mr. Bliss was entered and a rich haul of jewelry made. Murray and his brother officers worked vigorously. They forced every stranger in town to account for himself. They sent out the drag net and gathered in all the "regulars" in the suspicious character line. Patrols at night were doubled and a vigilant, unceasing watch kept, but the burglaries continued as usual. One night a house in one end of the town would be robbed and the next night the burglaries would operate successfully in an opposite direction. Murray, annoyed by the audaciousness of the criminals, devoted all his time and energy to the task of running them down, but the only clue or trace of them that he could discover was a peculiarity in the jimmy marks, showing that a piece had been chipped or cut out of one end of the jimmy. One night about 12 o'clock, while Shridan talking to an acquaintance in the Reed house, he chanced to notice a woman slip quietly down the back stairs of the hotel and out into the street. On three succeeding nights he observed her doing this. On speaking of the circumstance to the clerk that worthy informed him that she was a scrub woman who worked late and lived outside the hotel. There was nothing suspicious about that, but as the clerk declared that he did not know where the woman lived, Murray, out of sheer, idle curiosity, determined to shadow her to her home. When she slipped down the stairs as usual Murray followed her into the street, but before he had traversed five blocks realized that his trailing was useless. The mysterious scrub woman had disappeared as though the earth had swallowed her. Murray, surprised at the seemingly elusive powers of the ancient dame, laughed over what he considered a good joke on his ability as a shadow artist and went home. On the following morning the Erie papers reported another burglary as having occurred in a house four blocks from where the scrub woman had vanished into thin air. Murray said nothing to his associates but that night he took up a station at the Reed house and waited. About one o'clock in the morning the figure of the scrub woman flitted lightly down the stairs and Murray followed her into the gloom of night. For 15 blocks he trailed behind, when his quarry turned a corner, and when he came up she had again disappeared. That night yet another burglary took place, and Murray, still with his mind centered on the vanishing scrub woman, began a third vigil at the Reed house. At one o'clock the chase began anew and the detective was fain to confess to himself that the female floor polisher was one of the most artful dodgers he had ever came across. He followed her until after four in the morning, up streets and down streets, through alleys, across lots, around buildings, and then across lots again. It was an exasperating experience, but Murray persisted and gave her no chance to slip out of sight. Soon after the chase first began a cat had mewed loudly in the vicinity of pursuer and pursued, and he remembered afterward that this sound had caused the dim figure in front of him to start violently. Dawn was breaking when the woman headed away to the outskirts of the town, and stopping in front of a double house tossed a pebble against a window and a moment later went in. Murray sat down to think matters over. He was greatly puzzled, for women burglaries were an entirely unknown quantity in his experience. Yet to think that an old woman after scrubbing hard for hours in a hotel would seek relaxation from her labors by going for a stroll and prowling about all night was surely out of the question. He waited until broad daylight, and, as the woman did not reappear went to police headquarters. There he was greeted by the chief with the doleful news that another house had been broken into and robbed during the night. Murray thought of his weary rambles in the dark. It did not seem as though his aggravating old scrub woman could have had a hand in the affair for he had never lost sight of her. All the same, acting upon an impulse he could hardly explain but was A SUDDEN THEIR UPR not disposed to resist, he resolved upon paying her a visit. He went out to the house where he had last seen her. On one side of the double building lived Mrs. O'Brien, a respectable woman. Her knowledge of the occupants of the other side was limited to the fact of their being women who had resided there less than a year. Murray knocked at the door and received no answer. He rapped loudly again. There was a scurry of feet in the hall and finally the door swung open. A big robust girl, 23 years old, stood on the threshold. Without further ceremony the detective strode in. "What is your name?" he asked. "Mary Ann Hall," was the answer. "Do you live alone?" "I live with my mother," responded the girl. "Call her." said Murray shortly. Mary Ann complied, and in answer to her summons the ancient scrub woman skipped out of an adjoining room in a manner that suggested the activity of 16 rather than the natural decreptitude of 60. Murray fixed his penetrating eyes upon her and was greeted with a coquettish leer. "I want to know your name," he said. "My name is Mrs. Julia Hall," replied the old woman, still grinning broadly. "Just so," remarked Murray. "Well who else lives here, Mrs. Hall?" For answer the old woman's mouth opened and gave vent to a yell of "Maggie!" This call brought to the front a small sharp-faced woman some ten years younger that the active Mrs. Hall. The latest arrival smiled at her comrades and confronted the detective unabashed. "Sit down ladles," requested Murray, and the trio promptly responded by depositing their respective per- son on the floor of the room where the interview was taking place. The detective glanced around and observed that the chief articles of furniture in the apartment were a cook stove, a rough kitchen table and one shaky rocking chair. "You work out all night, ma'am?" queried Murray, addressing Mrs. Julia Hall. "I always am," she replied coolly. "Julia isn't able to sleep nights," broke in the second oldest of the trio, adding by way of explanation, I'm her friend, Mrs. Maggie Carroll." "I can only sleep daytimes,' asserted the ancient scrub woman. "I work or walk all night." "When she was young she had a fever and has been that way ever since," volunteered Mrs. Carroll. Murray, much puzzled, stood eyeing the three odd figures on the floor. He questioned them as to their mode of life and mentioned the recent burglaries, but obtained no satisfaction. They protested their innocence of any wrongdoing and maintained stoutly that they were only hard-working women. Murray sat down on the venerable rocking chair to pursue his examination in comfort. It gave way under him and he rolled upon the floor. The kettle on the range, struck by his foot, crashed down beside him. The three woman laughed heartily, but as the lid of the kettle fell off a sudden silence succeeded to their roarious merriment, and their eyes rested upon the apparently innocent GOD BLESS OUR HOME. SILENCE SUCCEEDED ORIOUS MERRIMENT. kitchen utensil in gloomy apprehension. Their trepidation did not escape the detective's watchful gaze. He rose to his feet, picked up the kettle and examined it. Inside was a steel instrument about the size of a stove lifter. Murray took the object out and gave a sigh of relief. The proof he wanted was in his grasp—a burglar's Jimmy—and what was more, a jimmy nicked at the edge. Placing the three women under arrest he proceeded to search the house. He discovered great quantities of jewelry, silverware, fine linen and clothes. The stuff belonging to Mr. Skinner and Mr. Bliss, plunder from all the other houses that had suffered in the recent raids, was found on the premises, also a kit of burglar's tools and complete set of pass keys. Two of the women, Mrs. Julia Hall and Maggie Carroll, were sent to the Alleghany penitentiary for four years and Mary Ann was released. Curious as to the exact events of the night when he was trailing Mrs. Hall, Murray asked that vivacious old lady for an explanation. He learned that she and Mrs. Carroll were to have broken into a house together on that occasion, and Mrs. Hall had arranged to meet her confederate at two in the morning. But Mrs. Carroll espied the enemy shadowing her comrade and mewed suddenly like a cat as a signal to Mrs. Hall that she was being followed. The latter consequently proceeded to walk about all night, while the venturists Carroll went on with her burglarious task alone. The Carroll-Hall combination was the only case of women burglaries working alone that Murray encountered during his detective career. They were first caught by the authorities in Ireland, sent to Australia, where they again made trouble for the police and then sought fresh fields in America. Following the capture of Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Carroll, Murray found him- self up against a problem such as had frequently enlisted his attention during his term in the United States secret service. It was concerned with the appearance of a number of counterfeit $20 bills in Erie financial circles during the winters of 1869 and 1870. A man by the name of Fred Landers kept a restaurant in the town, and one day when the detective dropped in the proprietor told him of a fellow who had ordered a light lunch, paid for it with a $20 bill, bought a drink as he went out and offered a second $20 bill to the bartender who said he could not change it. Murray looked at the bill Landers had accepted. It was cleverly designed but not well enough to deceive the practiced eye of a man trained to detect such forgeries. Landers described the fellow and Murray caught him at the railroad station, but did not find any of the counterfeit money in his possession. He was merely a "shover of the queer," one who passes the bad money and receives only a couple of phone bills at a time. In no other line of criminal work is there such scientific organization shown as in that of counterfeiting. The men who pass the money never do business with the man who makes the plates. The plate maker is an engraver who usually receives a lump sum for his work. Those who print the money are the manufacturers and they dispose of the queer in wholesale quantities to dealers, who sell to retail dealers, who have, in turn, their "shovers out" passing the money. The man who fell into Murray's hands was a shover. Having made the arrest and searched him, he found on a piece of paper in the prisoner's coat pocket the name, "Tom Hale, New York." Murray at once sent a telegram addressed to Hale as follows: "Come on. I am sick. Stopping at Morton house. Room 84." Murray made arrangements with the clerk of the Morton house to keep track of any person who called and asked for the guest in room 84. Nobody came. The shoer, who was known as "Poke" Sales, stayed in jail, having been identified by Landers and the bartender. A week passed without any fresh developments. A heavy snowstorm had been raging for several days, the trains were blockaded and all traffic delayed. But on the ninth day there was a new arrival at the Morton house. Although it was an excessively cold day he wore no overcoat. He inquired for Mr. Sales in room 84 and was instantly pounced upon by Murray who was close at hand. Upon being taken to headquarters and searched several hundred dollars was found upon him, but nothing in the way of counterfeit money. Still, Murray detained him with the intention of hunting for his baggage, for it was obvious that a man wearing such expensive clothes as adorned the person of the prisoner would be likely to have an overcoat in the vicinity somewhere. On the following morning Murray began a systematic hunt for the missing overcoat. During the course of his search he stepped into a saloon kept by a man named John Anthony. "Here's a curious thing happened yesterday," he said. "There was a woll-dressed chap came in here, washed his hands and walked out again leaving his overcoat behind him. You'd think that would be about the last thing he'd leave on a bitter cold day." "Seems funny," responded Murray. Let me look at that coat, John. The overcoat was produced and in the first pocket Murray examined he found $1,000 in counterfeit $20 and $100 bills wrapped up in a handkerchief. They were such excellent counterfeits that they actually deceived the eyes of several bank experts to whom they were shown. Murray went back to the jail and approached his prisoner. "Hello, Hale, here's your coat," he said. "All right, thank you," said the stranger. "Then it is your coat, Tom?" queried Murray. "Why, certainly," replied the prisoner. Murray produced the counterfeit money from the pocket and Hale, realizing what a grave mistake he had made, denied that the garment was his property. Murray compelled him to don it and the fit was perfect. The saloon-keeper identified him as the stranger who had left the coat in his place. "Poke" Sales pleaded guilty to passing counterfeit money and received a five-year sentence. Hale was taken by the United States authorities to Pittsburgh, then to New York and finally to Washington. He was a smooth talking fellow and made the government officials believe he would be of great use to the secret service department. He promised to expose the entire counterfeiting business and Wood, who was the chief of the secret service, engaged him on the force and sent him to New York. But Hale's promised exposure of his former colleagues turned out to be a fake. He enabled the secret service men to get hold of a few small shovers, and that was all. Then Wood left the department and Col. Whiteley became chief. Whiteley proceeded to call down Hale for his failure to accomplish anything worth while. Hale became insolent with the result that he was arrested, taken back to Philadelphia and tried. It was proved that he stood in with thieves, and at the finish he was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for 14 years. (Copyright, 1909, by W. J. Chapman.) (Copyright in Great Britain.) THE SEARCHLIGHT MWICHITA, = = 3% KANS, ccc —— —— W. 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Write plain. Sth. Address all matter for publica- (om to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 WN, Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the rharacter, standing or reputation of my person which may appear in this yaper wil! be gladly corrected {f weught to the attention of the editor. ‘To Live and Let Live” 1s Our Motto Send your news in earlier Prof. Sam T. Hood SurcEon‘Curropopist Removes Corns, Bunions, In— grown Nails and all pedie trou- bles. Graduate American School Chropody of New York City. 343 North Main Street DON’T READ NEGRO PAPERS Many of the so-called ‘‘big Ne- groes’’ never buy a Negro paper or even read a race journal of any kind. On the other hand they sub seribe to a daily paper from the white man. A Negro paper never finds its way to their homes. The white paper will naver employ a Negro as a printer; no not even asa janitor, In fact the average Negro does not read enough. He is ignorant of the doings of his race, spending most of his time reading papers of other race. Then when he reads a Negro pap er it is one that he borrowed from s0me good thinking Negero, and he will never return it. The Ne- gro should set aside a few cents every week for race papers. Act like the white man who thinks it @ disgrace to be seen with a Ne- gro paper in his pocket. You ean visit hundrrds of Negro homes, and not find one that reads er subscribes for a negro paper. Yet you can see the little white youth every day and the collector on Sunday, This is murdering the negro press in the most shameles manner. Suppose your own boy aspires to be a printer, where will he go? Getting Ahead of One's Self, “Jf I have anything to do that I par ticularly dislike, I start to work on it the first thing after breakfast, sub- ordinating all routine work to that task,” said a successful housekeeper recently. “One can expend enough nervous energy thinking about and worrying over an unpleasant duty to accomplish it. When it is finished and off one’s mind early in the day, one gets ahead of one’s self, so to speak.” report to this effect in the supreme LOCALS —THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK— 1 Sond your news notes and local happenings to OUt Herth Malo Stret. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Send your news in earlier. The Searchlight | $l. per year For Sale— Some bargans in acre ground from 10 acres up. see me W. N. Miller 634 N. Water. The M. E. church have chang- ed their preaching services ‘from 11 a. m, to 2:30 p. m. also 8:30 p. m, These services will be every sunday at the hours spoken of above, Weare always glad to have visitors. You are welcome to come and take a part in these services. We’ are still holding our meetings at the corner of Mur- dock and Szntafe well seated to accomadate all who may come. Geo, T. Wooten pastor. We wish to thank our friends and the A. M. E. church for the many acts of kindness shown us during the recent iliness and the death of our son and brother Jas. A. Harvey. Henretta Griggs Sylvester Griggs Kattie Moore. Mr, Ben Braunon of Okla City was a visitor in thecity last week On Thursday morning June 10 Mrs Ida B. Hill entertained a ten o’clock breakfast at the residence of Mrs Will H, Jones 522 N. Wat er St in honor of Mr and Mrs. B. F. Hill. Those present were Mrs Bolden, Mr and Mrs Chinneth Mr and Mrs Jones Mr and Mrs B, F. Hill, Mrs Parks and Hill Hall Misses Rawles & Wilson A. Smith ‘Pearl Hackly, Verna Hall, Lillie Jones Mrsess Hayman « Prices & Jones, and Rev. Smith. This most delicious ment under the management of Mrs Will H. Jones Strawberries Powered sug- ar Fish, Creamed new potatoes, Fruit Salad, Wofers, Ice Cream. Cake, Coffee. Mrs Frank Childs was a visitor in Newton last week. The ladies of the @. L. A. Club meet Tues. afternoon with Mrs- G. W. White. They will meet on next week with MrsJ. L, Harper They are buisy making pee,era— tions for the State Federation — convenes at Leavenworth bi 17, 18th. Mrs V. Covington entertained Mrs E. J. Alevander Tuesday at dinner who léft Wed. for Califor’ where she will make her future home. ie Dan Peterson has a splendid good pasture, seven [7] miles due West on ‘Thirteenth [13] St. for horses aud cat- tle. Prices reasonable, CARD OF THANKS GOOD PASTURE Bacouse of those uagiy. crizziv. gray haire. Use “LA 10 - HYMN POST CARDS- 10c Something new, A beautiful reminder for your friends. Set of ten different subjects: beautifully sllustrated “Rock of Ages” “Lead Kindly Light,” ‘Just asIam,” “Nearer my God to Thee,” jete. ete. 3 sets for 25 Lawrence Uo. Dept. 205, Chicago. 11). P. S, If you order 3 sets for 25¢ at once we will send you absolutely FRFEa heautiful Post Card entitled “Auld Lang Syne.” ji | Misses Riley and Brown were pleasant callers on Mr Weather- fard and wife of Oklahoma at the home of Major Davis and wife Sunday. They have beeh teach- ing school in Oklahoma and are enroute to Topeka. ee Thos. Anderson is confined at his home with typhoid fever. ll wish for his early recovery. Mr. and Mrs Willis Bartlet are making some very substantial im provements to their home 2ist « Armstrong. They are adding on a new front and back porch and giving their house acoat of fresh paint which when completed will make them a beautiful home. The A. M, E. District Confer- erce &S. S. Convention which was in session last week at Hut- chinson was a success through- out. There was a good reperesent- ative number of delegates present who made most favorable reports financially and spiritually show- ing an increase over last years work. The paper read were excel: lent showing marked ability and were ably discr.ssed. The delegats from Wichita were Rev. Jas. T. Smith Thos Glover John D. Jones and Miss Lulu Covington. Moses Dickson Tent No. 5, held a ‘rousing meeting Thursday. 'The otticers elected were. Hattie Payne, CP, Wil: lie Madison, Vice, Birdie Batts, @ R, Robt Jones, Vice, Flossie Madison, ( G, Joe Price, ‘TM, 5 Payne, BB, A. Gardner, and Lillie Simpson B B. The fe expects to do good work. eine e er ae. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTIC E State of Kansas, county ef Sedgwick.ss In the Probate court in and for said county. In the matter of the estate of Loui- sa Gibbs, deceased Notice is hereby given that letters of administration have been granted the undersigned on the estate of Louisa Gibbs, late of said county deceased, by the Probate court of said county and state aforesaid, dated the 19th, day of ‘May A. D. 1909. Now, all persons hay- ing claims against the sald estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the nadersigned for allow ance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; aad that ifsuch claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of such letter, they shall be forever barred Walter Gibbs, Administrator, of the estate of Louisa Gibbs, deseased A PLEASANT TRIP ‘To the officers and members, Greeting. ‘This will inform you that I left Topekaon the evening of May 19th over the Santa Fe for Wichi- ta. Arrived thereat 74m next morn: ing and’was met by Sir W N Miller, D G M who took us tor;his home where we met Dtr Mattie Miller, P H P. who made it pleasant for us, Those who know Dtr Miller can but say that it is her greatest ambition to make it pleas ant for others, We visited the Taber- nacles and Temples and found them doing nicely and the future for the Or der in Wichita bright. Sir W N Miller DG M with the aid of the present and past officers deserves much credit for themanner in which the meetings were arranged. From ehere we went to Salina where we were met by Sir D L. Taylor, D G M., who bad things ar range. Iam truly pleased tosay that I found the ‘Temple and Tabernacle and ‘Tent doing nicely aud showed that Sir ‘Taylor at his post of duty supported by the other officers and members. [ was made tofeel at home at both of the above named places. Found all trying to prepare for the Grand Session. | Frank Wilson, CG M “sa CREOLE” HAIR RESTOREH.S PRICE, $1.00, retak. _ | Office Hours 9a mto6pm sundae by Appointment Dr. H. T. Bolden | DENTIST ALL Work GUARANTEED Bell Phone 2467 601.N. Main St Wichita, Kan Ec] Satisfaction —— IN EVERY POUND OF — “Wichita’s Best Four POENISCH BROS., Agents 622 N, Main Street We also carry a complete stock of Hay, Grain, Feed and Coal. | 530 — Both Phones — 530 ; Send your news inearlier ST a a Stingley tingle Underakers* Embalmers SEDGWICK BLOCK Either Phone 1619 Wichita Kansas TE Send your news in earlier W.N. Miller .N. Miller Attorney-at-Law NOTARY PUBLIC. Office 634 North Water Street Practices in all the Gourts Of Kansas and Missouri Residence Phone - Bell 1641 Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon SURGERY A SPECIALTY- fice Hours Ytoll a.m Residence 2toop m. 513 N. Main St Tt 8y.m. OFFICE 518 N, MAIN 8ST Phone 860 green P.H.P. Dt, Mattie Miller of Wichita Tabernacle No. 3 made a pleasant visit to Mt Hope Tab ernacle No.3 and assisted the Chief Grand Metor and Dr Brown in installing the officers of Mt. Hope Tabernacle No 3. After a reception was tendered there in the dinning room of DtS. Brown Everybody enjoyed themself and left feeling well pleaeed with the days work. Miss Williams of St John is in the ¢ity visiting her cousins Miss es Seota and Carrie Goss of 23rd and Jewett Ave. | Miss Irma Clark entertained Wednesday at six o'clock dinner in honor of Miss Patton of Tope. ka Kansas, Covers were laid for Misses Hattie Patton, Bettie Ma Hall, Ethel Patton Myrtle Flem. ing Messers Arthur Thomas W. Mitchel, Harold Fleming, Roy Letcher, Chas. Steward « Thom. as MeWorters. > A Knowing Dog. “Now,” said the narrator, “I've got 8 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 tele scope in a suitable position, and made Bob, our best collie, look through it After about a minute the dog wagged his tail and made off. In less thar two hours he brought the sheep home safe and sound.” Se eg ae Ae I ny eT ea NR Se eee Se ‘ “ Second to None ” econd to NONE - : ‘ ‘ ‘ PLEASES Good Bread Makers: It 1s White As Snow—TRY IT ‘ The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Food | are all guaranteed under the United States Law, . Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law ‘ Register No. 1. It Is Tha Gheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. : Reccecccecenecccezececccceneeceecceceeecerereeeeese: , Chas. B: Paro Merchant Tailor 389 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men’s Garments . Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing A Specialty - Prompt Service Courteous Attention Your Trade Solicite a es FY i AW | q h) —_ There ts No Need Ni LH SY ACS Of letting your clothes. look I, W ] ; ragged or soiled, when you VP Hi {/) can have them dry cleaned, I) ) { preessed and repaired tolook I Wel Vi WW) like new at reasanable prices NN Wi, at noe wy — ZB The Peoples Cleaning and Dye Works 181 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 NEAT MARKET W. H. KELCHNER, Proprietor 406 East Douglas Ave Phone 294 Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita’s Ol‘est, Most Re Mable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER f SONS, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market Dr.J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeen —Diseases of — Women and Children A Specialty Office 703 N. Main St. nc ET @. S. HENRION 201 4. Main 8, Qichita, Kans. TRY Us For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO. Use Maurray’s Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salv Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray’s Reliable Perfumes Marray’s Reliable Pure Spices These Goods Have No Epual They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please yon. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 868 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita —- — — Kansae Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE Wecurry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Choicest Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men, Women and Chil- dren’s Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price: Free Delivery. Tapp & Hanshaw 255-257 N. Main St Phone 257 i. S. Nafteger, President, W. R. Tuck er, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, C. W. Brown, Vice Presi- dent, V. H. Branch, Gashier. WICHITA, KANSAS United States Depository Capital $200,000 Surplus $125.600 Dirretors: W. KR. Tucker, W. E. Jett R. L. Holmes, S. B. Amidon, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftsger, H. W. Darling, A. G. Houston, E. C. Sheldon, ©. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin, Jen ry Lassen. V. H. Braneh. AGoneral Banking Business Transacied eo Its the man who “‘sticks-to-it” who wins. oe | YOUR GOODS BAFE if you store ‘them with us—Miller Storage Co. (3 N. Water. gaye LUMBER esccar METZ’S Sr 3rd & Main | HOWCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Price. 116 East Douglas Avenue ! ce . ? @ AESPLAASLALOLODLOL ODD ODS DODDS OPP ODED OOP OOGOEOS GOOF <¥ . . i Westrn University : The leading educational in- ; : T : stitute for Negroes in the west 3 e Zy¥ pe ZS Zz A a: boge PEs Ee = ee 7 Ee foc a LAA Et | ii i pera 2 21h ee aca X SS Sah cs ~~ AIAN a= Rem ae RN 7 FS 2 Ue fe | Fh $= i y SAL i ul : atin aH hs Sod ee tue (eas | LET | BIBS Iriel een Sey RE a Sa ARO heres. = A faculty of eigl.teen thoroughly equipped teachers : from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS , Steam Heated and Electric Lighted ; ; —— DEPARTMENTS —— Theological, Classical, Normal, Snb- Normal, Musi- , ; cal, State Industrial, embracing courses in Archi- : tecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, : ; Book-binding, TailorIng, 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 ~ ° Str i ht phic esac at acai pe Epuuyeine sia aT erat ‘Mins, W.F. Wauatn. Sta. 1-Harriman, Tenn, Ford’s Hair pees age ent ar eee eae EE EE orate hy ee eee ania ene es eees ees Sea eee aie a ea ee eee eee ee aac eae hae a eee eee es a nO scare ce aah cere eae Ford’t Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't ean ee neat ea ra a cree tees aoe eet ade—it will pay you, Look for this name Charles Ferd feat ei ts zou argent SPRUE oom mit she ESccnts tor togular elec or 3 cents for small site Wolaihatvand taepemeirctaeroaee et 8.4! by return mail on receipt of price, Address, The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., een nee i eee re earn ergene LOIRE NoMae te mate cx e ee mueune For Everything in Building Material SEE FFLLALAKFMR SBMA RAAB HA SHLAA SH SH Sete a % , ' * MESSERVES P . % : FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ’ > 7 _ % ICE CREAM ; : WHOLESALE AND RETAIL % : For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Churches ; Orders delivered to any part of the city ‘ ON-TON gy ANDY s Bakury & Karen ‘ : E. B. MESSERVE, Prop, : | 146 N. Main St. Phone 152; Ee EERE EIR ie oa gee igh iy hs ie ae pa ois. ie Vai ee Po cath ea like ee teen | ou oye ee pes lO eek | 8 CCITCVSST ATS FHSTLELT VISSTITSTSLSD 6 STTSTSVVSTOVN re Counts... ; . a USE i ee Fas O OR {& exeels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds ef ——— MADE BY = Watson Mill Co. WIOHITA, KANSAS ; ie oe Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach afall. Send ycur order to-day 829 East Center BALINA. KANDAS Use Herman’s Cement Stone Made from the best ma- terial. Lastslonger, wears betier and more durable than any other Cement Stone on the market. Prices Reason- able. PRICES le each laid in wall 8c each delivered Te each in the yard Rock Jace 8¢ each Plain Face 7c each Manufactured By W. L. HERMAN, 527 Ohio Ave., New Phone 1127 a Ss IMBODEN’S IM PERIAL FLOURO GRAHAM — CORN MEAL— BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years milling experience in Wichita our products are the best that can be produced. Made from Lest selected grain only and putup in Special Packages, <8 Ask Your Groce See that youget IMPERIAL ZT HE [MBODEN MILLING Co. WICHITA. KANSAS [Smee ey RO SS « Johnston's Hotel wicniva dU? N. MainiSt.scancas Everything first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric Fans Transient Trad2 — Restaurant in Connection R. Johnston, Proprietor W. L. Herman CONTRACTING : PLASTERER 856 Eagle St., Wichita, Kan. EE Job Printing We have instalied a new line of Jos Type Faces | and we would be pleas- ed to use them ona job | for you. Good Work--Low Prices to all 634 North Water St. DEAM ABSTRACT Co. WA NORTH-WKST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors ee ee Rev. Frank Jones preached an able Sermon Sunday, the colored people attended quite well. The Up Building of Colored Race C. R. Wilfley is quite buissy try- ing to get the colored business men to torma land and stock company of the state of Kansas, a track of 640 acres for purpose of carrying for the ex-slaves and orphan children of the state of Kansas being an agrieultural of tarm training our boys to be use ful men, When the company is formed the directors will be elec- ted of the state. This will be pur chased as soon as the money is raised and this will be one step of success for the colored race in this company no man can buy but $100,00 Shares, as we want no one to have controling inter- est, each share holder the same right. The divedend will be so much par share, the shares are from $1 to $100. This land is to be in Sedgwick Co. as this Co. is near center of the state. There is three things which wili build the colored race up namely Real- estate principle, and money. two Views Ui Marriage. “To views of marriage” was published early in the last cen- tury. Married persons are direct ed to read the lines as they are printed; single ones are to read the first and third lines then the second, and finally the forth, in each verse, ‘That man must lead a happy jife Who's free from matrimonial chaias Who is directed by his wite Is sure to suffer for his pains. Adam cou d find no solid peace When Eva was given fera mate; Until hesaw a woman's face Adam was in a happy state. In al! the female face appear Hypocrisy, deceit and pride; Truth. darling of a heart sincere, Ne’er known in weman tw reside. What tongue is able to unfold ‘The falseliood thatin women dwells? Is almost imperceptible. Gursed be the foolish man, 1 eay; Who changes from his singleness Who will not yield to woman's sway Is sure of perfect blessedness. —Author Uakown. STRONG CITY KANS. To the Searchlight Wichita Ks. Obituary of sister Rosetta Dun- cans, who parted this life May 31, She was bornin Winfield Kansas January 9th, 1890. Age 19 years 4 months « 21 days, she profess- ed hope in Christ five years ago and was baptised in the Second Baptist church of Strong City. She taken sick last Dec. and bore her sickness patiently, last Sun- day she said that she was ready to meet her Savior, and many a good faithful saying she testified for Christ before the death angle moved her away, Sister Rosetta died in full triumph of faith, she ‘was the daughter ot Rev. J. H. Duncan our pastor, Rev, W. E. Harrison preached the funeral at Cotton Wood Falls in the white Methodist church. Text Isa 35:, 10. “Subject Sorrow” he told us that this world is a world of sor- row, but the Text pointed toa world free from sorrows, she had sorrows here, but nun up there. Many sorrowing friends attend- ed. The choir of the Second Bup- tist church furnished music “Sleep on Rosetta” we will see you a- gain, but in another form. SOT ES TS tT TE a Ne A Beautiful Wedding One of the beautiful weddings that has occured in high society for years was that of Miss Estel la Wilson and Dr Hayden, both of this city. It toox place at the A.M. E. church. Dr. Jones offici- cating, promptly at 8:15 p,m. Mrs Lulu Somers took her place at the piano, and Mr. Edward Atkinson sang “O Promise Me” ina beautiful artistic manner, At 8:30 p m, Dr, Hayden and his best man, Mr. J. W. Arm- strong came in and took their places at the alter. They were followed by the following sit ush- ers; - A. Burdette, O. Scott Jame Stuart, Wapman Ward, C. John- sonand George Payne. Then came Miss Mable Wilson special maid of honor tollowing 6 ladies who were brides maids: Misses Ivy Hayden Lena Hayden, V. Robinson, J. Green, H. Holt and Mae Smith of Cheyenne, Wyom. ‘They had the bride and her little flower girls, Louise Thompson & May Jones, enclosed in a chain of white ribbon all marched in and out tothe strains of Mendles ohn’s Wedding March Although the weather was inclement, the church doors had to belocked to keep it from being over crowded The bride was arrayed in silk crepe cloth made empire princess with long tulle veil shower bou- quet of white bridal roses, and orange blossoms. The brides maids wore white dresses, with short white tulle veils and large pink bows. The flower girls were in white and one ofthem carried the brids ring in a calla lily and the other strewed flowers. The whole bridal party looked its best in going from the church. The reception at the honse was so largely attended that some had to retire without getting in The presents were the finest and more numerous than any bride has received fer about 14 years. KINGMAN KANSAS Editor Searchlight: Allow space in the colums of your paper te say a few words concerning one of Kingman’s for- men citizens, Joe Banks’ who is now a resident of Reno country. He has made a wonderful pro-- gress in his new home in Reno and recent visit to his country home showed marks of energy a progress. He has nearly 200 ac’s of wheat which will soon be rea- dy to harvest and 125 acres of as fine corn as there can be found and 25 acres of good oats. On his pasture there are 55 head of neat cattle, 15 head of horses, many hogs, and the latest farm machinery. He is one colored tar- mer who is certainly doiug fine. I say these words to enfphasise what a colored man can do, A Friend. OMOHA NEB. Rev, Frank Wilson }C. G. M. and Dtr Dmma Gaines C.G. Pare visiting the Order in this city! Golden Sheaf Tabernacle No. 91 elected Dt Lulu Rountree C. F Dt Anna Brown V. P. A. Bing- ham C. R. and Emma Crews C. T. The Tabernacleis indeed proud of its officers. They have a very successful yevr financially and al look forward to much success the next, Golden Sheaf Tabernacle No 91 presented Sir Frank Wil- son C.G. M, witha quilt with the names of all the members on it and present Dt Emma Gaines C. G. P. with a set ot Battenbg. Dtr Lulu Rountree entertained Rev Frank Wilson and Dt Emma Gaines at 9 o'clock breaktast. N. TOPEKA KANSAS. Macedonia Tahernacle No. 93, is progressing nicely and in an healthful condidion. The Twelve Star club were roy - ally entertained by Mr. and Mrs k. H. Barker last Thursday eve. June 3, visitors 6 Joiners 2 mem- bers present 17. After the rountin of business the club adjourned to. meet with Mrs Foggy next Thurs day evening June 10th. at her home 637 N. Jackson St. The club is doing a wonderful work financially and spiritually under the leadership of Mrs Ida Jordon President. Mrs. Ida M, Jordon Pres. Mrs. Rosa L, William Secty. The Concert which was given at B.St. Baptistchurch Monday evening June 7th was a succes in every way. There was a large crowd present and all had anice time. We as officer and members of the Twelve Star Club and the pastor of the church wish thank those who so kindly taken a ac- tive part in ourconcert, And our friends who attended the concert we thank them also. And I sin— cercly thank Mr, Jno. M. Dorsy who supervised the concert. TOPEKA KANSAS Miss Teressa Edith Penman the young colored girl who gratuat- ed with the June 1909 Topeka High School class is one of the youngest gratuates of the Tope- ka High School having gratuats at the age of 17 years with high honors. She is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Penman of this city, She was the receip— ient of many useful presents from her host of friends who wish for her many useful days to come. Dt, Sussie Cott Queen Mother of Rising Sun tent No. 44 install ed the officers of Pride of Topeka Tent. Dt Marshall, Q. M. is do- ing a great work. Mt Hope Tabernacle No. 3 has. come to the front, although not quite three years old she 1s able to take her ranks With any Tab ernacle in the Jurisdictio. her age Although the P. H. P. Dtr, Goss has brought this order up to its present standing much of credit and honor is doe to the faithful ness of its members who works with her so earnestly to make this Tabernacle what ft should be and we all feel proud of the re cord we have mad? and also of the praise we recieved from our C. G. M. Rev. Frank Wilson who had no fault to find with us. The H. P. Dt. Goss, wish to thank al the members who stood by her so faithful and for the a>prica— tion they have shown her by‘pre senting her witha gold plated badge those who contributd was Dtrs Parks; Baker, Miller, Cole, Kiner, Jones, Goodseal, Waiker, Frazier, Bluett, Tillman, Causes Johnson, Harten, CONSIDER THE NEWSPAPERS MR. NORRIS CALLS SENATOR ROOT'S ATTENTION TO FACTS. He Recites Reasons Why They Are More Worthy of Favors Than Paper Mills. New York, N. Y.—John Norris, chairman of the committee on paper of the American Newspaper Publishers' association forwarded to Senator Root a letter setting forth new data on paper duty. The senators attention is directed to a comparison of his newspaper and periodical constituency as compared with his paper hill constituency and the statement is made that the newspapers of New York state pay seven times as much for labor as all the news print paper mills. It is set forth also that the labor cost of a ton of paper is less in the United States than in Canada the average pay per day in this state being $1.65 per day. Senator Root is asked to consider, also the serious menace to the forests of the state through the destruction of spruce. Mr. Norris appeals for consideration for the newspapers in the following paragraph: "Newspapers are entitled to consideration from you even if you ignore the extraordinary function they perform in disseminating intelligence, in promoting knowledge and in facilitating the work of government. Those citizens are the best citizens who are in complete touch with the work of administration; and the furtherance of the newspapers' mission is worthy of your serious effort. An increase in the consumption of paper is due to the increasing intelligence of the people." GEN. FUNSTON MEETS BURGLAR He Entered the General's Room and They Exchanged Shots But Neither Was Injured. Leavenworth, Kansas. — Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston, commandant of the Army Service Schools at Fort Leavenworth, engaged in a revolver duel with an unknown man in his quarters at the post shortly past midnight. The man escaped and Gen. Funston was unharmed. Gen. Funston had retired late and remained wake. He had been in bed perhaps an hour when a closet door opened and a man stepped forth. The general saw him and reached under his pillow for a revolver. The intruder saw the motion and fired. The bullet pierced the mattress near the general, who leaped to his feet. He turned on the lights and fired three shots as the man fled. "I believe that he was probably a burglar," said Gen. Funston, "waiting until I was asleep to rifle my pockets." THE HEAVIEST RAINS IN YEARS Cloudbursts in Iowa Tied Up Train Service and Ruined the Corn Crop. Des Moines, Iowa. — Cloudbursts caused much damage to property and tied up train service on the Great Western all day between Sharon City and Diagonal. Not a train ran over the system from St. Joseph to Des Moines. Almost 16 miles of track were washed out by the flood at Sharon alone. At Mount Ayr the heavies rain in 20 years fell. All of Ringold county reports heavy damages from floods to live stock and crops. All streams in Southern Iowa are higher than they have been since the flood of July 4, 1889. Thousands of acres of growing corn were ruined when the lowlands were flooded. An Excursion Boat Accident. New Orleans. La. — Four women and two children and probably many others drowned when the excursion steamer Margaret made a fastening at Mandeville, La., on the north coast of Lake Ponchartrain, 25 miles from New Orleans. The wharf gave way and 75 persons were thrown into the lake. Many rescues were made. Salina Herald-Democrat Quits. Salina, Kansas—The Weekly Herald-Democrat at this city the oldest paper in Central Kansas, established in 1867 by Maj. B. J. r'. Hanna, suspended publication with this week's issue. The new postoffice ruling on advance subscription payments and the increase cost of supplies and labor are given as the cause. Cholera Threatens St. Petersburg. Cholera Threatens St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, Russia—St. Petersburg is on the verge of a new and serious epidemic of cholera according to the published views of the chief sanitary physician of the city, Dr. Ivanoff. The Herington Times Sold. Herington, Kansas—Walter Smith of Downs has purchased the Herington Times, which has been published for 20 years by A. M. Crary. Boxes Had False Labels El Reno, Oklahoma.—Boxes labeled "Tomatoes" and "Superior Gloss Starch," but containing instead old Bourbon whisky were seized here, at the direction of United States Attorney John Embry, because of the false labels. Grandfield. Ok.. Burns. Grandfield, OK., Burns. Lawton, Oklahoma — More than half the business district of the little town of Grandfield, Ok., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 10,000 and insurance at $10,000. Special Master E. V. McKeever tied THE MOUNT IS TOO BIG FOR HIM. PORTO RICO FORAKER ACT MODIFIED ACT THORNDIKE BALTIMORE AMERICAN THE PRESIDENT WOULD TRY HIM ON THE PONY FOR AWHILE. THE LAIR OF THE BLACK HAND SOME STARTLING DISCLOSURES PROMISED BY AUTHORITIES Postoffice Inspectors Believe Marion, O., To Be Their Headquarters— Evidence Secured. Cincinnati, Ohio. United States postoffice inspectors from Cincinnati believe they have discovered the headquarters of the "Black Hand" in this country, at Marion, Ohio. This belief is based on documentary evidence found when Sam Lima, of Marion, Ohio, Antonio Vicaso, of Columbus, Ohio, and A. Marfis, of Dennison, Ohio, were arrested. A dispatch from Marion states that Joe Rizzo was also arrested in that city. The postoffice inspectors claim they have discovered evidence showing that Marion is the headquarters of all of these Black Hand societies of the country and they claim Sam Lima is the head of the organization. They say they found hundreds of business men in all parts of the state have been paying tribute to the gang. Arrests are said to have been made also in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and inspectors left for Bellefontaine to make several more arrests there. Inspector Oldfield states when the whole story is known the country will be astonished. MAKE ROUND-THE-WORLD RATES Western Transcontinental Passenger Association Preparing Schedule— Can Be Made in 41 days. Seattle, Washington.—For the first time in the history of a passenger association "round-the-world," rates were taken under consideration at the meeting of the Western Transcontinental Passenger association, representing 40 railroads. After hearing a statement that a trip could now be made around the world in 41 days, the association ordered a table of schedules and rates for "around-the-world" traffic to be prepared. The rates will vary from $600 to $800 for the trip. Wants Entire New Navv. St. Petersburg, Russia.—The council of the empire has adopted the marine budget restoring the appropriation of $1,700,000 rejected by the duma. This amount is to go toward the construction of four new battleships authorized in 1908 but as yet the work of construction has not begun. Keels of the first two battleships will be laid on June 18 and July 3. Vice Admiral Birleff, ex-minister of marine, in his speech on the subject of new ships of war advocated the sale of all old vessels of the navy which he declared have become useless. Blodgett Buys the Outing. Binghampton, New York.—On approval of United States Judge Ray the receivers for the bankrupt Outing Publishing company sold the Outing Magazine to Thomas H. Doodgett, Chicago, advertising agent of the magazine for $30,000. Medals for Cuban Army Soldiers. Washington, D. C.-The officials of the war department have under consideration the adoption of the design for the medal to be issued to those who served with the army of Cuban pacification in the period from October 6, 1906, to April 1, 1909. Damage By Floods in Wyoming. Cheyenne, Wyoming.—More than $50,000 worth of property has been damaged and the big pathfinder government irrigation dam is threatened with destruction as the result of floods and water spouts in Wyoming. Calhoun Trial Still On. San Francisco, California.—I the 22nd week of the trial of Patrick Calhoun opened with a session devoted altogether to evidence corroborative or contradictory of testimony previously introduced. PROSPERITY WAVE IS COMING Steel and Iron Men Say it will Be Here by October and Will Equal Anything Known. Pittsburg, Pa. — From a canvass made of the principal iron and steel manufacturers it is apparent that a wave of prosperity equal to any experienced in this country is about to take place. The steel and plate department of the National Tube company's works at Wheeling, W. Va., will begin operations at once, double turn, giving employment to 4,500 men who have been idle since November 1907. Announcement was made of the following orders: One hundred and sixty-five thousand tons steel rails; 2,000 freight cars; 500 steel passenger cars and 100 locomotives. It is asserted that before long something may be done to restore the prices of steel products. According to steel manufacturers of Pittsburgh, boom times will be here in their fullness by October 1. NATIONAL BANKS PROSPEROUS They Have Received in Individual Deposits This Year $4,826,060,384. Washington, D. C. — During the current fiscal year the national banks of the country have received in individual deposits $4,826,090,384, more than a billion and a half dollars in excess of the entire outstanding money supply of the United States. The year which will close with the present month has been one of exceptional prosperity for national banks. Since May 14, 1908 there has been an increase of 155 in the number of national banks. Of the number that went into liquidation 71 were in Oklahoma and withdrew from the national system to reorganize under the state law to take advantage of the state guaranty law. JACKSON GIVES AN OPINOIN Banks in Kansas Can Not Pay More Than Three Per Cent on Guaranty Deposits. Topeka, Kansas.—In an opinion Fred S. Jackson, attorney general, makes a ruling that has been much demanded by Kansas bankers for several weeks. Most of the bankers have time certificates of deposit bearing interest. Some of these certificates are now bearing interest at more than the guaranty law allows, three per cent. The bankers desired to know if they could have these deposits guaranteed under the law. The attorney general holds that a bank which pays more than three per cent on time deposits can have general deposits guaranteed, but that time certificates cannot participate in the law until they have expired and new certificates are written at the lower interest. Springfield, Ohio.—The Ohio State Sunday School association began the celebration of its golden jubilee here with a big convention. An automobile in which two Americans were driving killed a child on the road from Venice to Rome. The chauffeur, Wilfred Dunne, of Boston, was arrested. New York Bonds in Demand. New York, N. Y.—Bids aggregating $68,500,000 for a $40,000,000 issue of New York city four per cent corporate stock and bonds have been opened. The bonds will be awarded at an average price of about 100%. A Long Low Score Game. Oakland, California.—All coast records for low score games were broken when the San Francisco team of the Coast League defeated Oakland in the 24th inning of a 1 to 0 contest. He Has Founded 1,800 Representing Investments Aggregating $51,596,963. New York, N. Y.—Andrew Carnegie has founded 1,800 public libraries, representing donations aggregating $51,596,963, according to his own statement in the current number of Collers Weekly. Up to December 31, 1908, the Scotchman says, he erected in the United States 559 library buildings with 208 branches at a cost of $34,875,745. England and Wales come second with 329 buildings and 59 branches, at a cost of $7,859,550. Mr. Carnegie thinks that, considering the population of the two countries, he has done almost as much for Canada as the United States, having erected there 86 buildings and established five branches, at an outlay of $2,059,415. He says he is satisfied with the results of his expenditures in the library line. ANOTHER RATE SUIT IS STOPPED Missouri Supreme Court Issues Writ of Prohibition Against St. Louis Judge. Jefferson City, Missouri. — The Missouri supreme court has issued a writ of prohibition against Judge George Williams of the St. Louis circuit court forbidding him from proceeding with the injunction suit by which Attorney Jones of that city sought to prevent certain railroads from putting a three-cent passenger fare into effect. The decision came on a petition filed by several of the defendant railroads and followed a finding of similar effect when the higher court refused to cite for contempt a railroad which had ignored Judge Williams' temporary restraining order. Circuit Attorney Jones had been enjoined from proceeding with the suit by the United States district court in Kansas City several weeks ago. RADFORD HAS BEEN ARRESTED The Investigation Is Not Yet Completed and Amount of Alleged Shortage Unknown. Topeka, Kansas.—John C. Radford, former state grain inspector for Kansas, who was succeeded a short time ago by John J. White, was arrested in Kansas City on a warrant sworn out by John Marshall, assistant attorney general, charging him with misappropriating state funds. The amount of the funds alleged to have been misappropriated is not known as the investigation has not been completed. The investigation is being made under instructions from Gov. Stubbs and will cover the six years during which Radford was the head of the grain inspection department. PASSED THE PORTO RICAN BILL An Executive Department is to Be Created to Take Jurisdiction Over Island Affairs. Washington, D. C.—The house of representatives passed the Porto Rican bill without amendment. The bill provides that whenever the legislature shall fall to make the necessary appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year, those for the current year shall be considered as in force and effect. It also provides that hereafter all reports of an official character shall be made direct to an executive department of the government of the United States to be designated by the president and such department is authorized to take jurisdiction of all matter pertaining to the island possession. California Troops Called Out Sacramento, California.—In response to a telegram from McCloud, announcing that the 600 Italian lumber hands on strike there had broken into the light and power plant and forced the firemen and engineers to quit work, Gov. Gillett ordered four companies of the state militia to proceed to the scene at once. The troops left Sacramento by special train. A New Missouri Railroad Jefferson City, Missouri. — The secretary of state has issued a charter to the Missouri river, Carrollton & Northwestern Railroad company of Carrollton. The capitalization is $15,000. The road is to extend from the Missouri river in Carroll county through Carrollton and northwest, a distance of 15 miles. Big Floods in Colorado. Denver. — Floods due to heavy rains, in some instances approaching cloudbursts, and melting snow is causing damage in many sections of the state. Four lives have been lost in swollen streams in the last 24 hours. Train service in all directions is interrupted. More New Missouri Laws. Jefferson City. — Gov. Hadley to-day approved 35 blinds passed by the last legislature. His Protrait to Morgan. New York, N. Y.-Emperor William in recognition of his good offices in connection with the exhibition of German contemporary art, recently held at the Metropolitan Museum, has presented to J. Pierpont Morgan, president of the museum, his protrait bearing his signature. Flood Damage in Nebraska Lincoln. Nebraska.—Seven inches of rain at Hebron and four inches at Pleasant Dale caused floods and serious damage in and near those towns. AMERICAN BLACKHAND MARION, OHIO, SEEMS TO BE THE HEADQUARTERS. PROMINENT ITALIANS IN GANG Cincinnati, Ohio.—Operations in nearly every large city in the United States and the ramifications of the secret service in Italy will be laid bare, it is expected, when the "Black Hand" gang, which was rounded up in Columbus and Marion, Ohio, by postoffice inspectors of Cincinnati, are brought to trial. Inspector-in-Chief Holmes says the evidence gathered by his inspectors and by detectives and the police of several cities is voluminous and there can be no doubt that the crimes of blackmail, extortion and threatened and attempted murder will be fastened upon the guilty men. In addition to the arrest of four Sicilians in Marion, Columbus and Dennlson, Tuesday, Joe Botella and Sam Rizzo were taken into custody in Marlon Tuesday night. Those arrested earlier in the day were Sam Lima, said to be the right leader of the gang in the United States, and Joe Rizzo, in Marlon; Antonio Marsisi, in Dennlson; and Tony Bichero in Columbus. Collegera Viccario, known also as Charles Viccario, was arrested at Bellefontaine yesterday morning. This man, who is a brother of Antonio Viccario, arrested at Marion, is believed to have been connected with the assassination of the New York detective, Petrosino, in Sicily. These arrests were made following letters sent to John Amicon, a wealthy fruit dealer of Columbus, Ohio. The inspectors say they have evidence that a room in the rear of a little fruit store in Marion conducted by the Rizzos was the headquarters of the society in this country, and they found in a safe there letters which will throw light on many successful attempts to extort money from wealthy Italians in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and other states. The letters confiscated fill two large mail pouches. Some were received from points as far west as South Dakota. They show, the officers assert, that hundreds of Italian business men have been paying tribute to the Black Hand to gain immunity from death or torture at the hands of members of the society. Books showing the receipts of money and its division among members of the Black Hand, together with the names of hundreds of other victims, are in possession of officers. The officers declare they have now sufficient evidence to convict. The New York police officials, who are carrying on the detective work started by Joseph Petrosino, who was killed in Sicily, have been working on the theory that there is no extensive Black Hand organization, but that the operations have been conducted by individuals in different cities who have no connection with each other. But the work of the Cincinnati officers tends to show that the New York experts have been wrong in their theory and that not only has the Black Hand a national organization in the United States, but that it is directly allied with similar organizations in Sicily and is working in connection with the Mafia or Order of the Banana, as it has more recently been known in this country. SIX MEN BURNED TO CRISP IN MOLTEN IRON METAL. Wheeling, W. Va.—Six men were killed and fourteen seriously injured in an explosion last night of a blast furnace at the Wheeling Steel and Iron company's plant. The six men who were killed were burned to a crisp. Of the injured, four were fatal, and ten others seriously hurt. Thirty others had narrow escapes. Shortly after 10 o'clock a "slip" occurred in the Martin's Ferry, Ohio, furnace of the Wheeling Steel and Iron company. A force of workmen numbering fifty were gathered about the furnace making ready to drill in for the 9 o'clock cast. Without a moment's warning there was a terrible roar and great masses of molten iron spurted from the furnace, sweeping down the workmen. Twenty or more were caught in the onrush. Six men are known to have been caught by the hot iron. Four others were badly mutilated. Arms and legs were burned off and some were showered from head to foot with white-hot metal. FOUR WOMEN DROWNED Knights Landing, Cal.-An automobile containing Mrs. W. F. Mixon, wife of W. F. Mixon of Woodland; Mrs. J. H. Dungan, Miss Merl Dungan and Miss Julia Dungan, also of Woodland, was overturned on the main street here and toppled into the Sacramento river. All four women were drowned. Joseph Armstrong, the Chauffeur, swam to a boat and was rescued. MOTHERS WHO HAVE DAUGHTERS Find Help in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Winchester, Ind. - "Four doctors told me that they could never make me regular, and that I would eventually have dropsy. I would bloat, and suffer from bearing-down pains, cramps and chills, and I could not sleep nights. My mother wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice, and I began to take LydiaE. Pinkham's Com the regular, and that I would eventually have dropsy, I would bloat, and suffer from bearing-down pains, cramps and chills, and I could not sleep nights. My mother wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice, and I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After taking one and one-half bottles of the Compound, I am all right again, and I recommend it to every suffering woman." —MRS. MAY DEAL, Winchester, Ind. Hundreds of such letters from girls and mothers expressing their gratitude for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has accomplished for them have been received by The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass. Girls who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, backache, headache, dragging-down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion, should take immediate action to ward off the serious consequences and be restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Thousands have been restored to health by its use. If you would like special advice about your case write a confidential letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free, and always helpful. "I hear, Limpy, dat de price of livln' has increased." "Yep. Gee, it must be tough to have to work for wot a feller eats." Couldn't Stand It. A Raleigh, N. C., woman not long ago received into her house for "training" a "cracker" girl from the mountains. Endeavor was made to inculcate in the girl a love for order and cleanliness, but suddenly this discipline ceased, for the "poor white" fled to her home in the fastresses. Thither the Raleigh woman traced her after come difficulty. "Why did you leave me, Mary Jane?" she asked. "Mis' Morgan, Ijes' couldn't stay!" exclaimed the girl. "I wasjes' cloyed with neatness!" Beds for Tuberculosis Patients. Eight beds a day for tuberculosis patients have been provided in the United States, according to the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, during the year ending May 1. There are in the country over 15,000 beds for consumptive sick, distributed in 298 sanitaria, or an average of 50.8 beds per sanitarium. Division of Musical Labor. Knicker—Is yours a musical family? Bocker—The cook sings about her work, and my daughter works about her sing. MAKING SUNSHINE It Is Often Found in Pure Food. The improper selection of food drives many a healthy person into the depths of despairing illness. Indeed, much sickness comes from wrong food and just so surely as that is the case right food will make the sun shine once more. An old veteran of Newburyport, Mass., says: "In October, I was taken sick and went to bed, losing 47 pounds in about 60 days. I had doctor after doctor, food hurt me and I had to live almost entirely on magnesia and soda. All solid food distressed me so that water would run out of my mouth in little streams. "I had terrible night sweats, and my doctor finally said I had consumption and must die. My good wife gave up all hope. We were at Old Orchard, Me., at that time and my wife saw Grape-Nuts in a grocery there. She bought some and persuaded me to try it. "I had no faith in it, but took it to please her. To my surprise it did not distress me as all other food had done and before I had taken the fifth package I was well on the mend. The pains left my head, my mind became clearer and I gained weight rapidly. "I went back to my work again and now after six weeks' use of the food I am better and stronger than ever before in my life. Grape-Nuts surely saved my life and made me a strong hearty man, 15 pounds heavier than before I was taken ill. "Both my good wife and I are willing to make affidavit to the truth of this." Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are immense, true, and full of human interest. THE AMERICAN HOME W-A.RADFORD EDITOR THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF charge for the pertaining to the subject of building for the readers this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address: Radford, No. 104 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill., and only unclose two-cent stamp for reply. For genuine family comfort there is nothing better or more satisfactory than a medium-sized square house built after this plan. It contains eight rooms besides the bathroom, a good attic, all the closet room necessary and convenient stairways from the cellar to the roof, besides all the so-called modern conveniences. The house is 38 feet in width by 32 feet from front to back, built of cement with the latest and most approved construction throughout. Every room in the house is square or nearly so. The stairway is so placed that it takes up the least valuable space. The bathroom and kitchen plumbing are closely connected, as they should be. The cellar is so arranged that the heating plant may be properly placed under the center of the house. In fact the whole plan is as near right as experience and modern methods can make it. Such a house, when finished, is occupied to the pride and satisfaction of the owner and it is a credit to the neighborhood. In building a cement house it is probably more important to select a good sensible plan than when building of some other material, because a cement house once built is there for all time. It cannot be altered without using dynamite or something else about as powerful. It never burns 1 down and so far as the walls are concerned the older they are the more valuable they become. But a person can hardly make a mistake in building a house after this plan. This general style was popular a hundred years ago and it has been fashionable ever since. Variations have been made from time to time in the size and style of windows, and of course the adoption of such modern improvements as gas, hot water and the new styles of heating apparatus have necessitated internal changes. The inside appearance is very much improved by placing all the pipes in the walls as far as possible. But we must remember that it is necessary to get at the pipes for repairs. This is especially necessary when building a house of cement construction, because a pipe once embedded in cement is BED HOUSE KITCHEN DRAWING LADY CLOSET BATH LIVING ROOMS 8' x 10'' DINING ROOMS 10' x 10' BORCH BATH BORCH First Floor Plan there for all time. Where the up-and-down pipes are placed in one corner of the kitchen a recess in the wall can be made to accommodate them and this recess may be closed with small doors in such a way as to look right and be very convenient in after years when the pipes have become rusted. In building a cement house more elaborate plans are necessary just for this reason, and the more brains the architect has at his command and the more anxious he is to do the square thing the better the plans will be. The cost of such preliminary work should not be a factor in determining whether such plans are secured or not. It is a foregone conclusion that the only right way to build a house of this kind is to start right and to follow the right course from beginning to end. It can only be done by specified details drawn to scale in such manner as to be plain and distinguishable in every part of the work. In looking at the perspective elevation of this house you can see what it will by 50 years from the time it is built. The cement will soften down in tones and will improve with age in appearance as well as hardness. The windows are of sufficient size to always remain fashionable because they are sensible. Fashions may come and fashions may go but common sense remains. A pleasant feature is the grate in BALCONY BED ROOM 10' X 10' X 12' BED ROOM 10' X 10' X 12' BALL BATH ROOM 10' X 10' X 20 BED ROOM 10' X 10' X 20 (ROOF) Second Floor Plan the upper bedroom. Sickness is almost sure to overtake every family sooner or later. One of the most valuable additions to a sick room is an open fire. It is the best ventilator known and its cheerful glow is almost enough to drive away disease without the aid of medicine. Sick people are often killed by shutting the windows tight to prevent a draught. The patient is THE HOME OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG PERSONS kept in a foul atmosphere both day and night until the disease works destruction, when abundance of fresh air would have given the necessary vitality to overcome it. It is a great mistake to build a house without an open fireplace, but I am sorry to notice that hundreds of American women object to using them after they are built. This comes partly from prejudice because at one time we had to depend on fire places for warmth. They failed to heat houses comfortably and everybody cried down the good old fireplace simply because they hadn't the facilities to use it right. When stoves came in most houses were loose-jointed enough to let the necessary air in through the chinks and the inmates of the house had ventilation without realizing it. But now that we have learned to build air-tight houses we should also learn to ventilate them. We must do so or disease will get the better of us. The white plague is already claiming more victims than almost all other diseases and the reason is that we shut ourselves up in our modern houses to keep warm and shut the disease in with us. In building this cement house study the problem of ventilation. Lay out air flues in such a way as to take the foul air from the bottom of the rooms. Remember that in ten years' time a house that is not properly ventilated will be condemned by popular opinion. The handwriting is already on the wall. Boards of health in each state are taking up the tuberculosis problem and they are all pointing to the necessity of proper ventilation, and proper ventilation is a subject that the American people have got to give their attention to whether they want to or not. Another splendid feature about this house is the large front veranda. When properly fitted with fly screens in summer and sash in winter this veranda is like an extra room and it is the most pleasant room in connection with the house. The idea of living out on the porch a good deal of the time is a good one. It is a fad in some places and should be everywhere. Some of these outdoor rooms are fitted up with very pretty furniture; porch furniture, it is called. It is for sale in all furniture stores in many different designs and at all sorts of prices. You can pay as much for a porch chair as you pay for a good article of furniture to fit the parlor or you can get one just as comfortable for two or three dollars. 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Rough on Rats, unbeatable exterminator Rough on Hen Lice, Nest Powder, 25c. Rough on Bedbugs, Powder or Liq'd, 25c. Rough on Fleas, Powder or Liquid, 25. Rough on Roaches, Pow'd, 15c, Liq'd, 25c. Rough on Moth and Ants, Powder, 25c. Rough on Skeeters, agreeable to use, 25c. E. S. Wells, Chemist, Jersey City, N. J. A Lucky Mischance. "At the last moment Fakem lost his nerve." "Then pray kind fate that nobody else will ever find it." LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5CIGAR ALWAYS RELIABLE Mr. Saphead-By Jove, it's nearly 12 o'clock. Perhaps I had better be goin. Miss Smart-Well, they say "Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day." Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. Predatory Instincts. The inherited predatory tendency of men to seize upon the fruits of other people's labor is still very strong, and while we have nothing more to fear from kings, we may yet have trouble enough from commercial monopolies and favored industries, marching to the polls their hordes of bribed retailers. Well, indeed, has it been said eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. God never meant that in this fair but treacherous world in which he has placed us we should earn salvation without steadfast labor.—John Fiske. Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. To Check Spread of Trachoma. It has been reported that the disease known as trachoma, or granular eyelids, has been spreading rapidly among the Indians. To check this trouble congress appropriated $12,000, placing it in the hands of the commissioner of Indian affairs, for the immediate investigation and treatment of the disease and to check its spread. Important to Mothers. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitcher In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Mar-vel-lous! At a baseball game in Chicago the gatekeeper hurried to Comiskey, leader of the White Sox, and said: "Umpire Hurst is here with two friends. Shall I pass 'em in?" "An umpire with two friends!" gasped Comiskey. "Sure!"—Everybody's Magazine. Courage. "He's a man of great courage." "Unusual courage?" "Yes, unusual courage. He isn't afraid to keep his seat in a street car, even if a woman he knows is standing right in front of him." Ruling Passion. "He's half crazy about music." "Sure is. Even calls his price list a scale of prices." Red, Wenk, Wenry, Watery Eyes Relieved by Murine Eye Remedy. Compounded by Experienced Physicians. Murine Sport. Steril. Soothes Pain. Write Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago, for illustrated Eye Book. At Druggists. The end and object of our existence should be work, or the legitimate employment of all our faculties.—H. R. Howels. Over fifty years of public confidence and popularity. That is the record of Hamlin's Wizard Oil, the world's standard remedy for aches and pains. There's a reason and only one—MERIT. Deeds Form Character. Christian deeds make good Christians of us all.—Florida Times-Union. LEWIS' STRAIGHT Not Exclusive. "Was it an exclusive party?" "Not at all. Some of her relatives were there." ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. With a man money means more to eat; with a woman more to wear. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colloid. 25c a bottle. Occasionally a dressmaker gives her husband fits. Look Pre use ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA ALLEN'SFOOT-EASE Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot=Ease, a powder for the feet. It relieves painful, swollen, smarting, nervous feet, and instantly takes the sting of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot=Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain relief for ingrowing nails, perspiring, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. It is always in demand for use in Patent Leather Shoes and for Breaking in New Shoes. We have over 30,000 testimonials. TRY IT TODAY. Sold by all Drogsists, 25c. Do not accept any Substitute. Sent by mail for 25c. in stamps. FREE TRIAL PACKAGE sent by mail. Address ALLEN S. OLMSTED, LE ROY, N. Y. Libbys Food Products Never Vary in Quality or Taste because the utmost care is taken by Libby's Chefs to select only the choicest materials, and put these up in the same careful manner every time. You are thus assured of uniform goodness, and this is the reason that the use of Libby's gives such general satisfaction to every housewife. Try these Libby Foods Dried Beef For luncheon, spreads or every day meals, they are just the thing. Keep a supply in the house. You never can tell when they will come in handy. Ask for Libby's and be sure you get Libby's. Baldy's BARBERS BARBERS Libby, MoNellI & Libby "How does Miss Hilda get along with her French conversation classes?" "She is making them a pronounced success."—Baltimore American. For Any Disease or Injury to the eye, use PETITT'S EYE SALVE, absolutely harmless, acts quickly, 25c. All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. Uncle Josh Says: "Tain't all cigarette smoke in Turkish circles, b' jinks, is it? RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Some marriages mean war and some mean an armed truce. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES. BACKALUE HER 375 "Guaranteed" SICK HEADACHE Positively cured by these little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea and Taste in the Mouth, Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. CARTERS ITTLE IVER PILLS. Positively cured by these little Pills. They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste of the Mouth, Cooted Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTERS ITTLE IVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBTITUTES. I'm a pinch WESTERN CANADA Much less would be satisfactory. The general average is above twenty bushels. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA "All are loud in their praises of the great crops and that won't derail country—Eclectic Association of August, 1908, National Editorial Free It is now possible to secure a homestead of 160 acres free and another 160 acres at $3.00 per acre. Hundreds have paid the cost of their farms (if purchased) and then had a balance of from $10.00 to $12.00 per acre from one crop. Wheat, barley, oats, flax—all do well. Mixed farming is a great success and dairy is highly profitable. Excellent climate, splendid schools and churches, railways bring most every district within easy reach of market. Railway and land companies have lands for sale at low prices and on easy terms. "Last Best West" pamphlets and free from sales information to how to secure lowest railway rates, apply to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or the authorized Canadian Government Agent: J. S. CRAWFORD, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Paxtine TOILET ANTISEPTIC NOTHING LIKE IT FOR THE TEETH Paxtine excels any dentifrice in cleansing, whitening and removing tatars from the teeth, besides destroying all germs of decay and disease which ordinary tooth preparations cannot do. THE MOUTH Paxtine used as a mouth-wash disinfects the mouth and throat, purifies the breath, and kills the germs which collect in the mouth, causing sore throat, bad teeth, bad breath, gripe, and much sickness. THE EYES when inflamed, tired, ache and burn, may be instantly relieved and strengthened by Paxtine. CATARRH Paxtine will destroy the germs that cause catarrh, heal the inflammation and stop the discharge. It is a sure remedy for uterine catarrh. Paxineine a harmless yet powerful germicide,disinfectant and deodorizer. Used in bathing it destroys odors and leaves the body antiseptically clean. FOR SALE AT DRUG STORES,BOC PAXTINE OR POSTPAID BY MAIL. LARGE SAMPLE FREE! THE PAXTON TOILET GO., BOSTON, MA888. The bowels show first sign of things going wrong. A Cascaret taken every night as needed keeps the bowels working naturally without grip, gripe and that upset sick feeling. 900 Ten cent box, week's treatment. All drug stores. Biggest seller in the world--million boxes a month. THAT'S IT The only skin softener and bleacher I find. All kinds of oily sweet and clean on hot summer days, destroys all odor of perspiration and makes a damp cloth. Pray morning with a damp cloth. Pray morning with a $1.00 bottles. Trial size 100. Either mailed direct on re- solution or HOOPER MEDIGINE CO. Dallas, Tex. & Jersey City N.J. THAT'S IT diner and bleacher I find. It also keeps me sweet and clean on hot summer days, and keeps me hydrated ration when applied on retiring and removed n xt bottles. Two sizes 50c and 60h bottles. Trial size 10c. direct on receipt of price. HOOPER MEDIGINE CO. Dallas, Tex. & Jersey City NJ. placed anywhere place on a table. Neat. clean, ornamental, convenient, clean. not spill or it up not spill or it up or anything else. Guaranteed effect on your table. or prepaid for 20c. Harden, New Brooklyn. Brooklyn, New Brooklyn. clean, ornamental convenient, cheap Jasmin's closet, not spill or the over, will not not ornip anything Guaranteed effect the art of selling anything or sent prepaid for Harold Sowerby 140 Hall Avenue Brooklyn, New York Always Ready NO STROPPING Always Sharp NO HONING THIS IS GIHETTE MARIE KNOWN THE WORLD OVER PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanse and beautifies the hair. Promotes a healthy hair. Never Falls to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Ours soap dishes, & the $00, and $1.00 at Drugs LAND - IRRIGATED - LAND. Perpetual water right; fine water; productive soil; crop water unknown;丰水; wheat; water; crop; nail water; climate; tree number; easy terms; write now. LINWOOD LAND CO., Rock Springs, Wyoming. If allotted with (with) sore eyes, use (with) W. N. U., WICHTIA, NO. 24-1909. 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. THE W. T. VERNON CLUB, WICHITA, KAN. Hour of meeting 2:30 p. m. Engaged in needle, charity and literary work. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. B. Hockett, president, Mrs. S. Griggs, secretary. One thing certain is that the Emmanuel movement cannot stop the pervading disposition of man to put up an argument. A new kind of flea has been discovered in California. It has six teeth and is a high jumper. Maybe it is designed to pounce on airships. An exchange tells us that the kaiser's favorite maxim is "Forget it." All right. Von Buelow isn't going to be the one to jog his memory. Senator Elkins has long had an eye to the best investments. Since the country thought that he was figuring on a duke, he has bought a bank. Whitling's chief of police was held up and robbed of his star, revolvers, money and billy. We hope the highwaymen left him with at least a clew. A Colorado man gave his grandson, aged one month, $1,000,000 as a Christmas present. Think of the toys that youngster can buy with all that money. The telephone girls at Rockford, Ill., struck because they were not permitted to talk. As well tell the birds not to sing and the flowers not to throw off their fragrance. A Pittsburg artist succeeded in getting a flashlight photograph of a member of the city council in the act of receiving a bribe. It may properly be referred to as a moving picture. Specializing in farming will be carried too far if scientific farmers produce cobless corn. Several thousand acres then would have to be devoted to raising a variety that grew only cob pipes. Both Paris and London are discussing the commercial future of the flying machine. It is a safe prophecy that the sporting fraternity will get into aeroplaning some time in advance of commerce. Castro of Venezuela, who "revoluted" himself into the presidency and has held on like grim death ever since, must have hearty contempt for one who is so "easy" as the late President Alexis of Hayti. A New York judge has decided that a man whose salary is not more than six dollars a week need not pay alimony. This may cause some men to quit exaggerating when they refer to the salaries they draw. Since this country set up in business as an independent nation its gold mines have yielded more than three billion dollars. It takes the American hen about six years to furnish eggs and chickens worth that much. Going barefoot seems to be growing less popular in the West Indies than it used to be. During the last fiscal year the United States exported more than two and a half million pairs of shoes to these islands, one-third as many as the exports to the whole world. Early in the new year another battleship will be added to the navy. It will be called the Delaware in honor of Maryland's little neighbor on the east. No doubt it will be a fine ship, and will add more strength to about the strongest naval fighting force in the whole world. The Power of Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is one magnet of power. You must fire every event with it, touch thoughts and acts with it; it will transmute dross into gold, drudgery into delight. What matters if the soul which lives beside you is cold and selfish. Set him a good example! Joy is sunshine and he will feel it. Every irksome task is a chance for power. For the qualities which they bring out are God's gifts which fit us to enjoy better things. Easy things will come, if you have spent your heart's blood on gaining strength, for the very goal of power is the ease which comes from strength. We laugh at things and people who used to cow or annoy us, we gracefully and swiftly the tasks, one, so hard. One by one, we have univerted our chains, we are free!—Nautilus. "I see that a New York professor reforms bad boys with piano music." "I hope he bears in mind that some pianos need reforming quite as much as bad boys do." Special Master E. V. McKeever filed Sometimes More. .SUBSCRIBE FOR.. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT PR $1.00 YEAR One of the Oldest and Best Negro Newspapers In the west ESTABLSHED IN 1898 Fresh, Reliable Race News Firm in defense of our race Our policy of "The Higher Grade of News" has built for the Searchlight the reputation of being distinctly a "Family Newspaper". No slang, trashy or questionable items are found in the columns of the Searchlight. 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No Job Too Small—No Job Too Work Guaranteed—First-Class Workm THE BLAZER SEARCHLIGHT Knights & Daughters OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRAS KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. 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. Q. M., 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kans. C. M. JONHSON, G. P. P., 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 416 E. 3rd, Ft. Scott, Kans. OFFICIAL ORGAN—The Wichita Searchlight, W. N. Miller, Editor, 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. NEXT PLACE MEETING—The Grand Temple and Tabernacle Kansas- Nebraska Jurisdiction, will hold its next Session (the 18th annual) in Topeka, Kans., on the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1909. Number. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. H. Tyler, 520 E 9th Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 5 Mrs. Carrie Brown, 922 N. 10th, Atohison, Kan., 2-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mul- berry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Sallina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Tues. (A) 9 Mrs. Katie Thomas, 117 E Laurett, Topeka, Kansas. 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodford, 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. 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessle Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 24 Mrs. Angle Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Parsons, Kan., 1-8 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawatomie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 8 Set. WANTED—A sample Latest Model "Range" marking toy. NO MONEY REQUIRE to anyone, anywhere in the U. allow PAN DAVY BRIDges to it any test you wish, keep the bicycle ship it back to $5.00 FACTORY PRICES at on to $5.00 middlemen's profits be annee behind your bicycle. set your price and remarkable spec prices and remarkable spec YOU WILL BE ASTONISH low prices we can make you t TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses. Directory Daughters 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1608 Archer Av. South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 69 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 63 Mrs. Lille Roblett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) (A) Ia, Kan., Fridays. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 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, 908 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1178, Wels 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. J. G. Burdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. F. D. Early, Sherman Flats, Omaha Neb., 2-4 Mon. Robt. M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. Dr. G. G. Brown, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Tues. A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Tue. Geo. L. Craig, 906 Cherokee, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. C. W. Giles, 617 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan., 1-3-4 Thurs. Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th Coffeville, Kansas. Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 22 B. C. Easter, Box 156, Oswego Kans., 2-4 Tues. 24 J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th, Cherryvale, Kans., 1-3 Tues. 25 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 60 E. C. Sqires, 1813 Jefferson, Topeka, Kans., 1-3, Mon. 22 J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Leav enworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, Ft Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit 777 TEMPLE8. Chief Mentors. TENTS. 2 Lizzie Weaver 1122 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. B. 291 (A) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 811 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Sat. (A) 10 Maggle Robinson, 911 Everett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Mary Brown, 325 Misa, Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 11 Ethel Penn, 718 "Q" St. Atchison, Ks., 2-4 Sat. (A) 14 Arie Stone, 323 Main, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Ks., 2-4 Wed. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Saffna, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Flata, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Wills, 2103 Grand, Parsona Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark, Parsons, Kan., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsons, Kans., 1-3 Sat. 29 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Snowman, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 28 Louise VerJer, 813 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 30 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 27 Jannie McAdoo, 1818 N. Madison, Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 812 Washington, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. 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. 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 creek 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 gulf 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, pies, cake and all sorts of dainties to please him, and he calls it all 'indigestion folder!'" The judge advised 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 herole 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.