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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER IT'S GREATEST SUCCESS was One of the Most Important In History of the Order ELEVENTH YEAR IT'S GREAT was One of the History of The eighteenth annual session of the Grand Temple and Tabernacle, Knights and Daughters of Tabor, Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction which was held in Topeka, Kansas, July 13-17, was one of the best, finiancially, numerically ever held in the history of the Order. The session was held in the Masonic hall, 404 Kansas Ave. and every delegate was filled with enthusiasm over the splendid reports made by the Order's unexcelled Grand officers which showed a most remarkable progress. TUESDAY SESSION The 18th grand session was called to order at 10 a.m. by Rev. Sir Frank Wilson, the Chief Grand Mentor. The morning session was devoted to routine business of opening. In the afternoon the Grand session listened to an able Welcome "Address" delivered by Dtr Ada Upshaw, a gratuates of the Topeka High School At the conclusion of her address Dtr. Upshaw was loudly applauded. The welcome address was responded to by Dtr. Lulu Rount tr.e, of Omaha. Neb. in a most pleasing manner. Dtr. Rountree recieved splendid aplause for her able response. After the welcome address and response tue Grand Temple and Tabernacle then listened to the 18'h annual message of Rev. Sir. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. As the Chief read his message which showed the remarkable progrrss which the Order of 12, had made during the past year, he was again and again applauded. Chief Mentor Wilson's Report The following is an extract of the splendid report of Rev. Frank Wilson, he said in part:- 'It pleases him, who rules the destiny of nations, to bring us together in this, our eighteenth grand session We meet to shape the destiny of our order. We feel with the tokens of truth, faith and love in our hearts, we can make the order a greater benefit to its mem- bers, and cause others to gain us in this work for the uplift of the human race. Kind words, acts and deeds will bring men, women and children to our temples, Tabernacles and tents. TABORIAN HOME Referring to the Taborian Home recently purched by the Order in this city the report said: "Some are aware of the tact that for the last twenty-three years I have advocated the Home for our indigent members and orphans of the Order. Heretofore the Home has been on paper only, but today it is a fixed reality. We own an acre of ground and a twelve room house. This should give a new life and encouragement to our members. Rev. Wilson recommended in his report that the endowment be raised from $100.00 to $110.00 at the death of member. His report showed that there had been 28 deaths during the year as follows- Knights 7 Daughters 16, Pages 4, Maids1. BENEFITS The report of the Chief Grand bought out the following figures of the benefits paid out by the order for the past year. Endowment paid $2430.00 Sick Benefit 1450,00 Burial expenses $1200. Total paid during the vr. 5080. 50 Benefits paid from April 30th 1891 to June 12th 1900 Endowment pd $27,680. Sick Benefit pd 15,753 Burial Expenses 13,550 Grand Totat paid $56983.00. PROPERTY The following is the property owned by the Order Value Kans City Kans. one hall $4500 Salina Kansas ,, ,, 3500.00 N. Topeka Kans. ,, ,, 3500.00 S. Topeka Kans. ,, ,, 3500.00 Lawrence Kans. ,, ,, 4500.00 Ft. Scott Kans. ,, ,, 4500.00 Atchison Kans. ,, ,, 4500.00 one lot 1500.00 JULY 24 1909, Total Value property $43500 00 At the conclusion of the ready of his report by Rev. Frank Wilson so well pleased were the members with it that by unaoimous vote the rules were suspended and Rev. Frank Wilson was reelected for the 19th. consecurive time. GRAND RECEPTION Tuesday evening the delegates and visitors were tendered of a rousing reception by the members of the local numbers. Wednesday morning was devoted to the report of the Grand Officers. Dtr. Emma Gaines, Chief Grand Preceptress, read her seventeenth annual report which was grand. At the conclusion of her report the rules were superseded and Dtr. Gaines was unanimously re-elected. Sir Wm.Core C. G. T. made his sixteenth annual report which was received with loud applause. After the reading of this splendid report of the treasurer the whole session was one of enthusiasm and as if by one mind there was a score of delegates on their feet seeking to ask that the rules be superseded and Sir Wm. Core re-elected treasurer which was done. The next report was that of Dtr. Sarah Forbes, C. G. R. who made her sixteenth annual report which was heartily received and at its conclusion Dtr. Forbes was re-elected by acclamation. Then came the report of Sir A, W Hopkins. C. G. S. who made his eighteenth annual report which was fine and at ist conclusion Sir A. W. Hopkins was unanimously rr-elected C. G. S. for his 19th term. One of the agreeable reports of the session was that of Sir C. M. Johnson, G. P. P. It was agreed by all that the report by Sir Johnson was the best ever made by a Grand Presiding Prince. The delegates showed their appreciation by re-electing Sir Johnson by acclamation. Dtr. Bessie Hall, G. Q. M. did herself credit in the splendid report which she made of her work for the year. The rules were superseded and Dtr. Hall was re-elected by acclamation. The Board of Grand Curations then submitted their report which was adoptes. The Board selected Rev. Frank Wilson as Superintendent of the Home and this selection will meet with the approval of the members of the jurisdiction as it GRAND RECEPTION met the approval of all the delegates. GRAND TENT SESSION Immediately after the noon recess the Grand Temple and Tabernacle gave way to a meeting of the Tent department with Dtr. Bessie Hall Grand Queen Mother, presiding. The Tents made an excellent showing and listened to short talks by Rev. Frank Wilson C. G. M'Dtr. Emma Gaines, C. G. P. Rev. M. Wooten, C. G. O and others. Dtr. Bessie Hall made a few remarks explaining the work of the Tent department. GRAND ANNUAL SERMON. The Annual Grand Sermon was preached at the large and spacious Auditorium. The Knights met at their hall 404 Kansas Ave., and led by Jackson's Military Band, they marched to the Auditorium under direction of Slr A. M Harrold, G. D. M., with other Knights as his aides. At the Auditorium the Knights were joined by the Daughters and this large number of Knights and Daughters filled in the Auditorium. On the rostrum were Rev. Frank Wilson C. G. M., Dtr. Emma Gaine G. C. P., Dtr. Bessie Hall, G. Q. M. Sir Rev. M. Wooten, C. G. O. Rev. Sir J- R. Ransom, Rev. A. Garner, Rev. J. Banks, and an escort of uniformed Knights, Sir D. L. Taylor, Sir Lee Holiday and Sir J. H. Downs. After the opening services Rev. Frank Wilson introduced Rev. M. Wooten C. G. O. as the speaker of the evening. Rev- Wooten then preached one of the most wonderful, spiritual, inspiring, and historical sermons ever delivered before the Grand Session. He acquitted himself with credit and honor and fully set forth the Order of Twelve its working, teaching, objects and accomplishments. Every one were in one accord in giving him due credit. A large collection was raised. THURSDAY SESSION THURSDAY SESSION The first hours of the morning session were devoted to committee reports and a completion of the election of officers. Rev. M. Wooten was re-elected C. G. O. by acclamation. Sir J. W. Burdett was re-elected Vice Grand Mentor. Dtr. Ella McKinnie was re-elected Vice Grand Preceptress and Dtr. Maggie Robinson was unanimously re-elected Grand Intersentinal. Dtr. Paulin Woodfork was re-elected C. G. Pr. by acclamation. After the election the Grand Temple and Tabernacle resolved itself in memory of the deceased Knights Daughters, Maids and Pages of Honor. This was truly a Christian lover fease and spiritual meeting It was, indeed, a free spiritual feast. OFFICIAL ORGAN The Searchlight was unanimously chosen as the official organi tor the Knights and Daughters of Tabor Kansas- Nebraska Jurisdiction for another yeat. Friday morning at 11 o'clock the Knights and Daughters began to form their line in front of the hall in Kansas Ave. With the Daughters and Grand officers in carrages and the Knights in full regalia with their shinny swords, bright buttons and plum med helmets on foot, and led by bands of music, the parade was one of grander; spectacular and imposing grandness. In the lines of march was the full Palatine guards from Parsons, Atchison, and Kansas City Kansas comprising the three crack drill teams of the Kansas- Nebraska Juris- PURITY No matter how accutan ceipt is filled it is of no v the Drugs used are not f pure in quality. One can manding "Pure Drugs." PRESCR We try to always have bought of this precaution with extreme care in fill and receipts should be a endeavor to win your Then again, Substitbtion guard against. We gaura and receipt that leaves o actly as it is written. No matter how accutant a prescription or receipt is filled it is of no value to the patient if the Drugs used are not fresh, well selected, and pure in quality. One cannot be to careful in demanding "Pure Drugs." PRESCRIPSIONS We try to always have the best that can be bought of this precaution on our part, coupled with extreme care in filling your prescriptions and receipts should be a great drawing card in endeavor to win your confidence and trade. Then again, "Substibition" is a great evil to guard against. We gaurantee every prescription and receipt that leaves our store, to be filled exactly as it is written. Cost Is Essential The charge is reasonable always "Quanity First. vice is a great accomma- your disposal. Quality Always Besides filling prescripti carry a full equipped Dr ines, of all kinds, Soap Candy, Etc. Your patro- and we feel assured that customer, always a cust The charge is reasonable pure to all considering always "Quanity First." Our free delivery service is a great accommodation, is always at your disposal. Quality Always Foremost Besides filling prescriptions and receipts, we carry a full equipped Drug line, Patent Medicines, of all kinds, Soaps, Saunders, Cigars, Candy, Etc. Your patronage will be appreciated and we feel assured that we can say, "Once a customer, always a customer. Oscar R. Bissantz diction. The parade coveaed the principal streets and ended at ended at the Park where everyone had an enjoyable time. INSTALLATION Friday night the Knights and Daughters returnen to their hall where the Grand officers were installed for the ensuring year by Sir John W. Wilson, Deputy International Chief Grand Mentor. Saturday Morning Everyone met fresh at the closing meeting Saturday and to select the next place of meeting. Omaha, Neb. was chosen as the next place of meeting on the 2nd Tuesday in July 1910. CONSERTATION NEEDED By Both Racial Presses It is an admitted fact that the public press is one of the most powerful - if not the most powerful factor in moulding and crystalizing public sentiment known to modern civilizations. The great advance of civilization, of governments and of sciences owes their remarkableness to the onward and imiate power of the press. The spirit of the public press is a true index of the people among whom it holds sway. It is the press that moulds makes and it Continued on page five at a prescription or re- value to the patient if fresh, well selected, and not be to careful in de- IPSIONS is the best that can be on our part, coupled ing your prescriptions great drawing card in confidence and trade. "on" is a great evil to antee every prescription our store, to be filled ex- pure to all considering Our free delivery ser- dation, is always at ays Foremost ions and receipts, we bug line, Patent Medic- ips, Saunders, Cigars, image will be appreciated we can say, "Once a customer. NO.17 How Condy Dhu Raised the Devil By SEUMAS MacMANUS (Copyright by J. B. Lippincott Co.) Condy Dhu had been a "thravelin' man"—a hawker—in his day, and having now, in the evening of his life, settled down with Nancy, in a comfortable cottage in Cornakelly, rented at no less than sixpence a week, was looked up to as an authority of much weight on all subjects that ropped up in our local debates, from vivinity and medicine down to cockfighting. He nightly expounded the law and the prophets to an interested and admiring audience of good Cornelelly folk, and when weightier subjects flagged and the temper of his audience required it he entertained them to a wonderful tale drawn from his inexhaustible store of personal reminiscences—be the same truthful or otherwise. And we loved to listen to him. This is one of the tales he used to tell: "Well, I suppose it's now near about—let me see, five, or maybe I might say, six, an' thirty years ago that I was one night belated on me thravels in the County Managhan, in a purity lonely country about half-a-score miles from the place they call Carrickmross. I pushed on an' on, strikin' up a whistle for company sake, an' I thraveled on an' on, nathar meetin' luck nor a likely place, till tors't 12 o'clock, when I dhrew on a light that I saw about ten parches off the road, makin' up me mind go no farther that night, even if I had to sleep in a byre. When I got close to it the stream of light from the open door showed me a horse ready saddled standin' by, when out comes an elderly man. Meself remained in the shade of the hedge till he passed, an' then I lifted the latch an' walked into the house. "Sakes alive!' says the girl, startin'; 'who are ye, or where did ye come from, or what do ye want?" "Well,' says I, 'ye'll excuse me, I know, answerin' all yer questions at once. But regardin' the first, I'm Condy Haraghey to the rest of the world an' Condy Dhu to my aiquals. I come from as good a county as is to be found in Ireland—if not better—the County of Dinnygal. An' as to where I goin', I can't give ye a straight answer, for I lost me way an' am wanderin' about for the past two hours with more turns an' twists than dhrimin dhun's tail on a hot day. But I hope I will be able, with yer kind permission, to set meself down in a corner here an' wait for mornin'." "But she raised such a rooyle-booley, an' commenced makin' such a sore lament, that meself hoists me pack on me back in the divil of a fine humor, an' wishin' her pleasant dhreams—from me teeth out—I left the house an' commenced pokin' about for a byre or barn where I could keep a corner of the floor warm till mornin'. But, avic, I wasn't scarcely cut as long as the routin' of a cow when I found a knock at the door, an' it was opened by the girl, an' there I saw a fine young fella at it, with the appearance of a savirv boy: "Both of them retired inside, an' they closed the door; an' I know it was wrong, but I couldn't resist it— I stole to the window at the other end of the house to watch the proceedin's. She first hauled out a kilt goose from where it was hid undher some straw, an' both of them took to the pluckin' of it for life an' death, an' they put it in the pot over a roarin' fire till they give it a good plump of a boil. An' when it was done she put it on the table, an' beside it a big loaf, an' beside that he put a black bottle of a very respectable size that he had in his pocket, an' I tell you it wathered me teeth to watch the two of them sittin' down to the feed. "But maybe it wasn't the delight to me to hear, afore the two wretches had right begun to enjoy their feed, the thramp of the horse comin' back to the house—an' this nearly as good as an hour afore his time. In another minitit I saw that they heerd it, too. "Run for yer life,' sez she. "He'll meet me if I go out,' sez he 'Melle murher!' "Undher that heap of straw with ye, for Hiven's sake,' says she. "Under a heap of straw beside the door he got, an' she had only just got the black bottle hid up the chimbly, an' the leaf under a tin basin on the dhr瑟, an' the goose undher a creel, when in walks the man of the house; an' meself didn't wait for him to be in long till I walks in afer him with the pack on me back. He turned an' he looked at me. "Who are ye, or where are ye goin'?' says he. "Isn't it the grand night entirely, Lord be thankit, says I layin' down me pack coolly in the corner and drawnin' forit a chair to the fire. "Well, that's what I call deuced cool, says he, lookin' hard at meself "Where do ye come from? "Dinnygal, says J. "Freemasons there?" says he. "Since I was able to creep," says I. "He sald notnin' more, but kept lookin' hard at the turf. Says I. "What about somethin' to ate, good "What about somethin' to ate, good man? I feel my stomach cryin'." "It's all it'll have for it," says he. "There's nothin' either aitable or drinkable in the house. Is there, Maury?" says he. "Sorry take the morsel," says she, putting thraws in her fao't me again Special Master E. V. McKeever filed report to this effect in the supreme " 'Dinnygal,' says J. "You one?" says he. "I'm sore afeerd ye're denyin' me meat, says I, 'an' I'll soon tell ye whether or no.' "So, gettin' up off me chair I picked up a riddle was lyn' behind the door. "Can ye give me about two yards of a string?' says I. "He gave me the string, an' though Maury's face was a-goin' again fit to frighten a sinner, I tied the riddle up to a hook in the middle of the kitchen cellin', an then gave it a good twirl. "Well, says he when I done that, what do ye make out now?" "I make it out,' says I—an' I gave Maury a hard look—I make it out', says I, 'that if ye'll look under a tin basin on the dresher ye'll find a large loaf with a very small fadge cut off it.' "I'm thinkin', says he, startin' for the dhresser, 'that if I find ye playin' any purtensions on me ye'll go out while ye'd be sayin' Jack-hop, an' yer pack on top of ye.' An' maybe he wasn't flushered when he lifted the basin an' seen the loaf just as I described it! "So far so good,' says I; 'we'll thry the riddle again; who knows but maybe we'd get somethin' to wash A man running "I Stole to the Window at the Other End of the House." down the loaf with? So I gave the riddle another twirl. "Well,' says he. "If ye put yer hand into a cranny up the chimbly, says I, 'ye'll be after findin' a black bottle three parts full of somethin' tastier nor wather." "By the good daylight,' says he, haulin' down the bottle an' tastin' it, 'yer right again." "If the whisky's good,' says I, 'a loaf of bread is but poor aitn' to it, after all. Let us see if we can't find bether in the house." "A third time I twirled the riddle. "Well, what's the luck?' says he. "Good luck,' says I, 'as Murty Curran said when he buried his third wife. If ye look under the creel below, you'll find a cooked goose wantin' both legs." "An' sure enough, out he hauls it. "Well, that bates the wee wheel that ground the millstone,' says he. An' if we didn't do them justice call me a magistrate. The bottle made me friend's tongue as loose as Mickey Hanney's waistcoat, an' he talked like a counselor an' lied like a lawyer; an' at length begun tryin' to find out the Freemason saicrets from me, an' how I was able to do these tricks at all, at all. "Ah,' says I then, that's nothin' at all to what I could do if I thried.' "I know one thing ye couldn't do,' says he. "What's that?" says I. "Raise the divil," says he, 'No Freemason can do that, though they purtend they can.' "Would ye be prepared to venture a small bait (bet) on it? says I. "I'll wager ye a crown," says he. "Well an' good," says I, settin' about sthringin' up the riddle again. "I thought now that Maury would go into a faint, but I never minded her. I twirled the riddle again an' watched it till it settled. "Ready?' says I, grippin' the flail. "Ready,' says he, with a mock laugh on his countenance. "Stand,' says I, 'atween that heap of straw an' the door an' watch me thrashin'." "He got atween it an' the door. I dhrew the flail with what ability I could an' come down a soundin' whack, an' there was a screech from the straw like a pig a-stickin'. Up the straw in the center, an' out jumps a man just in time to get the second whack of the flall fairly on the ribs, knockin' him right over atop of the dumfoundhered good man of the house, both of them fallin' flat, with the moroder on top. There came one screech from the moroder, an' another screech from the man undher him, an' a third screech from Maury, who fell over in a faint. The schoundrel was up an' disappeared through the door in a jiffy. "When I got masther an' mald back to life again I would get anything in the house if I'd only consent to go me ways; but I wouldn't move till daylight, an' then went off with me crown in me pocket, an' five an' thirty shillin's besides for the makin's of a woven all-wool suit made of pressed rags that cost six an' ninepence he'penny." HIS DIGNITY HURT HIS DIGNITY HURT SERVANT OF THE GOVERNMENT MOST RUDELY USED. But Then, as He Explained, Such Incidents Were One of the Penalties of Occupying an Elevated Position. In the postoffice Simon Muldraugh, postmaster, was opening the daily mail sack. The train that had brought it had haughtily declined to stop or even slacken speed at a town so small, and those at the depot saw the mail clerk disdainfully kick the limp gray pouch out the door as the train whizzed past. Now the crowd had followed Jimmy Miller, the assistant-station agent, to the little postoffice, and was waiting to see if by any chance a letter or card or circular had come. "Anything for me, Simon?" inquired old man Davis from the Buck Creek region, thrusting his whiskered face into the little window. The postmaster looked at him coldly, as befitted a government servant engaged in an important duty, and made no reply. The crowd laughed and old man Davis became red under his tobacco-stained whiskers. "Huh," he said. "Jest because some people kin hand out half a dozen letters a day they think they're something." He turned to the window again. "Lookye here, you little bald-headed runt," he said. "You gimme my mail, if there's any. I'm in a hurry." The postmaster swelled visibly. Such talk to an employee of the government was unbearable. "Do you know who you're talkin' to?" he demanded, thrusting his face into the window from within. "When I get ready I'll—" Then it was that the people assembled saw an astounding and awful thing. A plain farmer from up Buck creek had the postmaster by the back of his neck and was pulling him through the window. Getting him outside he shook him as though he were a sack from which it was desired to shake the bran. "You measley little, no-count, fat-headed whipper-snapper!" he chortled, pouncing him up and down. "Last winter your family was starvin' because you were too blasted lazy to work, and I fed 'em. Now you sit up here and act funny with me. Next thing like that I see I'll duck you in the horse trough. Git!" He threw the postmaster into his partitioned corner and stalked out. The postmaster straightened his collar, brushed his breeches and ran a curved finger across his moist forehead. "That," he said to the silent crowd. "that was the penalty of greatness." Galveston News. The Man Women Like. In a recent novel there occurs this discussion of "the mystery of the man who is successful with women:" "Here, for example, stands me a natural good fellow, seemingly; frank and brave, a man's nian, and, what is more, a leader of men, in whom, for some reason inexplicable, women see naught, with whom the good and the bad of the sex will have nothing to say or to do. And, here again, stands his counterpart, a man whom men instinctively distrust, a little contemptible, shuffling rat of a fellow, say—or just poor 'so-and-so', or, say, again, a strapping, presuming mass of manhood, with a manner objectionable to his kind; all's one, big or little, he has sorcery, the touch incommunicable, and women, old and young, gentle and simple, good and bad alike, are sensible of the charm, both those who resist and those who yield must admit the mystic drawing." Woman Champion. Miss Lillian Smith, the champion long distance woman swimmer, is said to be responsible for the popularity of swimming among London women this season. The Bath club, a fashionable resort in London, has almost doubled its membership in the last few weeks, and a new club, the City of London Ladies' Amateur Swimming club, has been formed to accommodate business women living in the city. According to Miss Smith, swimming is the very best exercise for women, both stout and thin. "The woman with too much flesh can reduce her weight, and the thin girl can develop muscles which she never dreamed of before," declares Miss Smith. "The best swimming costume is the tight-fitting university dress. Skirts look well on land, but they are not satis factory in the water." The Real Work. Some people have an idea that a humorist must be bubbling over with fun all the time, which idea is incorrect, of course, because a humorist cannot afford to, crack jokes or tell funny stories when he needs the money they might bring to him when sold. Instead of appearing funny therefore, he is a lugubrious sort of wretch, with big ears. However, sometimes a humorous remark will fall from his lips—but he always sells it later on, if he's lucky. John Kendrick Bangs was greeted by a gushing young lady not long ago: "Oh, I'm so glad to meet you," she told him. "I have wanted to ask you if it is hard work to write jokes." "Hard work to write them?" he murmured; "not at all. The real hard work comes when one tries to think them into being." ROM time immemorial all the traditions of her sex have forbidden a woman to sue; nevertheless that she may and does woo the man of her choice, and frequently with success, is a fact which none can dispute nor deny. Most of us know men whom to the best of our knowledge and belief never could have mustered courage to propose to their wives unless those wives had made the task so easy that, as the small boy said of his peccadillo, "It just did itself." As with many other things the secret of success lies in the knowing how. A clever woman may bring all her batteries to bear upon the object of her desire, but each and every one of those batteries will be masked with greatest care. The woman who, as the saying is, runs after the men, usually is the woman from whom men flee, and the quarry whom she eventually captures is, in most cases, not worth the trouble of the chase. Among the levers which move humanity there are few more powerful than that of wounded vanity. Besides, the code of polite society exacts that all well-bred women shall make themselves agreeable and entertaining to all men as well as to all women whom they meet in social intercourse, such courtesy by no means being the least part of their duty to their neighbor. "He (and still more she) who would have friends must show himself friendly." She who wishes to attract a man must be charming in order to charm; those who wish to be loved must show themselves lovable, must think of other people rather than of themselves. There is no greater obstacle to social success, given a fulcrum, than that of overweening self-consciousness. When a woman sees the dearest fellow in the world drifting just a little out of reach, may she not stretch out her hand to hold him back? Must she let him go and make no sign? It all depends upon whether or no he is reluctant to go. She may hold out her hand, yes, if he holds cut his, but she must not beckon, still less must she call him to her or cling. The woman whom a man, even for a little while, has loved ought to be able to make it impossible for him to leave her. How shall she do this? Not by cloying of sweets, not by a surfeit of her society. It is a sad truth, but to most women love comes too easily. They are so afraid that it will pass them by that they snatch at whatever pretty counterfeit comes their way. Which is a mistake. However excellent a man may be, he essentially is human, and for him the sweetest fruit is that which hangs high. The woman who wishes to attract a man must be just a little out of reach. Not too far; the thing may be overdone. If he climb, ever so slightly, she is there. It no longer is enough that a woman should be pretty; the woman who to-day would marry must know how to win a lover, must combine the charm of the serpent with the gentleness of the dove. ily injury, no confinement in dark, noisome, foully smelling cells, no starving until exhaustion drives the suspect to confess. It is nothing but a merciless, persistent, insistent questioning, interspersed with forceful arguments that in the long run, if the man be guilty, rarely fail to accomplish their purpose. Whatever third degree methods are employed in my department I employ myself. I usually see the suspect alone in my office, or, at the most, with one other policeman present. There is no display of dazzling uniforms to impress him; instead, we are usually in civilian dress. Seated opposite the suspect I usually study him for some time. It is absolutely necessary that I know with what I have to contend. If the man be surly and sullen I must use methods very different from those I use if he be quick, alert and intellectual. It is for me first of all to learn what the peculiarities of this man may be, what his individuality may be. If there be any third degree in our detective bureau to-day, that is what it is. It is simply pitting a stronger will against a weaker one. We do, however, seek out the weak spots in the armor of lies and deceit, with which crooks surround themselves, and once we find it we pound away at it until they break down and confess. all this is quite apart from valid proof of immortality. I can see nothing in our wider knowledge of dual consciousness, that points in that direction. I ought to say here that I do not feel myself sufficiently in possession of the facts to make my opinion of any value, but speaking from my in sufficient knowledge, none of the manifestations so far reported by the society for psychical research seem to me to warrant the conclusion that they are anything but manifestations, more or less direct, of the subliminal consciousness. F the knowing hteries to bear upon the objec those batteries will be mass the saying is, runs after the flee, and the quarry whom mworth the trouble of the ch Among the levers which than that of wounded vanity that all well-bred women sling to all men as well as the course, such courtesy by no their neighbor. "He (and I show himself friendly." She who wishes to attract those who wish to be loved other people rather than of social success, given a fulcrness. When a woman sees the little out of reach, may she Must she let him go and men no he is reluctant to go. cut his, but she must not be cling. The woman whom a to be able to make it imposs How shall she do this of her society. It is a sad tr They are so afraid that it w pretty counterfeit comes the take. However excellent a m is human, and for him the s hangs high. The woman who wishes just a little out of reach. M be overdone. If he climb, ev It no longer is enough that a the woman who to-day would win a lover, must combine with the gentleness of the do "Third Degree" As a Battle of Wits By Inspector James S. McCafferty Chief of New York Detective Bureau ily injury, no confinement in ing until exhaustion drives a merciless, persistent, insistentments that in the long run plish their purpose. Whatever third degree employ myself. I usually most, with one other policen uniforms to impress him; in Seated opposite the sus is absolutely necessary that a man be surly and sullen I use if he be quick, alert and what the peculiarities of this If there be any third of what it is. It is simply pitt do, however, seek out the we which crooks surround them at it until they break down Abysmal Depths of Personality By LOUIS F. DELAND all this is quite apart from what in our wider knowledge of de I ought to say here that of the facts to make my opinion sufficient knowledge, none of society for psychical research they are anything but mani- nal consciousness. May Woo Man of Her Choice with Fitness By HELEN OLDFIELD. memorial all the tradition woman to sue; nevertheless of her choice, and free phone can dispute nor deny the best of our knowledge dred courage to propose to make the task so easy the dillo, "It just did itself, in many other things they how. A clever woman object of her desire, but masked with greatest care the men, usually is the from she eventually capture chase. which move humanity the nity. Besides, the code shall make themselves to all women whom it no means being the lea- nd still more she) who attract a man must be chal- red must show themselves of themselves. There culcrum, than that of ove is the dearest fellow in tha she not stretch out her make no sign? It all She may hold out her not beckon, still less musu in a man, even for a little possible for him to leave this? Not by cloying off and truth, but to most wom- it will pass them by that their way. Which is a a man may be, he essen- the sweetest fruit is that w hes to attract a man must Not too far; the thing ever so slightly, she is that a woman should be pr should marry must know he me the charm of the se- dove. Memorial all the traditions of her sex have for a to sue; nevertheless that she may and does other choice, and frequently with success, is a can dispute nor deny. Most of us know men most of our knowledge and belief never could courage to propose to their wives unless those in the task so easy that, as the small boy said, "It just did itself." May other things the secret of success lies in new. A clever woman may bring all her bait of her desire, but each and every one owed with greatest care. The woman who, a men, usually is the woman from whom men the eventually captures is, in most cases, no use. Move humanity there are few more powerful v. Besides, the code of polite society exact all make themselves agreeable and entertain all women whom they meet in social inter- means being the least part of their duty to till more she) who would have friends must At a man must be charming in order to charm must show themselves lovable, must think of themselves. There is no greater obstacle to him, than that of overweening self-conscious. A dearest fellow in the world drifting just a not stretch out her hand to hold him back like no sign? It all depends upon whether on he may hold out her hand, yes, if he holds back, still less must she call him to her or man, even for a little while, has loved ought able for him to leave her. Not by cloying of sweets, not by a surfeit with, but to most women love comes too easily. All pass them by that they snatch at whatever The third degree—the spectacular, blood-curdling, terrifying third degree that the magazine and melodrama writers like to talk about—is a myth. There never has been any such soul-trying experience in store for the wrongdoer who falls into the hands of the authorities since the days of the Spanish inquisition. The third degree to-day is a duel of wits—a matching of will and power, with the detective or inquisitor pitting his strength of will and force of argument against that of the suspect. No physical force is used, no intimidation through bod- it in dark, noisome, foully lives the suspect to confer sent questioning, interspec- run, if the man be guilt- free methods are employ- ly see the suspect alone, ceeman present. There is ; instead, we are usually suspect I usually study at I know with what I I must use methods ver- and intellectual. It is for this man may be, what I had degree in our detective bitting a stronger will ag- weak spots in the armor themselves, and once we own and confess. dark, noisome, fouly smelling cells, no starv- the suspect to confess. It is nothing but a questioning, interspersed with forceful argu- if the man be guilty, rarely fail to accom- methods are employed in my department I be the suspect alone in my office, or, at the man present. There is no display of dazzling stead, we are usually in civilian dress. Effect I usually study him for some time. It I know with what I have to contend. If the must use methods very different from those I intellectual. It is for me first of all to learn man may be, what his individuality may be. agree in our detective bureau to-day, that is ing a stronger will against a weaker one. We look spots in the armor of lies and deceit, with selves, and once we find it we pound away and confess. Although a believer in immortality, I do not find a warrant for that belief in any of the late developments of psychical research, startling as they appear to be. All these manifestations seems to me to have a very important bearing on what we are gradually evolving concerning the "abysmal depths of personality." We are making great progress in our apprehension of dual consciousness; and, largely through psychical research, we are now able to detect the workings of the subliminal mind and to realize its tremendous influence over our conscious processes. 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The shah was accompanied by his wife and one of his sons and a small party of loyal adherents, and his action was in accordance with an arrangement previously worked out by the Russian and British legations. M. Sabelin immediately informed the British diplomatic representative of the shah's arrival and a convoy of Sepoys was forthwith dispatched to Zerzende. During the shah's stay at that place protection will be furnished by a joint detachment of Cossacks and Sepoys. BUT STILL HENEY'S PAY GOES ON The Special Counsel Has Performed No Work But Has Drawn $69,000 in Three Years. Washington, D. C.—That Francis J. Heney, special counsel of the department of justice and also assistant prosecutor in the so-called graft cases in San Francisco, received from this government last year $23,000 for which he performed no service, was the frank admission of Chairman Tawney of the appropriations committee in the house. "How much did Heney receive during the year 1908?" demanded Mr. Murphy (Dem., Mo.), "and what service did he perform? Mr. Tawney—"He received $23,000 and performed no service for the government whatever during that year." Subsequently, Mr. Tawney said: "As a matter of fact Mr. Heney has not performed any active service for the last three years. He was appointed November 7, 1903, and his active service continued for about three years and for which he received in all $69,000. SOLDIER SHOT GIRL AT THE FORT Charles O'Neil Fired Four Times Standing at Front Door of Captain's Residence. Leavenworth, Kansas. — Private Charles O'Neil, a soldier in the militor prison guard, killed Miss Minnie Scharbora, a young woman employed at the home of Capt. Charles N. Murphy on Grant avenue, at Fort Leavenworth. O'Neil shot the girl in the front doorway of Capt. Murphy's residence in the presence of Mrs. Murphy, Lieut. Russell C. Hand, officer of the day, and two members of the guard. O'Neil was crazed by jealousy and fired four times at the girl before he was overpowered. The shooting caused considerable excitement at the post, as it took place on the fashionable avenue, where a number of officers and their families were sitting on the front porches. Enjoined Railroad Board. Topeka, Kansas.—Judge A. W. Dana of the Shawnee county district court, has granted a temporary restraining order, enjoining the state board of railroad commissioners from putting into effect the new schedule of rates on cream recently adopted by the board. The centralizing creamery companies lost in the hearing before the board, the new rates ordered into effect being such as to favor the smaller creameries. Dates for Land Drawing Spokane, Washington—Superintendent James Witten announced the following dates when the drawing will occur for the three Indian reservations, the lucky applicants names to be drawn by lot by three little girls: For the Coer d'Alene reserve, August 9 and 10; for the Flathead reserve August 12 and 13; for the Spokane reserve August 16 and 17. Lightning Strikes Grand Stand Lead, S. D.—White watching a ball game between the Deadwood and the Lead teams, Weston Fry and Thomas Harvison were killed, and eight others seriously hurt by being struck by a bolt of lightning from a passing thunderstorm. E. H. Harriman Much Improved. Gartein, Austria.—E. H. Harriman's health is much improved. He makes long walking tours daily. His children who are now on the way to join their father, are expected to reach here soon. Falling Building Caught Thirty-Two. Philadelphia, Pa.—In one of the busiest sections of the city and at a time when thousands of pedestrials were passing the five story brick building collapsed burying or pinning beneath the ruins 32 persons. FOOD FOR THE WORLD THE FEDERAL MARKET MESHINE CHICAGO POST The greatest crop of cereals ever raised in the United States is growing to maturity, according to indications in the July report of the Department of Agriculture. A gain of 722,000,000 bushels in all grains over the totals of 1908 is promised and the record yield of 1906 will be exceeded. The value of the 1909 crop to the farmer is estimated at $2,750,000,000.—News Item. THE DEMOCRATS ARE HOPEFUL HAVE ALREADY ORGANIZED FOR NEXT ELECTION. The Tariff Situation Has Given Them Encouragement—Have Started One Year in Advance. Washington, D. C.—Taking advantage of the present situation developed by the tariff, the Democratic congressional committee, one year in advance of the usual time for such action, met, elected officers and mapped out the course it will follow in its fight to capture the house in the next congressional elections. Representative James F. Lloyd of Missouri, was re-elected chairman by the unanimous vote of the 37 members of the committee. The plan of campaign was outlined with complete harmony, it was said. Chairman Lloyd took this as an omen of what may be expected in the next campaign. He asserted that information he has received from all parts of the country indicated that the Democrats are more hopeful of electing a Democratic house than they have been for many years. Mr. Lloyd said that the committee had agreed to "get busy" immediately, and that with the appointment of the principal working committees, the Democratic end of the next campaign would be fairly under way. The committee, he said, would proceed in a business-like manner and was equipped to give the opposition the most stubborn fight in its history. A Kansas Sheriff in Jail. Topeka, Kansas.—Word was received here by the state board of control that Sheriff S. N. Manaugh of Rooks county, Kansas, is in jail at Nebraska City, Nebraska, and will be released when a satisfactory bond for $500 is given. Sheriff Manaugh took an insane pauper to Nebraska City, the man's home. It is understood he is charged with violating a Nebraska law for doing this. He was acting under instructions from the state board of control. Taft Will Come West in August. Denver, Colorado.—A message from Representative Edward T. Taylor announced that President Taft had formally accepted the invitation to attend the Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress here August 16.—The president will spend four days in Colorado and will visit the Gunnison tunnel reclamation project during that time. The Deficiency: Bill Passed. Washington, D. C. — The urgent deficiency bill was passed by the house after four days of tempestuous debate. The amount carried by it is $454,809, or $20,408 more than the original sum, and includes the $25,000 traveling expenses for the president. Settled Pennsylvania Strike. Butler, Pennsylvania.-The strike which for four days has tied up the Standard Steel Car company's works has been settled. The 3,500 employees of the plant have returned to work. Both sides yielded points in an effort to reach an understanding. Calhoun On Trial Again San Francisco, California.—Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads is again on trial in this city on a charge of offering a bribe to a public official to gain a privilege for his corporation. The jury disagreed at the first trial. A. New, Spanish, Pretender. Hadid Spain.—Don Jaime will be proclaimed pretender nine days after the funeral of Don Carlos, which all the prominent Carlists in Navarre will attend. CANNOT FORCE ARBITRATION Could Not Compel Company to Reemploy Strikers but Was Ready to Enjoin Laborers. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.—The first effort ever made in the United States to stop a strike by enjoining both the principals and the commonwealth failed when Judges Ford and, Brown of the common pleas court sustained the demurger of the Pressed Steel Car company to the petition for injunction made by the Public Defense association of Pittsburg against the company, the striking employees and the sheriff of Allegheny county. For the strikers, who admitted the conditions as set forth by the petition and who joined in the demands of the Defense association that the court enforce arbitration upon the part of the company's officials it was argued that it was high time for the courts to intervene. For the Defense association it was argued that the strike is costing the tax payers much money and much uneasiness. For the company it was argued that as the petitioners are not injured personally and that as the corporation is not one of public service, but a private corporation, the courts cannot interfere. WAR ON TRUSTS BY THE ARMY Unlawful Combination Hereafter Will Not Supply Uncle Sam's Washington, D. C.—Neither trust-fed, trust-clothed nor trust-armed will the American regular soldier be if Secretary Dickinson of the war department can prevent. The secretary has just issued a new rule for the purchase of supplies for the army. He directed Brig-Gen. Henry G. Sharps, commissary man, to enter into no direct contract with any corporation which is a party to a trust or combination in restraint of trade. He has also directed that no dealings be had by the department with any agent or middleman who may be a representative of such a concern. Kansas to Get $12,000 Excise Revenue Topeka, Kansas.—Kansas will receive a little more than $12,000 as excise taxes from the express companies operating in Kansas this year. A year ago the total receipts from this tax was $4,000. Each express company is required to pay a certain percentage of its gross income in the state. In addition to this the companies are required to pay taxes on the property actually owned in Kansas. Fair at Kansas City This Fall Kansas City, Mo.-The Missouri Valley Fair association has secured Electric Park at Kansas City for its inter-state fair this fall. This gives the fair finer grounds and buildings-than some of the big state fairs and expositions. The grounds, and buildings are in fine condition and lighted by thousands of electric lights. Salina Men Back From Hawaii. Salina, Kansas.-H. D. Lee and J. F. Merrill, Salina business men, have just returned from Honolulu. They report the islands in a most prosperous condition. Mr. Lee contemplated a trip around the world for his health, but improvement in health changed his mind. Colossal Bust of J. J. HILL New York. N. Y.—A bronze bust of James J. Hill has been completed in Brooklyn and will be shipped at once to the Scattle exposition, where it will be unveiled on August 3. Minnesota Day. The bust is said to be the largest of its kind in the world, weighing 1,700 pounds. It will rest on a pedestal 16 feet heigh, and is itself six feet high. There will be four tablets, representing a steamship, a railroad train, the coat of arms of the state of Washington and the state of Minnesota. The bust cost $8,000. AIRSHIP FELL INTO THE SEA From the Top of Chalk Cliff at Sangatta He Sailed More Than Half Way to English Shore. Calals—Herbert Latham, the French aviator, made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to cross the English Channel in his monoplane. He got away splendidly under perfect conditions, from the top of the chalk cliff at Sangatta and had covered more than half the distance at an average height of 500 feet when the motor slowed down and he was obliged to descend. The air space of the wings, however, kept the machine afloat and the monoplane, lying a wounded bird, was stretched out on the water when the French torpedo boat destroyer, Harpoon, which had kept abreast throughout the journey, came alongside and picked up the aviator. M. Latham was not wet and still sat on the saddle, which is above the wings and behind the motor, calmly smoking a cigarette. He immediately announced that he was not discouraged by the failure and would try again as soon as the machine was repaired. The injuries to the monoplane were slight, the principal damage being caused when it was hauled aboard the torpedo boat destroyers. The motor is intact. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS SEVERED Argentine Government sent Bolivian Minister His Passports and Ordered Him to Leave. Buenos, Ayres.—The Argentine government has sent his passports to the Bolivian minister here, ordering him to leave Buenos Ayres within 24 hours. The government has also telegraphed Senor Fonseca, Argentine minister to Bolivia, to leave LaPaz immediately. LaPaz, Balivia.—The Bolivian government has ordered the Bolivian minister at Buenos Ayres to return to LaPaz, and has further instructed him to leave the archives with either the American, Cuilean or Brazilian legation. It was officially confirmed that the rupture between Bolivia and the Argentine republic is complete, diplomatic relations having been broken off. WRIGHT MACHINE DOES BETTER Two Flights Were Made at Fort Myer Lasting Almost One Hour —Under Perfect Control. Washington, D. C.—Showing more confidence in himself than he has exhibited before this season Orville Wright made two successful flights in the Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer. The first flight began shortly after 6:30 p. m., and lasted 25 minutes and 18 seconds, during which time the aviator circled the parade grounds $25\frac{1}{2}$ times. The second, which continued until darkness prevented Mr. Wright from remaining longer in the air, was for half an hour's duration and $29\frac{1}{2}$ circles were made. China Will Accept Crane. Peking, China.—Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, whose selection as minister of China by President Taft, was announced recently is persona grata to the Chinese government. The grand council has authorized the foreign board to inform the United States government that China will gladly receive Mr. Crane. Bullets in Southern Town Union, Mississippi.—An old cow which would not have brought $50 on the market caused a bloody revolver fight in the streets of this little town. It resulted in the killing of two men, the probable fatal injury of two more and the dangerous wounding of another. Union Pacific Bells Stock. - New York, N. Y.-Kuhn, Loeb & Company have bought from the Union Pacific Railroad company all or practically all of the $10,000,000 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe preferred stock which the Union Pacific purchased in 1906. Writing A Book in Africa. Naivasha, British East Africa.—Col. Roosevelt, whose party is hunting on the South Shore of Lake Naivasha from the ranch of Capt. Richard Attenborough, has done no shooting since last Thursday, but instead has remained at the camp writing a book. Exceeds the Dingley Bill. Washington, D. C.—The book of comparisons issued by the bureau of statistics, comparing in detail the tariff bill as it passed the senate with the Dingley law, shows that the senate bill is about five and seven-tenths per cent higher than the Dingley act. Women Help Fight Disease. New York, July 21.—Women physicians from all parts of the United States met here to discuss plans for assisting in a national movement, launched recently by the American Medical association for the education of the public in the prevention of disease. Mayor Busse Has Recovered. Chicago, Illinois—Mayor Busse, who recently was operated on for appendicitis, has been discharged from the hospital. SEA WALL AT GALVESTON SAVES THE CITY. land Overflows. Galveston, Tex.-Ten dead is the total number of lives lost as far as is known in the hurricane which swept over the Gulf of Mexico and struck Galveston. While the city of Galveston was held safe against the fury of the storm by the government's two million dollar sea wall, far out in the gulf on Tarpon Island, seven miles from the city, where the storm whipped over the jetty into the bay, ten persons were washed from the rocky promonitories into the gulf. Boats are searching the bay for the bodies, but so far have been unsuccessful. Man's strength and skill were pitted against the fury of the elements and man won, when the city of Galveston, safely entrenched behind her seventeen foot sea wall, built since the tidal wave and hurricane which destroyed a great part of the city on September 8, 1900, withstood an attack by wind and wave equal in force to that of nearly nine years ago. In Galveston and vicinity not a single life is believed to have been sacrificed, but the material loss is thought to be quite extensive. Communication with outside points was resumed at 9 o'clock last night. "The city, its great business interests and its people have safely passed through a most severe hurricane; the sea wall proved a complete success; the city's great wharves and shipping interests suffered no damage, and not a life was lost," is the concluding statement of a proclamation issued by Mayor Lewis Fisher and a committee of business men. From other cities in the affected area come tales of narrow escapes and much destruction of property. The only anxiety expressed now is for the smaller towns, villages and summer resorts with which the gulf coast is so thickly settled. The entire gulf coast is very low and offers absolutely no protection from the storm of waves. Galveston Prepared. Sweeping westward, the tropical storm, which had been central over the gulf for twenty-four hours or more, struck Galveston shortly after eleven o'clock. The wind attained a velocity of sixty-eight miles an hour and shifted to the northeast, heaving the waters of Galveston bay up against the island and flooding that section which has not been raised. A hurricane for East Texas was forecasted at the district weather bureau at New Orleans in the morning and warnings sent out. When the wind and rain in all intensity arrived several hours later, they found Galveston prepared. The inhabitants of the few scattered houses in the island had already sought safety and the vessels which had cleared and prepared to sail were riding at anchor in the bay. So short was the duration of the storm here that the Mallory line steamer, which was booked to sail for New York shortly after the noon hour, left on schedule time. Cable Wires Part. A heavy dredge torn from her moorings, had been blown against the single bridge which connects Galveston island with the mainland, however, and the telegraph cables had been parted. As a result all manner of rumors were soon rife throughout the country. It is impossible at present to place anything like an accurate estimate on the damage which was done. Few buildings were blown down, but it is believed that many warehouses were flooded and that goods on the bottom floors of these buildings were ruined. Consequently it will require several days to ascertain what was damaged and to what extent. The storm covered a wide area along the gulf coast, some slight damage being reported as far south as Matagorde bay, and as far east as the parish of Cameron in Louisiana. One fishing pier seven miles from the city was demolished by the wind and waves. Thirty or forty people who were enjoying the day there were rescued by a pilot and brought to Galveston. Texas Fever Attacks Cattle Oklahoma City.—Texas fever is raging among cattle in eastern Oklahoma. In the vicinity of Muskogee thirty-five dairy cows have died. Towns Under Water. Beaumont, Tex.—There are 400 to 500 people, mostly women and children, of this city living in hotels, tents and cottages along the Gulf shore beyond High Island and on to Bolivar. No word has been received from them since the storm. Tugboats brought 200 people, practically the entire population of Sabine and Sabine Pass, to Port Arthur. Both places are under water. There was no loss of life or property. 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Olden Pres. 612½ N. Main St. Wichita Kans. Send your news in earlier The editor of the Searchlight wishes to thank the worshipful Master and members of Arkans Valley lodge No. 21 A. F. A. M for their much appreciated financial remembrance of him during his present illness. The Wichita delegation to the Tabor grand session in Topeka last week composed of Sirs Rev. S. S. Washington, W. N. Miller, W. Frazier and J. C. Coffee Dtrs Joana Jones, Celia Tillman, Beattrace Davis, Ella Kyles and W. Martin have returned. They each speak in loud words of praise of the splendid session. All enjoyed themselves. Hard Life of Arctic Sealer. The Arctic sealer endures a hard life. Sealing does not consist only of hurried scrambling over ice, and fierce breathless battling afterwards. There are many hardships to endure. The most common type of Arctic weather is a dense, lung clogging fog, with a rasp of cold that is enough to freeze a glowing furnace. This fog may be diversified with cruel blizzards of petting snow, borne on the wings of the constant gales. Once the snow passes come sleet and rain—rain that is as cold as ice. Miffery prevails greatly among the crews of Arctic sealers, for the dampness and the cold soon sap the stoutest constitutions. PATENT TO NEGRO DENTIST Washington. - Patents have been issued to J. H. Smith of Little Rock on a machine for stonin fruit, J. H. Smith, to whom the patent for a machine for stoning peaches was issued, is a Neg oodentist residing in Little Rock. The article on which he secures a patent is a machine to extract the stones from clingstone peaches, The contrivance weighs about ten pounds. Smith says that it will "stone" the peachel as fast as they are placed in it. He ex short time so that it will be automatic. Peculiar African Race. There is a peculiar sort of people living in northwest Rhodesia. These natives are small of stature, with large horns on their heads. The horn springs from the scalp, consists of the native's hair mixed with fat and filth, and is sometimes as much as 18 inches long. For the most part these Kaffirs live on the great open flats to be found on both sides of the Kafue river. They build their huts on the great an heaps which appear like hills scattered over the flats. When the Kafue is in flood and the flats are changed into great lakes these people are safe in their huts on the ant heaps. Their cattle also take refuge on the ant heaps on which corn and measles are likewise grown. Mid Summer Rally of the M. E. church will take place Sunday July 25th, at there of worship on the corner of Murdock and Santafe. We purpose to raise $400.00 to purchase a sight on which to erect a church. The pastors of the city and there congregation are invited. In the afternoon at 2:30 p. m. short addresses will be made by each the pastors and visiting layman. G. T. Wooten Pastor. A HAPPY WEDDING The large circle of friends and acquaintance of Mr. Buc Lee and Miss Maria Whitted will be very pleased and agreeably surprised to learn of their quiet wedding Sunday night July 18th, at the residence of Rev. W. H. Tillman 8)2 E. 18th St. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Tillman in the presence of a friends. Bud Lee is one of Wichita's exception ally, progressive young men and is in the employ of the Howard Milling Co. Miss Whitted is recognized as one of our most foremost young ladies. After the wedding the happy couple went to the home which Mr. Bud Lee had already bought paid for and furnished for his bride at 1801 so. Mosley. All wish them future success. LAWRENCE KANS Mrs. C. C. James served at her cozy home a wholesome Sunday dinner, July 18th in honor of Mrs Addie Adams of Wichita. Those present were Mesdamed Addie Adams, J. Bryant, Kate Crouch George Hunter, and Wife Misses Dora Anderson, Serdinand A. Scotting D. Saunders of Oklaho. The table was ladyned with a choice eatable that the market could afford, all had an enjopable time. Anthony Hockett, Henry Williams Wesley Rowles, Ford Neely and J. Aunden were given the 1st degree in Masonary Tuesday at night by Arkansas Vally lodge No.21. When Tower Loomed. It was while Charlemagne Towel was ambassador to Russia that a New York city newspaper "spread itself upon a fete held at St. Petersburg. A green copy-reader produced this result: "As pleasing to the eye as was all this decoration there was additional pleasure in the sight, as one stood at the head of the Prospekt Newska, of Charlemagne Tower, brilliantly illuminated, looming grand and imposing against the winter sky."—Success Magazine. BOY ROSE TO THE SITUATION. Quick Wit and Intelligence Displayed by Youngster. His parents are convinced that Clarence will be a great man; the only doubt is whether it will be as a statesman or scientist. He is only four years old, and their confidence is based largely on one incident. The boy never told of it, and it would have been lost to history if a neighbor had not been a chance witness. Clarence lives in the suburbs, and has a cat and kittens. One day he went into the yard next door with one of the little ones to play. There was a big pile of brushwood here, and he shoved his pet into a hole in this. She crawled so far back that all his efforts to get her out were gain. Had he been a man he would have pulled the pile of brush apart, but lacking strength for this he resorted to cunning. Running home, he soon returned with the mother cat. He shoved her into the hole after her offspring, and she soon came out with the little one between her teeth. Clarence bore them both home in triumph. NOTES OF SESSION Quite a number of delegates and visitors were sick during the session. Dtr. Ella McKinns, V. G. P. of Leavenworth was able to attend the session but one day on account of having been sick. Sir U. A. Graham aschairman of the arrangement committee did valiant service in making the Session pleasant and agreeable to all. Sir. Graham is a hustling young man and has a great future before him. Sir Lee Holiday of Parsons made a reputation for himself as Grand Outer Sentinel. W. N. Miller, editor of Searchlight was sick during the entire session in Topeka with a touch of typhoid fever. Continued from page one maintains the good, fair, impartial and honest community state nation or race; and it is likewise the press that moulds, makes a maintains the bad unfair, partial and dishonest community, state nation or race. In the publi: press would dare take a stand and maintain it for fair & square dealing between man and man race and race it would not be long until all over wholesome relation between all would exist. The white press and the Negro press should take the conservative, up-right position on public matters and questions and cease to longer permit their powerful influences to be used in tuther enearging the already dangerous gulf that is now so detrimental to all classes and rgces today. The horryfying racial conflicts, the disastrous labor disturbance the unsettled public under-current which in the past and at the present are so unpleasant in our national, state and local affairs can be easily traced to the fact that our public press are too radical and do not give these important matters that conservative consideration which their great public importance should demand. Until that time shall have come when the public press shall take a more conservative view of public xucstions whether racial, financial, labor or otherwis we cannot hope to see that serenity of public opinion exist which would be so very conduce to public peace and tranquility. Rats: A captain on an ocean liner tells the following story: Coming from the old country was a very nervous old lady who complained that she was sure there was a rat in her stateroom. "Keep it there, madam," said the captain. "But do you like rats?" asked she. "I've got a nest in my cabin," retorted the brusque seaman, "and I never disturb them. When they leave the ship I do." "Why, you must be superstitious," urged the dame. "No, ma'am," wound up the captain. "I'm not, but the rats are." A Monster Loaf. Bakers in Germany are fond of making odd experiments, the following being reported from Duisburg, in Westphalia. At a children's party recently held in that town there was exhibited, and afterwards cut up and distributed among the youngsters present, a bread twist which for size at least has surely rarely been equaled. Weighing no less than 180 pounds, it had a breadth of six feet and a length of ten feet, and was thus found sufficient to supply a satisfactory afternoon collation to as many as 500 boys and girls. The Midnight Crime By Dr. George F. Butler and Herbert Ilsley Dr. Furnivall's Psychometric-Deductive Solution of a Perplexing Case "Do you know 'em well? How long have they been with you?" "They have been here two weeks only, and I scarcely know them at all. They said that they had been married a year, and that their name was Truo. They seemed to have plenty of money, and were very pleasant, the handsomest couple I ever saw in my life, and were wholly wrapped up in each other." "What was the man's business?" "I don't think he had any business. I think he had plenty of money. He always paid his bills promptly, anyway." "Yes—for two weeks. Good judgment!" grunted the sergeant, cynically, "Well," he continued, "who do they know—who calls on them?" "I can't say whom they know, but in all the time they have been here only one person has come to see them, and that was a woman." At this moment the wounded man groaned, and the physician who was caring for his hurt put his ear to the lips which were moaning some scarcely intelligible words. "Coward! Oh, coward, coward!" the doctor thought he said. "Can he talk?" the sergeant asked, eagerly, coming nearer. "Coward! coward! coward!" the patient groaned again, this time in a stronger tone, the syllables sounding distinctly. "Ask him who shot him?" whispered the officer to the medical examiner. The groaning man suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the sergeant. "What are you here for—what has happened?" he asked, faintly. "Here, take this," said the doctor, putting a restorative to the pale lips. He gulped it painfully, the doctor holding his head. Then he closed his eyes wearily. "Can't you tell who shot you?" the sergeant insisted, speaking in a low voice, but with a trace of command in it. The eyes flew open again, the man attempted to raise his body and look toward the bed, but the effort was too much for him. He sank back, stammering one word: "Sh—sh—she?" The doctor laid a soothing hand on his. The patient looked pitifully into his eyes and understood. "Oh, God! Coward! coward! coward!" he cried, with bitter energy. "But who was he?" said the sergeant, advancing still nearer and looking down into the handsome eyes. "But how did he get in here? Mrs. Philpots saw him slide out—he was in here all right. He didn't fire through the winder, or this door. Did you see him at all? Tell us how it was." With great difficulty, and making many pauses for breath, he succeeded in informing them that in the night he had been suddenly awakened by a noise in his room, and saw a man at the pocketes of his trousers which hung on hooks near the foot of the bed. The weather being extremely hot the windows were open, and the shades, raised to their full height, allowed enough moonlight to enter to enable him to see that the figure was that of a man, and that was about all. His face was undiscernible. He could not tell how the intruder was dressed. Immediately he made a movement to spring from bed and grapple with the thief, but his wife, who must have been awake, threw herself upon him, whispering: "Let him take what there is and go. Don't risk your life, dear. He has a pistol!" At that instant the burglar fired, the wife receiving the shot. The husband sprang to the floor and rushed upon the man, who then fired again and ran from the room, pursued by the victim only as far as the sofa, where he collapsed. He supposed the villain had gained entrance through the window. It was some common thief, who wanted money and, being detected, had shot them in order to escape. "You called him a coward because he shot a woman, then, and not because you knew him?" the sergeant asked. "Certainly. A thousand times yes. How could I be supposed to know a common thief?" Two of the policemen, who had been searching the premises for evidence, approached the sergeant with a man attired only in a shirt and trousers. He was one of the several lodgers who had crept down from their rooms to the parlor to see what the trouble was, but had been excluded by the officers. "This feller says he seen a woman come up the steps," said one of the policemen. "A woman!" the sergeant exclaimed. The official was a big, bluff, choleric appealing personage, and he regarded the new witness with belligerent eyes. But the newcomer similed amiably. "My room is two flights up, over this one," he said. "The night was so hot that I put my head out of the window for air, and I saw a woman come down the street and up our front steps. I listened, but didn't hear her come in. Pretty soon I heard a shot, and after that an awful screaming." "But that must have been Mrs. Philpots that screamed-long afterwards. And how could you tell it was a wom- Special Master E. V. McKeever filed report to this effect in the supreme RS. PHIL POTS started up and leaned forward in bed suddenly, every sense strained to a painful degree of acuteness. Some kind of an ominous sound, apparently coming M from a point near by, in her own house, had startled her out of her midnight slumber. Occupying the back parlor, the door of which she had left open invitingly for such stray breaths of air as might be enticed that way on the stifling hot night, she had an unobstructed view of the hall as, with wide eyes and pounding pulses, she remained rigged properly upon her elbow. The sound came again—it was a pistolshot! There could be no doubt this time. And almost on the instant she saw a shadowy form spring out from the front parlor, wrench open the hall door, and slamming it violently, disappear in the direction of the street. For a long moment she could not credit her senses. That such actions as this sight and sound implied could occur in her own select boarding house was unbelievable, and effort on her part was required to adjust her bewildered mind to the situation. But she was a woman of executive ability in her way, and with comparatively little loss of time she sprang from her bed, threw on a wrapper and ran along the hall. The door of the front parlor was open, and, the shades being raised, she could discern through the flitful moonlight a shape dimly outlined on the sofa. "Who is there?" she asked in a strained whisper. No answer came, and she repeated the question. Still the form neither moved nor spoke. Groping until she found a match she hastily lighted the gas, and then she recognized the figure as that of Mr. Truo, who, with his wife, occupied the room. Dressed in pajamas solely, as if he had been preparing for bed, or had recently risen from it, he was huddled against the arm and back of the sofa, head rolling, legs relaxed, and from some hidden part of his body a thin stream of blood dripped. No pistol appeared in sight, but little wreaths of blue smoke hung over the table, and there was a pungent tang in the dead air, speaking witnesses to the nature of what had occurred. Shivering as if with the ague, yet managing to repress the exclamation of horror that rose to her lips, she looked with dreading eyes in the direction of the bed. There lay the wife almost hidden by the clothes, which were piled upon her in twisted heaps, as if the husband jumping suddenly up had thrown this share of the covering hastily to that side. Her face was white, the eyes staring; and Mrs. Philpots, no longer able, try as she might for her house's sake, to restrain her emotion, uttered scream on scream and fled to her room, shutting and locking the door after her. But the sight of the telephone which was installed there directed her energies in some degree, and after a moment of effort at collecting her faculties she hastened to it and summoned the police. When the officers and the assistant medical examiner arrived they found that the man, though wounded seriously in the region of the heart, was alive, but the woman's eyes were already fixed in the stare of death. She had been shot through the heart. Both bullets, the one which had found the wife, and that which had entered the husband, had been aimed to kill, the one unerringly, the other a finger's breadth to the right, missing as by a miracle a vital spot. "Who done it—how did it happen?" the sergeant of police asked, excitedly, of Mrs. Philipots, who, reassured in a degree by the presence of living human beings, had regained sufficient courage to come back to the room of tragedy, after admitting the officers. "I heard two shots and saw a man run out of here into the street," she answered in an awed voice, "and that is all I know—" "Did you ever see the man before—what did he look like?" "It was dark, and I was lying in bed. I could not see distinctly at all. But I should say he was a small man. He had on a derby hat, of that I am sure. He had a revolver in his hand, too. In his excitement he seemed not to think of throwing it down, but worked away at the door lock still holding on to it, and it bothered him. I did not think of this at the moment, but as I look back, that is the way it seems to me." "You oughther told us this when you 'phoned us,' the sergeant grumbled." "Then we could be on the lookout for him on the way here. He's had time enough to scoot into the next county now." "I was frightened. I scarcely knew what I was doing." The sergeant hastened to tho telephone and warned his station of the escape of the assassin. Then he returned to Mrs. Philpots. "Who are these people?" he asked. "I don't know," he answered. World's Most Curious Road Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. $1.00, retail. an?" demanded the sergeant, sharply. "It was dark, wasn't it? The moon was behind the clouds. And you was way up there from the steps—come here and let me look at you!" he added, suddenly. He took the man by the arm and turned him around so that the light from the dimly burning gas jet fell squarely upon his face. "H'm! You're in a nice condition to give evidence, you are!" the sergeant grunted. "You'd call a hoss a woman—or an alligator!" In fact it was evident that the witness' eyes were in a state popularly supposed to be more favorable to double sight than to nice distinction of facts; and, it transpiring presently that he was a young college alumnus who had only shortly before returned to his room from his class banquet, the sergeant was about to order him back to bed when Mrs. Philpots spoke up. "I didn't think of it before," she said, hastily, "but it might have been a woman I saw, after all. The light was indistinct, as I said, and of course I never dreamed of its being a woman." The sergeant scowled. This young man was probably a good boarder, whom she liked, and she would not stand tamely by and see him discredited. That was all the stock he took in her evidence. He turned to the wounded man. "You saw that it was a man, you said. Are you sure of that?" "I thought of course that it was a man—I would not take my oath on it," he answered. "But," the sergeant growled at Mrs. Philpots: "You said this person that you saw had on a derby hat. Does women wear derby hats?" "Yes, they do," she said, defiantly. "They wear all kinds of hats that they can get to wear—that are becoming." She eyed the officer, and he realized that he had made the mistake of rousing her hostility by his manner. She would say nothing now, he felt sure. "A nice bunch of witnesses we've got!" he whispered, disgusted to the doctor. "One's drunk and one's mad and one's hurt so he can't think. And none of 'em knows a woman from a man when they see 'em!" Then he addressed Mrs. Philpots, his tone somewhat softened from its former gruffness: "You say a woman called on these people once—did you know her?" The boarding mistress hesitated, glancing at the wounded man who, the sergeant thought, flashed a warning to her with his eye. He waited grimly for the answer to his question. "No, I didn't know her," Mrs. Philpots said, finally. He regarded her cynically a moment, and then asked the man on the sofa: "Who was she? You must know." "Certainly," he answered at once. "She was my wife's laundress who came—" "That is enough!" exclaimed Mrs. Philpots, sharply, to him. "I wasn't sure what I'd better say until I heard your explanation, and if you are going to lie about it—!" She turned to the sergeant with restrained indignation in her face. "That woman was no laundress," she said. "She was a lady, or looked like one, and in all but one thing acted like one. I saw him with China May Rightly Lay Claim to Line That Is Unique Among Earth's Railroads. The most curious railroad in the world is in China, and it was built and financed solely by Chinese. It is also operated by Chinamen. It is known as the Sunning railway, and its terminus is at Kung Yik port, 120 miles southwest of Canton. At present there are 32 miles in operation, and there are four miles under construction, and four miles more proposed, making a total of 40 miles when the whole enterprise is finished. The idea of building this railroad originated with Mr. Chin Gee Hie, who was then in the United States, and some subscriptions for stock were secured from other Chinese residents of the United States. The majority of the stock, however, is now owned by residents of the Province of Kwang tung. When the road was surveyed the villagers were very much opposed to it and refused to sell land to the company to be used for railroad purposes, but after meeting all these obstructions for a considerable time with great patience the projectors finally obtained their consent to and co-operation in its construction. The line is being constructed entirely by non-scientific Chinese. No person of any nationality other than Chinese has ever been connected in any way with the building of this road. It is being built under the direction of Mr. Chin, president of the railway, who returned to China from the United States after 40 years' experience there, some of which was as a railroad foreman and contractor. He has no engineering or railroad knowledge other than the experience gained while in the United States. He has the help of about 100 Chinese fore- her, and he—he—well, she was crying in his arms. And he knows I saw them together. He gave her money, too—" "Will you keep quiet!" almost screamed the wounded man. It was the last effort of which he was capable, and immediately he relapsed into unconsciousness. "We can't have any more of this," said the doctor, sternly, to the sergeant, as he hastened to the patient's aid. "We must rush this poor fellow to the hospital and try for the bullet he has in him. You should not have attempted to conduct an examination here, with him in this state and that body on the bed. It was indecent." "You put your side of the job through and I'll manage to worry mine along without any help," the sergeant growled, belligerently. "There's a phony streak somewhere in this mixed up murder and burgle, and it's my duty to dig it out. And," he added, slowly and significantly, eying Mrs. Philpcts, "I'm a-goin' to dig it out!" "Dr. Furnivall," said Mrs. Philpcts, "I requested you to call here in order that I might ask you to find the real criminal in this awful case, and thus protect me from the police, who are doing all in their power to make my house notorious and mix me up in this dreadful crime. That sergeant has accrued a grudge against me for some reason or other. See the crowd at my door—owing to the publicity he has given the affair. And this officer right here in my own hall! It is scandalous." "The sergeant is merely doing his duty as he sees it," the doctor responded. "Your contradictory evidence justifies him in his action." "But how could I be sure whether or not it was a woman, in the uncertain light? I said in the first place that it was a man because the idea of a woman doing such a thing never entered my head. Even now it seems preposterous. I took it for granted that it was a man. But the instant one of my boarders testified that he saw a woman come up the steps the thought of that woman who called on Mr. Truro occurred to me, and I hesitated. Their interview was so strange! I became less sure that the person I saw was a man. Indeed, if I could only have had time to choose my words in the first place I should have said 'person,' not 'man,' and not 'woman.' That would have been the real truth." "This woman, you say, visited Mr. Truro. Was Mrs. Truro away?" "She was in the kitchen with me, doing some ironing. She knew the lady was there, but seemed to wish not to meet her. I think that, knowing she was coming, she made an excuse to go down stairs in order to avoid her" "She said nothing about her?" "No; I judge from her actions. She was very sweet and gentle, and I am sure would never say anything against a person, no matter how much she should dislike him. But she would not return to her room until this woman had gone away. I could not help suspecting that she was some girl Mr. Truro had liked before he met his wife—something of that sort. And she was jealous. I thought how foolish she must be to feel that way, he so plainly loved her with all his heart. But as I came up the back stairs I saw in the mirror, their door being open, that this woman was in his arms weeping, as they stood near the center of the room, and he was soothing her. I was astounded. A roll of money lay on the table, where it did not lie a few minutes later when she had gone and Mr. Truro had come to the head of the stairs to call his wife, so I could only suppose she took it when she went. He was giving her money! Mr. and Mrs. Truro loved each other to the point of worship if men and laborers who came back from the Untied States, all with more or less experience in railroad construction. The construction work commenced in the middle of 1906 and part of the line was opened to traffic at the beginning of 1908. The whole road is provided with telephone lines for dispatching. Trains run three trips a day from each end, taking about two hours for the trip. The average daily receipts are from $225 to $250 on passenger traffic and from $40 to $50 on freight, with a daily expense of about $150. The capital of the railway is $1,350,000, divided into shares of $2.50 each, all of which are owned by Chinese, and pay good dividends to the stockholders. There are two loops, one at Kung Yik and one at Sunning. There are no turnstiles at present, but these will be put in at Kung Yik, Sunning, Chung Lau, and Au Shan. The head office is in Sunning city, 17 miles from Kung Yik port, where a printing office is established for printing the timetables, tariffs and advertising matter for the road. At Kung Yik there are an office, a storeroom, a machine shop, a blacksmith shop, a foundry. There are no overhead bridges or tunnels on the line. The road is sand, gravel and earth ballasted, standard gauge and single track, with a side track at every station. Of Two Evils Choose the Lesser. "Why do you / let your daughter play the piano all day while you and your wife do the work?" "Because." answered Farmer Corntosel, "it's better than havin' her play it in the evenn' when me an' ma is in the sittin' room trin' to rest." ever a couple did. It did not seem possible that any human being could be such a hypocrite as he appeared to be, and I concluded that she must be some poor relative in trouble, whom he was helping in some great sorrow against his wife's wishes. The money indicated that, and I could explain what I saw in no other way, so I said nothing, resolving to give him the benefit of the doubt. For he certainly seemed the nicest kind of a man I ever had here and I wanted to believe in him. Besides, he saw me in the mirror as I looked at them there in each other's arms, and as he made no explanation, I thought he felt that he had done no wrong, nothing that needed excuse. But now—I don't know what to think. If he really loved this other woman, and not his wife, and if it was a woman who came up those steps at dead of night—" She stopped, shuddering. Dr. Furni- vall rose briskly. "To begin at the right end of the case," he said, "I would first see the man, or the woman. But as he is at the hospital and I am here, while the woman remains unknown, I will look at the body and then examine the room." Shown by the boarding mistress to the scene of the tragedy he studied the face of the victim lying in the bed. The undertaker had not yet arrived, it being still early in the morning, and the body remained as the medical examiner had left it a few hours before. "A face that would be beautiful," he said to himself, "but for the predominance of sentiment over thought in it. That changes the adjective to 'pretty.' The sweetness which Mrs. Philpots saw is really mildness, gentleness, of the kind due to lack of force. The girl was weak. She was also good, and high-minded in her way; sensitive in the extreme. She lived in the air, in the clouds, not on the solid, practical earth. She was so young—not over 18—that the signs of the tragedy sure sooner or later to overtake such a character exist in her features only faintly, in hints, indirectness, possibilities, not as prophecies. That appearance would have developed later. But it is there—high tragedy! That a mere thief should act as the purveyor of fate to her is impossible. She was above the reach of a person on that plane. It was sentiment that killed her, not brute criminality. Therefore the indications so far point to that other woman, either as principal or accessory. There was no thief in the case. Yet Truro says that the murderer was at his trousers pockets. Did he recognize this person, and was that statement false, made to shield the guilty? It must be so. He knows who the criminal is. Otherwise he would not have tried to misdirect suspicion. This being granted, would he have applied the word 'coward' to a woman, as he certainly applied it to the criminal? In the excitement and bitterness of the moment he might have shot the epithet once, even at a woman, but he would not have reiterated it over and over, as he did, to anybody but a man. The murderer was therefore a man, and Truro knows what man. The next step is obvious." Having called up the city hospital on the telephone, however, he learned that, while the wounded husband was doing well, his case was precarious, and as he was sleeping now it would not do to disturb him. Therefore Dr. Furnival returned to the front parlor and began an examination of it. In a few minutes he turned to Mrs. Philpots. "I suppose the police have searched the room," he said. "Have they taken away any exhibits?" "I think not—nothing that I know of." "But the furnishings here all belong to the room, just as you always let it. That is evident. The couple brought nothing into it—no bric-a-brac, no ornaments of any kind. You say they had plenty of money—did they give any reason why they did not follow the custom, by adding that kind of thing to the adornment of their apartment?" "Oh, yes, that is all right! They were to be here only temporarily, were going to housekeeping in a few weeks, and all their goods were packed and in storage." Dr. Furnivall threw open the door of the single closet. "Was their wardrobe packed and in storage also?" he asked. She saw with dismay that the dresses which she supposed were crowding the closet to repletion were missing. There was practically nothing on the hooks. "I am sure they always appeared finely dressed, both of them," she said, blankly. "And they brought two great trunks. Here they are." The doctor raised the lids. The receptacles were empty. Without a word, and followed by the anxious gaze of the boarding house mistress, he pulled out the drawers of the bureau. They contained only the fewest possible necessities of the toilet. "It could not be that the thief—" Mrs. Philpots paused and interrogated the doctor with wide eyes. "You saw him go out, and he had nothing but a revolver in his hand, you thought," he answered to her unspoken question. "Then they were getting ready to leave clandestinely! They had taken their things away a few at a time, so as not to attract notice! Oh, I couldn't have believed it of such people, such very nice people! And they owed only a week's rent, due to-morrow!" The doctor made no rejoinder. He was examining a photograph which had fallen from behind one of the drawers as he pulled it out. "Who is this?" he asked her, holding it up. "It is Mr. Truo," she said, interestedly. "I never saw a picture of him before. It is a perfect likeness. And isn't he handsome?" Her woman'd delight in masculine beauty would crop out even in these grim circumstances. The doctor stood a moment in thought. His face was serious. "Madam," he said, at length, "let me tell you a short story. Once two very young people, a boy and girl, scarcely done being children, sentimental and high-strung, fell in love see the possibility of this thought in their faces, as you can in the faces of so many young enthusiasts. It was not an uncommon thought. So one night they lay down on their bed and he, putting the revolver to her heart, kissed her passionately, no doubt, and fired. The muzzle of the weapon was so close to the mark that the robe she wore was burned. She died instantly, without pain, a heavenly smile on her, pretty, trustful, young face. Then, trembling with terror at what he had done, the boy resolutely turned the pistol against himself, but missed a vital spot. The shock of the bullet added to his terror, and half insane, he sprang up, clapped on his hat through force of habit, and dashed from the house. "For some reason, perhaps because he saw persons approaching, or suddenly realizing the condition of his dress, or more likely because the open air of the wide world gave him a feeling of desolation greater than ever, now that she was no longer by his side, he turned almost immediately and rushed back to the house where the body of his loved one lay. He had no key, but the night being very hot the window was raised, and easily reaching it from the steps he crawled into his room, mechanically and married each other under difficulties of some kind. Probably the chief difficulty consisted in the fact that the youthful bridegroom's family objected utterly and with finality to the match, and cast him off for consummating it, for it was easily to be seen that the girl was of a social sphere very different from his. There was one relative, perhaps a sister, who pitied him, and visited him once bringing money, which his pride would not allow him to accept while his adored wife remained unrecognized, and so the relative, after weeping out her pity and affection in his arms, went away taking the rejected offering with her. And they needed it very much. Proud with inherited pride, with no money, no profession, no trade, unable to fight the world with any chance of success, through his youthful ignorance and sensitiveness, yet thinking it absolutely necessary to keep up appearances, he finally, after a year of failure, disappointment and perhaps some downright want, having pawned all their valuables, came to the agreement with her that it would be infinitely better for them to die together than to attempt to struggle any longer in the cold world with no happier prospects than theirs. It would be beautiful to die, both of them at the same instant, and remain in peace and great love together thereafter through all eternity. You could closing and fastening the sash behind him, and collapsed on the sofa. One of the boarders had seen him come up the steps, and on account of the loose-flowing pajamas had mistaken him for a woman. The same boarder had also in the excitement he was laboring under, placed the sound of the shots he heard after, instead of before the entrance of the person he had observed. The hemorrhage from the boy-husband's wound, being mostly internal, left only a few blood drops here and there, which escaped the eyes of the police; but one investigator discovered them at once by aid of a magnifying lens, on the steps and on the window-fastening where—" Mrs. Philpots, whose eyes had been growing wide with horror as understanding crept in upon her, exclaimed in a faint voice at this point and sank upon a chair. "B-but," she stammered, "he said a thief—and he called him a coward—" "Having no settled course of action, horrified by the realization of the crime he had committed, his sensitiveness, even more than his lack of brute courage, filled him with an awful fear of detection, he said whatever promised to send investigation astray. It seemed easy to charge the deed to an unknown thief. In reality he had nothing worth stealing but a bundle of pawn tickets in a bureau drawer. Despising himself for his failure to follow his wife at all costs, it was at his own head, not another's that he flung the epithet of coward." The boarding mistress sat weeping softly into her handkerchief. The ache at her heart was so great that she could not speak. "I have told you this story," continued Dr. Furnivall, "in order that I might ask your advice. It is a true story in all the essentials, you may rely on it. Now suppose that a woman anne' suffered persecution from the police on account of that foolish, very human boy-husband's crime? Would you, knowing the truth, advise that woman to send me to force a confession from him on what might be his death bed, in order to stop that temporary persecution? Mrs. Philpots flung her handkerchief to the floor with a tragic gesture, her eyes flashed, she sprang erect and stamped her foot. "Dr. Furnivall, if you dare—" she began in a blaze of rage. He smiled. The telephone bell was ringing, and he went in to it. In a moment he returned to her. "He is dead," he said, simply. "He is dead," he said, simply. (Copyright, 1969, by W. G. Chapman.) (Copyright in Great Britain.) Jacob Hysler of New York Has Shaved Five Presidents. Has Strict Rules on Subject of Conversation for His Men—Generous and Knowledgable Who New York.—To have shaved five presidents of the United States is no mean distinction. This honor belongs to Jacob Hysler, who started in business at Ninth street and Broadway just 52 years ago. Thirty-five years ago he followed the course of business and moved his establishment to the Windsor hotel, where he remained 23 years, and for the past 12 years has been at one of the biggest uptown hotels. For many years he had the barber shop in the United States hotel at Saratoga. Mr. Hysler is the sort of 'man who turns a trade into a profession and it is doubtless due to this fact that he has enjoyed an exceptionally distinguished patronage. He is a tall, well-built, genial man who carries his 75 years lightly, and whose face is adorned with silvery white mutton-torn whiskers. Mr. Hysler's establishment requires the assistance of 17 barbers, who have 300 men a day. He also employs a large number of manicures. "One of my strictest rules," Mr. Hysler said, "is that no barber in my employ shall enter into conversation with a customer unless the man in the chair shows a disposition to talk. If the customer is talkative, the barber who is attending to his wants is privileged to take part in the gabfest." The five presidents shaved by Mr. Hysler were Gen. Grant, Chester A. A. B. Jacob Hysler. Arthur, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft. He has also shaved Vice-Presidents Fairbanks and Sherman and William J. Bryan and Alton B. Parker. Among other notable men who have submitted to Mr. Hysler's razors are Moses H. Grinnell, who backed Elisha Kent Kane's search for the nqrth pole; Sir Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer; Gens. Franklin Smith and Banks, and the present commander of the department of the lakes, Gen. Frederick D. Grant, also Gens. A. A. Chaffee, H. C. Corbin and Nelson A. Miles. His older customers included Pierre Lorillard, Cornelius Fellows, W. C. Whitney, Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt; and their sons, Harry Payne Whitney, George Edwin, Frank and Howard Gould; Alfred, Cornelius, Reginald, Frederick, George W., William K. and Harold Vanderbilt continue to patronize him. The late John T. McCall of the New York Life Insurance Company, Paul Morton of the Mutual, and Henry M. Hyde of the Equitable, have sat in his chairs. Other distinguished patrons have been Mark Twain, Frank Munsey, James Gordon Bennett, William Randolph Hearst, William and John D. Rockefeller, John D. Archbold, Andrew Carnegie, Charles M. Schwab, George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, Joseph M. Choate, Whitlaw Reid, Gen. Steward L. Woodford, J. Pierpont Morgan, George Perkins, Prince Auerpersg, who married Miss Hazard; Frank H. Hitchcock, George B. Cortelyou, the ate Bishop Henry C. Potter, Bishop Greer, Bishop McFall of Trenton, and Bishop Duane of Albany, Ogden Mills, A. H. Kissam, M. C. D. Borden, President Diaz of Mexico, Govs. Odell, Higgins, Flower and Hill of New York, and Douglas of Massachusetts. Speaking if tips, Mr. Hysler remarked that the men in his employ are treated generously by customers. "The average tip is ten cents. Sometimes they get a quarter. My barbers receive two dollars a day wages, and each averages with his tips a fairly good income. "One of the most generous men who came to me was W. C. Whitney, who, besides giving a present to his barber every month, presented him every summer with $100 for his vacation. Another very liberal man was H. H. Rogers, who, every Christmas gave a generous gift to each of the barbers and manicures." Seeks Funds for Indian College. Rev. Dr. William Carey, a great-grandson of the first Baptist foreign missionary to India, himself a British missionary to India, is in this country consulting with the American Baptist Missionary union concerning a plan to raise in this country $1,000,000 of a $10,000,000 endowment fund for Serapone college, in the province of Bengal. NOT THE BUTCHER'S FAULT. Mrs. Customer-That lamb you sent me, Mr. Stintwaite, was the largest and toughest I ever saw. Mr. Stintwaite-Tut, tut. It's that boy been loitering again. I assure you, when that joint left the shop it was the sweetest little leg of lamb you could set eyes on, and I gave him strict orders to deliver it at once because you wanted it young. TOLD TO USE CUTICURA. After Specialist Failed to Cure Her Intense Itching Eczema—Had Been Tortured and Disfigured But Was Soon Cured of Dread Humor. "I contracted eczema and suffered intensely for about ten months. At times I thought I would scratch myself to pieces. My face and arms were covered with large red patches, so that I was ashamed to go out. I was advised to go to a doctor who was a specialist in skin diseases, but I received very little relief. I tried every known remedy, with the same results. I thought I would never get better until a friend of mine told me to try the Cuticura Remedies. So I tried them, and after four or five applications of Cuticura Ointment I was relieved of my unbearable itching. I used two sets of the Cuticura Remedies, and I am completely cured. Miss Barbara Kral, Highlandtown, Md., Jan. 9, '08." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props, Boston. No Need of Interference. The two neighbors who were passing the little cottage heard sounds as of a terrific conflict inside and stopped to listen. Presently they heard a loud thump, as if somebody had fallen to the floor. "Grogan is beating his wife again!" they said. Bursting the door open they rushed into the house. "What's the trouble here?" they demanded. "Ther' ain't no trouble, gentlemen," calmly answered Mrs. Grogan, who had her husband down and was sitting on his head, "Gwan!" Exchanging Solemn Thoughts. "Ah," says the man with the parted whiskers, "when one stands alone in the night and contemplates the wonders of creation, how futile, how puny man seems! How vain, how puerile his hopes and longings, when he is surrounded by the eternal silence of the universe! Has this ever occurred to you?" "You bet!" answers the man with the big scarf pin. "He feels just as punk as he does when he misses the owl car and has to stand on the corner an hour for another one."—Chicago Post. Fully Realized. He frowned in perplexity on hearing she was out again. "I wonder, Jimmy, if your sister realizes," he said bitterly, "that I have treated her to three taxi rides and four open-air concerts this month?" "You bet she realizes it," said the small boy, 'grinning. "That's why she's keepin' her engagement to Joe Johnson a secret." Where Trouble Is Found. Wigwag—I never knew such a fellow as Bjones! He is always looking for trouble." Henpeckks—Then, why doesn't he get婚ckes?—Philadelphia Record. HOME TESTING To decide the all important question of coffee, whether or not it is really the hidden cause of physical ails and approaching fixed diseases, one should make a test of ten days by leaving off coffee entirely and using well-made Posium. If relief follows you may know to a certainty that coffee has been your vicious enemy. Of course you can take it back to your heart again, if you like to keep sick. A lady says: "I had suffered with stomach trouble, nervousness and terrible sick headaches ever since I was a little child, for my people were always great coffee drinkers and let us children have all we wanted. I got so I thought I could not live without coffee, but I would not acknowledge that it caused my suffering. "Then I read so many articles about Postum that I decided to give it a fair trial. I had not used it two weeks in place of coffee until I began to feel like a different person. The headache and nervousness disappeared and whereas I used to be sick two or three days out of a week while drinking coffee I am now well and strong and sturdy seven days a week, thanks to Postum. "I had been using Postum three months and had never been sick a day when I thought I would experiment and see if it really was coffee that caused the trouble, so I began to drink coffee again and inside of a week I had a sick spell. I was so ill I was soon convinced that coffee was the cause of all my misery and I went back to Postum with the result that I was soon well and strong again and determined to stick to Postum and leave coffee alone in the future." 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Passed Mammoth Iceberg An iceberg described as $2 \frac{1}{2}$ miles long and 500 feet high—presumably not so high for the whole $2 \frac{1}{2}$ miles—was passed about 1,200 miles from New York recently by the French line /freighter Mexico. It was in latitude 42:20, longitude 46:70—New York Sun. Serial No. 701. When Uncle Sam went out after fake drugs and patent medicines, Dr. Mitchell's Eye Salve with never a change in formula or label at once registered and received Serial No. 701. The influence of Dr. Mitchell's Eye Salve has ever spread through honest merit. Failing cure for sore, weak and inflamed eyes. Price 25 cents. Spectacular Oil Fire. The most spectacular fire ever witnessed in the oil industry was at one of the Des Bocas wells in Mexico. About 60,000 barrels of oil were burned up daily for nearly two months. The flames rose to heights of 800 to 1,400 feet. Important to Mothers. 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Every one has his place and vocation on this earth.—Gladstone. $1000.00 SOLID GOLD & SILVER AWARD For the Best Ear of Corn To be Known as the W. K. Kellogg National Corn Trophy To be Awarded at the National Corn Exposition, Omaha, December 6 to 18, 1909. Over one hundred thousand million (100,000,000,000) ears of corn were grown in the United States last year. Over a billion dollars were paid for them. More than a million and a quarter extra dollars went into the pockets of the farmers for corn this year than they received for the previous year's crop. The reason for this may be found in the fact that the people of the United States are beginning to learn how delicious corn is and to realize its full food value. Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes has placed corn among the indispensable items of daily fare. The makers, therefore, are interested in the development of the King of Cereals, and have decided to award a beautiful trophy for the man, woman or child who can produce the best ear of corn in two different seasons. Professor Hakee of the Iowa State College, the present authority on corn, will award the prize at the National Corn Exposition, to be held at Omaha, Neb. December 6th to 18th, 1900. Two single rules will govern the plan, and they are: that you send your best ear of corn to the National Corn Exposition, Omaha, Neb., before November 27, 1900; and that you are a member of the National Corn Association. Full particulars regarding which can be had by writing to National Corn Exposition, Omaha, Neb. For a tax securely to your specimen and word it. For the Kellogg Trophy Contest, and write your name and address plainly. If yours is judged the best you will get the trophy for 1910. 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During July, August and Septem-ays; give liberal stop-over privi-oints and are good on boats on in either direction, without extra ion and other detailed informa- ROOM 457 La Salle Street Station Chicago RD OIL GREAT FOR PAIN T PENETRATES VISITS WITH UNCLE BY J. H. She came to work for un one day, To wash and cook and things like the She could not speak our tongue at all, But she could iron linen flat. By spring she knew the way to well Upon a table fairly well. And she could do a dozen things That daily to her lot befall. Twas then she asked four evening out And thought a dollar more would do The next thing was her Sundays off As soon as morning work was through! And when the summer time was near, A fellow came to call one day. The visit caused us much alarm— She struck at once for higher pay! We granted this and helped her learn Until we knew we had a gem And now, confound it, I must go And buy a wedding gift for them! A telephone girl will accept a ring from any old man. Being honest pays a man's mother more than 100 per cent. Thirst drives some men to drink but hunger will drive a poet to ink. It is not a sign of good luck to find the horseshoe on your own dead horse. When two swelled heads get together, each is sure that the other belongs to a fock. K is almost time for the great daily papers to begin calling negligent Christmas shoppers tight wads. When Little Willie gives his pickle to his sister, it is not always a sign of great heartedness. Willie may have the mumps. The average business man who has kept the present business pace for 20 or 20 years, doesn't look upon death with any great amount of fear and tremolug. If a politician would kick up as much noise on a campaign tour as one small boy can raise with a new drum, he would stand some show of being elected. A Texas newspaper is responsible for the statement that a farmer of his county when asked how much corn he raised this year, replied he had raised a powerful lot, sold a heap and had a right smart left yet. The question is, "How much did he raise?" When it comes to real humor, you find it in the country. A resident of a certain town being in the chicken and egg business, the local paper says: "Bill Imel is still doing business the old stand. Bring in your ancient settin' hens and patriarchs roosters." --- "Whas ist? Did the man hit an auto-mo-bubble-bubble-bubble?" "No, the man did not hit an auto-mo-bubble-bubble-bubble; he is an editor and he has his eye out for men he owes, ain't it?" "Did a prizefinder find the editor?" "No, a man came in and paid his subscription for ten years in advance and the editor withered!" "Then he is not dead?" "No!" "Nor sleeping?" "No!" "Whas ist?" "Only paralyzed!" "Poor man! Why do people always do things to editors?" "Curly Locks, I cannot say, only it must be nice for an editor to be para-yzed!" Early one morning a terribly seasier passenger, pale and lallow eyed, came out of his stateroom, and ran into a lady, who was coming along the passageway, clad in the scantiest raiment. She screamed and started to run. "Don't be alarmed, madam; I shall never live to tell it." -Girard (Ill.) As cheer. ..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. 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JOB PRINTING In this Department a specialty of Hi Commercial Job Mail Orders We give all Orders Job Printing. No Job Too Small Good Work Guaranteed—Firs This Department we m specialty of High-G commercial Job Printing All Orders We give prompt attent all Orders sent us by m printing. No Job Too Small—No Job Too Good Work Guaranteed—First-Class Work In this Department we make a specialty of High - Grade Commercial Job Printing... Mail Orders We give prompt attention to all Orders sent us by mail for Job Printing. No Job Too Small-No Job Too Large. Good Work Guaranteed-First-Class Workmen Address all communications to THE WICHITA SEARCHLI THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT W. N. MILLEER, Editor 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kansas Knights & Daughters OF TABOR REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborian Home, R. F. D. No. 8, Topeka, Kansas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, 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 F. 3rd, Ft. Scott, Kans. 416 E. B. Jr. T. 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, 1809. TEMPLE8. Chief Mentors. 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) -6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 15 Mrs. Ellen Lee, Box 25 Weir City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Lizie Morton, 1308 Washington, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 24 Mrs. Angie Garner, 704 E. 12th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawatomie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 24 J. W. va 28 J. H. Cr 59 U. J. 60 E. po 72 J. N. co 1 Lillen 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio 2 Sussex Leavenworth, Kan., 2 Sat. WANTED—A RIDER sample Latest Model "RANGER" bicycle is making money fast. Write for full articles NO MONEY REQUIRED until you to anyone, anywhere in the U.S., without allow TEN DAYS FREE DELIVERY put it to any test you wish. If you are the keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our U.S. FACTORY PRICES at one small price to $25 middlemen's profits by buying di- ante behind your bicycle. DO NOT prices and remarkable special offers to YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when low prices we can make you this year. We than any other factory. We are sati- double our prices. Orders filled the day receive SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not use any other material than our promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. COASTER-BRAKES, equipment of all kinds at half the usual $ 50 HEDGETHORN • PUNCH SELF-HEALING TIRES The annual retail price of these tires is RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to offer" bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are or full particulars and special offer at once. We ship you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship I. S. with you in a box or in a rack, and E.T.RIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and if you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to buy it, we can furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $50 by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee. We can offer a pair of tires from anyone receive our catalogues and learn our brand of factory's special offers to rider agents. NISHED our beautiful catalogue and study our superb models at the wonderfully this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. We offer bicycles under our own name plate at day received. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out for $8.00. We accommodate roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and half the usual retail prices. PUNCTURE-PROOF 8.0 PIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY making money fast. Write for full particulars and special offer at once. WE MONO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our exp air sale and you will not be one cent. FACTORY PRICES at one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $5 to $5 middelmen's profits by buying direct of us and the manufacturer's guar- antee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone anywhere and unknowingly receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory prices. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. We also offer our bicycles under your own name plate at ur prices. Ordered filled the day received. MEDARTHORN RECORD ROSTERSTEIN TIME 00 1947-04-01 $8.50 per pair, but to introduce, we will sell you a sample pair for $4.80 with cash order $4.55). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowance. We have a large number of customers stating that their tires have been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers. The tires are made of high quality rubber and are advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same da examined same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on examined and those firmly stated as represented (i.e. that thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you unclose this advertisement. We will also send one directly reliable and money expire if for any reason they are not available and they will use us as fast as you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We then you want a bicycle you will give us your order, hence this remarkable tire offer. If you need and money until you send for a pair of worn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which prices at about half the usual prices. Already today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, IL the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will send you a copy of the order and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. You do not pay a cent until you find that they will ride easier, run faster, better, last longer look finer than we can imagine. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined the card. You must send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at O not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find a better, less long and look fine than equivalent that know that you will be so well pleased that when you want. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this rent. IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any rent. The special introductory price quoted above or write describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about $0. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT WAIT or a pair of tires from anyone offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn every J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful form of riding. It only comes a postal day. 333 TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1508 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan., 1-2 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) Ita, Kan., Fridays. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Wed. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. St., Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-2 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1178, Wolls 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-8 Fri. 3 J. G. Purdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, F. Kan., 1-8 Fri. 4 F. D. Early, Sherman Flats, Omaha Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 908 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 8 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan. 1-8 Tue. 12 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsona, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 15 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 28th, Soutl Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th Coffeyville, Kansas. 13 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1r, Salt Lake City, Utah. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawr- ence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 22 B. C. Easter, Box 156, Oswego Kans., 2-4 Tues. 24 J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th, Cherry- vale, Kans., 1-3 Tues. 59 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 72 J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 2 Susan Daniels, 216 W. Wall, B. Scott, Kan, 2-4 Sat. (A) TEMPLE8. TENT8. Queen Mothers. Notice the thick rubber treads "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This makes them also easier to make—SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. 2 Lizzie Weaver 1122 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb., 2 Frt. (A) 4 Laura Washington, 914 Walken, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. Morn. 5 Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Coffeyville, Kan., 2- Wed. (A) 6 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 7 Flora Patterson, 311 W. 27th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 10 Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Ethel Penn, 718 "Q" St. Atchison, Ks., 2-4 St. (A) 14 Arie Stone, 823 Main, Atchison Kan., 1-8 St. (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Saffna Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 19 Lizzie Herrod, Sherman Flav Omaha, Neb., 2-4 Sat. (A) 20 Susie Willis, 2103 Grand, Parsona Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark, Parsons, Kans., 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsona, Kans., 1-3 Sat. 29 Charlott Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kasa s City, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 36 Hester Cornish, 911 Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) 87 Jannie McAdoo, 1818 N. Madison Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Sat. (A) If your Tabernacle, Temple or Text is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER. Editor. It is noticeable that the German papers have made no outcry over the fact that King Edward has personally written to Andrew Carnegie. There is a bank creek in Elyria, O., who never has any difficulty in striking a balance. His father was a slack-rope walker, and his mother was a trick bicycle rider. Were the Mrs. Gilman brand of sociology to come into vogue there would soon be no society for sociology to operate upon and the exuders of 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 "iald 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 heroes 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-deal.