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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER IN FULL BLAST!! You will never appreciate what this sale is until it is over and then you will be sorry you did not attend and buy that piece of Furniture you've needed so long You can make $5. go as far as you could $10 before this sale started. Come to this sale and make money. You can buy Furniture at Half Price SPECIAL NOTICE! A large portion of our stock was in the fire. We also had a large stock in the warehouse. All will be included in this sale as well as shipments received the past 30 days while the store was closed. ELEVENTH YEAR SCRAPS OF INFORMATION The average life of a mouse is three years. German soil feeds nine-tenths of her people. Indigo furnishes nearly fifty of shades of blue. Half of the world's zinc comes from Prussin. The cats of Berlin are all registered and wear a tag. In Canada wheat matures in from ninty to 100 days. There are over 5,000 motor boats on the canals of Holland. The United States has the great est variety of postage stamps. The Arctic air is very favorabl for the transmission of sound. Of Canadian farmers 87 per ct are masrers of their own farms. Evelopes were invented in 1683 and were in distavor for a long time. The German population through out the whole world is computed to be 100,000,000. While at work the employes at Cuban cigar factories are entertained by readers. Irish agricultural associations are moving for the introduction of advanced farming appliances. Thirty-three survivors of the heroic charge of the Light Bridge at Balaklava are still alive The inhabitants of Korea num bering 20,006,000 consume an average of 840,000,000 cigarets daily. IN NOLLEY'S You will never appreciate sorry you did not attend a You can make $5. go as to this sale and ma 1 Hastings Tables With Tyden Lock Stand for Quality SPECIAL NOTICE! A large p stock was in the fire. We also stock in the warehouse. All w in this sale as well as shipmen past 30 days while the store w NOLLEY'S 122 No less than 10,000 tons of dy namite will be used on the Panama canal within the next 12 months. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is the only royal personage of Europe who does not make use of automobiles. The death rate of New Zealand which is the most healthy of all the British colonies is less than 12 per 1,000 year. This year Argentina has 3,350 000 tons of grain and flour available for export. The crops put at 6,000,000 tons the largest ever Since the Brooklyn bridge was opened for traffic May 24, 1883 it has afforded passape to more than the entire population of the world. The estimated number of telephones in use in the world is 9, 500,000 of which over 7,000,000 are in the United States and 2, 000,000 in Europe. On a two-rall line it is impossible to prevent derailment train occasionally. On the monorail derailment is impossable even at hundred-mile speeds. Water thrown upon ice in the Arctic regions will crack it just as boiling water breaks glass. This happens because the ice is so much colder than the water. A hydraulic press for flangling operations exerts a pressure of 4,000 tons or more For forging steel ingots the hydraulic pressure is 4,000 tons and upwards. FULL BLAS $50,000 Furniture e what this sale is until it is over and buy that piece of Furniture y as far as you could $10 before this make money. You can buy Furniture Dining Room Tables Refrigerators Kitchen Cabinets Buffets and Sideboards portion of our so had a large will be included ents received the was closed. Upholstered Chairs, Rockers, M. Linoleums, Dressers, Davenport SPECIAL TO OUT-OF-TOWN If you purchase $25. or over freight to your home Grand Rapids FURNITURE 12 North Main Street Upholstered Chairs, Rockers, Mattings and Linoleums, Dressers, Davenports, Couches. SPECIAL TO OUT-OF-TOWN BUYERS If you purchase $25, or over we pay the freight to your home Buffets and Sideboards The annual loss of the world's shipping average 2,172 vessels out of which niney-tour are completely missing and never heard of again. The Sublican bridge at Rome is the oldest in history. It's made of wood and was erected in the seventh century. It has been rebuilt twice, but is in ruins at the present day. In Silicesia glass bricks of durable kind are now used for building purposes. Many of the residential houses are constructed of these bricks, which are made in various tints. There were 24,000,000 cob pipes made and sold in 1908. Bully for the cob pipe. That the negro is not always as black as he is painted has just been disclosed in Layton, Ohio, which was greatly stirred up in January by the horrible murder of two white girls. Supicion for the crime was placed upon Negro the Negro quarter carfuly watched and a RACE RIOT NAROW-LY AAERTED. Nothing came of it however but a white man now in jail is charged circumstantialy by a woman with the murder of these girls. She swears that was his common practice to black up as a Negro almost every night and go out thus disgused to commit crime returning with purses and other valuables. A recent ST!! e Fire Sale and then you will be you've needed so long sale started. Come re at Half Price irs, Rockers, Mattings and users, Davenports, Couches. OUT-OF-TOWN BUYERS $25. or over we pay the right to your home TURE CO. JUNE 26 1909 Iron and Brass Beds Felt Mattresses Bed Springs Folding Beds case of assult on a young white woman in Georgia resulted in the capture on the spot of a WHITE MAN BLACKED UP AND DRESSED AS A COLOR'D WOMAN for the purpose of evading detection. The New York Evening Post suggest that such occurrences as this require a careful scientific study of the Negro in crime for the truth as to the lawlessness of the race. New York.—"It pays to read the Bible," solomnly said Steve Marsh Friday as he gazed at a pile of green paper representing $4,868 in his home in Fairfield near Caldwell N. J. "I wish I'd started reading that Bible thirty five years ago. What wouldn't I've done with all that money in those days?" And if Auntie Sarah Marsh who "went beyond" thirty-five years ago was loking down at Nephew Steve just then he might've heard a spirit voice whisper, "That'll teach you to read the good book always." Almost 3,000 bills were found ranging in domominaotion from 10 cents to $10. The smaller ones were shindlasters which were withdrawn from circulation in the early '70s The total value of the Bible's treasure may be even larger, as it is possible some of the 1025 or 50 cents currency may command premiums from a collectors. Marsh made his discovery when packing his trunk preparatory to starting to join his son Steve Marsh, Jr. near Denver. He was undecided whether to take the old Bible with him or to leave it with his cousin Abram Marsh or Fairfield with whom he has lived recently. While debating this question he opened the brass clasp of the bk for the first time since it has ben in his possession and found the money. How long they lived after term of office expired (Chicago Record Herald) George Washington livd two years and nine months after retirement. John Adams lived 25 years and three months. Thomas Jefferson lived seventeen years & three months. James Madison lived six years and four months. John Quincy Adams lived nineteen years and served in house of representatives, Andrew Jackson lived eight years and three mos. GRAND RECEPTION GIVEN BY Taborian Temple No. 11, Knights of Tabor Garfield Hall Monday Night 5th. July 5th. - REFRESHMENTS- Committee: J. H. Jones, chairman, M. J. Dancy, Wm. Batts. Admission Martin Van Buren lived twenty one years and four months. William Henry Harison died precise.y one month after his inauguration April 4, 1841. John Tyler lived seventeen years after the retirement. James K. Polk lived 3 months. Zachary Taylor died in office sixteen months after his inauguration. Millard Filmor lived twentyone years after his retirement. Franklin Pierce twelve yr and six months James Bucanan six years and eleven mos. Abraham Lincoln died in office. Andrew Johnson lived six years and four months after retirement an served a potion of a term in the United States senate. U. S. Grant lived eight yrs and four months after retirement. Rutherford B. Hayes elevenyears and eleven months, James A. Garfield died four months after his inauguration. Chester A. Arthur survived one year and eight months after retirement. Grover Cleeland ten years and seven mos. Benjamin Harrison eight years. William McKinley died in office. The average peroid of the lite of the eighteen presidents after they left the white house was twelve years and ten months. The only ex-President for whom the government has ever done anything in a pecuniary way was General Grant, who was restored to the retired list of the army and received the pay of a general for several years before death. The widows of Presidents Grant and Haynes, Garfield and McKinley were voted pensions of $5,000 each. NO.13 25c EIGHT DAYS MEETING New Hope Baptist church will hold an eight days meeting beginning with Sunday July 4th to celebrate the first anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. E. T. Fishback with that church. The meeting will be held every night, except Saturday nlight. The follow ing is their. PROGRAM Sunday, July 4th., 11 a. m. The pastor will preach Sunday, July 4th 3 p. m. Rev. G. W. Smith of Second Baptist Church Sunday, July 4th 8 p. m. Rev W. H. Tillman, Ex-Pastor of New Hope, Monday July 5th 8 p. m. Rev M L. Copeland Pastor Tabernacle Baptist Church Tuesday July 6, 8 p. m. Rev G. T. Wooten Pastor Methodist Episcopal church Wednesday July 7th 8 p. m. Rev J. C Rogers of Hutchinson Kansas, Thursday July 8th 8 p. m. Rev. W. H. Tillman, Friday July 9t 8 p. m. Rev. J. H. Van Lue Sunday July 11th 11 a. m. Rev. C. G. Fishback, B. D. of Topeka Ks Sunday July 11th 3 p. m. Rev. J. T. Smith Pastor St. Paul A. M. E. Church Sunday Julp 11th 8 p m. Rev. C. G. Fishback B. D. Monday, July 12th at 8 p. m. A grand Literary Entertainment Reading by Mrs. Ida M. Becks, of Kansas City-Star Eloeutionist of the West, recently from Dayton, Ohio, and associated with the late Paul Laurance Dun bar. Do not miss these great meeting. Come One! Come All! And Enjoy These Eight Days of Retreshing Services. E.,T. Fishback, Pastor HERE was a time in the history of humanity, in the most elementary stage of human culture, when man, not unlike the wild roaming beast of the forest, eked out a precarious livelihood as best he could by plunder and the chase. Woman turned to agriculture for her livelihood, and so there is history behind the legend that it was a goddess that ruled over agriculture. This attitude of woman was not an arbitrary matter. She did not reason it all and thus turn from the chase to agriculture. The new movement was born of a natural necessity. culture. The need It grew from her function of woman in bearing children. As progress went on the even to the tribe. Woman a so was mother of the divine a Later it was a significa- tion, when the triune God of tude and content. At such heaven and mother of God, God and won the victory. To-day we are at another turning point in the history of nal and characteristic feature Something significant is profound it is is understood. Nor do we sufficiently bear it all over the world simultaneo Yet you know how offe- and women to-day. They on what more do they need? A and daughters? It is mere of her present well-defined sph- divine rights, and have not a servant? The point is not whether of subjection. The point is nature of mankind. The po- has only rights that are give free unfolding of her persona It grew from her function as the mother of the race, her function as a woman in bearing children. As progress went on the mother gave the name to the child, and even to the tribe. Woman also founded the sanctuaries of religion, and so was mother of the divine as well as the human. Later it was a significant fact in the great turning point in civilization, when the triune God of the church had become motherless in its attitude and content. At such a time it was a goddess, Maria, queen of heaven and mother of God, that wrestled with the omnipotent church God and won the victory. To-day we are at another fork of the road in civilization, and a new turning point in the history of the race has been reached. One of the signal and characteristic features of it is the woman's movement. Something significant is going on in the soul of woman to-day. How profound it is is understood neither by friend nor foe of the movement. Nor do we sufficiently bear in mind that there is an awakening of woman all over the world simultaneously. Yet you know how offensive this whole movement is to many men and women to-day. They cry: Is it more rights that they want? But what more do they need? Are they not secure in their position as wives and daughters? It is mere wanton audacity when woman would overstep her present well-defined sphere of rights. Is there not such a thing as divine rights, and have not these destined man to be ruler and woman servant? The point is not whether woman can live quite comfortably in a state of subjection. The point is that this subjection is contrary to the moral nature of mankind. The point is that woman is naturally rightless and has only rights that are given her by others. In the case of woman the free unfolding of her personality is abridged. Courtesy Keeps Home Life Happy By HELEN OLDFIELD people are of the pinion that ness, and that at home one behavior, even to the often family. Not long ago a woman in family magazine that her scandalous fashion when, as He forgot that his wife was her as a nobody he would himself. So also the woman who thinks a wrapper good eno always is she careful that the fastidious eyes. So also there are comp cleanliness is next to godlines for others, comes next to lo means much more than polit others, unselfishness, and hop the pinion that lack of ceremony inc at home one is privileged to take in to the often disregard of the con I ago a woman lamented to the "hor chine that her husband neglected her fashion when, as he expressed it, "th it his wife was there to see. If any body he would be indignant; he re the woman who abroad is the pic pper good enough for her husband careful that the wrapper is tidy and there are company manners and me next to godliness, so courtesy, which makes next to love as a factor in ho more than politness; it suggests tho shness, and hopefulness as well. people are of the pinion that lack of ceremony includes the want of politeness, and that at home one is privileged to take one's ease in speech and behavior, even to the often disregard of the comfort of the rest of the family. Not long ago a woman lamented to the "home circle" of her favorite family magazine that her husband neglected his shaving in the most scandalous fashion when, as he expressed it, "there was nobody to see." He forgot that his wife was there to see. If any one else were to speak of her as a nobody he would be indignant; he reserves that privilege for himself. So also the woman who abroad is the picture of dainty neatness thinks a wrapper good enough for her husband at home, nor perhaps always is she careful that the wrapper is tidy and fresh enough to please fastidious eyes. So also there are company manners and manners for home, but as cleanliness is next to godliness, so courtesy, which merely is tender thought for others, comes next to love as a factor in home happiness. Courtesy means much more than politeness; it suggests thoughtful consideration for others, unselfishness, and hopefulness as well. Exercise Care in Giving Medicine By Dr. Gustave E. Henschen ache from kidney troubles, not been attended to the attrib- come a chronic drug-taker would be superadded the com- Had the person gone to later found the cause of the the patient should be too far told him so, thus giving him The druggist has no tr Hence he is not capable of l in which physicians generally which they are given. Every family should he should be consulted first in o family the more valuable he kidney troubles. The drug gives relief ended to the attack recurs. Sooner or sonic drug-taker. The kidney trouble rathered the condition brought on by person gone to a physician the lat- the cause of the headache and given a should be too far gone for a cure the hus giving him a chance to prepare a regist has no training in recognizing not capable of locating sickness even sicians generally give drugs, and so e given. family should have a family physician resulted first in every case of sickness more valuable he becomes. ache from kidney troubles. The drug gives relief. As the kidneys have not been attended to the attack recurs. Sooner or later the patient may become a chronic drug-taker. The kidney trouble would remain and there would be superadded the condition brought on by the drug. Had the person gone to a physisician the latter would have sooner or later found the cause of the headache and given appropriate treatment. If the patient should be too far gone for a cure the doctor would have frankly told him so, thus giving him a chance to prepare for the inevitable. The druggist has no training in recognizing or diagnosing disease. Hence he is not capable of locating sickness even if he knows the dosages in which physicians generally give drugs, and sometimes the purposes for which they are given. Every family should have a family physician. He is the one that should be consulted first in every case of sickness. The longer he serves t family the more valuable he becomes. special Master E. V. McKeever filed report to this effect in the supreme T in the history of humanity, in the most of human culture, when man, not unlike the rest of the forest, eked out a precarious livelihold by plunder and the chase. led to agriculture for her livelihood, and so behind the legend that it was a goddess that culture. of woman was not an arbitrary matter. She call out and thus turn from the chase to agri- movement was born of a natural necessity. is the mother of the race, her function as a the mother gave the name to the child, and also founded the sanctuaries of religion, and well as the human. fact in the great turning point in civiliza- the church had become motherless in its atti- a time it was a goddess, Maria, queen of that wrestled with the omnipotent church for fork of the road in civilization, and a new of the race has been reached. One of the sig- of it is the woman's movement. going on in the soul of woman to-day. How neither by friend nor foe of the movement. mind that there is an awakening of woman easily. passive this whole movement is to many men: Is it more rights that they want? But they not secure in their position as wives canton audacity when woman would overstep are of rights. Is there not such a thing as these destined man to be ruler and woman woman can live quite comfortably in a state that this subjection is contrary to the moral ant is that woman is naturally rightless and in her by others. In the case of woman the city is abridged. It scarcely is too much to say that, barring habitual drunkenness and jealousy, with or without reason, the lack of everyday courtesy between husbands and wives has wrecked the happiness of more marriages than other cause whatsoever. The pity of it is that the harm done is so unnecessary, almost always so wholly innocent of malintent. Somebody has defined relatives as "persons who consider themselves privileged to be as rude as they please with impunity." Not many people will be found fully to indorse this cynical definition; yet none can deny that many back of ceremony includes the want of politeness privileged to take one's ease in speech and disregard of the comfort of the rest of the documented to the "home circle" of her favorite husband neglected his shaving in the most he expressed it, "there was nobody to see." there to see. If any one else were to speak of the indignant; he reserves that privilege for abroad is the picture of dainty neatness high for her husband at home, nor perhaps a wrapper is tidy and fresh enough to please many manners and manners for home, but as is, so courtesy, which merely is tender thought as a factor in home happiness. Courtesyness; it suggests thoughtful consideration for usefulness as well. Few people realize the danger of allowing druggists to prescribe for them. I have never known a druggist who wouldn't immediately prescribe for a person who had a headache. As a rule, coal-tar analgesic is given. Such a drug will ease the head, slow down the heart and weaken its force, and also reduce fever if present. But the headache may be the beginning of an acute disease. Later, when a physician is called, he loses valuable time in recognizing the disease, as the drug has masked the symptoms. Let us presume a person has a headache. The drug gives relief. As the kidneys have back recurs. Sooner or later the patient may The kidney trouble would remain and there edition brought on by the drug. a physician the latter would have sooner or headache and given appropriate treatment. If gone for a cure the doctor would have frankly a chance to prepare for the inevitable. mining in recognizing or diagnosing diseases, cating sickness even if he knows the dosages give drugs, and sometimes the purposes for give a family physician. He is the one that every case of sickness. The longer he serves becomes. What More Do They Need? The KITCHEN CABINET O LOVE one's neighbor, is I know. The Scriptural injunction. But, with all due of reverence. I yet must say with unction. That not by threat of punishment. By ' rack, or rope or torch. Could I ' er love the neighbor. Who has the upper porch. M How can I "love the neighbor," who The dusty rugs will beat, And scatter germs and microbes on My back porch, clean and neat? And how about a neighbor who Will turn the garden hose To scrub her porch when I below, Am hanging out the clothes? And then, her flower boxes, All miled with sand and dirt That sits down of the ministers Upon my husband's shirt? Ah, no, the "Law and Prophets" I really must decline, I cannot "love the neighbor" whose Back porch is over mine "Married Woman's Property." There is excitement in England and over this act, which gives to married women the right to whatever property they personally own, and exempts it from claims for debt, etc. A landlord writes to the effect that "It deprives landlords of the last scrap of protection against dishonesty of husband and wife acting in concert." But the average woman will feel that since dishonesty will exist, in spite of acts of parlement, there must nevertheless be protection for the innocent, and it is easy to see why a wife's goods are entitled to the protection as is that of any third person whose belongings happen to be on the premises. Laws cannot go on the supposition that every wife will establish a bogus claim to help her husband out of difficulty. Washing Colored Clothes Washing Colored Clothes. This is a difficult problem in summer, and few there be who solve it satisfactorily. But there are a few infallible rules: Do not use hot water; tepid, with salt. And there should never be soda in the water with colored clothes; a bit of ammonia will soften the water with no bad effect on the colors, rather brightening them. As purple and all shades of violet fade easily, they should be given especial care. Never hang them in the sun, but dry them quickly in the open air. WHEN I'M A MAN B IG folks are always asking what I'll be when I'm a man. Now that's no easy question to decide; One time I joined a circus; went A mile in their big van, But that trip cured me of the wish to ride. Once, when I stayed at Uncle Bob's. A farmer I would be. And soldiers have a most exciting time. And sailors, and police- men, I should much enjoy all three, And the man who goes the northern pole to climb. Sometimes I think I'd like to be A trusted bank cashier, But that seems like a pretty strong temptation. The presidential job, ah me, I very greatly fear, I'd be the victim of assassination. Since I am fond of bossing things, I envy our old janitor; But, anyhow, I'll do the best I can. And whatever I decide to be I'll always try to be an honest man! Two Kinds of Salads. This is the first rule to be learned, in the matter of salads, that they are of two kinds. There is the light, tasty salad served between the heavy course of meat or game and the dessert. Or, when game is not served, and the meat course is light, a heavy substantial salad will often take the place of either or both, and is a different dish entirely from the simple lettuce or fruit with a plain French dressing. For the light salads make the French dressing of oil and vinegar, varied with other condiments to taste. For ordinary tastes, salt and pepper is enough. Rub the interior of the bowl with an onion if the flavor is liked. Watercress is a happy medium for salad, but with this oil should not be used. There is no reason for this, but the result is better with plain vinegar, moistening the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, and seasoning with salt and pepper. Whipped cream is an excellent addition to any mayonnaise. It makes it light in consistency and not so strong in flavor. Fish, meat, shell fish, make hearty salads which should not be served with any other heavy dish. Reserve these for a lunch or tea when meat is not served. Banana salad is of better flavor if nuts be added. A good way is to leave the fruit whole, and after peeling, rub it in crushed nuts until the banana is enveloped in them like a croquette. Serve with mayonnaise. An oil dropper is of great help in the mixture of mayonnaise. If the dressing curdles add a lump of ice. "FOR A' THAT" (Copyright, 1988, by J. B. Lippincott Co.) "Sire," whispered an agitated attendant, quite unmoved by the beauty of the landscape lying so placidly in the evening sunshine, "Sire, your majesty terrifies me by this familiarity with an unknown American, even though you think he does not guess your rank. For a week your majesty has met him here on this shore and compelled me to leave you—yet who knows but he may be an anarchist?—a murderer? His country is most impossible." "And who knows," interrupted the king angrily, "but that the moon may be made of green cheese? or the cup of coffee I had this morning of poison? One is as much worth speculating on is the other. Kindly withdraw, my lord, he is coming. Console yourself by the knowledge that this is the last time I meet him, for to-morrow I go back to—" he hesitated a second and then added—"to the usual damned routine!" The courtier, he was a duke with an income worthy of his rank, looked sincerely shocked, but he went away. "It is certainly a touch of madness in him," he muttered to himself, "this desire to meet a commoner on the man's own level! We all know insanity has been in his family." Meantime Hollingsworth, frank-eyed and smiling had joined the king and shining, had joined the king. "Guten tag, mein Freund," said the American gayly as he came up. "Hear how my accent improves, in spite of the complications of your tangled tongue. But you are solemn this evening. You should have gotten up at dawn, as I did, and have had a dip with me in the ocean. Everything looked as fresh as new-mown hay." His companion looked at him curiously. "How have you managed to keep all t.at enthusiasm? Is life so easy on a—what do you call it?—ranch?" The American stared. "Well, you don't know much of life!" he said, laughing. "Is life easy on a ranch? I reckon not! But what's the use of going over past troubles now? You see, I actually made something over expenses last year, so here I am, taking the first vacation I ever had. Great country this." Then, irrelevantly, he added: "Odd we two should have struck up a friendship, isn't it? I suppose it's because we are opposites. You have a kind of melancholy about you that I seem to like, I don't know why!" He threw himself on the sand and the other sat down beside him, while in the distance the courtier watched them surreptitiously by the aid of a powerful glass. Hollingsworth was lazily throwing pebbles into the surf, trying to make them skim the feathery line, with the same suggestion of resolute and nervous force which shone through all he did. "Do you know," said his friend slowly, "that this is our last meeting? To-morrow I must go home." "I wish you could have another week here, but I suppose your business is imperative?" "I am told so," said the other dryly, "I don't want to be inquisitive," said the American hesitatingly, "but I noticed yesterday, and again to-day, that you were looking pretty serious. No offence, but is business all right with you?" "It is not!" said his companion gloomily, visions of an argumentative premier and a clamorous people rising before him. "It never is! As soon as I get one 'snarl straightened out there is another ready." "Just so!" said Hollingsworth cheerfully, but with kindly sympathy in his voice. "Know how it is exactly. Been there myself, many a time! On my place in Texas I found that each fellow, from the foreman to Hung Chang, the cook, had his pet particular grievance ready at all hours—and the changes in the market were the devil." "I suppose so," admitted his friend a little absently, then suddenly becoming aware of a warm, strong hand laid on his shoulder. "See here, old fellow," said Hollingsworth, plunging in, "I told you I made a little haul before I left home—wish for your sake it was bigger. Now, you must get too blue—all of its get it in the neck occasionally. And so—that is—I mean—oh, nang it! If you want a check for a couple of hundred, say the word and it's yours." His friend, who had finally lain at ease on the sand, now sat up scuddenly and with such a flush on his cheek that the Texan feared he had given mortal offence. Perplexity succeeded dismay with the American when he saw how piercingly the other was gazing at him. "You know all," said his companion accusingly, "and you think that by this you will—" "Stop!" said the American imperatively. "If you've done anything wrong I don't want to hear it. What you use the money for is no affair of crime. I like you, and that's enough for me. I shan't miss the check; it's only means skipping Monte Carlo, and I reckon I've no business there anyway. As to the check, I—er—that is—I made it out for you this morning." He drew the slip of paper awkwardly from his bill-book and quickly slipped it into the other's pocket. "You mean," said his new-found friend a little hoarsely, "that you give me this expecting no return? You have really done it because you liked me, and not because you hoped for an exchange?" The American looked in sheer astonishment into the other's eyes. He saw tears there, and they embarrassed him, but he said frankly: "Look here, Ehrenfeld,"—the name given by his companion was that of one of his numerous estates.—"you must be in a mighty queer profession and meeting mighty crooked men if you've such a poor estimate of human nature that you think a fellow can't be civil without fishing for his neighbor's goods. You drop that idea, and get away from the folks who gave it to you." "If I cannot get away from them," said his friend slowly, "I can at least remember always that once in my life a service, a disinterested service, was rendered me." Presently the king addressed the American a little wistfully: "Hollingsworth, do you merely assume this light-heartedness? Is it really true that you have nothing weighing on you?" The Texan turned with an impatient gesture; a shadow crossed his face. Even his clear brown eyes darkened as with a cloud. "God knows," he muttered. "I never knew real trouble till I came here. But now—" "Tell me." The exquisitely sympathetic inflections of the king's trained voice were not to be resisted. The Texan looked away a little shame-facedly. "Don't laugh at me," he said hesitatingly, "but I—the truth is—I love a girl here and I can't get her. At least, I haven't been able so far," he added more cheerfully. The king barely suppressed a smile. "Who is she, Hollingsworth?" "Daughter of an old fellow who's worth a shocking lot of money, came in for a windfall—that is, er hat eine Erbschaft gemacht. Du verstehst?" "Gewiss!" smile this friend, quite untroubled by the familiar "thou." "And he wants to buy a title with it. I don't think he'd care how poor the title is, just so it's 'von' something. Evidently, then, it would be a comedown to take a commoner for his son-in-law." He spoke lightly, but his eyes were full of passionate desira "But, hang it! what's the use of talking about it? She won't leave him without his blessing, though I could dispense with it very comfortably." "His name," suggested the other, "and he lives in—" Hollingsworth answered indifferently. His friend might know the name if he liked. They were strangers and would never meet again. They parted, to the intense relief of the watching courtier. The Texan stared regrettfully after his whilom companion. "Downright good company," he said half aloud. "Plagued pity he's hard up. Wish I had doubled that check, however it might have strapped me." Jobann Schmitt sat smoking his pipe over a dying fire. He was thinking gloomily that all his money had brought him no nearer his idea of paradise. Ah, to be addressed as "Baron," "the noble Herr Baron." If only— Then a summons to the capital, 30 miles away interrupted his dreams, and frightened him until his usual florid hue was almost purple. When he stood before the King his limbs were weakening under him, and in his extremely commonplace fatness there was no hint of the beauty possessed by his daughter. That did not concern his royal master, who, besides, knew well enough what blossoms sometimes flourish on a gnarled stock. "Herr Schmitt," he said abruptly, "I hear you are ambitious. You would acquire a title?" Johann fell on his knees. "Gracious Majaesty," he faltered, "I meant no harm." "Neither do I," said the King, "I am going to create you Baron Lebenwohl. To be sure, your estates will be of the barest, but you are rich enough to improve on them. Get up." Johann staggered up, dazed with his good fortune. Then he straightened himself and let the news flow through his veins like wine. The shiver went out of his muscles, a suppressed arrogance flushed his red face. "Sire," he said, "you overwhelm me with your beneficence! And if the treasury wishes a loan—without interest—" "No loan," said the King abruptly, "I shall bestow this title on you so that your daughter may be worthy to marry Herr Hollingsworth, of Texas, who recently asked her hend. See that the nuptials are consummated at once." Gracious Majesty, he groaned, "What avails it to be a Baron if I must have a vulgar plebeian son-in-law? Unless," he added hopefully, "your condescension will ennoble hirr too!" The King looked on him, then glanced aside at the hawkfaced Duke, who stood near with biting scorn in his face for this new member of the aristocracy. Neither in his new creation nor in the self-satisfied courtier of years standing did the King find a hint of what he ought. Then with inward vision he saw again the hard, white sands, and pacing them the upright, clean-cut Texan. "No," he said quietly, "I cannot— enmoble him." THIRD OPERATION PREVENTED By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Chicago, Ill. — "I want to tell you what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for me. I was so sick that two of the best doctors in Chicago said I would die if I did not have an operation. I had already had two operations, and they wanted me to go through a third one. I suffered day and night from inflammation and a small tumor, and never thought of seeing a well day again. A friend told me how Lydia E. Pinkham's Veget operation. I had already had two operations, and they wanted me to go through a third one. I suffered day and night from inflammation and a small tumor, and never thought of seeing a well day again. A friend told me how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had helped her, and I tried it, and after the third bottle was cured."—Mrs. ALVENA SPERLING, 11 Langdon Street, Chicago, Ill. If you are ill do not drag along at home or in your place of employment until an operation is necessary, but build up the feminine system, and remove the cause of those distressing aches and pains by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs. For thirty years it has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively restored the health of thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness, or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it? Not Lacking In Dignity. There was once upon a time a country lawyer who was noted for his sedate manners and his judicial bearing. In the course of time he was elevated to the bench, where he conducted himself and the court with becoming demeanor, and where he won a reputation for sagacity based nearly altogether upon his solemn accents and his corrugated brow. One who knew him well was asked by a stranger who saw the judge pass upon the street whether he was really an efficient arbiter. "Well," said the acquaintance slowly, "I think I may say that John presides with more dignity and less ability than anyone else I ever knew."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Tuberculosis Afflicts Japanese. Consumption among Japanese laborers is increasing to such a degree that the figures are becoming a source of anxiety to Japanese merchants and officials. A large percentage of laborers who are sent back to Japan by the Japanese charity associations are consumptives. It is claimed by the Japanese newspapers comenting on this matter that through the tack of hospital accommodations in the Japanese labor camps tuberculosis increases at an alarming rate. They suggest that a new system be employed in dealing with the sick in these camps, as the Japanese are quite ignorant of even the most simple health safeguards. A. Rich Error. "Printers' errors are always funny," said Gen. P. P. Parker of the Arizona G. A. R., "and I'll never forget one that was made over a Memorial day sermon some years ago in Phoenix. "The Monday morning report of this sermon began: "The Rev. Dr. John Blank greased the pulpit on the occasion" and so on. "Graced,' of course, is what we meant." WON'T MIX Bad Food and Good Health Won't Mix The human stomach stands much abuse but it won't return good health if you give it bad food. If you feed right you will feel right for proper food and a good mind is the sure road to health. "A year ago I became much alarmed about my health for I began to suffer after each meal no matter how little I ate," says a Denver woman. "I lost my appetite and the very thought of food grew distasteful, with the result that I was not nourished and got weak and thin. "My home cares were very heavy, for besides a large family of my own I have also to look out for my aged mother. There was no one to shoulder my household burdens, and come what might, I must bear them, and this thought nearly drove me frantic when I realized that my health was breaking down. "I read an article in the paper about some one with trouble just like mine being cured on Grape-Nuts food and acting on this suggestion I gave Grape-Nuts a trial. The first dish of this delicious food proved that I had struck the right thing. "My uncomfortable feelings in stomach and brain disappeared as if by magic and in an incredibly short space of time I was myself again. Since then I have gained 12 pounds in weight through a summer of hard work and realize I am a very different woman, all due to the splendid food. Grape-Nuts." "There's a Reason." Trial will prove. Read the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They once imagine, true, and full of human interest. THE WORLD'S GREATEST NAVAL TRAINING STATION HICAGO.—Three thousand embryo jackies daily maneuvering on the lake front on the far north shore. Half a hundred officers, commissioned and non - commissioned, engaged in transforming raw recruits into full-fledged sailor men. Half a dozen trim gunboats and practice vessels stationed in the vicinity of the good- HICAGO.—Three thousand embryo jackies daily maneuvering on the lake front on the far north shore. Half a hundred officers, commissioned and non - commissioned, engaged in trans- forming raw recruits into full-fledged sailor men. Half a dozen trim gunboats and practice vessels stationed in the vicinity of the good sized city that Uncle Sam has been silently engaged in building in the last five years. That is what another year will bring forth up at Lake Bluff, when the greatest naval training station in the world will be opened and ready for business, if all continues to go well. It will be completed July 1, 1910, and the total outlay up to that time will approximate $3,500,000. Of this $2,500,000 is the cost of 39 buildings, $250,000 the cost of 182 acres of TORPEDO PRACTICE HOW THE NEW BARRACKS WILL LOOK ground, $500,000 the cost of equipment and furnishings, and $250,000 the maintenance cost during the course of construction. The first legislation for the station was passed by congress in 1902, authorizing the appointment of a board to secure a site on the great lakes. Lake Bluff was selected, and then in 1904 the work was begun. Included in cost of buildings are six miles of road at $50,000, five miles of walks $30,000, sea wall and harbor $130,000, and walls and fences totaling $40,000. The total cubic contents of the buildings will be 12,000,000 feet. The approximate cost of the buildings follows: Administration building, $200,000; instruction building, $400,000; drill hall, $200,000; four dormitories, $500,000; mess hall, $130,000; power house, $115,000; guard house, $20,000; receiving building, $25,000; six receiving dormitories and one receiving gallery, $200,000; general store, $70,000; boat house, $60,000; stables, $25,000; brig (prison), $25,000; commandant's house, $30,000; ten officers' houses, $133,000; five hospital buildings, including medical officers' houses, $313,000. Since the United States took its place in the ranks of the world powers following the Spanish-American war the navy has been growing at a rapid rate. The completion of each battleship meant the employment of at least 500 additional seamen, and occasionally it was necessary to resort to strong measures to get sufficient recruits. The heads of the navy department took the problem in hand, and, recognizing that the great-lake district had in the past furnished a large number of seamen to the navy, it was decided to establish a vast naval station at the most favorable site that could be obtained. Accordingly, after a dozen sites had been submitted and examined, the Lake Bluff site was selected as the most centrally located and as possessing more natural advantages than any other. The site of the new institution is about an hour and a half's ride by railroad train from the center of this city and a little more by electric line. The ride is through the aristocratic suburbs of Evanston, Lake Forest, Highland Park, Wilmette and Winnetka. The station is located about a mile and a half beyond the station of Lake Bluff and is marked by a trim little depot of the electric line. You are first apprised of the fact that Uncle Sam is engaged upon some project from the signs which plenitfully adorn the boundaries of the reservation warning the passerbby that he is in the vicinity of government property, and that he should keep off. The larger buildings of the station are so completely hidden by trees that the general public passing by on the trains on the way to Milwaukee or Waukegan would have no idea of the extent of the institution were it not for the tower of the administration building, which rears itself from the lake front. The hills and intervening trees of the neighborhood almost completely screen the large buildings from view. Extending from the fence which separates the main enclosure from the main thoroughfare are the smaller brick buildings in which will be housed the applicants for admission to the station pending the time when their qualifications and general health are examined into. There are some half a dozen neat two-storied brick buildings, admirably lighted and finished, in which the recruit will be housed as comfortably as at any average Chicago hotel. They extend in a row toward the lake front, where the larger buildings are located, in which will be housed the regularly admitted members of the institution. The first structure which one approaches at the main entrance of the grounds is the general office building, which is occupied by the government inspectors, contractors and engineers in charge of the work. This is a compact two-story structure and is situated in proximity to the electric trolley line, which was built into the grounds to facilitate the transportation of the construction materials. All last summer and fall more than 2,000 men were engaged upon the great-lakes naval station, as it is designated in the official reports of the secretary of the navy. The result of their efforts is seen in the practical completion of the 24 buildings of which the station is now composed, and this spring and summer will see the completion of several more large structures. Proceeding toward the lake from the inspectors' offices one gradually descends a deep ravine bordered on each side by large trees. Nature has been exceedingly generous to the neighborhood about Lake Bluff, and it is doubtful if a more picturesque region anywhere about Chicago could have been chosen. At the bottom of the dry, more train arat ville nect Mich THE SHIP ranks A TRAINING CRAFT ravine runs a boisterous stream of water, which is pretty well swollen in the spring of the year, but which is nearly dry during the summer. At the bottom of the ravine one would have a hard time to imagine himself in the center of so large a government institution. But following it toward the lake, you are brought to the point where the ship basin begins. A sort of landlocked harbor has been dug out, in which several good-sized gunboats could be sheltered in safety during the worst storms on the lake. A large and well-equipped boathouse has been built at the point where the basin connects with Lake Michigan, and there are abundant facilities for the housing of cutters and other craft which will be used by the embryo sailors in their practice maneuvers. An artistic bridge has been constructed across the ravine about 50 feet above the stream of water, which connects with a road running directly into the center of the reservation. The high bluffs on each side of the basin give a stately effect to the general view of the reservation from the lake. At the top of the highest bluff, overlooking the lake and commanding the widest view of the entire surrounding country, is the administration building, a handsome structure built of pressed brick. In the center is a high tower with windows at various stages. At one side of the administration building are three smaller buildings, which will probably be used for officers' or instructors' dwellings. The main instruction buildings, lecture halls and dormitories for the regular members of the institution are in close proximity to the administration buildir.g. The larger of these have been completed and are practically ready for occupancy. It would be possible for the institution to be opened this fall, so great has the progress been made upon it, but it is likely that the formal opening will not take place until July 1, 1910, when Rear Admiral Albert E. Ross, who has been in charge of the construction since its inception, says it will be completed It is planned to care for between 2,000 and 3,000 recruits for the navy at the new training station, and many more than this number could be taken care of in an emergency. Several thousand well-drilled sailors can be turned out each year, and the result will be a greatly increased efficiency among the rank and file composing the United States navy. Bids were recently opened in Washington for new work on the Naval institute which will aggregate half a million dollars. James Cosef of Racine was awarded the contract for the construction of the officers' houses, which include a commandant's house for $30,000 and six junior officers' houses at $78,000. The principal work of the coming year, however, will be on the medical department buildings, which will involve an expenditure of $313,000, and will be the finest of their kind in the west. They include a hospital which will cost $34,000; senior medical officers' house, $24,000; junior medical officers' houses, $38,000, and hospital laundry, $17,000. The Noel Construction Company of Baltimore was awarded this last important contract. Before the station is completed the gunboat Nashville will have arrived in Chicago, which will be utilized as a training vessel by the Illinois naval militia. Great preparations are being made for the reception of the Nashville, but it is likely that the vessel may be used in connection with the new station when it is completed. The ancient man-of-war Wolverine, formerly the Michigan the oldest iron vessel in the United States C navy, as well as the first vessel of its kind to be used on the great lakes, will also probably be seen more frequently in the vicinity of Chicago than formerly. But just what the plans of the navy department are for the equipment of the station with practice vessels are a secret at present, and it is unlikely that their plans will be made known for some time to come. It was the work of the Illinois naval militia dur ING the Spanish-American war that first called attention to the possibilities of the middle west as a recruiting station for sailors. The naval militia of the several states was assigned to the vessels of the navy and the many auxiliary cruisers that the emergencies of the war called into service, and acquitted themselves like veterans. Many of them showed ability that afterward enabled them to obtain commissions in the navy that were then open to enlisted men. The sudden impetus which the war gave the navy made it necessary to increase the enlistments with all possible rapidity, and stations were opened at many different points in the country. It was found that the young men of the middle west responded with greater alacrity to the call of the recruiting officer than did those of the east. At the present time the Chicago naval recruiting office is the second in size in point of the number of enlistments in the country. The Chicago recruiting office averages about 20 enlistments a week, this being about 20 per cent. of the applications. The requirements for enlistment are exceptionally rigid, and a large number of those who apply never reach the examining physician, being rejected as unfit at sight. However, those who are accepted are sure of a thorough training and a living which is theirs as long as they live up to the requirements of the naval regulations, while the chances for advancement are considerable more than they have been in years gone by. Independence Day is Near Good fortune and solicitous care combined have preserved to Americans the most sacred building in the United States, Independence hall. It is possible to hold Fourth of July celebrations in the shadow of the very structure which saw the birth and signing of the declaration of independence, the most potent doctrine for freedom in the history of the world. The nation has not ignored the chance. There are many patriotic Americans who make it a duty on July 4 to journey to Philadelphia, a pilgrimage to the shrine of liberty, there to raise their voices in thanks and rejoicing for the great deed that was there accomplished. Since that day, now distant 130 years, when Charles Thomson, rising in his chair, read for the first time the final draft of that momentous document which Thomas Jefferson wrote, but which underwent many changes before meeting with the final approval of the delegates to the continental congress, not an Independence day has been permitted to pass without a proper celebration in the public square back of Independence hall. Presidents of the United States, senators, representatives, justices of the highest courts, and even foreign ambassadors, have poured forth their eloquence at liberty's cradle. The municipal authorities of the city of Philadelphia are careful to see to it that some distinguished man is always on hand as orator of the day. The pomp of military circumstances has sometimes been called upon to lend prestige to the occasion, and the best musicians in the land have been proud to play patriotic airs in the shadow of the steeple where hung the bell that rang out independence. The first reading of the declaration was that by Charles Thomson, the secretary of congress, when he announced the completed paper to the men who had framed it. Thomson did not, however, read the declaration from the balcony of Independence hall to the people crowded outside to hear for the first time in what terms the colonists should tell King George that his control of the thirteen colonies was at an end. That privilege was reserved for John Nixon, a prominent member of the committee of safety. In honor of the occasion delegates to the congress filed out in the July sunshine to listen to the sacred words. Nixon has been described as a master elocutionist with a voice so clear and distinct that it was heard clear to Fifth street, one square distant. He took his place on the balcony, which was then the favorite rostrum of the day. Crowds had assembled to hear him, gathered by the ringing of the liberty bell. It was a memorable celebration, and the first in the history of the nation. Later, long years after, Edwin Forrest, the most noted of American actors, whose love for patriotism and the institutions of his country was deeper even than his regard for the stage, stood on the same spot, and on a Fourth of July morning read the words of Jefferson as no man has read them before or since. A great crowd was present, perhaps the largest ever assembled, and the actor during and after the reading was weered again and again. After the evacuation congress returned from New York July 2, 1776, a grand celebration of the recurrence of the promulgation of the declaration was held, in which nearly the entire population of Philadelphia joined. Chevalier Conrad Alexandre Gerard of France, the first minister accredited to the United States from any power, was an interested spectator. Chief Justice John Marshall spoke in the state house yard at one of the celebrations in the early part of his tenure of office, and later Daniel Webster delivered a notable address there. During the centennial in Philadelphia there was naturally a notable demonstration, and no less a person than Dom Pedro, emperor of Brazil, sat among those who cheered the sentiments that had sounded the downfall of monarchy in this country, and were finally to take his throne from the ruler of Brazil. In later years another representative of a foreign country was the central figure at Independence square. Wu Ting-fang, Chinese minister, spoke there with fine eloquence, and made one of the best speeches credited to him in his many felicitous utterances in this country. The anomaly that he was the envoy of one of the most absolute of monarchies did not prevent the celestial from painting in most graphic phrase what the venerable building stood for. During his first administration, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, came to Philadelphia one Fourth of July, and standing on a platform raised in the square, appealed to the young manhood of America that the great lessons of 1776 be not ignored. Samuel J. Randall, Judge Kelley, Gent. Grant, Lewis Cassidy, have also figured prominently in Fourth of July celebrations there. During the administration of Mayor Warwick, himself an orator of genuine gifts, every year was made the occasion of notable demonstrations, to which were invited men of national fame. One of the most commendable features about all these affairs has been the prominence given to children. In fact, they might almost be called Children's-day events. It has been the wise thought of the men in charge that no better use could be made of the nation's natal day than by impressing on the younger mind the great truths that had their best development with Independence hall. THE SEARCHLIGHT W. N. 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Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 661 N Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. To Live and Let Live" Is Our Motto. Send your news in earlier Prof. Sam T. Hood SURGEON CHIROPODIST Removes Corns, Bunions, In-grown Nails and all pedic troubles. Graduate American School Chropody of New York City. 243 North Main Street. GIVE THEM CREDIT It seems, at times, that the volumes of books, pages of literatur hours of oratory and years of sermon on the Negro and his status is of one effect. It seems, at times that the Negro is not heeding the many voices thats raised warning him, and it would seem the Negro is plunging headlong into a tathomless chasm. We are aware that to some of the friends of the Negro race it seems at times, that all their philanthropy come to naught. But with all the shadows that seems to darken the Negro's pathway, he is still making a most decided headway- and all he asks now is that he be given credit for all that he is doing. The friends of the Negro must bear in mind that while the Negro has friends he likewise has enemies most relentless. The enemies of the Negro are not as other enemies for they have no provocation save prejudice race prejupice to spur them on in their relentless war-fare against the Negro. The enemies of the Negro are unfair uncompromising and unjust in their efforts against the Negro. There is no trick, there is no dark plot there is no unfair scheme, theer is no false plea that is too hedious for the enemies of the Negro to practice. With all these things to contend with is it any wonder then that the progress which the Negro has made and is still making special master b. v. mukherjee, then report to this effect in the supreme should seem so small and discouraging? While, possibly the Negro has not done all he could or should have done--yet he has done something Yes, much worthy of commendation. We are of the opinion that if credit is placed where it belongs the Negro will show a very appretiatable progress. Send your news in earlier What the Negro need most is race pride that kind of race pride which causes one member of the race to ieel the cares of the other. The man who undertakes to tell what is in a Negro editor's mind has an exceeding hard job. As a rnle a Negro editor has no mind and therefore all efforts to lacate what is their mind is generally fruitless. Like a baren tree. LOCAI.S Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Send your news in earlier. The Searchlight $1. per year Dan Peterson has a splendid good pasture, seven [7] miles due West on Thirteenth [13] St. for horses and cattle. Prices reasonable, Mr. Arthur Parish has recieved word from his Patent Attorneys of Washington, D. C., that his invention of "Hay Fork" has patented. Chas. Frazier of Hutchinson came up Saturday to visit with his son Wm Frazier. H. H. Garnett Temple No. 2, of Coffeyville. Kan., has been suspended for not paying their Endowment for four [4] months. All Temples and Taberna cles 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, Peerless Steam Laundry Wlehita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER & DONS, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market Misses Edna Tillman Rubie an Mary McBride have returned from Topeka where they have been attending School. They will spend the summer vacation here Miss Rosa Mae Tillman is teaching school in Clevland Tenn. Rev. and Mrs S. S. Washington served six o'clock dinner Monday for Rev. M. Wooten and Rev. J. T. Smith. A splendid time is reported. NOTICE Frank Wilson, C. C. M. 10 - HYMN POST CARDS- 10c Something new. A beautiful reminder for your friends. Set of ten different subjects: beautifully illustrated "Rock of Ages" "Lead Kindly Light," "Just as I am," "Nearer my God to Thee," etc. etc. 3 sets for 25c Lawrence Co. Dept. 205, Chicago, Ill. P. S. If you order 3 sets for 25c at once we will send you absolutely FREE a beautiful Post Card entitled "Auld Lang Syne." First Publication June 12, 1909 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE State of Kansas, county of Sedgwick. ss In the Probate court in and for said county. In the matterofthe estate of Louisa 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 having claims against the said estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such 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, deceased TABOR ANNUAL SERMON The Knights and Daighters of Tabor of this city held their annual sermon at A. M. E. church Sunday last. It was a grand affair under the auspice of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 Mt Hope Tabernacle 3 Taborian Temple 11, and Mt Nebo Temple No 7. Past Cheif Mentor J. C. Coffee filled most pleasingly the post of the Master of Ceremonies. Rev. J. T. Smith pastor of A. M. E church preached a splendid sermon from the subject. The order was very much pleased to have with them Rev. M. Wooten C. G. O. who made a few remarks. Remarks were also made by the following Past and Present officers Sirs W N. Miller, G. G. Brown Wm Frazier Rev. S. S. Washington, Dtrs. J. Goss Joana Jones W. H. Tillman Mattie Miller and Beatty Davis. A very creditable collection was raised. Mrs J. C. Horton of Guthrie passed through the city Wednesday enroute home. Taborian Temple No. 11 will meet at Youngs hall in the future Knights take notice. Rev. M. Wooten presiding elder held the third quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church Monday night. It was largely attended and each department of the church made splendid reports of which should the church to be in an excellent financial and spiritual condition with perfect harmony prevailing. Rev. M. Wooten and Rev. J. T. Smith were the guest of Mrs W. N. Miller and Mrs Robt Davis at the Miller residence Monday. Mrs. Ida B. Clark is getting up a play to be presented soon by the Little Stars and Junior Masons. Proceeds to go to the building fund. Date and place given later. H. W. 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Veterinary Physician & The Finest Equipped Hospital Both Phones 1730 Office at 236 N. Market "Second to PLEASES ALL Good Bread It is White As Snow— The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and are all guaranteed under the Un- Serial No. 13415 and under the K Register No. 1. It is The Cheapest and JOE STEW MEAT MAKER F. T. CULP, PROPRIETOR For the best Meats, Beef, Pork, Lard ens and Sealship, Oysters, also Free Cattish, and Halibut for your Lunch Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed or Dill, Cooked Meats. 241 N. Main Street. The Peoples Cleaning and Dye Works Ind. Phone 178 Bell Phone 175 The Biggest and Best in the Southwest 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. Second to None PLEASES ALL Good Bread Makers It Is White As Snow—TRY IT The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Food are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. 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 IMPERIAL GRAHAM — CORN MEAL — BR With thirty-five years milling experien- products are the best that can be pro- best selected grain only and put up in Ask Your Grocer See that you get I M P H THE IMBODEN MIL- WICHITA, KAN J. H. ENGST Lumber D Successor to B. F. Mc 318 West Dougl Chas. B. P. Merchant T 339 North Man First-Class Making of Men' Cleaning, Pressing and Repairi Prompt Service Courteous Attention CORN MEAL — BREAK five years milling experience in the best that can be produced grain only and put up in Speck Ask Your Groce what you get IMPERI MODEN MILL WICHITA, KANSAS ENGSTR Number De ccessor to B. F. McLean West Douglas S. B. PAT Archant Tail North Main Mass Making of Men's Gar pressing and Repairing A Courteous Attention REAL — BREAKFAST FOOD ing experience in Wichita our can be produced. Made from and put up in Special Packages, our Groce et IMPERIAL N MILLING Co. A. KANSAS GSTROM or Dealer B. F. McLean Douglas Ave B. PATTON nt Tailor Main Street g of Men's Garments and Repairing A Specialty Attention Your Trade Solic GRAHAM — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years milling experience in Wichita our products are the best that can be produced. Made from best selected grain only and put up in Special Packages, Ask Your Groce See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING Co. WICHITA, KANSAS J. H. ENGSTROM Lumber Dealer Successor to B. F. McLean 318 West Douglas Ave Chas. B. PATTON Merchant Tailor 339 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men's Garments Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing A Specialty Prompt Service Courteous Attention Your Trade Solicited JOB PRINTING Is Our Special 634 NORTH WA Our Specialty 34 NORTH WATER Specialty - Try U TH WATER Is Our Specialty - Try Us 634 NORTH WATER There Is No Need Wichita, Kansas Westrn University The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west MILTON HILLS HOSPITAL A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted DEPARTMENTS Biological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, State Industrial, embracing courses in Aire, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Print-binding, Tailorlng, Business Courses, Tailor, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Fash Theological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailorlng, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. Thorough discipline, Christian influence careful supervision Fine Military Band and Orchestra For full particulars write Prof. Shelta Of Western QUINDA Residence Phone No. 15 Excellence Court THE "U·KNEES FLO it excels in every respect, broad per barrel. MADE Watson WICHITA MESSE FAMOUS AND ICE C WHOLESALE For Parties, Picnics, Orders delivered to BON-TON & BAKERY & E. B. MESS 146 N. Main St. DEAM ABS NORTH-WEST COURT Bonded A Johnston WICHITA 507 N. Everything first-class. Els Transient Trade — Re R. Johnston For full particulars write to Prof. Shelton French. ACTING PRESIDENT Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Telephone No. 15 Office Phone ILLENCE COUNTS..... THEN USE U·KNEAD·IT" FLOUR els in every respect,—color, flavor, and p barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. WICHITA, KANSAS MESSERVE'S FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Churches Orders delivered to any part of the city. BON-TON & KANDY AKERY E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. Main St. AM ABSTRACT NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors Johnston's House A 507 N. Main St. K thing first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric ransient Trade — Restaurant in Connecti R. Johnston, Proprietor. Prof. Shelton French ACTING PRESIDENT QUINDARO, KS Residence Phone No. 15 Office Phone 1423 Excellence Counts..... THEN USE "U·KNEAD·IT" FLOUR It excels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. WICHITA, KANSAS MESSERVE'S FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Churches Orders delivered to any part of the city BON-TON & KANDY BAKERY ITCHEN E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. DEAM ABSTRACT NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors Johnston's Hotel WICHITA 507 N. Main St. KANSAS Everything first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric Fans Transient Trade — Restaurant in Connection R. Johnston, Proprietor. L. S. Naftsger, President, W. R. Tucker, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, C. W. Brown, Vice President, V. H. Branch, Cashier. Its the man who "sticks-to-it who wins. Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000 Surplus $125,000 Dirrectors: W. R. Tucker, W. E. Ett, R. L. Holmes, S. B. Amidon, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftsger, H. W. Darling, A. G. Houston, E. C. Sheldon, C. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin, Hen ry Lassen, V. H. Branch. A General Banking Business Transacted te to Bon French, ACTING PRESIDENT in University ARO, KS Office Phone 1423 nts.... USE "AD-IT" OUR color, flavor, and pounds of BY Mill Co. KANSAS ERVE'S CELEBRATED REAM AND RETAIL Socials and Churches any part of the city KANDY ITCHEN ERVE, Prop. Phone 152 STRACT Co. CORNER OF THE HOUSE Abstractors n's Hotel Main St. KANSAS Electric Lighti, Electric Fans restaurant in Connection , Proprietor Its the man who "sticks-to-it' who wins. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST Sor M. Main St. Wichita, Kans. "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." Co ```markdown ``` Straighten Your Hair DRAM SIS:—I have used only one bottle of your bottle and now I would not be without it for it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and wash. Ms. W. Walker, Sis. I—Harriman, Teen. Formerly named as Ozonized Ox Marrow. Fifty years of success has proved its merit. Its use makes the hair straight, glossy, soft and pliable, so you can comb it and arrange it in any style you like. It also prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless—used with splendid results even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is pleasure, as elaborate as adoreal. Ford® Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't buy anything else alleged to be "just as good." If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay you. Look for this name Charles Ford Press on every package. If your drugstore will not supply you with the genuine medicine, you express or postal money order 50 cents for regular size or 25 cents for small size bottle and give your drugstore some address. We will forward your hair prepals to any point in U. S. A. by return mail on receipt of price. Address: The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 153 East Kenzie St. Chicago, Ill. FORD'S HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. For Everything in Building Material SEE SEE BOTH PHONE 496 J.H.TURNER J33 ro 547 WEST DOUGLAS CAMS Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Ten t houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-day 829 East Center SALINA, KANSAS Use Herman's Made from the best ma- terial. Lasts longer, wears better and more durable than any other Cement Stone on the market. Prices Reason- able. PRICES 11c each laid in wall 8c each delivered 7c each in the yard Rock Face 8c each Plain Face 7c each Manufactured By W. L. HERMAN, 527 Ohio Ave., New Phone 1127 W. L. Herman CONTRACTING: PLASTERER 856 Eagle St., Wichita, Kan. Job Printing We have installed a new line of JOB TYPE FACES and we would be pleased to use them on a job for you. Good Work--Low Prices to all 634 North Water St. Use Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salv Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spices These Goods Have No Epual They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 808 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Real Estate 5 room house and 50 x 500 ft on Sher- wood $600.00 2 vacant lots on Sherwood $300.00 6 vacant lots on Ohio Ave $1500.00 8 lots on Burns Ave $680.00 8 room two story house 2 lots $1500.00 5 vacant lots ($100.00) each $500.00 9 lots ou Wabash ($125.00) each $112500 The Wichita Land and Investment Co. James J. Olden Pres. 612 $1/2 N. Main St. Wichita Kans. Talk about publishing-- well if the Searchlight would publish every thing about every body which we have knowledge about the whole town would be thrown in a slumber. We just hint at some and keep the rest. As rule tnose who make the most fuss about this 'publishing business' are less prepared to stand the presure should every thing out. So shut your mouths-- why gay at a gnat and swollow an elephant. Wecan publish but would rather not. Washington June 26 Governor Comer of Alabama was with the President Taft discussing Southern matters. The president referred to the recent impeachment of an Alabama sheriff for not defending a negro against a mob and the action of Alabama troops in defending a negro against a mob He told the governor he was pleased to see Alabama and other southern states leading the way in breaking up mob law. We have also to suggest that the attempt to measure the criminal delinquents of any race by names on the police blotter is nonsense. The police know best of all that a large percentage of the persons arrested for misdeem anors in cities not only give false names but names which indicate quite a different race from that to which they actually belong. Mr. Oscar R. Bissantz, proprietor of Bissantz's Drug store at 811 N Main was married Wednesday eve. Mr Bissantz is one of Wichita's young progressive business men. He has our best wishes It is the object of the Searchlight to publish a newspaper for and in the interest of the people In our work of race uplift we may not please some "2x4" pinheaded wardheeling 'would-be, po-lee-ti-cul leaders? but that will not deter or in the least hinder our work. As a rule this class of terms the "undersiable" citizen and the greater they are displeased the better for the people. This class of scope--goats have never been known to be of any real benefit to any community or peo ple and it is to much to look ior it from them in 1909. We carry no frills around our coat tail we wear no armour plate and have no body guards. We are just as day folks with no red tape. We have no special friends and selected enemies. We try to treat all alike. OMAHA NEBRASKA The Temple and Tabernacle mceet and had their annual sermon preached at Washington Hall. The Sir Knights met at 24 and Grant Street and headed by the Omaha Brass Band marched in a body to Washington Hall where thr sermon was preached by Rev E. W. Wright, taken his text from 4th chapter of the book of Judges. Remarks by Sir Herold. Music by the band and an address by Rev. O. Davis of Kansas City Kansas. Collection $40: 52. Golden Rule Tabernacle No. 35 had their sermon in S. Omah. at 8 o'clock, preached at Allen Chapter 25 and R. by Rev. A. Wagner the sermon was a good and impressed all present with the good of the order. Mrs. Lulu Rountree leaves today for Lincoln to attend State Federation of Colored Womens Clubs. Thursday evening June 24, the Temples and Tabernacles gave a Reception in honor of Sir Frank Wilson and Dtr, Emma Gaines, and rendered the following programme. Welcome Adress C. M. Johnson R:sponce Sir Fsank Wilson Piano Solo Theresa Lawrie Address Mrs Emma Gaines Recitation Mrs L. Watkins " Mrs A. Wilkinson Address Dr. A. G. Edwards Aocal Duett Misses Andersons Recitation Miss B. Battles " Mrs L. Smith Piano Solo Miss Lawrie Music by Thomas and Roglins String Orchestra. Wednesday morning June 14th Mrs B. Alton served breakfast for Dt E. Gaines and Sir Frank Wilson. It is universally accepted that character, morality, education, merit and fitness makes the man and not the color. It is that basis of the man that the wise Negroes every where is contending for. God makes the color and character morality, education, merit and fitness makes the man Away with all other doctrines and isn't. WELLINGTON KS. Editor Searchlight; Dear Sir; Mrs T. G. Banks was down from Wichita Sunday the guests of Mrs Harvey Coney to meet her daughter Mrs Thompsos and Mre Carter of Cherryvale, Mrs Banks reports of being royally entertained by Mrs Coney and spent a delightful day meeting old friends and acquaintances Mrs Thompson and Carter expect to visit Winfield and Arkansas City before returning to Baxter Springs. Mrs J. L. Harper Mrs I. Frazier and Miss Ida Hill, have returned from Leavenworth where they attended the session of the Stdte Federation of the Women's Art Club's which convened in that city. They report an interesting session was held and the display in art & fancy work was highly creditable. They adjpurned to meet next year in Atchinson, Mrs. M. L. Carr who made a weeks visit in Newton has return ed home. Mrs. Fannie Baker has been quite ill for several days. Some people may consider that the Searchlight prints "trash" of a "certain kind" — but we wager they are of the opinion that its some of the "warmest trash" (of a certain kind) which they have ever read. And what's worse — there is more of this kind of a "trash" to follow. See. KINGMAN KANSAS Rev. G. T. Wooton was in the the city last week soliciting for a new church and recieved several donations for same. Ernest J. Porter of this city and Miss Besie Wells of Anthany were joined in marriage last Saturday evening. The wedding took place at the M. E. possonage of this city in presence of a few intimate funds of the contracting parties. It affords as a great deal of satisfaction to announce the wedding of this young couple for they are both in every way deserving and worthy. The happy couple have gone to house keeping on the corner of Pine and 5th. That they may be successful in every laudable undertaking is the wish of all their friends. Etta Floyd has removed from her recent siege of sickness enough to be out. Chas Floyd is cooeing at the Rock Island House at Pratt. Kingmaa suffered slight'y from another flood last night, doing a considerable damage to the growing crops. Mr. Tom Russ will go to the harvest field for a couple of week and show the boys how to pick wheat Hurrah for Tom. Bought "leader-ship" is no leadership at all—let merit win. That race is in sorry trait that will follow the lead of so-called "leaders" who by schemes, plots divises and deception an set up as the race "leaders"(?). Merit, worth and true trial should and will make the leader. We have long since ceased the "specializing" and we now always speak 'general' letting our readers conclude. The only real pleasure is that there is in running a Negro news paper is that you know you are prominent enough to be 'cussed' by other folks in your absence. Say, thats fun! "How good and how pleasant it is for brethsen to dweil togather in unity" is the wrong motto these days. ' Soe RAILROAD MAGNATE SAID TO BE CRITICALLY ILL. Despatches From Vienna State There Is No Foundation For the Report. New York, N. ¥.—Rumors that E. H, Harriman was critically ill in Vienna, report that at times was ex- agerated to the extent of saying that he was dead, all met with prompt de- nial by his associates, and at the Union Pacific offices. But notwith- standing this the reports coupled with a sharp bear raid, caused a decided break in the stock market and the decline in the so-called Harriman stocks had not been checked when trading closed. Union- Pacific drop- ped four points, recovered only a quarter, leaving a net loss of 3% for the day. Southern Pacific showed a net loss of 2%, Reading 4% and Amalgamated Copper 3%. Losses as high as 12 points from the high water mark ot a few days ago were recorded. ‘Vienna, —There ts no truth in the reports which seem to have been cur- rent in many parts of the world, that E. H, Harriman is seriously ill. Mr. Harriman’s health on the whole is con- sidered satisfactory. Certainly there have been no serious complications of any kind since his arrival here. He has been driving daily and has shown @ lively interest in all Viennese social eyents. On Saturday Mr. Harriman was among the guests of the emperor at the Neue Handels Akademie, and on Sunday afternoon he witnessed the trotting races and took a drive through the principal streets. A BUICK WINS AT CROWN POINT The Big Cars Did Not Equal the Time Made by the Lighter Ones Owing to Accidents. Crown Point, Indiana.—A_ crip- pled car won the Code cup, the princi pal event in the Western Vanderbilt course. It was a 40-horse power Buick driven by Louis Chevrolet that finished first in the 395-65 miles con- test. It was a hair raising finish, the winner's margin being only one min- ute and five seconds. Bourque, in a Knox, was really the first over the line, but the Buick won on elapsed time, it having started behind the other ear. The race, which showed an average of 49.26 miles an hour, was unusually slow for cars of the 60-horse power class. This was even slower than that of the light power machines in the In- diana trophy event of the day before, which reached an average speed of 514% miles. THE CALHOUN JURY DISAGREED Case Had Been Continuously Before Court for More Than Five Months. San Francisco, Cal. —Terminat- ing in a disagreement of the jury, with ten men determined on acquittal and two steadfastly resolved upon convic- tion, the trial of President Patrick Calhoun of the United Railroads, has come to an end. Five months and a week had transpired since the wealthy street car magnate, a de- scendant ot Patrick Henry, made his first appearance in court ‘o answer to the charge of offering a bribe of $4,000 to a supervisor to obtain a privilege for his corporation, THE NEGRO MURDERERS CAUGHT Men Who Shot Two Brakemen at Vail, la. Have Been Arrested and Identified. Des Moines, lowa—Alva C. Becht- el, the Carroll brakeman who was probably fatally shot by two negroes at Vail, is. still alive. He was once reported dead. He has iden- tified Henry Clark and Chesley Hub- bard two negroes arrested at Manila charged with the murder of Brakeman Lee C, Warner as the men who did the shooting. Each negro accuses the oth- et or doing the shooting but both agree as to the time and place, Offi clals are positive the two are the right ee A Court Martial for Lieut. Nettles. Washington, D. C.—The president has ordered a court martial to meet at Denver, Colorado, July 6 for the trial of First Lieut. Clarence S. Net- tles, U. S. A. on charges of financial ir- regularities preferred by Gen. ‘1 homas, Commanding the department of Colo- ado. ; eRe . Baptists Expel Prof. Foster. Chicago, Mlinojs.—Prof. George Bur- man Foster of the University of Chi- cago, whose denial of the divinity of Christ in a recent book has stirred Chicago Baptists to a high pitch of resentment, has been dropped from the Baptist ministers conference of Chicago. Probing the Sugar Case. New York, N. Y.— Investigation of the conduct of the American Sugar Refining company in its dealings with the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining com- pany was begun by a federal grand jury under the direction of Dis- trict Attorney Crim. Kiefer, Oklahoma, Scorched. Kiefer, Oklahoma. — Fire which started in a drug store here destroy: ed about half of the main business block of the town, The’ loss will ap- proximate $100,000, Hee ety Liter se seinen de | esa] | l uf a i) _ 2 Wan cee na y 4 og ; ne oe wc Na Ee EXS C «a9 ie i BA a . =e Wnicwmunew Sénrinte WANTED-30,000 HARVESTERS CALL FOR ASSISTANCE COMES FROM THE WHEAT BELT. Kansas According to Employment Di- rector Harris Can Use That Num- ber of Men Soon, Kansas City, Missourl—"Send us 16,000 men.” That is the ery of the farmers of Kansas, and according to narl F, Schweizer, superintendent of the State Free Employment Bureau, with offices in the Braley building, Tenth and McGee streets, the state will be asking for 25,000 in another three weeks. “We are preparing to begin sending the men out next week,” Mr. Schwei- zer said. “By that time we will know just how many men each farmer wants and where to send them. The rauroads have not made any re- duction in rates, but the rate in Kan- sas is only two cents a mile.” Kansas 1s not the only state that saves tne wheat crops, Nebraska, has sent out the “C. QD.” too Oklahoma and the Dakotas also need men. The free employment agencies of all of these states are working to supply the required num- ber of farm laborers. Last week Charles W. Harris, director of the Kansas State Free Empioyment Bu- reau in Topeka, sent out blank in- quiries to ascertain the number of men needed in the wheat belt. The bianks are beginning to come in now, and it is estimated from these reports that Kansas will need between 20,000 and 30,000 more men than there are now in the state unemployed. There- fore, the call has been sent to neigh- De gn a ek aa are OBJECT TO PRESIDENT’S PLAN The Progressive Republican Senators Want Tax on Individual Incomes as Well as Those of Corporations. Washington, D. C.—Five progres: sive Republican senators, Messrs. Borah, Bristow, Cummins, LaFollette and Clapp, conferred to determine what their attitude is to be in relatioa to the income tax amendment to the tariff bill in the face of President Taft's special message to congress favoring the submission of the ques- tion to the states for a constitutional amendment, and the enactment of & law taxing the net earnings of cor- porations. hey decided that the president's pian is. not inconsistent, with their demands for the adoption of an amendment taxing: incomes and that both may be adopted in harmony. They assume that the president's plan, endorsed by leading Republicans on the finance committee, is designed to “chloroform” the income tax amend- ment jut nevertheless announce that they will continue to fight for its adop- tion. ‘Gav thadigels Rather laud: DeSota, Kansas, — Major John H. Had)sy, father of Herbert S. Hau ley, governor of Missouri, is dead at the home of B. F. Snyder, where he ha¢ lived for 27 years. Major Hadley was stricken with apoplexy June 9. ‘Although he was nearly 75 years old, he had kept up his active business connections and appeared to be at least ten years younger. For several days before his death le was un- conscious. Fort Worth Bank Robbed. Fort Worth, Texas. — In true frontier style a highwayman, describ- ed as genteel in appearance, robbed the branch banking house of the Wag- goner Bank and Trust company. Negro Shot Two Brakemen. Des Moines, lowa—An unknoyn negto shot and killed Brakeman Lee C. Warner and fatally wounded Brake- man Alva C. Brechtel, both of Boone, during an altercation on a trafa at Vail. Mitlions for Subways. New York, N. ¥.—A plan calling for the expenditure of $101,000,000 for new subway construction, the biggest underground project ever drawn up for Greater New York, has been laid before the public service commission. DONT! AN INCOME TAX CONCESSION The Finance Committee at Requst of President Taft Made Offer to Progressives, Washington, D. G—After a con- ference at the White house between President Taft and Senator Aldrich it was stated that the finance confmitiee would consent to placing a two per cent tax upon the net earnings of cor- porations if the supporters of the in- ‘come tax amendments would accept it ‘and withdraw their proposition, This Stzgeston it is declared came from President Taft and was designed to ‘prevent a split in the Republican party over the income tax feature. Mr. Aldrich communicated the plan to Sen- ators Cummins and Borah who are the leaders of the progressive Republicans who have favored the Cummins income tax amendment. These senators con- sulted with their colleagues, and, as a result the plan was repudiated by them. Mr. Aldrich consulted also with Republican leaders who are opposed to the income tax idea and he had no better success with that faction than with the progressives. WOMEN DO NOT FAVOR PEACE Efforts to Get International Council to Recommend Disarmament Failed —Peace Day Also Opposed. Toronto, Ontario—The internation) council of women threw out the major portion of the report of the peace arbitration commitee dealing with efforts to secure limitation of armaments, abolition of standing arm- ies, establishment of area of neutrial- ity and circulation of peace petitions. Frau Stritt, German, third vice-presi- dent, said the German people had no sympathy with the movement, Promo- tlon of an annual peace day was rec- ommended on division, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Great Britain opposing. The only part of the report that was carried unanimously was that endors- ing the general principles of the coun- cil. TEXAS FEVER IN OKLAHOMA State Authorities Unable to Check the Spread Among Cattle Ask Federal Aid. Guthrie, Oklahoma.—The rapidity with which Texas fever, or tick, is spreading in Oklahoma has alarmed cattlemen throughout this part of the country. All efforts to eradicate or even check it have proven futile by the present force of state and nation- al inspectors. The state board of ag- riculture has forwarded a memorial to the members of the federal bureau of animal industry asking it to send more inspectors here to co-operate with the state in the work of freeing the land of the disease germs. In ad- dition to asking aid from the federal bureau congress will also be appealed to for help. UNCLE SAM IS CALLED UNFAIR Eneviope Manufacturers Seek Some Way to Stop Printing Stamped Envelopes by Government. Buffalo, New York.—How to stop Uncle Sam from conducting such an extensive envelope business was dis- cussed by the American Envelope Manufacturers association here. Sec- retary Doris said: “We are endeav- oring to formulate plans for remedy- ing conditions which exist as a result of continuous extention of the en- velope business by the United States government whieh is selling stamped envelopes at prices which are almost ruinous ty ilie trade. We believe that this comperition is unfair and unjust.” Secret Investigation Ends. East St. Louis, I!linois—Investiga- tion of the charges recently preferred by J. F. Harms, former inspector in the department of agriculture, that deplorable conditions existed in the in- spection system in the packing plants here has been finished. Harriman’s Condition Not Dangerous. Vienna.—Accompanied by the mem- bers of his family, E. H. Harriman left Vienna for the Semmering, a mountain resort about 50 miles from the Aus- train ¢apitol. ONE CHINAMAN HAS CONFESSED Chung Sin Says He Saw Elsie Sigel’s Body in Leon Ling’s Room Before It was Placed in Trunk. New York, N, ¥.—Baited and in- timidated by detectives, threatened with prosecution and confused wita rapid fire questions, Chung Sin, one time room mate of Leon Ling, told of Hisie Sigel’s murder. Under the ter- tific pressure of the “third degree” the little Chinaman admitted that he had seen the body in Leon Ling’s room that he had touched it while it was stil warm, that he had smeled drugs and had watehed Leon Ling’s prepara- tions for placing the body in the trunk where it was found horribly decom- posed, Chung Sin in fact, if what was learn- ed at the criminal court’s building is correct, described almost everytning concerning the murder of Major Gen- eral Franz Sigel’s grand daughter, ex- cept the actual commissicn of the crime. He denied complicity in it and protested stoutly that he was ignorant of the whereabouts of Ling, the sup- posed murder. After the inquisition he was taken before Coroner Harbur- ger and held in $10,000 bail in the house of detention to await the in- auaat THE DUTY ON HIDES RESTORED House Placed Them on Free List But Senate Puts Tariff at 15 Per Cent. Washington, D. C. — When the senate reached the voting stage on the hide schedule, and after several amendments had been defeated the amendment of the finance committee fixing a duty of 15 per cent ad valorem on hides was agreed to by the vote of 46 to 30. This is the rate of the present law but under the rulings of the treasury department is applicable only to hides weighing more than 25 pounds. The house placed all hides on the free list, but the committee restored the Dingley policy by adaing them to the dutiable list. The senate sustain- ed its committee. Just before adjaurnment for the day at 7 o'clock, Senator Aldrich on. be- half of the finance committee present- ed the committee's new lumber sched- ule and also a number of amendments relating to linoleum and oil cloth. The committee proposed a rate of $1.50 per 1,0v0 on sawed lumber, which is a 50 cent increase over the house rate, Neither the lumber nor linoleum schedules were acted upon, HE CAUGHT THE BANKS AGAIN Within 15 months After Gov. Hoch Pardoned Him He Forged Notes for $25,000 and is a Fugitive. Highland, Kansas.—Five years ago J, E. Marcell, the cashier of a bank in Highland, swindled banks in Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago and New York out of $300,000 and wreck- ed the bank In Highland. He was con- vieted and sentenced to 35 years in the penitentiary. *Fifteen months ago he was pardoned from the peniten- tiary by Gov. Hoch. He made a new start in life, Marcell is now a fugitive from jus- tice, He has disappeared, after de- frauding Kansas City banks again, this time out of $25,000. The Ameri- can Barkers’ association 1s searching the country for him. Five years ago . Marcell dragged down to ruin every friend and relative that had money. He swindled even his father, His father-in-law, ruined by his dishonesty, died last winter of a broken heart. This time he has again swindled his nearest relatives and friends. A KANSAN SHOT BY A RUSSIAN A Voliand Slayer Traited by Hounds and Surrounded by Posses West of Topeka. — Topeka, Kansas—J. M. Hollis, nigi.t operator at Volland on the Rock Island 25 miles west of Topeka, was shot and killed by William Fehfee, a Rus- sian farm hand, Fehfee had a shotgun and intended to shoot another man against whom he had a personal grievance. Hollis attempted to take the gun away from him. Fehfee wrested the weapon away and shot Hollis, Fehfee escaped to the woods six miles south of Vol- land. He was trailed by hounds se- cured here and found. ‘Taft and Diaz to Meet. El Paso, Texas—The Mexican Herald, Mexico, City, says: Reply- ing to a communication from the White house at Washington through the Mexican embassy there. President Diag aas expressed his desire that he may meet Fresident Taft for a person- al interview, which will take place at-one of the points on the boundary line between Mexico and the United States some time during the last part of the year. Calhoun Uponm New Count. San Francigco, Cal.— At the re- quest of attorney for Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, whose fits: trial ended in a disagreement of the jury, one of the remaining indictments against him was set for trial for next Monday, June 28. The indictment selected was one alleging offer of a bribe to an ex- supervisor, John J. Furey, and is sim: Hlar to the one upon which Abraham Ruef was sentenced to 14 years in the penitentiary. 17 KILLED AND 16 INJURED IN MINE HEROIC ATTEMPTS MADE TO | REACH MINERS. | Frantic Women Surge to Mine's Entrance to Seek Relatives Who Are Entombed in Fatal Shaft Wehrum, Pa—As a result of an ex Plosion of gas in mine No. 1 of the Lackawanna Coal and Coke com pany, shortly after 7 o'clock yester day morning, 17 miners were killed and 16 injured. With the exception of one, those killed were foreigners With few exceptions, the injured were Americans. Twelve of the more seriously {n- jured will probably recover, Inspector Williams of Altoona with @ party entered the mine last night to ascertain whether any one was yet entombed. The mine has only been operating two days each week, Tuesday and Friday. Those in the mine yesterday had entered the shaft for their daily allowance of coal for family use. Grouped about the slope entrance of the mine just before the explosion were several Italians. When the ter. ‘rific subterranean upheaval of rocks and deadly gas spouted skyward, these Italians were caught. Terribly burned and maimed, they rushed about the settlement crying for aid. The cries and sound of hissing mine gas at the entrance of the mine brought the entire town to the scene. __ Supt. Johnson, backed by the of- fice force of the company, stood at the ‘mine entrance and held back the frantic women whose relatives were entombed. The first man to reach the surface was Al, Johnson, son of the superin- tendent, Young Johnson had been in a lower heading. There were burns on his arms, body and neck, and last night it was stated that he had tn- haled the flame. He is one of the few seriously injured. Supt. Johnson called for volunteers to ente rthe mine. Women Volunteer Service. In the volunteer ranks stood sever- al women. These were ordered back. With wet handkerchiefs covering their faces, the relief party started down the shaft. Of the eight who started, four came back unalded. The others, overcome with black damp, were pulled back to the sur- face with ropes. A second and third party entered, only to be driven back by gas. Oxygen aided the searchers and with safety helmets, a fourth rescue party started in, bringing twelve bodies to the surface. Late in the afternoon five more bodies were recovered. In twos and threes the injured were found and lifted to the mouth of the mine and hastily taken to the hos- pital established at the company store. Late last night all but two rooms of the mine had been searched, and it was announced that it was thougnt no more bodies were in the mine. . Mexican Cotton Mills Burn. Mexico City:—A dispatch recetved here from Guadala, State of Jalisco, state that the Atemajae cotton mills, owned by the Compana_ Industriale ‘De Guadala Jara, was destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $1,000,000 with $300,000 insurance. * More than 2,000 workmen are thrown ‘out of em: ployment. \ * LEON LING STILL AT LARGE. Chinaman Who Murdered American Girl Has Thus Far Success- fully Alluded Capture. New York—After a day of conflict- ing statements, the district attorney's office, acting under instructions from Mr, Jerome and the police department under orders from Commisstoner Bingham, refused last night to dis- cuss further what progress has been made in the search for Leon 1.ing, the Chinaman who is wanted for the murder of Elsie Sigel, whose body was found in a trunk in a room over an Eighth avenue chop suey restau- rant last Friday night. Nor would they discuss the results of the examination of Chung Sin. Leon Ling’s former room-mate, who had been variously reported to have witnessed the crime, to have aided in roping the trunk and finally merely to have seen the girl's body. There have been hourly reports of clues from all parts of the country, but none of them on close examina- tion brings the authorities any nearer to the murderer, LONE HIGHWAYMAN’ HOLDS UP STAGE: BOOTY email Nevada City, Cal—The Downiville stage, which left this city yesterday for Sierra county; carrying (ive pas- sengers, was held up and redbed by a masked highwayman a short time after leaving. The robber took $90 from the passengers and the Wells Fargo Express box. The mail pouch was not disturbed. There are rumors that the highwayman made a big haul, but the local agent declines to make a statement. Sheriff Walker and a posse have taken up the trail. WOMEN SUFFER NEEDLESSLY Many Mysterious Aches and Pains Ag, Easily Cured. Backache, pain through the hipa, dizzy spells, headaches, nervousness, bloating, ete, are ss troubles that’ com = monly come from se sick kidneys. Don't fi ie mistake the causo— Pp I" Doan's Kidney P's have cured thou. 6 sands of women at. 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Then he unlocked a drawer in his desi and handed her a revoiver.—Lippin oko, With a smooth fron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt waist just as well at home as the steam laundry can; it will have the proper stiffness and finish, there witt be less wear and tear of the goods, and it will be a positive pleasure ta use a Starch that does not stick to th. tron, ee He Learned Better “I never spoke a cross word to my wife but once.” “Honest?” “Honest. Once was enough for mine, thank you.”—Cleveland Leader Econoray. Some women’s idea of economy \« doing without the things that her husband likes best to eat. a CAA 24 { cerenaaainy: F % ‘e d Food Produce ; Are Best For Your Table Because. they are made of the choicest materials and guaran- teed to be absolutely pure. Libby’s Veal Loaf makes a delight- ful dish for Luncheon and you will find, Libby’s Vienna Sausage Corned Beef Pork and Beans Evaporated Milk equally tempting for any meal. Have a supply of Libby’s in ihe house and you will always be Prepared for an extra guest. You can buy Libby’s at all grocers, k&sby, MoNelll & Ubby Ohicago THE AMERICAN HOME W-A.RADFORD EDITOR A Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 134 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A very stylish cement-block bungalow may be made along these lines. It is a cozy little affair, just about right for a man and his wife and baby—no bungalow is complete without a baby. I notice that a good many fellows who lived in flats until they became thoroughly tired of it are building bungalows, some of which are pretty, some otherwise, and are settling down in them to enjoy life as they never did on the installment plan. This particular house was designed for a couple who had spent the first two years of their married life in a flat building, where they used artificial light in the daytime and breathed second-hand air adulterated with dust, kitchen odors and a mixed assortment of noises all the time. They finally bought a good lot in a fashionable suburb and built this stylish little beauty of a house and are now living a life of comfort and luxury as a natural consequence, and the cost is less than living in the apartment. They paid $40 per month rent for the flat they lived in, or $480 per year. The bunalow with the lot complete cost just about $4,000, which at six per cent. foots up to $240 interest, while the taxes, insurance and repairs can be covered by another hundred. Then they have the in- crease in the value of the property as the town grows in population. Why don't all apartment people do the same? Well, the trouble with nearly all cave—I mean flat—dwellers, is that they have gotten their ideas up to an elaborate house which they can never reach, because nine people out of ten living in flats use up every dollar they make and it is utterly impossible for them to raise the price'even to make the first payment on a $7,000 or $8,000 home. There was a little streak of luck connected with the building of this bungalow. In making the excavations for the walls the men found a vein of sand sharp enough to make the cement blocks with, so they brought a block machine and made the blocks PORCH PANTRY 56'X43' KITCHEN 86'X12'0' BATH 56'X70' PASS. CL DINING RM. 12'0"X14'9" BED RM. 9'0"X11'0" LIVING RM. 14'9"X11'9" PORCH 7'9"X12'0" Floor Plan Floor Plan. on the spot, which not only saved buying sand, but it saved the cost of teaming. An Italian with a monocycle will handle a lot of sand if he moves it only a few yards, but sand is heavy and when it must be hauled a mile or two the expense is very different. Building a cement block bungalow is no trick at all with the new forms furnished by the makers of all the best block machines, for they will make the blocks accurate and to the proper size. Halves and quarters and corner blocks are also carefully made to fit, then the plans are designed and laid out in such a way as to bring the doors and windows between the joints so they will fit without chipping. There is no fun in paying a mason to saw off the ends of cement blocks with his trowel. When com- --- plete the house is better than a stone house, because the blocks are made hollow and because they are more accurate in size than stone and because there is the same amount of mortar in each of the different seams. A solid wall—and most stone walls are solid—is damp on the inside, because stone is a good conductor of heat and cold. Because of the great difference in temperature the dampness from the warm inside air collects on the cold wall surface and his makes the house uncomfortable and unsatisfactory. Hollow blocks also afford a splendid opportunity to ventilate the rooms, and ventilation, by the way, has been sadly neglected. No animal can have good health without plenty of fresh air, not even men and women, but many people seem to think they can. I believe the average human life is shortened fully ten years on account of breathing foul, nasty air. Windows are seldom opened except when the house is too warm. No one seems to think of the discomfort or danger of living in a polluted atmosphere. While this particular bungalow is built without a cellar the walls go down deep enough to provide for a cellar if at any time it is wanted. This is the proper thing to do in building any house. It gives an opportunity to improve the property in a substantial way at a very little expense. The living room is nearly 12 by 15 feet in size, with a splendid fireplace on the north side. Blocks are used for the chimney, which is really a part of the house wall. It is built with two flues, with the expectation that one will be needed later for a furnace. THE HOME OF THE HERITAGE CENTER For the same reason tin fue pipes were placed in the walls and boxed for registers, so it will be only necessary to cut the baseboard and fit wall registers to the openings when the good ship comes home from India. UNTOUCHED BY TIME'S ACTION Red Cedar Grown in State of Washington Proved to Be Practically Imperishable. An extraordinary illustration of the almost imperishable nature of Washington's red cedar is furnished to some shingles recently cut in a Washington mill and sent east for exhibition purposes. Those shingles were cut from a moss-covered cedar log lying on the ground, and which had growing over it another cedar tree, the roots of which encircled the fallen log. The growing tree had 750 rings, which indicates, according to the accepted theory, that it was 750 years old. Yet its growth started after the tree from which the shingles were cut had fallen to the ground. Here was a cedar log, fallen and lifeless, which had been exposed to the weather for not less than 750 years, and yet was free from rot to the extent that merchantable shingles could be sawed from it. Every man who has worked in the woods or in clearing land in this state has seen similar instances of the ability of red cedar to resist the ravages of time. In alluvial soil along the river banks, in digging ditches, cedar logs have been found covered by four or five feet of alluvium, which were yet sound save for a few inches on the extreme outside, although, under similar conditions, almost any other wood would have decayed in a few years. Conjecture hal's at any attempt to estimate the length of time which might have elapsed since those logs were growing trees. It may be added that the shingles from this tree which fell 750 years ago were as sound and in all respects as good as any cut from standing timber. Indeed, they could hardly be distinguished from the ordinary run of shingles from a mill, save possibly by their deeper color.—Seattle Post and Intelligencer. American National Library. To-day the collection in the Nation al library comprises nearly 2,500,000 items—1,500,000 printed books and pamphlets, and nearly 1,000,000 other articles (manuscripts, maps, prints and music)—by all means the largest collection of the western hemisphere and perhaps the third largest in the world. They are increasing at the rate of about 70,000 books and pamphlets and 50,000 other articles yearly. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE, $1.00, retail. "What makes that peasant so proud to-day?" "Oh, he has the biggest rooster in town—and his wife the biggest hat." —Fliegende Blaetter. SORE EYES CURED. Eye-Balls and Lids Became Terribly Inflamed—Was Unable to Go About —All Other Treatments Failed, But Cuticura Proved Successful. "About two years ago my eyes got in such a condition that I was unable to go about. They were terribly inflamed, both the balls and lids. I tried home remedies without relief. Then I decided to go to our family physician, but he didn't help them. Then I tried two more of our most prominent physicians, but my eyes grew continually worse. At this time a friend of mine advised me to try Cuticura Ointment, and after using it about one week my eyes were considerably improved, and in two weeks they were almost well. They have never given me any trouble since and I am now sixty-five years old. I shall always praise Cuticura. G. B. Halsey, Mouth of Wilson, Va., Apr. 4, 1908." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props, Boston. WERE BOTH OF MIXED BLOOD Points of Resemblance Between Englishman and Cowboy, as the Latter Understood It. "The countess de Pourtales was a New York Lorillard," said a New York tobaccoist. "So on both sides, of course, she has blue blood. Yet she is without false pride. "At a recent tobacco men's convention a director told me of a remark the countess made in Biarritz to an arrogant Englishman. "This fellow boasted of his ancestry. The countess said that sort of talk wouldn't be understood in the wild west. She said an Englishman said to a Texas cowboy once: "I have Tudor blood in my veins on the maternal side and through my father's family I am a Plantagenet." "Is that so?" said the cowboy, brightening with keen interest. 'My blood's a leetle mixed, too. My grandfather was a Jersey tenderfoot and my grandmother a Digger Indian squaw. We're both half-breeds, stranger. Come and liquor up!"—Cincinnati Enquirer. Not That Kind. Apropos of examination time, Prof. Carl C. Petersen of Dubuque related at a recent dinner some examination stories. "Once, in a Bible lesson," he said, "I repeated the text. "Arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt." "And then I showed the children a large picture that illustrated the text in bright colors. "The children studied this picture eagerly. Then they all frowned; all looked rather disappointed. Finally a little girl said: "Teacher, where is the flea?" 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. Great Improvement. The patient told the doctor all his symptoms. At the end of the recital the medical man looked severe. "My dear sir," he said, "you must gradually give up whisky and soda." Some months later he met the patient and inquired whether the advice had been followed. "To the letter," replied the patient, beaming. "Why, I've already given up soda completely!" A. Difference. There is a time in every man's life when the softly breathed "Yes" of a pretty woman sounds as loud to his ears as the notes of Gabriel's rumpet. Afterward there comes a time when she has to yell at the top of her voice: "John, John, it's time to get up," seventeen times before he becomes aroused enough to hear it. Evidence. Farmer Havrick—The city is mighty wicked. Farmer Corncrib—Yes, even the trees are behind bars. DON'T SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. be Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocers, 5c a package. Your country manufactured 25,000 planos. JOB WOULD KEEP HIM BUSY Greenhorn Sailor Realized the Captain Had Given Him a Big Contract. In the height of the recent wheat tumult Broker Patten, discussing the government's wheat estimates with a reporter, said calmly: "But some of the men the government takes its figures from are greenhorns. Perfect greenhorns. As bad as the Dutch sailor, you know. "The captain said to the sailor, when the ship came to port: "Take a boat, run ashore and buy two dollars' worth of vegetables." "The sailor didn't know what vegetables were, so as soon as he struck land he said to a 'longshoreman: "What is vegetables, mate?" "Oh, dried peas, for instance," the 'longshoreman answered. "So the Dutch sailor spent his two dollars on a huge sack of dried peas. "When he drew near the ship again with his load the captain called him from the bridge: "Well, have you got those vegetables?" "Aye, aye, sir," said the sailor. "Then,' said the captain, 'hand them up to cookie one at a time.' "Shiver my timbers!" said the sailor, 'I've got a job before me now, and no mistake!" NERVE. "Excuse me, can I speak to your typewriter a moment?" "You cannot; she's engaged." "That's all right; I'm the fellow she's engaged to." LEWIS' "SINGLE BINDER." A hand-made cigar fresh from the table, wrapped in foil, thus keeping fresh until smoked. A fresh cigar made of good tobacco is the ideal smoke. The old, well cured tobaccos used are so rich in quality that many who formerly smoked 10c cigars now smoke Lewis' Single Binder Straight 5c. Lewis' Single Binder costs the dealer some more than other 5c cigars, but the higher price enables this factory to use extra quality tobacco. There are many imitations; don't be fooled. There is no substitute! Tell the dealer you want a Lewis "Single Binder." Youngster's Fellow Feeling: Youngster's Fellow Feeling. A small boy, about five years old, was taken to an entertainment by his mother the other evening. It was 10:30 o'clock when they reached home and the little fellow was very tired and sleepy. He undressed quickly and hopped into bed. "George," said his mother sternly, "I'm surprised at you." "Why, mamma?" he asked. "You didn't say your prayers. Get right out of that bed and say them." "Aw mamma," came from the tired youngster, "what's the use of wakin' the Lord up at this time of night to hear me pray?" The Novel Type. In a late magazine story a perfectly lovely girl is described as follows: "She was very small and dark, and very active, with hair like the color of eight o'clock—daylight and darkness and lamplight all snared up together, and lips like all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss." How do you like it? Would a girl who answered that description be worth shucks in that day experiences?—Atchison Globe. 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. The Repound. "Every time we were alone before we were married you used to take advantage of the fact to tell me what you thought of me." "And now every time we are not alone you tell me what you think of me."—Houston Post. Use Allen's Foot-Ease It is the only relief for Swolien Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. Cures while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores. 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy N. E. No. Not Nervous. "That's true. He is now nothing but a nervy wreck." Knocking. "I should say I do! Didn't Mag Smith get married?" PERRY DAVIS PAINKILLER Is "an ounce of prevention" as well as a 'pound of cure' For bowel troubles, skin wounds, colds, and other ill. 35c and 500 sizes. And occasionally a man tells lies by keeping his mouth shut. 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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. Paxline is 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, 50C PAXINE OR POSTPAID BY MAIL. LARGE SAMPLE FREE! THE PAXTON TOULED CO. BOB Your Liver's Your Life A dead liver means awful sickness—don't let it come—when it can be prevented. Cascarets keep the liver lively and bowels regular and ward off serious, fatal illness. 901 CASCARETS—roc box—week's treatment. All druggists. Biggest seller in the world. Million boxes a month. THAT'S IT The only skin softener and bachelor I find. It also sweet and sweet and clean on but summer days, destroys all allor of perspiration applied on retiring and towed in a morning with a damp cloth. Trial size 10. Bottles. Trial size 10. Hooper direct on receipt of price. HOOPER MEDICINE CO. Dallas, Tex. & Jersey City N.J. THAT'S IT The only skin softener and bleacher cleaner. It also keeps me sweet and clean on hot summer days, destroys all odor of perspiration with applied on retiring and removed nxt marring with a damp cloth. Two sizes, 60 and 90 gilb battles. Trial size lie. Letter made direct on receipt of price. HOOPER MEDICINE CO. Dallas. Tex. & Jersey City N.J. The Only Perfect Razor NO STROPPING NO HONING Gillette TRADE MARK KNOWN THE WORLD OVER placed, anywhere and all lilies and all lilies clean, ornamental, clean, convenient, clean, not spill or tip not spill or tip not ornamentary, not ornamentary, not Guaranteed effect Guaranteed effect per se priori or per se priori for 20c. Karen's room Karen's room Brooklyn, New York DAISY FU KUKEE clean, ornamental, convenient, cheap, lasts in soil not spill or injure anything Guaranteed effect widened by moisture or sent propofol for 20c. Harold Sonner, New York, N.Y. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxurious growth. Nourishes hair to its Youthful Color. Cures soap diseases & hair falling. 50c. and 100c at Dungges LAND—IRRIGATED—LAND. Perpetual water right; fine water; productive soil; crop failures unknown; 50 bu. wheat per acre; 8% to 10% tons of healthy climate; best termix; easy termix write now. KN9000 LAND 60, Rock Springs, Wyoming. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 26-1909. KANSAS CITY KANS The High Priestess, Officers & members of Rebecca Tabernacle No 11 wish to express their appreciation of the grand and noble work that they have did in the past and still working for much higher point in the near future In year 1908 memebes in a good standing 122 in 1909 130 members. No Suspended 08 - 3 09 not one expelled 08 not one 09 not a one. A'mt sick dues paid out ,08 $103 30 1909 $43 80 Am't monthly dues Recieved 08 $468.55 1909 $475 63: Received for new members 08 $12.50 09 $19.50 Am't received tax and other sources $312 84 in the year of 08 - 09 $223.86. Total Am't received 08 $793.89 09 $759.29. Am't paid for rent an fuel 08 $35.00 09 $36.00 Paid out Funeral expense 08 $237.30 09 $53.50 Am't paid to grand visiting officers 08 $6.00 09 $7.00 Total paid out in the year of 08 $806 46 in 09 $686.32. In treasure for the year 09 $317.80. This is the annual report for the year 08 09. The Rebacca Tabernacle also wish to express our appreciation of the Taborian Hall which now situated on the corner of 9th and Everett Ave. We feel proud to say that we are working in peace and harmony. We own a ball our Tabernacle meet regular and our Tabernacle has its full regalia. We also had our annual sermon the third Sunday in June at the Methodist church at 2 p.m. Rev. Dr. Jones of A. M. E. church open by reading a portion of the scripture. Rev. Dr. Bowen of 1st Baptist church preached the sermon. The choir of the A. M. E. entertained us with several songs Collection for the afternoon $22 P Woodfork H. P. A Negro editor chuckles in his sleeves good and plenty every time some fellow says down with this sheet. Its a sure sign of success more subscriptions and a hearty laugh. It makes the life worth living. 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, once so hard. One by one, we have univerted our chains, we are free!—Nautillus. Getting Ahead of One's Self. "If I have anything to do that I particularly dislike, I start to work on it the first thing after breakfast, subordinating 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 of one's mind early in the day, one gets ahead of one's self, so to speak." A Knowing Dog. "Now," said the narrator, "I've got a dog here I would not take $100 for. You can believe me or not, but what I am going to tell you is the gospel truth. In the early part of last spring I lost about a score of very valuable sheep, until one day as I was looking across from my house to the edge of the range opposite, about two miles away, I noticed some sheep. I got my telescope, and assured myself that they were mine. I placed the telescope in a suitable position, and made Bob, our best colle, look through it. After about a minute the dog wagged his tall and made off. In less than two hours he brought the sheep home safe and sound." .SUBSCRIBE FOR. - THE WICHITA - SEARCHLIGHT PER $1.00 YEAR One of the Oldest and Best Negro Newspapers In the west ESTABLSHED IN 1898 Published Every week Fresh. Reliable Race News Conservative in policy Firm in defense of our race Our policy of "The Higher Grade of News" has built or the Searchlight the reputation of being distinctly a "Family Newspaper". No slang, trashy or questionable items are found in the columns of the Searchlight. We make no "grand-stand plays" but maintain one even, sane, reliable and solid course in our work of "race up-lift" in dealing with those vital race issues. IF YOU are in any-wise interested in the Negro race and in aiding in help solving the great questions which to-day confront the American Negro—we solicit your subscription, your patronage, to the Searchlight in our effort for the highest intellectual, christian, moral, financial and physical standard for our race. Your patronage solicited. TO-DAY is the day TO SUBSCRIBE. Our next issue may contain some information or news item of Vital Interest to you. Our subscription rate-one dollar per year-is within the reach of all. You will never have reasons to regret it. AGENTS WANTED We want active, wide-awake hustling men, women, boys and girls as Agents for the Searchlight in every city, town village and community. GOOD MONEY can be realized by the right pers Agents and Correspondents of the Searchlight. MONEY can be realized by the right pers and Correspondents of the Searchlight. GOOD MONEY can be realized by the right persons as Agents and Correspondents of the Searchlight. JOB PRINTING In this Department we make a specialty of High - Grade Commercial Job Printing... Mail Orders We give prompt attention to all Orders sent us by mail for Job Printing. No Job Too Small-No Job Too Large. Good Work Guaranteed-First-Class Workmen ```markdown ``` Knights & Daughters OF TABOR KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. PEV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborian Home, R. F. D. No. 8, Topeka, Kansas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kan. 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. G. T. 52 Mrs. Ada. Kans. Kan., 2 G. Q. M., 68 Mrs. Lili Scott. Kans. Kansas A. P. P., 77 Mrs. Sara. Neb. Topeka. DFORD, C. ita, Kar 52 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 68 Mrs. Lilie Robnett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) ita, Kan., Fridays. Number. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. H. Tyler, 520 E. 9th Cherryvale, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 5 Mrs. Carrie Brown, 922 N. 10th, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Tues. (A) 9 Mrs. Katie Thomas, 117 E Laurett, Topeka, Kansas. 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 2 Rev C 3 J. C E 4 F. I N 5 Rob N 7 Dr. W 8 A. J K 10 Geo L 11 C 12 Lee K 15 Ed 3- 16 Rick O 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. 16 Mrs. Lizle Morton, 1308 Washington, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 Rev. Jas. C 19 W. re. 22 B. K 24 J. V. v 25 J. I. C 25 U. K 59 U. K 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft Scott, Kan. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 24 Mrs. Angle Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Par- sons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawat- omie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 3 Sat. RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit our bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are or full particulars and special offer at once. Until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship bicycles to you. EACH TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and if you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to ride at our air ness and you will not be out one cent. furnish us with a pair of tires to make one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $10 by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee. We are also able to a pair of tires from anyone receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory offers to rider agents. NISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and we are able to stock a pair of tires from anyone this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at our warehouse. We are not regularly hand second hand bicycles, but trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out and store our expatriate lists mailed free. roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and half the usual retail prices. PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 80 PIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY WANTED—A RIDER sample Latest Model "Ranger" bicycle making money fast. Write for full article to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. without allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL d keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our FACTORY PRICES. We furnish the k to $5 middlersen's profits by buying dis ante behind your bicycle. DO NOT at any price until you receive our ca prices and remarkable special offers to YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED at low prices we can make you this year. We low prices we can make you this year. We taxes BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell double our prices. Orders filled the day receive SEQUENCE WE WILL BE ON hand taken in trade by our promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. single wheels, imported roller equipment of all kinds at half the usual COASTER-BRAKES, $8 50 HEDGETHORN • PUNCH SELF-HEALING TIRES The regular retail price of these tires is TED—A RIDER at model "TED" bicycle furnished ey fast. Write for full particulars and any questions you may have anywhere in the U.S. to ask for DAYS' FREE TRIAL during when you test you wish. If you are then not a bicycle ship you will be PRICES We furnish the biggest at one small profit above idlemen's profits by buying direct of us them to sell our bicycles until you receive our catalogues remarkable special offers to rider at ALL BE ASTONISHED when you use we can make you this year. We sell the other factory. We are satisfied with you, you can sell our bicycle Orders filled by us. BICYCLES. We do not regularly on hand taken in trade by our Chicago orders, imported roller chain of all kinds at half the usual retail THORN • PUNCTURE CLING TIRES A SAN TO INTR our agents everywhere are making money fast. Write for full participation and special offers on NO MONEY REQUIREMENT until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to you in 24 hours. We will allow TEN DAYS' TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and we will keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our exp air and you will not be out one cent. Keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our exp air and you will not be out one cent. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory costs, and we deliver to the bicycles under your own name plate at ur prices. Orders filled the day received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out and we ship to our customers. We bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES, single wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. HEDGE THORN RECORD AMMUNITION SIZE 50 PROPS DEVICE HEALING $3.90 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $4.00 (cash or order with $4.55). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESIGNATION DESIGNATION DESIGNATION a durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never become a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. The rubber is often stated that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of tin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. There regular price of these tires is $5, so per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to examined same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. one examined and found them strictly as represented, it (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you include this advertisement. We will also send one furnished at MK expense if for any reason they are really reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a will you find that they will ride easier, run faster, tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We give you your order, hence this remarkable tire offer. Any kind at any price until you send for a pair of worn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at about one price and Sundry Catalogue which lies at about half the usual prices. A today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. the rider of only £38 per person unless shipped same day approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined me. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby mend FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this a nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at O not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable Hedgehorn Puncture wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have that you will be so well pleased that when you want we want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this ren IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn every J. L: MEAD CYCLE COMPANY fewes shipped same day after until you have examined and four at of 5 per cent (thereby making ORDER and enclose this advertis- Tires to be returned at OUR ex- We are perfectly reliable and in m these tires, you will find that the kiner than any tire you have ever pleased that when you want a bicycle order at once, hence this remarkable ESES don't buy any kind at any y proofed above; or write for our big T and kinds of tires at about half the write us a postal day. DO NOT pair of tires from anyone until you costs a postal to learn everything. CLE COMPANY, 333 TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses 34 Mrs. Joana Wichita, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 69 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Wein 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 3 J. G. Purdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 4 F. D. Early, Sherman Flats, Omaha Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 7 Dr. G. G. Brown, 517 N. Main, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Tues. 8 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-8 Tue. 10 Geo. L. Craig, 906 Cherokee, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 11 C. W. Giles, 617 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan., 1-3-4 Thurs. 12 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 16 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Neb. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 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. 28 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 60 E. C. Sqires, 1813 Jefferson, Topeka, Kans., 1-3, Mon. 72 J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Leavenworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Dantels, 216 W. Wall, Fu Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) Directory TEMPLES. Chief Mentors. TENTS. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. It may also any other make—SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. 3 Lizzie Weaver 1122 Saratoga, Lincoln, Net., Fri. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walken, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Sat. Morn. 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 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, 823 Main, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Ks., 2-4 Wed. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Sallna, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrold, Sherman Flata, Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susle Willis, 2103 Grand, Parsona, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark, Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsons, Kans., 1-3 Sat. 29 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 21 Ella McKinnis, 217 Sierman, Leavenworth, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 23 Louise VerJer, 813 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 36 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1818 N. Madison, Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 312 Washington, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Tent is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at ones. 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 cierk in Elyria, O., who never has any difficulty in striking a balance. His father was a slack-rope walker, and his mother was a trick bicycle rider. Were the Mrs. Gilman brand of sociology to come into vogue there would soon be no society for sociology to operate upon and the exuders of guff would be among the unemployed. Miss Ross Becker has been appointed a claim agent and United States pension attorney at Missouri. She has been known for years as one of the most successful women in St. Louis, being a notary public and an insurance agent. Massachusetts has a law to prevent recklessness and speeding in automobiles, which law may be rendered ridiculous by its wrong punctuation, as it forbids driving over roads "alld 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 if 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 fodder!'" 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 heroia 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.