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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT ARE ALL NEGROES COLORED? ELEVENTH YEAR "The Colored Girl," an article well written by Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, aypeared in the "Voice of the Negro," June 1905 I quote from it, the paragraph that mape upon me the deepest impression: "That the term Colored Girl" is almost a term of reproach in the social life of America, is all too true she belongs to a race that is best designated by the term. Problem. Of what race does this gifted woman speak? Scientigically speaking we only known of the following races of mankind: The Caucasian, the Mongolian, the Malay, the Negro and the Indian. To one of these we must belong. Great religious men of early days who knew no colo-stigma, tell us that this Negro race embraces all the people whose original home is the inter-tropical and sub-tropical regions of the globe. The Negro domain thus originally comprise all Africa, a great part of India, Malaysia and the greater part of Australiasia. This division in a later day is also made by Encyclopaedia Britanica, the twentieth century edition. Noted ethnologists of our day divide the Negro stock. The Papuan or New Guinea Negro Malaysia, Australiasia and the Negro proper of the African mainland. During the long ages that have elapsed sixtheir separation, the two branches have under diverse outward conditions differentiated. This is not to be wondered at, if we just for a moment consider the fact that even in Africa the skin of those who live for a many months in the shade of the forest, is obserbed to lose its intense black color; and African of woman confined within the walls of the harem become in a few yrs as fair as southern Europeans. Again we find in Africa whole Again we find in Africa whole tribes of Negroes, who have no color; there is actually no coloring matter in their skin, hair nor the iris of their eves. While the word Negro in Spanish and Italian—not in American means dark skinned being derived from the Latin word Nigger, black; the meaning as the race word is much fuller and richer: of it no man of African descent need be ashamed. Read an study what the Ancient Negro achievcd I am sure it will be more than an eye-opener. Whence then the stigma? He was brought to American shores a captive. As a social factor, he was intended to be purely a Zero. The word colored is so vague that it cannot be written with a capital except under rule 1. As a race word it is not fit for so great meanino it is unauthorized. In meaning it is not fit for so great a people as we are. The word does mean, stained, dyed tinged, etc. If we would only deal with the Mestizo, Zambo, the Cholo, the Pardo and the Chino this world might fit fairly well as to outward appearance, but even then no race would be designated. The occasional mingling of blood, will not even change sentiment in our favor. When Mr. Tillman, the noted Southern Senator saw our Booker Washington for the first time his only desire being to sre the yproportion of white blood, he de clared him only a forth of a Negro even with the estimate made I gave credit to the Southern gentleman for not designating him Colored; it would meant no thing at all for us. I long for the day when our teaching force will teach our youth Negro-Manhood and Negro-womanhood. When in our Colleges and Universities we shall see not only the picture of Washington and Lincoln, but a Toussaint L. Oveture a Banneker and the great statesman Mr Fred Douglas. We have no need to be ashamed, though so recently emerged from servitude, of a race that has produced a Dunbar a Booker Washington, a Webster Davis, a John Mitchell and such women as "Sojourner Truth," a Frances Harper and Fannie Cop pin. There are others not few in number who when under stood will be leaders of thought in our great country. However we can only build and make a race by sticking to it. Getting away from the race is but to degenerate. Let us stop coloring the matters and as far as possible prevents others doing so. AUGUST 14 1909. Our every effort should be but a means to higher results and noble ends. Do not start forward in life seeking color; like butterflies sporting and searching for gandy flowers. We are in mighty busy world at a most critical of peroid of our existence and now have reached the vesibule of outer court, where it is right and proper to wipe the feet an hang up the hat. Every action now touches on some chord that will vibrate not only in the world of fame, but in eternity. "Make haste slowly" is a most excellent maxim since so much depends upon the correctness of the steps taken and thoughts advanced. The Planet THE RIGHT MAN CHIEF Chief of police Frank S. Burt is demonstrating what a man who understands his business can do in the office of Chief. When Chief Burt was appointed to office in May the police department of Wichita was in a most demoralized condition. While there were some good men on the force, yet the force latked disciplint, and personal directorship. It had come to the point where the high way man, the thug, the jointist, gambler and other class of criminals held full sway and the police were unable to even get a succesful clew to these almost a daily defenders. Since Chief Burt has been at the head of the department he has re-organized disciplined and so manned the entire force in the west. The joints are closed, and the city has been cleared of the criminal class. No more does Wichita have to witness the sad spectacle of the Mayor of the city taking personal control of the police in order that joints & gambling houses might be raided and offenders against the laco-apprehended. The Mayor does not worry about the management of the police because the Mayor knows as the citizens now know that Chiet Burt is amply qualified to control his police an put crime to its lowest ebb, We hope the time will not come again soon when the police force of our city will be laughing stock of the community, and it will not so long as Frank S. Burt remains at its head. Send your news in earlier SHERMANIS CONFIDENT TARIE BILL PASS Washington, Aug. 12,—Vice President Sherman before leaving Utica, N. Y. stated in discussing the tariff that he was absolutely confident the upper of branch o congress would adopt the report within a few days notwithstanding the claim of insurgent republican senators that, aided by the democrats, they would bring about the rejection of the perfected bill, Mr. Sherman's conviction is the report will be adopted by a majority of at least half a dozen votes. "However," said the Vice President, "If there should be a tie I will vote for the adoption of the conference report. In the event of such a contingency arising, it will be the first time in 40 years the Vice President Wheeler was the last one to do that, back in the 60's. But do not aaticipate there will be any necessity for my casting a deciding vote on the tariff bill. The senate will adobt that report without my vote justice sure as you're alive. PRETTY PRARIE NEWS Thrashing is going on in this country every day. Mise Nellie Banks returned to home from her visit in Wichita. Our big picnic is now in tull blast, every one seems to be enjoying their selves. Miss. Lizzie Underwood is in Pretty Prairy this week visiting her friends the Misses Nellie and Florence Banks she also took in the big fair at Kingman & while there visited Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Banks. Quite a crowd of colored people were in Kingman attending the picnic. Mr. Ben Walker is in Wichita this week. JoeBanks and family spent a couple of days at Kingman taking in the big tair. The ladies of the Sewing Circle will give an entertainment at the residence of Mrs. W. H. Jones 522 N. Water St. Monday evening Aug. 16th. All are invited to come and help them out. The ladies of the home cooking club will meet the second Friday in September, to take up their work in culianarry art of cooking. Hope all members will be present. Hawk That Would't Be Traped An interesting of hawk story comes from Concord township. Recently N. V. Kearns, a farmer set a steel trap in his chieken lot to catch some sly animals that had been robbing him of chickens The day after it was set an investigation showed that the trap had been carried away. Nearly a week passed before he heard a great commotion among his chickens, and going out he saw a hawk soaring upward with a chicken in his beak and another in one of hls claws, and from the other claw was dangling the steel trnp that had beeh carried away a few days before. Notice I desire to inform mg patients and the general public, that on Monday's of each week I will be in Hutchinson, Kansas. And that hereafter I will make all bridge teeth: at $4.00 instead of $5.00 as heretofore. Fraternally Dr. H. T. Bolden Dentist. ARKANSAS CITY KANS The A. M. E. S.S. picnic at the 144 ft. hill on Aug. 6th, was a very pleasant affair. The day was a continuous round of pleasure, Dinner was served at 12 oclock 60 people surrounded the table covered with all the lucturies of the seasoe. Each tried to excell his neighbor in doing justice to the occasion. The afternoon was spent in playing games gymnasiam excercises, fishing, swimming, reading and reeiting and other athletics. Mrs. Blackwell and Miss. Francis Andrews spent a few days at Oxfort last week. A number of people attended the basket meeting at Winfield on Sunday. Mrs. Givens of Kansas City is here to attend the funeral of her brother Mr. Basley Kemp. Basley Kemp the second son of Mrs. Malina Kemp who came home sick several weeks ago of Kansas City that he might be near an affectionate mother and have care of loving brother and sister, died Avg. 8. at 7:40 a.m. age 41 years and 1 month Funeral was held at St. James A. M. E. church, Rev. C. A: Woods officiating. The bereaved family have the sencere sympathp of their many friends. NO.20 THAT FAILED Muskogee, Ok Aug. 12. Lured to Oklahoma by a love note was written on a strawberry box by Mandy Kuykendahl, an Indian girl at Salisaw Ok. and sent to Hutchison Kans, Max McGregor a handsome young man of Hutehison, is charged with taking money belonging to Mrs. Mary Redd of that city and spending it for railroad fare to take him to the home of his Indian prince: Following the strawberry incident letters were exchanged and McGregor went to Salisaw to meet the Indian girl whom he supposed was pretty and rich. He was disapointed by her appearance he said in the federal jail here today and came to Muskogee to get work when he was arrested last night on a message from Sheriff Duckworth of Hutchison charged him with embezzlement. The Sheriff will arrive here tonight McGregor says he will waive requisition and go back to Kansas. The young man says he was "stung." and hereafter will fight shy of the Indian princesses. Hints On Growing Roses A Student of rose culture has compelled the following information and advice on the groweth of the flower: A rose tree breaths through its leaves. In the dusty weather, therefore, the plant should be kept clean with frequent sprayings. The best soil for roses is two-thirds loam and one-third manue. This best soil should be at least 18 inches deep Curled up leaves mean a maggot is at work. He should be caught and killed at once, or he will kill the tree. The building of roses should be done in the early morning or at sunset. Mix guano with the rose tree's water when it is in bloom. Never try to grow roses from seed. It takes to long Rose beds should not be prepared in wet weather. Never plant a rose tree in a windy place. Rose bushes should be syringed daily in May. Roses that front north do not thrive. —Boston Post Flattery in Lieu of Tip. Flattery in Lieu of Tip. How to avoid tipping the waiter at a restaurant: When the bill comes, pay it exactly. A certain involuntary expression of astonishment will be visible on the waiter's face, well trained though it may be. You should then rise, saying to him: "I have made an excellent dinner; you manage the establishment much better than the preceding proprietor did." During his rapture at being mistaken for the owner of the restaurant you escape. DON CUPID (Copyright, by J. B. Lippincott Co.) "Don Cupid is her master's name, Full ancient is his pedigree." —Old Song. I first met him toddling down an empty street in the little sun-baked Spanish town. He had been marketing, evidently, for he carried a basket over his arm—one of those boat-shaped wicker things such as the peasants use—and it was all brimming over with gay red tomatoes and shaped bunches of purple grapes. On his feet he wore a smart little pair of leather shoes and bright plaid socks; these and the basket completed his costume. "Good-morrow, Don Cupid," said I. He stopped short and stared at me wonderingly, this naked brown baby. At first I thought that he was afraid—afraid of my foreign face, my strange dress, my hard northern speech, or embarrassed, perhaps, at the exceeding limitedness of his own attire. But no, he was far too young, far too old, to think of such things. When was Cupid disconcerted by a girl? "Good-morrow, Senorita," he said at last gravely. A dandy at the Escorial might have envied him his composure. He stood there waiting for me to speak further. "And where are thy bow and arrows, Don Cupid?" I asked. "Hast thou bartered them for these fruits of the earth, little shameless one?" The fancy pleased me and I had gone on heedlessly, but the brown baby was clearly puzzled. He had set down his basket, but now he stoope for it, if it can be called stooping to bend such a little way. He evidently considered there had been sufficient conversation with an incomprehensible foreign female. "Addios, Senorita," he said, and he turned to go. His little, naked flexion had a touch of hauteur. But this I could not bear. I was lonely, so lonely and sad in this gay Castilian town. The very sunshine hurt with its bright mockery of happiness. It seemed hard and pitiless, like all the world beside. For I was sick, sick in body and sick at heart with the thought of the might have been. Truly I had turned my back on Cupid in the cold northern land, but now in the sunshine was he to turn his back on me? "Don Cupid, do not leave me, thou must not leave me," I cried. "The basket is very heavy; let me bear it a little way." I had noticed the semicircle of pressure on the fat, brown arm. So he stayed, and together we bore the basket, little Don Cupid and I. And as we walked he told me of many things in the strange language that I was just beginning to understand; he told me of a mother and of a mother's love and the warm softness of her circling arms; and he told me of his father, so mighty and tall, who could toss a baby up into the air, almost to the clouds, it seemed; also there was an aunt, a certain Juanita, not so entirely satisfactory. "But you shall see them all," quoth he. So I went to the brown baby's house; I went many times, indeed, and I grew to know tall Jose and sweet-faced Maria and even the lively young aunt, Juanita. Jose was a carpenter by trade, "one of the best in Malagon," his wife told me proudly, and it was in the shop among the clean-scented shavings that the brown baby would be found at play. "I shall be a carpenter too when I grow big," he told me one day, "or else a general with a plumed hat, grand, oh, so grand, and weapons that shine by my side. And when I go forth to shoot, then men shall fall for fear of me, for I shall be the great lord of all." "Oh, Don Cupid, thou hast no need to grow big," said I. "Art thou not already the great lord of all?" "But I have nothing to shoot with," said he. So I got him a little bow and arrows and his joy. in their possession was alone enough to prove his identity. "Indeed, the nino will surely be a master archer; he even sleeps with them by his pillow," his mother would tell me. One day I explained to these simple folk the reason of my gift and spoke to them of our northern deity. But pretty Juanita only is laided at me for my pains. "Ah, Senorita," she cried, "to us also of Spain he is not unknown, el fuertissimo hidalgo don Cupido." From the window we were watching the brown baby at play in the street with the wonderful new toy, but suddenly Juanita blushed and ran away. Was it because Lorenzo had stopped underneath—Lorenzo, the gay muleteer? "It seems almost unfair, Senorita," the mother was saying, "that Cupid should come to us women in the shape of a little child." For how can a girl's heart be barred so close, so firm, that a nino shall not find a hole?" Her own little Cupid ran into the room and she picked him up and began kissing him thoughtfully. "You see, Senorita, I know that my Jose is one in a thousand," she explained. But I had turned away, for my eyes were full of tears at the thought of all that I had thrown aside. Sometimes when the sun shone warm and the sky was blue (and, indeed, that was nearly every day) little Don Cupid would be lent to me and we would go out walking together. Special Master E. V. McKeever filed report to this effect in the supreme Only on these great occasions he would masquerade as an ordinary, every-day little Spanish boy in cotton blouse and funny full knickerbockers, and I alone knew who was hidden underneath. But, however he was dressed or undressed, on one thing he insisted, that he should carry the little bow, while the arrows in their gaudy case were slung about his waist. And so we would wander out fully equipped, Cupid with the bow, while I bore his basket, only now, as well as grapes, it held trotias and other dainties, for Cupid had a sweet tooth and the cakes are good in Spain. "Shall we go to the chestnut grove," I would ask him, "or to the castillo, the great, ruined castillo that stands at the edge of the plain?" Then Cupid would decide, but ever as we went he practiced shooting his arrows. "See, I can send them a great way, now," he would cry. Thus the time passed, and always we were alone, little Don Cupid and I. But one day as we approached the old castillo someone came up behind us. Then, why I knew not, but suddenly, before I could check him, Don Cupid turned and shot an arrow. "Oh, it has hurt the Senor, the strange Senor," he cried, and he ran to me sobbing, frightened at his own marksmanship. Cupid did not know before the surety of his aim. But the Senor was not hurt—neither was he very strange. So he and I entered the old castillo, speaking of Don Cupid and many things, but silent as to the cold northern land; and the little one searched for his arrow. "It must have gone right into the Senor, for I can not find it," Don Cupid cried gaily, as at last he joined us once more in a castle in Spain. WILLING TO END THE GRUDGE Saloonkeeper Would Bury Hatchet After He Had Failed to "Get the Buttons." There is an old German saloonkeeper in this city who takes pride in his record as an obedient child of the law. He boasts of driving the human braces 'away from his bar promptly on the stroke of 11 and a Sunday drink at his place is as unknown as baseball at the north pole. Just the same, he got in bad with the police department a few years ago. It was said that he was not selling the right brewer's beer, so a policeman was ordered to keep an eye on his place for violations of the law. He was to be jugged instantly. The old man discovered that his place was under surveillance. It made him rabid. He blew the foam to the clouds every time he slaked his thirst. He couldn't breathe easily, so great was his anger. He got sore at the poor policeman who was detailed to watch him. "Watch me if you like," he said to the policeman, who could only smile. "Watch me if you like, I'm an obedient obeyer of the law. Sometimes I will get your buttons, you sneak watcher. See if I don't get your job away from you." The policeman did not "lose his buttons," however, although the irate saloonkeeper made a good strong campaign against him. At every turn he knocked the policeman, but without avail. One day, not long ago, the saloonkeeper discovered that his war against the policeman was ineffective. The blue clothes man was too strong for him. He might as well give in, he thought. So he sought the policeman and, in his most affable tone, unbosomed himself. "Otto," he said. "I have been trying to get your buttons for three years. I can't do it. Shall we not now be friends?"—Indianapolis News. These are picnic days—days for the woods, for the fresh green grass, for the deviled eggs, for the raspberry pie, and for the girl with the white frock and the heart-splitting laugh. If you let the sweet June days ripple by without plunging into one of these woody affairs and butterflying yourself through the leaf-sprinkled sunshine, and letting some sweet merry widow girl cut you off a huge chunk of jelly cake—if you fail to deck your life with these experiences, what does it amount to anyhow? The soul must have its days to romp, to wade in the creeks and swing from the branches of trees. If it hasn't, it will get hard and dry, and you can't make a dent in it with a line of poetry or the touch of a vanished hand. Seeing a person in a parlor or an office is only half seeing him. You must go out among the dryads and the naiads and the sweet spirits of the emerald outdoors, and talk to him with a mouthful of fried chicken and an earful of women's voices—Columbus Journal. The kind of personals the women send in: "Miss Jeanette Alice Marie Evans of Topeka and Miss Katherine Catherwood Lane Jones of St. Joe are visiting Miss Louise Hyde-Brownfield Peats, at number seven hundred and thirty-four Lincoln street." The way it appears in the paper: "Misses Jennie Evans of Topeka and Kate Jones of St. Joe are visiting Miss Lou Peats."—Atchison Globe. Picnic Days. Before and After. The KITCHEN GABINET DELIVER me, in the first place, from old saws. They have done a great deal of harm. But the one which chiefly impresses me with its utter asininity is the one about procrastination being the thief of time. I tell you, there never was a greater mistake!" and the C. G. went on with her dusting, digging violently into the corners of the furniture. The expected question which somebody put, brought forth this protest from the Cheerful one: "I don't believe in this absurd habit of doing things at once and promptly. In that way you never get out of doing anything. Haven't you noticed that the folks who are smart enough to put things off till tomorrow never have to do 'em at all? Somebody else with the fool idea of neatness or promptness does it for 'em. And you are so busy doing every fiddle-faddle thing at hand that you cannot do big things and get glory. And I am forever wasting time being prompt at appointments. The other fellow is never there, and I waste precious time which I might put in doing something which would make the world ring with my name. Little things—duties at hand—prompt attention to what lies nearest—they are my undoing. I am always on hand, my house is always in order, I do everything under my nose, and what is the result? Nothing to show for it, and nobody knows me from Adam. If I had it to do over again, I'd let all the little details go and do some grand stunt that would make people talk. "But are you sure you could do the big things?" "This was thrown as a sort of bomb, but the C. G. was not feazed. "Perfectly sure; any of us women can do big things if we are given a show. And I don't ask it for the glory so much as in the hope of getting out of work. It's the 'trifles' that make work," and she went on with her dusting. THE LESSON OF THE STORM. FROM the black mass of marching clouds. The lightning's come. Like cannon-flash; and then the thunder loud, Like beat of drum. See how the frightened flowers in dismay Their colors strike! For petals, rose and lily, strew the way Along the plike. Life is at pause; hushed is the hum of bee; And, swish of wing; The veil is lifted; man himself may seem A puny thing! Our pomp of armies, kings and pageantries, Are but a sham. In storm and tempest, lo, Jehovah says: "Behold, I AM!" This is the season when infant mortality is at its height. A famous physician of Westminster, says of this lamentable fact: "The death of babies in summer is in most cases directly traceable to summer diarrhoea. He goes on to say that because of the oft-proven fact that breast-fed babies escape, we can plainly see the need of care in the milk given artificially. Keep the milk clean—the need is, primarily, for the better care of the milk before distribution, but it is also true that the mother, the housekeeper, has much to do with keeping it in good condition. Absolute cleanliness; ice, if possible, and, above all, a bottle which has no tube nor screw top to become easily infected. Use a simple affair with a large nipple which can be easily cleaned. But, above and beyond all, watch for the files. It is only now becoming recognized that common house files do an infinite deal of harm by carrying disease germs into our food. Perhaps we will mend our ways when we read in the London Lancet: "A blue-bottle was allowed to walk across a piece of freshly sliced potato. The potato developed colonies of micro-organisms all along the track of the fly, while elsewhere no such development took place." The Lancet recommends a safe and simple way to get rid of files: "Put two spoonfuls of weak solution of formaldehyde (to be cheaply bought at any drug store), into a pint of water and place this in shallow plates about the room. Flies are attracted and drink; the fluid kills them, and with this advantage that it also disinfects them." All sandwiches taste better if made with toasted instead of plain bread—especially are they welcome as a change. Toast the bread in large slices, cutting it into the desired shape afterward. Do not butter. TO QUENCH THIRST GOOD AND SATISFYING DRINKS IN HOT WEATHER. Constant Gulping Down of Iced Water Is a Mistake—Lemonade, without Sugar, Probably the Best of All. How do you quench your summer thirst? Probably unwisely. Most of us do. Liquids are good for us if taken judiciously; very bad for us if we follow the usual American plan of gulping iced drinks, wholesale. It is folly to condemn iced water. It is a necessity in this country. It is not necessary to drink it as we do. A glass of ice water sipped slowly not only never hurts anyone, but more quickly quenches the thirst than if swallowed by the gobletful. Above all do not gulp it when very much overheated. A young girl did this last summer and within a few hours was at death's door with inflama- tion of the stomach. Thirst will be more quickly quenched when very warm if one puts bits of cracked ice in the mouth and gets them dissolve. One young woman who is forbidden, in account of diabetes, from drinking much water, gets relief from her annoying thirst by packing her throat in cloths wrung out of cold water. She will sometimes renew the application several times. She also moistens her lips with shaved ice over which lemon has been sprinkled. Though few believe it, thirst is more quickly allayed in summer by drinking hot water than cold. One up of the former will suffice where it could be necessary to pour down several glasses of iceed drinks. Most sweetened drinks create thirst, lemonade for this reason is not ad- ditable. Lemon and water, a half cup in a tumblerful, is much better, or the same reason a plain ginger or mmon soda is more satisfying than an ice cream soda, if one is very thirsty. Alcoholic drinks rarely quench the first. For this reason and because they are too overheating, they should be taken sparingly in hot weather. The boasted summer drink, mint juice, is only cooling for a minute, intensely heating and thirst creating ater. Root beer that is not too sweet and a very cold is a better summer drink than lemonade, as it allays thirst and as a tonic effect. Iced tea is probably one of the most satisfying drinks in a hot day, when tormented by "that summer thirst." Scones - Sift into a bowl a quart of flour, a teaspoonful of salt and two tablespoonfuls of baking powder. Chop into this two heaping tablespoonfuls of shortening. Moisten with enough milk to make a soft dough, turn out upon a pastry board and roll into a sheet a half-inch thick. Cut into rounds and bake on a soapstone griddle, turning when done on one side. The scones should be a delicate brown in color. Split and butter as soon as done. Gelery Mustard Eggs. For one dozen hard boiled eggs make a sauce of one cupful of cream, one tablespoonful mustard, two tablespoonful sugar, one well beaten egg, a little salt, one tablespoonful butter, one tablespoonful flour, one-half cup vinegar, one-fourth teaspoonful celery seed. Mix mustard and flour, then gradually stir in cream, add other ingredients, and boil until thickened. Cut eggs into halves and pour sauce over them. Ice Cream Croquettes Dip cold vanilla ice cream with a cone shaped mold, then dip into macaroons dried in the oven and rolled fine. Stand each croquette on a fancy plate and surround it with almond sauce, made by this rule: Mix a heaping teaspoonful of cornstarch with a little cold water, stir it into a cup of sugar and two cups of water. Boil five minutes, flavor with almond extract, then add half cupful of finely chopped almonds. Mock Turtle Soup. Boil a calf's liver and heart with a knuckle of veal for three or four hours, skimming well; then strain off. Chop meat fine and add to it a chopped onion, salt, pepper and ground cloves to taste; thicken, if necessary, with a little flour, browned. Cook again in the liquor. Have the yolks of four or five hard boiled eggs cut up for the tureen; also slices of lemon. A. Baking Hint. It is a bad habit to be continually opening your oven door while anything is cooking—if you cook on a gas range. It has an injurious effect upon the food and is also unnecessary as the heat from a gas range can always be regulated. Instead, ascertain how long it takes to cook the desired article of food and watch the clock—the gas range will take care of itself Batter Pudding with Peaches. Beat two eggs without separating until very light; add to them one-half of a pint of milk, then three cupfuls of flour; beat until smooth. Add tablespoonful of melted butter; tate teaspoonfuls of baking powder; beat again, and stir in carefully six peaches pared and cut into squares. Pour this into the mold and boil constantly for two hours. Use for Radish Tops The tops of radishes, if stewed with several slices of bacon, make a delightfully appetizing dish of greens It may be used instead of spinach. ROM the black mass of marching clouds. The lightning's come. Like cannon-flash; and then the thunder loud, Like beat of drum. See how the frightened flowers in dismay Their colors strike! For petals, rose and lily, strew the way Along the pike. Life is at pause; hushed is the hum of bee; And swish of wing; The veil is lifted; man himself may seem A puny thing! The Babies In Summer A Sandwich Hint. SUMMER'S FOOL. M N HOTTEST days the turf (no text) He lifts the branches and the boughs, And peeks and laughs between; And in the grasses holds carouse, His mischief self unseen. He blows about the flower er bed, And wheedles richest bloom. Then rings his bells about my head, Incense of sweet perfume. So, ladies fair, if worn and spent, Come out beneath the trees; And drowse outdoors, and laugh con- And drowse outdoors, and laugh content. With summer's fool, the breeze. The London Cookshop From this the present restaurant had its beginning. In the days of Elizabeth these cookshops were the only eating places in all England. "The Worshipful Company of Pastellars" was the name by which these cooks were called, and they had public stalls (located chiefly in the famous East Cheap) where you carried to be cooked the meat procured at the butcher's stalls next door. Food was prepared and served at these cookshops, but it had to be brought for preparation by the customer. If he wanted wine, too, he brought that with him; vegetables, pastry, too, he must carry. Later, however, the cooks began to gradually provide, not only the cooking but the procuring of the viands, and from this came the restaurant as we know it. A great convenience over the method of arming oneself with baskets of provender, and waiting at the first cookshop for the stuff to be prepared. The street of East Cheap must have presented the spectacle of a constantly recurring tide of persons laden as if for a picnic! Laura's Meat Pie Laura is one of the best cooks in the south, and when she makes a meat pie—well, we all eat too much. When asked for her recipe Laura said: "La, bless you, honey, I don't never have no receipt for that pie; I just taken an' th'ow the things together." When pressed for details, however, she condescended to say that she took two pounds of raw, chopped meat, or one pound of cold meat, previously cooked, and added three hard-boiled eggs, one-quarter of an onion, a large potato, and plenty of salt and pepper. This mixture well chopped together, she put into a baking-dish lined with pastry. Cover the pie with another layer of pastry and bake. Laura added: "Ef the meat, honey, is kind o' pore, you better put in some butter." I think that by "pore," Laura meant lacking in fat, but I didn't dare ask for more definite wording. THE HAIR OF FORTUNE. NE time a witty Freeman, of A philosophic mind, Spake thus of Opinion— "She hath no hair hind." This is quite true of the tune fair, (That lady much ligned), She wears a long lock her brow, But she is bald behi The waving ringlets her eyes, Problem the lady bi Then seize them; she lift you far. And Failure leave behind. Watch, watch, then for her coming, With an ever constant mind. Her foreclock grasp or you are lost! She "has no hair behind!" Vegetables with Meat. It is a god plan, when a light diet is more healthful, to use meat in combination with vegetables. Thus less meat will be required. A very little beef or mutton in stuffing goes a long way. For the stuffing of any vegetable use a mixture of a half pint of finely chopped meat (cooked or uncooked) with an equal amount of breadcrumbs; season with salt and pepper, chopped parsley and a dash of onion juice. Cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, etc., are all delicious when stuffed with this. Clean, but do not peel, the cucumbers and squash; cut them in halves and stuff, afterward tying them together with strong twine. First fry the vegetables in a hot dripping-pan, turning them until all sides are brown and well saturated with grease. Then bake in a moderate oven for an hour. Some prefer to pare the cucumbers and squash, but tomatoes should be baked without peeling. Bake the latter quickly, and serve with a sauce. Mayonnaise for Two This is easily made by beating the yolk of an egg with four tablespoons olive oil and some lemon juice. Beat the egg thoroughly with the acid first. Then the oil will not curdle. Olivia Barton Christie. LUCKY MAN. She—Two men whom I refused to marry, sir, have become millionaires. He—Is that the reason why? Died in Good Company A clergyman, who was not averse to an occasional glass, bited an Irishman to clean out his cellar. The Irishman began his work. He brought forth a lot of empty whisky bottles, and as he lifted each one looked through it at the sun. The preacher, who was walking on the lawn, saw him and sald. "They are all dead ones Pat." "They are?" said Pat. "Well, there is one good thing about it—they all had the minister with them when they were dying"—11d Bits. OWES HER LIFE TO Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Vienna, W. Va. -- "I feel that I love the last ten years at my life to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable. Compound P Eiwen years ago was a walking shadow. I had been under the doctor's carebeltgotnorelief. My husband persuaded me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and it worked like a charm. It relieved all my pain and misery. I advise all suffering women to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound."—Mrs. EMMA WHEATON, Vienna, W. Va. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotics or harmful drugs, and to-day holds the record for the largest number of actual cures of female diseases of any similar medicine in the country, and thousands of voluntary testimonials are on file in the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, Mass., from women who have been cured from almost every form of female complaints, inflammation, ulceration, displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, indigestion and nervous prostration. Every such suffering woman owes it to herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. If you would like special advice about your case write a confidential letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free, and always helpful. Libbys Food Products Libby's Cooked Corned Beef There's a marked distinction between Libby's Oooked Oorned Beef and even the best that's sold in bulk. Evenly and mildly cured and scientifically cooked in Libby's Great White Kitchen, all the natural flavor of the fresh, prime beef is retained. It is pure wholesome, delicious and ready to serve at meal time, Saves work and worry in summer. Other Libby "Healthful" Meal-Time-Hints, all ready to serve, are: "Purity goes hand in hand with Products of the Libby brand". Write for free Booklet,— "How to make Good Things to Eat". Insist on Libby's at your grocers. Libby, McNeill & Libby Ohioage CORNED BEEF LANDWATER BEEF CO. THE AMERICAN HOME W-A.RADFORD EDITOR THE HOME OF THE FRIENDS Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 154 Pitt Ave., Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. You may look at a thousand house plans and not find two alike. Still certain things must necessarily have a similarity of plan or construction. People are different and houses are being built to meet the requirements of individuals, and this has led to a great many different designs and arrangements of rooms. Fashion also has its influence, but it is pleasing to notice that fashion in house building of late has taken a very sensible turn, The most noticeable modern fashionable improvement is the large living room. Housekeeping, like business, is becoming more complicated each year so that more is required of a house. Still we are simplifying some things, a fact that helps us to secure more room or better conveniences in some other direction. A few years ago we felt obliged to build and furnish two parlors. We called them front parlor and back parlor. A fancy set of furniture was necessary to make the first room presentable. Each piece must conform to the same pattern, both in woodwork and in covering material. Some of these parlor sets were elaborate affairs that cost accordingly, while others were but cheap imitations of their wealthy neighbors. In all probability these secondary attempts to follow a set rule in house furnishing are what really called attention to the absurdity of the custom and helped more than anything else to abolish it. And now we can build a house with a living room that is big enough to hold our friends in addition to the members of our family and we can furnish it with just as many odd pieces of comfortable furniture as we want and the differ- ent pieces may vary in value as well as in design. Other requirements in house building call for ingenuity along the line of especial invention to meet certain requirements. For instance, some men have certain office hours at home and find it profitable to fit up an office which they call a den. In this house plan the space back of the large living room is intended for this purpose. Some of these rooms are fitted with a solid door to shut out the disturbances of talking when the wife has callers in the big room. The den itself is 10 feet 6 PORCH KITCHEN 10'0"X9'0" DINING RM 15'6"X15'0" CL ENTRY DEN 10'6"X8'0" LIVING RM 14'0"X18'0" HALL 8'6"X100" PORCH 24'0"X6'6" First Floor Plan inches by 8 feet. One side is left blank for book cases. The cases may be built in with the partition if so desired. There is room enough left for a roll top desk and a typewriter. Sometimes the two are combined, but as a general thing men prefer a typewriter on a separate desk or table built for the purpose. A dictionary stand on casters and a cabinet of drawers to hold papers, pamphlets, etc., are necessary articles of furniture in a room like this. A center library table is all right if you have room for it. A den will bear considerable crowding. At the same --- time you want room for a Morris chair and one or two other chairs that are comfortable to sit in when reading. There is an advantage in the corner because you can have windows on two sides. It is better not only for light but for ventilation, and these little rooms need provision for a constant change of air. Sometimes a good deal of business is transacted in these little office dens and they are just as appropriate for a smoking den CL. BED RM. 11'0"X12'0" CL. BATH 8'0"X8'6" CL. HALL CL. BED RM 13'0"X11'0" Second Floor Plan as they would be if fitted especially for that purpose. The size of this house is 29 feet in width by 35 feet from front to back. When the lot is wide enough a front like this is worth having. It gives you an opportunity to lay out good, big, sensible rooms in the front part of the house where you have the light and the view of the street. The old fashioned plan of shutting up the THE HOME OF THE HERITAGE CENTER front part of the house and living in two or three rooms down toward the back somewhere has gone by, it is to be hoped never to return. We build houses to live in with the greatest possible comfort for the amount of money expended and we have learned better than to take up the most valuable space with rooms that are used but little. In the newer and better houses we push the stairway, clothes closets, bathroom, etc., to the rear as far as possible, while the front part downstairs is used for every-day living purposes and the best part of the second floor is given over to the best and most comfortable bedrooms in the house. It is all right to have a bathroom fitted in between two bedrooms, as we have it in this plan, because we have the room, and the bathroom in this case comes over the kitchen so the water pipes and waste pipes may connect together in the most approved manne. The large front bedroom is one of the most pleasant features in connection with the house. There are times when some member of the family is confined to a sick room for fays, possibly weeks, at a time. Nothing else is quite so cheering to a sick person or a convalescent as plenty of light. This plan is large enough to provide a few extras in the way of storage closets. A bath tub is to be placed on the second floor. A great many of the larger modern houses have two bathrooms. It is not uncommon to find three. Bathrooms are luxuries that people appreciate more every year. Now that plumbing supplies are cheaper as well as better, bathrooms are not such expensive things and we can afford to have more of them. It is a good, sensible fashion to have more than one bathroom. Cure for Lonesomeness. You can trust a red-haired person—you can trust them to do as they please. They are rather warm to have around in summer, and there are those who do not appreciate their peculiar style of beauty. But the red-headed girl is a winner—and the man who gets one will not be lonesome. He will soon find out whether he has drawn a Titian-haired angel or a combination of a cyclone and a sunset, Baltimore Sun. HEAT WAS INTENSE DURING BIG PARADE OLD SOLDIERS CARRIED IN AM- BULANCES. Notwithstanding the Discomfort Seven Thousand Veterans Take Part—Each State Carries Its Emblem. Salt Lake, Utah. Mid-summer heat, falling with impartial severity upon young and old, thinned the annual parade of the Grand Army of the Republic, the feature of the forty-third encampment, and wrought still more suffering among the hundreds of children who participated in the forming of the living flag for the old soldiers. So appressive was the heat that the plan calling for the appearance of the living flag in the procession was abandoned. Incomplete figures show that at least 160 children were taken from the street and from 15 to 20 old soldiers were carried in the ambulances. Many of the victims, young and old, recovered as soon as they were placed in the shade. Those treated at the emergency stations numbered about forty, 15 of them Grand Army men and 30 children. There were no fatalities. Water was to be obtained all along the route of the parade without leaving the ranks. Three relief stations attended by trained nurses, insured aid for all sufferers. Hours of Parade Hottest. The hours of the parade were the hottest hours of the hottest day since the beginning of the encampment. At 11 o'clock when the column got under way, the official temperature was 85 degrees. The mercury at noon touched 87. Notwithstanding the discomfort the parade was a great success. The five thousand and more old soldiers, walking four abreast, had the complete right of way over a mile of street. Fully one hundred thousand persons saw the spectacle. Every state division got its meed of applause. The Nebraska delegation carried ears of yellow corn. The sunflower was the badge of the Kansans. The Minnesota were bearers of sheaves or wheat. Arkansas had the distinction of sending the smallest division—there were but four wearers of her badge. Illinois made the largest numerical showing. At the rear came a division consisting of the ex-prisoners of war. It was estimated that 7,000 veterans took part in the parade, which was one hour and a half passing a given point. PRESIDENT TALKS WITH AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN. Declares, After Interview, That Matters in Far East Are Very Satisfactory. Beverley, Mass.—President Taft talked with the American ambassador to Japan, Thomas O'Brien, for more than an hour on the porch of his summer home. The ambassador went carefully over every question of importance which was pending when he left Tokio on leave of absence. Mr. O'Brien is to be retained by the president as ambassador and credited to be as close to the throne as any ambassador at the Japanese court. Mr. O'Brien brought many messages of congratulation and good will to Mr. Taft from the president's friends in Japan. The friends include men both in and out of official life. After his interview with the ambassador President Taft declared that matters in the far east were very satisfactory. The question of the Japan-American treaty is soon to be taken up in this country and it is believed that the president gathered much information for his future guidance. SWEDISH TROUBLE ABATING. General Strike is Believed to Be Broken—Workmen Resume Their Duties. Stockholm.—The belief is gaining ground that the backbone of the general strike has been broken. Workmen of various kinds are resuming their duties in increasing numbers, and it is said that the printers will soon return to work. The newspapers in Stockholm are issuing hand-printed sheets, while those in the south are being printed in Denmark. Some 15,000 strikers attended a meeting in the woods south of Stockholm. There was a strike riot at Norberg as a result of which 22 persons were arrested. May Not Share in R. B. Loan. St. Petersburg.—The Russian application to share in the Hankow-Sze-Chuf railroad loan has met with an unexpected obstruction on the part of the Indo-China bank and steps have been taken in Paris to invoke the good offices of the French government in the matter. Galveston, Tex.—The gulf disturbance in this vicinity Tuesday morning has disappeared, going westward toward the Mexican coast below Brownsville. PROTOTHER CLEMENS CHAMBER OF DEPOTIES FRANCE BRITISH BUDGET HOUSE OF COMMONS THRIFT BILL HOUSE SECRETARY OSBORA TO TEST BANK GUARANTY LAW TO TEST BANK GUARANTY LAW ATTORNEY GENERAL JACKSON BRINGS SUIT. He Asks a Writ Commanding Kansas State officials to Carry Out the Law as it Exists. Topeka, Kan.—Fred S. Jackson, attorney general has filed in the supreme court an application for a writ of mandamus to test the constitutionality and legality of the Kansas bank deposit guaranty law and to prevent the proposed test suits which are being talked of by the banks and various attorneys. The suit is brought against J. N. Dolley, bank commissioner, and Mark Tuley, state treasurer, to compel them to enforce the law and admit all state and national banks to the guaranty fund, and against B. P. Waggener of Atchison, Chester I. Long, ex-United States senator, and John L. Webster of Nebraska, and all of the national banks in the state all state banks that have not applied for participation in the guaranty law. The attorney general asks the court to grant an alternative writ commanding Dolley and Tulley to carry out the law and to compel each of the other defendants to show cause why they have not refrained from coercing the snate officers from enforcing the law and that they be required from so doing and from conspiring together to hinder the officers from putting the law into effect and from encouraging and bringing a multiplicity of suits to make the law ineffective. TEACHERS AT STATE NORMAL The Fall Term of the Emporia School Will Begin September 7— New Building Ready. Emporia, Kansas.—The state normal will begin its fall term September 7. President Joseph Hill has announced the names of new faculty members. Dr. Walter R. Smith has been appointed to succeed Dr. J. M. Rhodes as head of the history department. Dr. A. Monroe Stowe will succeed Dr. J. R. Jewell, who has been made high school visitor F. S. Honhart, a graduate of the Springfield Training school and now physical director of the Michigan School of Mines at Houghton, Mich., has been made assistant physical director to have charge of the outdoor athletic work. Miss Bessie L. Park, a graduate of the New Haven Physical Training School for Women, has been elected assistant physical director of women. The new $100,000 gymnasium building will be ready for occupancy for the November term. Ten People Die in Hotel Fire. Vernon, B. C—Ten lives were lost here in a fire that destroyed the Okanagan hotel. The flames were discovered about two a. m., and so suddenly did they sweep through the building that when the firemen arrived the stairways were wrapped in fire and scarcely had a stream of water been turned on the blaze before the entir building was afame. Most of the 60 guests escaped but some were unable to get out of their rooms Pocket Bottle Killed Him. Leavenworth, Kansas.—Fred Wagner, aged 22 years, a laborer employed by a contractor at Fort Leavenworth, was killed by being thrown from a horse. A bottle in his pocket was broken and the jagged glass penetrated his groin. Before physicians could reach him he bled to death. Shot His Brother in Eye. St. Joseph. Missouri.-Jap Lindsay, aged 21, a stock yards employee, was fatally shot by his brother, Clarence Lindsay, aged 19, in a quarrel at their home. The load from a shot gun entered his left eye. Asks Lower Insurance Rates Lawrence, Kansas. — A petition signed by 150 business men asking for a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent from the present insurance rates in Lawrence was mailed to Gov. W. R. Stubbs. GREATER WINTER WHEAT CROP Government August Report Estimates This Year's Yield at 432, 920,000 Bushels. Washington, D. C.-The August government crop report estimate that this year's winter wheat crop is 432, 920,000 bushels. This is over 30,000, 000 bushels more than was indicated by the report a month ago, and only 5,000,000 bushels less than last year's crop though the area this year is nearly 2,500,000 acres less than last year. The spring wheat condition August 1 was 91.6 compared with 92.7 a month ago, and 80.7 a year ago. The agricultural department reports a decline in July of 4.9 per cent in the condition of corn, making it 94.4, compared with 82.5 a year ago. The condition of oats is 85.5, compared with 88.3 a month ago and 76.8 a year ago. THE FIRST CARGO OF SUGAR Came From Cuba and Amounted to 44,397 Bags—Largest Crop in Recent Years. New York, N. Y.—the steamship Mercedes Larringas arriving from Cienfuegos, Cuba, brought not only a record cargo of raw sugar but she was the first vessel to bring in any of that commodity under the lower duty provided in the Payne bill. She has in her hold 44,397 bags of raw sugar, the largest cargo received in New York in many years. Many other vessels carrying Cuban sugar are either on their way here or are being loaded as fast as possible and it is expected that the market will be flooded with sugar from Cuba within the next few weeks. The cane crop in Cuba this year is the largest in recent years. WANT THE SCHOOLS FUMIGATED Kansas State Board of Health Issues an Order to County Health Officers. Topeka, Kansas.—The state board of health has issued an order that all schoolhouses in Kansas must be cleaned and fumigated and the grounds cleaned in the summer vacations. The county health officers are to see that this work is done. Several counties object to pay the health officers for this and have been requiring the school districts to foot the bills. The attorney general has notified the state superintendent that the county commissioners should allow the bills for this work as the health officer is a county employee and the work is being done for the good of the whole county. Husband and Wife Fight Duel. Chicago, Illinois.—After locking their two children in a bedroom and fastening all the doors of their flat so that the neighbors could not enter in a hurry, Antonio Spizzirri and his wife, Anna, went into the darkened parlor and tried to kill each other. The woman was shot twice and stabbed twice and died before the police arrived. The husband was shot twice also and probably will die. Kansas Attorney Dies in Colorado Kansas City, Kansas.—Samuel C. miller, for 20 years one of the most prominent lawyers at the Wyandotte county bar, died at Colorado Springs, Col., where he had gone in company with his wife and daughter with the hope that the change of climate would benefit his falling health. Transport Logan in Port. San Francisco, Cal.—The army transport Logan arrived from Manila via Japan and Honolulu bringing the 13th regiment of infantry, 100 enlisted men of the engineers corps, 28 military prisoners and 90 casuals. Kansas School Land Sold Topeka, Kansas.—The state permanent school fund received $175,466,35 from the sales of school lands during the last year. A total of 395 patients were issued during the year covering a total of 71,965.75 acres. A ROSE-BANKED MOTOR CAR FOR PROGRESSIVE LEADER. An Enthusiastic Reception Was Tendered the iowian On His Return From Washington. Des Moines, Aug. 10.—A party of 5,000 enthusiastic men and women gathered at the Rock Island station to welcome Senator Albert B. Cummins on his return from Washington, where he fought the Aldrich tariff bill and in the short_time occupied by the special session brought himself into the the limelight to such an extent that his reception here developed into a presidential boom. As the train arrived at the station, the throng awaiting Cummins burst into shouts and singing, while the band played "Star Spangled Banner." A parade in which 2,000 people participated was formed, comprising motor cars and foot sections. The motor car in which Cummins rode with the reception committee was a mass of roses, but the flowers were seized by women along the route for souvenirs of the occasion. The streets had been decorated with flags and lithographs of Cummins on the way to the Lincoln School playgrounds, where the parade disbanded and Cummins made a short speech defining his position on the tariff bill and thanking his fellow townsmen for their greeting. IRRIGATION CONGRESS OPENS Attended by Thousands of Delegates and Others Interested in Reclaiming the Deserts Spokane, Washington.—"Save the forests, store the floods, reclaim the deserts and make homes on the land." is the watchword of the National Irrigation congress which opened here recently. The meeting has attracted apostles of irrigation, deep waterways, good roads and conservation of resources, and recruits from various parts of this continent, England, Germany, France, Hawaii, the Philippine islands, the Latin republics and China and Japan, representatives of foreign nations and colonial governments, officials of the federal reclamation, forestry and agricultural departments, governors and members of state and territorial legislatures railroad and bank presidents and members of agricultural, horticultural, commercial and fraternal organizations. CROP CONDITIONS ARE GOOD In the Aggregate They are Better Than Last Year and Above a Ten Year Average. Washington, D. C.—Crop conditions in the United States on August 1, 1909, were, in the aggregate slightly higher than on August 1, 1908, and moderately higher than a ten year average condition of all crops on August 1. In addition to the higher condition, the acreage of cultivated crops is about 1.6 per cent greater than yast year. So says a general review of crop conditions issued recently. Winter wheat, spring wheat, corn, oats, rye, flax and grapes were better than last year and the ten year average; barley and potatoes were better than the condition on August 1 last year, but slightly below the average condition. MISSOURI PACIFIC GETS CHARTER The Kansas Charter Board Gives Authority to Increase Capital Stock to $240,000,000. Topeka, Kansas.—The Missouri Pacific Railway company has obtained a new charter from the state charter board and has increased its capital by $77,900,000. The company has a total capital of $22,000,000. The additional capital is simply a re-issue of the capital stock of those companies which have been consolidated with the Missouri Pacific proper. To get the new charter and make the increase cost the company $23,020. Good Boards Meeting in Topeka. Topeka, Kansas—H. W. McAfee president of the State Good Roads' association has received word from Chicago from President Jackson of the national association that the next national meeting will be held in Topeka. The exact date has not been set, but the meeting will be held sometime in January, 1910. Train Wreck in Leavenworth Leavenworth, Kansas. — Missouri Pacific passenger train Number 111 from St. Louis to St. Joseph, northbound, was wrecked opposite the old sugar factory in South Leavenworth. The engine was torn to pieces and all the cars, including the sleeper, left the track, but fortunately no one was injured. 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. Farmers Buy From the Trust Topeka, Kansas.—The prison twine plant is in danger of being abolished. The farmers of Kansas do not paronize it as the officials think they should. More than 50 per cent of this year's product is still on hand. W. N. MILLER.....Editor Residence Phone Bell 1641 Lived at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mail).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mail).....75 Three Months (By Mail).....50 Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication ust be signed by one party or parties writing. All mattersf or publication must reach this office not later than Thursday noon to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Tuesday noon will not be published in the current issue. 3rd. 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"You ran into this man at 30 miles an hour and knocked him 40 feet," said the court. "That, or a little better, I suppose," answered the chauffeur. "Why didn't you slow down?" Why don't you show me "Mere precaution, your honor. Once I shut off speed and hit a man so gently that he was able to climb into the machine and give me a kicking." How to Get Thin. When one has just begun to acquire superfluous flesh complete abstinence from sweets and starches, a moderate amount of food at all times, and daily exercise either indoors or out will effect a cure. The effort, however, must be persistent, and the watchfulness must continue even after the desired weight has been reached. Spasmodic efforts either at diet or exercise will be absolutely without lasting results When one's weight has crept far be beyond the normal amount the restraint in diet must be more strenuous and the exercise more violent.—Harper's Weekly. Ratsi A captain on an ocean liner told the following story: Coming from the old country was a very nervous old lady who complained that she was sure there was a rat in her stateroom. "Keep it there, madam," said the captain. "But do you like rats?" asked she. "I've got a nest in my cabin," retorted the brusque seaman, "and I never disturb them. When they leave the ship I do." "Why, you must be superstitious," urged the dame. "No, ma'am,' wound up the captain. 'I'm not, but the rats are." Watch This Space Makin Eye Drug Co. 517 N. Main Street Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Send your news in earlier. The Searchlight $1. per year Harrold Fleming is very sick with typhoid feaver. Dr. E. Harrison is reported on the sick list. Silence is indeed golden to all those who are paid to keep quiet. John H. Jones was a caller at the Miller home on 23. St. Sunday. Will H. Jones was able to report on duty Monday morning. Miss. Della Hayes of Ft. Scott Kansas is visiting in the city the guest of Miss. Bettie Mae Hall. The Pearl Tent No.16th and Moses Dickerson Tent No.5 will give a contest drill at Young's Hall Thursday August.26. A large delegation of Wichitans went to Winfield last Snnday. All report having had a very fine time. Rev. G. Wooten returned home Wednesday from Topeka and Independence Kansas. Al Covington left Wednesday for Salt Lake City, Utah. He says he contemplates being absent from Wichita not less than two years. On account of his continued ill health W. N. Miller was forced to cancle his engagement for to speak in Coffeyville, Kansas on Aug, 12th. Mrs. Robt. E. Smith and Mrs. Prudie Johnson were pleasant callers at the suburban home of Meedames Robt. Davis and W. N. Miller Sunday. Talk about] hot weather these days are the limit. Jas J. Olden and John H. Jones are conducting a barber shop at $ 612 \frac{1}{2} $ N. Mrin. They will appreciate your patronage. Services were conducted at the A. M. E. church Sunday by Rev. G. M. Tillman who preached two very excellent sermons, morning and evening. A joint session of all the Temples and Tabernacles of Wichita has been called for Tuesday at night Aug. 31st. at Covington's hall, 517 N. Main Street. Jas. J. Olden left Monday for Memphis Tenn. in answer to a telegram stating that his aunt was at the point of death. Before returning to Wichita he will stop in Kausas City where he will attend the session of the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythians. Mrs. J. C. Coffee has returned from a verp pleasant trip to Ok. While in the new state she devoted her time to putting up of fruits and seeing the splendid farm owned by her son-in-law Jas. Gardner. She reports a pleasant and profitable trip. She left all well. 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. Mrs. M. E. Price and daughter Mrs. Frank Dixson returned on Tuesday from Nashville, Tenne. where they spent several weeks in a pleasnnt visit with her cous in. She reports a nice trip at the old home and is glad to return to their many friends and acquaintance in Wichita. He Deserves No Sympathy It is merely a waste of time to pity a man who is being made a fool of by a pretty woman. Every one should consider him self entrusted not only with his own conduct but with that of others. Dont forget the Y. M. C. A. meeting at the Young's Hall at 601 N. Main St. 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. Rev. J. T. Smith and quite a number of the Sunday School workers, and friends attended the Sub-division of the Wichita District, Sunday Schools organized a Sunday Institution to meet Semi-annual. The Senior Choirs of the A. M. E. church ac companied the workers and they spent Sunday with them at their summer rally and basket meeting: Send your news in earlier W. N. Miller Office 634 North Water Street Practices in all the Courts 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 3 p. m. 513 N. Main St 7 to 8 p. m. 9 to 11 a. m Residence 2 to 3 p.m. 513 N. Main St 7 to 8 p.m. OFFICE 513 N. MAIN ST Phone 860 green BUY LUMBER AT METZ'S BUY Oorner 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. Main St. Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Choicest Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men, Women and Chil- dren's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery. Tapp & Hanshaw 255-257 N. Main St Phone 257 ```markdown ``` Ind. Phone 178 Bell Phone 175 The Biggest and Best in the Southwest High Class Surgery Special Attention Given to a Specialty Canine Practice All Calls Promptly Answered—Day or Night The Finest Equipped Hospital In the City Both Phones Office and Hospital 1730 236 N. Market St., Wichita, Ks. PLEASES ALL Good Bread Makers It Is White As Snow—TRY IT The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Food are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. JOE STEWART MEAT MARKET For the best Meats, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Veal, Chickens and Sealship, Oysters, also Fresh Home Grown Cattish, and Halibut for your Lunch. Heinz Pickles, Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed or Dill, Baked Beans, and Cooked Meats. GRAHAM — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years milling experience in Wichita our products are the best that can be produced. Made froffl best selected grain only and put up in Special Packages, Ask Your Groce See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING Co. WICHITA, KANSAS Is Our Specialty - Try Us 634 NORTH WATER O The Peoples Cleaning 131 North Law Ind. Phone 178 The Biggest and Best High Class Surgery a Specialty All Calls Promptly An Dr. C. R. Veterinary Physician The Finest Equipped Both Phones 1730 236 N "Second PLEASES ALL Good It Is White As The Otto Weiss Alfalfa are all guaranteed under Serial No. 13415 and under Register No. 1. It Is The Chie JOE STEW MEAT M F. T. CULP, P. For the best Meats, Beef, Pens and Sealship, Oysters, Cattish, and Halibut for your Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed Cooked Meats. 241 N. Main Street. IMBODEN'S GRAHAM — CORN MED. With thirty-five years million products are the best that the best selected grain only and Ask You See that you get THE IMBODEN WICHITA J. H. ENG Lumber Successor to B 318 West D JOB PRINTING Is Our S 634 NORT When Tower Loomed. It was while Charlemange 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. There Is No Need Of letting your clothes look ragged or soiled, when you can have them dry cleaned, preressed and repaired to look like new at reasanable prices at ing and Dye Works Lawrence Avenue Bell Phone 175 west in the Southwest Special Attention Given to Canine Practice Answered—Day or Night Wildes, Musician & Surgeon Med Hospital In the City Office and Hospital N. Market St., Wichita, Ks. to None" Bread Makers Snow—TRY IT Stock and Poultry Food for the United States Law, Under the Kansas State Law cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. EWART MARKET PROPRIETOR Pork, Lamb, Veal, Chick. also Fresh Home Grown your Lunch. Heinz Pickles, or Dill, Baked Beans, and Wichita, Kansas MERIAL FLOUR REAL — BREAKFAST FOOD ing experience in Wichita our can be produced. Made froffi and put up in Special Packages, our Groce at IMPERIAL N MILLING Co. A, KANSAS GSTROM or Dealer B. F. McLean Douglas Ave ING Specialty - Try Us TH WATER B Send for the S. P. C. 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 MILTON HOSPITAL A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted DEPARTMENTS Biological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, State Industrial, embracing courses in ure, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Pr ex-binding, Tailorling, Business Courses, ing, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Thorough discipline, Christian influence, careful supervision Fine Military Band and Orchestra for full particulars write to Prof. Shelton French ACTING PRESIDENT Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Evidence Phone No. 15 Office Phone Exellence Counts.... THEN USE U·KNEAD·IT FLOUR cels in every respect,—color, flavor, and barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. WICHITA, KANSAS MESSERVE'S FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Church Orders delivered to any part of the city BON-TON & KANDY BAKERY E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. Main St. Theological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailorling, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. Prof. Shelton French, ACTING PRESIDENT Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Residence Phone No. 15 Office Phone 1423 It excels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Churches Orders delivered to any part of the city BON-TON & KANDY BAKERY ITCHEN E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. 146 N. Main St. Phone 152 NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors Johnston's House CHITA 507 N. Main St. K Everything first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric Transient Trade — Restaurant in Connect R. Johnston, Proprietor Johnston's Hotel A 507 N. Main St. K thing first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric ransient 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, Cashier. Fourth National Bank WICHITA, KANSAS United States Depository Capital $200,000 Surplus $125,000 Directors: 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, Henry Lassen, V. H. Branch. 4 General Banking Business Transacted --- 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 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. "I see that a New York professor reforms bad boys with piano music." "I hope he beats in mind that some pianos need reforming quite as much as bad boys do." ```markdown ``` Straighten Your Hair DEAR SIMS: 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. St. I-Harriman, Tenn. Ford's Hair Pomade Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow. Fifty years of success has proved its merit. Its use makes the hair straight, glossy, soft and pliable, so you can comb it and arrange it in any style you wish consistent with its length. Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking off and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harms—used with splendid results even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as ladies of refinement every wherede declare. Ford's Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't buy anything else alleged to be "just as good." If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay you. Look for this name on every package. If your druggist advises you with the genuine send us, express or post mail money order or a coupon for the same amount for the bottle and give your druggist's name and address. We will forward bottle prepile to any point in U. and give us a resupply of the The Ozonized OX Marrow Co. 135 East Kensie St. FORP HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. For Everything in Building Material SEE SEE BOTH PHONE 496 J.H. TURNER 533 to 547 WEST DOUGLAS 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. Good Work--Low Prices to all 634 North Water St. Use Murray's Reliable Murray's Reliable Antiseptics Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spice They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop 803 South Hydraulic Avenu 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 $700.00 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 $1125.00 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 FREE 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 US For a Good Job of Lead and Qil. TRY U8 SUTTON PAINT CO. Peculiar African Race. There is a peculiar sort of people living in northwest Rhodesia. These natives are small of stature, with large horns on their heads. The horn springs from the scalp, consists of the native's hair mixed with fat and filth, and is sometimes as much as 18 inches long. For the most part these Kaffirs live on the great open flats to be found on both sides of the Kafue river. They build their huts on the great an heaps which appear like hills scattered over the flats. When the Kafue is in flood and the flats are changed into great lakes these people are safe in their huts on the ant heaps. Their cattle also take refuge on the ant heaps on which corn and mealies 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 innabits 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 acidity—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 pelting 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 dampness and the cold soon sap the stoutest constitutions. CHAS. B. PATTON Merchant Tailor 459 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men's Garments Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing A Specialty Prompt Service Coueteous Attention Your Trade Solicited Come to my party, my little friends; Thus invitation to you I now send. Next Thursday's my birthday, Four years I will be; You must stay until six and be there at three. Come all full of mirth, for we'll have lots of fun. And of dandy good things, we will eat about a ton. Thus read the invitation which invited a jolly crowd of little peo ple to the home of George Ewing on Thursday afternoon July 29, it being his fourth birthday anniv- erary. The table was decorated with cut flowers, and presented a charming appearance. Promptly at 3 o'clock the little guest began to arrive and it was not long till interesting games were indulged in. Many gifts were received and greatly appreciated. Lunch was served about 5 o'clock and the guest departed for their homes wishing Master Ewing many a such happy birthdays. The little folks who were so fortune as to be present were. Misses—Hariet Chinneth Maria Brown Florance Neely Hiawatha Brown Jessie Neely, Grace Hathman, Virian Glover, Jessie Miller, Luvenia Harper, Gwendolin Brvwn, Lilie Jones, Hazel Crouch. Maslers.— Clayton Thompson James Neely, Lake Anderson Milton Chinneth, Evert Anderson. Homage to Brawn. The triumphs of the scholar the public regards as individual; the prowess of the athlete is popularly held to establish the name and fame of his college. Of course, this is unreasonable, for the reputation of a university as an institution of learning should depend upon the liberal education she gives to those within her gates. But it is quite true that, despite the excellent reasons why it should not do so, the public continues to pay homage to brawn rather than brain, in so far as the undergraduate is concerned --- Proud Owners of Pets, Listen to This from Flatbush, N. Y. Zip, a son of Bluff, the big bull terrier, is the most respected dog in Flatbush, N. Y., says a correspondent. He requires every other dog within 40 blocks to walk a chalk line and bow to him as he passes by. He can lick everything on four feet up to twice his size, yet is as mild as Devery-at-the-Pump. His master attributes Zip's prowess to his fondness for the pipe. Like Old King Cole: He calls for his pipe, He calls for his glass, He calls for his fiddlers three. "That is the most remarkable dog in the world," says his master. "He takes my pipe out of my mouth and smokes it, standing on his hind feet. See! The stem is all chewed up! If the tobacco doesn't burn well, Zip will get down on his fours and chase all over the house to create a draught. When the fire is well started again he finishes his smoke and returns me the pipe. Strong? He ought to be named Samson. Why, we have a piano that weighs 600 pounds. Tie Zip to it with a rope and he will pull it all over the room." The Power of Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is one magnet of power. You must fire every event with it, touch thoughts and acts with it; it will transmute dross into gold, drudgery into delight. What matters if the soul which lives beside you is cold and selfish. Set him a good example! Joy is sunshine and he will feel it. Every irksome task is a chance for power. For the qualities which they bring out are God's gifts which fit us to enjoy better things. Easy things will come, if you have spent your heart's blood on gaining strength, for the very goal of power is the ease which comes from strength. We laugh at things and people who used to cow or annoy us, we gracefully and swiftly the tasks, ones so hard. One by one, we have unrived our chains, we are free!—Nautilus. Police officer's Jeff Thompson and Charles W. Giles are both proving efficient and capable officers and are worthy representations of the colored people of our city. The Second Baptist church is going ahead with the construction of their new church. When completed it will be a great credit to the colored people of Wichita, and especially to the members of that church. TO HESITATE LONG IS TO FAIL Successful Business Man Must Have Attribute of Courage. 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 vacation, 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. August the 29th. the fifth Sunday a Penlecostal meeting will be held at the St. Paul A. M. E. church, the pastors of the city and their congregations and the neighboring townt are invited to be present and join us in the services. Come and bring your baskets and make this a great day for the cause of Christ. The members are preparing to have a dinnee at the church. Chinese Historical Plays That Keep Alive Race Prejudice. Historical plays are acted everywhere in China. They are popular in the quiet villages, the homes of the rich, in the crowded cities, and in the busy market towns. These plays are written with the object of intensifying the bitterness and contempt of the people against the foreigner. The story of plunderings and massacres of their forefathers is vividly portrayed, with all the dramatic power that the actors possess. The foreigner is represented as a monster in appearance. His face is dragged out of shape and his mouth is made to appear near his ear. His beard on one side is red on the other blue. His eyes are fierce and staring, and murder is stamp upon his hideous features. The people of the interior, who have never come into actual contact with the foreigner, have this conception of the hated barbarian. To their minds Americans, French, English, Germans are all alike, barbarians to be destroyed. Some Singular Wills One of the most singular wills ever recorded was that of a British sailor who requested his executors to give his wife a shilling to buy hazelnuts, as she had always preferred cracking them to mending his stockings. In subtle, however, was the sarcasm of a will proved in 1830, in which a wife was left $2,500, but was only to enjoy it after her death in order that "may be buried suitably as my wife." A French merchant bequeathed a large fortune to a woman of his acquaintance to show his gratitude for her refusal to marry him 20 years before. ```markdown ``` Sending Photographs by Wireless Not content with sending wireless messages for hundreds of miles through the ether, Mr. Hans Kudson, a Danish engineer, has recently perfected an electrical appliance by means of which actual photographs may be sent through the air without wires and reproduced with great fidelity at a receiving station hundreds or even thousands of miles away. The photograph shown at the left is the small piece of apparatus which sends the photograph, and on the right is reproduced a photograph of King Edward VII. of England, which was actually sent by Knudson's apparatus, and reproduced 100 miles away, the whole process occupying only 12 minutes. ENGLISH AUTOMOBILE HOUSE. The latest development in automobiling for pleasure is the construction of a real house on wheels. The machine shown in the photograph contains comfortable sleeping accommodations for four people, a kitchen with a small coal range, and a combined dining and living room. *On the top are plenty of seats for lounging in pleasant weather. Mr. Charles Fletcher of London, England, and his family lived in this machine last spring and summer, during a tour which covered a large part of the continent of Europe. Touring in this way, one is quite independent of hotels and may live with more than gypsy freedom, going wherever the condition of the roads will permit. BURBANK'S SPINELESS CACTUS. The spineless cactus is one of the Wizard Burbank's recent productions which holds out promise of great future usefulness. It can be grown, of course, in the most arid deserts, and, the spines eliminated, it will furnish, when properly prepared, very nourishing forage for cattle and horses. Further experiments are now under way SPENDS TWO YEAR STUD SPENDS TWO YEARS AS TRAMP STUDYING WORTHY UNEMPLOYED ESCENDING to the level of the humblest member of the great army of unemployed that I might keenly suffer the deprivations of the worthy homeless and gain a full understanding of their needs is what I have been doing for the last two years. A young man who accosted me one night and asked for the price of a meal took me for the first time into the highways and byways of the men who lack work. This lad struck me as not being a common vagrant and I took him to a restaurant and bought him a meal. He told me that he had come west looking for work. I undertook to verify his story and found it true. His case caused me to think and it was through him that I got my first incentive to work for the erection of a municipal lodging-house in Denver, for which the law provided. I called Mayor Speer and told him of the ing as a man time. Then I end of the city acquaintances. was the badgadget and I began to fortunate that I do you sleep?" be a convincible erection in ever lodging-house. One night, a D ```markdown ``` The Traveling Rootless Cactus FILMORTH COLUMBUS A To Save Ten Thousand Lives on the Burbank farms, in the direction of producing a cactus which will furnish an appetizing addition to the list of vegetables edible by man. A CAR THAT CARRIES ITS OWN TRACK. The curtious automobile shown in the photograph, which carries with it its own track, is designed for use in the rougher parts of the United States where roads are either altogether missing or are practically impassable during a large part of each year. The track consists of a number of heavy feet. linked together to form an endless chain. This chain is revolved by the sprocket wheel shown near the rear of the photograph. With this machine great weights can be carried over the roughest ground. It will even go up and down the sides of an extremely steep ravine and makes nothing of ordinary ruts and mud holes. A number of these strange automobiles are in YEARS AS TRAM INDYING WORTHY By EDWIN A. BROWN. need of a lodging-house for the city's poor and reminded him that the law provided for the erection of some sort of shelter for the homeless. He admitted a knowledge of the law, but said he thought such a place would only encourage idleness. I told him I did not think that all the homeless human beings walk ing the streets of Denver were im- posters. To carry out my plans I obtained an outfit of shabby clothing, including overalls, with the idea of appearing as a man out of work for some time. Then I went into the lower end of the city and began scraping acquaintances. My shabby clothing was the badge that brought confidence and I began to get facts. Every unfortunate that I met I asked, "Where do you sleep?" What I learned will be a convincing argument for the erection in every city of a municipal lodging house. One night, asking a passing hobo Brennan's Tank Car that Carries Its Own Track the extra profits which their discoveries may bring to the manufacturers who adopt them. In many cases, also, they will step directly from the university into extremely responsible and well paid positions. BASKET WILLOWS THE NEW FARM CROP. Willows for use in making baskets are a new farm crop which the department of agriculture is doing its best to introduce in this country. At present vast quantities of basket willows are imported from France and Germany, but already large plantations have been established in western New York, Indiana and the vicinity of Baltimore. On a single acre of rich, well-drained bottom land, as many as 34,000 plants may be set out, and if tended with the same care given to other crops, the net result may well exceed that of any other acre of the farm. Cuttings of the variety of willow which has proved most successful may be obtained from the department of agriculture in Washington. the appearance of the working men of the plant. Coming out into the cold air, all of us half clad, the chill was insufferable. Every day some of those who had sought like resting places the night before were taken with pneumonia and nearly became a charge of the city. In Chicago I went into a police station and inquired where I could get a night's lodging. The lieutenant told me I could find several places in the neighborhood where I could get a bed for 10 or 15 cents. I told him I had not a cent. Turning to a patrolman he said, kindly: 'Here, show this man to the North Union Street Municipal Lodging-house.' I found the building to be an old one, and nothing to boast of from an architectural standpoint, but the interior was a revelation for order, clearness and watchfulness on the part of the attendants. Every feature of the place was good. The sanitation was perfect. After having a bath clean night clothes were given to me and I was led to the dormitory. The beds, the floors and other equipment were faultlessly clean. New York has a half-million-dollar municipal lodging-house. I stayed there one night. I entered the build- New Link Between Science and Business use in the undeveloped regions of the northwest. NEW LINK BETWEEN SCIENCE AND BUSINESS. Out at the University of Kansas they have taken a step which seems to be the last link needed to bind together science and business. In the big chemical laboratory of the university eight or nine post graduate students are already at work, each of them trying to solve some problem which means a fortune to the business man or corporation directly interested. The young man shown in the photograph, for instance, is spending three years in the study of the chemistry of bread. During this time he is supported by a fund appropriated by the National Association of Master Bakers. Another student is working to find a better enamel for lining the inside of steel bath-tubs. His scholarship of $1,000 a year is paid by a large corporation, which will be directly benefited by his work. These post graduate students will also be paid a certain per cent, of where he slept, he directed me to the brickyards on the edge of the city. Arriving there, I found it to be also a tile making plant, with many fiery kilns in operation. The employees were cleaning out the fire for the evening. I approached one of them and asked where a fellow could find a place to sleep. He led me to a kiln, the fire of which had been raked out a short time before. "In there," he replied, gruffly, yet kindly enough, pointing to the interior of the kiln, which was still warm. I looked in. There on the floor of the kiln were at least fifty men, sprawled out. I entered. Some of them were asleep. No one spoke to me. I tried to sleep, but could not because of the heat. Every little while I crawled to the opening for air. I was determined to stick it out. That experience was one of my first and strongest arguments for a municipal lodging-house. In the morning we were aroused early by English Automobile House Ethiopia Burbank's Spineless Cactus for Desert Crops TO SAVE TEN THOUSAND LIVES. Two million men and women employed in various industrial pursuits met with more or less severe accidents last year. During the same time the number of male workmen 15 years of age or over killed by accident was be-ing about 10;30. As I ascended the stairs a young girl, maybe 15 years old, was in advance of me. The great portal opened, one of the matrons embraced that girl, clasping her in an affectionate mother hug. They have a wonderful system in New York. After registering I was taken down-stairs, stripped and given a bath. My clothes were placed in a bag and taken to the fumigating room. After the bath I got clean under clothing. As I stood with the others who had entered with me, a man entered with a bucket and a paddle. Sticking the paddle in the bucket be then gave me a swat on the head. What is that, I asked, taken somewhat by surprise. "Germicide," he replied, "that'll kill 'em all." He was going to swipe me again when I remonstrated. One paddleful is enough. "Better kill 'em all," he exclaimed, laconically. The municipal lodging-house at New York accommodates 1,000 men and fifty women. It is an excellent place and a splendid example to every city in the country. How different is this sort of treatment than that I found meted out to the unfortunates at the Helping Hand mission in Kansas City. There I remember a poor lad suffering from Wireless Photograph of King Edward ish Automobile House tween 30,000 and 35,000. In other words, one out of every 50 people in the United States—counting men, women and children—was killed or injured by accident. In addition to this great economic loss hundreds of thousands of people suffered from illness directly due to the conditions under which they work. In Europe much more progress has been made in the direction of safe guarding the lives and the health of employees in industrial institutions. The photograph shows an air strainer which is used in Germany by workmen employed in polishing brass and in other pursuits where the air is filled with flying metallic fragments. The glasses shown serve to protect the eyes from the same danger. THE TRAVELING ROOTLESS CAC TUS. The curious round object shown in the photograph is a rootless cactus, a native of the great California desert. For eight or nine months in the year, in the shape of a flattened globe, the plant is blown about the flat sandy floor of the desert by the winds which sweep fiercely in from the ocean. When the first cloudburst breaks, over the desert in the spring, the dried-up cactus sends out a perfect network of thread-like roots, often spreading over a circle whose radius is ten feet. From these roots spring small shoots each of which becomes a cactus like the mother plant. The young plants suck the life out of the parent. When the few weeks of the rainy season are over the roots dry up and in the place of one there are perhaps 100 little balls left to be tossed about over the desert floor, some of them traveling 40 or 50 miles from the spot where they first appeared. (Copyright, 1903, by Joseph B. Bowles.) inflammatory rheumatism in bad form The first cry of the city authorities against these lodging-houses is the great expense, yet they think nothing of adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of constructing other municipal buildings for no other purpose than making them ornamental. Is it not strange how we human beings would prefer to pay taxes for the support of criminals in the penitentiaries rather than take a cheaper means to prevent the making of criminals? Every man who walks the streets unemployed is looked upon as a vagrant or suspicious character of some sort. I tell you that 90 per cent of those unemployed men are honest. I know it from experience. Do not take the estimate of the police department. The police department is looking for criminals. With the police, every beggar is a suspect. Twice I have been arrested while wearing my disguise and was thrown in jail. I do not know whether you understand what a bullpen is. They are dungeons, located generally in the middle of the jail building. Into these they herd the vagrants, the criminals and the suspects of both sexes." ```markdown ``` An Employment Bureau at the University of Kansas Will assist Students to Find Work. Lawrence, Kansas.—The University of Kansas will, with the opening of the fall term of school, conduct an official student employment bureau. It will have for its purpose the securing of work for students who wish to earn their way, or part of their way, through the university. The bureau will be under the direction of Registrar George O. Foster. Any student desiring employment in the university will be asked to fill out a card telling the kind of work desired and at what hours it can be done. This will be kept on file in the registrar's office and anyone calling for help will be supplied immediately. Every year at the university the registrar receives from 300 to 400 letters from students asking work before they can enter school. Last year an investigation carried on by Chancellor Strong disclosed the fact that 85 per cent of the students then enrolled in the university earned part or all of their expenses. They were engaged in 125 different occupations. A KANSAS PIONEER KILLED H. Miles Moore Who Livcd in Leavenworth Since 1854 Met Violent Death. Leavenworth, Kansas. — H. Miles Moore, one of the founder of the city of Leavenworth and among the last of the historic characters among the Kansas pioneers, was killed at Fourth and Delaware streets, in the heart of the city. H. Miles Moore was born in Brookport, N. Y., and was 60 years old. He studied law and was admitted to practice at Rochester, N. Y., in 1847. He became the oldest practicing attorney in Kansas. He decided to move to the west in 1849 and first settled in Weston, Mo., across from Fort Leavenworth. Weston was at that time a town of much importance, being the terminus of the Hannibal railroad. Mr. Moore came to the Kansas side in 1854, and, along with the 31 others, formed the association that incorporated and laid out the city of Leavenworth south of the Fort. A BALLOON ACROSS THE ALPS Four Men Succeeded in Making the Perilous Trip-Reached Altitude of 18,373 Feet. Chamonix, France. — The balloon Sirius has succeeded in flying over the Alps. The aerial craft left here last Sunday under the pilotage of M. Spelterine, who had with him three passengers. Fears were entertained for the safety of the voyagers, but they have been dispelled by the receipt of a report that they have landed safely at a point near Locarno at an altitude of 5,400 feet. The four men, however, still have a dangerous path to cover on foot from the place where they landed into Locarno. The Sirius traversed Mount Blanc and soared over the Aiguille du Dru and the Aiguille Verto. The highest altitude attained was 5,600 meters, equal to 18,372 feet. WILL MANDAMUS MR. RARNES The Bankers Deposit Surety Company Denied Permission to Do Business in Kansas Topeka, Kansas.—The Bankers Deposit Surety company, an organization formed to insure deposits of banks in Kansas, was formally denied permission to do business in the state by the state superintendent of insurance, Charles W. Barnes. Following this decision, the company filed suit in the state supreme court asking for a writ of mandamus to compel Mr. Barnes to issue permission to conduct its business. Seek Title to 1,000,000 Acres. Seek Title to 1,000,000 Acres. Marietta, Ohio.—Litigation has been started here by an heir of John Paul Jones, the famous American naval hero for about 1,000,000 acres of land near this city. Mrs. Combault of Paris, France, an heir of Admiral Jones asserts the land has a deed of trust for the land, given her by other heirs of the naval officer and Attorney A. Dewey Follett started proceedings to gain possession of the property. The record of this county show that Admiral Jones once owned the land in question and there seems to be nothing to indicate that it does not now belong to his heirs. Hottest Day in New York. Now York, N. Y.—The thermometer of the local weather bureau, 150 feet above the street, registered 93 degrees at 3 o'clock the hottest day of the summer, and within three degrees of the hottest August day ever recorded here by the bureau. Pienty of Teachers in Kansas. Topeka, Kan.—There is a shortage of about 200 teachers in one part of Kansas and a surplus of about 400 in the other. E. T. Fairchild, state superintendent, has completed the tabulation of the returns from the county superintendents. In the Western Kansas counties there is a considerable shortage, while nearly all of the eastern counties have more teachers than they have schools. It will not be necessary to go outside the state to get a sufficient supply of teachers this year. 4 AN EASY WAY. How to Cure Kidney Troubles Easily and Quickly. It is needless to suffer the tortures of an aching back, the misery of backaches, rheumatic pains, urinary disorders, or risk the danger of diabetes or Bright's disease. The cure is easy. Treat the cause—the kidneys—with Doan's Kidney Pills. H. Mayne, Market St., Paris, Tenn., says: "Weak kidneys made my back stiff and lame. The urine was cloudy and irregular and I had to get up many times at night. I lost energy, became weak Doan's Kidney Pills. H. Mayne, Market St., Paris, Tenn., says: "Weak kidneys made my back stiff and lame. The urine was cloudy and irregular and I had to get up many times at night. I lost energy, became weak and could not work. Doan's Kidney Pills removed all the trouble and restored my health and strength." Remember the name—Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. THE LAW'S DELAY. Hix—What's the best way to never settle a question? Dix—Go to law about it. Only Cure for Consumption. With the present rapid growth of the anti-tuberculosis movement the number of so-called "cures" for consumption is being increased almost daily. Hundreds of quack "doctors," "professors" and "institutes" are advertising that they can cure consumption for small amounts, with the result that thousands of dupes are yearly cheated out of their lives as well as their money. Besides these, "cures" and medicines of all sorts, numbering now several hundred, are sold for the deception of the public. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis brands all these institutes, doctors, professors and cures as frauds and deceptions. The only cure for consumption is fresh air, rest and wholesome food. Almost Any Mother The mother of a large family fell ill and died and the attending physician reported that she died of starvation. It was incredible, but he proved it: The woman had to get the dinner and then spend the next two hours in waiting on the family and getting the children to the table. It was never on record that she got all of them there at the same time and they came straggling in all the way from potatoes to pie. By the time she had wiped the last face, her own hunger had left her and she had no desire to eat. Chickens, the doctor said, come running at feed time, but children don't. A hen has a better chance to eat than a mother. Atchison Globe. Strictly After Nature A public building was in course of erection in one of the western towns of Scotland, in front of which a bust of the Bruce was being carved. A well-known baille halted opposite the sculptor one day and called out: "I say, sculptor, dye no think ye hae that beard inclining a wee thing to the left?" "Man, ballie," said the sculptor, "d'ye no see the win's blawin' up the street the 200?"—Tid-Bits. ON FOOD The Right Foundation of Health Proper food is the foundation of health. People can eat improper food for a time until there is a sudden collapse of the digestive organs, then all kinds of trouble follows. The proper way out of the difficulty is to shift to the pure, scientific food, Grape-Nuts, for it rebuilds from the foundation up. A New Hampshire woman says: "Last summer I was suddenly taken with indigestion and severe stomach trouble and could not eat food without great pain, my stomach was so sore I could hardly move about. This kept up until I was so miserable life was not worth living. "Then a friend finally, after much argument, induced me to quit my former diet and try Grape-Nuts. "Although I had but little faith I commenced to use it, and great was my surprise to find that I could eat it without the usual pain and distress in my stomach. "So I kept on using Grape-Nuts and soon a marked improvement was shown, for my stomach was performing its regular work in a normal way without pain or distress. "Very soon the yellow coating disappeared from my tongue, the dull, heavy feeling in my head disappeared, and my mind felt light and clear; the languid, tired feeling left, and altogether I felt as if I had been rebuilt. Strength and weight came back rapidly and I went back to my work with renewed ambition. "To-day I am a new woman in mind as well as body, and I owe it all to this natural food, Grape-Nuts." "There's a Reason." Look in pigs, for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." Ever read the above letter! A new one appears from time to time. True, true, and full of human interest. You Look Prematurely Old GENEROSITY OF THE GOURMET Frenchman Partial to Properly Cooked Shrimp, Pate Ala, Pid, Net, Ala A Frenchman hesitates to pay two dollars for a pair of ready-made trousers, but it is his delight to spend a fiver on a meal. The speaker, a waiter, smiled. "My brother, Gustav of Dax," he said, "is a renowned gourmet. They talk all over Dax of Gustav's way of grilling a lamb cutlet. Is it a good way, but expensive? Oh, la, la!" "La, la?" The guest frowned. "What do you mean by 'la, la'?" he inquired. "It just means 'gosh,' 'jingo,' 'my goodness,' anything like that," said the waiter, impatient. "About my brother Gustav. He always grills his own chops. He won't trust the work to any one else. He does it like this: He lays three chops, one on top of the other, on the grill. Seated before the fire, he turns the chops over and over till the two outer ones are done to a very dry brown. The middle one only is the one he eats. Ah, but it must be delicious. It has received, you see, all the rich, delicate juices of the other two." The guest sneered. "And does he throw the other two away?" he asked. "Oh, no," the waiter answered. "He gives them to his wife."—Buffalo Express. CHILD HAD SIXTY BOILS. And Suffered Annually with a Red Scald-Like Humor on Her Head. Troubles Cured by Cuticura. "When my little Vivian was about six months old her head broke out in boils. She had about sixty in all and I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment which cured her entirely. Some time later a humor broke out behind her ears and spread up on to her head until it was nearly half covered. The humor looked like a scald, very red with a sticky, clear fluid coming from it. This occurred every spring. I always used Cuticura Soap and Ointment which never failed to heal it up. The last time it broke out it became so bad that I was discouraged. But I continued the use of Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent until she was well and has never been troubled in the last two years. Mrs. M. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells Ave., Detroit, Mich., Feb. 24, 1908." Potter Drug & Chem, Corp., Sole Props, Boston. HEARTFELT SYMPATHY. Wife—If my first husband were alive we should be celebrating out silver wedding to-day. Husband—What a pity he died so soon. 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. The Worm Turned The clerk in the shoe store was tired. The day was insufferably hot. The customer who was trying to catch a train was clamorous. Goaded to desperation the hard-driven clerk expostulated. "No, we don't have a salesman for each customer. This ain't no Chinese Sunday school." Says a Press Humorist: "Shakespeare, it is said, never repeated." "He didn't have to run a daily humorous feature." "But Montaigne, wherever he saw a good thing, annexed it." "Ah, he was more like the rest of us." Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitcher in Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. A small boy doesn't have a very good time at a picnic unless he requires the services of a doctor a few hours later. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. See a bottle. An easy beginning doesn't always justify the finish. It's all in the Taste ```markdown ``` AS STR//GHT MEN SEE HIM. The Dead-Beat Is. Probably the Most Despised Creature That Walks the Earth. No man is wholly free from sin, but so many lesser evils are tolerated that a man should hesitate long before becoming a dead-beat. Criminals are despised and abhorred, out to the dead-beat all that is coming, as well as the contempt of his fellow men. There is something at once so mean and so little in taking advantage of the confidence which comes with friendship that the hand of every man is turned against a dead-beat as soon as his reputation is well established. The dead-beat may fondly imagine he is living easy and making money without work, and, of course, he takes no account of the confidence he violates and the hardships he inflicts on others. But, that aside, he really has a harder time than the man who is honest and fair. He is compelled to move a good deal, and peace of mind he knows not. Like other types of crooks, he doesn't prosper, and his finish is more unpleasant than the beginning.—Atchison Globe. 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. Couldn't Blame the Boy. "Young man," said the stern parent, "when I was your age I had to work for a living." "Well, sir," answered the frivolously inclined youth, "I'm not to blame for that. I have always disapproved of my grandfather's attitude in the matter." A Trying Time. Judge — Why did you strike this man? Prisoner — What would you do, judge, if you kept a grocery store and a man came in and asked if he could take a moving picture of your cheese?—Harper's Weekly. Sure throat is no trifling ailment. It will sometimes carry infection to the entire system through the food that is eaten. Hamlin's Wizard Oil is a sure, quick cure. When you hear a girl speak of a young man as being a bear—well, you can draw your own conclusions. PERRY DAVIS PAINKILLER is the best, safest and most remote for cramps, colds and diarrhea. As aillment for wounds and sprains it is unequaled. So, see and do. A malicious truth may do more harm than an innocent lie. Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Chicken-hearted people are always ready to hatch up an excuse. Lewis' Single Binder straight-5c-Many smokers prefer them to 10c cigars. Too often when the heart is willing the purse is weak. Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes has won the Nation's favor by its flavor. "Delicious" doesn't do justice to its goodness, because that word has been used by every other breakfast food. It's so unlike anything you ever tasted—so much better. You may have eaten "corn flakes," but unless you have tried Kellogg's—the original and genuine—you have $1,000 GOLD AND SILVER TROPHY For the purpose of encouraging the better breeding in corn for improving the quality of corn, the National Corn Exposition offers a $1,000 beautiful solid gold and silver trophy to the person growing corn of corn in two different seasons, the first season's specimen to be sent to The National Corn Exposition, Omaha, Neb., before Nov. 37th, 1909. The second season's specimen to be sent to the National Corn Exposition. It will be judged by the leading corn authority of the world, Prot. P. G. Holden. Watch this paper for further particulars. "Hit suttinly must be hard, Sambo, to have de reputation foah chicken stealin' wot you've got!" "Yass, chile, but chickens is so scarce nowadays, dat de hardest part is tryin' ter live up ter dat reputation!" Evening Things Up. There is much rivalry between Judges Rosalsky and O'Sullivan of the general sessions in New York and last week it looked as if O'Sullivan had the laugh on his rival for all time. He had a man before him whose name was Rosalsky, but who swore that he was an Irishman. But Friday things were even up when a man named Flynn was brought before Judge Rosalsky and swore that he was a Jew. Starch, like everything else, is being constantly improved, the patent Starches put on the market 25 years ago are very different and inferior to those of the present day. In the latest discovery—Defence Starch—all injurious chemicals are omitted, while the addition of another ingredient, invented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never approached by other brands. True to Life. Teacher — Johnnie, do you know what a blotter is? Johnnie — Yessum. It's de t'ing wot youse hunts fer while de ink gets dry. Among Women. 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By spring she knew the way to wear Upon a table fairly well, And she could do a dozen things That daily to her lot befall. Twas then she asked four eveings 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! By the Way. one way to well well, tizen things he fell. four evening out r more would to- r Sundays off work was through! time was near, one day. such alarm— r higher pay! helped her learn and a gem— I must go rift for then! Day. 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. 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. The 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 find it in the country. A resident of a certain town being in the chicken and egg business, the local paper says: "Bill Imel is still doing business at the old stand. Bring in your ancient settin' hens and patriarchs roosters." "What is it? Did the man hit an auto-mo-bubble-bubble-bubble?" "No, the man did not hit an auto-mo-bubble-bubble-bubble; he is a editor and he has his eye out for men he hews, 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!" Com Mail Job Print "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 wsed!" Early one morning a terribly seasick passenger, pale and hollow eyed, came out of his stateroom, and ran into lady, who was coming along the passageway, clad in the scantiest raiment. She screamed and started to run. "Don't be alarmed, madam; I shall never live to tell it"—Girard (Ill.) Ascher. Special Master E. V. 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TO-DAY is the day TO SUBSCRIBE. Our next issue may contain some information or news item of Vital Interest to you. Our subscription rate-one dollar per year-is within the reach of all. You will never have reasons to regret it. AGENTS WANTED GOOD MONEY can be realized by Agents and Correspondents of the GOOD MONEY can be realized by the right persons as Agents and Correspondents of the Searchlight. JOB PRINTING In this Department a specialty of Hi Commercial Job Mail Orders We give all Order Job Printing. No Job Too Small Good Work Guaranteed—First In this Department we make a specialty of High - Grade Commercial Job Printing... Mail Orders We give prompt attention to all Orders sent us by mail for Job Printing. No Job Too Small-No Job Too Large. Good Work Guaranteed-First-Class Workmen Address all communications to SEARCHL ESTABLSHED 1N 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. MONEY can be realized by the right pers and Correspondents of the Searchlight. this Department we m specialty of High - G commercial Job Printing Mail Orders We give prompt attem all Orders sent us by r printing. No Job Too Small—No Job Too Good Work Guaranteed—First-Class Work THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT W. N. MILLEER, Editor 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kansas Would-Be Suicide Not Completely Nerved for Final Parting. With a groan of despair he made up his mind to die. Rulined 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 Peoples 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 Norlen'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 aites where these extinct peoples dwelt. Their cloth was of truly marvelous weave; in beauty of decoration, 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 an 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 cheltaht, 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." Knights & Daughters KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborian Home, R. F. D. No. 8, • Topeka, Kansas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kans. MRS SARAH FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St., Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M., 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kans C. M. JONHSON, G. P. P., 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 416 E. 3rd, Ft. Scott, Kans. OFFICIAL ORGAN—The Wichita Searchlight, W. N. Miller, Editor, 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Tent is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER, Editor TABERNACLES Chief Preceptresses Number. 1 Queen of the West, K. C., Kan., Mrs. M. Wilson, 945 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. 7 Sunbeam, Salina, Mrs. R. Parker, 502 N. 6th. 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. 12 Golden Rule, K. C., Kan., Mrs. P. Johnson, 211 Stewart. 13 Candace, Pittsburg, Kan., Mrs. M. Beasley, 109 W. Washington. 15 America Davis, Weir, Kan., Mrs. E. Lee, Box 25. 16 Silver Leaf, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. L. Morton, 1208 Washington. 17 Western Queen, Ft. Scott, Kan. Mrs. A. Masir, 1817 Wall. 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. Sallne Easter, 334 Dakota St. (rear). 34 Wichita, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. J. Jones, 1127 N. Washington. 35 Golden Rule, S. Omaha, Neb., Mrs. S. Jones, 819 N. 27th. 37 Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. M. Gosby, 108 N. 3rd. 38 Covenant, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. F. Taylor, Box 1174. 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. 79 Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. S. O'Brien, 1180 Buchanan. 85 Magadalene, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. F. 92 St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Hardiman, 1801 Kansas. 89 Queen Lizzie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific. 91 Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Rountree, 1125 N. 19th. 93 Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. I. M. Jordan, 903 Western. TEMPLES. Chief Mentors Number. 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, 409 Osborn. 0 Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan., J. H. McKinnis, 217 Sherman. TEMPLES 11 Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Wm. Frazier, 708 N. Water. 12 Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan. Wm. Shakespear, 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. Number. 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. 15 Louisa May, Cherryvale, Kan., Mrs. M. E. Holt, 517 W. Main. 16 Pearl, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. A. Jones, 631 N. Wichita. 17 Castle Rock, Weir, Kan., Mrs. H. Adkins. 17 Star of West, Salina, Kan., Mrs. A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th. 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. 23 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 is interesting to note that the skill which enables one to detect a counterfeit comes not from a study of counterfeitts, 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 counterfeit. 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 counterfeiters for the instruction of his cashiers, he is advised to have the young men study the genuine carefully, and there will be no trouble in detecting the bad notes.-National Magazine. A Monster Loaf. Bakers in Germany are fond of making odd experiments, the following being reported from Duisburg, in West phalia. 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.