Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. IS NEGRO OF NORTH PROGRESSING In Keeping with His Opportunities ELEVENTH YEAR IS NEGRO O PR In Keeping with In the year 1860 there were 487,970 free Negroes scattered throughout nearly every state in the union and in their ranks were to be found men engaged in nearly every form of industrial enterprise followed by such persons today. In almost all of the large cities of the North there were certain occupations which the Negro monopolized and the names of many Negroes when spoken of in these connections were the synonyms of business integrety and efficiency, but in all North there is scarcely one creditable business owned and operated by a Negro of that date or his descendants. The caterers, barbers hackmen janitors, carpenters, draymen, bricklayers etc. who once enjoyed the confidence and patronage of the Anglo-Saxons have been relsgated to the rear and their places are now being filled from other climes. From a monopoly of several occupations and at least one or mere representatives in all the industrial pursuits, the Negro has continued to lose ground until fifty years ago, the Negro in any skilled occupation is the exception and more of a novelty than the proverbial hen's teeth. Dr. Booker T. Washington is his future of the American Negro in a plea for industrial education says, "No one can fully appreciate what I am saying who has not walked the streets of northern city, day after day seeking employment, only to find every door closed against him on account of his color; except menial service." On the other hand he says, "Whatever other sins the South may be called on to bear when it comes to business pure and simple, it is the South that Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world: Another eminent writer, Rev. De Berry of Springfield Mass. say that 86 per cent of the colored labor of that city are confined to servial employment, by pure race prejudist which has closed the doors of industrial opportunity against them, and what is true of Spring field, Mass. is true to a greater degree or lesser extent of every city north of the Mason and Dixon line. We could quote Kelly Miller Dr. Du-Bois H. T. Kealing Dr. Francis Grimkle and a host of other writers and thinkers of note, but the preponderance of evidence, all points to the fact the opportunity the Negro once enjoyed for exercising his skill and ability along industrial lines for gain has passed away and even in the cycle of my own memory and yours and I have no doubt each and all of you can re call the time when the Negro far ed better and was more justly delt with than he is today. Has the Negro put his God-given talent to the best advantage? If so why has it not produced other talents? I believe that he has not for Mr. Wanamaker in his address before the Business League in 1905 says that 'Philadelphia once had a number of Negro business men, in whom the city took pride, but many of them passed away. As an old bbsiness man I am speaking of the fact, they lost their business the Swiss, Germans, ann other American white men did the same business better than they did it do with it." Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams of Ohio says, "It is quite safe to say in the last fifteen years the colored people have lost every occupation thpt was regarded as their own, as; barbering bootblacking, cooking, hotel, and restaurant waiting, janitors, elevator service and calcimising, and why—white men wanted these places and were strong enough to display the unorganizee thoughtless and easy going occupation of them." The loss was not so much due to the color or prejudice as to ability of these foreingers to increase the importonce of the places sought and captured. The Sweeds have captured toe janitor business by organizing and training men for this work, in such a way as to in crease the efficiency and reliability of sereice. White men have made more of the barber business than did the Negro, and by organization have driven every Ne- mess dis is sup- slack an pointed ish and menial weli or and cap . As to perfer to which col- enter luctanty yields to the knock of a chosen few. Tis true, 'tis a pity; tis true. The contribution causes seem to be inefficiency unreliability and lack of turrift on the part of the Negro and prejudice on the part of the white man which has done the most to bring aboui this condition of agairs is not of so much importance as the question. What are you going to do about it? The answer to that question I do not know, my friendt I wish I did. But I do know that the economic field for the Negro is becoming smaller and more circumscribed day by day and the fixing of his hold upon the field eases longer to remaib a mere question of expediency and wisdom, it becomes a matter of vital moment and racial concern. It is idle and childish to confuse the practical question of actual conditions with the ethical question of cause. For onr purpose, China, Glass and H In The 15c Inverted Gas Mantles 15c Upright Gas Mantles Mrs. Potts Sad Iron Handle "Good Value" 800 sheet roll Toilet Paper 2 rolls 1200 Sheet Roll Toilet Paper Children's Three-Piece Garden Sets, Hoe Rake and Spade Cold Handle Steel Fry-Pan Galvanized Metal Lemon Squeezer Mouse Traps, four for 10-inch Palmetto Scrub Brush Nickle-Plated Individual Tea and Coffee Pots, each Two Handle, Covered Lunch Baskets 200 value at 8-inch Pottery Mixing Bowls Individual Bean Bakers 2 for 6-in. Granite Pudding Pan Covered Tin Milk Bucket Pint Tin Cups, 4 for Wardrobe Hooks, per dozen 2-qt. Tin Milk Pans 8-inch Pie Tins, 3 for 4-qt. Tin Wash Basins One-Loaf Bread Pans Tin Pot Lids, all sizes up to 11 inches 2 for Sanitary Plate Scrapers Wax Gas Tapers, box Nickeled Toilet Paper Holder Handy Home Tack Hammer White Metal Teaspoons, 6 for White Metal Teaspoons, 3 for Wooden Rolling Pins China, Glass and Home Goods In The " NINE CENT SALE " Pots, each .....9c Two Handle, Covered Lunch Baskets 20c value at .....9c 8-inch Pottery Mixing Bowls .....9c Individual Bean Bakers 2 for .....9c 6-in. Granite Pudding Pan .....9c Covered Tin Milk Bucket .....9c Pint Tin Cups, 4 for .....9c Wardrobe Hooks, per dozen .....9c 2-qt. Tin Milk Pans .....9c 8-inch Pie Tins, 3 for .....9c 4-qt. Tin Wash Basins .....9c One-Loaf Bread Pans .....9c Tin Pot Lids, all sizes up to 11 inches, 2 for .....9c Sanitary Plate Scrapers .....9c Wax Gas Tapers, box .....9c Nickeled Toilet Paper Holder .....9c Handy Home Tack Hammer .....9c White Metal Teaspoons, 6 for .....9c White Metal Teaspoons, 3 for .....9c Wooden Rolling Pins .....9c Two Hundred Pair Steel Scissors. S and eight-inch sizes. Heavy nickle-pl Worth 25c a pair. In the Busy Baser while they last, pair ..... Spring Balance Scales ..... BOSTO WALLEN Two Hundred Pair Steel Scissors. Seven and eight-inch sizes. Heavy nickle-plated. Worth 25c a pair. In the Busy Basement, while they last, pair .....9c Spring Balance Scales .....9c Aluminum Pudding Moulds .....9 Nickled Bath Tub Soap Dishes .....9 Dover Egg Beaters .....9 Handled Vegetable Brushes .....9 Handled Vegetable Brushes .....9 WALLENSTEIN & COHN MAIN & DOUGLAS gro barber from the business district. The shoe polish has supplanted the Negro bootblack and does business in finly appointed parlors with mahony finish and electric lights. Thus a menial occupation has become a well organized business genteel and capital and systm behind it. As to servents the white girls perfer to pass by the clerkship which colored girls cannot get, and enter schools of domestic science to prepare them for trained domestic service and fill places scorned by Nsgro girls, though open to them. We need hardly seek for a further cumulative evedenee on a fact now admitted - that in the northern section of this country, with all its wealth with all its splendid industrial achievements with all of its promise to a child of the white man, the door of economic opportunity is closed before the faces of the masses of the Negro race even though it re STEEL SCISSORS. Fibre Lunch Boxes .....9c Emery Knife Sharpeners .....9c 50 Foot Cotton Clothes Line .....9c Steel Curry Combs .....9c Double Blade Salad Choppers .....9c Pound-Package Moth Balls .....9c Double-Towel Rings .....9c 6-Hole Gem Pans .....9c Saratoga Potato Slicers .....9c Magis Wire Potato Masher .....9c 3-arm Oak Towel Bar .....9c Nickel-Plated Bread Tray .....9c Glass Measuring Cups .....9c Large Tin Dippers .....9c Steel Paring Knives, 2 for .....9c Asbestos Stove Mats, 3 for .....9c Vegetable Brushes, 3 for .....9c Five Hundred German Blue Decorated Soup Plates. Worth 15c each. In the Basement China Store ……8c One Lot of White Semi-Porcelain Dinner Plates. Gold and floral decorations. In this sale, each ……9c Two Hundred Decorated China Breakfast Plates. Worth 10c each; commencing Monday, Two for ……9c 8-inch Colonial Glass Dishes ……9c Colonial Footed Jelly Stand ……9c Colonial Glass Candle Stick ……9c Plain Glass Sundae Cups ……9c Hoffman House Goblets ……9c 5-oz. Belt Tumblers, 2 for ……9c Etched Band Tumblers, 3 for ……9c 14-inch Nickled Trays ……9c Japanese Bread and Butter Plates ……9c Aluminum Pudding Moulds ……9c Nickled Bath Tub Soap Dishes ……9c Dover Egg Beaters ……9c Handled Vegetable Brushes ……9c Handled Vegetable Brushes ……9c we need not stop to multiply words in an effort to determine where rests the burden of responsibility. Between the white man and the black man it is likly to always remain a disputed of question. This is human nature: But a man who has ceased to breathe is equally dead whether he came to his death by assassination or suicide. Thus if the end is to be the same the Negeo masses should not be particularly interested in the academic question of causes and means. If the white man is responsible for the Negro condition, it the latter cannot remove the obstacles from his own path then the effort toward his industrial training becomes, a mukery to him and frand upon those who support him. But I take the stand which at least holds something of hope for the Negro, in that it does not entirely remove his own individual efforts. Thus I believe that AS CENT SALE " Boxes .9c Sharpeners .9c Clothes Line .9c Bombs .9c Salad Choppers .9c Moth Balls .9c Rings .9c Pans .9c Slicers .9c Potato Masher .9c Wel Bar .9c Bread Tray .9c Cups .9c Hoppers .9c Knives, 2 for .9c Mats, 3 for .9c Pushes, 3 for .9c PLATE SALES. German Blue Decorated Soup each. In the Basement 9c White Semi-Porcelain Dinner and floral decorations. In this 9c Decorated China Breakfast 10c each; commencing Mon- the Negro must play the most importvnt part in his own improvement by seizing first the opportunity to learn all that can be learned of business, trade or profession and using that knowledge as a foundation and improve of the business and teach others who would follow in his foot steps. Be thoruogh and painstaking in the smallest netail nnd most humble occupations, and e the white man in all that is good for the advancement of the individual and the race. And when you have the opportunity take hold of something small and use it a bait to get something worth while, for it is true also of the commercial world that to him that hath shall begiven. And do not knock if you can not boost your more successful brother of black and lasty whatever you set your hand to do do with all your might and leave the rest to God. BIRD HELPS FIND HONEY African Cuckoo Guides Natives to Bee Nest, Then Receives Toll, one of the most sagacious birds is certainly the bee cockoo, or moroc, a little bird very like the London sparrow. It is found in various parts of Africa, wher wild bees abound, and being unable to help itself to the honey, which is the faaorate food, it resorts to human aid says Tit-Bits Having discovered a swarm of bees it flies to the nearest habitation and attracts by its cries of "cheer, cheer, cheer" the attention of some of the natives. It then flies off in the direction of the nest uttering its cry & waiting for its flowers to overtake it Should they be tardy it returns to meet them and seems as trying to urge them on to gather speed the natives answering it with a low whistle. The natives never injure this bird, and always prevent travelers from shooting it. Miss. Beck gave an address at the 2nd. Baptist Church Wed. Evening, it was highly appreciated by all. The little infant of Williams Willis died Wed. Aug 4th was born Feb. 15 08, died at an early age of 5 months and 19 days. Send your news in earlier A LYNCHING AT PLATTE CITY GEORGE JOHNSON WHO SHOT A FARMER HANGED. Acting Governor Gmelich Offers Reward of $300 for Conviction of the Guilty Parties. Platte City, Missouri.—The sheriff was aroused at the jail about 2 o'clock in the morning and was told that an officer was waiting outside with a prisoner. No sooner was the door opened than three men sprang into the jail. The officer was so taken by surprise that he could offer no resistance when a mob of 50 men surged into the jail, and took George Johnson a white man opt and hanged him to a tree in the main street of the town. Johnson had confessed to the shooting of J. W. Moore a wealthy farmer in this county June 20. The shooting aroused considerable feeling at the time and as a precaution against lynching Johnson had been kept in jail at Kansas City, having been brought here Saturday to be in readiness for his trial which was set for Monday morning. Jefferson City, Mo.-Lieut. Gov. Gmelch, who is acting as chief executive of the state during the absence of Gov. Hadley at Estes Park Col., has offered a reward of $300 for the conviction of the persons wh Lynched George Johnson at Platte City. This action followed a message from Gov. Hadley and it is understood here that the governor has instructed the authorities of Platte county to take immediate steps for the discovery and punishment of the members of the mob NEW GERMAN PATENT TREATY Will Relieve American Inventors From Costly Restrictions Heretofore in Force There. Washington, D. C. — A reciprocal patent treaty between the United Sta tes and Germany, which is of far reaching importance to the commercial world, was simultaneously promulgated by President Taft and the emperor of Germany. The agreement is immediately effective and shall remain in force until the expiration of 12 months following notice of termination by one of the contracting parties. The effect of this convention will be that American manufacturers will be relieved of the existing requirement that in order to sell their products in Germany they must manufacture them upon the basis of patents in Germany which called for investments of large sums of money in maintaining duplicate plants. GREAT FIRE AT OSAKA JAPAN For 25 Hours the Confragitation Rager Unchecked—The Largest Buddist Temple in World Lost. Osaka, Japan.—Confusion still prevails here as a result of Saturday's disastrous fire. Thousands of persons are homeless and hunger is staring many of them in the face. The latest estimates are that 20,000 buildings were destroyed, these including banks, the stock exchange the museum, government adifices and factories. While at present it is impossible accurately to state the losses, these are given roughly at several million yen. It is feared that some of the insurance companies will fall as a result of the heavy losses they will have to pay. They Expect the Millenium. Dublin, Ireland—In the belief that the millenium may be ushered in any moment, over 2,000 "cooneyites" are holding continuous prayer meetings at Ballinamallard, county Fermanagh. The pilgrims have arrived from all parts of the country. A Kansas Editor Buys Again. Witchia, Kansas.—W. G. Anderson, late of the Ioka (Kan.) Record, has bought a half interest in the Kansas Farmer's Weekly Star, of this city, and will be its editor. Formerly he was part owner of the Arkansas City Dally Traveler. Cars for Women Abandoned. New York, N. Y.-William McAdoo abandoned as a failure the "Cars for Women" in his tubes recently, and the public service commission refused to grant the application of several women's reform leagues for similar cars in the New York Subway. Aid to Earthquake Sufferers Mexico City, Mexico.—Ten thousand dollars in cash and $10,000 in provisions, tents and supplies are to be sent at once to Acapulco by the federal government, acting under the direction of President Diaz. - Still More Successful Flight. Washington, D. C. — Establishing a new record for aviation in America, Orville Wright, in the Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer, made a spectacular flight of one hour 20 minutes and 45 seconds duration. Killed Self and Children Chicago, Illinois.—Marital troubles caused Mrs. Emma Michel to kill her two children Heta, 15 years old, and Gustav, 12 years old—and then commit suicide by means of illuminating gas here. Special Master E. V. McKeever filed report to this effect in the supreme SPAIN MOROCCO PIONER WILLIAM PHILIP MARIE MAY BY PROST NURAL MORE WEALTH IN KANSAS LAND ASSESSMENT SHOWS INCREASE OF $62,356,531 OVER LAST YEAR. Bank Deposits Are Greater Than Ever With Wheat, Corn, Hogs and Cattle Coming. Topeka, Kan.—The assessed valuation of all the property in Kansas for 1909, according to a statement made public by the state tax commission is $2,510,757,607.26, an increase over 1908 of $62,356,531.37. The 1908 assessment broke all previous records. The state tax for 1909 has been fixed at one and one-quarter mills and will raise $3,128,446.64. Last year the rate was nine-tenths of a mill and raised $2,203,561.18. The assessment includes farm lands, town lots, personal property and public service corporations. The exact value for each county of all the classes of property in the state is not available yet. Wyandotte county has the largest total valuation, $100,300,049, and will pay a total state tax of $125,375. Total deposits in state and national banks in Kansas June 30 were $162,934,857.57, the largest amount ever on deposit in the Kansas banks at this season of the year. There are 785 state banks, four private banks and three trust companies and 211 national banks doing business in the state at this time. The deposits in the state banks for the call of June 30 were $88,490,862.38, as against $75,563,431.15 of the corresponding date last year. The deposits of the national banks at this time aggregate $84,443,995.19, a healthy increase over this time last year. Texas School Bonds Made Good Dallas, Texas.—In an election held over the state of Texas the people adopted a constitutional amendment validating upward of $3,000,000 worth of school district bonds, which the courts had held to be illegal. The bulk of the issues are held by the state school fund but large amounts are owned by investors in the north and east. Supplies Go to Reary St. Johns, N. F.—The expedition which will carry relief supplies to commander Robert E. Peary left St. Johns. The 88 ton schooner Jeanie will take 50 tons of coal and the same amount of stores, which she will land at Etah, Greenland, to supplement the supplies on Peary's steamer Roosevelt. The Tariff Bill Strikes a Sang. Washington, D. C.—Tariff legislation has been delayed again by the hide and leather question and as a result the conferees were called together once more. Western senators complain that the leather schedule, as arranged by the conferees with the approval of the president is unfair to the states interested in protected hides. That Tennis Court No More. Washington, D. C. — The Roosevelt tennis court has been plowed up in preparation as a site for the new $40,000 addition to the executive mansion. Mr. Taft had no use for a tennis court and it was not big enough for golf links. No Games in Two Leagues. New York, N. Y.—Bat and ball were laid aside by 30 professional baseball clubs out of respect to the memory of Harry C. Pulliam, president of the National league, who was buried at Louisville, Ky. Charleston, W. Va.-The Standard Oil company is reported to have closed a deal involving $2,500,000 by purchasing the holdings of the Big Creek Development company in the Griffithsville field, Lincoln county. Coat Tailors On Strike. New York. After a mass meeting most of the coat tailors in New York walked out on a strike with the hope of forcing employers to restore a 20 per cent wage reduction made during the financial stringency of 1907. Standard Deal Closed. Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTOREK. PRICE, $1.00, retail. CONGRESSMEN WANT TO ESCAPE Five Were "Held Up" at Union Station While Trying to Get Washington, D. C. — Five representatives were "heid up" at the Union station by the sergeant at arms of the house and compelled to remain in the city until a vote is taken in the senate on the tariff bill. They are Denby, of Michigan; Ashbrook, of Ohio; Kellaher of Mass.; Howell of New Jersey and Cassidy of Ohio. They were about to board a train for their homes when the officer of the house spoiled their plans. Countless excuses were offered but the officer was firm. When the house adopted the conference report on Saturday members began to flock away from Washington and Representative Dwight, the Republican "whip" is having a difficult time holding enough of them to transact public business. He sent telegrams far and wide urging the absent members to return. GOVERNMENT MUST PAY THE BILL The Responsibility for the Salton Sea Floods Finally. Fixed—Now They Want $2,000,000. San Francisco, California—Responsibility for the Salton sea floods of 1905 and 1906, was finally fixed by the United States circuit court of appeals affirming the decision of the circuit court in the case of the California Development company against the New Liverpool Salt company which holds that the in-takes constructed by the development company were improperly built. The lower court is also sustained in deciding there were no violations of the court's order in the work done while the matter was in course of adjudication. The Southern Pacific company, which did the work with the approval of President Roosevelt, has presented a bill for $2,000,000 to the government. Japanese Strike Breaking Up. Honolulu, Japan.—The Japanese laborers of the Walpahu plantation on the island of Oahu, who were working on the profit-sharing basis when the strike was declared, returned to work Friday. The plantation at Walpahu is where the strike had its origin. Other strikers are scattered and the leaders of the movement are gradually losing their control of the discontented laborers. Defeat for Tom L. Johnson Dearest to Tom L. Johnson Cleveland, Ohio—The Schmidt ordinance providing for the grant of a franchise to Herman Schmidt, insuring three-cent fares on a part of the city street car lines, was defeated at a referendum election here by a majority of 3,982. The total vote was 30,944 to 34,926. The Schmidt ordinance was fostered by Mayor Tom L. Johnson. Platte City Not Concerned. Platte City, Missouri—Following the recent morning's lynching, Platte City is quiet. So far as the town or the county is concerned sympathy is all with the lynchers, and it is freely said on the streets that a grand jury investigation will do little if any good. No one appears to know who the lynchers were and no one cares. Gov. Hughes in Seattle. Seattle, Washington. — Closing a busy day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, where New York Day was celebrated, Gov. Charles E. Hughes was the guest of honor at a banquet given in the New York state building by the exposition management. Gig, Gun, Ruined When Tested. Gig Gun Rimmed Tester. Honolulu.—It is reported that one of the eight 12-inch mortars at Diamondhead was ruined by the test firing two weeks ago. The steel casement was wrecked and cannot be repaired here. The Republican Plot Failed. The Republican Plot Parler Paris, France.—In a dispatch from San Sebastian a correspondent of the Temps says he has learned from an authoritative source that the outbreak at Barcelona was a result of a Republican plot. THE HANNIBAL STRIKE SETTLED The Cement Company Officials Agreed to An Advance in Wages of 10 Per Cent. Hannibal, Missouri—The strike of foreign workmen at the Atlas Portland Cement company's plant at Ilasco, near here, which resulted in riotous conditions has been settled. The end came as the result of a conference between a committee of workmen and officials of the company, the latter agreeing to an advance of 10 per cent in wages and the employees promising to return to work to-day. The strikers, who have been pressing rather indifinite demands, had objected to the attitude of the Americans employed at the plant and it was this aspect of the situation that gave rise to the riotous conditions. THE MINER'S CONVENTION ENDS Moyer Was Again Elected President and Denver Selected as the Next Meeting Place. Denver, Col.—The Western Federation of Miners has concluded its annual convention with the selection of Denver as the next meeting place. Resolutions were adopted instructing the officers and executive board to secure the enactment of law in all states making six hours a day's work in mines where the temperature is above 90 degrees. The following officers were elected: President, Charles H. Moyer, Denver; vice-president, C. E. Mahoney, Butte, Mont.; members of the executive board include James Kirwan Perry, S. D., William Jinkerson, Platte River, Mo. MUST RECALL GREEK OFFICERS Turkey Will Demand That Those Serving in Crete Shall Leave the Service. Constantinople, Turkey.—The Ottoman minister at Athens will present a note to the Greek government couched in friendly terms but practically demanding the recall of the Greek officers serving in Crete. This concession is considered necessary in order to calm public feeling in Turkey, where the agitation against Greece is becoming dangerous. A Turkish fleet also may be sent to cruise in Cretan waters. There is much doubt in diplomatic circles whether Greece will consent to the recall of the officers in Crete. ATTEMPTED TO WRECK A TRAIN A Pile of Steel Rails Placed on the Burlington Tracks Near Crawford, Neb. Crawford, Nebraska.—As a passenger train on the Burlington was rounding a curve for the station of Belmont 10 miles out from Crawford, the engineer discovered on the track a few rods ahead an obstruction of steel rail. Engineer Wade, who was at the throttle, immediately reversed, and the train came to a stop within a few feet of the pile of steel rails. It is said that the express car contained $500,000 in gold bullion billed to New York City. Another Wreck Victim Dies. Spokane, Washington—Miss Frances Golden, daughter of one of Spokane's pioneers, died in the hospital at Court d'Alene. She is the 13th victim of the wreck that resulted when two electric trains, laden with passengers, collided at La Crosse. The list of injured now number 118. Wright Machine Accepted. Washington, D. C. — The Wright aeroplane, which successfully completed the test required of it was formally accepted by the government. In addition to the contract price of $25,000 for the machine the Wright brothers will receive $5,000 bonus for two miles' speed an hour in excess of the government requirement. A Fortune for a Kansan. Fort Scott, Kansas—J. E. Durbin, a passenger conductor on the Frisco road, running between Fort Scott and Joplin, who, with his son, Votow, a machinist, secured a patent on an automatic safety car coupler a few weeks ago, has contacted for the sale of a one-fifth interest in the coupler for $25,000. Earthquakes Were Seven. Mexico City, Mexico.—Details from the state of Guerrera show that the recent earthquakes in the valley of Mexico and along the Pacific coast were the worst experienced in many years. Electric Trains in Collision. Spokane, Washington.—The number of the dead as the result of the head on collision of two electric trains on the Coeur d'Alene and Spokane railroad, totals 12 and the number of injured about 75. Republican Flag in Spain. London, Eng.—Telegraphing from Cerbere, Sunday, the Times correspondent says the revolutionaries are the masters of all the villages in Catalonia having deposed the authorities. Called to His Door and Shot Omaha, Nebraska.—H. C. Hamilton, manager of a saw-mill at Florence, a suburb north of this city, was called :o his front door and shot and killed late Saturday night by an unknown man COMPARATIVE TABLE SHOWING TARIFF CHANGES President Taft's faint for a reduction of some of the most important duties in the new tariff bill is reflected in the following comparative table which shows the principal changes in rates made. Practically no change was made in the woolen schedule in either the house or senate bills, hence those rates, although hotly complained of, were not technically before the conference committee for adjustment. The glove schedule as a result of the president's fight reaffirms the Dingley rates, while the hosiery rates on high grade hose are slightly higher than before: ARTICLE: Dingley Rate. House Rate. Senate Rate. Conference Report. Hides— 15 p c free 15 p c free Boots and Shoes. 25 p c free 15 p c free Blituminous coal. 87 c ton free 60 c ton 10 p c Iron Ore. 40 c ton free 25 c ton 45 c ton Petroleum. Countervalling free (½ Countervalling and no Drawback) free Rough Lumilier. $2.00 $1.00 $1.50 $1.25 Print Paper. $8.00 ton $2.00 $4.00 $3.75 Wood Pulp, mechanically ground. ½ c lb. free reciprocally free reciprocally free Sugar 100 lbs. $1.95 $1.90 $1.90 $1.90 Ham and Bacon. 5 c lb 4 c lb 5 c lb 4 c lb Beef. 2 c lb. 1½ c lb 2 c lb 1½ c lb Pineapples. $7.00 thousand $8.00 ½ each or $8.00 per 1,000 $8.00 Woolens or worstedts valued not over 40 c lb. $3 c and 50 p c do do no change Bankets, valued not over 40 c lb. 22 c and 30 p c do do do do Flannel for underwear valued not over 40 c lb. 22 c and 30 p c do do do do Dress Goods, cotton warp, remainder all or part wool, and valued not over 70 c lb. 7 c sq. yd. and do do do do Composed wholly or in part of wool and valued not over 70 c lb. 11 c and 55 p c do do do do Women's and children's gloves, lamb or sheep, not over 14 inches. $2.50 $4.00 $2.50 $2.50 Other than sheep per doz. $3.00 $4.00 $3.00 $3.00 Sheep 14 to 17 in. doz. $3.50 $4.70 $3.50 $3.50 Other than Sheep, same $4.75 $6.45 $4.75 $4.75 Schmaschen Glace, finish not over 14 inches doz. $1.75 $4.00 $1.75 $1.75 Womens House, value not more than $1 doz. 50 c and 15 p c 70 c and 50 c and 70 c Valued from $1.50 to $2.00 per doz. 70 c and 15 p c $1.00 and 70 c $15 p c 900 THE TARIFF BILL BACK TO HOUSE After Three Weeks the Conferees Finish Their Work. PAYNE'S ANALYSIS OF THE RATES The Majority Leader Claims That there is General Downward Tendency in the Revision. Washington, July 31.—Entering upon the last stage of its consideration by congress, the tariff bill as reported by the conferees was submitted to the house by Chairman Payne and ordered printed in the congressional record. Discussion of the conference report will begin at 10 o'clock this morning, the indications being that a day will suffice for its adoption. Contending that the bill marks a general downward tendency from present rates of duty, Mr. Payne presented an exhaustive analysis of its provisions. He undertook to show that there had been a marked decrease in the rates on the necessaries of life, while admitting that there had been an increase on some of the luxuries. Probably the most marked reductions throughout any schedule in the bill as a result of the action of the two houses and of the conference committee are found in the metal schedule. Beginning with a decrease in the rate of iron ore from 40 to 15 cents per ton, there is a general reduction throughout that portion of the bill, pig iron going down from $4 to $2.50 per ton, and scrap iron from $4 to $1. The reduction on many of the items in this schedule amounts to about 50 per cent, and this reduction includes steel rails. Rough lumber goes down from $2 to $1.25 per thousand feet, with a corresponding reduction in the differential on dressed lumber. The wool schedule underwent no change of consequence, but the entire cotton schedule was reconstructed and the phraseology greatly changed in the hope of preventing reductions through decisions by the courts such as have characterized the administration of the Dingley law during latter years. It is estimated that the rates fixed by the bill are about 3 per cent higher upon an average than those collected on cotton last year. The rates on cotton hosiery are generally increased. In the much contested matter of the rate on gloves the high protectionists fall to score. They sought, through an increase made by the house, to raise the duty materially above the Dingley figures, but were antagonized by the senate, and the senate won. The silk schedule was reconstructed with a view of imposing specific rather than ad valorem duties, with the result that the average duty will be somewhat higher under the new law than under the present statute. Oilcloths and fineoleum are heavily cut but otherwise the changes in the flax, hemp and jute provision were not material. A slight increased duty HOUSE ACCEPTS REPORT. Washington, Aug. 2.—The Payne tariff bill was saved by the narrow margin of six votes. A change of three votes would have sent the measure back to conference for further revision downward. Twenty-three Republicans registered their protest against the increase of the final bill. They lost by the merest accident. Speaker Canuon was planning for a time to make a speech in favor of the is provided for hemp, both crude and hackled, and also on certain high grade laces. Sugar and tobacco duties remain substantially as they are under the Dingley law. The free importation of considerable quantities of both of these articles from the Philippine Islands is permitted, and a material change was made in the internal revenue law by an amendment taking the tax off of the sale of tobacco in the hand. There is a uniform increase on spirits, wines and liquors of 15 per cent. In the agricultural schedule hops are increased from 12 to 14 cents a pound, and there is also an increase on lemons, figs, almonds and pine-apples. Common glass of the lower sizes, in which the imports are heavy, is given a reduction, and where changes were made in the chemical schedule there was a general decrease, except upon such articles as fancy soaps and perfumes, which were increased. The publishers win their fight for lower woodpulp and print paper, the rate on the ordinary newspaper print paper being fixed at $3.75 per ton instead of $6 as under the Dingley law, and on the higher grades of print paper at $3.75 instead of $8. Mechanically ground woodpulp is to come in free of duty instead of paying one-twelfth of a cent a pound as under the Dingley law. Hides of cattle come in free and there is a corresponding reduction on leather and leather goods. The house rates are practically retained on sole leather, leather for uppers, boots and shoes and harness. Bituminous coal is reduced from 67 cents per ton to 45 cents and there is also a reduction on gun powder, matches and cartridges. Agricultural implements go off from 20 per cent ad valorem to 15 per cent and the older works of art are placed upon the free list. Petroleum, which received much attention in both houses, ships through without any duty, countervailing or otherwise. The administrative features of the bill were much changed in conference. The commission of experts provided by the senate was retained in name, but its duties are restricted to investigating discriminations against the United States by other countries for the benefit of the president in administering the maximum and minimum rate provision, and of government officers in administering the customs laws. The senate's maximum and minimum provision was retained in the main. It provides an increased duty amounting to 25 per cent ad valorem on goods brought into the United States from countries discriminating against this country. The drawback provisions of the Dingley law was restored with a slight addition controlling the use of alcohol in articles for export. The customs court was retained and its headquarters fixed in Washington The principal difficulty in the way of a clearly detailed comparison between the present so-called Dingley law, and the new bill lies in the fact that in most of the more important and sharply contested provisions and schedules, a radical re-arrangement of classification, and a shifting from specific to ad valorem duties, leave few common terms for comparison. bill. Had he done so three more Republicans would have added their protest and would have sent the bill back. But he changed his mind at the last minute and, although he didn't know it, raved the bill. The measure was finally passed at two minutes past 9 o'clock Saturday night. The announcement of the vote brought cheers, somewhat tempered by the sulriness of the night and general disaffection with the oll. Nineteen Republicans voted against the bill and two Democrats for it. For Sweet Charity's Sake By Ina Brevoort Roberts I ran down the steps of the flat house in which I live and walked towards the subway, feeling, in spite of the glorious weather, anything but jubilant. It was Saturday afternoon, and all the world would be pleasure-seeking, while for me—not a story in sight. I set my heels squarely on the sidewalk, in a devil's tattoo that dispelled some of my irritation. After all, I thought, I might be a shop girl compelled to pass my days in a stuffy store, or a society woman spending a lifetime looking for happiness in the wrong direction. In fact, I might be a whole lot of worse things than a reporter with health and nerves in good order, and spirits to correspond. Why, I'd rather be a failure at newspaper work than a success at anything else, I love it so. and eightieth, and looked able or even do a wail. The women in platoons; only stayed away, at the way her son was in love with itation of a man. By this time all arrived, reeled and found their of an indigo but four screech owl fisher detailed ter subsided so chattering, for I retired to scene to get of my aviary, elle, and they good for two Well, it did look as though I were to be catalogued as a failure—for today, at least, for I hadn't even an inkling of a story. I read the "What Is Going On To-Day" column in all the papers; but it was still early in the season, 'so nothing was slated to happen except a euchre at the Waldorf under the auspices of the Kindness club, for the benefit of the Wafs' home. Now, the gentle public doesn't clamor for news of euchres, unless somebody steals something or there's been a first-class row. Still, since nothing better offered, I decided, after I had reported at the office and my editor had expressed indifference in the matter, to cover this one. You see, there was a big stake pending Edouard Manet Collectively They Reminded Me of an Aviary. which made holding her position more than ever a game of chance to an inexperienced space-woman hanging to the paper by the fringe of society events. Much prospect there was for a salaried position for me at this rate! I set my teeth and decided that there must be a story in that euchre. I found the Astor gallery at the Waldorf a medley of bright colors and chatter. Separately, most of the 100 women present would have made imposing magazine illustrations; collectively they reminded me of an aviary. I picked out half a dozen cockatoos, one scarlet flamingo, a couple of beautiful white herons—and as for parrots, they were a drug on the market. To give contrast, even the sober, domestic hen was there, feeling her insignificance, but trying to cluck contentedly just the same. The odd part of it was that for all their excited chatter and distracted running about the birds seemed peaceable and to be enjoying themselves. I heard the gray parrot topped with pink feathers, who took tickets, tell a wren of a woman that she had stayed up till one o'clock the previous night getting the score cards ready. "Why didn't you have your committee do that?" inquired Mrs. Wren. "Weren't they willing to work?" "Oh, yes, I had a fine committee," Mrs. Parrot replied, "and we had lots of meetings, but we didn't seem to get a great deal done; there was always so much to be talked over. But I didn't mind. I enjoyed working, especially for charity, only I wish I didn't feel so tired with the entire responsibility of this affair on my shoulders. I think it's going to be a great success, though, don't you?" Mrs. Wren, also Mrs. Crow and Mrs. Green Parrot who now made up the group, all agreed that the euchre couldn't help be a success with Mrs. Gray Parrot at the head and front. I went to look at the prizes which were arranged on a long table at one side of the room. There were 70, one for every four players; the Mrs. Hawk who was guarding them proudly told me this. They included everything from steins to silk stockings. There was a box for the opera, and a smoking set. At the moment of observing the latter, I looked up to see a man emerging from the crush about the doorway. At first I thought he might be a reporter, but not after I could see more of him than the top of his head. He was a hot-house specimen of humanity, clothed in irreproachable afternoon dress, and he was going to play cards all of the glorious fall afternoon with 280 women, or, to be exact, 279—he would make the two hundred and eightieth. He was young, too, and looked able to swing a golf club or even do a wan's work in the world. The women swept down on him in platoons; only one little chickadee stayed away, and she, I could see by the way her soft eyes followed him, was in love with that card-playing imitation of a man. By this time, the arrivals having all arrived, received their score-cards and found their places with the help of an indigo bunting, a purple martin, four screech owls and a belted king-fisher detailed for the task; the futter subsided somewhat, though not the chattering, for play had not begun. I retired to the outskirts of the scene to get a comprehensive view of my aviary. A boy bugler blew reverie, and they were off. They were good for two and a half hours, during which I must sit and watch for something to make a story. A voice suddenly raised above the general clucking sent my self-abasement flying and made me sit up and take notice at once. Like a shot I was over in the corner where the commotion was, but it proved to be only a trifling difference of opinion that was soon settled. Still, the game was beginning to warm up. By the fourth round various expressions that anyone familiar with euchre knows, were stealing over most of the women's faces. Some got the prize-hunger in their eyes, others bent over the cards with the eager look of those who play for excitement's sake, while still others—well, they were wasting time gambling for mere bric-a-brac and trinkets worth only a few dollars. As for the Only Man, I amused myself by inventing suitable titles for him. He was the Belle of the Ball, the Flower of the Flock, and I couldn't decide between the Jack of Hearts and the Two-spot. The room as well as the game was warming up, and the air—how these women stayed in it from choice was beyond me. Several windows were opened by the hotel attendants, but the players nearest them complained of draughts and they had to be closed down. The sixth game closed and the women jostled each other to get in their places for the seventh. Mrs. Sparrow glared at her new partner, Mrs. Gray Owl, who played sleepily, and Mrs. Hawk wore the look of a martyr when she found herself for the third time opposite Mrs. Bluejay, who, it transpired, had never played euchre before, and had come innocently expecting to be shown how. She was. At last "Taps" sounded, and then the real excitement began; what had gone before was merely preliminary. Before the last note of the bugle had died away the prize table looked like a bargain counter. No third-rate department store ever held a more excited, eager-to-be-there-first-bound-not-to-get-left crowd than that collection of gorgeously gowned women wearing jewels enough to have decked an Indian temple. And the Only Man was in the thick of the fray. In vain the prize committee and the hotel attendants who had been called in to help preserve order tried to keep the women back. For a moment it looked as though there would be a wholesale run on the prizes; but at the crucial moment Mrs. Catbird's commanding voice made itself heard. "Ladies, ladies, remember you are ladies!" The throng fell back an inch or two, slightly disheveled and less than slightly ashamed. Once under control, the crowd was managed, though with no little difficulty, and the prizes were finally distributed. While they waited the impatient ones regaled one another with their woes. "My dear, I dislike quarreling, especially over cards, but you can't let people walk over you." "No, of course you can't." This was from my dear little bluebird, who looked worn out. The last prize left was a case of mineral water. "Oh, I don't want that," said the woman who was entitled to it, in a disappointed tone. "I'll take it, then," says the next one on the list, and up she steps and claims the case. My wasn't the first woman mad as a wet hen, though! The Only Man won the silk stockings, and the old maid got the smoking set. Perhaps, who knows, it proved a mascot? On the way to the cloakroom Mrs. Catbird stopped me. "Now deal gently with us, won't you, sweetheart?" she entreated. "Some of these women acted shamefully about the prizes, but you know euchres are given to raise money, so we can't be too particular about the people to whom tickets are sold. But you will be kind to us, won't you? I smiled. Oh, I meant to be kind all right, as a surgeon is or a dentist. I meant to give each one of those women a chance to see herself as she looked to the only sane person there when the game broke up. My, how good the fresh air felt when I got outside! Still, that eucheir was a great achievement. I heard afterward that it netted $200 for the orphans and it certainly won me a regular position on the paper. THE AMERICAN HOME W-A.RADFORD EDITOR 1 Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest author on all these subjects. Address Inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 194 Fifth Ave, Chicago, IL., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The most economical house to build and to occupy afterward is nearly square, of medium size, full two stories in height, with a good deep cellar and an attic big enough to act as a buffer against heat in summer and cold in winter. Such houses give more room, according to the size of the foundation and roof, than any other design. The house here illustrated is typical of this style. It is 31 feet wide by 38 feet from front to rear, proportions that work to good advantage. There are certain geometrical combinations that work to a disadvantage in a square house but are easily overcome when you add a few feet to the length. One of the difficulties is the stairway, which interferes with the proper laying out of the rooms in every short house. Stairways in dwellings houses have caused more gray hairs and sent more architects to early graves than any other feature in house building. There was a time when a rough ladder fashioned with an ax answered the purpose. It was made with the trunks of two trees for sides and sections of smaller trees for rounds. There was a hole through the upper floor and usually an effort was made to place the opening where the roof was high enough so you could miss hitting the knots on the rafters with your head. From that time to this stairways have grown in com- THE MUSEUM plexity until we think we have them about perfect. This plan provides a projection which holds about half of the stair landings. The projection also offer an excuse to work in four windows for light and for general effect. The lighting of a modern stairway is another recent improvement on anything that former generations were familiar with. This arrangement is a combination affair going up from the kitchen and from the front hall and down from the kitchen to the cellar. On the second floor the going up to the attic DINING ROOM 15'0"2"0" PORCH KITCHEN 10'6"2"0" SITTING ROOM 14'4"1"0" BEAT PORCH 15'0"1"0" BED ROOM 10'6"1"0" PORCH 3'0" First Floor Plan and downstairs is equally good. The stairway looks well and it is very convenient and satisfactory. A house built in this manner has another advantage and that is in heating. It is so compact that from one to five tons of coal per year, may be saved as compared with the amount required in some old-fashioned loose-jointed houses that are no more roomy or offer no more accommodation. Whether you heat with steam, hot air or hot water, you must burn coal enough to get what heat you need, but the heat needed varies greatly in different houses. Under this house is a splendid cellar that is as light as some of the best rooms in houses built a dozen years ago, when small, narrow windows were in fashion. In a basement like this you can place a modern --- heating apparatus that will take care of the temperature in the coldest weather and the attention required will not worry a person more than a few minutes twice a day. Makers of hot water heating plants and hot air furnaces are in very close competition. Improvements are being added every year until both systems seem to be about as near perfect as human ingenuity can make them. A hot air furnace big enough to heat this house comfortably in zero weather can be installed for about $125. A BALCONY CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE MALL CHAMBER 11'-0"X16'-0" CLOSE CHAMBER 12'-0"X16'-0" ROOF Second Floor Plan. hot weather heating system will cost more. The difference will depend largely on the kind of radiators and the extra attachments. Probably $250 would be the minimum and $500 would be rather extravagant. The hot water plant will use a little less coal because hot water is a better medium through which to convey 100 heat. While no accurate estimate can be given without figuring the actual amount of heating surface and cubic air space, on general principles, it may be said that taking five years together, the cost of one system is about the same as the other. The saving of coal by the use of hot water will about offset the interest on the investment and take care of the depreciation in value of the plant. There are arguments in favor of both systems for houses of this size. With hot air you can get fresh pure air from outside and send it into every corner of the house. My belief is that families using hot air furnaces that are properly installed enjoy better health than those who use hot water for heating, but unfortunately a great many hot air furnaces are arranged to take the air from inside the house. This loses the most valuable asset that should ordinarily be placed to the credit of the hot air furnace. However, either system should embrace a thorough plan for constantly changing the air in the rooms through ventilating flues. I like to plan houses like this because they, are so thoroughly complete when properly built, as they should be, from cellar to attic, with all the essentials carefully worked out. It is just as important to balance up all mechanical features of a house as it is to look to and adjust all the parts of a machine. Mechanics have more to do with our comfort and health than most of us realize. A small fire in the cellar may be made to supply hot water to the laundry tubs, to the kitchen and to the bathroom so we can have hot water to use at any hour of the day or night. I often think that we accept the many modern improvements to our houses without due appreciation. I want to call attention to the upper balcony in the rear of the bathroom Siace carpets have been abolished, and all good houses have hard wood floors, rugs have become very fashionable. It seems necessary to have rugs cleaned once a week or once a month according to the amount of service required of them, and this upper balcony facilitates the work of cleaning. The rugs may be carried out and left in the sun and swept on the floor or whipped over the balcony railing so much easier than to carry them down to the yard. 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. 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He once put out to pasture a colt, which had been fed from its birth in a box stall and watered at the trough in the yard. "The pasture lay across a small river, and in the middle of the day the colt stam the stream to go up to the barn-yard for a drink of water."—Youth's Companion. Crop Growing on Small Scale. A small holder in East Lexham is making an interesting experiment in barley growing upon his land to test the possibility of raising corn on a small scale. In 1907 he sowed 78 specially selected grains of barley, which yielded 400 ears. The resulting kernels he sowed in 1908 and harvested in 14 weeks, with the result that he got a bushel of threshed barley, which he has sown this year, his object being to show what can be done in cereal cultivation from very small beginnings—London Standard. "To Orient." Primarily and as its etymology shows the verb to orient means to set an object in exact adjustment to the east, thence by a natural corollary to set it true with all the cardinal points of the compass. Then in the derivative and tropical signification it is used to describe the attitude of a nind duly adjusted to any standard of knowledge, morals or life. Exceptions. "You don't have to be enthusiastic to succeed in some things," said the boarding-house philosopher; "I once saw a man achieve a speed of a mile a minute sliding down a mountain side, without the slightest effort on his part ard without having had any ambition to do it." Every package of Post Toasties Contains a little book- "Tid-Bits made with Toasties." A couple of dozen recipes Of fascinating dishes. A help in entertaining Home folks or company. Pkgs. 10c and 15c At grocers. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Char. H. Hitchens. 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Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 N Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. "To Live and Let Live" Is Our Motto. Send your news in earlier Prof. Sam T. Hood SURGEON CHRIOPODIST Removes Corns, Bunions, In- grown Nails and all pedic troubles. Graduate American School hropody of New York City. 343 North Main Street Wlehita's Oldest, Most R liable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER & DONS, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market The concert at the Pyeimid hall was a grand and successful the program was as follows;— Song- Congregation Nearer my God to the. Invocation Rev. H. Woods, Vocal Solo Prof Henderson Quartette, Junita Necie Andrews, Ethel Coldwell, Blanchy Kemp, Pearl Sawyers. Instrumental Solo Mrs Hart Solo Miss Susie Downs Lecture- In interest of Langston University Professor Henderson Vocal Solo Mr Liverpool, Vocal Solo, Miss. Gertrude Downs, Closing remarks Rev. C. A. Woods. Prof. Henderson proves himself to be Master of the situation both as a vocalist and speaker. We wish him much success in his field of labor. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver who have been visiting relatives and friends in Kansas City for the last six weeks have returned home. Mrs Henry Young is spending a few days in Winfield with rela- King Taylor has bought him a home at 413 N. 1st St. Special Master E. V. McKeever tied Peerless Steam Laundry LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to GU1 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Send your news in earlier. The Searchlight $1. per year Mrs. J. H. Van Lue and family have returned home from a few days visit in Pratt Kansas. Miss. Morton who has been visiting in the left Tuesday for her home in Topeka Ks. Miss. Ethel Patton returned home Saturday from Kans. City where she has been visiting for several weeks, reports having a very pleasant trip. Mrs. Saddie Thomas left Friday tor Colo. Springs where she will spend a few weeks of the summer. The Sisters of the Sunflower Grand Court, which just closed its fifteenth annual session at Hutchinson, presented Mrs. Mollie Cox wlth a beautiful roman gold bracelet as a token of the sisterly love and respect in which they held her. Mrs. Cox has been at the head of Calantheans for the past two years, ana her resignation because of ill health only prevented her from being re-elected for the ensuring term. However Mrs. Cox was unanimously elected Supreme Court at Kansas City Mo. which convens August the 24th. Mrs. Delila Mont is.visiting in Moberly Mo. Mrs. G. G. Brown is spending several weeks in Atchison visiting, Mrs. Grant Ewing and Mrs. Walt Robinson have taken the Eastern Star degrees. Jas J. Olden and John H. Jones are conducting a barber shop at $ 6 1 2 \frac {1}{2} $ N. Mrin. They will appreciate your patronage. Send your news in earlier Wa This S Makin Eye 517 N. Ma Watch This Space Makin Eye Drug Co. 517 N. Main Street DIED—Christopher Willis the five months old infant of Mr. and Mrs. William Willis of 636, N. Water died Wednesday Aug. 4th 1909. The baby was born Feb.16 1908, was 5 mos 19 das old at death. Mrs. Thos Glover left Wednesday for Colorado Springs Colo. where she will spend the summer. Miss. Josiphine Cal met with quite an accident Wednesday afternoon. She was thrown from buggie and broke her arm. A SPLENDID TIME The Barbecue and picnic given by Broad Guage Club No. at the McKinley Park on last Wed. was one of the most enjoyable affairs ever given by the colored people of this city for years, The day was opened with a big parade by the Broad Guage Club Military band who ended their parade at the park. The beaf and pork was barbecued by Mr. Henry Braden. Every one agreed that the barbecued meat cooked by Mr. Braden was the best they had ever eaten. Music, speechmaking and other amusements occupied the time. Among those who spoke were Senator Jas. H. Stewart and Atty A. J. Adams. On July 27th, 1909, Sir John Kipper, a member of Silver Leaf Temple No. 15 died in this city. Sir Kipper was 39 years of age. He was also a member of Saint John's Baptist church and had a host of warm friends all over our city. He was buried under the auspice of Silver Leaf Temple No, 15 with the full honors of Knights. The members of his Temple extend to the bereaved family their full sympathies. Our loss is heaven's gain. Moses Dickson No. 5 and the Pearl Tent No. 16 will give a Social at Young's Hall on Thursday night August 19th. Every Knight and Daughter should attend this Social and give their support in building up a strong Tent in Wichita. OMAHA NEBRASKA Mrs. Lulu Roundtree, Grand Recorder of the Daughters of Bethel left Monday to attead the Grand Lodge. Rev. Frank Wilssn was in Omaha last week and while here in- vested $4300.00 in a hall at 24. and Grant Sts. Miss. M. Beasly of Pittsburg is visiting Mrs Will Rose. The Temples and Tabernacles will gibe a picnic and trollly ride on August 12th. Miss. E. C. Carter of New Bedford Mass. president of the Women's Club will lecture here Aug. 15th. while in the city the guest of Mrs A. Lewis. A paper was read by G. W. Hitbler on "The Future of the Church." Collection $104 00. Mt. Morris Baptist church had a corner stone laying on Sunday Aug. 1st. The Masons & Knights of Tabor met and marched in a body of the church where the Masons laid the corner stone. At the church they were met by the Ministers and Deacons Union. Layers T. J. Pickett a orator for the Masons delivered a splen uik address which was respond ed to by Rev. S. Anderson of So. Omaha. Rev. J. J, Adams of Council Bluffs Io. also made speach Send your news in earlier W. N. Miller Attorney-at-Law NOTARY PUBLIC Office 634 North Water Street Practices in all the Gourts Of Kansas and Missouri Residence Phone · Bell 1641 Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Office Hours 9 to 11 a.m. Residence 2 to 9 p.m. 513 N. Main St 7 to 8 p.m. OFFICE 513 N. MAIN ST Phone 860 green LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner Of 3rd & Main HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty Office 703 N. 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CULP, P For the best Meats, Beef, Ins and Sealship, Oysters, Cattish, and Halibut for your Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed Cooked Meats. 241 N. Main Street. IMBODEN'S IMPRINT GRAHAM — CORN MEN With thirty-five years mil- products are the best that best selected grain only and Ask You See that you get THE IMBODEN WICHITA J. H. ENG Lumber Successor to 318 West D JOB PRINTING Is Our S 634 NOR It was while Charlemagne Tower 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 Nevska, of Charlemagne Tower, brilliantly illuminated, looming grand and imposing against the winter sky."—Success Magazine. 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A "Young Mother" asks our opinion of "the alleged injurious effects of rocking on babies." We must frankly say that we consider it a brutal practice. As the father of a great many babies, of all ages, we never rocked on any of them intentionally, and we would probably be arrested if we expressed our full opinion of any woman who would presume to do so.—Lippincott's Magazine. The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. 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Electric Lighti, Electr Transient Trade — Restaurant in Connect R. Johnston, Proprietor Johnston's Hotel A 507 N. Main St. K thing first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric transient Trade — Restaurant in Connect R. Johnston, Proprietor CHITA 507 N. Main St. KANSAS Everything first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric Fans Transient Trade - Restaurant in Connection R. Johnston, Proprietor L S. Naftsger, President, W. R. Tucker, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, C. W. Brown. Vice President, V. H. Branch, Gashier. Fourth National Bank WICHITA, KANSAS Dirrctors: W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R L. Holmes, S. B. Amidon, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftsger, H. W. Darling, A. G. Houston, E. C. Sheldon, C. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin, Hen ry Lassen, V. H. Bransh. A General Banking Business Transacted CELEBRATED REAM AND RETAIL Socials and Churches any part of the city & KANDY ITCHEN ERVE, Prop. Phone 152 STRACT CO. n's Hotel Main St. KANSAS Electric Lighti, Electric Fans restaurant in Connection , Proprietor Its the man who "sticks-to-it" who wins. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 601 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. "I see that a New York professor reforms bad boys with piano music." "I hope he bears in mind that some pianos need reforming quilts as much as bad boys do." Straighten Your Hair Dear Sirs:—I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it for it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. Mrs. W. F. Walker. Sta. I—Harriman, Tenn. Formly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow. Fifty years of success has proved its merit. It is a moist, moist, moist fabric, and pliable, so you can comb it and arrange it in any style you wish consistent with its length. It is a soft, soft, soft fabric, the soap, the hair from falling out or breaking off, and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless—used with splendid resplendence. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as ladies of refinement everywhere declare. Ford's Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't buy it until you see it. If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay you. Look for this name on every package. on every package. If your druggist will not supply you with the genuine send us, express or postal money order $5 cents for regular size or $25 cents for small size bottle and give us your druggist's name and address. We will forward bottle prepaid to any point in U. S.A. by return mail on receipt of price. Address. The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 153 East Kenzie St. Chicago, Ill. FORD'S HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. For Everything in Building Material SEE SEE BOTH PHONES 406 J H TURNER 533 ro 347 WEST DOUGLAS ALMS Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-day 829 East Center SALINA, KANSAS Use Herman's Cement Stone Made from the best material. Lasts longer, wears better and more durable than any other Cement Stone on the market. Prices Reasonable. PRICES 11c each laid in wall 8c each delivered 7c each in the yard Rock Face 8c each Plain Face 7c each Manufactured. By W. L. HERMAN. 527 Ohio Ave., New Phone 1127 W. L. Herman CONTRACTING : PLASTERER 856 Eagle St., Wichita, Kan. Job Printing We have installed a new line of JOB TYPE FACES and we would be pleased to use them on a job for you. Work--Low Prices to all 634, North Water St. Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salv Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spices These Goods Have No Epual They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 808 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita - Kansas Real Estate 5 room house and 50 x 500 ft on Sher- wood $600.00 2 vacant lots on Sherwood $300.00 6 vacant lots on Ohio Ave $1500.00 8 lots on Burns Ave $680.00 8 room two story house 2 lots $1500.00 5 vacant lots ($100.00) each $500.00 9 lots on Wabash ($125.00) each $112500 The Wichita Land and Investment Co. James J. Olden Pres. 612½ N. Main St. Wichita Kans. Send your news in earlier GOOD PASTURE Dan Peterson has a splendid good pasture, seven [7] miles due West on Thirteenth [13] St. for horses and cattle. Prices reasonable. 10 - HYMN POST CARDS- 10c Something new, A beautiful reminder for your friends. Set of ten different subjects; beautifully illustrated "Rock of Ages" "Lead Kindly Light," "Just as I am," "Nearer my God to Thee," etc. etc. 3 sets for 25c Lawrence Co. Dept. 205, Chicago Ill. P. S. If you order 3 sets for 25c at once we will send you absolutely FRFE a beautiful Post. Card entitled "Auld Lang Syne." Satisfaction IN EVERY POUND OF "Wichita's Best"Four POENISCH BROS., Agents 622 N. Main Street We also carry a complete stock of Hay, Grain, Feed and Coal. 530 - Both Phones - 530 TRY U8 For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO. Pecullar, 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 hora 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 mealles are likewise grown. The Quaint Belluga. Caviare can be made of the roe of any fish; but the principal supply comes from the sturgeon and the belluga. The latter is about the most curious fish in the world. It weighs up to 1,000 pounds and inhabits the waters of the swift-flowing Volga. It is so abundant that the natives of Astracan throw away the flesh—which is whiter than veal and very nainty—and preserve only the spawn, of which they sometimes take as much as 200 pounds out of one fish. This belluga lies on the bottom of the river at certain seasons and swallows many large pebbles of great weight to ballast itself against the force of the stream; that is, the pebbles act as an anchor. When the flood subsides and the waters are less violent the belluga disgorges itself; that is, it unballasts, hauls in its anchor and swims about for provender. 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. Misery prevails greatly among the crews of Arctic sealers, for the damnness and the cold soon sap the stoutest constitutions. KANSAS REPUBLICANS. The unsatisfactory working of the state primary in Kansas is conceeed by the substantial elements of the Republican and the Democratic parties alike. About the only ones who are still enthusiastic for the primary fetich are the politicians who hold office under an administration in early committed to the system. The primary was imposed upon the state by a simi-Populistic legislature under the domination of a radical administration without due consideration or specific authority from the people. With a view to rectifying the mistake as far as possible, a plan has been devised whereby it is believed the rank and file of the Republican party will be able at least choose the state platform and take this important work out of the hand of the candidates themselves. When the primary law because operative it did away with party effectiveness bo delegating to candid Ates almost the entire control of the party organization and declarations. Men who could attend to make a canvass of state were nominated on the Republican ticket, and after that they formulated their own platform which contained anything and everything that might appeal to voters. As most of these planks expressed merely individual perferences or bid for Democratic or Populastic support, the rank & file of the organization had to swallow all sorts of anti-Republican declarations is supporting their party ticket. A number of Republican leaders not in spmpathy with the Stubbs kind of politics are now considered plan to call a state convention eo be unofficial but binding, for the adopted of a state Republican platform later on. It is believed that in this way the Republicans can regain control of their party and eliminate from the state platform the many isms and non Republican feature which have reflected seriously upon the wisdom of the party in the state. It is also proposed to hold county and congressional conventions of the same character. Whether this is the best way to proceed is still a matter of argument but there is little doubt that it will domnch to ressore the Republican organization to the control of the voters who belong to it. 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 vain. 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. Wichita Citized Ask Gov. Stubbs to Refuse Requisition An effort is being made by the Sheriff Henslee of Burleson county, Tex. to take Charles J. Evans a negro, who has lived here three years, back to Texas to answer the charge of attempting to murder a white man. Mayor Davidson, Chief of Police Burt and other prominent citizens have requested Governor Stubbs to refuse to grant the requisition. They say Evans has been a good citizen, and that if he is taken back to Texas he will be hung without trial. Governor Stubbs has been in communication today with different men in this city, but so far has refused to grant the requisition. The matter came up once before duridg Governor Hoch's term and he refused to grant the requisition papers. Day Dream A Waste Of Time Precious Hours Lost to Those Who Are Prond to Wait for the Mood to Strike Them If you have a particular piece of work to do, get it done. Dont wait for mood to strike you. Dont dream! There are more precious hours wasted in day-dreams than any of us would care to think about if we counted them. The queer thing about day-dreams is that so few them ever amount to anything. The dreamer is only semiconscious when building his air castles, so as a rule they have no practical foundation. While you are at work keep your mind on what you are doing, and do not let it wander off to what you would like to be doing. Only by keeping your mind on what you ore doing now can you bring it fresh and keen to the things you like doing best when the time for doing them comes. Thinking too much about even a great happiness takes the edge off it. The best time for day dreams is after you have gone to bed. —New York American TO HESITATE LONG IS TO FAIL Many a man fails because he does not dare to take risks, to take the initiative. When do you expect to do anything distinctive in life? When do you expect to get out of the ranks of mediocrity? The men who do original things are fearless. There is a lot of dare in their make-up, a great deal of boldness. They are not afraid to take chances, to shoulder responsibility, to endure inconvenience and privation. There never was a time when the quality of courage was so absolutely indispensable in the business world as it is to-day. It does not matter how many success qualities you possess, young man, if you lack courage you will never get anywhere. Not even honesty or perseverance will take its place. There is no substitute for courage. It does not matter how well educated you may be, or how good a training you may have had for your vocation, if you are a hesitator, if you lack that courage which dares to risk all on your judgment, you will never get above mediocrity. The men who stand at the top of their line of endeavor stand there because they have the courage of their convictions. They had the courage to climb, had the nerve to undertake even against the advice of others.—Success Magazine. evening up place at the polls. The politicians, the men who make a business of politics, have a wisdom of their own, and they have a respect, though it be a selfish and a reluctant one, for that which the people are bent on doing. If all the dire things had happened to this republic that politicians just before national conventions had predicted would happen to it if a man not their choice were elected president, there would not be a shred of liberty left in the land. The people, however, seem to be satisfied that they have the same kind of freedom that was the joyful possession of their forefathers. One of the arguments that was used against the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for another term was that he had gathered unto himself most of the forces of government and that he had absorbed almost wholly the larger part of the functions of the legislative branch. It was a common enough thing in Washington last year and the year before to hear the words muttered about "one-man power" and the "republic's rapid road to despotism." Somehow or other there seemed to be a feeling that this was utterly new talk and that the supposed danger existed for the first time in the history of the country. Two years ago a New York paper with an eye on Roosevelt opened its columns to a discussion of "Caesarism." The same New York paper years ago saw daily and nightly for wearisome month after wearisome month the ghost of "Caesarism." There is nothing new under the sun, even in the matter of ghosts. When the Democrats of the country got together in convention in Baltimore in the year 1872 Caesarism and centralization stalked hourly through the hall arm in arm before the eyes of the affrighted delegates. The Liberal Republicans had held a convention in Cincinnati and had nominated Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown for president and vice-president. The Democrats had assembled at Baltimore to indorse the Liberal Republicans' ticket and to say things in their platform about General Grant and the Republican party generally. No one probably will deny to-day that there were a hundred and one things in Grant's administration bad enough to have had some words not of praise said about them, but instead of actually specifying this thing or that thing the speakers of the Democratic convention were so carried away by the fear that the republic was to go the way and that an empire was to come into its own that they lost track of legislative matters that might have been criticised and held up to make the voters afraid the crowned wrath of "Caesarism." ASHINGTON.-The political activities of the American people are practically ceaseless. National, state and local elections follow one another in unbrok- WASHINGTON.-The political activities of the American people are practically ceaseless. National, state and local elections follow one another in unbroken round. It is held, seemingly, that in short terms of office lies the greater safety for free institutions. It has been asserted and argued to the limit of patience and endurance in Washington and elsewhere that the campaigning times, with their attendant excitement, coming as they do with barely a space between, tend to the breaking of the health of the business life. Prosperity, however, has been so generally a part of the country's history that little heed is given to the complaining cry. The fear of a possible instability of institutions that might follow a change has outweighed the fear of a possible but temporary commercial instability. in Massachusetts where, because of the supposed effect of the traditional habit of thought, the people might be expected to look with favor on a long tenure of public office, the governor of the state is elected yearly. The mayor of the city of Boston also holds office only for a twelvemonth. Massachusetts and Boston are no weaklings commercially. There has been, however, a tendency in the states of the Union to lengthen the terms of the chief executives. That which seems wise to-day would have been deemed folly half a century ago. The people have found that they can trust themselves to keep away from the pit of apathy for three or four years and that all men are not possessed of dangerous ambitions. The recurring talk of a term of six years for the president and the talk of senators for life terms is probably but talk for talk's sake. Anything that has politics for a basis is of interest to the live, American and in the and each can back the name given with reasons that for which the advancer couldn't get a vote—not even its own. American politics deal largely in futures. The namag of presidents is done so many thousands of times before the convention days that figures cannot keep the count. The question of the multitude that witnesses the oath taking of a president on the platform east of the capitol is: "Who will take the oath four years from to-day?" There are some thousands of individual members of the multitude who will be quick to give answer and each can back the given name with reasons that he believes all convincing. It is a great game and it makes for safety. There never has been a time since Washington was inaugurated in the city of New York that the concerns of legislation, no matter how vital to the country, have been strong enough to keep politics and the matter of the presidential succession out of the people's minds. The American thrives on politics—proof enough, perhaps, that it is a healthy food. There has been the ever-ready sneer at American methods of naming a president. Men who think none too well of popular government have said, until by retention they have come to believe their own words, that the politicians and the office holders (also politicians) do the president-naming for the people. It is a statement that bears no test. When Mr. Roosevelt began the outlining of his policies there was hardly a politician in the land who approved. The members of congress who were friendly to the president's course could be counted with no knowledge of counting. Measures went through congress that the congressmen who voted ave loathed in their souls. What was the reason of it all? The people themselves were voting, using unwilling but finally politically wise agents to do the voting for them. The man who wants to succeed himself in office has an eye and ear for his constituents. If he wants to commit political suicide he becomes temporarily blind and deaf. The force of public opinion was never more sharply shown than in the United States senate winter before last, when senator after senator voted for measures that three years ago they would openly have declared to be malicious, because they might disturb business interests, business interests being the interests of corporations which some people say sow little and reap plenteously. As for the house of representatives, the men who stood against the presidential policies, still clinging to the belief that the majority of the people was not in sympathy with the administration, found out their mistake at the convention or later at the polls. All this was a part and parcel of the plan of president-naming by the people. It is as certain as mundane things can be certain that if the politicians of either party and their allies succeed in thwarting the will of the voters at a national convention there is always the VOTE It was 35 years ago that the ghost of Caesarism walked abroad in America. It walked again recently and there was just as much substance of the spirit as there was when August Belmont in the Democratic convention at Baltimore saw it striding through the convention hall. In his speech at that Democratic convention Mr. Belmont said that Grant, aided by a corrupt congress, a congress from which all love of liberty had departed, was assuming all the functions of government of whatever kind, and that the bayonets of the military despotism already were flashing in the sun. The New Yorker declared that "Caesarism and centralization" were undermining the very foundations of our federal system and "sweeping away all constitutional bulwarks." The republic, however, still lived and last year Democrats and many Republicans, 35 years after, were crying "Caesarism and centralization" and in the same breath declaring that all the constitutional bulwarks were being swept away. When the minds of those who "see things" got normal and the eyesight became clear, Caesarism and centralization were found somewhere far down the wind and the constitutional bulwarks were found to be as strong ribbed and as iron bound as ever. The country always goes to the devil in a thousand different ways just before the delegates to the great national conventions are gathered together. In the Liberal Republican convention of 1872, held in the city of Cincinnati, there were things said about General Grant which made the things said in the Baltimore convention a little later seem tame. When Grant's name was mentioned in the convention the first time every man hissed and kept on hissing for the period usually allotted to the applause following the mention of some favored one. It was only seven years before this that Grant had received the surrender of Lee at Appomattox and yet here in a northern convention of men nearly every one of whom had been a Republican the name of the great soldier was greeted with the hisses not only of contempt but of hatred. In the year 1892 the Democratic convention was held in a building erected for the purpose on the lake front in Chicago. Any man who attended this Democratic gathering will remember the building—"the Wigwam," as it was called. The roof of the Wigwam leaked. The smallest hole in it was the skylight. It was at the Wigwam convention that Grover Cleveland was nominated for the third time for the office of president. In th hotels for two or three days before the convention there were scores of men who were given over to the task of telling everybody who would listen that if the convention were to commit the unpardonable offense of nominating Grover Cleveland defeat awaited the Democratic party and if by any chance defeat were averted the election of Cleveland would bring disaster to the country. The New York delegation, 72 men in number, was as a unit for the nomination of David Bennett Hill. The things that these New Yorkers said about Grover Cleveland, a citizen of their own state, would have been little less than astounding to some foreigners who did not understand the ways and byways of American politics. There was no crime which Mr. Cleveland had not committed. Even if the crimes not be proved against him, there was not one chance in a universe of chances that he would carry New York state if he were nominated. New York would have none of him. No person from Good Ground on the Atlantic to Buffalo on Lake Erie, it was said, had any liking in his heart for the only man who had led the Democratic hosts to victory since before the days of the civil war. The New Yorkers went into the convention hall and voted for Hill and with them in the voting were some forty-odd Democrats. Mr. Cleveland received 617 votes and his nomination immediately was made unanimous. The New York delegation went home. It forgot all the bad things it had said about Mr. Cleveland and if anybody was unkind enough to bring them to remembrance the answer was, "It was all in the game and we wanted Hill." The Democrats from Good Ground to Buffalo, Tammanyites and all, worked for the election of Grover Cleveland, and elected he was. If you hear anything about a candidate in a national convention from a delegate who opposes his nomination, don't believe it. After the convention is over the delegate himself will tell you he lied. Early in the winter preceding the national conventions the members of the national committees of both great political parties meet to decide in which of the great cities this convention shall be held. Both committee meetings are called for the city of Washington for the greater convenience of the members, many of whom have official positions with the scene of their activities in the capital city. In the years gone by the choice of the convention city was to some extent governed by political considerations. There was a set belief on the part of many of the committeemen that party advantage was to be gained by the naming of this city of the city as the place for the great gathering. Such thoughts largely have passed and the national committees nowadays are more anxious to have a convention held in a city which has a hall properly arranged, big enough for the delegates and for a horde of spectators and safeguarded in every way against fire and other dangers. Of course money enters into the matter as it enters into most matters of life. The national committeemen expect the city that is honored to bear the actual expenses of holding the convention. Just how much the business of a great town is benefited by the political gathering it is hard to state. Of course the hotels reap plentely, but the great gain to a community comes from the example which the political convention sets for the delegates of other convention-holding bodies to follow. From the moment that the lawmakers get together in Washington after a presidential election the next campaign is on. In the winter,next preceding a convention there is more politics in the national city than there is legislation. The effect of Washington politics is felt all over the Union and it is in the capital city largely that policies are framed and plans are laid against the day of the next national convention. Already the discussion in the capital is turning to the subject of the nominees for the next great national contest. SOMETHING BETTER Joseph H. Choate said at a recent dinner that within a few years (he was sure) all civilized nations would be compelled to arbitrate their quarrels, as for centuries all civilized men have been compelled to do. "Patriotism—the glorious fourth—all that sort of thing is very good, indeed," said Mr. Choate, "but disarmament, universal peace, will be much better. "In this splendid peaceful future which is so near us, friends of war will seem as uncouth as a young man seemed the other day in my native Salem. "This young man entered a drug store and said: "Gimme a brush." "Very good, sir," said the polite assistant. What kind of a brush? A toothbrush? "Toothbrush? Naw! snarled the young man. What would I want a toothbrush fur? Do ye think I've got hair on my teeth?" $50,000 ISDEMANDED BY ABDUCTORS OF THE TWO ST. LOUIS CHILDREN. 3 TRUNKS SEIZED IN CHICAGO Police Declare Kidnapping Is Cul- mination of Deep Plot on Be- half of Italian Black- mailers. St. Louis, Mo.—The discovery that three trunks had been shipped from St. Louis to Chicago by men suspected of the kidnapping of Grace and Tomasso Viviano, confirmed the local police in the belief that the disappearance of the children and the demand for $50,000 for them with the result of a carefully worked out blackmailing plan, which did not, however, contemplate harm to the children. The local police officials had no idea that the trunks found in Chicago contained the bodies of the children. For this reason Chief Creecy telegraphed to the Chicago authorities to use their own judgment in opening the boxes. The message was in answer to a communication from Chicago to the effect that bodies were believed to be in the trunks. No Bodies Found. The St. Louis police theory of the trunks was that they contained the property of Samuel Turrisi, who is believed to have lured the Viviano children from their homes, and other members of the blackmailing gang. The trunks were taken from the house of Joseph Pagano here Monday, and it is known that a man answering Turrisi's description left Pagano's house an hour before the children disappeared Monday. This theory was confirmed when the local police were informed that an inspection of the trunks by the Chicago authorities revealed only clothing and similar articles. It is thought possible, however, that important evidence may be adduced from a proof of ownership of the clothing, as it might tend to reveal the personnel of the kidnappers. Lamencia Giroloma, who hauled the trunks to the express office here on Monday, has been arrested. The police now have in custody Giroloma and Joseph Pagano, believed to have been participants in the crime, CHINESE REBELLION Victoria, B. C.—The steamer Tonga Maru, from the Orient, brought news of a rebellion in the great Mohammedan province of Kansu, China, following a famine. One of the members of an American exploring party, a Hindoo topographer, has been killed. Several walled cities, including Yulinfu, Yenanfu, Sitechou and Misu-sien, were besieged by the rebels, against whom imperial troops, foreign drilled and capable, had been sent. The Tango Marn brought news that there has been a recrudescence of piracy in South China, and some tragic affairs are reported, seven persons being roasted to death by pirates near Shuntak, after the capture of a castlelike house owned by one of the local gentry. Although the Chinese garrison was but 300 yards away, no troops came to assist the besieged household, or to succor them when the pirates roasted them alive. Harris Shows Improvement. Lawrence, Kan.—Former United States Senator W. A. Harris, who became seriously ill following a recent heart attack, is reported to be much better. His complete recovery is expected soon. PARIS SEES SLAYER Paris.—A sudden official announcement that a public beheading would take place at 4:30 o'clock this Thursday, morning in the boulevard fronting the Santaprison, created a sensation in Paris, which had not seen an execution in fifteen years. Immediately immense crowds were gathered at the scene, but were kept back from the guillotine by heavy details of police and municipal guards. Parisian sentiment has long been opposed to public executions, for in the past they were accompanied by scandalous scenes of revelry. Despite this sentiment, parliament refused to abolish the death penalty in France, and in view of the revolting crime of the man executed this morning, President Fullieries refused to commute his sentence to life imprisonment. The victim was named Duchemin, aged 23, a butcher. In 1908 he stabbed his mother, and this not resulting in her death quick enough, he finished her by strangulation. The motive for the crime was robbery. Trouble in Spain Clears Madrid.-The government issued an official announcement saying the crisis in Spain was now at an end and that the country was tranquil from the Biscan bay to the Mediterranean. The release of Senor Iglesias editor of El Progresso, and a certain relaxation of the censorship are considered the best evidence that the danger is past. The minister of the interior says that not only the reservists but volunteers are flocking to the recruiting stations for service in Morocco. A SURE SIGN. When It Appears Act at Once. Trouble with the kidney secretions is a certain sign that your kidneys are deranged and that you should use Doan's Kidney Pills. They cure all irregularities and annoyances, remove backache and side pains and restore the kidneys to health. Charles Cole, 204 N. Buckeye St., Iola, Kans., says: "The kidney secretions were irregular, scanty and painful and contained sediment. My back was stiff and lame and the kidneys to health. Charles Cole, 204 N. Buckeye St., Iola, Kans., says: "The kidney secretions were irregular, scanty and painful and contained sediment. My back was stiff and lame and my limbs swelled. I grew weak and discouraged. Doan's Kidney Pills removed these troubles entirely. I have been well for two years." Remember the name—Doan's, Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. HEARTLESS. Horace—Ah! Miss Gwace, what should a young man do when he wants to write spring poetry? Grace—He should see a doctor. Either Way. Mr. Wilkins had been sitting quietly on a nail keg, perusing a paper which he had found on the counter. The date of it he had not noticed. Finally he looked up with a puzzled expression. "What's this wireless telegraph signal, this 'C. O. D.' they're talking about?" he asked. "Iguess it's 'C. Q. D.' ain't it?" suggested Holbrook, the grocer. "Anyway, it's a signal of distress," he added, moodily. The Clothesline Test: "Let me see her clothes on the line," said an old-fashioned woman recently, "and I can tell you if she is a good housekeeper." The test lies in the way the garments are hung. If the skirts are scattered around promiscuously the woman lets garbage stand on her kitchen table over night. The skirts, like we men, should always hang together, shoulder to shoulder, and everything of its kind should hang in a row. Atchison Globe. Wonderful. "This is a remarkable world!" exclaimed O'Brien. "I was walking down the street this morning and I met a man I hadn't seen for about twelve years." "Yes," rejoined Murphy, "it is a remarkable word. I just had an experience much like that myself. I was walking down the street not ten minutes ago, and I met two men—two mind you—that I'd never met before." Hopeless. Tom—I tell you, old man, Miss Gabble certainly has got a pile of money. Why don't you propose to her? Dick—I've started to do it several times. Tom—What's the matter? Lose your courage? Dick—No, but I'm never able to get a word in edgewise—Catholic Standard and Times. THE NEW WOMAN Made Over by Quitting Coffee, Coffee probably wrecks a greater percentage of Southerners than of Northern people for Southerners use it more freely. The work it does is distressing enough in some instances; as an illustration, a woman of Richmond, Va., writes: "I was a coffee drinker for years and for about six years my health was completely shattered. I suffered fearfully with headache and nervousness, also palpitation of the heart and loss of appetite. "My sight gradually began to fall and finally I lost the sight of one eye altogether. The eye was operated upon and the sight partially restored, then I became totally blind in the other eye. "My doctor used to urge me to give up coffee, but I was wilful and continued to drink it until finally in a case of severe illness the doctor insisted that I must give up the coffee, so I began using Postum, and in a month I felt like a new creature. "I steadily gained in health and strength. About a month ago I began using Grape-Nuts food and the effect has been wonderful. I really feel like a new woman and have gained about 25 pounds. "I am quite an elderly lady and before using Postum and Grape-nuts I could not walk a square without exceeding fatigue, now I walk ten or twelve without feeling it. Formerly in reading I could remember but little but now my memory holds fast what I read. Several friends who have seen the remarkable effects of Postum and Grape-Nuts on me have urged that I give the facts to the public for the sake of suffering humanity, so, although I dislike publicity, you can publish this letter if you like." Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter! A new one appears from time to time. They smile, true, and full of human interest. You Look Prematurely Old Beausuee of those ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE. $1.00. retail. George—There's Miss Passay. She claims she's never been kissed. Harry—Why, I've kissed her myself, years ago. She means not since she can remember. HIS PLEASURE A LATE ONE. Probably Mr. Hogan Did Not Realize Just What Might Be Made of His Expression. Casey was dead, and to do honor to him the members of the Thirteenth district Tammany organization attended the funeral in a body, says the New York Press. Slowly and sadly they filed past the coffin and took a last look at their departed comrade. At the door each man paused to shake hands with the sorrowing widow and to murmur a few words of condolence. When it came to Mr. Hogan's turn, he retained possession of her hand, while he delivered a lengthy oration concerning the good qualities of the defunct Mr. Casey. "Sure, 'tis plain you knew my husband well, sir," said the tearful Mrs. Casey. "Only by sight, ma'am, only by sight," Mr. Hogan hastened to explain, "I never had the pleasure of meetin' him 'til to-day." ITCHED FOR TWELVE YEARS. Eczema Made Hands and Feet Swell, Peel and Get Raw—Arms Affected, Too—Gave Up All Hope of Cure. Quickly Cured by Cuticura. "I suffered from eczema on my hands, arms and feet for about twelve years, my hands and feet would swell, sweat and itch, then would become callous and get very dry, then peel off and get raw. I tried most every kind of salve and ointment without success. I tried several doctors, but at last gave up thinking there was a cure for eczema. A friend of mine insisted on my trying the Cuticura Remedies, but I did not give them a trial until I got so bad that I had to do something. I secured a set and by the time they were used I could see a vast improvement and my hands and feet were healed up in no time. I have had no trouble since. Charles T. Bauer, Volant, Pa., Mar. 11, 1908." Physician's Mean Trick. Physician's Mean Trick. A doctor was one day stopped in the street by one of his woman patients whose malady was purely imaginary. The doctor, who was known for his intolerance of and nonsympathy with such invalids, after listening somewhat impatiently to the woman's detailed account of all her feelings and symptoms, told her to shut her eyes and put out her tongue. She promptly did so. On opening her eyes in a few seconds the doctor was nowhere to be seen, and the woman awoke to the fact that he had left her standing by herself in a busy thoroughfare with her eyes shut and her tongue hanging out. Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work A Hot Prescription "I want you to prescribe for me, doctor," said the sallow-complexioned man. "I have cold feet; what would you suggest?" "A ton of coal," promptly replied the witty physician. "Five dollars, please." Use Allen's Foot-Ease. Use Allen's Foot-Ease. It is the only relief for Swollen Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Feet, Cows and Enemies Ask, Swimming and Shake into the shoes. Cures while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores. 2c. Don't accept an- substitute. Sample sent FREE. Address, Alen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Bare Combinations: "The time, the place and the girl, How seldom we see them together!" "And another rare combination is the man, the scheme and the coin." A feeling of security and freedom from anxiety pervades the home in which Hamlins Wizard Oil is kept constantly on hand. Mothers know it can always be depended upon in time of need. Every one should consider himself entrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Among other high rollers we have the elevated trains. 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 the purposes of the present treaty. The corn that 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. Professor Holden, of the Iowa State College, the greatest authority on corn in the world, will award the prize at the National Corn Exposition, to be held at Omaha, Neb., December 6th to 18th, 1909. 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, 1909; 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. The a tag securely to your specimen and word it, "For the Kellogg Trophy Contest," and write your name and address plainly. If youre is judged the best, you will get the trophy for 1910. If you succeed again next year or the year following, the trophy will become your property for all time. In other words, you must produce the best ear of corn two different years. There will be no restrictions. Any man, woman or child belonging to the Association can enter. Is will be open to all persons. The Association is not responsible for the cost of more corn per hectare, is one object of the award, but the main purpose of the founder of the trophy is for the Association to sell. Many people think we have reached the point of perfection in Toasted Corn Flakes as it now is. Perhaps we have. If you haven't tried it, begin your education in "good things to eat" today. All grocers have it. KELLOGG TOASTED CORN FLAKE CO., Battle Creek, Mich. W. K. Kellogg LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ CIGAR EXTRA QUALITY TOBACCO The Genuine Corn Flakes has this Signature LEWIS' STRAIGHT OH, MY! He—A woman is peculiar in one way. She—What's that? He—She won't tear up a love letter, even after she's forgotten who wrote it. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. Singular and Plural. "Whenever she gets to thinking how much they're in debt it affects her nerves." "Huh! the way it affects her husband is singular." "Kow singular?" "Just singular, it affects his 'nerve.' He tried to borrow a hundred from me to-day." — Catholic Standard and Times. Always a Wav. "The cook has furnished rather small portions," said the hostess. "The woman guests won't eat much, but how about the men?" 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We taught her how to bake and brew. She asked eight dollars in the fall. By spring she knew the way to well Upon a table fairly well. And she could do a dozen things That daily to her bed bell. That 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 then! new the way to well irly well, a dozen things or lot betell. asked four evening out dollar more would do- as an Sundays off ing work was through! summer time was near, to call one day. us much alarm— once for higher pay! and helped her learn we had a gem— did it, I must go ing gift for them! the Way. By the Way. 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 foci. It 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. THA average business man who has kept the present business pace for 20 or 30 years, doesn't look upon death with any great amount of fear and trembling. 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 and 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 patriarchal roosters." "No, the man is not dead!" "Whas ist? Iid the man hit an au tamo-bubble-bubble-bubble?" "No, the man did not hit an auto- mo-bubble-bubble-bubble; he is a edi- tor and he has his eye out for men he ewes, ain't it?" "Did a prizefighter 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 alway: 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 seasice passenger, pale and hollow eyed, came out of his stateroom and ran into a lady, who was coming along the pasageway, clad in the scantiest raiment She screamed and started to run "Don't be alarmed, madam; I shall never live to tell it."—Girard (III.) As other. Special Master E. V. McKeever Iiled "Is the man dead?" "Nor sleeping?" "No!" "Whas ist?" "Only paralyzed!" .SUBSCRIBE FOR. One of the Oldest and Best Negro Newspapers In the west Fresh, Reliable Race News 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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MILLEER, Editor 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kansas THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT PER $1.00 YEAR ESTABLSHED IN 1898 Published Every Week We want active, wide-awake hustling men, women, boys and girls as Agents for the Searchlight in every city, town village and community. JUMPED AT NATURE'S BIDDING. Would-Be Suicide Not Compietely Nerved for Final Parting. With a groan of despair he made up his mind to die. Ruined financially, and with not a particle of hope for getting on his feet again, he realized that the only chance for his family escaping pauperism and its attendant miseries was to obtain immediate use of his heavy life insurance. Furthermore, if he lingered on he would be unable to pay the premiums on his policies, which unfortunately were not old enough to carry themselves, so that they would forthwith lapse. Death, therefore, was the only solution to the problem. It was a decision the bitterness of which can only be understood by those forced by circumstances to confront it. He put on his hat and overcoat and went out of the house, lest the expression on his telltale countenance should betray to his loved ones his fell intention. While he was traversing the crowded streets he would consider the best and least suspicious modes of consummating his purpose. If he could encompass it so that the thing looked to the world like an accident, so much the better. There would then be no scandal. As he stepped from the curb to cross the street an automobile, driven by a reckless joy-riding chauffeur, came tearing around the corner at terrifying speed. And the energetic leap which the would-be suicide made back to the sidewalk out of harm's way was a caution. HIGH IN CIVILIZATION'S SCALE. Jnknown People of America Who Have Perished Utterly. Between the region occupied of old by the Aztecs and the realm far to the south over which the Incas ruled lies an immense stretch of territory, a thousand miles long and 800 wide, where the remains of unknown and wonderful civilizations are being discovered, says a writer in Van Norfen's Magazine. This region extends from the northern boundaries of Peru to the southern limits of Costa Rica. In one section alone along the coast of Ecuador six entirely unknown civilizations were recently brought to light by Prof. Marshall H. Saville, and a vast collection of relics has been brought to New York. This collection is to be the nucleus of a great American museum, which will represent the history of ancient peoples who attained an extraordinarily high degree of civilization, yet whose very existence has been hitherto lost in antiquity. The famed marble chairs of Rome at its zenith were not more symmetrical or beautifully carved than those of one of these unknown civilizations. No pottery of any other ancient race was more delicately patterned than that found in vast quantities, as numerous almost as pebbles, on the sites where these extinct peoples dwelt. Their cloth was of truly marvelous weave; in beauty of desir richness of color and fineness of texture no fabric of to-day surpasses it. MUST PLEDGE GOOD BEHAVIOR. Terms on Which Strangers May Enter British House of Commons. One of the most important alterations which members of the British house of commons will notice when they reassemble will be a strangers' bureau. Its construction, which is now in progress, is the sequel to the scenes created by the suffragettes in the house during last session. In the last month of the autumn session as the result of their conduct no stranger was seen within the house of commons. A committee was appointed to draw up new rules for admission of strangers. The members recommended the passing of act making it a criminal offense for strangers to brawl within the chamber, and they also recommended that strangers should be made responsible for their own good behavior and should sign a paper accepting that responsibility. That being done the committee saw no reason why women, as well as men, should not be admitted to the strangers' gallery. It is in preparation for the change that the new bureau is being made. As heretofore, tickets for the gallery will be balloted for by members in advance. Whistling Sign of Contempt. A Moroccan shows his contempt of anything by whistling. A conflict between tribesmen and a battalion of French troops was recently precipitated by the whistling of a locomotive on a railway being constructed near Casablanca. "The giaours are laughing at us," said a chieftain, when the construction engine gave a toot to warn the natives at work on the line to look out. The Arabs went wild, mounted their horses, and rode on the whistling enemy. They had to be calmed with the whistling of rifle balls. Getting Ahead of One's Self. "If I have anything to do that I particularly dislike, I start to work on it the first thing after breakfast, subordinating all routine work to that task," said a successful housekeeper recently. "One can expend enough nervous energy thinking about and worrying over an unpleasant duty to accomplish it. When it is finished and off one's mind early in the day, one gets ahead of one's self, so to speak." KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborjan Home, R. F. D. No. 8, Topeka, Kansas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kans. MRS SARAH FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St, Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M., 460 Horton. Ft. Scott, Kans C. M. JONHSON, G. P. P., 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 416 E. 3rd, Ft. Scott, Kans. OFFICIAL ORGAN—The Wichita Searchlight, W. N. Miller, Editor, 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. NOTICE TABORS. If your Barnacle, Temple or Tent is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER. Editor. TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses 1 Queen of the West, K. C., Kan. Mrs. M. Wilson, 954 Everett. 2 Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. S. Crisp, 615 So. Walnut. 3 Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. C. Tillman, 802 E. 18th. 4 Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan. Mrs. S. Campbell, 616 W. 1st. 5 Cresent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. C. Brown, 920 N. 10th. 8 Rebecca May, Coffeyville, Kan. Mrs. L. Smith, 308 E. 11th. 10 St. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. I Wallace, R. R. No. 5. 11 Saba Meroe, K. C., Kan., P. Wood- ford, 823 Freeman. 15 America Davis, Weir, Kan., Mrs. E. Lee, Box 25. 16 Silver Leaf, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. L. Morton, 1208 Washington. 18 St. Maria, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. C. Wade, 22 N. 16th. 20 Maria, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. P. Johnson, 501 Hyman. 24 Charity Rose, Coffeyville, Kan., Mrs. A. Garner, 704 E. 12th. 28 Modern, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. A. Ray, 1412 E. Clark. 29 Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. L. Woods, 935 Cherokee. 30 Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. L. Bright, 714 Fifth. 32 Emma Gaines, Butte, Mont., Mrs. Saline Easter, 334 Dakota St. (rear). 37 Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. M. Gosby, 108 N. 3rd. 39 Deborah, Abeline, Kan., Mrs. A. Gibson, 411 S. 1st. 52 Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. J. Ware, 807 N. Y. 63 Fair West, K. C., Kan., Mrs. R. Saunders, 734 N. J. 73 Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. S. O'Brien, 1180 Buchanan. 89 Queen Lizzie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific. 93 Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs I. M. Jordan, 93 Western. TEMPLES. Chief Mentors 1 A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kan., J. M. Burns, Box 31. 3 R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan., Wm. Cook, 215 E. Kearney. 4 Evening Star, Omaha, Neb., S. R. Jackson, care Frye Shoe Store. 5 St. Luke, N. Topeka, Kan., J. Walker, 1220 W. Norris. 7 Mt. Nebo, Wichita, Kan., Rev. S. S. Washington, 1524 N. Washington. 8 St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan., A. J. Beam, 1029 Osborn. 10 Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan., J. H. McKinnis, 217 Sherman. 11 Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Wm. Frazier, 708 N. Water. 12 Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan. Wm. Shakespeare, 1112 Main. 13 Silver Leaf, Salina, Kan., J. C. Brown, 246 S. Phillips. 17 Golden Gate, Coffeyville, Kan., Rev. A. Garner, 704 E. 12th. 19 Mt. Tabor, Lawrence, Kan., J. E. Hughes, 1220 N. J. 22 Barak, Oswego, Kan., L. R. Wilson. 24 Jas. Bedford, Cherryvale, Kan., Rev. J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th. 25 Washington, K. C. Kan., J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell. 59 Sunny Side, Topeka, Kan., U. A. Graham, 1160 West. 60 Jeffersonian, Topeka, Kan., U. S. Grant, 1813 W. 6th. Queen Mothers. 1 Golden Leaf, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. L. Hardin, 900 Fifth. 2 Frank Wilson, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. F. Goodall, 610 Barbee. 3 Mary E. Dickson, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. L. Weaver, 1125 Saratoga. 5 Moses Dickson, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. B. Davis, 1135 Washington. 7 Lone Star, Yale, Kan., Mrs. C. Lewis. 9 J. Bruce, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. M. Scott, 1516 Jones. 11 Golden, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. E. Penn, 718 Q. 11 Viola, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. M. E. Brown, 325 Miss. 14 Busy Bee, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. A. Stone, 823 Main. 16 Pearl, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. A Jones, 631 N. Wichita. 17 Castle Rock, Weir, Kan., Mrs. H H. Adkins. 20 John Wilson, K. C., Kan., Mrs. C. D. Dalton, 1228 Barnett. 21 Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. E. McKinnis, 217 Sherman. 23 Clinging Rose, Lawrence, Kan, Mrs. A. King, 722 N. Y. 25 Silver Star, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. I. Porter, 2017 Morton. 28 20th Century, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan. 45 Orange Rose, K. C., Kan., Mrs. C Henderson, 312 Washington. 46 Mayflower, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L Herrold, Sherman Flats. NEXT PLACE OF METTING—The Grand Temple and Tabernacle Kansas Nebraska Jurisdiction, will hold its next Session (the 19th annual in Omaha, Neb., on the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1910. BAD NOTES EASILY DETECTED Almost Impossible to Impose Upon Handlers of Money. Incidentally it it is interesting to note that the skill which enables one to detect a counterfeit comes not from a study of counterfeits, but from a thorough and unconscious familiarity with the genuine. If a man were pointed out to you and you were told that some day another who much resembled him would try to impose upon you, you would be pretty apt to fix his features in your mind; you would not spend any time looking at other people who looked something like him, would you? And the moment the impostor appeared you would note that in this, that or the other particular he failed to meet the details of the other man's face and figure. Just so it is in the detection of counterfeits. A skillful teller in a bank, counting money rapidly, will involuntarily throw out a note which in the slightest degree departs from the well-known pattern which is so strongly impressed on his mental vision. That involuntary act will nearly always prove to have been justified, for the bill in 19 cases out of 20 will prove to be a counterfeit. It is because of this fact that when a request is received from some one to loan him a collection of counterfeits for the instruction of his cashiers, he is advised to have the young man study the genuine carefully, and there will be no trouble in detecting the bad notes.-National Magazine. A Monster Lozf 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. TENTS. Number.